Light of Hel
is an The Owl House AU in which Luz dies and goes to Hel (no, that's not a typo). You see, in this universe Eda is an alias of the goddess Hel, Raine is their partner Baldr, and Luz is the daughter of Camila with both of them, making her a demigod. Things are going to get interesting from here...
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- In Norse Mythology, Baldr was treated like just another soul lost in Hel, the titular goddess only keeping him for the principle of it. Here, they're married.
- In The Owl House, the only relationship we ever see Camilla and Eda have is strictly platonic. Here, they're lovers in a Polyamory situation with Raine.
- Adaptational Species Change:
- In canon, Eda and Raine were regular (albeit exceptionally skilled) witches from the Boiling Isles. Here, they're gods.
- In canon, Vee was a Basilisk. Here she's a tatzelwurm, a snake-beast from Alpine folklore.
- King goes from a Titan to a "Jotunn born".
- All Myths Are True: Besides the Norse pantheon, it's mentioned that others exist as well.
- Bring My Brown Pants: When Camila proves that she's more dangerous than the New Empire expected, it's noted that Jacob has lost control of his bladder.
- Composite Character: In this AU Eda is the goddess Hel and Raine is Baldr.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even Satan thought that not worshipping the right God wasn't a good enough reason to be tortured for eternity, hence one of the reasons why he outsources to Eda.
- Extra Parent Conception: In this universe Luz is the biological child of Camila, Eda, and Raine.
- Hell of a Time: While the worst of the worst do get heinous Ironic Hell-styled punishments in Hel (especially after Eda worked out a mutually beneficially arrangement with Satan), for the average person it's not really a bad place to spend their eternity.
- Historical Gender Flip: In this AU "Fenrir" is actually "Fenris", because the Christian monks recording the tale were misogynistic jerks as Eda puts it.
- Ironic Hell: Eda is quite fond of giving these out, having made an agreement with Satan to take some souls that would otherwise go to Hell because he's got an understaffing problem.
- Eda's undead servants were all people who owned or traded slaves in life, and it's mentioned that there's a bunch of fast food franchise owners and CEO types doing things like washing dishes and cleaning toilets.
- Luz's maid "Kiki" abused her position in the foster system to steal children away from their birth parents and sell them to the highest bidder. As a result, even time she even thinks of trying to harm a child, she's impaled with a dagger for each child she stole, and is haunted by the cries of all the babies who suffered and died due to her greed. Her hands also catch on fire, which is simply a standard sentence for malicious thieves and kidnappers rather than anything personalized to her.
- Serial Killers are used as what are essentially playing pieces for Hel and Baldr's family games, that is when their mutilated bodies aren't being used to decorate the dining room chandelier.
- Lemony Narrator: The story is narrated by the Norns, and it gets very snarky at some points, like the start of Chapter 11.
- Loophole Abuse: Although the pantheons have had contact with mortals (particularly the sexual kind) heavily limited for the last couple centuries, Eda and Raine could have Luz with Camila with no issue because those laws only apply to living deities, and they're half-dead and dead, respectively.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: After the "New Empire" goons have a Mugging the Monster moment with Camila, she makes it look like it was just an accident. She may or may not have thrown a car into a tree.
- Mugging the Monster: A group of the "New Empire" gang go after Camila. Even outside of the apparent supernatural backup Eda has seemingly sent her, she's dangerous enough that she throws a stop sign pole through the window of their van, impaling one of them through the head, from three yards away.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: The New Empire are a White Supremacist gang that kills Luz in a car-crash and tries going after Camilla because they're Latinex.
- Polyamory: While Hel/Eda and Baldr/Raine are the ones who are on-paper married, Camilla are a part of that relationship. Their relationship have resulted in Luz's conception somehow and Luz can hear them fooling around Right Through the Wall whenever they visit.
- Related in the Adaptation:
- Luz is the biological child of Eda, Camila, and Raine here.
- Hooty is apparently the child of Jörmungandr in this AU, and given that Eda is Hel, and the World Serpent her sibling, that makes him Eda's nephew and Luz's cousin.
- Screw Destiny: In the backstory in Chapter 12, Loki and Hel/Eda decided to reject their destined roles in Ragnarök.
- Semi-Divine: In this AU, Luz is the daughter of Camila (a mortal), Eda (the goddess Hel), and Raine (the deity Baldr), making her 2/3 divine, though it in turn makes it rather unclear what powers she'll develop. Apparently the last similar case was Theodore Roosevelt.
- Suddenly Bilingual: Luz finds that she can understand Norse runic script now, much to Eda's surprise.
- Vehicular Sabotage: The New Empire had Jacob cut Luz's breaks before they go after her, allowing them to run her off the road without her being able to stop.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Eda got some forewarning of Luz's death, enough to warn Camila at least, but not exactly how it would happen, nor could she actually stop it, which makes sense given the Norse Mythology aspect of the story.
