Fanfic / Hell's Boiling Point

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"So get this... there's this girl. Normal girl, nothing strange about her. She gets sent to this summer camp... but the camp calls her mother and tells her she never made it. And that's when things turn sideways."

— Hellboy, after the B.R.P.D. are called in to investigate the disappearance of a frightened mother's young daughter.

Hell's Boiling Point is a crossover fanfic between Hellboy and The Owl House by ShootToMiss, where Camila Noceda, after learning that her daughter never made it to summer camp, calls the police to look for her. Quickly discovering that something supernatural is afoot, the B.R.P.D. is called in, and Hellboy quickly finds himself in a world of witches and magic. But he realizes this new world has a lot of different rules when it comes to magic than he's used to, and that there are forces at be that seem intent on making sure he and the 'kidnapped' girl aren't going home any time soon.

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Hell's Boiling Point contains examples of:

• Adaptational Context Change:
  • In canon, the duel at the Covention was due to an ill-conceived wager between Luz and Amity. Here, it's set up by Lilith as an attempt to capture Eda, since Hellboy put a stop to it before Luz could even finish the sentence (Luz having been temporarily banned from doing magic by her mom, and only having one useless light spell).
  • In canon, Eda running out of her elixir was due to her Hexes Hold'em addiction. Since said addiction has been Adapted Out, it's instead due to her being distracted by the arrival of Hellboy and the events at the Covention.
  • The destruction of Tibbles' tent. In canon, it was trampled by Hooty. Here, it's blown up by a vengeful Eda.
• Adaptational Heroism: The Demon Hunters are a situational example, as they actually end up helping Hellboy and Team Luz fight against the Leshy, who's a much greater threat to all parties and therefore a more lucrative prize for the Hunters. Having Eda effortlessly finish it off also makes them decide that dealing with the Leshy was the smarter option in hindsight.
• Adapted Out: Eda's addiction to Hexes Hold'em is completely removed from her character. Instead, her conflict with Tibbles spirals out of control because of her pride.
• A Rare Sentence: When Camila asks Luz and friends to control Hooty from inside, she takes a minute to wonder at what point did her life did it get to where she could say that like it wasn't weird.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Eda believes that humans can't do magic normally, despite her having encountered witches on Earth. This, it turns out, is part of a campaign of misinformation from the Emperor that's been going on longer than Eda's been alive.
  • Most of the present-day inhabitants of the Isles believe that Baba Yaga, Nimue, and Hecate are nothing more than myths, cautionary tales about wild magic. Eda believed likewise until she met the former on Earth.
• Ascended Fridge Horror: After it was established in canon that Titan's Blood causes minor Reality Bleed incidents that lead to trash from Earth to wash up on the shores of the Boiling Isles, more than one fan wondered if any people got sucked through the same way, like Philip was originally hinted to be. The short story "The Shadow on the Water" has a pre-Luz Gus and Willow go looking for a sighting of a human off the coast of the Isles, and find a fisherman that got sucked into the Demon Realm, only to die because his rowboat wasn't built for the Boiling Sea and he ended up basically burned alive, coming back as a ghost.
• Berserk Button: It's subtly implied that being reminded of her father is this for Luz, as she tenses up when Roger mentions his own family issues.
  • Thinking that Luz will be harmed is one for Eda. She's able to turn down a challenge for the sake of the girl- which Lillith notes is unusual in the extreme. It's not until Lillith threatens Luz with arrest that Eda plays along with the Witches Duel.
• Big Damn Heroes: Several in Chapter 7:
  • King and Eda are trapped by Tibbles, believing that Roger fell for Eda's trick and was halfway across town. However, Roger shows up and tells them he had been tailing them the whole time, having not fallen for Eda's fake grocery list. He goes on to assist them in escaping.
  • Luz and her friends have been captured by the Leshy, alongside her mom and Kate. Hellboy has seemingly been carried off by a Planimal created by the Leshy. Just as it seems Luz is going to be cooked alive, Hellboy shows up with the Demon Hunters, distracting the Leshy long enough for Willow to help everyone escape.
  • Even with Hellboy, the Demon Hunters, and even Hooty (controlled by the kids) fighting the Leshy, they barely manage to slow him down. Then Eda arrives, proceeding to kick his ass in under thirty seconds.
• Both Sides Have a Point:
  • The Emperor is an oppressive dictator who tries to clamp down on all forms of magic and wants to permanently separate The Boiling Isles from the human world, but in Chapter 7, it's implied that this is to try to protect his world from the End of the World as We Know It at the hands/claws/teeth of the Ogdru Jahad.
  • Eda and Hellboy over Luz being allowed to use magic. Eda points out that her world's magic has no negative side effects and is perfectly safe to use, pointing out the generations of witches who have had no problem with using the magic. Any magical accidents are the user's fault, not the result of them sacrificing something or selling their souls. Hellboy, however, says that that's all well and good for the witch to say, but they've dealt with magic-users who used similar pitches to Eda regarding magic that were covers for nasty soul-selling and sacrificial cults that ended with a lot of dead bodies and souls damned to hell.
    • There's also the matter of Eda's Sink or Swim Mentor style of teaching. Eda argues that learning the hard way gives much in the way of experience, whilst Hellboy counters that thinking things through saves you unnecessary trouble.
• Call-Forward: Russell ends up having visions of several plot points from Owl House!Canon, namely Grom and the source of Eda's curse.
• Canon Character All Along: Throughout Chapter 7, the Leshy laments the imprisonment of his wife Baba Bolotnitsa, whom had been sent to the Isles along with him by Baba Yaga. The end of the chapter reveals that said wife is Kikimora, who willingly works for Belos.
• Cassandra Truth: Luz apparently told Eda and King about Hellboy's adventures, but they didn't believe her.
  • Played for Drama in Chapter 7, where the Leshy mistakes the mobile Hooty for Baba Yaga's house, and refuses to believe that it's not the case no matter what anyone says about it.
• Child Eater: The Baba Yaga as usual, a fact that Hellboy hauntingly remembers, and comes as a horrifying shock to the others, especially when the Leshy attempts to prepare Luz as a meal for her.
• Continuity Nod: Camila talks with Luz about the events of the first four episodes of The Owl House when the two discuss the possibility of her staying on the Isles.
  • Hellboy summarizes his encounter with the Crooked Man and Effie Kolb when trying to convince Eda that humans can use magic, and why he and the B.R.P.D. are so paranoid about it.
  • Hellboy mentions playing an unconventional poker game with a vampire in Prague, referencing the story of the same name.
  • One of the reasons that Leshy attacks the Owl House is because Hellboy shot out the Baba Yaga's eye.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Tibbles, as he does in canon, attempts to turn Eda in for the profit while keeping King as an unwilling servant.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In Chapter 5, Hellboy tries to learn the source of the Boiling Isle's magic and the effects it can have on those who practice it. He spends all day looking for info from the town, and while he does eventually learn some things thanks to Lilith, he could have avoided the whole day of wandering if he just asked King if he knew anything about the Boiling Isle's magic, as he has an entire book on the history of both the Boiling Isles, and by extension, magic.
  • Eda privately admits to herself that she wouldn't have had to put up with Hellboy and co. if she'd actually checked in with Camilla about Luz staying with her.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Eda puts down the Leshy almost instantly once she returns, effectively ending him as a threat.
• Deal with the Devil: Apparently many of the human realm's magic users sold their souls in order to gain their arcane knowledge, or at least as a shortcut to power if they discovered magic on their own. It's the main reason why Hellboy and the other B.P.R.D. agents are initially so twitchy about Luz learning about magic; they wanna make sure that this isn't the case first.
  • Camilla attempts to make one early on to get her daughter back. Fortunately for all involved, she was mistaking Hellboy for the actual devil, and he wasn't interested in taking her soul.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance:
  • In the Human Realm, there have been several instances of supernatural creatures (including but not limited to demons, vampires, and witches) preying on Humanity. So to Luz, Hellboy is a hero who has regularly saved the world from the forces of evil. On the Boiling Isles, demons and such are just everyday inhabitants, minding their own business. So to Eda and King, Hellboy is a traitorous attack dog, raised to kill his own kind.
  • In Chapter 3, Hellboy is constantly mistaken for a bum due to his withered down horn stumps. On the Boiling Isles, a Demon's horns are important and only accept broken horns as a result of intense battles. So a demon would only willingly part with them if they were down on their luck selling them for drink money.
• Didn't Think This Through: Luz never considered the idea that the summer camp she was supposed to go to would call her mom when she didn't show up.
  • Happens again in Chapter 6, after Hellboy stops Luz from challenging Amity. Luz realizes that in the heat of the moment, she forgot she had only one non-combative spell... which she couldn't even use, as her mother has temporarily banned her from using magic.
  • From the same chapter, when Eda boasts about how she plans to use the Covention as a means to teach Luz to be her own witch, Hellboy reminds her that Camila is still gonna have the final say in Luz's decision, which will undermine said lesson. She's also willing to admit that her headaches with the B.P.R.D. could've been avoided if she'd actually checked in with Luz's mom instead of accepting her apprenticeship on the spot.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: For some reason, Luz and Hellboy can't pass through Eda's portal to get back to Earth, though everyone else can. Part of this is the ongoing mystery of the story, but if Luz and Hellboy went back to Earth immediately, the story would be pretty much over.
• The Dreaded:
  • Baba Yaga basically has boogeywoman level status on the Isles. Eda didn't believe that she existed until a brief encounter, but just those few moments were enough that she's fully able to admit that Baba Yaga terrifies her, and given what Eda is capable of that's no small feat.
  • The forces of Hell are this to Emperor Belos and the people of the Boiling Isles- they have an instinctive revulsion and fear for the energies and denizens of Hell, and even Eda has this reaction when hearing the name of a demon Hellboy fought.
  • Later, Eda mentions that Nimue and Hecate share a similar status to Baba Yaga on the Isles, and that bad as the Russian witch is, the other two are far worse.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The first chapter was told through Hellboy narrating to the audience as we're shown flashbacks instead of being told through first person narratives from the characters of later chapters.
• Exact Words: In Chapter 3, when Hooty (who notes that he's feeling 'particularly strict' at the time) is ordered by Eda to not so much as let King on the front lawn while she gets Luz, King gets around this to get a flower for one of his plushie 'minions' by having Hooty carry him over, since then he technically wouldn't be on the lawn.
  King: How strict are you feeling today?
  Hooty: Specifically strict!
• Fatal Flaw: It's regularly pointed out how Luz's biggest flaw is her impulsiveness, noting her snap decision to stay in the Boiling Isles, and how Amity nearly goaded her into a one-sided duel.
• For Want Of A Nail: As Hellboy has been put in charge of watching Luz, he stops Luz right as she attempts to challenge Amity.
  • When Lilith forces them into the match anyway, Hellboy gets the idea to bring Roger in and have him fight Amity's abomination, keeping Luz safely away from danger. He also vetoes Eda booby-trapping the field.
  • Given the revelations in the Season 2 episodes Keeping Up A-fear-ances and Yesterday's Lie, the biggest nail is that Vee never replaced Luz whilst the latter's in the Boiling Isles.
• Friend to All Children: Like his canon counterparts, Hellboy is a bit of a softie when it comes to children, shown in his interactions with Luz.
• Fusion Fic: The events of The Owl House now takes place in the world of Hellboy, with the Demon Realm being yet another dimension full of supernatural creatures, although this time, the inhabitants there seem to follow different rules than what Hellboy's used to.
• Ghostapo: A group of Nazis have infiltrated the Isles somehow, and were about to kidnap Amity Blight for experimentation before their agent recognized Hellboy.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Loudly used by Camila and Luz, the mother especially so when she tears a strip out of her daughter for what she stupidly did.
• Hope Spot: Camilla was starting to warm up to the idea of Luz learning magic when the Moonlight Conjuring, Hooty's unexpected animation besides, was turning out well, but the Leshy's attack, and fully realizing that there's supernatural dangers that could hurt Luz on Earth, not just the Isles, rattles her and she's unable to give her daughter an answer that night.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: When Hellboy meets Eda, and shows her a photo of Luz, asking if she's seen. Eda says she's never seen any humans on the Boiling Isles, as they are very rare there, but Hellboy points out he never once said she was human, just that he was looking for her. Eda promptly realizes she screwed up.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Although Hellboy stops Luz before she can issue a witch's duel with Amity, Lilith threatens to arrest both Eda and Luz if the young witch doesn't fight, believing Hellboy to have led Eda into a trap.
  • The events of "Hooty's Moving Hassle" plays out different, but Hooty still gets animated and goes for a stroll thanks to it being used as a test for the safety of the magic of the Isles, and Luz still learns about Willow's past with Amity.
  • Despite Vee not taking Luz's place at camp, someone is still sending Camila letters pretending to be Luz.
• Interspecies Friendship: Luz (a human) and Roger (a homunculus) bond over a shared history of bad decisions and DisappearedDads. He also bonds with King (a demon) due to a willingness to sit through the latter's demon lessons.
  • One of the main things leaning Camila towards letting Luz stay (with restrictions) is that she's actually made friends in the Boiling Isles, even if they are non-humans.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Eda might consider Belos a tyrannical Control Freak, but even she admits his low opinion of Hell might be valid.
• Kill It with Fire: Though she doesn't kill him, Eda bombards the Leshy with a torrent of flame, leaving him close to death.
• Legend Fades to Myth: Part of why most of the modern-day Isles believes that Baba Yaga, Nimue, and Hecate are myths is apparently because it's been so long that they've been seen that it's believed that they're either dead or never existed.
• Let's You and Him Fight: The brawl between Eda and Hellboy stems from both thinking the other is a threat to Luz.
• Like Father, Like Son: Camila shares her daughter's love of cute things, which includes King.
• Make My Monster Grow: The Leshy has the ability to grow as tall as the trees in the forest, making him a far more dangerous threat.
• Mama Bear: Camila goes berserk on Eda when she finds out she "kidnapped" Luz and manages to intimidate the Owl Lady.
• Mistaken Identity: In Chapter 7 the Leshy mistakes the mobile Hooty for Baba Yaga's house, attacking to try and figure out where she is and refusing to listen to anyone who says that he's got the wrong house.
• Mood Whiplash: Camila doesn't know whether to kill her daughter for running away to the Boiling Isles or hug her for finally making some friends.
• Mythology Gag:
  • When Luz mentions how the B.R.P.D.'s many adventures were adapted into comics, Hellboy grumbles that they never get his eyes right.
  • Eda mentioning having a human ex-husband named Stan is implied to be a reference to the fanon pairing of her and Stanley Pines.
  • When talking about the impromptu apprentice duel at the Covention, Eda boasts that if she and Hellboy didn't have their big brawl earlier in the story, said duel wouldn't have happened... only to promptly sneeze.
• Named by the Adaptation: Kikimora's real name is revealed to be Baba Bolotnitsa.
  • On a lesser note, the head Demon Hunter is named Balthazar.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Eda's fight or flight sense kicks in when Hellboy mentions the Crooked Man's name, her instincts recognizing him as a dangerous demon.
• Nature Spirit: The Villain of Chapter 7 is the Leshy, the Slavic deity of forests.
• The Nicknamer: Eda and Hellboy. Notable ones from Eda include 'Trenchcoat', 'Flathorn/Flatiron' (Hellboy), and 'Grey Goliath' (Roger), whilst Hellboy gives us such gems as 'Snaggletooth' (Eda) and 'Dogbone/Bonehead' (King).
• Noodle Incident: When Hellboy voices concern about Tiny Nose going Drunk with Power at the Construction Coven booth, Willow simply notes this sort of thing happens at coventions, mentioning an incident last year with the Bard Coven.
  Gus: (shuddering) So many flutes in all the wrong places...
  • Helboy mentions playing a game of cards against Jessie James' ghost, who apparently has a habit of bluffing.
  • After her initial run-in with Hellboy, King notes that Eda is acting more concerned than when her third ex-boyfriend visited. All we're told is that the gentleman in question had thirteen heads, one of which kept tipping its hat.
• No-Sell: During Hellboy's fight with Eda, she tries to put him to sleep with one of her spells. Unfortunately, she's not the first to try that, as Hellboy has put multiple charms and talismans on his coat that ward off magic after multiple enemies tried a variety of spells to harm him. And it just so happens that one of his protection makes him immune to sleep spells, which Eda learns the hard way.
• Not Me This Time: Hellboy is pretty sure that Eda's not the one keeping him and Luz from going through the portal, since Eda doesn't like him and would want him gone. She makes a similar comment when the issue first presents itself. He's also pretty sure that she's not the one sending Luz's mother letters, on the grounds that she's been to Earth enough to know that communication by mail has been supplanted by phones.
  • Hellboy is also leaning towards the Emperor not being the one to be the one to trap him and Luz in this world, since the Emperor's Coven has no idea who he is or why he's there. The only reason they stop him is to ask him about the Owl Lady. Had he been a priority target, then they would have tried to track him down specifically.
• Our Demons Are Different: Which is a problem for Hellboy and the BPRD, since the existence of demons in the Burning Isles puts them on edge. Turns out that demons in the Burning Isles are more along the lines of normal monsterfolk and are just people, whereas Hellboy's primary experience with demons is when fighting the ones from Hell.
• Odd Friendship: Camila ends up becoming surprisingly close to Hellboy, appreciating the demon hunter's efforts to make her acclimation to the supernatural world as smooth as it can possibly be under the rough circumstances.
• Parental Abandonment: It's explained that Luz's father abandoned Camila shortly after getting her pregnant, which resulted in Camila's parents kicking her out.
• Playing with Syringes: The Nazis in the Boiling Isles have apparently been kidnapping and dissecting any locals they can get their hands on, and were planning on doing the same to Amity before Hellboy unknowingly interfered.
• Poor Communication Kills: Eda admits to herself that the whole story could have been avoided if she had, as soon as Luz showed up, gone to Luz's mom, explained the whole thing, and asked for permission.
  • Eda and Hellboy's fight comes from this. Both sides want to protect Luz, but think that the other wants to hurt or use her. It takes Luz interposing herself in the fight for things to settle down enough for actual communication.
• Post-Modern Magik: Static rocks are used by witches for spells and potions of an electrical quality. Luz uses them as impromptu charging pads for her phone.
• Pragmatic Hero: Hellboy during the Covention, where he's the one to come up with the idea of having Roger fight on Luz's behalf by claiming that she created him. When Luz voice moral concerns about the set up, Hellboy admits that under normal circumstances, he'd agree, but points out that Lilith pressured Luz into a fight the former was certain the latter'd lose; if she's not gonna play nice, then neither can they.
• Repeat What You Just Said: Luz's mother isn't quite sure she believes what she's hearing when Gus and Willow refer to themselves as her daughter's friends.
• Science Fair: Hellboy arrives on the Boiling Isles in time for Hexside's Magic Fair, basically their version of this.
• Semantic Superpower: When Hellboy asks what sets the main nine Covens apart from the others, Willow explains that it's due to the main nine being more generalist, and thus having a wider array of spells. For example, the Construction Coven deals in spells based around building, which can also include things like interior decorating, and even baking.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Eda is explaining how homunculi like Roger are made with alchemy, Luz's mind quickly goes to Full Metal Alchemist 2003.
  • During Roger's fight with Amity's abomination, Luz accidently distracts him by yelling 'DODGE'.
  • Roger mentions that the abomination tastes like grape jelly and mustard, which is a recurring gag based on an odd PSA Linkara once watched.
  • Eda once briefly got married to a fellow named Stan on a trip to Vegas.
  • The muscle doll the kids want to bring to life makes "my mom" jokes.
  • Eda's list of fake items to get rid of Roger only consists of two things: Two quarts of elbow grease and palisman fluid.
  • When Hellboy mentions spellscrolls, he snarks that they're "probably cleaner than owls".
• Side Bet: Several B.R.P.D. agents begin placing bets on how many fights Hellboy's gotten into in the seven hours since he's ended up in the Boiling Isles. Abe wins with his guess of two.
• Snipe Hunt: Eda tries to ditch Roger at the Night Market by sending him off to find some elbow grease and palisman fluid. Later, Roger reveals he wasn't fooled, and was tailing Eda incase she needed help.
• Underestimating Badassery: Eda and Hellboy's first fight is a case of this on both sides. For Hellboy, he thinks he's just dealing with a witch who tries to kidnap children, which is a regular occurance for him, and thinks this will be easy- not knowing that Eda is the most powerful Witch in the Boiling Isles. For Eda, she thinks that this guy is a crazy hobo who's randomly targeting her student for potentially nefarious purposes, and doesn't know that this is Anung Un Rama, a demon who is far older and more experienced than her.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Leshy is a forest spirit whose power and physical body are based on plants, and thus is weak against fire. One of the primary problems with the fight against him is that until Eda shows up, no one has any fire attacks.
• Weirdness Censor: It's mentioned by Luz that the B.R.P.D.'s adventures aren't as front-page as they used to be, handwaving Camila's disbelief in the existence of the supernatural as thinking that Luz was talking about a comic or something. It's not until Chapter 7 that Camila fully processes that monsters and other beings besides Hellboy and the other nonhuman B.R.P.D. agents exist naturally on Earth.
• What the Hell, Hero?: On hearing what Luz did and how it was not a kidnapping that made her stay in the Burning Isles, Camila rakes her over the coals.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Hellboy maintains this stance strongly... though he's not above intimidating Amity with a bluff, since she doesn't know that he has that rule.
• Wrong Context Magic: Hellboy and the B.R.P.D. are initially a little wary around the magic of the Boiling Isles, thinking it's one of the darker forms of Theurgy, when it's actually a mix of Inherent Gift and Wild Magic.

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