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3laxx · 2 years

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Between Rings and Flowers

She’d marry Amity anywhere and anytime. At 3 am in an alley, rats running between their feet and a dumpster fire in the background included. Though, she would much prefer the backyard of the Owl House decorated with flowers from the Human Realm and with all her friends and family. --- Amity and Luz are getting married! Lots of shenanigans ensue and their big day promises to be memorable when Luz decides to make the slightest changes to their program.

Hey guys!

I decided to write some fluffy goodness so I can get back from all the angst I've written until now xD Okay, Noble Pursuit is pretty fluffy, still, but it's also to counter the mean canon rn <em>wheeze</em> I'm still working on Noble Pursuit and Built to Last, not to worry! And I'll be writing the aus I've been promising with the last chapter I uploaded, so be looking out for updates from my account! Have a great day or night, whenever you are and read you soon again! I'm thrilled over every single comment I receive! <3

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There were many easy things about marrying.

Especially if you had a fiancé who was very good at organizing and a family backing you up. Yes, for Luz, it had been very easy to prepare for this wedding. She had gone along with Amity to choose a location, decorations, the color scheme for their wedding, the bridesmaids and the other bridesmaids, and it had gone smoothly.

Amity had gone dress shopping with Willow, Boscha, and Emira while Luz had been out getting fitted suits with Gus, Hunter, and Edric. They had made sure the cake was ordered and that they’d practice dancing and that dinner would be ready and to have the schedule figured out and that everything around the evening would be running smoothly.

For Luz it had honestly just been a few months of shopping, cake tasting, having a lot of fun at dance lessons, and making sure Amity wouldn’t stress too much.

Before she had thought about any kind of commitment, she hadn’t cared what color the napkins were or where the location should be, or whether to offer bottled drinks or go all the way and hire a bartender.

She still hadn’t cared up until she had put that ring on Amity’s finger and thus, started the wedding planning. But Amity cared and with that, Luz had felt the strong urge to back her soon-to-be wife up in every aspect of wedding planning there was. Even if that sometimes meant giving an answer she didn’t care for just so Amity wouldn’t have to stress over deciding on her own.

Questions like, would they marry in the morning or afternoon?

Amity had stressed about listing the pros and cons of both options so much that Luz had just decided on having a ceremony in the afternoon so Amity could start planning around her choice. Even if it didn’t matter to her. She’d marry Amity anywhere and anytime. At 3 am in an alley, rats running between their feet and a dumpster fire in the background included.

Though, she would much prefer the backyard of the Owl House decorated with flowers from the Human Realm and with all her friends and family.

But the closer the wedding had come, and the more Luz had realized that this was actually happening, she had begun stressing. Not in the bad sense, of course. Luz would never stress about her wedding in a bad way!

Especially not when the feeling of nervousness settled in her stomach, or if her hands got clammy, or if she was looking at her fitted suit in the dresser that she had gotten together with Gus, Hunter, and Edric, knowing the next time she would be wearing this suit would be when she would be standing at the altar, waiting for Amity to be walked up the aisle. No, actually she didn’t know what her fiancé had planned for them or the ceremony. She thought she had said something about walking up the aisle together?

Oh god, Luz was gonna throw up.

She had forgotten what was going to happen.

No, she had not, she knew the plan. Why was it so warm in here?

She was just telling herself that she didn’t know anymore what the plan was when clearly, she knew Amity and her were gonna walk up the aisle to the altar together, where they would-… Where was her tie?!

Now frantically searching through the closet in her old room, Luz felt sweat beading on her forehead and her breath quickening. This was a disaster, she had misplaced the tie and-…

Wait, her suit didn’t have a tie.

Why was she so goddamn nervous all of a sudden?

Dropping on the bed to calm her nerves, Luz let out a big sigh and rubbed her face. She would be fine. There was going to be the ceremony, there was going to be a lot of joy today and she would not be panicking. This was not going to be ruined by this suddenly getting to her nerves.

Luz breathed for a while, thinking back to how much fun the preparations had been and how helpful everyone had been. Willow and her Mama had picked out and ordered flowers from the human realm, Edric and Emira had helped prepare the Owl House’s backyard together with Hooty and Eda, Gus had put together all the wedding gifts, and Boscha and her gang had made sure the buffet and the cake was ready by the time they needed it to be.

Even King had helped out, setting up the location with the twins, making sure every guest had their invitation, and helping calm Eda’s nerves.

Speaking of the devil, a commotion in front of her door made her look up and she quickly shook out her hands, standing up to open the door. All her siblings, Hunter, Vee, and King, were standing in front of the door, her brothers looking like they were just about to start a fight. Before she could comment on that, Vee stepped past them and smiled, leading her back inside.

“Hey, Luz! We just wanted to check up on you.”, she cheerily said and Luz was relieved to see both Hunter and King were following, closing the door.

“I’m good, thanks… Hey, I thought you wanted to go in your true form?”, she only now realized her sister was half transformed, looking similar to Luz herself just with blue eyes and her ears sticking out of the brown hair, sporting a few spots on the skin.

Vee chuckled and shrugged, patting her back as they sat down on the bed’s edge.

“Well, I figured I didn’t want to stand out too much. I’ve lived fifteen years in this form now, I’ve practically adopted it as my own now. And the human clothes are fancy, I wanted to wear them.”

Luz grinned as she recognized the dress Amity’s bridesmaids wore, just in another color than them.

“You could wear that in your basilisk form, too.”, she remarked but as long as Vee felt comfortable, she’d be happy with any form she chose. Her sister shrugged with a smile, then Hunter piped up.

“Hey, uhm-… Everyone arrived now. Do you wanna start yet, or…?”, he awkwardly stalled, patting his thighs, before blowing a raspberry.

“Are you impatient?”, Vee cheekily asked and Hunter pulled on the neckline of his suit.

“I just don’t get why Luz gets to wear an open collar and I have to wear a tie.”, he complained and Luz shrugged, pulling on her open collar to tease him.

“One, bride’s orders. Amity color coordinated you guys and I have a different outfit.”, she smugly replied to which Hunter merely rolled his eyes, “Second, she can’t resist my super sexy collar bones and wants these bad boys out for her to see.”

King rolled his eyes as Hunter made a gagging sound, then he softly shoved Luz’s shoulder.

“You just resisted wearing a tie.”, he laughed and Luz shrugged, grinning.

“You couldn’t make me wear a tie in a million years.”

Hunter merely huffed at that, then he crossed his arms.

“Anyway, get ready. We don’t have all day.”, he tactfully hurried and Luz gulped, nodding, before rubbing her palms together.

“Y-Yeah… I suppose…”, she mumbled, looking down.

Both Vee and King immediately picked up on that and King placed a claw on her shoulder, tilting his head.

“Hey, are you alright?”, he asked and Luz shrugged, “Getting cold feet?”

Immediately looking up, Luz shook her head. Almost indignantly, she got to her feet to level her youngest sibling with a look, even if he stood two heads taller than her.

“Not at all! I wanna marry Amity so bad! But-…”, sighing, she kicked at the floor, looking out to the window, “It’s such a big thing that we both worked towards… She did more than me, but still. It-… I don’t wanna mess up is all.”

Vee almost chuckled at that, shaking her head.

“You won’t mess up, Luz. And even if you did! Everyone out there is there for you two. We love you and totally understand if you’ve got the nerves.”, she reassured and Luz found that it helped a little bit. Everyone out there knew she was prone to chaos. And nobody would really mind if she messed up a little bit. She supposed it’d make for a few funny memories in all this official stuff.

“But-… What if Amity minds? She planned it all out, what if she is upset if I mess up?”, Luz now worried, chewing her lip and looking around her siblings.

“Amity is marrying you.”, Hunter now said, giving a careless shrug, “She should know the best how dorky you are. Messing up is part of her life now and besides, she’s just as nervous as you are.”

He received a light tap from Vee at that but chose to ignore his sister being unhappy with how he worded it.

Luz, on the other hand, lit up.

“Actually, you’re right. Amity knows I’m dorky.”, she giggled to herself, “Thanks, guys. You’re really helping me out here.”

King pulled her into a big hug, pulling Vee and Hunter in as well, then the siblings parted and Luz looked up to see Gus standing in the doorway.

“Hey Luz!”, he greeted, “Wanna come down already?”

She smiled and nodded at that, following him down to the waiting crowd that had collected in Eda’s living room. Her Mama was here, as well as Boscha’s gang, even if Boscha herself was missing. As were the twins. They were probably with Amity right now, to calm her nerves as well. Eda and Lilith were just coming out of the kitchen, bickering about something, and she could even spot Amity’s parents in a corner, not really fitting in with the rest of the crowd but still nodding to her when Odalia spotted her.

It hadn’t been easy to reconcile Amity with her parents after the battle around the day of unity, but Luz had insisted she at least hear them out. Turned out that had been just the right thing to do, because Amity had discussed everything that had built up with them, and had managed to tolerate them for a few months, before somewhat mending their relationship.

She hadn’t forgotten them, especially Odalia, for her childhood, but it was a start to talk honestly as adults. In a quiet moment, Amity had confessed to Luz that she felt like her parents had only really begun understanding her when she had grown up to be an adult.

When she had decided to invite them to their wedding, it had come as a surprise for Luz, but not an unpleasant one. As much as they had done wrong before the battle, they had made up for a lot in the aftermath and had shown they were willing to work on themselves.

But for now, there was no time to dwell on her memories. Luz went around and greeted everyone, getting pats on her shoulder and heartfelt hugs from the people she was close to. Amity and she had decided not to make some sort of big reveal or to have their guests situated on their seats before the ceremony, but instead to start off with a relaxed greeting time, not to be too nervous. The more Luz talked to all her family and friends, the more relaxed she felt.

Now, the only ones missing were the other bride, her siblings, and Boscha.

And Willow, Luz noticed. She hadn’t seen her friend yet. Since Willow was Amity’s first bridesmaid, she was probably needed right now.

Finally, Boscha came back into the living room and after she let her eyes roam around for a second, she met Luz’s. With a nod, she motioned for her to follow and Luz did so, outside into the hallway to talk in relative peace.

“Okay, so, Amity’s really nervous, you know her.”, Boscha rolled her eyes and Luz chuckled, before nodding, “She wants to talk to you really quick.”

Luz shrugged and nodded, already on her way to open Lilith’s study, the room they had dedicated as Amity’s changing room for the evening before Boscha stopped her.

“Wow, hold on a second, lovebird. She doesn’t want you to see her.”, she said and Luz groaned.

“Seriously? I thought we agreed on no ridiculous- Amity?”, she called through the door, and on the other end, she heard scrambling before something smaller but definitely bulkier than she smashed against the door. A moment later, she heard Willow’s voice.

“Luz!”, she said and Luz faintly heard Amity whispering something to her, before she spoke up again, “Can you put on a blindfold? Amity wants you to-…”

Grumbling, Luz felt Boscha tapping her shoulder and indeed handing her a piece of cloth that Luz recognized as a tie before she turned back to the door.

“Aw, come on. I already saw the dress, Amity!”, she called but the door stayed shut so she gave in, “Fine! I’ll wear the-… Gimme.”

She took the tie from Boscha’s hands and just barely saw her smirking, still, before putting it on and tying a knot behind her head. She felt the door being opened and was welcomed into a room that usually smelled like books and comfortable cleanliness (something very unusual for the Owl House) but was now also accompanied by slight dust of perfume from everyone inside.

She was pushed in and Boscha followed her, closing the door behind her as she blindly felt around. Someone clasped her hands and she recognized them as Amity’s, immediately smiling. “Hey, what’s up?”, she tried to lighten the mood and her soon-to-be-wife stepped closer until she was leaning against her chest. With a big sigh, she slumped against Luz.

“… I just needed you near…”, she mumbled and she gave a chuckle, enveloping the smaller witch in a hug, pulling her in close.

“… Are you that nervous?”, she asked and Amity huffed, shaking her head.

“More like… Jittery. Not nervous. Today will go great, I’m just-… A lot of preparation leads up to this and I’m not sure what to think of this.”

Luz nodded in understanding, pressing a kiss to where she thought Amity’s hair was but feeling a veil under her lips.

“Yeah, I feel you… After months of planning for this one day, it feels… Overwhelming.”, she admitted and Amity nodded against her, her arms wrapping around her back and holding her close as well. Luz let her bask in the hug for a while before giggling.

“What’s with the tie, by the way? I already saw the dress and I thought we had agreed not to make it a big thing?”, she asked and felt Amity giggling as well now. She booked that as a win.

“Well, you never saw the dress on me.”, Amity argued now and Luz laughed at that, nodding.

“… ‘Suppose that’s right. Still. Do you want to make it a big reveal to everyone?”, she asked and Amity shook her head now, stepping out of the hug as she grabbed Luz’s hands again.

“No, only to you.”

Luz laughed, letting her fiancé play with her hands, before trying to get a peek under the tie, but someone clapped the back of her head. She supposed that was Emira.

“Alright then. You tell me when to take it off.”, she softly said and Amity gestured before she felt the same hand grabbing the knot on the back of her head being grabbed and pulling upwards, effectively uncovering her eyes. Luz blinked once or twice to shake off the blurriness, before looking down at her wife.

She stood taller than normal, her heels elevating her a little bit, and was looking every bit as gorgeous as Luz had dreamed her to be when she had seen the dress for the very first time.

The white dress was hugging Amity’s curves perfectly, the corset sitting on her waist highlighting her lean figure, while her skirt was falling a little more open, decorated with patterns of lace and flowers down to the hem. Atop her long lavender hair sat the veil that was falling past her shoulders down to the hem as well. Willow had even gone the extra mile and decorated the veil with a little flower crown and a few petals over her bare shoulders. Luz felt her jaw falling, before pulling her lips into a shy smile.

“… Wow…”, she breathed and Amity giggled, pulling herself closer to Luz’s hands, “You look gorgeous… I-… I don’t even know what to say…”

Amity laughed at that, pulling their hands together so she could free one, placing it on the side of Luz’s neck.

“You clean up quite nice yourself.”, she teased and Luz huffed indignantly as Amity played with the collar of her dress shirt.

“Excuse me, I expect no less than gorgeous about my outfit as well.”, she teased back and Amity laughed.

“Fine, you look gorgeous, too.”, she smirked, “Quite handsome.”

Luz gave a satisfied grin, but before they could lean in to share a kiss, Boscha pulled them apart and gagged.

“You two are insufferable. Also, the people want to greet you, too, Amity. And the ceremony should start soon. Chop chop, people, others still have plans for tonight!”, she called and Luz laughed at her friends' antics, shaking her head as Boscha pushed her out of the room.

“What kinda plans do you have for tonight other than the wedding?”, she questioned, to which Boscha gave her a quizzical, almost questioning look.

“Hello? There is a big bowl of apple juice with my name on it that won’t drink itself. Also, your mom brought some of that human stuff, anocohl, or something. So, get a move on! I’m impatient!”, she exclaimed and Luz knew Boscha was excited for them as well. She just didn’t want to show it and had to ridicule the situation to feel more comfortable. Honestly, she could feel with her.

Luz was shoved right into the crowd who were all turning their attention to her, expecting to see the other bride, but Luz merely lifted her hands.

“Sorry, guys! Amity will be out in a second!”, she smirked and some of their guests gave a small laugh before she leaned to her Mama and whispered.

“You brought alcohol?”, she asked and her mother nodded, so she chuckled, “Make sure to save me some. Also, don’t give anything to the pink-haired witch that just shoved me in here.”

Her mother assured her she would be keeping an eye on Boscha, just when a shout came down the hallway.

“I heard that, human!”

Luz gave a snort and was about to respond to that when a gasp went through the room and Amity appeared in the doorway. Once again, she felt her jaw falling but managed to step toward her fiancé and hold out her arm so she could present her to the wedding guests.

“I thought you didn’t want to make a big entrance out of this?”, Amity whispered to her when Luz put her hand over Amity’s that she had looped around her elbow, and Luz chuckled.

“It kind of just happened.”, she replied and Amity shot her an amused glance.

“Let’s hope it’s the last of your changes to our original plan.”, she commented, which involuntarily turned a switch in the young human she definitely knew Eda had raised her to have. Just the spark of mischievousness.

She was sure their guests wouldn’t mind some good-natured laughter tonight.

“It’ll definitely be the last.”, she replied and didn’t mean a word.

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Just to ask here again, which au would you find most interesting? - band au - actor au - bartender au

Hope you enjoyed and read you next time!

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yardsards · 1 year

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thinking of the Implications of the blight parents signing their 14 year old daughter up for emperor's coven tryouts

because

1: the emperor's coven takes their recruits away from their friends and family

2: they do not wait until you are an adult to do this

(like, even assuming the process from getting accepted into the coven to actually joining it and moving to the castle aren't as fast as hunter makes it sound here it's like.

we do see lilith having dinner at home after eda's been cursed. so it wasn't immediate (at least back then it wasn't)

but they weren't waiting til she was an adult either. cuz eda was 2 years younger than lilith (thus at least 2 years younger than whatever the boiling isles considers an adult, cuz we know lilith was still a student then too) and she and lilith planned on joining at the same time. there wasn't a "well, eda can't actually *join* join for two more years, so she might as well wait for next tryout anyway"

which, tryouts might not be *yearly*, perhaps it's more efficient to not have to run the training camp every year, but i don't imagine they'd be less often than every couple of years)

so this?

the blight parents are 100% willing to send their FOURTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD away *forever*

14 years old. not even done with puberty yet. half a head shorter than her siblings and a whole head shorter than her parents. face still covered in baby fat.

this is a child who is called *mittens* by not only her siblings but by the very parents who were willing to send her away

and they weren't just sending her off to live far-ish away and rarely see them again; they were sending her off to have a Real Grownup Job. even if exactly how bad working for the emperor is isn't a well-known fact, it's still obviously a full-time job.

odalia has wanted amity to join the emperor's coven for a long time. after all, having a daughter in the emperor's coven would bring a lot of prestige to the family, and she could maybe try to leverage amity's position to gain more power

and odalia can be an impatient woman, so it makes sense that she'd want this to happen as soon as possible. not to mention, she's canonically not averse to child labour

(i briefly considered that maybe odalia wanted amity out of her life but i don't think that's the case. odalia doesn't outright hate amity; odalia's cruelty comes from seeing her family as tools (and seeing amity as very useful but flawed) rather than malice)

meanwhile, alador explains his choice by saying he thought it was what amity wanted

and it's addressed that that's not really her dream (at least, it DEFINITELY isn't anymore. they way she used to "want" to join the emperor's coven is worthy of its own post tbh). and that if he paid attention to her, talked to her, listened to her, and made himself a person that she could comfortably admit these kinds of things to, then he'd know that.

but he also ignores her when she says she doesn't want to go to tryouts that night (even if she didn't admit that she never wants to join the emperor's coven at all) and wants to go to the bonesborough brawl instead.

doesn't stop to question why his daughter -who has previously shown herself to be rather studious, responsible, and goal-oriented- would suddenly want to "goof off". he just... assumes she's being irresponsible and thoughtlessly not pursuing "her dream" or "a bright future" for no reason, and just needs to be pushed into doing the supposedly responsible thing

but that doesn't quite explain why he's convinced that she needs to do this at *age fourteen*, why her future can't wait a few more years, why her dream needs to happen as soon as possible before her childhood's even over. (and i'm not gonna take "because odalia said so" as an answer here; he's clearly convinced that what he's doing is right and is not just mindlessly following orders)

well, first possibility: i think maybe, while he's not as bad or blatant about it as his wife, he might also think material success is the key to happiness (and the emperor's coven is considered one of the most successful positions in the world, next to being a covenhead)

and with that kind of mindset, a lot of the things that would bring the children actual happiness just get forgotten. their needs for attention and affection, for friendship and leisure, for the freedom to express themselves, for the chance to just be kids, all get thrown by the wayside -sacrificed in the name of "success"

by that line of thinking: joining the emperor's coven = material success and material success = happiness. and if joining the emperor's coven = happiness, then joining sooner = being happy sooner. and why wouldn't a parent want their child to find happiness as soon as possible? unfortunately her age and specific needs are not in that equation at all, even though they're obviously actually very important factors

(you could also honestly apply this reasoning to odalia herself as well, if you want to be charitable. cuz i've seen good arguments that she does actually care about her family's wellbeing, but in a twisted sort of way, wherein her priorities are extremely skewed AND it gets obscured by her own selfishness. idk, the show's characterization of her is weird, even compared to her husband (i blame the s3 shortening rushing their development, tbh). so i waited to bring this up til after i started talking about alador.)

there's also a second possibility: maybe he realizes that their home environment is bad for amity (which, it is), and thinks getting her out of there early by any means would be good for her (which, not quite the case)

maybe not even by noticing her actual misery, but by projecting his own misery onto her. like, he's in an abusive marriage and severely overworked. when he says amity has a bright future, he's kind of contrasting her with himself, and -consciously or not- implying that his life is not what a bright future looks like (which kind of goes against the first possibility, because he is rather financially successful). and he's very afraid of his children having to take his place: probably especially amity, because she's the abomination witch and would be more likely to have to take on his exact job

(ironically, though he doesn't know it, emperor's coven members are just as overworked and controlled as he is)

except, y'know, leaving a toxic home environment to become fully self sufficient is not the kind of upgrade for a kid that it would be for an adult. it'd just be throwing her from one bad situation to another

and also it's your responsibility as a parent to provide an environment for your child that they don't need to escape from. and while some concessions can be made due to the whole abusive wife situation, that doesn't absolve him of all responsibility.

like, the whole point of his role in reaching out was that the WERE things that he COULD do better. like, he became a better father at the end of that episode than he was at the beginning. and none of that change was due to "my wife changed, so i now have the ability to be a better father"; odalia wasn't involved in that growth at all

#eliot posts #toh #the owl house #toh meta #amity blight #odalia blight #alador blight #i love analyzing this family's deeply messed up dynamics if that fact weren't obvious already #*lifts up the blight family* every last one of yinz need therapy #sidenote most of these screenshots are basically useless in making my point #the adhd just likes pictures to break up text blocks #long post #anyway. *puts the blight parents into a blender*

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