They’ve Come For Us, Brother

They’ve come for us, brother

Sibling Swap! Au

Basically everything that happens in the original owl house is the same except Luz/Belos and Hunter/Caleb swap places. Philip is a modern human in this au and he ends up in the Boiling Isles with Empress Lucinda/Luzura (I can’t decide which name yet). Hunter stays almost exactly the same because he is still a grimwalker of the original Hunter, but he has a guardian that actually cares for him in her own twisted way. Hunter still goes by Hunter in this au because Luz believes him to be a perfect reincarnation of her long dead brother. (I was originally going to call grimwalker Hunter, Caleb but it was getting to confusing) Luz has pretty much gone off the deep end after her brother was killed and she rules the Boiling Isles similarly to how Belos does in the original show. Although, she is much more lenient and understanding to her subjects.

Luz was originally the one out of her and Hunter that wanted to learn about magic and how to cast spells, unlike Hunter who was much more cautious and wary of magic. Hunter ended up dying, not because Luz murdered him, but because of an accident involving one of Luz’s many experiments gone wrong. Now she tries to blame everything but herself for the incident, and the love she had for witches and magic has slowly faded into hatred over the years.

She’s constantly struggling with the loss of her brother and continues to make grimwalkers of him, promising herself it will be better each time she makes a new one. Luz shows compassion to her grimwalkers even though she believes them to be evil because they came from the very magic that killed her brother. She is, ironically, the one that ends their lives and most of the time by accident. The curse she acquired due to one of her experiments lashes out often and has gotten worse as time progresses. She has found ways to survive this long with her only goal being to bring Hunter back and return to the human realm. She doesn’t care what happens to the witches of the Boiling Isles, but she has created the coven system and many other laws to prohibit magic just because she wants to have a tighter reign on her kingdom. Luz does have a day of unity planned, but that is a plan B to her original plan, which is to create a perfect Hunter and leave.

Hunter in this au is very similar to canon, the only difference being that in place of the original Luz there is now Philip. Many of the characters have very different roles than they do in canon. Amity, Willow, and Gus are all coven heads who are friends with the Empress ( I’ll explain more on that later). But Eda, King, and Hooty all have the same role as the original (I might change this and make Eda and Lilith younger so they can be friends with Philip, but if I do that I’m not sure who can be Philip’s mentor so any suggestions for that would be nice) I’m sorry for any confusion on this but I still wanted to have a Lumity subplot and I had to make sacrifices lol. (sadly there will be no huntlow since Willow is an adult in this au and Hunter is not, she’s more of a mentor figure and they are strictly platonic).

I have much more to explain about this au but I’ll save it for the next time I draw it.