Daughter of the Titan
is an AU story for The Owl House, where the Titan's spirit, observing both the Demon Realm and Earth, sees Manny and Camila, who have just been told that they'll never have children, and feels compelled to help them conceive. As a result, when Luz is born, she has Titan powers dormant within her, technically making her the Titan's daughter and King's half-sister. The canon plot then occurs effectively unaltered until Belos tries to get Luz to give him the portal door in exchange for Eda and King's safety, and the Titan helps his daughter awaken her powers and rescue them without making the deal. Now Luz has to learn how to control her new abilities and find out where they came from, all while dealing with Belos's plots and Hunter's attempts to steal the portal. Not to mention the fact that Amity glows like a tomato whenever she sees Luz now, even more than she was before, because she really likes her new look...
This fanfic contains examples of
- Adaptational Badass:
- Luz in canon only had her Titan hybrid form as a brief power-up to fight Belos. Here it's an apparently permanent transformation, giving her much more power than she had at that point in the timeline. Later, not only has she significantly expanded on her spellcasting, but she has a growth spurt that gives her wings and greater size.
- It's implied that Amity will start learning magic outside of Abominations in Chapter 6.
- Adaptational Species Change: In canon Luz is human, with her Titan form being just a temporary power-up. Here she's a Half-Human Hybrid from the start who just hadn't tapped into the powers inherent to that status until the end of Season 1.
- Animorphism: Chapter 6 ends with Luz accidentally turning Amity into a cat.
- Big Eater: It’s lucky that Luz's new form can handle Boiling Isles food better, because her appetite significantly increases afterwards, apparently to fuel an overnight growth spurt, which includes a tail and wings.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Even by Boiling Isles standards Luz's new form is weird, due to her half-Titan nature. During the fight with Hunter she learns that she's immune to the Boiling Sea despite lacking any obvious adaptations for it like most demons with said ability, for example. When Viney gives her a proper examination after her wings and tail come in during an overnight growth spurt, the witch notes that another growth spurt or two is likely, her heart is doing double-duty as a bile sack, with reinforced veins to handle the constant magic flow, and she is literally the healthiest person that Viney has ever seen (meaning that she no longer has lactose intolerance to boot, much to her delight).
- Blackmail: Odalia forces Bump to go along with expelling Gus, Willow, and Luz by threatening to call the Emperor's Coven on them for allowing students to practice more than one type of magic at once and sheltering a "wild witch" (Luz). Bump can excuse the former as the students being in an "Emperor's Coven Track", so when Luz goes after Odalia to make a deal she specifies that it's just to get Gus and Willow back into Hexside, since the threat is baseless if she's not there.
- Cursed with Awesome: Belos claims that Luz's Titan transformation is a curse like Eda's, and while some things about it still bother her, like her inability to look human and the problems that going back to Earth looking like that would raise, for the most part she loves it, especially since she can use magic like a witch now.
- Cute Monster Girl: While Titan Luz is this in canon, since the transformation is permanent here, what parts of her new look are actually attached to her and what isn't is actually explored a bit more. As it turns out the dress, boots, and hat are indeed clothing that can be removed (albeit requiring magic to switch between them and her normal clothes) and just look like part of her body because they blend in perfectly with her new horns and the new coat of soft black fur that now covers her entire body apart from her face, parts of her neck, and her new bony clawed fingers and her toes are indeed replaced by a pair of claws. This trope is also Lampshaded by Amity, who really likes the new look. Later, when she has a growth spurt overnight, growing wings and a tail in the process, it's noted that Amity will probably react rather favorably to that, and she does, to the point of fainting when Luz accidentally crashes into her when practicing flying. When she returns to Hexside in Chapter 6, pretty much everyone in the school is gushing over her appearance.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Magically speaking Luz tends to go overboard a lot, because she's so powerful and so unused to casting witch-style spells that she has trouble regulating the power properly.
- Everyone Can See It: Outside of Luz herself, pretty much everyone at the Owl House can tell that Amity is crushing hard on the half-Titan girl, with Eda starting to tease her about it.
- Evil Is Petty: As it turns out, Odalia's stated reason of making Amity stop being friends with Willow (that she was weak) is bullshit, as not only is it common knowledge that witches and demons at that age often struggle with their magic due to their bile sacks still growing, but said strugglers tend to actually become very powerful in their teens, as is evidenced by Willow being a plant magic prodigy. The real reason is that Willow's father Harvey's Flyer Derby team, the Ghouls, defeated Odalia's team the Will-o-wisps in the first round of the Junior League, despite Odalia having used her family's money to hire the best trainers and buy the best equipment, invalidating months of bragging, causing her to hold a grudge and taking it out on his daughter. Lilith, who is telling the kids this, even notes that they should never underestimate just how petty Odalia can be, and she proves it in the next chapter by not only trying to get Luz killed trying to get her friends back into Hexside like in canon, but saying that she'll try and make sure that Gus and Willow thrown into the Conformatorium for associating with Luz.
- Exact Words: Luz gets Odalia to promise to let Gus and Willow back into Hexside if Luz completes the demonstration at Blight Industries, and Luz grabs her in an Everlasting Oath to make sure that she can't back out of it. Odalia still tries to use the terms of the agreement to get Luz killed by the Abomiton while she can't fight back, and says that she'll let Willow and Gus back in... and then report them to the Emperor's Coven. Later, when Amity gets her in another Oath to not interfere with Gus, Willow, and Luz again if Luz stops in her rage-filled destruction of Blight Industries and not interfere with said business, she gets around it by agreeing to sell the Abomitons to the Emperor's Coven, because if they go after them with her products, she's not breaking the oath.
- Extra Parent Conception: The reason that Luz is half-Titan in this universe is that the Titan, taking some time to observe the human realm, saw Manny and Camila being told that they would never be able to have a child, and decided to help them out. This resulted in Luz being born with dormant Titan powers, which the Titan helped her activate when Eda and King were in danger.
- For Want Of A Nail:
- The main "nail" is that the Titan using their power to help Camila and Manny have Luz resulted in her having dormant Titan powers, which the Titan helps her awaken when King and Eda are in danger, letting her rescue them without giving up the portal.
- Luz and Amity are growing closer faster than in canon, in no small part due to how much Amity likes Luz's new form.
- Luz’s new powers let her keep the sack of snails from the Selkidomus expedition from slipping into the Boiling Sea through what seems to be an instinctive glyph combo.
- Green-Eyed Monster: When spying on Luz and seeing her new abilities, Hunter gets jealous that she, a human going against the supposed teachings of the Titan, now has magic when he doesn't, despite loyally serving his uncle in doing what the latter claims is the Titan's will for years, and is notably glaring at her when she uses her abilities against him. Later, he starts plotting to try and find a way to get powers like hers himself.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Thanks to the Titan helping Manny and Camila conceive Luz, Luz is born with dormant Titan powers that the Titan helps her activate when Eda and King are in danger of being petrified.
- In Spite of a Nail:
- Despite the changed circumstances in this universe, Luz and Lilith still end up visiting the past and meeting Philip.
- With the exception of the ending due to Luz's Titan powers awakening, the entirety of Season 1 plays out just as in canon, primarily due to Luz's Titan powers being dormant, which among other things means she was still able to pass through the barrier to King's paper crown unopposed.
- Lilith still ends up splitting the curse with Eda.
- The Owl House crew still has the money troubles that lead to an altered version of "Separate Tides" happening despite still having the portal, due to a combination of increased pressure from the Emperor’s Coven preventing Eda from selling her potions or human items for the time being, Luz’s increased appetite raising the food bill despite her expanded culinary options after her transformation, and Eda paying for Luz's magic supplies out of pocket since she's not physically going into Hexside at the time.
- Instant Runes: As in canon, being part Titan means that Luz can manifest her glyphs automatically instead of needing to draw them out, something she's amazed to discover once she's thinking clearly.
- Magically-Binding Contract: In Chapter 6 Odalia is hit with an Everlasting Oath to make sure that she'll follow her promise to let Gus and Willow back into Hexside, but when she tries to use Exact Words to get around it and have Luz killed and Gus and Willow arrested, Luz overpowers it with her Titan powers. Amity then gets her in another one that forces her to stop interfering with Luz, Willow, and Gus in exchange for the former stopping her destruction of Blight Industries and leaving it alone in turn, which she bypasses by selling Abomitons to the Golden Guard.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: As in canon, Odalia. Luz even calls her "Karen" instead of her actual name, and recognizes what she's doing as a power play, since a mom on Earth does something similar every time her school there tries to make a DD&D club.
- Shared Family Quirks: As it turns out being something of a disaster around a crush runs in the Blight family, as shown by Emira the first time she formally meets Viney.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: By chapter 4, Eda has started teasing Luz about Amity’s crush on her, calling her Luz’s girlfriend and their "study dates" actual dates, much to the half-Titan’s embarrassment and denial, as she assumes that Amity’s blushing and stuttering is because she’s not used to having friends that genuinely care about her, and that she gets stiff when Luz gets close and hugs her while pushing the twins away simply because she's not used to people getting so in her personal space. Amity gets similar teasing, mainly from Edric and Emira, but Willow pitches in as well, and even drops the trope name at one point.
- Spanner in the Works: Luz being half-Titan is a major barrier to Belos's plans, as his authority largely derives from how he's conned people into thinking that he speaks for the Titan. But with a living Titan, even a hybrid, around, if anyone ever realizes what she is his control over the Isles would easily start to crumble (especially since Luz hates him for what he tried to do to Eda, King, and Lilith).
- Stable Time Loop: It's implied that part of the reason that the Titan decided to help Camila and Manny conceive Luz is that he subconsciously remembered "Luzura's" trip to the past, with him only fully realizing who the girl was after she was born.
- Unstoppable Rage: When Luz hears Odalia saying that she'll report Willow and Gus to the Emperor's Coven, and hopefully get them locked up in the Conformatorium for the rest of their lives, her sheer fury overpowers the Everlasting Oath, she uses her Sonic Scream power for the first time, and starts tearing apart the factory, even growing a skull mask that looks like King's, which disappears after Amity calms her down.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: They're not dating yet, but when Amity learns what Lilith did to Luz to capture Eda she becomes furious, even attempting to attack Lilith and needing to be restrained by Luz.
- Winged Humanoid: At the end of chapter 4, Luz awakens to find that she's had a growth spurt, growing wings in the process.
- With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Luz's new Titan form is apparently very attractive by Boiling Isles standards, and is very powerful. Amity practically turns into a tomato every time she sees the other girl, and when she returns to Hexside pretty much every student there who's remotely attracted to girls is in awe.
- World's Strongest Man: Magically speaking, Luz is now the most powerful being on the Isles, according to a scan by Viney. The only known being (obviously not counting the Collector, who's weak to Titan magic anyway and kept secret by Belos besides) who could possibly contest her is the Emperor, whose full abilities are rather unclear.
