A Lying Witch and a Runaway
is a The Owl House AU story where Luz is trans, and was attacked by their parents for coming back from a friend's house wearing a dress as a child, forcing them to flee and leading to them being found by Eda.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: The story starts with Luz's biological parents attacking her for coming home wearing a dress.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: In canon there is no evidence that Luz is anything but a cisgender girl. Here she's trans.
- Adaptational Villainy: In canon there's no evidence that Luz's parents are anything but loving and supportive. Here, when she comes home wearing a dress at age six her father starts attacking her with a belt, forcing her to jump out of a window to escape.
- Assimilation Backfire: When Eda confronts the basilisk, she tricks it into draining her magic knowing that it'll bring out the Owl Beast, who promptly slaughters the other demon.
- Happily Adopted: Eda ends up taking Luz in during her childhood, with Luz even taking on Eda's last name of "Clawthorne" instead of "Noceda".
- The Runaway: A young Luz jumped out of the window and ran away injured after being beaten by her father, and was found by Eda.
