Luz and Hunter's Roadtrip Extravaganza
is an The Owl House AU fanfic written on Archive of Our Own by crushpunchh and itslilacmoon.
In which there was a Titan's Blood leak waiting for somebody to fall within, and guess what happens when Kikimora's hand-dragon attacks the Golden Guard's blimp filled with abducted palismen? Said Golden Guard and his human captive take a dive and are now stranded in a place so much worse than the Boiling Isles.
It's Dallas, Texas.
Next order of business: dragging themselves to the Noceda house in Connecticut, without murdering each other. It's going to be a long, long travel...
Contains the following tropes
- Adaptational Gender Identity: Both Hunter and Luz are taking testosterone injections, the former because he's trans and the latter to alleviate dysphoria.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Belos is pretty sick of Kikimora murdering his other subordinates but since the Emperor's Coven is a mess after Lilith's defection, he's unable to fire her without adding to the instability.
- Crazy-Prepared: Hunter's survival training shines through his insistence on bringing a medkit on the roadtrip in spite of Luz pointing the Human realm is less horrendously hazardous than the Boiling Isles, and his experience in turning a metal water bottle in a weapon.
- Does Not Like Spam: Hunter heavily mistrusts anything with sugar since Raine's attempt at being nice by offering him chocolate only caused him to be violently sick for two days. Luz is aghast.
- Everyone Has Standards: Luz is very much horrified by Flapjack stealing somebody's testosterone. Yes it was to relieve her and Hunter's dysphoria but that's still mean and a crime!
- Fire-Forged Friends: Hunter finally becomes able to wield Flapjack in their staff shape and understand the bird's language when he's fighting a creepy trucker who hurled a homophobic slur too much.
- Fish out of Water: Hunter doesn't know anything about modern-era humans. That's how Luz manages to forge a truce with him — he cannot exactly go back to the Boiling Isles on his own, he needs a guide and like it or not, Luz is the only one available to him.
- Heteronormative Crusader: The creepy trucker who offers Luz and Hunter a ride in his car quickly starts spewing abuse towards gay people. Hunter refuses to take it lying down.
- Hypocrite: Luz complains Hunter's wardrobe is boring since he only wears yellow and white tones, leading him to fire back that he never saw her dressed in anything but purple.
- Lighter and Softer: The authors had to reassure the readership that this iteration of Earth is much less inclined to hate crimes when a few people got nervous about Hunter dressing in a skirt, in the middle of Texas.
- Missing Child: Back in the Boiling Isles, Eda and King start to worry when they doesn't see Luz home, and then they hear about a blimp crashing down...
- One-Steve Limit: Averted — one of the tags is that there's going to be several other guys named Hunter, to the Golden Guard's unending displeasure.
- Place Worse Than Death: Luz's opinion of Texas. She nonetheless comforts herself with the knowledge it's not Florida.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Hunter lets slip his uncle has already visited the Human realm, Luz wonders if the Golden Guard's family might be linked to Philip Wittebane. They are, but not because they are his descendants — the logical conclusion.
- Shout-Out: Hunter wearing an Angry Bird hoodie. On one hand, it very much looks like Flapjack and Hunter still is terrified by wild magic and palismen, on the other, it's very comfy.
- Spotting the Thread: After picking Jesus band-aids, Hunter admits he actually knows who Jesus is since he read his uncle's Bible. Luz immediately gets suspicious as a Bible is a human, Catholic artefact, and learning the Emperor's Coven has Sunday service doesn't help.
- Suck E. Cheese's: When she first wakes up under a Mc Donald's table, Luz assumes she died and is in Hell. The unfortunate employee stumbling upon the two dimension travelers very much agrees that working there is Hell.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Hunter and Luz very much loath being stuck together, but have no other choice if they want to find a portal back to the Boiling Isles.
- They Would Cut You Up: Luz frets about the government picking Hunter up to be experimented because the pink eyes and pointy ears and golden fantasy armor are obviously not human, so part of the shopping trip at Target is picking a less noticeable wardrobe to disguise the witch.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Hunter is rather alright with the prospect of wearing a skirt. He objects to the one Luz picks for him because it's too glittery and lacking in pockets for his tastes.
