Fanfic / Your Friendly Resident Basilisk at Your Service!

Your Friendly Resident Basilisk at Your Service! is a fanfiction story based on The Owl House, where Luz has one major detail in her backstory changed; her father was a basilisk who somehow made his way to Earth, making her a Half-Human Hybrid, whose friendly and goofy personality completely contrasts what the Isles knows about her species.

Is currently undergoing a rewrite, which can be found here.

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This fanfic provides examples of:

Both Versions

• Adaptation Species Change: Luz's father is (or at least was in the original version) a basilisk in this universe, making Luz a Half-Human Hybrid.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Hettie Cutburn, Head Witch of the Healing Coven, first appears in the extended ending of the first episode's events.
• Adaptation Deviation:
  • While infiltrating the Conformatorium, Luz impersonates a coven guard to keep Warden Wrath from finding her instead of hiding in a cell. She later asks Eda if King was really the King of Demons before they enter the contraband room.
  • When Luz goes to Hexside, she ends up befriending Boscha instead of Willow. It differs in both stories;
    • In the original, As Luz met Boscha before sneaking into Hexside, she befriends her and Skara as she hadn't officially met Willow or Gus (who hadn't even debuted).
    • In the redux edition,
• The Apprentice: Warden Wrath served as Hettie Cutburn's apprentice for a time before he transferred to prison duty.
• An Arm and a Leg: Luz has a habit of losing body parts; luckily she can heal quickly.
• The Bully: Amber and her cheerleading squad, and in the Redux edition Luz has a habit of standing up to them.
• Disappeared Dad: Luz's father is reportedly dead, like in canon, but whether or not that's true he's not in the picture. In the Redux Edition, he's alive but on an adventure, which led to Camila marrying Manny.
• Extreme Omnivore: Luz has to regularly drink blood (fuel as it's known in the redux edition) to keep her human disguise before she goes to the Boiling Isles.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Luz's mother is human, but her father's a basilisk, so she is one of these.
• Healing Factor: Luz has one that automatically heals any damage she sustains.
• Mysterious Past: Luz has no idea how her father got from the Isles to Earth and met her mother.
• Shout-Out: Both versions feature a creature named Jeff, whom Luz found as an egg during a trip to Gravity Falls.

Original Edition

• Adaptational Backstory Change: Boscha starts off being in the Abomination track instead of Potions since her mother wanted her to show up Amity, who's still friends with Willow and treats Boscha like a failure.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: A select few characters debut faster such as Boscha, Skara, Steve and Vitimir, who is confirmed to become an Ascended Extra.
  • Bria and Angmar debut during the original first part of "Hooty's Moving Hassle", a full season before their canon debuts.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Luz does a lot more research on her own in this story.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Gus doesn't debut until "Hooty's Moving Hassle" and goes unnamed when he is.
• Adapted Out: Eda is completely absent from the chapters based on "Covention", and Lilith is thus completely uninvolved in Luz and Amity's duel.
• An Arm and a Leg: When Luz and King first face the Owl Beast, it tears off Luz's right arm. Luckily, she has a Healing Factor so it grows back.
• Animate Inanimate Object: During the Moonlight Conjuring, Luz somehow absorbs the magic the moon emits to the point that she can animate objects herself. Of course, they then try to kill her and the other kids.
• Anti-Magic: Petricite, made from Basilisk skin, witch's wool, and some other unnamed ingredients, has the ability to render magical beings completely powerless when used. Even Belos would be affected.
• The Beastmaster: A journal excerpt states that the "Dryad" basilisk, implied to be Luz's father, has a natural talent for commanding other creatures like a Beastkeeping Coven witch. Luz seems to have inherited this, with Camila remembering a time that she somehow managed to get a trio of bears to have a tea party with her, and in a filler chapter she manages to charm a group of gnomes into making her their queen without even trying. She even tries to join the Beastkeeping coven in "Covention" before she learns about the sigils.
  • According to a passage in the opening segments, basilisks like Luz's father "Dryad" may actually have taught beastkeeping magic to witches.
• Bizarre Human Biology: By human standards, Luz is considered an oddity due to an past doctor's visit. Basilisks don't have hearts, so the idea of Luz being alive is baffling.
• Breather Episode: Chapter 6 is the first of mostly lighthearted interludes, with no real plot to it.
• Breath Weapon: Luz's three-headed hydrarooster Gunther can breath fire, spit acid, and generate powerful wind.
• Canon Foreigner: Daimon, a boy who turns out to be Vitimir's son, shows up at different points to supply Luz with tips for studying magic by being a proper potionist.
• Crossover Relatives: Luz is apparently the cousin of Marco Diaz.
• Duck Season, Rabbit Season: Luz begs Boscha to bring her to Hexside by using this: however, it relies on saying "please" instead of "no", and Boscha is unamused when it works.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • Luz meets Vitimir, Head Witch of the Potions Coven, before delivering a package to Adegast, and he inspires her to start studying potions in order to learn magic.
  • Boscha's initially stuck studying in the Abomination track, and Luz shape-shifts into an abomination to help her get a passing grade. Amity, who remains suspicious, tries to use a potion to catch them in the act only to cause an abomination riot. The incident leads to Luz befriending Boscha and Skara, and later Bo and Celine, instead of Willow and Gus.
  • Luz's phone is broken before she can learn any glyphs, so she learns to cast magic with Eda's old training wand.
  • The crux of Amity's different friendships is that she couldn't go through with cutting off her friendship with Willow with a lie, revealing the truth at the last second. She then managed to convince her parents to let her keep her friendship with Willow, but at the cost of her having to outshine Boscha in everything.
  • The Conjuring Luz and her friends have is at Skara's house instead of the Owl House, because Luz listened to Eda's refusal in this universe.
• Healing Factor: Luz has one and it's a good thing, because there's no other way she would've survived Warden Wrath decapitating her or the Owl Beast tearing her arm clean off.
• Hidden Depths: "The Conjuring, Part 3" shows that Luz has skill in giving massages, wanting to be a masseuse for pets when she grows up.
• I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: While receiving a back massage fro Luz, Skara accidentally moans while enjoying it. Luz is startled by it, Skara becomes embarrassed and the two are stuck stewing in awkwardness until Boscha and Celine enter the room.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Luz still sneaks into Hexside disguised as an abomination, the student she's helping displays talent in another track to solve a problem and Principal Bump allows said student to switch tracks.
    • As such, Boscha still becomes a Potion track student.
  • Despite her phone being damaged, Luz is able to conjure a light spell to change the Owl Beast back into Eda.
• Last of Her Kind: Before Luz showed up, everyone on the Boiling Isles believed the basilisks were killed off ages ago. For all anyone knows and she herself believes, Luz at the moment is played as this for the species.
• Lifesaving Misfortune: Luz tries to sign up for the Beastkeeping Coven at the Covention, but thanks to recent regulations that Eberwolf passed she need to either be in a Beastkeeping track at an established school or have permission from a guardian to join. Luz only realizes what a close call she had when she sees someone getting branded with a Bard coven sigil and learns that sigils cut off all magic unrelated to the coven in question.
• Losing Your Head: In this version, it's Luz who gets decapitated by Warden Wrath instead of Eda. It plays out like canon due to Luz regrowing her head.
• Magic Pants: Luz's clothes were specifically made to transform with her, though she doesn't know how Camila got them.
• Multiple Head Case: The egg Luz gets at the Covention hatches into a three-headed rooster.
• Must Make Amends: After what happened with the Owl Beast threatening Luz and tearing off her arm, Eda buckles down and starts taking her role as a mentor more seriously.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Eda is horrified when she sees she tore off Luz's arm as the Owl Beast.
• Mythology Gag: Boscha starting out in the Abomination track is a nod to the storyboards of "I Was a Teenage Abomination" showing her in said track before being replaced.
• Noodle Incident: Somehow Hooty chasing a bug led to him receiving a medal from a "bug mayor".
• No Sense of Direction: Luz has a terrible sense of direction according to an author's note. When given simple directions to Hexside, she has some trouble getting there.
• Number of the Beast: The first chapter is a recovered journal entry on basilisks, the entry being number 667.
• Only Friend: Amity sees Willow as this, not bothering to get to know any friends Willow might have or even learn their names.
• Precision F-Strike: Eda shouts one after seeing Wrath decapitate Luz and showing no remorse for it.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Chapter 7 makes the claim that Steve's father is Mason, head of the Construction coven.
  • Chapter 18 reveals that Hettie Cutburn, the Healing coven head is Celine's aunt.
• Rewrite: The author disliked how Chapter 16 turned out so badly that they eventually just rewrote it significantly. Said chapter establishes the personalities of Boscha, Skara, Bo and Celine but cuts out Amity, Willow, Amelia, Cat, Bria, and Angmar's appearances.
• Shout-Out:
  • The opening lines from the first part of "Welcome to the Isles" is a clear reference to the first episode of Gravity Falls. Luz also mentions a cousin who lives in Echo Creek, just got a black belt, a friend named Janna, and has an exchange student staying with his family.
  • Luz’s outfit in this AU is basically what Neferpitou wears.
  • A book Luz reads on potions mentions that potioneers can "brew fame, bottle glory, and even stop death".
  • In the first interlude, Luz sings a song about making griffin pancakes and becomes the queen of a colony of gnomes.
  • The second interlude is based off the Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained Short, "Stan's Tattoo".
  • The morning of the Covention, Skara calls Boscha who had forgotten when it was and rushes to get ready, saying she's already there only for Skara to point out she called Boscha's home. This happened to Gumball in "The Misunderstandings".
  • Luz found a giant spider egg on a trip to Gravity Falls, which hatched into a Giant Spider named Jeff that considers Luz his mother.
  • When confronted with having to do something they really don't want to do, Eda and Boscha both say "The things I do for love".
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Boscha's mothers apparently regularly get into arguments where one assumes that the other is cheating, fight, and then make up in a way that Boscha would rather not think about.
• Winged Humanoid: Luz creates a pair of wings on her back multiple times in order to fly instead of walking everywhere.

Redux Edition

• Adaptational Early Appearance: Both Lilith and Flora D'splora debut in "I Was a Teenage Abomination".
• Adaptational Job Change: Flora is the head of the Emperor's Coven in this timeline while Lilith is principal of Hexside.
• Adaptation Deviation:
  • Luz learns about Emperor Belos in "A Lying Witch and a Warden". In canon, she wasn't aware of the empire until "Covention" when Eda told her about the Emperor's Coven.
  • Flora D'Splora encounters Luz and sends her to Hexside, where she meets Boscha and befriends her alongside Gus instead of Willow.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Manny is Luz's stepfather in this continuity, having married Camila when she was a young girl.
  • Masha and her friends are friends with Luz, the former being her best friend who's aware of her true basilisk identity.
  • Eda and Lilith are on different terms since Lilith isn't the leader of the Emperor's Coven.
  • Boscha hangs out with Gus and the Human Appreciation Society as it's implied that she's not on good terms with the Banshees.
• Affectionate Nickname: Manny calls Luz "Danger Noodle" due to her true nature and her tendency to cause trouble.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Since Luz helped her with her history report, Boscha protects her when Amity tries to rally the students into restraining the basilisk.
• Chekhov's Lecture: The Recovered Journal entry in "Welcome to the Isles: Part 1" lists griffins as a basilisk's natural predator. While Luz and Eda are flying over the Boiling Isles, a griffin attacks them because it can smell Luz: Eda drives it off, but believes it attacked them because it was mating season and they got too close...until Luz tells her the truth later.
• Curse Cut Short:
  • At the end of "Welcome to the Isles: Part 1", Luz tells Eda and King she's a basilisk. They don't believe her until she drops her human disguise, at which point the chapter ends with this:
    Eda & King: WHAT THE F-?!
  • In Part 2, Wrath is about to say "Oh, fuck" right before Luz body slams down on him in her basilisk form, knocking the warden out.
• Disproportionate Retribution: While everyone at Gravesfield High sees Luz as a "problem child", Manny knows she's just hyperactive and blames the faculty for overreacting whenever she gets sent to the principal's office.
• In Spite of a Nail: Even though Luz doesn't sneak into Hexside in this version of "I Was a Teenage Abomination", she's still banned for causing damage to the school.
• Misplaced Retribution: Luz gets chased into Hexside's cafeteria by a hungry griffin leading Amity to accuse her of creating a diversion so she could drain the students of their magic. Nearly everyone sides with Amity, but Boscha sticks up for Luz.
• Morality Chain: Willow tries to act as this for Amity, who gets mean whenever Boscha is involved.
• Mythology Gag: Lilith is the principal of Hexside School of Magic and Demonics instead of Bump, a position she had in the series' development stage.
• Noodle Incident: Two for Luz. A few years back, a museum curator stalked her after seeing her default form only to disappear (likely because of Cognito Inc.), and she encountered a hunter who shot off one of her horns.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When Eda tries to relax at home while Luz is working at her stand, Hooty guilts her into checking up on her apprentice as any number of things could happen since everyone knows what she looks like. Eda initially ignores it, but heads back to town in a panic and promises to pay back Hooty later.
• Secret-Keeper: Aside from Luz's parents, Masha is the only other person (that Luz knows of) who she trusted with her secret prior to her ending up in the Boiling Isles. When Luz decides to stay in the Demon Realm for the summer, Masha agrees to maintain her cover by watching Jeff posing as Luz at Reality Check Camp.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Manny is alive in this version of the story, even if he's not Luz's birth father.
• Sticky Fingers: Luz is a bit of a kleptomaniac with a hoarding problem and while she's promised Camila she'd never steal from people, it doesn't stop her from taking stuff from jerks she believes deserve it.

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