The Sky Pirate's Magical Odyssey
is an Alternate Universe The Owl House story written by FoxOnPie, where Luz is a Sky Pirate in a Steampunk-inspired world.
The Sky Pirate's Magical Odyssey provides examples of:
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In canon, Luz was upset that people thought she was weird and her mother just wanted her to be normal. Here her crewmates including her own mother think she's a failure that just gets in the way.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Amity, Viney, and Puddles both make appearances in the third chapter, which would be at least a day before Amity canonically appeared and weeks before Viney and Puddles would show up.
- Adaptational Intelligence: In addition to being a Gadgeteer Genius, Luz is overall more intelligent than in the show and shown to be more of a rational thinker and book learner. She’s also far more self-aware, acknowledging her major screw-ups while attempting jobs for her crew without excuses (at the cost of being highly neurotic about them) and catching herself out immediately over her projection of her resentment over being labeled a misfit onto the Conformatorium inmates she’s busting out before anyone else gets a chance to pipe up.
- Adaptational Villainy: While not exactly evil, Luz being a member of the Laputas means that she's actively working against the government, then again in the series Luz living with a wanted criminal and her Arch-Enemy happens to be the Emporer of the Boiling Isles so perhaps not.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Luz has one wash-away streak of blue hair dye in her hair. Because life is dark.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Luz is more of an intellectual than in the show while still being a Genki Girl, but she's also more prone to self-doubt, is more desperate for approval and camaraderie, and is shown to have something of a Money Fetish (not surprising, since she's a Sky Pirate).
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Luz and Amity are able to get along sooner than in the show because Luz doesn't do anything to annoy Amity as badly as in the show and Amity doesn't have a chance to be as big of a jerk around her.
- Alternate Universe: The Earth Luz hails from is a Steampunk-ish one with a mixture of After the End.
- Artificial Limbs: Luz in this universe has a prosthetic arm.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: According to Viney, witches are immune to radiation poisoning, or at least are much less vulnerable to it than humans are.
- Chapter three implies that Hooty has genitalia. Luz, naturally, is grossed out by that.
- Bungling Inventor: Luz's inventions have a habit of failing, usually explosively. Part of why she wants to learn magic in this universe is the hope that she can combine it with her inventions and move past this.
- Character Tic: When Luz is stressing out, she unconsciously starts picking junk up off the ground and finagling it together into a random contraption. She doesn’t have to watch her hands or even know what she’s making to carry it through to completion.
- Covert Pervert: The manga Luz reads at the library in chapter three features scantily clad girls, and Luz wonders how long she's allowed to check out books for; it's later shown that she's checked out a whole set of the manga.
- Dead Fic: Only three chapters were posted before it stopped being updated.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: In this story, Luz is missing an arm, contrasting how she has all her limbs in canon.
- In addition, she's prone to having panic attacks when things don't go her way and exhibits OCD-like behavior through needing to tinker with random junk to calm herself down, none of which is how she acts in the show.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Luz is aware that she causes trouble for the Laputas with her inventions, but at the same time, she wants them to at least acknowledge her efforts and not just yell at her when she does something wrong.
- Everyone Has Standards: Eda chastises Owlbert for stealing Luz's arm because they're not supposed to take anything that people will miss.
- Amity, as annoyed as she was with Luz, didn't want to make fun of her arm.
- Flipping the Bird: Amity does this to Luz in chapter three, except that witches apparently do it by making devil horns.
- Handicapped Badass: Luz doesn't let her missing arm slow her down much.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Luz in chapter one, who is so notorious for always causing raids to fail that the victims of her latest heist actually express relief upon recognizing her, and condescendingly gush over her appearance and antics until some rescuers arrives.
- I Resemble That Remark!: One of Duchess Claes’ paramours calls Luz “adorably clumsy.” While protesting this, she accidentally throws a smoke grenade in the face of her captain. Who was busy cutting himself free of the aftermath of her net launcher malfunctioning. She insists that was just a bad day.
- Magitech: Luz wants to learn magic in the hopes that she can combine it with her technology and have it be the missing piece that finally makes her personal inventions stable.
- Not a Morning Person: Eda, which contrasts the very early riser Luz, who's been trained to get up at four AM without feeling tired in the slightest.
- Shout-Out: The story has a few of these to Studio Ghibli: the crew Luz is part of is the Laputas, the head ship is the Nausicaa, and Luz tells a story of the Laputas trying to steal the Pompoko diamond.
- On top of that, the main targets of the sky pirates’ heist in chapter one are Duchess Claes and her bisexual polyamorous harem.
- Luz has a wash-away blue streak in her hair because "life is dark".
- In chapter three, Eda can't call up one of the organ harvesters she knows to get Luz a bile sac because he's recovering from a Pilates injury, Pilates being a demon who eats your genitals.
- In chapter three, Eda mentions that she once dated a human who told her that giving someone the finger meant "peace among worlds".
- Sky Pirate: As the title suggests, Luz is one in this universe, if not a successful one.
- Steampunk: This version of the human world has heavy steampunk inspiration.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Luz is this on Earth, as her being so accident-prone has caused so many operations to fail that the public sees her as a hero.
