The Multiverse is in danger from a powerful interdimensional threat, so two beings older than space and time summon two heroes to save it from this powerful threat. Will they be able to save the multiverse, or will it be destroyed?
Multiverse Madness is a Crossover Fic based around The Owl House co-written by Jss2141
(writer of Luz Noceda, The Fighter) and Mr. Hardcor3 (known writer of multiple Owl House stories, such as The Phoenix), and focuses on both of those versions of Luz teaming up to stop a masked villainess from killing variants of them in order to conquer the multiverse. Each dimension visited is based off a series or one-shot story written by both writers, as listed down below:
List of Stories and One-Shots
The story can be found here on Archive of Our Own and here on Fanfiction.net. For a time, the story served as a Story Arc within Luz Noceda, the Fighter.
Spoilers from established stories, including completed ones, will be unmarked. You've been warned!
Multiverse Madness contains the following multiversal examples:
- Adaptational Badass: Every Luz has their own unique skillset to define themselves. Whether it's fighting styles, natural magic, or weapon mastery, they can stand their own ground in a fight.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- Several Luz's have different relationships with different characters, some of which weren't formed in their original stories:
- Scarred Luz developed a relationship with Skara, a contrast to the two never interacting in canon. Some dimensions also have them be half-sisters due to Raine being the parent of one of them.
- Since Amity is Blacksmith Luz's sister in her world, Boscha is that Luz's girlfriend. In Wing Luz's dimension, they're sister-in-laws.
- Cat in the Future Dimension/Dimension M-27 is Luz and Amity's daughter, Catrina Noceda.
- Several Luz's have different relationships with different characters, some of which weren't formed in their original stories:
- Age Lift: Inverted. Angry Luz was 18 in her one-shot; in this story, she's two years younger.
- Alliance of Alternates: The story revolves around Fighter Luz teaming up with Phoenix Luz in order to help save The Multiverse from Athena by teaming up with other versions of Luz Noceda and her friends.
- Alternate Self: Besides Fighter Luz (a kickboxer skilled in glyph magic from Dimension K-510-20) and Phoenix Luz (a girl with the powers of a phoenix god from Dimension C7-5), there's several variants of Luz Noceda along with her friends and family.
- Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: Because of Athena damaging her right leg to the point of shattering the bones within, Fighter Luz has to have a metal rod placed in it with Blacksmith Luz's Camila merging the rod with the broken bones to create a new bone so she can use it. This makes her leg far stronger than it used to be.
- Babies Ever After: In Wing Luz's dimension, Boscha turns out to be pregnant with Skara's child, making it all the more imperative that Boscha doesn't go with her family, Fighter, and Phoenix to rescue Skara from Athena.
- Badass Family: Blacksmith Luz's family consists of Eda, Camila (who's a witch), Raine, Odalia, Amity, Edric, Emira, and Skara, all of whom are powerful witches. Add in Blacksmith, who's a Badass Normal with enhanced abilities and sword fighting skills, and they're truly one of these.
- Badass Normal:
- Fighter Luz has already shown herself to be this, able to fight without her gloves. She takes another level in badass when she has a metal rod put in her right leg, making it even stronger.
- Between her 230 IQ, Super-Strength, and diverse weapons expertise and usage, Hardcore Luz is one of the toughest Luz's, even coming the closest to defeating Athena single-handedly when Fighter, Phoenix and every ally they make barely last long against her.
- Berserk Button: Athena becomes highly enraged whenever someone calls her a worse version of Belos, as she doesn't see how her actions would be worse than the man who successfully wiped out all of witchkind in her dimension. She also involes this by pressing those of a few Luz's, usually by picking at their insecurities.
- Big Bad: Athena, a tyrannical emperor from another world, sets out to conquer the multiverse by building an army and capturing or killing any Luz or those she loves in any and every dimension.
- Big Good: Equilibrar and Orden, two sibling Watchers, protect the multiverse and call upon Fighter and Phoenix Luz to help them fight against Athena, supplying them with fire-resistant suits that'll aid them in tracking Athena across dimensions.
- Break the Cutie: While in Palisman Luz's dimension, Athena traps Fighter, Phoenix, and that dimension's versions of Luz, Amity, Willow, Gus, Lilith, Boscha, and Skara in the Void and forces them to endlessly experience their deepest fears. By the time Hunter gets Athena to open the portal releasing them, everybody's shedding Broken Tears with Fighter giving off a Thousand-Yard Stare.
- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Being a sadist who would hurt children, Athena uses an ax made of the strongest metals in her dimension in combat.
- The Cameo: Amity of Fighter Luz's dimension and Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf from Phoenix's appear in the first chapter where they witness their respective Luz disappear into thin air.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Athena has no issues showing off how far she can go with hurting Luz and her loved ones, even admitting that after the Day of Unity, she came to like being the villain because she believes heroes don't live long.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Monado Luz and Boscha from the G1-Yph Dimension are heroes who talk about their kinks so casually and rope their girlfriend Amity into it, freaking out Fighter and Phoenix that any Luz could grow up to be like that.
- Cuteness Proximity: Abomination (Hardcore Luz's Amity), in response to seeing Fighter Luz, envelops her in a hug.Abomination: Luz... you never told me you were this cute as a kid!
- Dark and Troubled Past:
- In Dimension B-4t (Palisman Luz's dimension), Luz had been captured by the Emperor's Coven and subjected to many things, including Prison Rape, in an effort by Belos to break her spirit. Boscha, on the other hand, was nearly Eaten Alive by Belos while fused with Maya so he could consume their palisman essence.
- Athena mentions that in her dimension, the Day of Unity was successful and Belos wiped out witchkind while she was Forced to Watch unable to stop him. As a result, Athena descended into villainy and killed him, though it becomes a Freudian Excuse due to her plans for the multiverse.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: In most of the dimensions Fighter and Phoenix visit, Belos has usually already been killed off for his crimes against the inhabitants of the Demon Realm. Athena later reveals that several characters in her dimension have been murdered by her, including that dimension's version of Luz.
- Desecrating the Dead: Athena has no problem using her Camila's skeleton as a reanimated puppet weapon against Fighter, Phoenix, and Avatar Luz since she knows how much she means to them.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Athena honestly feels sorry that Blacksmith Luz has Odalia for a mother, but Blacksmith is proud of that since her Odalia's nice. She also has the decency to at least pay her respects to Avatar Luz's Eda, since her own Eda was petrified.
- As much as Phoenix hates any Lilith from every dimension, she does feel bad that Monado Luz's Lilith is dead.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Athena tries to break Monado Luz by showing her illusions of Eda, King, Hooty, and Lilith as burnt corpses who keep telling her she should've died instead of them. Having come to accept her failure, Luz announces her peace with it, much to Athena's angered confusion.
- The Ghost: Caine, the Big Bad of Avatar Luz, is mentioned by the inhabitants of that dimension as Eda's murderer, the man who cursed Amity, and Hunter's father.
- Groin Attack:
- In Mr. Hardcore's dimension, Phoenix hits Cardinal (Hunter) square in the nuts during their first fight.
- A female variant occurs in Gladiator/Angry Luz's dimension, in which said Luz subjects Athena to one. Given what she's done so far (in particular what she did to their variants and their friends in the last three dimensions), Fighter and Phoenix agree she had it coming.
- Hand on Womb: This is how Wing Luz learns that Boscha is pregnant with Skara's baby.
- Immediate Sequel: Chapter 4 picks up on Athena's arrival in Wing Luz's dimension at the end of the Birds of a Feather sequel, Flock Togethernote .
- Interquel:
- The story serves as a Story Arc set between Chapters 28 & 29 of Luz Noceda, the Fighter.
- Chapter 14 occurs midway through the 10-year gap between the events of Glyph Monado and its sequel.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Odalia and Alador from Abomination Luz's dimension were arrested for turning Luz into an abomination and destroying her original heart.
- Leitmotif: Each Luz has their own theme music, as listed under each description.
- Light 'em Up: Played With by Phoenix while in the Ele-m3nt4l dimension, where she learns and uses Blessed Fire, a white-hot fire that is the second strongest magic against shadow magic, which she is able to weaken Athena with substantially.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Since Fighter Luz hadn't experienced the events of "Hunting Palismen" just yet and Phoenix never went through any events from Season 2 except for "Escaping Expulsion", neither one of them know Hunter's the Golden Guard and aren't able to learn his identity during this time.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: In Blacksmith Luz's dimension, Luz, Amity, Edric, Emira, and Skara are all siblings to their three mothers and Raine.
- Meaningful Appearance:
- Each Luz has a unique appearance to differentiate them from each other, which are listed in the synopsis of each chapter. The only exception is Key Luz, who wears her canonical outfit.
- Avatar Luz's Amity has an alternate appearance to reflect the demon side she's come to embrace, now having pale gray skin, multiple demon eyes, and fiery greenish red hair in her original style.
- Meaningful Gift: Athena leaves a black rose (which is symbolic of hatred, death, or rebirth) on the grave of Avatar Luz's Eda, a nod to how far she's fallen.
- The Multiverse: It's in the name, after all. The story revolves around Athena attempting to conquer it all after taking over her own dimension, hence why the two alternate Luz's are brought in to stop her.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Phoenix Luz refuses to trust or even like any dimensional counterpart of Lilith because of her hatred for her own Lilith, who not only killed her twice but helped Belos instigate "Titan's Wrath", a catastrophe that nearly ended all life on the Boiling Isles. This hatred is what ends up preventing her from unlocking her "Thunderbird" form.
- Out-of-Character Alert: After seeing Scarred Luz together with Skara, Fighter and Phoenix both agree they must be in an alternate universe if there's a Luz who isn't dating Amity.
- Polyamory: Some dimensions have such couples. Blacksmith Luz's dimension has Eda, Camila, Raine, and Odalia; in Palisman Luz's dimension, Willow, Boscha, and Skara are in an open polyship with Willow also dating Hunter and Skara dating Cat. Monado Luz is married to her Amity and Boscha, and Immortal Gus is dating Boscha and Bria.
- Prison Rape: Palisman Luz reveals to Fighter that she had suffered from this at the hands of coven guards while she was imprisoned in the Conformatorium, never telling her loved ones what she experienced because she doesn't want to relive it.
- Psychological Torment Zone: The Void. Said to be the dimensional version of Grometheus the Fear Bringer, it forces its prisoners to relive their greatest fears on loop until they're brought out of that dimension. Athena traps Fighter, Phoenix, Palisman Luz and her friends in it until she gets what she wants from the latter's dimension.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Athena's armor is black and red, and she's the main antagonist from a world of dark magic. It's inverted for Fighter and Phoenix Luz's outfits, making them qualify for Red Is Heroic and Dark Is Not Evil.
- Related in the Adaptation: As per typical of some of Mr. Hardcor3's stories, Skara is Raine's daughter in some dimensions.
- Secret Test of Character: Avatar Luz believes that Phoenix will never achieve the "Thunderbird" form or control lightning unless she lets go of her hatred towards her Lilith, who previously wronged her.
- Share the Male Pain: Gender-Inverted; Fighter and Phoenix wince when Angry Luz kicks Athena in the crotch, but it's downplayed as they chuckle at the pain she takes from the low blow.
- The Un-Reveal: The Amazons doesn't reveal why Angry Luz had a falling out with everyone in her world, and it still isn't revealed in the chapter where she appears.
