#talked lots about swshbts in this one

[thunderpetal]

For the ask game!! 🥺🤡🛒

🥺 - Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

Romantically, I enjoy writing the small moments between two people in love. Dialogue is my biggest writing strength, and with my Owl House fics I've enjoyed writing Luz and Amity's back and forth banter the most. I also really like writing forehead kisses. They're great

Platonically/in general, I'm always gonna be a sucker for two characters having a deep/late night conversation where they're raw and honest and learn new things about each other. I feel like I should really write more action and fighting LU fics but I just love making the boys sit down and talk about themselves. So far I've written 2 LU fics about dealing with grief, and 2 about exploring your gender, so I suppose those are common interactions I like exploring too.

🤡 - What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

This is from SWSHBTS. The context is that the squad are cooking Luz's favourite meal for her, and Luz has just found out they are. This is pretty late into the fic, like chapter ten.

Then, Luz pushes back Amity’s hair and gently kisses Amity’s forehead, and she feels more than a few of her inner processes shutting down. “Thank you,” Luz whispers.

“It wasn’t all me,” Amity replies bashfully. “Gus and Hunter helped too.”

“Do you want me to give them forehead kisses as well?” Luz asks, with scepticism in her voice.

“What? No!” 

“Then let me compliment my pretty girlfriend in peace,” Luz replies, before placing another kiss on Amity’s head, this time with more gusto.

“Stop distracting our workers,” Hunter tells her.

“Alright, alright, jeez!” Luz complains, releasing Amity from her hug. “Running the Noceda kitchen like the damn Navy,” she mutters under her breath, and Camila laughs again.

This was the first funny moment that sprung to mind, I have some good ones in my LU fics, but for SWSHBTS specifically, this is probably the only straight up humourous moment in the entire thing. Don't worry, I'm making good on my promise of fluff amidst the angst, I swear, but humour is different to fluff.

🛒 - What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

I'm a right slag for golden/sun imagery. It's gonna become a big recurring motif in SWSHBTS. I also used it in my first ever fic, A Celebration of You, but I haven't reread that one in a while so I can't remember how hard I went on it.

As I said before most my fics are just two characters talking. Normally in nature so I can get some lovely nature imagery in too. Thematically, my fics and ideas are quite often sprung from canon, and imagining what happens between canon events. I also really like exploring LGBTQ themes and identities in my fics, cause, *points at myself*. I don't wanna spoil too much about SWSHBTS, but dealing with trauma and healthy communication are its biggest themes.

Thanks for the ask <33

[thunderpetal]

YAY anon asks!! Anyway I would love for you to answer hmmm 19, 29, 32, 33, and hehe 37 please. :3 (feel free to omit any of them, I choose violence by choosing not to choose but you don't have to!) <3

Still can't believe I never realised I have anon asks off when I've been on here since like December. ANYWAY,

19 - Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?

I don't know. I get inspired by lots of things. Music being one of them - I come up with a 'what if every character played an instrument' AU for every fandom I've in, even though most of them never see the light of day. I'm also inspired by songs from time to time, but not as often as other writers, I don't think?

My family also visits Italy every year, and I always get sooo many writing ideas when we're there, it's ridiculous. I think just being in a wildly different place to miserable England shakes up my brain enough that plot bunnies start falling out left right and centre.

29 - If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

Ooh, this is an interesting question. I went through my recced bookmarks on AO3, aka my absolute fave fics collection. In the end I only found one I would want to add to, since most of them ended in the perfect place. But Kids Protecting Kids by quirkle is a fic that's really stuck with me (everyone should read it), and I would want to write a little mini sequel after Wild wakes up where him and Legend just get to have a little chat and breathe out. together. Just another dollop of comfort atop the hurt/comfort.

33 - How do you feel about crack?

I love crack! And honestly I don't write enough of it nowadays. I'm really good at dialogue so crack used to be my forte, I wrote lots of silly fics back in the day. Now I've moved onto more serious horizons, I suppose, but writing serious fics is still kind of a struggle for me. I miss writing crack. My closest fic to actual crack is probably Five Teaspoons, but that probably counts as more just general humour.

37 - Talk about your current wips.

Oh, you've unleashed a monster by asking me this!!

Someday We'll Stand Here By The Sun (TOH, ongoing) - My magnum opus tbh. It's like 80% written rn, and I'm able to keep up a weekly updating schedule on AO3 because of that. But it's still far from done! Anyway, after S2 finished I was full of post King's Tide ideas, and most of them have made their home in this big multichapter. The main plot is the story of Luz, Amity and their trauma /lh. I have so much brainrot for them and their relationship, and S2B builds on their mutual confession so well. As we know there are two episodes in which Luz shows the same character flaw - hiding things from Amity/her loved ones due to a belief that her problems aren't as important as theirs, and wanting to protect other people's feelings. The fact that Luz doesn't seem to grow out of this flaw despite 2 EPISODES focused on it says to me that it's 100% something ingrained in her that isn't going away anytime soon. But I'll stop before I write a whole Luz character essay.

Point is, with the whole 'helping' Belos thing, Luz totally blames herself for the Draining Spell and is gonna spiral post S2, feeling like she has to get back to the Isles asap and fix all her mistakes, and MAYBE that will make up for how much of a horrible human being she thinks she is. So why did I choose to write from Amity's POV, when I started writing this to explore Luz's emotions? Well, at first I was worried about SWSHBTS being a 'Amity is Luz's therapist' fic, but Amity has so many issues herself that that was not a problem lmao. And I deliberated on doing alternate POVs - even made a pros and cons list - but in the end I went with Amity's POV only because she has a lot of things to say! (But there may be a chapter of Luz's POV... you'll just have to see)

I just love this fic so much, it is my baby, and uploading it is kinda the highlight of my week rn. There is so much in future chapters that I am excited for the world to see. Also, when I started writing it, it was out of motivation to make more Lumity Post King's Tide angst, cause there REALLY wasn't enough, but there have been many more fics in that genre uploaded since I began, and I inhale each one like they're my life force. Cause they kind of are. WOW that was a lot of words too bad I'm about to infodump about another 2 wips

Untitled Music AU (TOH, unwritten) - So I said that I come up with a 'what if every character played an instrument' AU for every fandom I'm in, and TOH is no exception. This was going to be a silly oneshot and now it's expanded into a whole multichapter universe that mostly exists only inside my brain. When I have the time to actually write it, it'll be great I'm sure lmao

But essentially Amity plays clarinet, Luz plays oboe, and they're put in the same woodwind quartet by Raine, their teacher at Hexside. This leads to them starting to become friends, but as they do, Amity starts seeing certain weird/supernatural things around school. (This is a human/no magic AU, to clarify). She thinks she's just going crazy, but she decides to confide in Luz. Luz is of course overjoyed to learn there's a potential mystery to be discovered in their school, and immediately joins Amity in playing detective. Yes I want there to be mystery in this AU, but I really have not worked out the finer details yet.

Other character roles include - Raine as Head Of Music. Lilith as their second in command in the music department - but she was also Amity's clarinet teacher until Amity was like nine/ten. One day, she suddenly dropped all of her private students and joined Hexside as a teacher instead. Why? Who knowsss! (You'll find out I promise). Eda runs the wackiest corner shop that sells Everything You'll Ever Need, and Luz is her employee and also her only oboe student. She's a longtime family friend of Camila, too. She took in Hunter, who plays bassoon, and Luz still considers Hunter her brother in this AU. Willow plays flute. She and Amity have a similar arc to canon, but it plays out a bit differently in this. And - this is my fav part - Blight Industries is a well-known company, and engage in copious amounts of rainbow capitalism every year. Meanwhile the Blight kids still genuinely have no idea if Odalia is homophobic or not.

And last but not least - the LU multichapter where Time dies and Twilight picks up the ocarina to go back in time and save his life (working title). But Time keeps dying, so Twilight keeps using the ocarina, and before he knows it he's in a Majora's Mask nightmare scenario of his own. This is one I was planning to write this summer before SWSHBTS came in and demanded attention. Lots of attention. So, I'm planning to get to this when SWSHBTS is done. I'm just so excited to write it - it's really going to push me as a writer, but I'm ready for that challenge if it means i can provide juicy Twi angst. The poor lad. I'm really going to put him through the wringer. And Time too, considering he's gonna die many times in the fic, but that's kind of just the plot.

This question really enabled me, so I'm impressed if you actually read all of this. But thanks for sending this ask in, anon!