YMMV / The Raven & the Owlet

• Adorkable: For a woman who's spent the entire fic being either dignified, maternal, pissed off, or in tears, seeing Lilith Squee and jump in place from excitement over getting a fine quill and a couple bottles of special brand ink is extremely endearing.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • After managing to be even more despicable in the show, it's immensely satisfying to see Tibbles get his comeuppance when Lilith kills him.
  • With all the constant teasing Willow put Luz through over her crush on Amity on top of telling Emira about the bet regarding Luz's confessing her feelings, her and everyone else who took part in it having to uphold their end of the loss mere moments after Hooty submerged himself and the Owl House in filth despite Luz forgiving them is karma in every sense.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Lilith, like in the show, has some signs of being autistic, such as an aversion to loud and crowded places and a hyperfixated interest in certain obscure fields, like ink or historical architecture.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Chapter 8 sets up the fact that Luz needs to go to the Human Realm to charge her phone, and how hesitant she was to do it with Lilith around initially. A few months after the chapter was published, "Reaching Out" would reveal that Luz has a way to charge her phone in the Demon Realm by plugging it into a jar full of electric insects.
  • Chapter 22 reveals that Boscha's resentment of Luz is caused by Amity having left Boscha for Luz, and the author states in chapter 24 that Boscha, Luz, and Amity will end up in a romantic relationship. "For the Future" reveals that Boscha does indeed miss Amity and wants her back, in a way that is heavily reminiscent of a former lover trying to get back with their ex.
• Nightmare Fuel
  • Luz's situation in the fic; Immediately after her mother figure is killed protecting her, the person who killed her moves in and more or less takes over her role in Luz's life. Her worrying that Lilith plans on killing her is rather understandable all things considered.
  • The Topiary Guardian of the Emperor's coven; A savage beast with razor-sharp claws, covered in plant growths that can absorb the properties of plants around it. It regenerates any damage and can phase through solid objects, and Luz is so terrified of it that she's reduced to running in terror, too panicked to even use her glyphs. By the time Willow takes it down, it has given Gus a gash across his arm and dug its claws into Luz's back.
    • It's later mentioned that if Luz's injuries were a little bit deeper, she would've been paralyzed.
  • In the show, the demon hunters' casual approach to child murder is played for laughs. Not so much here, as the fic shows clearly how terrifying and traumatizing it is for three children to be at the mercy of adults who plans to kill them. To start, they impale Willow with crossbow bolts, and their leader makes it clear that they will kill them, and nothing Luz says can stop them. They will wait for Gus to exhaust his invisibility spell then snipe them down from afar, and for Luz to die or surrender out of thirst.
  • While interrogating him on where Luz is, Lilith threatens to squeeze Tibbles to death using stone construct arms, and when he points out that she needs him alive, she adds that she will grind his bones into dust, then heal him and do it again until he relents. Once she has the information she needs, she smiles sadistically and orders her abomination to do just that.
    "Abomination, kill."
  • The Phoenix Bloom's true nature, according to Lilith. It does not resurrected the dead, but instead vampirically drains the life from everything around it, leaving all living things withered, including itself! Before it dies of autocannibalism, it shoots off seedpods with enough force to kill living beings, which then grows into new phoenix blooms and repeat the cycle. If even a single seed escaped containment, the plant would spread like wildfire across the isles, killing anything in its path. It took the entire Emperor's Coven to just contain it, and Luz was nearly tricked into releasing it.
  • When Lilith loses her temper in chapter 14, it leads to Luz realizing that Lilith has never been a prisoner of the Owl House; If she wanted to, she could kill them all easily, and despite having grown to care for her, Luz is still terrified of her.