History Fanfic / TheRavenAndTheOwlet

* AdaptationalBadass: Because she never took on half of Eda's curse, Lilith still has her magic available, and, with Eda gone, is the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles. She later also takes step to improve her raw power under Eda's tutelage.

** When Lilith meets Gwendolyn again, [[spoiler:she angrily airs our her grievances towards her mother over her neglect for the past 30 years. Gwen admits she made a mistake never staying connected to Lilith, which makes Lilith regret what she said and allows them to make up.]]

** Luz and King found a glyph-combo to get Jean-Luc to move again.

** Much to Lilith's own ire, [[spoiler:Dell and Gwendolyn]] start getting a kick out of referring to Luz as her daughter and thus, [[spoiler:their granddaughter]] which seems to double as [[LaserGuidedKarma cosmic repercussions]]. [[spoiler:Darius]] gets his own dig in by printing "#1 Aboma-mama" on Lilith's coffee mug knowing she'd be too proud to replace it.

** [[spoiler:King unlocks his scream power]].

* AdaptedOut: Aside from "Escaping Expulsion" and "Echoes of the Past" along with the [[spoiler:Lumity scenes]] from "Knock, Knock, Knockin on Hooty's Door", the entirety of Season 2A is cut or occurs offscreen. It's also been confirmed that [[spoiler:the Collector]] will not appear.

* AdaptationalExplanation: [[spoiler:Philip Wittebane]] had been responsible for Flapjack losing his right eye.

* ShipperOnDeck: Lilith eventually becomes one for Luz and Amity when she realizes Luz's crush has begun taking shape, at first, [[TheGadfly only teasing Luz about it]] but she genuinely does hope the best for them.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Boscha used to have a crush on Amity, and her increased anger towards Luz is because she won her heart when Amity didn't even consider Boscha a friend. Nevertheless, Boscha encourages Luz to "go for it and get the girl", giving her the confidence she needed to ask Amity out.]]

** [[spoiler:Despite not visiting Eclipse Lake, Luz and Lilith procure some Titan's Blood in order to use Lilith's time pool tracker so they can meet Philip Wittebane.]]

%%* MythologyGag

* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler:The Collector]].

* CerebusRetcon: Luz being teased for her crush on Amity is generally one of the more innocent and cute parts of the fic, being rare moments of levity in between the otherwise DarkerAndEdgier story. Then chapter 3 of "Raven Pellets" reveals that Willow teasing Luz isn't just friendly banter, but rather [[spoiler:Willow's way of getting revenge for Luz nearly getting her and Gus ''killed'', as well as one of the few ways she has to distract herself from learning that her fathers' coven sigils might end up killing them. The chapter also reveals that, despite not bringing it up, Willow has not forgiven Luz for the events at the arboreum, and in some ways wishes she had never met her]].

* ContinuityNod: Petra Arends complains that the Potion coven has been struggling recently because of [[spoiler:the fire in the Emperor's Arboreum]], as well as the deaths of three prominent potion sellers; Adeghast, Eda, and [[spoiler:Tibbles]].

* DistractedByTheSexy: Luz finds Amity and [[spoiler:Boscha]] attractive and has a hard time focusing on anything when talking with the. It's made worse when [[spoiler:Boscha]] is working out, which happens hilariously often.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Lilith invokes this early on, ignoring Eda's teachings over Luz as real progress in her magic training and all of Luz's accomplishments occuring from her own hard work. [[SubvertedTrope That eventually changes]] when she actually sees just what Luz is capable of after seeing the results of her training and she finds the invisibility glyph.

** Lilith calls Luz "Sweetie" while at school, playing up their mother/daughter relationship for Luz' embarassment. She later decides it's not unique and continuously uses nicknames based around light, each one embarrassing Luz more than the last.

** PlayedForLaughs in chapter 22. [[spoiler:Hunter]] reads Boscha and Luz' bickering as BelligerentSexualTension and asks if they're secretly in love. Both girls are horrified at the suggestion.

** Boscha's last name is Arends and her [[HasTwoMommies mothers]] are called Petra (the pink-haired triclops) and Sylvie (the bespectacled redhead).

** Raine punches Lilith in the face as revenge for cursing Eda. They both agree Lilith deserves more than that, but Raine restrains themself because they don't hate her enough to take her away from Luz.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Boscha may revel in making Luz miserable, but she chooses to back off while Luz is grieving over Eda (at least until she recovers and then she'll go back on the clock.)

** WordOfGod confirms Gus did still go to the Looking Glass Graveyard.
** [[spoiler:Despite not visiting Eclipse Lake, Luz and Lilith procure some Titan's Blood in order to use Lilith's time pool tracker so they can meet Philip Wittebane]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Before the Banshees' third game]], Boscha tells Amity that while she knows she's a bully, she at least cared about friends. Compared to Amity, who only pretended to like the girls Odalia forced her to hang out with and can't even remember any genuine moments of friendship Boscha considered between them. Even worse, Amity didn't even tell them that she was just hanging with them because Odalia forces her, leading them on without actually making any attempt at reciprocating their friendship. Boscha spits it in Amity's face that she just didn't try to make an effort with them, rejecting her apology and reducing Amity to tears.

** It's a bit scattered, but Lilith does pay for cursing Eda, manipulating Luz and [[spoiler:betraying Luz by stealing the portal]]. First Belos strips her of her rank, then Amity [[GettingTheBoot tosses her out of the Owl House]] while she's weakened from being stripped of her sigil after she uses her to enter it, Kikimora prohibits any perks she would've known about the Emperor's Coven and used, Amity [[BitchSlap slaps her hard enough to leave a mark]], and [[spoiler:after learning Belos was going to double-cross her, she's hit by Raine's sonic attack in the battle against the Coven Heads which leaves her with several broken ribs and internal bleeding.]]

* MythologyGag: Chapter 22 has 2 nods to ''Creator/{{Moringmark}}'' comics; one reference is to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/swb3o0/moringmark_why/ Boscha's friendship with Amity being]] AllTakeAndNoGive, the other is about the though of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/xytipa/hatching/ Luz's palisman possibly being a creeper.]]

* HealingHands: Both Blight sisters start studying Healing magic: Emira does it to impress Viney and Amity asks Lilith to teach her so she can heal Luz and her other friends during their adventures (though Lilith sees it as a way to impress Luz.) In chapter 24, [[spoiler:Amity officially multi-tracks into healing]].

* IfOnlyYouKnew: By Chapter 28, [[spoiler:Luz notices that there are times that Willow has been cold towards her. She mainly thinks that it's because of her befriending Boscha, but what she doesn't know that the main reason is actually the Phoenix Bloom quest.]]

** All of Lilith's relationships are expanded upon and altered due to her [[AdaptationalJerkass initial conceited attitude]] as the kids starts off not trusting her and she doesn't think much of them, but she eventually becomes [[MamaBear protective of all of them, especially Luz]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the show, the Boiling Isles' SocialDarwinist culture is more apparent. Even otherwise heroic figures like Willow or, post-CharacterDevelopment, Amity sees nothing wrong with exacting violent revenge, Lilith brutally kills Tibbles, the demon hunters who were okay with killing children even in the show are here shown as more realistically violent, and even Boscha, a 14 year old girl, [[spoiler:has no issue with trying to kill the Golden Guard, an elite member of the Emperor's Coven]]. All the repeated setbacks and failures [[AllLovingHeroine Luz]] goes through causes even ''her'' to start having such thoughts.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Luz finds Amity and [[spoiler:Boscha]] attractive and has a hard time focusing on anything when talking with the. It's made worse when [[spoiler:Boscha]] is working out, which happens hillariously often.

* ButchLesbian: Lilith is asexual and demiromantic, but her only relationship was with a woman. While she starts of fairly feminine, she takes to wearing a suit after a while and finds herself enjoying the different style.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Luz finds Amity and [[spoiler:Boscha]] attractive and has a hard time focusing on anything when talking with the. It's made worse when [[spoiler:Boscha]]is working out, which happens hillariously often.

* IfOnlyYouKnew: By Chapter 28, [[spoiler:Luz notices that there are times that Willow has been cold towards her. She mainly thinks that it's because of her befriending Boscha, but what she doesn't know that the main reason is actually the Phoenix Bloom quest.]]

* ILied: [[spoiler:Belos tells Lilith that he will reinstate her as Coven Head if she brings him Luz and the portal. Once that happens and he's alone with Luz, he reveals to her that giving Lilith a new coven brand is impossible because her magic would have adapted to make her immune to them, so she's been stuck labeled as a wild witch all this time.]]

** During the Coven Day Parade, Luz decided to ignore Kikimora, she and the Hexsquad had a picnic, and [[spoiler:Terra dies]].

** Willow and King soon join in on teasing Luz about her crush on Amity, much to her annoyance.

** Everyone who participated in the SideBet except for [[spoiler:Lilith and King]] had to [[spoiler:clean up Hooty after Luz got the Owl House covered in filth. Particularly, this serves as a larger dose of karma for Willow, who told Emira about the bet and was the most vocal in teasing Luz and Amity, and Emira, who roped Edric, Viney, Jerbo, Barcus, Skara, Amelia, Eileen, Bo, and Celine into participating and had to be forced into the cleanup by Viney.]]

* GossipyHens: Hexside apparently has some very active ones. In chapter 24, Luz accidentally makes it sound like she called Boscha cute. By lunchtime, Penstagram is filled with posts about the two of them dating. The moment Luz is shocked and yells that she isn't dating Boscha, the rumor mill swaps to talking about how they supposedly broke up.

* ShoutOut: Luz states the reason she tries to see the best in people is because she remembers this line from a cartoon: "[[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder An enemy is a friend you haven't made yet.]]"