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Fanfic / Owls and Souls, Witches and Resonance

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Owls and Souls, Witches and Resonance (Archive of Our Own link here) is a crossover story between The Owl House and Soul Eater, combining the two into one world.

This fanfic provides examples of:

  • Actually Pretty Funny: Despite Soul's condition and her own angst about it, when Blair jokingly tries to cover Soul's ears in response to Stein referring to Soul as "mild", saying that Stein shouldn't tell him that he said that, Maka has to stifle a snicker, and Stein has to resist an urge to smile as well.
  • Adaptational Badass:
    • Luz is learning Soul Wavelength from Maka in addition to learning about Magic in the Isles. She finally manages to figure out how to connect to the former in Chapter 28. Later, after finding the light glyph, she she discovers by chance that she can use her Soul Wavelength to cast it without needing a physical glyph, though it's more tiring as a result.
    • Similarly, not only does Eda know about Soul Wavelength manipulation, even being capable of using Soul Perception when canonically Soul Eater Witches were supposed to be unable to use it, it's apparently almost as common as Magic use in the Isles, with only young kids having no knowledge of it at all.
    • Amity, in preparation for joining the Emperor’s Coven, has some experience using Oracle magic, where in canon she really only used her Abomination magic and fire magic.
    • The Snaggleback in this AU was once genuinely the terrifying monster King described him as, though years of imprisonment and lack of access to human Souls has caused him to lose this power, in contrast to canon where there was never indication that he ever lived up to the hype.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance:
    • Hunter/Golden Guard shows up early in the season 1 timeframe, when he canonically didn't make a real appearance until the end of season 1, and didn't get any real focus as a character (or even a name) until season 2 started.
    • Belos shows up after the breakout to berate Warden Wrath for his screwups.
    • Lilith makes a short appearance when Bump contacts her about Luz's infiltration of Hexside, a full episode before she first appeared in "Covention".
  • Adaptational Intelligence: Several characters tend to be more intelligent and less irrational than in canon.
    • Luz's intelligence is given a bit more focus here, as while she has more trouble in school than Maka does, partly due to her teachers not being very understanding of her quirks and giving her the help she needs to learn, she's far from stupid. After all, she did manage to make spider-breath work on her griffin model, and she actually managed to figure out that the whole situation with Sid was a test well before Maka herself did. She also catches on to Adegast's true nature earlier than in canon.
    • Blair seems to be a bit more serious and intelligent here, making a well-reasoned argument for being allowed to stay with Maka and Soul for starters.
    • It may be because of Camilla and Luz's influence, but Spirit is more serious here.
    • Eda is somewhat more knowledgeable about humanity and Earth than in canon, having spent enough time on Earth hiding from the DWMA to pick up enough Spanish to understand Luz, and her lack of familiarity with Earth stuff is played up for her customers.
    • Liz and Patty seem a bit more intelligent here, the former being somewhat better able to deal with Kid's OCD moments for starters.
    • Willow puts more of an effort in to have Luz's Abomination disguise be believable in this continuity.
    • King's demon knowledge gets more focus, even if some of it is kind of outdated affected, like the description of the Snaggleback, or affected by his biases.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Just when you thought that Adegast couldn't get any more creepy, Eda reveals that his puppets were people whose souls he ate, after which he taxidermized their bodies.
    • In this AU, the Snaggleback once feasted on human Souls, and even though Luz freed him from the Conformatorium he desires her Soul, to the point that he hides in the Owl House in the hopes of getting the chance to go after her, despite the fact that his decline means that it's a stretch to think that he could even hurt her.
  • Age Lift: A number of Owl House characters are much older than in canon, fitting how Soul Eater Witches can live for centuries. For instance, Eda notes that she's had her curse for centuries at least by the time of the story.
  • All Myths Are True: As in Owl House canon, many if not all of Earth's myths and legends are based, at least in part, on things that leaked from the Demon Realm to the human world. For example, Maleficent is a historical figure who, according to Gus, has a dedicated section in the history books, while humans think that she's just a character from a fairy tale.
  • Ambiguous Gender: As in Soul Eater canon, Crona is referred to solely by gender-neutral pronouns.
  • Amicable Exes: Spirit and Camila, in contrast to Spirit and Maka's mother, get along fairly well, their differing viewpoints on the DWMA notwithstanding, and show no signs of wishing to be in a romantic relationship anymore.
  • Arbitrary Skepticism: In a world where the existence of the DWMA, Weapons, Kishins, The Grim Reaper and Witches are all established and accepted fact, believing griffins aren't real seems odd, especially when they are real. Endangered on Earth, sure, but still real.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Luz strikes a nerve when she asks why Adegast is getting potions from Eda if he makes potions himself, causing his control of his puppet to slip.
  • Bad Liar: Eda outright says to Carmilla that Luz is a horrible liar. That's why Eda believes Luz that Carmilla tried to shortchange her.
  • Bandage Mummy: After the fight with Crona, Hunter is so wounded that he's completely covered in bandages.
  • Becoming the Mask: Eda initially only intended to string Luz along in regards to learning magic while the girl did some chores and errands for her, and send her home when she gave up in frustration with just a few lessons in Soul Wavelength manipulation. Instead, she found herself growing genuinely fond of the teen, and enjoyed teaching her.
  • Beyond the Impossible:
    • The year before the story started Spirit somehow ended up melting a pot despite the fact that the stove he was using should have been physically incapable of getting that hot.
    • The first rule of Magic is that only Witches and Demons can truly use it, and the best a human Sorcerer can do is utilize the magic in tools and objects. Luz managing to use her Soul Wavelength to cast a light glyph to defend herself against the Owl Beast, without needing to use a physical glyph drawing, proves that wrong.
  • Big Damn Heroes: A watching Hunter intervenes just in time to save Soul and Maka from Crona.
  • Big Sister Worship: Inverted; Luz clearly thinks the world of Maka and believes that she can do no wrong, being shocked when Maka admits that she took months to master her Soul Wavelength.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: There are some lifeforms in the Boiling Sea that are not only able to withstand the boiling waters without harm, but actually can't survive not being in the intense heat.
  • Bizarre Alien Senses: As a zombie whose brain was damaged during his death, Sid primarily relies on his Soul to sense the world around him. Thus, smokescreens are not really effective on him because he's not using his eyes, for instance.
  • Bland-Name Product: Willow mentions an apparent energy drink called “Green Dragon”, clearly a nod to Red Bull.
  • Blatant Lies: Belos nearly drops the trope name when berating Warden Wrath for how he tried to save face for how he screwed up and allowed a mass breakout.
  • The Bore: One substitute teacher is not only extremely boring in his presentation, he copies the textbook almost word for word. Even Maka quickly tires of him, and leaps at a chance to get away.
  • Both Sides Have a Point: Spirit and Camila have differing views about the DWMA and Luz attending it, but neither is entirely wrong in their arguments.
    • Later, after the Venice incident, Liz and Patty, being familiar with trauma from their time on the streets, correctly point out that Soul and Maka were deeply affected by the event, while Black Star counters by rightly pointing out how stubborn the two students are and that they shouldn't be underestimated.
  • Cats Hate Water: Multiple characters lampshade how odd it is that Blair averts this trope with her fondness for baths.
  • Chest Burster: In Soul's nightmare, he bursts out of Maka's stomach right before he wakes up.
  • Cliffhanger: Chapter 20 ends right before Luz's first meeting with Willow.
  • Condescending Compassion: The canon scene with Amity and Willow gets expanded upon here, with Amity offering to help Willow recreate her failed Abomination over lunch after stalling the Professor, which Willow takes as Amity just wanting to make Willow present something that she made.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Eda's fight with Adegast, if you could even call it that, is ridiculously one-sided. Even Eda herself is surprised that it only took a couple of hits for her to take him out, and not very hard hits at that.
  • Darker and Edgier: Soul Eater is a bit darker than The Owl House, what with the rampant Soul Eating for example, and it shows from time to time. For example, Adegast's puppets are taxidermized bodies here. Whose Souls he ate.
  • Deal with the Devil: It's possible for a person to trade their Soul to a Demon in exchange for power, resulting in a Warlock. These Warlocks usually act as proxies their masters use to close in on potential feeding grounds.
  • Decomposite Character: "Ragnarok" is apparently a figure of demonic legend in this universe, and while the character we know of from Soul Eater canon still exists, according to Medusa he's merely a delusional Dainslief instead of the demon sword.
  • Demonization: Eda is positively The Dreaded to Willow and Gus when they first lay eyes in here in this story, the kids recalling tales of her doing things like laying waste to entire cities, but what we have seen from her so far makes it clear that many if not all of those tales are at least exaggerated if not outright falsehoods.
  • Dramatic Irony:
    • It's widely believed, even by Belos, that the Boiling Isles had all its portals to the human world destroyed by Maba, with Eda's portal making it clear that they missed at least one.
    • The Oracle Coven have visions of a black sword with a mouth and the ability to take on human form in Venice, believing it to be the Palisman sword Dainslief that was lost in the conflicts with the Reaper. Those more familiar with Soul Eater canon know that they're likely talking about Ragnarok.
    • It takes a few chapters before Luz is clued into the fact that Eda and King genuinely thought that Luz being able to cast true Magic like a Witch, instead of just using the Magic inherent in objects as a Sorcerer does, was impossible. Of course, she promptly proves them wrong.
  • The Dreaded:
    • Thanks in part to Demonization by imperial propaganda, Willow and Gus are positively terrified when they first lay eyes on Eda and realize who she is.
    • Hunter is terrified when he realizes that not only is he captured and behind enemy lines in Death City, but that he's under the not-so-tender care of Medusa Gorgon.
  • Evil Counterpart: The trio of Eda, King, and Luz seem to be deliberately contrasted with Medusa, Ragnarok, and Crona. Both are trios of outcasts, but while the Owl gang has genuine affection between them, Medusa’s group is much more dysfunctional.
    • Medusa counters Eda; both are magical powerhouses (that know each other even) that deal with a seemingly-human child, but while Eda starts to have genuine affection towards Luz and at least teaches her about Soul Wavelength manipulation, even if magic proves more complicated, Medusa cares nothing for Crona and uses and abuses them casually as part of her plans to make a new Kishin.
    • King has Ragnarok; both of them are beings other than witches or humans that spend time with the others and have delusions regarding their nature, but while King is harmless and capable of affection towards Eda and Luz, Ragnarok is actively dangerous and malicious, abusing Crona and only obeying Medusa out of fear.
    • Both Crona and Luz are (seemingly) humans that hang out with the non-humans of the trio that don't conform to gender norms in some way, but while Luz is confident, outgoing, and energetic, Crona is shy and easily pushed around by Medusa and Ragnarok into doing terrible things that Luz would balk at.
  • Everyone Is a Super: While even humans can learn Soul Wavelength manipulation with practice, on Earth knowledge of it is restricted to keep random people from gaining what could be described as super powers and wreaking havoc, trying to limit use to groups like DWMA students who can be taught to use it responsibly. On the Boiling Isles though, both it and Magic are used by pretty much everyone except little kids.
  • Fantastic Racism: Besides the fact that Witches on Earth can be hunted down simply for being there, in this version of the Boiling Isles fascination with humans is highly discouraged.
  • Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Luz, a human, using Magic is a complete rejection of the First Rule of Magic, which states that it is only possible for Witches and Demons to do so. Eda is worried that if the Witch Order finds out that they'll consider it blasphemy, considering that the Rule is a critical basis for most of the accepted theories and practices of Magic and a central pillar for Witch cultures, and won't stop until they've erased every single trace that Luz ever existed.
  • For Your Own Good: Amity justifies exposing Willow’s cheating as keeping things from ending up even worse for her in the long run.
  • Fusion Fic: Combines the worlds and casts of The Owl House and Soul Eater.
  • Glamour Failure: When Luz asks Adegast why he'd be getting a potion delivery from Eda if he makes potions himself, his control of his puppet slips in a disturbing fashion.
  • Goal-Oriented Evolution: According to King in Chapter 27, the physical biology of Demons is much more in-tune with their Souls than is the case for animals, Humans, or even Witches, so as they age and eat they change and evolve based on what they want to become. There will always be some sign of the Demon's original form though, and eating souls helps speed up the process.
  • Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: In a conversation with Soul, Maka admits that she just can't get why some people would start eating human Souls and become Kishin Eggs.
  • Healing Hands: Blair uses her magic to heal a wound Maka got chasing Sid.
    • Eda uses a similar technique after testing Luz for poison.
  • Heel Realization: After turning down Luz's request for a visit and hanging up, Maka realizes that she basically decided to make her already miserable sister even more miserable by refusing to come up simply to spite her father. Soul remarking that it makes sense she'd take on a student after hearing part of her explanation about what her conversation with Luz meant makes her feel worse since teaching Luz over the phone instead of in person isn't exactly good for Luz since she doesn't just want her sister's advice; she wants her sister.
  • Heroic RRoD: Eda, already strained from holding up the barrier against the Boiling Rain for over a day and using a sensory deprivation spell to help Luz find her Soul Wavelength, both uses illusion magic to hide how tired she is and give Luz a crash course in Magic. As a result, when she reaches her limit with the light spell, she ends up coughing up blood and ultimately collapsing.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • Black Star is a tea guy, much to Maka's surprise, since she expected him to be chugging energy drinks instead, and his disgust at the idea, calling them actual poison, as well as his talk about adding ginseng, shows that he's surprisingly discerning about what he puts in his body.
    • Blair is a really good cook, and has worked as an accountant of all things in the past. She even notes that she knows how to do a surprising number of things due to her career taking her all over.
    • Eda knows Spanish, and apparently several other languages as well.
    • Liz and Patty, due to growing up on the streets, can easily tell that Maka is putting on a brave face and that what happened in Venice seriously affected her, and Soul as well.
  • Hypocrisy Nod: Amity notes that she shouldn’t be using Oracle magic to figure out how Willow is cheating with her Abomination after lecturing Willow that morning about using magic from outside of her track, but justifies it to herself under the logic that she’s already studying to join the Emperor’s Coven and that she needs to stop Willow cheating before it blows up in her face later.
  • Insane Equals Violent: Subverted, capital-M Madness explicitly does not correlate with actual mundane mental conditions, so someone who has a condition isn't necessarily more prone to becoming a Kishin Egg, and being a monster doesn't necessarily mean that there's something mentally wrong with them (at last in that way) or that they can't be rational.
  • Insistent Terminology: The Golden Guard is a little frustrated by the idea that the Witch Order territory consists of the "mainland" of the realm it and the Boiling Isles exists in, as if the Isles don't count as a continent in and of themselves.
    • Later, he gets very mad when called a "Sorcerer" by Spirit.
    • When Luz discovers the light glyph, she immediately calls it a "glyph" instead of a "ritual circle" like Eda had demonstrated earlier, the name just feeling right to her, and Eda finds the term catchy enough that she adopts it as well.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Despite cooler heads prevailing when Kid shows up at the DWMA, he and Black Star still fight on his first day, just in class instead.
  • Instant Runes: Luz discovers in Chapter 32 that she can use her Soul Wavelength to cast a glyph without a physical drawing, though it takes a lot more effort to do so than using the paper.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Eda was planning to send Luz home with her memories of the Isles erased after she realized that she couldn't learn Magic and gave up.
  • Lethal Chef: Not only did Spirit once somehow melt a pot despite the fact that it should have been physically impossible for the stove to get that hot, his pot roast got overcooked because he put it back in the oven to keep warm after removing the lid and accidentally set it to broil. Camila says that the pot roast was still edible, so he's not totally hopeless though.
  • Literal Metaphor: In the Boiling Isles, blood oranges are literally full of blood, as compared to how they're just a kind of orange on Earth. When Willow mentions the former, Luz thinks that she means the latter until she clarifies.
  • Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Although the focus is primarily on the Owl House and Soul Eater elements, Chapter 20 confirms that Amphibia and Yharnam exist as alternate realms that can be accessed through the right portals, with others implied to exist as well.
  • Mental Fusion: When Soul and Maka try to use Witch Hunter against Stein, their minds brush together. Afterward, they get flashes from the other; Maka keeps tapping out a piano tune, and Soul gets a glimpse of Luz.
  • The Multiverse: There are other Realms besides the Demonic one and Earth, the Golden Guard referencing Amphibia and Yharnam in Chapter 20, along with Avalon.
  • Mundane Utility: Besides the combat applications, both Eda and Spirit use Soul Wavelength to allow themselves to dampen the effects of alcohol.
  • Named by the Adaptation:
    • Well, Named Early By The Adaptation. In canon, Professor Hermonculus's name isn't said until his second appearance in "Any Sport In A Storm". Here it's mentioned in the equivalent of "I Was A Teenage Abomination".
    • In canon, Maka's mother was never given a name. When Spirit has a nightmare on a plane trip to see Luz and Camila, it’s revealed her name is Makoto.
  • Never Gets Drunk: Even considering that he can use his Soul Wavelength to dampen the effects of the alcohol, which Eda does as well, Spirit has a ridiculous tolerance for it.
  • Noodle Incident:
    • Spirit once somehow melted a pot on a stove trying to cook.
    • When Willow is covering Luz in Abomination goo, she notes that it's like that one time she accidentally got locked in a pizzeria overnight.
    • Medusa has had contact with Eda in the past.
    • Luz mentions playing chess against Maka to Willow, and that she's actually won a couple of times.
    • Hooty once tried Eda's elixir and found it absolutely disgusting.
  • Oblivious Guilt Slinging:
    • Luz is a master of doing this to Maka, sometimes Maka just has to think about how she'd react to things to feel guilty, without Luz having to actually do anything.
    • When Soul says that it makes sense that Maka would take on a student after hearing a partial explanation for her conversation with Luz, Maka feels guilty because Luz wants her sister, not lessons over a phone.
  • One Degree of Separation: There are several examples of characters having indirect connections to other characters that they’re not aware of.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: One of Eda's customers is a vampiress calling herself Carmilla.
  • Our Witches Are Different: Besides the standard Boiling Isles Witches, there's also the ones in Witch Order territory. Notably, while all Witches in Owl House canon had Pointy Ears, which made Luz's status as human obvious, there's enough of what seems to be the latter type of Witch in the Isles, which also have round ears, that it's considered unusual but not as obvious a sign of humanity.
  • Painful Transformation: In this AU Eda's Owl Beast transformations are a lot more graphic and painful, and if it wasn't for the same side effects of the curse that let her survive her head being chopped off if the cut is clean, she'd probably be an invalid or dead from the damage even a failed shift.
  • Parents as People: Most if not all of the parents seen so far love their kids, but have some issues regardless.
    • Spirit loves both of his daughters, which comes out more with Luz, but Maka's anger towards him over the divorce, combined with his other issues, causes him to overcompensate, with just makes things worse.
    • Camila loves Luz dearly, but her busy work schedule and Luz's quirks make things difficult. Not to mention that she's terrified at the thought of Luz getting hurt in a mission, which is why she refuses her requests to go to the DWMA.
  • Pointy Ears: Downplayed compared to canon. Pointed ears are still the default in the Witches of the Boiling Isles, but there are enough with human-like rounded ears, like the ones in Witch Order territory presumably have, that Willow doesn't immediately realize that Luz is human upon seeing them like she did in canon, simply assuming that she was a Witch using Soul Protect for some reason until Luz's cluelessness about what that even was made her realize otherwiase.
  • Related in the Adaptation: In this story Luz is Spirit's daughter and thus Maka's older half-sister.
  • Rousseau Was Right: Spirit once told Luz that truly bad people are a rarity, usually they're just misled, misguided, or just make a lot of mistakes, and that doesn't make them bad, just people.
  • Secret Test of Character: Part of why Eda had Luz do deliveries. She wanted to see how she's handle navigating Bonesborough, her problem-solving skills, and how she'd handle customers who tried to stiff her. She's impressed by the results, especially with how Luz kept records of who paid her what, which Eda hadn't anticipated.
  • Seers: In Chapter 22 both Amity and Eda use Oracle magic, Amity to uncover how Willow is cheating and Eda to find where Luz is.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Smug Snake: Like in canon, Adegast's skills do not come even close to Eda's. Even she's genuinely surprised that he went down as quickly as he did.
  • Smart People Play Chess: Luz and Maka occasionally play chess together, and though Maka has won most of the games in the past Luz has managed to force a draw in the most recent game and win two of the previous three.
  • Something Only They Would Say: Eda figures out that Luz has ties to the DWMA because she uses the phrase "A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body", which the Reaper has practically adopted as his scripture, combined with the other evidence.
  • Take That!:
    • Spirit is not a fan of the standard American education system, and after Luz makes a comment that while her frustrations with certain subjects may have caused her to slip a bit, she's not sure how well she was actually taught said subjects to begin with, Spirit mentions that he thinks that the US, like the DWMA, should take a page from New Zealand's book regarding how teachers are treated.
    • Similarly, Camilia isn't a fan of the way people have turned healthcare into a business, and thus Luz has no problems delivering potions for Eda after hearing about how the Potioneer's Coven overcharges people for substandard products.
    • The author is not a fan of Patty's canon characterization.
  • There Was a Door: When visiting Soul in the hospital after Venice, Black Star decides that it's a good idea for him to enter the hospital room by kicking the door in, despite the fact that it wasn't even locked.
  • They Would Cut You Up: One of Eda's concerns after Luz does magic through the light glyph is that some unscrupulous Witches might desire to experiment on her if the news gets out.
  • Unequal Rites: A Witch is born with Magic, while knowing how to use magical tools only make you a Sorcerer. Eda staunchly insists on the distinction, and Hunter gets positively irate when Spirit calls him a Sorcerer.
  • Wham Episode: Chapter 32 not only has Luz learn the light glyph like in canon, but Luz discovers that she can forgo the need for a drawing by using her Soul Wavelength, which is supposed to be impossible.
  • Wound That Will Not Heal: Discusses by Stein regarding cursed wounds, which either keep the wound from healing, weakening and crippling the wounded party, or make a wound deadly regardless of its actual severity.
  • With Catlike Tread: It's mentioned once or twice that Black Star is really bad at being sneaky. For example, he thinks that standing on the giant red spike over the DWMA courtyard is somehow enough to hide himself, and seems genuinely shocked when Kid and company spot him, actually falling off and crashing to the ground. Patty notes that he's just asking for someone to snipe him.
  • Wizards Live Longer: As in Soul Eater canon, powerful Witches can easily live for centuries.
  • You Have Failed Me: Belos might have gone easy on Warden Wrath if he had just admitted how he'd screwed up and disobeyed orders, but his attempts to lie to the Emperor about it not only makes Belos question whether or not the Warden has disobeyed him before, and ends with the Warden sentenced to his own prison while he awaits trial.

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