Daughter Nature is an AU of The Owl House by Mr. Hardcor3, in which Luz is a young goddess, the daughter of Gaia, and ends up finding her way to the Boiling Isles in the hopes that in a world not shaped by her divine relatives, she can make her own legacy. This fic can be read on Archive of Our Own here
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Daughter Nature provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: As impossible as it seems, Odalia is actually worse than canon in this story, physically abusing Amity and depriving her of food, with Amity using a concealment stone in public to hide it. She even sends a witch to harass Amity at the Covention as a "test", and when Luz intervenes Odalia chains Amity up in the basement and whips her with a chain.
- Emira and Edric also use concealment stones to hide their abuse. Emira has a horrific burn over much of her body that has rendered her completely blind, while Edric has plenty of scars on his hands and it's implied they were completely crushed at least once.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: The Abomitons make their debut nearly a full season early, as one shows up during the equivalent of "The Intruder", trying to attack Eda in Owl Beast form.
- Adaptational Origin Connection: Although the details haven't been fully revealed, chapter 19 shows that Belos is fully aware of Gaia/Camila and developed a special corruption sigil specifically for her.
- Adaptational Species Change: Luz goes from a human to a young goddess in this universe, with Camila also being a goddess.
- Adaptational Villainy: Odalia is even more horrible than she was in canon here, as hard as that is to believe. Besides her horrific abuse of Amity, Eda is sure that she poisoned Alador when he had enough of her and tried to divorce her and take the kids with him.
- Ascended Extra: Outside of Boscha, Amity's original circle of "friends" didn't get much focus in canon. Here, Cat, Amelia, and Skara are shaping up to be significantly more active in the plot.
- The Bet: Willow and Boscha make one, where whoever has the better Moonlight Conjuring has to be the other's servant for a month. Unsurprisingly, given both canon and Luz's power here, the former wins by animating Hooty and Boscha is forced to be Willow's plant.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Luz might be friendly and sweet, but do not hurt the people that she cares about. Boscha makes the mistake of calling Willow "Half-a-Witch" in Luz's earshot and gets a Neck Lift and threat.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: When Aarth retired, he had sent a meteor to kill the dinosaurs so that Gaia can redesign the Earth's inhabitants. He apparently considered his job as "protecting" the planet, but wiping out the dinosaurs doesn't violate that vow, apparently.
- Death by Adaptation: In canon, Alador survived until the finale. Here he was found dead under suspicious circumstances after he tried to divorce Odalia and take the kids with him.
- Feel No Pain: On top of a Healing Factor, Luz doesn't feel pain.
- Fluffy Tamer: As the daughter of Mother Nature, Luz can tame some of the most ferocious beasts out there. Case in point, her pet Titan is a massive snake, and the Owl Beasts acts like a happy puppy towards her despite it normally being antagonistic to anyone unfortunate enough to be around it. Luz can even make it do tricks!
- She later proves to be helpful in getting the Bat Queen's babies to calm down.
- Fossil Revival: When Adegast holds Gus and Willow hostage, Luz responds by creating a Giganotosaurus to outclass him physically.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: This time around only Eda and King swap with each other, as Luz absolutely refuses to let anyone possess her body.
- Green Thumb: Being the daughter of Mother Nature herself, Luz's abilities are indistinguishable from high-tier Plant Magic.
- Growling Gut: When Lilith offers to get Amity a cookie or something before their lesson, Amity's stomach growls as it's noted that she hasn't eaten in at least a week.
- I Am Not A Weasel: When she meets Eda, Luz repeatedly tries to explain she isn't human only to be talked over each time. It takes until she seemingly dies and displays the ability to shapeshift for her to finally have to chance to tell Eda and King she's a god. When this ends up happening again with Willow and Gus, she concludes that it's pointless to try immediately explaining her identity to everyone she meets, deciding that she'll just roll with any future misconceptions unless a person directly asks what she is.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Played with in that Luz's desire for normalcy comes not in wishing she wasn't a goddess, but wishing she didn't have to hide this fact. She remains on the Boiling Isles in good part because it isn't Earth, and thus she can make friends without having to hide her godly abilities like she would have back home.
- In Name Only: While most of Luz's family are named after different figures from myth, not all of them are accurate. The God of Life Vidal is named after the Norse God of Vengeance; Azrael was an angel, not a god; Althea was a mortal Queen; "Marcus" was a name done in honor of Mars, but wasn't used for Mars himself; Iris has no association with luck or prosperity; Ares, while associated with bloodlust and aggression, was also venerated as a god associated with valor and courage and thus making his domain be "calamity" can be considered reductive. Considering Gaia has recently taken on the name "Camilla", it's likely that this is a result of the mortals they've met getting some details wrong or misremembering them in oral tradition.
- Inconspicuous Immortal: Despite being a god, Luz lives among humans and tries to keep her true self a secret, implying that her pantheon have taken a stance of non-interference outside of their domains. When Luz finds herself in the Boiling Isles, she doesn't hesitate confessing her origins to the people there when it's brought up, the implication being that she's happy that she can tell the truth about her nature to people outside of her family.
- Loophole Abuse:
- While Luz apparently can't kill without permission from her Uncle, the God of Death Azrael, Titan is able to eat Adegast without issue because it's technically just one animal eating another, as is normal in nature, and while Luz didn't ask Titan to do that she's not really complaining either.
- While everyone with concrete proof of Odalia's abuse have been forced into Everlasting Oaths that refuse them from talking about it, Boscha points out that the memory tweezers can still be used to gather evidence.
Boscha: Like I said, I can't tell you... but... my memories can. - Magically-Binding Contract: Odalia has kept her children (and any other witnesses) under her control by forcing them into an Everlasting Oath, namely preventing them from speaking up about the abuse.
- Mother Nature: In this story, Camila is merely the latest form of the goddess also known as Mother Nature or Gaia, among other names over the eons.
- Mundane Utility: With Luz's Healing Factor and inability to feel pain, she offers to let Bump vivisect her to learn how she ticks. It's still makes a mess though.
- Neck Lift: When Boscha calls Willow "Half-a-Witch", Luz lifts her by the neck to tell her to never do that again.
- The Needless: According to Luz, her godly physiology means she doesn't require food, water, or sleep, meaning she only does so recreationally. At the bare minimum, she believes that she can go at least a hundred years before her body even remotely feels the urge to eat or rest.
- One-Steve Limit: Subverted. Luz has a pet giant snake named Titan, completely separate from the Titan that forms the Boiling Isles.
- Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: A meteor killed them off, but that meteor was sent by Top God Aarth to wipe out the dinosaurs so that his kids could start fresh as new co-owners of the planet.
- Physical God: As the daughter of Mother Nature, Luz is a young goddess. In just the first chapter she demonstrates that she can't be permanently harmed by mortal weapons and shows off impressive Green Thumb and Voluntary Shapeshifting powers.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: With the exception of Luz, everyone else in her family is named after figures from real mythology: Gaia (Classical embodiment of the Earth), Vidal (Norse God of Vengeance), Azrael (Angel of Death), Althea (a Queen from Classical Mythology), Marcus (a masculine name referencing the Roman God of War Mars), Iris (a Greek Messenger Goddess used to explain Rainbows) and Ares (Greek God of War). The only original names used are Luz, Goddess of the Unlucky Mallory and the Goddess of Peace Serenity.
- Saying Too Much: Luz herself notes that part of her alienation from humans her age is not only because she has to hide that she's a goddess, but that she also accidentally lets slip information that humans themselves either don't or shouldn't know, which got her branded as a weirdo due to that lack of context.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Luz is capable of talking to animals. For example, while Eda and King only hear screeching from the Bat Queen's babies, Luz can understand them just fine.
- Straw Vegetarian: Luz can talk to animals and can't bring herself to kill anything, so she mostly relies on plant-based ingredients when cooking (not that she even needs to eat much).
- Strong Family Resemblance: When Bump meets Luz, she immediately takes note that she looks like an old portrait of her mother he finds in history books.
- Super-Empowering: When fighting the Demon Hunters, Luz is able to temporarily share her powers with Gus, Willow, Amity, Boscha, Cat, Amelia, and Skara, turning them all into Utahraptors.
- Supreme Chef: Luz is a skilled cook in this AU, to the point that she can make vegetarian fare so good that you literally can't tell that it doesn't have meat in it.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Luz apparently can't kill anyone without the permission of her uncle Azrael, the God of Death.
- Time Abyss: Camila/Gaia has been around for over 178 million years by the time Luz is a child.
- Title Drop: Camila refers to Luz as "Daughter Nature" near the end of the prologue.
- Top God: Luz's grandfather Aarth originally had uncontested rulership over the Earth. When he retired, he split ownership of the planet among his nine children.
- Transflormation: After Boscha loses their bet, Willow has Luz transform the other girl into a plant.
- Unskilled, but Strong: While Luz is a goddess and therefor possesses magical abilities that trump the average witch on the Boiling Isles, she's also a teenager and barely has any real control over her abilities. This makes her discovery of the plant glyph fairly useful when an Abomiton attacks Eda; she can use it to summon vines without damaging the house, and even pump her own power into it to give it a boost if she needs a bit more "oomph" to it.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Luz’s powers include the ability to turn into various wild creatures, including extinct ones like a Utahraptor, and she can even share her powers with others to let them change form as well.
- Wrong Context Magic: Luz's abilities are a completely different kind of supernatural ability than the magic of the Boiling Isles is.
