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One of the funny things I’ve recently realized after browsing old TOH posts is that the whole idea of the ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ dynamic feels like almost entirely a creation of the fandom. Not only that, but a dynamic that was created basically by accident.
Consider for a moment just when and WHY fans actually started the ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ idea: It wasn’t in the wake of King’s Tide or after Hollow Mind when Luz and Hunter start really becoming friends, it was following Hunting Palismans. AKA, the episode where the mysterious ‘Golden Guard’ is revealed to be the show’s resident ‘edgy bad-boy with a sad backstory’ named Hunter, and also established that despite what he may think at the time, him and Luz are definitely going to be friends sooner or later.
In other words, the fandom’s idea that ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ started mainly as pushback against shipping those two and more notably, any theories/claims that Luz and Hunter might end up together in the show. As in, right after Hunting Palismans released, you can find a ton of posts that amount to ‘THEY’RE LIKE SIBLINGS DAMMIT!’ as fans try to get ahead of any ideas people might start getting that Luz and Hunter might be some endgame couple.
Now of course, in should have been pretty clear even when Hunting Palismans released that ‘Lunter’ was NEVER going to be an actual thing in the show. Like I’ve always commended the foresight of Dana Terrace and her crew for making sure that Amity was FIRMLY locked-in as Luz’s love-interest before they let Luz anywhere near the show’s resident ‘edgy bad-boi with a sad backstory in need of a redemption-arc’.
But for me, the funny this looking back on all this in hindsight; this presenting that Luz and Hunter are going to be like siblings as pushback against any theories that they were going to end up together romantically nonetheless made the same underlying assumption about where Hunter’s character was going:
That he’d end up being this super-close friend and ally to Luz and that she’d be the one facilitating his redemption arc, ala Aang to Zuko or any other case of ‘hero(ine) redeems rival and they become best friends’.
And of course what makes that so funny is the fact that this DIDN’T actually happen, at least not in the way most of us were expecting. Yes, Hunter did end up being A close friend and ally to Luz, but the people who he’s actually closest to and the one who really drove and facilitated his redemption arc wound up being Willow and Gus!
In conclusion, the whole idea of ‘Luz and Hunter are siblings’ dynamic feels like one of those cases of a fandom coming up with an assumption about where characters might be going, and then forgetting that they were the ones who originally came up with it while the show itself does something else.
And also, Hunter is WAY more of an older brother to GUS than he is to Luz, and frankly I think we need more recognition of that fact XD
#toh#the owl house#toh rambling#toh analysis#toh fandom#toh hunter#hunter deamonne#Luz Noceda#willow park#gus porter#luz and hunter aren't really siblings#hunter is closer to willow and gus than he is to luz#hunter is more of an older brother to gus than he is to luz#random toh rambling post
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I personally think the TOH ending is great.
Belos got exactly what he deserved, no sympathy at all, and just like Raine said: it was satisfying.
Things weren't perfect right after Belos died. They've spent years rebuilding and fixing the world and figuring out how to make it work again. They've had time to heal.
I'm specially happy with how the kids ended up. Luz got to travel between worlds whenever she wanted, not having to give up neither being a witch or her life with her mom, and she even goes to college at the Boiling Isles at the end. Amity's body type seems closer to Odalia's when she's older, and she looks like she's been adventuring a lot; she looks happier than ever. Gus (who looks amazing, by the way) gets to teach people about his interests. Willow is still playing Flyer Derby and living her best life. And Hunter is now working with Dell as a palisman carver; he even made himself a cute new palisman (named Waffles, according to Dana Terrace on Twitter), while still honoring Flapjack.
Those endings fit them all and I love how happy they all looked. I loved Titan Luz, I loved Camila meeting Eda and King, I loved Darius reuniting with Hunter, that Aladarius moment later, and most of all I loved how everyone (including Tibbles and Boscha lmao) was in that last frame except Odalia. Just perfect.
#the owl house#toh spoilers#the owl house spoilers#luz noceda#edalyn clawthorne#king clawthorne#raine whispers#amity blight#gus porter#willow park#hunter toh#darius deamonne#alador blight#odalia blight#flapjack
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Hunter's Comfort Food
I think, at this point, you all know my personal favorite Owl House headcanon. I shouldn't have to say what it is, you already know what I'm about to discuss. However, I am going to describe why Hunter loves what he does and maybe you'll adopt it as your headcanon too...
It all started when Hunter ran away from the Emperor's Coven Post-Hollow Mind. He'd been living in the paranormatorim in Hexside since, building a nest and living on snacks. Gus, having seen the former Golden Guard living so dreadfully, offers him his lunch, which, among other things, included a sandwich.
Hunter then helps Gus escape Adrian and the scouts, citing his reason for doing so being because Gus offered him food. When the illusionist questions him on it, Hunter says "It was a really good sandwich."
As many have pointed out, Hunter's diet in the castle was probably miserable. On top of it, he was clearly malnourished, as several characters (Luz, Eda, Amity, Edric, Emira, Matt) have said. So it is assumed he didn't have a great time food wise, which is why he looked so happy eating that loaf of bread in King's Tide...
Yeah, look at him go. Happily chewing on some bread and being pleased as punch over it. And this is where my HC came to be, Hunter and Gus bonding over a simple offering of food. A kindness Hunter had probably never known until then, combined with something that probably saved his life or at the very least made him feel much better. I feel like that sole interaction weighed on Hunter's heart, and it made him fall in love with sandwiches.
After all, without Gus' sandwich, he would have never been able to sit down and actually talk about how he was feeling about Belos. He wouldn't have bonded with Gus and helped the younger witch when he needed it most. Hunter developed an intensely strong bond with Gus, a friendship and brotherhood forged in love, trust, and sandwiches.
That said, I assume when they were trapped in the human realm, Hunter started looking into various types of sandwiches (with the help of Camila and Luz, of course.) Figuring out what the best meats and cheeses were. What kinds of vegetables go well with them (information he totally shared with Willow, obviously.) The best kinds of bread and condiments to compliment the other ingredients. I assume he learned about what foods he liked and disliked (boy loves himself some olives, btw.)
Of course, this eventually lead to the ultimate creation. His pride and joy: The True Hero Sub. The culmination of his knowledge and understanding of foods that allowed him to create divinity between two slices of bread (well, shoved into a loaf of french bread, but hey, who's counting?)
Of course, this is a BIG sandwich. I know, that's the one I made myself. It is about 2' long (60.69cm for you non-Americans.) It is not something you can eat by yourself, and Hunter would never want to eat it alone.
Because of this sandwich, Hunter came up with his philosophy on food; "Food tastes best when shared with others." So I assume the first time he made one, he shared it with the others. Definitely Gus, his sandwich brethren, and possibly Willow, someone Hunter would be thrilled to share his accomplishments with.
And this probably continued as he became an adult. I bet anything that Hunter has a series of sandwiches he brings with him to work. He maybe even wrote down his own cookbook of sorts for them. You KNOW anytime he had a new idea, Gus was the first person he told about it. He probably even made a book to make sandwiches to represent Cosmic Frontier characters (you know Gus AND Camila happily assisted him.)
And that's my headcanon. A boy, his best friend, and a type of food that brought them closer and possibly even saved a life in more than one sense. In this house, we respect the Sandwich Bros.
(Tagging @childlikegoblinqueen, @unniebeans, and @probablyhuntersmom, who I assume have also had this headcanon infect their brain for some time. *evil laugh*)
#the owl house#toh hunter#hunter noceda#toh headcanon#hunter deamonne#toh gus#gus porter#sandwich bros#hunter loves sandwiches
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What are some other hairstyles you imaging the group in? Any fun ones that Hunter tried (or was forced into by Willow, Amity, etc) as his hair got longer?
THIS IS A LONG ONE (with art) SO I'M PUTTING IT UNDER A READ MORE! :)
first of all I think GUS would be the one with the most hairstyles, hats and drip in general - he loves the human world's culture and their way of using fashion to express themselves uniquely - including hair. I mean, he also has curly hair. So he would have durag styles, various protection styles, twists and braids. And, because his hair curls, he could vary between long and shorter styles.
I also think Gus would have styles that are more typically "feminine" too, as he is very gender-non-conforming in the crew's art of him.
Though, I will say, it works for Gus in-canon that he only keeps one style at first (narratively speaking, not realistic haircare - I think?) because then that would emphasise his time in the human realm later on to be an important developing arc for him (assuming they would actually give him various styles, as indicative of the bits we got of him in episode 1.)
I think, had season 3 happened, we would have gotten a more vibrant Gus. He wants to be an ambassador, he loves the human realm, whom else than GUS to be the one to have an arc where he explores and embodies the full-on SELFEXPRESSION!
Fashion and hair is a way to express the uniqueness of yourself.
If Luz' wish as the main character is to be understood, then the (positive) characters around her will (one way or another) embody different lessons for that theme.
Gus: Self-expression. (Fashion, style, hair, charisma)
Hunter: Identity. (Confidence, self-love, self-respect)
Willow: Inner self. (Vulnerability, self-care, self-acceptance)
Amity: Outer self. (Presentation of your truth, pride of oneself.)
Vee: Voice. (Standing up for yourself, perseverance)
Camila: Support. (Union of group, accepting and giving love)
And I think their fashions/hair aka - character designs would reflect these various things!
On a more fun note I think the only reason Hunter could pull off his own unique style is because Gus helps him combine them properly.
Hunter really said dollhouse fairycore and Gus ran with it.
AMITY: Basic styles, probably thinking of her siblings to feel closer to them. Especially Emira's hairstyles. :)
I think, because her mom was so controlling of how her hair presented, I think Amity moves away from doing too much with it and rather let it be adventurous and free.
WILLOW: Lots of braids and pigtails. I think she likes to have practical hairstyles as well as more "gentle" ones. The practical ones to reflect her jock-side, and the lose ones to reflect her more gentile and sensitive side! :)
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HUNTER: I think just keeps his in a ponytail or (as in the canon) just loose and shaggy without much care. Showing his early stages of being a blank slate. Just let things have it's course to see what "grows" from it, y'know? And then he gets his iconic haircut scene and literally "starts over" with a new arc. :)
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I think LUZ just keeps her iconic style that she's had through the show, with the additional tiny low-pinned ponytail that makes her look like a rouge adventurer! Kinda like Amity. I also think Luz hair grows a bit more wavy the longer it gets! :)
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VEE is also someone who goes through the most changes, but in her body and face rather than fashion. I think her style would be of the alternative side, perhaps a bit of a concert-kid vibe and basic comfy stuff.
She's visually been shown to have the opposite expressions of Luz, quite literally being from opposite realms and having opposite personalities. Where Luz felt hopeful Vee was quick to give up. Our basilisk girl also seem to fit in more with the human realm, enjoying being a normie - after all, her life wasn't normal up till that point. So it makes sense for her to seek it and even find her safety in her own baseline.
BUT YEAH!
I THINK THAT'S IT????
ENJOY MY THOUGHTS.
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hii can I request hunter x witch!reader where the reader catches human cold like when luz catched Demon Realm mold(?) and hunter takes care of them^^
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A/n: I have a cold while writing this-
Luz had asked you to go to the human realm for a bit. And you said yes without hesitation. But she had warned you of how cold it was. No matter. You brought a heavy jacket before going. You also grabbed a hat to cover your ears.
But once you got there the hat served more of a purpose than covering your ears. Well, it did cover your ears, but now from the cold and not just from others' eyes. A thin layer of snow covered the ground. The cold air bit at your nose and ankles, causing you to run to Luz's house,
When you finally got there you didn't bother to knock and just ran in. "Y/n there you are!" You heard Luz say, "You were the last one here and we were worried!" We? You looked around to see Amity, Gus, Willow, and Hunter. The gangs all here.
"I'm sorry if I had known that you were worried I would have come faster." That was a lie. You were going as fast as you could but your ankles felt numb. "It's fine just sit down. I'll get you a blanket." You nodded and sat down by where Hunter was sitting.
Despite Luz getting you a blanket you decided to cuddle into him to gain some warmth. Also because it was nice to just cuddle with him sometimes. "Holy- Are you okay!?" Hunter said once your skin made full contact with him
"Yeah, I'm just really cold-" Suddenly a blanket was thrown on you and him. You let out a pleased hum. A smile spread across your face. The rest of the night went relatively fine. But right before you left Luz asked if all of you wanted a sleepover, which everyone agreed to.
You fell asleep relatively quickly. Feeling pretty comfy. Once you woke up however your nose was super stuffed and your throat hurt. You coughed which irritated your throat more. You groaned and you suddenly heard a voice.
"Oh, you're up!" Luz said from behind you, "What's wrong?" "I have a stuffy nose and my throat really hurts." You cringed at the sound of your voice. Luz thought for a moment. "You probably caught a cold nothing serious... hopefully." "What do you mean hopefully!?" You accidentally yelled
She shushed you, gesturing to the others. "It's called the common cold, but I'm not sure how it witches." She walked closer to you, "It's kinda like the common mold back on the Isles. Excluding the mushrooms... And the deliriousness. Okay, there's nothing that similar besides the name, but if I was able to survive a demon realm sickness, you should be able to survive a human realm sickness."
"I'm just going to go home can you tell the others." She nodded. You got up, put on your hat and jacket, and went to the door. Just as your hand reached the handle you turned around. "What's the likelihood of someone seeing me teleport to the portal?" You asked Luz. "Not likely, nobody besides us really goes there."
You waved and wrapped yourself in abomination goop. But when you teleported you didn't arrive in front of the portal. Instead, you arrived almost falling into into the water. You backed up and groaned slightly. The teleport took more out of you than you anticipated.
You slugged your way towards your house. Despite this being normal for humans it was taking a toll on your body. You eventually got to your house and immediately flopped on your couch. You were on your right side and snot clogged your right nostril. You cringed and closed your body into itself. Even though you woke up a few moments earlier you slowly fell back asleep.
You woke back up to a fluffy blanket placed on you. Out of panic of suddenly having a blanket on you, you threw it off of you. Suddenly you saw your boyfriend's face by you. "Are you okay?" He asked concern lacing his voice. "Are you the one who placed the blanket on me?" He nodded. "Okay sorry, I just panicked. "It's fine you don't need to apologize."
You sniffled. "Do you have a tissue?" "One sconed." He left and then came back with a tissue. You blow your nose. "Ugh." You said looking at the wet tissue. You went over to a nearby trash can and almost fell over after a few steps. The only reason you didn't is that Hunter caught you. He picked you up and placed you down on your bed.
"Can you make soup?" You asked. Hunter inhaled through his teeth. "You know I'm not the best at cooking." "I don't care I just need something warm." Hunter nodded then leaned down and kissed you. You swatted him away. "Please don't. I don't want to make you sick." Hunter let out I light chuckle. "It would be worth it to make you feel loved." He said with pride. You grumble. He smiled sweetly, "I'll make sure you're better in no time! Trust me."
#toh x reader#the owl house x reader#hunter x reader#golden gaurd x reader#hunter toh x reader#toh hunter x reader#golden guard x reader
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thanks to them — hunter (gg) x clawthorne!reader
continuation of comfort crowd & hold out!
summary: after months of trying, the hexsquad make a daring try to get back to the demon realm.
a/n: okay um. the requests are going to be coming over the course of this week (no promises 🙏🏼) but. you will be seeing them soon!
wc: 5.2k
warning(s): possession, blood mention, (almost) dying, flapjack dying :(
You squeeze Hunter hand tightly as your. eyes droop and Luz’s mother opens the door, and gasps in shock to find six teens looking disheveled out in the rain, as Luz looks up at her.
“Hey, Mom.” She shrugs softly, and starts tearing up. “I'm back.”
Camila and Luz stare at each other for a moment, before Camila gives daughter and gives her a warm embrace, both crying.
Camila invites you all inside for dinner, and after finishing you all contribute to cleaning up. Camila is washing the dishes, Gus helps her by using magic and an awkward Amity gives her a cup of tea. Camila smiles, and pats Amity on the shoulder.
She joins you at the table, leaving a seat for Luz between you and her as Willow rubs a hand against your back as a comforting gesture.
Luz gets out a box of bandages that have cartoon mascots resembling Eda, King, and Hooty, and she sighs softly. Hunter approaches her quietly, grabbing onto the doorframe.
“Hey. Thanks for not telling them that I'm a...” Hunter starts, looking away, embarrassed.
Luz opens the box of bandages, staring at the bandage softly. “A grimwalker?”
“Shhhh, don't say it so loud!” He shushes worriedly. Luz hands him two bandaids for you, and he stares at them for a moment before speaking. “Uh... what about you? How've you been since, uh...?”
“Since we were in Belos’ mind? Since I found out I helped him meet the Collector?” Luz squeezes her eyes shut, holding back tears. “Oh my gosh, Hunter. They're all gonna hate me.”
“What? Psssh!” Hunter scoffs lightheartedly, stepping closer to Luz as she wipes away her tears and slightly smiles at Hunter. “No, of course they won't. They won't hate you any more than me when they find out that...” He starts panicking. “I might be a clone of... someone who was a... witch hunter... with... Belos...”
Luz and Hunter frown, and slowly turn their individual gazes to their partners; you and Amity.
“(Y/N) already knows and still loves you, but… we'll tell them. When we're ready..”
Hunter nods and the two join the others in the dining room. Willow scoots over a seat for Hunter to sit next to you as Luz sits on your other side and places a bandaid on Amity’s hand.
“Okay, so in the Demon Realm, you fought the evil Emperor Belos who turned into a monster...”
Hunter shakily grabs your arm, pulling you from your thoughts to sit up straight and watch him. He opens the bandaids and places them over them on the scratches on your arm, and smiles worriedly at you. When you smile and take his hand into yours, it quells any fear he might have that you don’t love him the same as before you knew he was a grimwalker.
“Well, he started out human.” Gus says, and you and Hunter turn to listen to the conversation.
“Right, but he was defeated by a newer, smaller bad guy?”
“The Collector.” You say, clearing your throat as Camila turns her attention to you. “We don't know what he is or how Belos found him.”
“Who knows if we'll ever figure that out?!” Luz says, panicked. Amity and the rest of the table (except you) look at her, confused. “But they're creating a lot of chaos.”
“We have to do whatever it takes to get back.” Amity states firmly, turning back to Camila.
“And you will. But for now, you should all rest.” Camila smiles, looking around at all the kids that are now in her care. “You're all safe here.”
Camila shows you and the other girls to Luz’s room, and Gus and Hunter to the basement.
Vee, the basilisk Luz told you about, shows you, Willow, and Amity a small black box with numbers on it with a wide smile.
“In the morning, instead of screaming, it'll do this!” She presses a button on it, and it activates an alarm.
You stare at it curiously while Willow and Amity gasp in shock, jumping up from where they were sitting.
“Don't worry, Vee!” Amity says, placing an arm in front of Vee.
“We'll keep you safe!” Willow shouts, destroying the alarm with her plant magic. Once it collapses on the floor in tiny pieces, Willow and Amity smile. “Good work! It's dead!” She and Amity bump elbows as you pout and Vee stares at the alarm clock sadly.
“Uh... thanks.” Vee says sheepishly.
You look down at the floor where Willow made a hole with her plant magic, and glance up to see Camila peeking in the room. You sheepishly smile, drawing at spell circle and casting a spell that fixes the hole.
Camila smiles at you thankfully, and closes the door.
Over the months you stay in the human realm, there are multiple tries at a portal door to get back to the Demon Realm, but they all fail. But it doesn’t stop you from having fun there, after all, Camila has made time to take you all on tons of trips over Luz’z summer break. You cut Hunter’s hair for him as he shyly explained what he had found on Philip and his brother, and you both experienced human rain for… the first(ish) time.
That one had to be your favorite memory here so far, giggling at Hunter being covered in mud as you hopped down the stairs. You kneeled and brushed the mud out of his hair and eyes, and his shy grin that he always gave you when you were that close.
But summer came to a close and Luz was at school, so you and everyone else were hanging out in the abandoned house behind Luz’s home.
Amity, Gus, Hunter, Willow were all trilling R's, while you and Vee — having lived with Luz and Camila, were speaking perfect Spanish.
Gus mumbled to himself, “Am I doing this right?”
You and Vee spoke into the tablets app, and a ding sound came from it, making the two of you grin.
“Perfecto! You're our top student!”
Amity squinted at the tablet. “Hmm. I was the top student once.”
Flapjack begins pecking at the table, and you glance at Hunter, who shrugs.
“He's still doing that, huh?” Gus asks, crossing his arms and looking up at Hunter.
“He won't tell me what he's looking for.” Hunter sighs and shakes his head.
Camila enters the shed with a warm smile, “Hi.” Looking around she grins, “Ooh! I like what you've done with the place. No more exposed nails or possum nests. But this still confuses me.” Camila motions to a painting of Hooty on the door, and you squint at the droopy paint.
“Yeah. He still confuses us too.”
“Hola Camila.” Gus smiles, waving at her. “We're learning Spanish from this scary owl app.”
“Hoot hoot! Practice every day, or I'll appear in your nightmares.”
Camila blinks in surprise. “Oh, okay. Well, I'm going to pick Luz up from school.” Camila grins, placing a hand on her hip. “Pop quiz; ¿Como se dice eso en español?”
“Oh, oh! Uh... Hunter inhales and starts speaking strained Spanish.
“Voy a recoger a Luz de la escuela.” You grin, clasping your hands together.
“Muy bueno!” Camila grins and winks at you. “Keep it up.”
Amity sighs after Camila leaves, “Maybe we should take a break.”
“A siesta.” Willow grins.
“Siesta!” Gus exclaims, bounding up from his spot on the floor.
“We've been here for months, and we've made no progress on the portal door.” Amity explains, throwing her arms out in exasperation as she stands up. “We can't expect Camila to take care of us forever.”
“In the meantime, we could pull more weight around the kitchen.” Gus nods. “My mustard ravioli did bring tears to her eyes.”
“Those weren't the kind of tears you're thinking of.” Vee cringes.
“I can help fixed damaged clothes!” Hunter holds up a shirt he made / fixed, grinning.
Willow holds up a plant monster, “I can spruce up the garden!”
“Maybe we need to look elsewhere. There's an entire Human Realm to search.” Amity says, placing a hand on her chin while pacing in front of the group.
“But Luz has school most of the week.” You say, a hand on your hip.
“So? Let's explore the town ourselves. After all, Luz went into the Boiling Isles on her own.”
“If Eda came here before, maybe there were others. Maybe they left something behind we can use.”
“Yes! That's the spirit! Together, there is no challenge that can hold us back.” Amity trips in a hole Flapjack pecked and faceplants, making everyone cringe. Amity groans, “Ow.”
“It's a sign! We're doomed!” Gus gasps.
“Come on Flapjack, this isn't funny anymore.” Amity grunts, until she sees something in the hole. She gasps, “There's something in here.”
Amity holds up a hexagonal box as the group gathers around her. She opens it and takes out a scroll and unrolls it.
You kneel down next to her, and run a hand over the paper. “Hmm. Looks like… a map?” You guess, looking up at Amity.
“Or a secret code?”
Flapjack chirps at Hunter, landing on his shoulder. “Flapjack, is this what you've been looking for? What does it lead to?”
“That eye, it kinda looks like the old portal door.” You say aloud, making Willow and Gus gasp.
“The portal door!” They link arms and begin chanting. “Portal door! Portal door! Portal door!”
“Alright, alright, calm down,” You smile softly, standing up and putting a hand on their shoulders to stop their bouncing. “Let's tell Luz.”
“What if it's just another dead end?” Amity sighs, turning to face you. “She already feels responsible for our other failed attempts.
“Then, let's not tell her until we can figure it out.” Willow grins. “Using our buff brains!” She flexes her arms, and everyone follows but Hunter, who’s blushing at you.
“Buff brains!”
Hunter laughs, still flustered as he joins in. “Yeah!”
You and Gus head towards the basement after helping Camila in the kitchen, “Thanks for helping, kids.”
“Anytime!” Gus smiles, waving back at her.
“Anytime, Ms. Camila.” You wave, “Good night!”
Gus hops down the stairs and swings around a banister, flopping on the couch as you walk down the stairs normally. Hunter looks up from his sewing and smiles at the both of you.
“Whoo! We've got a big day ahead of us, so I'm gonna buenas this noche.” Gus smiles, getting under his blanket as you sit on Hunter’s sleeping bag.
“Mm-hmm!” Hunter smiles with his eyes closed, and gets his finger caught in Camila's sewing machine. “Ow!” He whimpers, and you gasp.
“Are you okay?” You asked worriedly, and Gus nods.
“Yeah, that sounded painful.”
Hunter scoffs, and continues sewing, “I've been training in the Emperor's Coven for as long as I can remember.” He smiles confidently at you and Gus, making you smile. “I think I can handle a little...” He cuts his finger, and winces. You and Gus wince with him. “...pain.”
“Oh. That went clean through.” Gus said sheepishly as you pulled a bandaid out of your pocket and gestured for Hunter to come over.
Hunter sat down beside you and started speaking with a smile as you wrapped his finger, “Camila taught me how to use this sewing contraption. Even Darius's stitches have never been this neat. Oh, and look at what I made!” He leans away, grabbing something and holding up a shirt. You scoot back to lean against the couch as you and Gus listen to him. “These are mystical beasts called wolves, and I love them.”
He smiles, his eyes practically twinkling with wonder and joy at the thought of wolves.
“That looks great, Hunter.” You smile, crawling forward and ruffling his hair. He laughs, and fixes it as you crawl into his sleeping bag with a grin. “You know, you've been smiling a lot more since we've been here.”
“It's not like I don't want to return!” He turns to you and waves his hands, denying that he wants to stay here permanently. “I just need a way to pass the time. That's all.”
“No. It's good to see you happy.” Gus chuckles, nuzzling into his pillow. “One of us might as well be.”
‘You could say that again,’ You think to yourself, sighing as Hunter joins you in his sleeping bag.
“What was it like to be in the Emperor's Coven for so long?” Gus asks curiously.”
“I trained a lot. I studied a lot. I wasn't really allowed to be around the other scouts.” Hunter explained as you turned on your side to look at him. “But weekends were nice. I got to leave the castle for missions.”
“…” You look at his gloveless hands and stare for a moment. “Do you miss it?”
“I miss…” He sighs and turns his head to you. “knowing who I'm supposed to be.”
“I miss my dad.” Gus says despondently, turning onto his back and staring up at the ceiling.
“I miss my mom. And King.” You sigh, twirling a strand of hair around your finger.
“Even Hooty?” Hunter asks, shuddering.
“Yes, even Hooty.” You chuckle, hugging his arm to your chest.
Hunter smiles down at you, “We'll find a way back. We have to.”
Gus gasps excitedly. “Oh, my Titan. That's a line from this book I found.” He jumps off the couch and rustles around in a box before pulling out a book. “Cosmic Frontier! It's a story that takes place in the stars.”
“Why would anyone wanna go up there?” Hunter asks curiously.
“I don't know. Humans like spreading their junk everywhere.” Gus shrugs, but continues rambling. “But it's a story of people trying to get back home, like us.”
“Uh-huh.” Hunter nods, intrigued as Gus hands him the book and points to people on the cover. “We got Captain Avery, Security Officer Quando, Alien Princess Gorina, and a Chief Engineer O'Bailey who's hiding as a clone from the enemy planet.”
Hunter gasps, and looks at Gus as he walks towards a door, “What, uh, happens to him?”
“I guess you'll have to find out.” Gus opens a closet to reveal costumes, and shares a grin with Hunter.
The next day, the rest of you without Luz gather in the abandoned house again.
“All right. Luz is at her mom's vet clinic putting tiny little bandages on ‘hedgehogs,’” Amity grins, standing in front of everyone. “So today, we're going into town to solve this code.”
“Ears.” Gus nods, pulling his beanie over his ears.
“Routes.” Vee nods.
“Snacks,” She shows her bag off and pulls your arm around out to show off the snacks on the inside of your jacket. “check.”
“Human disguise, check. Eh?” Hunter announces, walking in and drawing everyone’s attention. He was wearing a costume from the book Gus had shown the two of you last night.
You blushed, clapping at him enthusiastically, “Oh, that is a look.” You grin as Willow snaps a picture of him.
“According to Cosmic Frontier, this is what the modern human male wears.” Hunter informs, walking in while reading the book.
“This was written in the '90s about the year 2008.” Vee cringes after taking the book and reading the cover.
“Yeah. Can't wait for that New Year's party.” Hunter chuckles at Vee as you approach him, holding up his arms and circling him to look at the costume better.
“This costume is so accurate, Hunter.” You compliment, holding up his arm. “Down to the stain on side!”
“I kno— wait, there’s a stain?” Hunter questions, making you giggle as you quickly cast a spell to get rid of it.
“And did you two get to the last chapter?”
“O'Bailey and Gorina are still hiding the fact that O’Bailey a duplicant in hyperdisguise.” Hunter grins.
“But Captain Avery is figuring it out!” You squeal.
“I think he already knows but-“
“Ah, bup-bup-bup! No, no, no, no, no spoilers!” Hunter squawks, covering his ears.
“Hunter, I don't think the world is ready for the brave fashion choices of the year 2008.” Amity says, her nose scrunching up in disgust at the costume. “Please change.”
You quickly lunge at her and put a hand over her mouth. “Don't listen to her!”
“Aw, geez,” Vee morphs into her human form and holds up the map. “we're gonna miss the bus.”
“Oh, it's okay! I'll catch up.” Hunter waves them off. “There's a transport worm every half hour.”
Everyone heads out, you lagging behind while grabbing your fanny pack. You quickly step over and kiss Hunter’s cheek, and turn to him before closing the door.
“With that costume, it seems I’m going to need your help with a Gorina look when we get back.” You wink, closing the door as Hunter blushes at you.
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After looking around and finding some answers, you take the bus back to Luz’s house to find Hunter in the basement with Flapjack while Gus brings the costumes upstairs for the others to look at.
After Gus leaves, Hunter turns to Flapjack after you set down the stuff you pickpocketed on the desk. Grinning, your palisman flies out and you prepare to search through it, but Hunter starts talking.
“Did you know about this?” He asks sternly. “That he was here? I can tell you're hiding something.”
Flapjack chirps as you and your palisman share a glance.
Hunter sighs, “Sorry. I shouldn't take this out on you. I'm just scared.”
Clearing your throat, Hunter whips his head to you, who has a brow raise and sits crisscrossed on the chair at the sewing machine.
The sound of a vehicle pulling into the driveway saves Hunter from the interrogation, and you both head upstairs. Hunter heads outside while you head into the living room, (P/N) resting on your shoulder.
“Oh, (Y/N)!” Gus exclaims, grabbing an item and running up to you with it behind his back. “I know what we’re gonna be for Halloween, but where’s Hunter.”
“He went outside to see Luz, I think.” You scratch your head, and try to peer behind his back as Camila walks in. “What’s your costume idea?”
“You, are going to be the almighty….” He pulls out a blaster, paint splattered over the cylinder barrel. Your eyes light up as you take it from the boy, a grin on your face.
“Gorina!” You squeal, bouncing around before posing and aiming the blaster at the wall, trying to imitate the character.
Luz and Hunter enter the house as you do so, and Gus nudges you to signal that they’re back.
“Hey, we're back!” Hunter chuckles. “And we bought some, uh, cars.”
As Amity turns to Luz, Gus rushes over to Hunter with you.
“Guess what I've got planned? I'm gonna be Captain Avery, (Y/N)‘s gonna be Gorina, and you're...” Gus hands Hunter a prop for his character, and he gasps.
“Chief Engineer O'Bailey?” Hunter grins, squealing as he holds it to his ear.
Camila gulps, her grip on her mug tightening. “How do you know about Cosmic Frontier?”
“All the books in your basement.” You say, smiling at her.
“Oh!” Camila laughs nervously. “Funny how things just show up in basements, right? Without you hiding or putting them there. Life sure is full of surprises.”
“Cool! Humans freak out just like us.” Gus grins, gesturing to Camila.
“It'll be fun. We want to experience your weird human traditions.” She laughs, pulling out a headband and putting it on her head.
The next day at the Haunted Hayride, Hunter helps you out of the car and lets you fix your outfit before grabbing your hand again and intertwining your fingers. Smiling up at him, you stepped close to Hunter, your other hand coming up and hooking onto his forearm as you joined the group.
“All right. We'll keep the puzzle a secret 'till the time is right.” Amity grins as Luz speaks to her mom back at the car. “And then we'll tell her about the Titan Blood!”
Hunter suddenly whips his head around, and glances at Flapjack. “Did you hear that?” He whispers to his palisman so that you wouldn’t hear.
Flapjack chirps as you glance over to Hunter, raising a brow at his attention being off the group.
“Hey, it's okay. It's probably just in my head again.” He quietly reassures as you turn your head back. “Nestle down, Flapjack.”
Luz finally joins them, and Amity grabs her shoulders excitedly. “We're gonna have the best night, and we might even have surprise for you.”
“Yeah, me too.”
After doing a few activities, you move over to haunted hayride, where Hunter helps you up the hay bales and into the tractor, where you sit in between him and Luz. You offer your hand to him, and he takes it with a bashful grin,
“I hope you're all prepared for a truly scary ride.” Masha grins, their bangs blowing in the wind.
“Make us cry! Make us cry!” Gus and Willow chant excitedly, making Masha smile wider.
“Because there's nothing scarier than knowledge.”
“Boo, just lie to me!” Gus heckles, earning a nudge from Willow.
“Let me tell you the eeriest unsolved mystery of Gravesfield.” Masha says deviously as the tractor begins moving. “The Tale of the Brothers Wittebane.”
You, Luz, and Hunter gasp, and Amity leans in, moving her bang away. “Wittebane? Isn't that Belos?”
“The year is 1613.” Lights glow behind the four, and they turn to see the story being told in an exhibit. “Two orphaned brothers arrive in Gravesfield. Their names? Philip... and Caleb.“
“Oh, no.”
As Masha narrates the story, cardboard cutouts depicting events that happened to Philip and Caleb play out in the background as the gang watches.
“Caleb did his best to take care of his younger brother. They tried to fit in with this town, and its unsavory practices. They became witch-hunters!” Masha informs, the wind blowing the stray strands of hair on their head around. “Local lore suggests that the Brothers Wittebane met a real witch from another world! Her name was Evelyn. And the older brother was spirited away. She dazzled him with magic and visions of a strange yet beautiful place. They used a secret code to travel between worlds. Philip set off to save his brother and bring the witch to justice. But neither were ever seen again! Maybe Philip saved Caleb, and they went on to lead peaceful lives. Or maybe,” They turn on a flashlight and points it at their face, “he's still chasing his brother, caught in a cycle of horror and strife!”
Masha turns off the flashlight, smiling. “Sounds like big bro got a hot witch girlfriend and little bro got upset.” Masha jokes. You glance at Hunter, who seems out of it. “But that's just me.”
The hayride ends and the gang gets out of the tractor. Nearby, Hunter hears Belos laughing, which terrifies him. He grabs Luz once he realizes that you aren’t watching, and the two run off.
After a few minutes, the group starts to look for them after noticing.
“Luz? Hunter?” You call out, and accidentally bump into Amity.
She shakes her head, “Did you find them?”
“Calm down. They probably just went to buy some more cars.” Gus reassured as you fidgeted with the seeds on your shirt.
“Yeah. Yeah. You're right. I just- I wanted to show Luz the rebus.” She looks down at the pocket in her dress to pull it out, but it’s gone. “Wait. Where did it go?”
“Kids!” You all hear Camila’s voice call for you, and turn to see her and Vee rushing to you from her car. “Have you seen Luz? And has she, um, said anything weird?”
Vee whips out the phone Camila finds her with a grin. “Boom! Find a phone.”
After a few beeps, it shows Luz’s location to be deep inside the forest. And as confused as you all are, you’re more concerned with finding your friends.
You run into the graveyard Luz was in to see her fighting… Hunter? You gasp as you gently push past Amity, eyes wide as you watch your possessed boyfriend fight off your closest friend.
“Hunter?” You question in horror, the blue glowing eyes that didn’t belong to him glanced over at you with a cruel smile.
“That’s Hunter?” Camila gasps.
“Something's wrong.” Gus shakes his head.
Hunter speaks, but it’s meshed with Belos’ voice. “See, this is why you're so useful, Luz. You're so desperate to help people, you even helped me meet The Collector.”
“What?”
“I didn't mean to. I thought I was doing something good.” Luz states, clasping her hands over her chest.
“You did do something good. I thought this one was another lost cause.” Belos spoke through Hunter, and you furrowed your brows furiously. “Because of you, we can finish our work as witch-hunters, starting with them!”
He launches his goop arm at you and the others, but you quickly summon your staff, deflecting it and flying off towards him.
He grunts as you, Amity, and Gus use your magic to try and knock him down or restrain him, but to no avail.
“Hey, Belos. Remember me?” Gus shouts, and Belos launches his arm out again, only for you and Willow to latch onto it and slam it onto the ground to restrain him.
Vee runs forward, “Hang tight, Hunter!” She starts draining his magic with her powers.
Amity snatches Vee away before she can be knocked away. “Vee, watch out!”
After making sure Vee was safe, you all fly back to try again, but Belos knocks Amity, Gus, and Willow out of the sky while you narrowly dodge the smack.
You quickly cast a spell for a cloud to appear under them before they hit the ground, and turn back to Hunter and Luz.
Luz uses Hunter’s staff and teleports to him, hugging his arms to his sides, “I know you can hear me, Hunter. Fight him off!”
Belos flips Luz off of him, and Amity creates a bridge of ice and vines to catch her as you swoop down and break her fall. Letting her roll off you, you quickly sit up.
Flapjack starts chirping and pecking at Belos's antlers, but the he immediately catches the small palisman. Everyone freezes, and Belos chuckles darkly.
“That's right. You wouldn't want me harming your precious palisman, would you?” His grin drops for a moment, before returning. “Oh, but then again, I don't care what you want. Goodbye, Evelyn.” Belos sends sharp parts of himself shooting through Flapjack. You gasp, tears welling in your eyes as he lets go of the bird
“Flapjack!” You cry out, Luz crawling over as he lands in your hands. “Flapjack, you'll be okay.” You gently caress the top of his head, and he chirps at you.
Hunter groans, holding his arm as he stands up. “You know what I'd like, Belos?” He slowly trudges towards the lake, the vial of Titan’s blood in his grasp. “'d like to leave the Emperor's Coven and never step foot in that throne room again. I'd like to study wild magic, and learn how to carve palismen. I'd like to attend Hexide as a regular student and play flyer derby with my friends. I’d like to be able to see my partner without worrying about you killing them. But most of all, I'd like to make sure you never hurt anyone again!” Hunter throws the vial of Titan's blood into the river, and Belos takes over again.
“No!” Belos jumps into the water, managing to catch the vial but falls unconscious as a result.
“No!” You gasp, standing up and moving to the edge of the bridge.
“Move.” Camila says sternly, brushing past you. She jumps into the water to save him and a few moments later, manages to rescue him.
“Be careful with him!” You shout, moving to the edge to help.
The others help you and Camila hoist Hunter onto the surface, you gently set his head on your lap, hands cupping his face.
Belos finally leaves Hunter's body as he takes the monstrous form he previously had.
“Caleb, you would stab me in the back?”
Luz stares at him angrily, “You did it to him first.”
Belos, outraged, smashes the vial of Titan's blood into the archway, opening a portal to the Demon Realm. Your mouth drops open, but your glare remains.
Belos growls, “This is for the good of your souls. You'll thank me later.”
He goes through the portal, leaving everyone speechless.
“That's the Belos you've been fighting this whole time?!”
You turn to the group after shaking Hunter for a while, “Guys, Hunter isn't moving.” You cry, tears in your eyes as you lean down to his face to listen for breathing.
“Vee, call an ambulance.” Camila says, and Vee nods, standing up and pulling out her phone.
“Uh, do human doctors know about possession?” Willow asks, eyes welling with tears.
“Or Grimwalkers?” You ask, looking up at Camila desperately.
“Possession?!”
“Grimwalkers?!”
“We should still call a doctor.”
“I'm not getting cell reception.”
“What do we do?”
A weakened Flapjack flies out of Luz's pocket to Hunter, and the others watch despondently. Flapjack rubs his face against Hunter’s cheek and chirps sadly, then settles down, sacrificing his life to revive Hunter as the others sadly watch on.
Hunter groans and slowly opens his eyes, which have turned brown, “Hey, guys. Is everyone else okay?”
Gus and Luz share a glance before turning back to Hunter, “Actually, Flapjack...”
“Don't. Don't.” He cries, hand clutching his chest where Flapjack last laid. “I already know.”
The tears you’d been holding finally fall as Hunter sits up, leaning back on you for support as you hug him from behind tightly.
“Sit up slowly, baby. Are you in pain anywhere?” Camila asks worriedly, placing a hand on his shin.
Hunter squeezes your forearm as you cry into his back. “I'm okay.”
You don’t really hear the others talking about the Collector over your silent cries and sniffs, but when Hunter turns around and takes your face into his hands softly, you feel grateful.
“I thought I lost you,” You sighed as he stood and pulled you up, not letting go of your hands,
“I’m here.” Hunter smiles, pulling you over to Luz and the others.
“Mija, now that I've seen what you're up against, there is no way I'm letting you go back there alone.” Camila says firmly. “It is our duty to help your friends get back to their families.”
“But...” Luz starts, but Hunter steps over with you right behind him.
“You were tricked. That's what Belos does. He tricks people.” Hunter says grimly, earning a squeeze on his hand from you. “But if it weren't you, it would have been someone else, and then there'd be no one left to fight back. So let's do that. Let's fight back. Please? For Flapjack?”
Luz turns her gaze back to you, and she’s reminded of her family on the other side. Your shared family. You smile encouragingly at her.
“For Flapjack.”
The portal pulses, and the group turns their attention towards it.
“The portal's closing.” Vee points out.
“Then we better head in.” Luz nods, and you and Hunter make your way to the portal first.
Standing before it, he looks to you, and you look at him. You give him a smile reassuring smile, and he sighs shakily.
“Time to go home, Flap.”
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I got a prompt for you! Hunter maybe leaves the Coven (definitely not with Belos, that guy sucks, anyway) and ends up moving into the owl house and attending Hexside, where he ends up meeting the reader and ends up crushing on them. The others definitely tease him about it, and it’s like Amity crushing on Luz all over again. And anything that they do makes him blush. Compliment him? Ears are red. Hug him out of the blue? Cheeks are red. Laugh at his jokes/quips? He’s over the moon. And there’s a reason why I’m requesting why he ran from the Coven. Reader helps him escape the guards together and maybe need to hide in a closet, idk, do with this as you will. They/Them for Reader please. Have a nice day!
How do you like predicting what happened in the show lol. Also gender is always non specific :)
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Holding your knees to your chest you glanced at Hunter shyly. You both were pretty close in the cramped custodial closet but at least the guards hadn't found your little hiding place. Shifting to try and give Hunter some space he scooted closer when he heard noises outside. His hand reaching for yours instinctively. As he holds your hand close, your glad it's dark because your cheeks are on fire.
Flapjack was currently nestled in your hair and was silent as he glared at the door. All of you holding your breath as you waited.
Face red as Hunter grips you as if to protect you if anything happens, the boy gets closer free hand clutching the base of his staff in case you have to fight. The staff crosses over his body and yours ready to do a spell circle or make a shield.
"Hunter I..." Looking up at him his magenta eyes made your heart thrum in your chest. In the dim light you notice him put his finger to his mouth and you nod guessing this wasn't the best place for a confession. I mean there were buckets and mops surrounding you on either side and cleaning products scattered about. Still opportune moments were far and few in between and you wanted him to know how you felt, confident he felt the same.
Finally after minutes but what feels like hours the guards footsteps fade and the shadows shift leaving the doorway. Leaning against Hunters shoulder you let out a silent sigh of relief.
Hunter glances at you and you stare back at him a small smile on your face. Now to get out of here and find your friends.
"... Ummm what were you going to say?" He questions face red as he immediately backs off you. His hand goes to fiddle with his loose strand of hair and Flapjack chirps flapping his wings as he flies from your hair to Hunters. The base of the staff in Hunters hand disappears as FlapJack claims his hair as his own and his face glows in the dark space for a moment. Golden light illuminating his features. Your face becomes pinker than his eyes as you nervously look away with a chuckle.
"Ummm well I..." You start before pausing as figures stand outside your door. Pushing you back where you'll be safer and kneeling in front of you as he glares at the door flapjack and him are ready to attack. As the door opens and the closet fills with light you jump up and smile.
"Gus! Willow! Amity!" Running out you help Hunter up who has a blush on his face from your assistance and how close the two of you had been.
"Are you alright? There are guards everywhere!" Gus responds and you hug your little man before looking down the hallway. One hand glows as the other reaches behind you to grab Hunters hand. His face is immediately on fire and you smile at him, cheeks tinged a dark red as well.
"We gotta go." You state as Amity and Willow run up ahead.
"Mmmmhmmmm. Yeah! Just what I was thinking." He states voice getting high as he looks to the floor following you. His face still pink as you two begin to run.
"(Y/N)!" Seeing Viney and Skara call out to you, you smile at Hunter before leaving him with the trio as you run ahead to check on your other friends. Hunter feels a flare of jealousy as you hug them but he knows you were just worried about everyone and that seeing them was a relief to you.
"So do anything in the closet? Inquiring minds must know." Gus teases as he bumps Hunters shoulder making Hunters face somehow get redder.
"Why was your hair all messed up?" Willow questions eyes squinting in suspicion from behind her green glasses.
"No we didn't- now is not the time! We're being hunted!" Hunter protests as he glares at Gus than Willow. Gus chuckles in response while Willow just smiles mischeviously.
"Likley story." Gus hums making Hunter groan frustrated. He looks towards you and your mutual friends again and as you glance back at him his eyes dart away as his face darkens. You don't seem to notice and begin talking to the girls next to you.
"You two are worse than me and Luz, you know that?" Amity teases as Willow and Gus begin to giggle in agreement. Flapjack chirps something and Hunter groans covering his face as they rush down the twisting hallways.
"So when are you going to ask them out?" Willow inquires making Hunter swallow nervously. Ask you out? He could barley form a coherent sentence around you. Dating was not on the table.
"Now is not that time. Although-" He stops in his tracks everyone pausing to stare at him. Had that been what you wanted to talk about? Was that what you were going to say in the closet before he interrupted you? Face getting darker he groans and throws his head back making Flapjack chirp concerned.
He's so stupid!!!
"I'm an idiot." He states staring at your back with wide eyes before you looped around a corner disappearing from his sight.
"Hunter were they gonna confess and we ruined it?" Gus questions dramatically. When he doesn't respond Willow gasps.
"Oh my god Hunter!!! I can't believe it, they were going to confess first!" She states shaking his arm excitedly. The magenta eyed boy simply stared at her. You... you were?
"Who confesses on the run?" Amity responds pulling at Willow while Gus pulls at Hunter. Thinking back to who you hang out with and how her and Luz had almost confessed at Grom while fighting the monster her face flushes.
Oh.
"Hypocrite! Anyways what do you plan on doing with our little angel?" Gus questions as Hunter once again covers his face. "First date? Second date? Third date?" Gus pushes eyes narrowed as he goes into protective mode.
"I don't know? I have to tell (Y/N) I like them before we actually do anything. And now's not the time. Although... Maybe the library or-" Running into something Hunter stumbles back before he gets ready to go into attack mode. However, FlapJack chirping and flying in his face makes him stop. Your faces are both red and you look embarrassed but also happy as you smile at him.
"You like me too?" You question and Hunter can't look away from you. You liked him? He liked you???
"Marry me!" He blurts out and you begin to laugh. He looks away embarrassed beyond all belief that he said that thinking your laughter was a rejection but holding your hand out he pauses. Taking it slowly wrapping his fingers around yours in a tight hold, you smile at him before leaning forward briefly pressing your lips too his. As his cheeks darken you smile pulling away.
"Maybe someday." You hum before winking at him as you squeeze his hand. "Come on, we have somewhere safe to go!" You state and he nods following after you with a dumbstruck look.
He'd follow you anywhere...
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HEY I WAS WONDER IF YOU COULD WRITE SOMETHING FLUFFY ABOUT HUNTER CONFESSING TO FEMALE Y/N AND THEY KISS?? EDA, LUZ, KING, GUS AND WILLOW WATCH HUNTER AS HE CONFESSES TO Y/N! Before Y/N could tell him how she feels about him too he apologize’s and says that that was a dumb idea and he runs away covering his face blushing. The next day Hunter tries to avoid Y/N for the whole day. Y/N decides to just go up to him when he’s all alone and finally tells him how she feels too and they kiss again!! WOOHOO!!
Hello! Thank you for your request! Here it is~
Tw: none
Contains: Fluff, adorable blushing, just a stuttering mess
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Today was the day. Hunter stares at himself in the mirror, a little red with his own nerve.
“Okay..okay! You can do this, Hunter! Just..come up to her, and tell her how you feel. It won’t be hard! You used to be in the emperor’s coven, you used to battle criminals on the daily! What’s one confession to a really cool girl gonna do to your ego? Nothing, that’s what!”
Even his lies don’t convince him. He sighs, running his hands through his hair.
“Who am I kidding…Y/N isn’t just some cool girl…she’s the coolest! Ughh—”
Whatever. This day with everyone to the local county fair might give him some confidence. Hunter still had to get ready, after all.
Yeah, he’s definitely not ready for this.
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It had been quite a day. Hunter definitely thought so. Willow and Gus ran off to go do a bet — ‘whoever pukes first before going through all the rides loses!’. Ew. And Luz and Amity went off to win some plushie for each other. Eda and King went around, scamming oblivious tourists.
So now…he was alone. With Y/N. In a secluded spot behind the food court. They both sat together, quiet.
Hunter glances over to Y/N. She was looking at the fireworks above, a soft smile on her features. He reddens, looking away. She was just so…pretty. How could he even start?
“Um..Y/N?”
“Yes, Hunter?” She looks over to him. The sounds of the fireworks seem to fade away when she locks eyes with him. Titan, he really was smitten.
“I uh, have something to tell you.”
“Oh? Go ahead!” she grins. She looks at him curiously, fiddling with the hems of her dress. Hunter gulps.
“So, you know how we’ve known each other for a while?”
“Mhm.”
“I, um, guess…I caught something in those years of knowing you.” He was just making himself suffer at this point, dragging the whole thing longer than it needed to be. Just say the words!
Y/N continued to look at him with that awe-struck eyes. “And?” she asks gently, waiting patiently for his next string of words to come out.
“...feelings. I..I caught feelings for you. Y-you’re just really, pretty, and really sweet, and you’re so cool, a-and..”
His face felt like it was on fire, red as a beet. Hunter stumbles on his words, while Y/N simply stares at him with those eyes, so alluring. Like she was waiting for him to get to the point.
He glances at her lips. A static shock goes against his heart, like it was trying to egg him on.
“I..”
He leans closer. Y/N does the same. He could feel her breath on his lips, so close — it smelled like lavender, and a hint of cinnamon. From the pretzel she had eaten before, he thinks with a quiet chuckle.
And without further ado, they lock lips. It was short, chaste, soft. It had been something Hunter found himself thinking about too much – how it would be lke to kiss her. And this..this was more than he could ever imagine. Something beyond his wildest dreams.
He loved it.
His heart gives a flutter before they breath apart. Suddenly shy, Y/N whispers,
“What are you trying to say?”
“W-what I’m trying to say is—” And with that, Hunter knew he was fighting a losing battle— “NOTHING, I’M NOT SAYING ANYTHING! Y-YOU’RE CRAZY! SORRY THIS WAS A BAD IDEA. OKAY GOODBYE FOREVER.”
He stands up quickly, before running off, hiding his very red face in his hands, he looked like he was about to explode at that point. In his mind he’s firing off so many thoughts, all at once, still very flustered — oh, Titan, why did I say that, now she’s gonna hate me forever, I shouldn’t have said anything at all, and kissing her?! I’m so dead.
Y/N was left to her own uncollected thoughts as everyone appeared from their hiding places.
“I really thought he was gonna do it!” gasps Willow, as Gus lends her a handful of popcorn. “Jeez, he chickened out? Boo!” he adds.
“Man, just when I thought he gathered up all his confidence,” Luz says with a shake of her head.
“Poor Y/N, though, she’s utterly confused,” Amity says, pointing at Y/N. She seemed a little red herself, to be honest, still staring at Hunter’s fading figure.
“He literally kissed her, what is it with you kids and your unnecessary drama?” Eda says, perhaps a little too loud.
When Y/N turns around, everyone pops back into their hiding places.
“He…he likes me?” she says, reddening. Flustered.
-THE NEXT DAY-
The blonde boy sighs. He had a lot on his mind. Too many thoughts clouding his rational thinking. He glances up at the wisteria tree above him. He liked the Hexside garden. A lot. It could clear his head.
But not today. Not even the sweet scent of the wisteria could help him this time.
“Skipping classes, are you?”
Hunter jolts at the voice — her voice — before looking her way. Y/N stands there, a soft, unreadable expression painted on her face.
“How did you find me?” he asks first.
She sits down beside him with a sigh. “Luz told me.”
“Of course she did..” he mutters to himself.
It was quiet again. Neither knew what to say. When Hunter looks back at her, he realizes she was already looking at him. Surprised, he quickly glances away, cheeks red.
“About last night…”
“Look, can we just…forget about what happened? I-I’m sorry, I made everything awkward between us–”
“No, no, not at all!” she smiles, touching his hand. “You…you put things into perspective with me, actually..”
“And? Wh…what do you think?” he was anxious, fidgeting and red. He didn’t know if he wanted to hear the next words that would escape Y/N’s lips or not.
“I like you back, Hunter. How could I not? You’re so sweet, and very kind, and you’re stupidly adorable when you’re flustered.”
He blinks.
What?
“..What?” He repeats the singular word in his mind.
“I like you back, you big dork,” she repeats, grinning up at him, still red. “So, what do you say?”
“I..”
Another absentminded glance back to her lips, and Hunter gives in. The faint static of electricity blooms in his chest, the same one back at the fair…
And this time, she leans in. This time, she initiates the kiss. He didn’t think it possible to feel the fluttering in his heart again, not when it was so rare, but he did. He felt it. And suddenly he was a mess again, a stupid, dorky, awkward mess. He melts into the kiss, shutting his eyes. It was…perfect. This time, the kiss wasn’t too short, Hunter could focus on the different parts of it…how soft her lips were, probably from the chapstick she liked to use…lavender, that was it. That was why he tasted lavender…and the smell of the wisteria leaves seem to flutter and dance about the pair.
When they both pulled apart, it was apparent Y/N herself was blushing.
“I say..”
She waits for his response, with baited breath.
“...that your chapstick tastes pretty good.”
She blinks, then laughs. Her laugh always was so angelic…Hunter, focus here! She giggles, slightly, still a little surprised but giddy at his joke.
“Do you want the brand?” she teases. He rolls his eyes playfully, almost forgetting his nervousness.
“Maybe I could try tasting it again? Uh, you know…just as a trial, to see if I wanna buy my own.”
“Be my guest.”
They kiss again, under that wisteria tree. He was in pure bliss. Was this the feeling many spoke of? He finally understood.
Under that wisteria tree, Hunter could see the secrets of the universe in her eyes, he could feel everything with her kiss.
Under the wisteria tree.
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Hope it wasn't too cringy lol. Thanks for your request again!!
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The Amity Blight Show
Inspired by a recent ask, let's actually compare the focus Amity gets in season 2 compared to Willow, Hunter and Gus.
And this is going to be a long one, so let's start with a bare-bones overview, no judgement, just numbers:
Gus appears in 10 episodes (S2E2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 18, 20, 21)
Willow appears in 10 episodes (S2E2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 18, 20, 21)
Hunter appears in 9 episodes (S2E1, 2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21)
Amity appears in 11 episodes (S2E2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21)
So, looking only at this list, it at first seems to be balanced, but that idea falls apart once we take a closer look.
To find the actual important ones, let's get rid of episodes where those four only have like two lines or only appear for half a minute or so.
Gus is left with 7 episodes (S2E2, 5, 9, 13, 18, 20, 21)
Willow with 7 episodes (S2E2, 9, 11, 13, 18, 20, 21)
Amity with 10 episodes (S2E2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21)
Hunter with 8 episodes (S2E1, 6, 9, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21)
Okay, getting more interesting. But that is still not the full story. For that, we have to consider how those characters are portrayed/what role they play in those episodes.
Escaping Expulsion does teach us a little bit about Willow's and Gus' relation to their parents, but they are mostly comic relief and are taken out as soon as the action starts so Amity can be the hero.
Sure, fine, that's one episode.
But then in Eclipse Lake, Gus and Willow are fully reduced to comic relief, while Amity is the hero and protagonist of that episode.
Amity getting to kick ass and play hero stays a consistent theme throughout the rest of the season, with Follies, Reaching Out, Labyrinth Runners and Clouds on the Horizon all giving her that.
And while her B-plot in Any Sport in a Storm is ultimately insignificant, she's still taken serious here.
"But what about Hunter?!"
Yes, Hunter also gets a lot of attention. But unlike Amity, he was only introduced this season and needs some screen time to be fleshed out/speedrun his redemption arc.
And he still got less focus than Amity and her family. We only know so much about his family because it's relevant to the main plot.
Meanwhile, the parents of Gus and Willow are barely more than a face, a name and a job.
The name of Gus' palisman was cut for time.
So, let's make a final list, with episodes that treat characters as protagonists/antagonists and not just support characters or extras.
Gus has S2E5 and S2E18, (though he is important in 20 & 21)
Willow has S2E13 and S2E18, (+ a few important scenes throughout the season)
Hunter has S2E1, S2E6, S2E9, S2E13, S2E16, S2E18 (+ an important scene in 21) -> that seems like a lot, I know, but considering he didn't have any episodes in season one, it kinda balances out.
Amity on the other hand...
Amity has S2E2, S2E5, S2E8, S2E9, S2E11, S2E13, S2E14, S2E18, S2E20.
That's nine out of ten.
(and I only excluded King's tide because the Hexsquad is there as a group, with Luz and King being the protagonists more than anyone else.)
#the owl house#toh meta#toh critical#toh hunter#gus porter#willow park#amity blight#toh season 2#I'm not sure if I already made this post tbh#or sth similar
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Home
I’m still thinking about Hunter having the realization that he cares for Darius as if he were his dad because he misses him in the same way the others are missing their parents and I ended up writing this in a frenzy.
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"I want to see my dad," Gus murmurs, brokenly, before bursting into tears once more and, judging by the sharp intake of breath coming from Willow, he's not the only one who wants to. Hunter doesn't speak, but he tightens his hold on both of them.
For the second time in a week -in only a week! That must be a record somewhere, he thinks, only slightly hysterical- the only thing he wants to do is go home. But he couldn't go home before and he sure can't now. Not that there's a home for him anymore though, there hasn't been in a while. Did he ever have a home to begin with?
The castle was his place of residence his whole life, but he's slowly coming to understand that it takes more than that to make a place a home. A home shouldn't make you feel so lonely and afraid all the time. Right now he couldn't feel less alone, with his friends -and isn't that strange too? To be able to call someone else a friend?- all pressed against him on a human couch, in a human house, scratched and tired, alive and breathing, but it does little to soothe the gigantic feeling of defeat sitting on his chest.
"Do you think they're okay?" Amity asks quietly and Hunter knows she's thinking of her father kissing her forehead before they left him just like all the others. Like the Owl Lady and Raine and Eberwolf and...
And Darius.
And suddenly he's feeling every bit the child the Coven Heads always said he was. He remembers the man, silent and unmoving on the floor. Wrong. Wrong. Because Darius is not one to keep quiet, he states his opinions loudly and proudly. He is not one to remain still, he gesticulates energetically, and yet not one movement of his ever seems wasted. He tried so, so hard to wake him, desperate to see if he was gonna be alright because he couldn't imagine life without Darius, but there was only so much time they could spare before going to rescue Luz and... and...
And his eyes sting and suddenly his cheeks are wet.
"I want Darius" he whispers, his voice trembling with tears. He's certain the others hear him, but there's nothing to say to that, nothing that will help anyway, in the same way that there was not a good answer to Amity's question nor a soft comfort to Gus's plea, because none of them know what is happening on the Boiling Isles and they went through hell and back together, there's no point in lying. Moreover, they won't lie to each other.
But Hunter remembers a kind hand on his head, he remembers a scroll, the first gift he was freely given without having to earn it or deserve it in some way, he remembers sewing lessons with gentle scoldings that left him feeling warmer than any time his unc-Belos grabbed his shoulder in faked concern, he remembers bickering and the surprise at the certainty that one wrong word wouldn't get him hurt this time, and he thinks that maybe that's what a home would feel like.
He knows he starts shaking because Willow's hand feels a little bit firmer on his back, Gus rearranges himself to be a little bit closer to him and Luz grabs his right hand with her free one. It doesn't matter to them that he's crying because they all are. Only the sound of the rain accompanies the soft sniffles of kids who lost everything. And despite it all, Hunter is grateful that for once he is not alone.
This is not home. But it has to be enough.
#the owl house#toh#the owl house spoilers#toh spoilers#king's tide#toh darius#toh hunter#technically the rest of the kids but the focus is on hunter#dadrius#my writing#is 'to hell and back' an expression they would have on the isles?#well hunter was raised by a puritan man that's my excuse
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Hunter trying to track down his family history on the down-low? Possibly to prepare himself for the most worst-case scenario his brain keeps telling him where Luz makes a life where he isn’t necessary to be in anymore?? Which is a literal mirror what Luz keeps feeling when Hunter is getting closer to new people like Willow, Amity, and Gus???
Anyways, the idea of Hunter doing all this research and finding fuck all and eventually having to make certain leaps in attempt of finding any leads and just… A return of teens asking Darius vague and leading questions about his mentor for their own research and Darius being left internally freaking the fuck out because of drawing the wrong conclusions and it being tied up with the majority of his own bullshit and hangups.
(In reference to the ask about Luz asking Darius questions about the previous gg when she was trying to find out as much as she could about the grimwalkers before Hunter but Darius freaking out because he thought she was on to him being a rebel. Don’t know what wrong conclusions he would come up with Hunter’s questioning while Hunter’s grasping at straws of where he might have come from but the idea of Darius thinking he has an idea of what these teens want from him and being extremely wrong about it is so funny to me. I also don’t know if the fact that Darius knows about how Luz killed Belos means that he knows about the grimwalker situation yet or not??)
MMMMMMMMM
i was THINKING that if hunter was having trouble tracing his own lineage, he'd probably go to darius first. he knows darius was mentored by the prior golden guard and hunter wants to know more about him, because the timeline doesn't match up to him being hunter's father, but apparently he was Also related to belos...? maybe also half-human, somehow, or maybe a key to figuring out what belos lied about.
as for the conclusions darius would draw, i actually think darius would know Exactly what hunter was asking, and that that would kind of be. worse. for him.
i don't know whether darius knows the word "grimwalker" but he's definitely put two-and-two together that the golden guards are something other than witches. and that belos killed all of them. and that luz knows it.
there's the inner luz having referenced the "others" in her mindscape, and darius Knowing belos must have killed his mentor, and the fact that darius has now seen what went down right before luz killed belos. which means he would have seen:
“He has always been sick!” Belos roars.
The fury is a driving knife, an explosion, a shrapnel blast. Luz flinches back, hard, and slams into her chair, too startled to stand her ground.
But the Emperor isn’t finished. He sweeps everything off the table with an earthshattering crash, objects scattering haphazardly across the floor, the vibration rattling through Luz’s shoes.
Even that’s not as frightening as his voice, though.
“Do you think that it matters whether the body falls apart?” he snarls. “Do you think that I care whether he could malinger for a witch’s normal Godforsaken lifespan? Do you think that I care whether any of them could? Never for a moment should I have let him live past infancy, and if you weren’t such a softhearted coward, you’d understand the same!”
like. darius knows.
and obviously he's in a position where he can't explain how he came by this information, but even if he COULD, he still wouldn't want to tell hunter. he and luz are both firmly in the same camp as far as "protecting hunter from information that could fuck him up forever" goes. no matter how much darius pretends that he doesn't care or he's not invested
so it would be more like. hunter can Tell that darius is hiding something. bc darius is being cagey about more stuff than usual and blatantly trying to distract hunter and getting snappier than he usually does.
and it's really weird. bc darius has never been less-than-trustworthy before.
so. what gives.
#DUNNO HOW I WOULD RESOLVE THIS. but i am Thinking.#replies#toh#princess luz au#darius deamonne#hunter toh#luz noceda#horrible mindscape trauma pals#long post
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Shout-out to the ships and character dynamics that AREN’T big, dramatic One-True-Pairings that have to be a ‘Big Deal’ and this huge defining aspects of the characters, yet are interesting in their own way. The fake-relationships that really are fake, the casual flings and one-night-stands that don’t become something more, the friendships that aren’t pre-romance or even some intensely close, emotionally intimate, platonic-life-partners or found-family thing.
Just as an example I’ve been thinking about lately; take your standard casanova/manwhore character who’s always having flings/sleeping around with lots of women and/or men who then has this incredible one-night-stand with someone that they just can’t stop thinking about afterwards. After so many casual hook-ups they have finally caught feelings for someone else. Basically your standard ‘Ladykiller in Love’ plot.
But, when this character starts spending time with this person they’re falling hard for and try to make their feelings known, it becomes clear that she/he/they simply doesn’t feel the same way. Sure, they like this character, perhaps think they’re fun to have around and even might enjoy having more occasional hook-ups with them. But they simply aren’t interested in some serious, committed, monogamous relationship with them, and it’s clear they never will be. More than that, this character also quickly learns that there are a fair few other people this person is MUCH closer with and perhaps even sleeps around with too in a full-on polyamorous sense.
Basically, this isn’t just ‘Ladykiller falls in love’. This is ‘Ladykiller falls in love with a Harem Protagonist and also realizes they aren’t even going to be that high-ranked in the harem’.
And I just think that’s rather interesting as a character dynamic. A relationship that isn’t just casual, but is outright predicated on BEING casual and is simply not capable of being more than that. One party might like it to be more than that, but the other pointedly DOESN’T. And it’s clear that any serious attempt by the former to make the relationship more than that would simply END the relationship.
Is this simply too much of an ask for the former party and they have to end things? Do they actually TRY to force it and destroy the relationship in the process? Or do they find that they’re actually alright with this arrangement?
For another, more specific example from a fandom, in this case The Owl House, of the ‘not EVERYONE has to be part of the adopted/found-family’ point; I’ve found more and more that I am simply not a fan of the whole ‘Hunter-is-a-Noceda/Luz-and-Hunter-are-adopted-siblings’ idea that much of the fandom gravitated towards.
Luz and Hunter are certainly close friends to be sure, I just feel that treating them as full-blown adopted siblings is a bit much. I feel like Luz’s friendship with Hunter is really more comparable to her friendships with Willow and Gus. Like they’re all super close ‘ride-or-die’ best friends, but we don’t exactly treat Willow and Gus as being Luz’s adopted siblings either.
And I think one big advantage of treating Luz and Hunter as a simple ‘close friendship’ is that it serves to better highlight the closer and more consequential relationships they have with OTHERS. In Hunter’s case, his own friendships with Willow and Gus.
I’ve already discussed this in other posts, but I feel that the fandom fixating so hard to Hunter’s friendship with Luz has kind of detracted from the fact that his friendship with Willow and Gus is both closer and more consequential to his character. Namely in that Hunter became friends with Willow and Gus BEFORE really becoming friends with Luz, and that is was his friendship with them which really served to break Hunter’s indoctrination to Belos. Note that despite the multiple encounters Hunter has with Luz over the course of Season 2, it’s pointedly not until Any Sport in a Storm where he befriends Willow and Gus, plus the rest of the Emerald Entrails, that Hunter really starts to seriously doubt Belos.
Likewise, it’s equally notable that after Hunter has his big breakdown following Hollow Mind, it’s NOT Luz but again Willow and especially Gus who end up helping him through his trauma in Labyrinth Runners. Speaking personally, this episode solidified Gus as an ‘adopted younger sibling’ to Hunter more than Luz ever would be.
Not to mention I feel like that’s a pretty cool twist that the show did here. Instead of the main heroine facilitating the resident edgy, traumatized bad boy’s redemption arc and become super-close besties in the process, it’s actually the heroine’s two best friends who get that role.
Plus, I’d argue not treating Luz and Hunter as siblings also better highlight’s Hunter’s relationship with his ACTUAL adopted father-figure, Darius.
And on the flipside, I’d argue this also likewise serves to better highlight Luz’s bond with her actual adopted siblings, King and Vee.
This is where I think the real value comes in recognizing and valuing more casual relationships/friendships between characters: It helps to vary and diversify the various dynamics between a group and show more unique connections rather than just lumping people into a ‘found family’ and calling it a day.
I mean, consider this: Luz’s and Hunter’s bonding during Thanks To Them over their respective doubts and trauma is specifically BECAUSE they aren’t as close with each other as they are with Amity and Willow/Gus respectively. Ie; both felt like they couldn’t talk about their problems to the people they were really close to, so they talked about them to someone they weren’t as close to. That’s a character dynamic that isn’t just between two characters who aren’t as close as they are with others, but one PREDICATED on these two not being as close as they are with others.
All in all, I think it’s really worth recognizing when certain character relationships and dynamics AREN’T these super close, intimate, ‘big-deal’ bonds, but are simply more low-key and casual than others. And that this doesn’t devalue what this relationship may represent but rather makes it interesting in its own way.
#rambling#rambling about character dynamics#toh#luz noceda#toh hunter#rambling about casual friendships/relationships in fiction
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If you're still thinking about some Gusthol drabbles, I would love to see them with the almost kissing trope! 🙌💖
Yay thanks for the ask!
If anybody wants to send me some more they are from this list of prompts. I promise I’m gonna get to them all I’m just slow :p
Almost kissing
“C’mon Gus!” Vee called out, running ahead with the rest of the group as they sprinted to the end of the pier in a fit of giggles.
They had spent the day at the beach in the human realm with Camila, Luz, Amity, Willow, and Hunter plus Masha and Matt. At that point, Matt was the only one who hadn’t experienced the ocean yet and Gus spent the day laughing at him as he very cautiously attempted to get in the water (he refused to go in any further than his knees) and gawked wide-eyed with wonder at the hermit crabs that Luz caught. Matt then spent the rest of the day building a giant sand castle only to have a little boy abruptly run into it and knock it down. Gus had to intervene before he tried to bury the kid alive.
Now the sun had long been set and they were enjoying a moonlit stroll after dinner, trying to soak up every last second of their adventure before heading back home. But Matt had been uncharacteristically quiet that evening and now he lingered behind the others with his hands stuffed in his pockets, gazing out at the open water.
“I’ll catch up in a minute!” Gus yelled back at Vee before turning around and jogging back to where the constructionist had stopped and was now leaning against the pier’s railing.
“Hey.”
“Hey.” Matt barely gave him a glance before going back to his brooding.
“Is everything okay?”
“Huh? Yeah. Just…thinking.”
Gus didn’t want to pry so he held his tongue and they stood in silence, watching the lights of a boat in the distance fade away.
“Thanks…for bringing me here today,” Matt said finally, turning his attention towards the younger witch. “It was nice.”
“Oh, well, it was actually Amity’s idea. I mean, not that I wouldn’t have wanted you here. Because I do. Want you here. I mean--ugh!” Gus covered his face with his hands in embarrassment, leaving just enough space between his fingers to see the corners of Matt’s mouth turn up in amusement at his misfortune. He was expecting the other to tease him but it never came. Instead, he removed his hands to find the older witch staring at him with an expression that he couldn’t discern.
The wind picked up and Matt’s hair was swept across his face. Gus reached up without thinking to brush it out of the way but his hand froze next to Matt’s face and they both locked eyes. Everything was still and the only thing that they could hear was the crashing of the waves against the pillars below while their other senses were overwhelmed by the scent and taste of salty sea air and suddenly Matt seemed to be getting closer and closer and as much as he knew what he wanted to happen, Gus was completely frozen, waiting with bated breath until their noses were almost touching and almost close enough to—
“Gus! Matt! We’re heading back to the car now! Hurry up, would you?” Hunter’s voice cut through the stillness and they both stumbled backward, cringing. Matt cleared his throat, gesturing towards where the others were waiting.
“Guess we should probably get going,” he said but Gus was still standing there with his mouth hanging open wondering What. Just. Happened. He would definitely need to have a long talk with Willow when they got back.
#the owl house#toh#gustholomule#gus porter#mattholomule#matt tholomule#prompts#my writing#almost kissing#disco’s drabbles
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Movie Night
Bonus points if you can guess the movies. I think someone suggested a huntlow movie night night but I can’t find the post so if it was you here ya go it’s pointless fluff.
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“Okay is it just me or do human movies make no sense?” Hunter asked as the credits began to roll, the group ending their weekly movie night with a rom com Luz insisted was an important part of human culture.
“What do you mean?” asked Luz.
“So, before they went to the dance he didn’t like her but then they went to the dance and all of a sudden he did? Nothing changed!”
“I think it’s because she took off her glasses,” said Amity, who also took issue with that aspect of the movie.
“He only thought she was pretty once she wasn’t wearing glasses?” Hunter scoffed. “Wow, the suspension of disbelief is really a lot in this realm, huh? How could anyone really believe that a girl wasn’t pretty just because she wears glasses? If anything, they make her prettier!”
Luz noticed the way Willow smiled when Hunter said that. She sat on the floor in front of the couch beside him, holding a pillow to her chest and trying to conceal her pleased expression behind it. Luz decided to see what else she could get him to say.
“Oh, so you’re saying glasses are what make a girl pretty?” Luz teased.
“What? No, that’s just as bad,” said Hunter. “I’m just saying she was pretty with the glasses, and it doesn’t make sense that the guy couldn’t see that. Was he supposed to be stupid?”
“So you thought she was prettier with glasses?”
“Well yeah, she looked like Willow,” he said as though it was the most obvious thing, more focused on arguing with Luz than listening to his own words. “And she-.” Suddenly, his words did catch up to him as he was hyper aware of the fact that he was talking about her as though she wasn’t sitting right beside him. Never mind the fact that he called her pretty.
“Yeah?” Gus egged on. “And she what?”
“And she... needs her glasses to see,” Hunter tried. “So that’s probably why the girl in the movie starting liking that jerk because she couldn’t see him without her glasses.”
“Oh, so you’re saying that if Willow took off her glasses she wouldn’t be pretty anymore?” Amity asked in a similar tone as Gus, catching on to what the others were doing.
“No, that’s not what I’m saying!” Said Hunter angrily before quickly turning to Willow with a flustered and panicked expression. “That’s not what I’m saying!” He turned back to the three on the couch as he became more engrossed in making them understand his point. “Listen, we all know Willow is beautiful, that’s not debatable. What I’m talking about is how the movie didn’t make any sense, if they expect us to believe that...”
As Hunter rambled off his expectations for cinema and the genre, everyone’s eyes were on Willow who had her own gaze locked on Hunter. During the movie, had propped his arms along the edge of the couch and Willow had gradually snuck in closer to him so the reach included her as well. She rested her head on the throw pillow she propped against her knees and looked up at Hunter with wide eyes as he continued his rant and effortlessly continued to compliment her.
“...just doesn’t seem realistic for a high school, regardless of the realm it take place in.” Hunter finished, confident he had made his point clear.
“Oh right, because you know soooo much about high school,” laughed Luz sarcastically, rolling her eyes. “Have you ever even been to an actual school?”
“Um actually I have, ” Hunter matched her sarcastic tone. “How could I have joined Willow’s flyer derby team if I’d never been to a school before, huh?”
“Oh riiiight,” said Luz, knowing she could easily bring the conversation back to the plant witch. “Figures, you’d wanna play on a team with the prettiest girl in school.”
“Exactly,” said Hunter, glad to finally have some credibility to support his frustrations with the film, completely unaware what the others were really up to. “So, now can you please answer my questions about the movie? This can’t possibly be as highly regarded as you say it is with all these plot holes!”
Hunter was too enraged by the flawed rom com to realize how giddy his words were making the witch sitting beside him. She had never been called beautiful so many times in a row like this, well, at least not so aggressively. She knew that if he tried saying these things directly to her face he would lose his nerve, but he had no issue discussing the fact of her beauty with others.
“-so it still doesn’t make sense because she was smarter than him and on top of being beautiful so how are we supposed to believe that he’s the popular one unless this takes place in a universe where-.”
“How about we watch a different movie?” Willow offered, speaking for the first time despite being an important part of the conversation. Hunter turned his head and saw she was sitting much closer to him now and he was suddenly self conscious about the fact that he had been shouting, embarrassed to think that he could’ve given her a migraine. But the smile she gave him suggested the opposite .
“Sounds good to me!” Said Gus, always happy to engage in anything human related.
“All right Willow, since it was your idea you get to pick,” said Luz, remote at the ready.
“Can we watch a movie with that actor from the movie about the rings?” asked Willow, scooting closer to Hunter, who straightened his spine and forget his recent aggression as she made herself more comfortable next to him.
“Which one?” asked Luz, recalling watching the movie in question with her earlier that week. But she knew it really didn’t matter because the true feature presentation was happening before their eyes as Willow reached back to take one of Hunter’s hand in hers and drape his arm over her shoulders. She leaned to the side so her head went to rest on his shoulder, as though she had forgotten he had brought her the pillow for that exact reason.
“The one with the gap in his front teeth,” said Willow, fully knowing the actors name, looking at Hunter from the corner of her eye and delighting in the frazzled look on his face at the mention of the shared feature. “I think he makes a more convincing romantic lead. Something about his smile is very handsome.”
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thinking about hexsquad cuddle piles the first night back in the demon realm <33
camila walking into the main room from outside, she had been taking in the change of scenery. and smack dab in the middle, in a makeshift nest of scavenged pillows, blankets, and whatever else deemed comfy enough to sleep on, is all her kids tangled up in blankets and eachother. warm and peaceful in what felt like an impossible moment after everything that had occurred in the past days.
hunter is a bit closer to the middle than everyone else and it’s no suprise it’s in an attempt to help him feel safer- less alone while he takes in everything. and it gives the rest of them peace of mind that they won’t nearly loose him again.
gus is smushed against the other boys’ back, arm loosely draped over hunters waist with his legs splayed out towards the edge of the nest, torso somewhat twisted to accommodate the pose. he’s so small like that- it’s a reminder of his age and even in his sleep, hunter seems to feel that sentiment too, one of his arms strewn over gus’ torso with his fingertips brushing the blankets behind the smaller boy. anyone else would assume the two were brothers all their life.
willow has the remaining of hunter’s hands clasped in her own. the grip is loose enough to be comfortable but tight enough to remind her that he’s still there, and help ground her. she’s tough, but she’s easy to shake when it comes to the people she cares about. seeing him lifeless in her lap and unable to help had been enough to wind her up. there’s a slight wrinkle between her brows that wasn’t there before, and her leg is slotted against amity’s back.
luz and amity, no suprise, are clustered together in the unoccupied bottom edge of the “nest.” amity has her head tucked beneath luz’ arm and her arms wrapped around her hips, while luz’ hands rest with one atop her head, most likely having been running through the abomination colored hair at one point, and the other tucked against her own chest.
they’re all beaten, and worse for wear than they ever have been before. everything has come to a head. but there, in the empty owl house and the moonlight shining in through the window, they’re just kids.
#kinda angsty oops#i like to think they’re all super protective of eachother#but esp hunter with the whole “almost died“ thing#also can be read as huntlow or platonic with those two do what u want#do not ship gus and hunter tho i’ll skewer u 🤗#toh#the owl house#the owl house season 3#toh season 3#hunter noceda#luz nuceda#willow park#gus porter#amity blight#camila noceda#huntlow#lumity#hexsquad
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What do you think about Huntlow? Was it really supposed to be a canon ship or just there for the fans to be interpret?
So as a couple they're fine. I can see them being happy and cute but also INCREDIBLY boring because you have a girl with not a lot of personality with a boy who struggles to keep a consistent personality. A cardboard cutout for hugs and an angst bucket. That's not all that interesting to me.
That may sound harsh but as far as their interactions go and how they behave with each other, that's what they look to me together as. I find both more interesting separate than together because together they're just... happy. Which again, good for them, it makes the ship fine but there's no narrative hook for me there. Not enough contrast for me to ever imagine them fighting because neither holds enough of an opinion about something to have a fight. Admittedly, that's still better than Lumity where I wouldn't expect Amity to ever stick to a position if Luz told her not to by the end of the series. That doesn't make it interesting though.
As for whether or not they're meant to be canon... Yes. Not just because of the blushing but actually because the show likes to have relationships as part of transformation and who the partner is almost always dictates to some extent the transformation that has/will happen. This isn't even only romantic. Lilith and Matt both befriend comic relief characters (though I suspect Gus and Matt were meant to be the mlm rep which... Your decision on how to feel about that) and thus their characters become comedic and punchlines which brings them narratively closer to their partner. 'Mama Eda' as a term comes from the episode that Raine is introduced where Raine's calm and focus actually reflects how much Eda has given up chaos for responsibility. Though shoutout to this happening in reverse as well as Raine becomes a duplicate of Eda during Them's the Breaks because these writers literally only know one type of relationship to write. And finally, of course, Amity becomes more lighthearted and carefree and stops caring about consequences as much, just like Luz. When she fully is willing to abandon anyone but Luz, they get together. -_-
It's part of what makes the relationships in TOH feel inherently toxic to some extent, at least to me. Rather than highlighting what makes each person unique and those strengths being what each other admires in their partner, it's much more about one conforming to the other. Losing their identity and picking up the one that belongs to the person they like. Which, you know, isn't good. A partner should push you to be the best version of yourself, not a new person for them.
Huntlow... Is both the same and different. The plus side is neither conforms to becoming the other person which is good! This happens because instead of a single arc being capstoned by the two finding each other like the rest, it's actually twin arcs meant to highlight one another. Hunter's arc of becoming pathetic and losing all of his actual skills, control, prestige, etc. like that ends with him becoming small, a failure and really just not much of a fighter at all. Not because he disavows fighting but because he's just bad at it. This all is meant to help Willow look stronger, more competent and more confident as she refuses any side of her that was shy for someone who will make you listen to her: Period. Remember, she does still force Hunter, against his will, onto the Grudgby field because while she talks a big game about being like him with her magical issues, she is still the Titan blessed prodigy while he has an actual disability.
Which... Boy scars from my brother are real sharp on that point and I'll just leave it at that.
Honestly, when described like that, you can see why the two were meant to get together. In a story actually about the two instead of Willow being a character who sat out almost an entire season until her boyfriend showed up, it could have been really interesting to see the two helping each other grow like this. They also would have needed more consistent characterization for this too. As it is, it's just boring because they don't have an actual dynamic between one another, just a meta one I can analyze onto them that is over by the time they get together.
Which makes Huntlow just like any other TOH relationship, for better and more often worse.
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