Luz's Crimes
is a The Owl House fanfic, set during the gap in-between "King's Tide" and "Thanks to Them", detailing the felonies Luz and the Hexsquad commit while trying to make a living on Earth, usually using Jacob as a scapegoat.
- Accidental Murder: In Chapter 23, Camila serves six gang members a homemade brew from Willow that is passed off as a knockout drug. While it helps witches sleep, its key ingredient is the Ricin poison, so the gang members die from drinking it.
- Adaptation Expansion: The fic explores what the Hexsquad has been up to during the Time Skip set within the Good-Times Montage in "Thanks to Them".
- Butt-Monkey: Jacob definitely qualifies here, the trope even being referenced by name in his first appearance in the story. Said chapter has Luz replace his wallet with a live squirrel, which promptly bites his finger, and he ends up slapping a cop in a desperate attempt to get it off before realizing that it's already gone, accidentally pepper-sprays himself in a panic once he realizes that, then gets recorded ranting at Luz when she goes to return his wallet. Which ends up getting recorded and posted online, with Hunter's actions in the vicinity putting him under further police scrutiny.
- Crazy-Prepared: After Luz finishes listing off all her crimes to Camila, she explains that despite having enough money to allow Camila to retire, she's not continuing the crimes to pay the bills; it's because she fears the Hexsquad may be stuck in the Human Realm for good and she wants to be sure they have the funds and necessary documentation to live on Earth, along with practicing back alley medicine so she can treat their injuries without taking them to a doctor.
- Disposing of a Body: After giving a bunch of goons that showed up at the clinic to make threats something Willow made that turned out to be Ricin, Camila and Masha have to get the help of the others to deal with the bodies.
- Exact Words: Subverted. When a group of criminals threatens Camila and Masha about not providing medical aid to a gang Luz works with, Camila slips them something that Willow told her would 'take care of any troublemakers that come in', with Camila assuming that it's merely a knockout drug, but they end up dead. It's later confirmed that Willow gave her Ricin, which to witches is merely a sleep aid instead of the highly deadly poison it is to humans.
- Fake Weakness: When posing as Jacob in an underground fight club, Willow pretends to have a peanut allergy, so that when Ottilie tries to take advantage of it, she lets her guard down and Willow is able to pummel her good, winning the match.
- Hidden Depths: Luz learned how to make hard alchoholic drinks through Eda's potion making lessons. Camila is not pleased with this.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling:
- When Camila makes it clear she'll have words with Eda for teaching her daughter how to make alcoholic drinks, Eda gets the feeling that she's going to be brutally murdered.
- After Amity reveals that her knowledge of money laundering comes from Odalia's illegal weapons sales, Camila decides to add "murder Odalia" to the approved crimes list. Odalia panics from the wave of hatred and malice that follows.
- Named by the Adaptation: The blonde cheerleader with the pink streak in her hair from the first episode is known as Carla Black.
- Nerds Are Sexy: When Camila suggests using a book store to launder money, Amity goes on a long, detailed tangent about why that wouldn't work. When she's finished, Luz openly says it was hot and blushingly explains to her family that she loves how adorable Amity is when she gets nerdy.
- Noodle Incident: In the first chapter, Luz mentions that Vee's cover story is that she's Luz's half-sister as a result of an incident during Camila and Manny's honeymoon that had them wake up in a hotel room with three other people and a llama wearing clown makeup and a wig. Camila's reaction makes it clear that the incident actually happened.
- Perfect Poison: Done accidentally, as Willow finds out the hard way that while Ricin is merely a sleep aid to witches, it's incredibly toxic to humans. Camila gives some goons threatening her and Masha some that Willow prepared for her thinking it'll knock them out, only for it to kill them instead.
- Point of Divergence: Unlike in "Thanks to Them", Masha is aware of Vee's true identity and accepted who she is, which factors into them dating. It also allows Masha to become a confidant to the Hexsquad.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Ottilie Black not only discriminates against the homeless, trying to force her daughter to break up with her lower-class boyfriend or she'll frame him for drug possession, she's incredibly homophobic, having sent her own son to conversion camp, acting like being gay is a disease and seemingly genuinely thinking that anyone who's gay must want not to be. Amity was already going to beat her up (due to bother actions and because she looks like Odalia's human doppelganger) before the latter comes up, but afterwards she takes great pleasure in breaking every bone in her body and dosing her with drugs to ruin her career.
- The Scapegoat: The kids take to using Jacob Hopkins as one, usually by having Gus use his illusions to make one of them look like him when out doing their illegal activities.
- Shout-Out: The story's premise as a whole was inspired by the MoringMark comic "Don't Do This at Home", with nods to "Eda Taught Her Well".
- Chapter 17 would later be based off of "Basilisk", the comic where the kids sell plushies of Vee to kids at Luz's school.
- Chapter 22 has nods to "Don't Try This at Home" with the Nocedas trying to figure out a way to launder their extra money and the suggestion of using a book store is thrown on the table.
- Chapter 23 is entirely based off of "Body", where the Hexsquad has to help dispose of dead bodies after Camila and Masha accidentally kills a couple of gang members.
- Chapter 17 would later be based off of "Basilisk
- So Proud of You: When Luz uses Eda's teachings to steal Jacob's wallet and replace it with a live squirrel, Eda feels a sudden surge of pride in her surrogate daughter.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted in Chapter 24. Due to the Accidental Murders, the mob boss offers therapy to the kids and Camila jumps at the opportunity. Luz tries to back out of it, but Amity talks her into it since the others would worry about her if she didn't talk about her problems.
- You Are Grounded!: After hearing out why Luz is committing several crimes and coming to a compromise for them, Camila grounds her for the rest of the day and the weekend.
