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Aster's Guide to the Mutliverse: World 4(part 1/2)
First appearance: Chapter 4
Source
Disney's The Owl House, animated TV show(2020-2023)
Description
This world means a lot to me. It feels magical in the same way that a certain YA magical school book series felt magical as a kid, but with the opposite of a certain popular magic school kids book author's transphobia(There's multiple canon nonbinary characters!!!).
The basic premise is a sort of western Isekai. Luz Noceda Is a teen that doesn't fit in. She's a weirdo, she's got a special interest in these sapphic witch YA novels, and constantly thinks out of the box for her school assignments which earns her scorn from her teachers. At the end of the school year, her mother and the principle talk to Luz, saying her antics are out of control and she needs to get her act together, so she'll spend her summer at 'Reality check summer camp', tagline: think inside the box.
When Luz is about to leave though, a mysterious owl steals her trash and leads her to an old house in the woods where there's a portal to The Demon Realm, and more specifically: the boiling Isles, the carcass of a dead titan collapsed in a boiling sea.
Witches and magic are real, demons of every shape and size walk the street, and wonderful and terrible sights abound in equal measure. It's not a traditional magical world. It's grosser for one. Lots of flesh and bile and goop. But the magic is real and so are the people, and Luz decides to go behind her mothers back and learn to be a witch, even though she doesn't have the organ that makes magic like witches(the species) do.
Ok so I may have spent a bit longer than I should have on the premise, but It's just so cool! It's a stunningly realized fantasy world, where the jokes come in subverting fantasy tropes with gross stuff, or horrifying monstrosities. Where there's an evil emperor that's put a stranglehold on the kinds of magic people are allowed to perform. Where massive bones dot the landscape, and red vegetation makes up the majority of the plantlife.
It's a story about the outcasts, the weirdos, and how even if you do conform to the system, it will still break you eventually, because its roots have always been evil. It's about loving something with all your heart, about having passion for a subject, about screwing the rules and living on your own terms. it's a lot of things.
Sadly it was canceled after two seasons, though they were able to get a compressed season three in the form of three hour-ish long specials. I personally think they tied up the story pretty nicely, but It's clear to see the things that they wanted to expand on that were glossed over for time, and that's. Really sad. Maybe I can explore those things myself. If nothing else I can explore this world as much as I want, finding all the nooks and crannies of lore that I have questions about, and just seeing the sights. If I have time. I still need to find my way home.
Characters of note
Luz Noceda
![[Image: x9zimz.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/x9zimz.png)
Luz, our plucky 14-year-old Dominican-American bisexual protagonist. She is the hugest geek. Loves these Azura the Good Witch YA books, AMVs, fanfiction, and magic of course.
She's a bundle of energy and always down to clown. Never having fit in on Earth, Luz oozes weirdness in the best way. She's unapologetically herself at all times. But this honest earnestness can sometimes become stubborn bullheadedness and a pension for leaping before looking.
Despite lacking the organ that makes it possible for Witches to perform magic, Luz has found another way, 'Glyphs', symbols hidden in the nature of the dying titan the show takes place on. By drawing these glyphs on slips of paper, the ground, or anywhere, really, Luz can activate them for one off effects before the glyph destroys itself. The main four glyphs are Light, Ice, Plant, and Fire, and all further glyphs use these incorporated into a larger pattern that speaks the 'language' of the titan's magic to perform different spells.
Hooty
![[Image: wlibjq.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/wlibjq.png)
![[Image: asu5c8.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/asu5c8.png)
Sorry for the two pics in this one, it's just. Really hard to describe Hooty in text. In picture 1 we see that he's an owl head embedded into a door. In the second, we can see that he's capable of extending himself out an absurd length as some kind of weird. Bird tube.
He's the comic relief character, always the loud, annoying idiot. Honestly, I never liked his character. He never learns. For all that he can be kind, he can be obvious. For all his caring, he's impulsive. He's a creature of extremes, always dialed up to 11.
No one really knows what he is. there's times he's been referred to as a 'house demon', and that he is the Owl House. Something like him seems to be growing out of an empty eye socket in The Titan's avatar form, and has been confirmed to be something akin to a maggot in a corpse by the show staff.
King Clawthorne
![[Image: 8xl66k.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/8xl66k.png)
King was found as a small(er) child on a strange Island by Eda. She didn't realize he was anything but an animal, and through his playing made him look like a little 'king of demons'. By the time she realized he was a person she had enabled his belief that he really was a king of demons. still, she raised him as her own.
King's mother is unknown, if it even works that way for his kind, but his father is The Titan, the decaying corpse that makes up The Boiling Isles.
Eda Clawothorne
![[Image: vjojtk.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/vjojtk.png)
Eda, Aka The Owl Lady, was the most powerful witch on the boiling isles, with a bounty of one trillion Snails. Be practicing 'wild magic', AKA not restricting her magic to one specific, arbitrary kind, as well as many, many regular crimes, she has earned the ire of The Emperor of the Boiling isles.
Cursed during her teens unknowingly by her sister Lilith, Eda has to take regular 'Elixirs' to keep a monstrous demon possessing her, 'The Owlbeast' at bay. However, The Owlbeast isn't there by choice, the curse binding it just as much as her.
Lilith Clawlthorne
![[Image: 5wdx4u.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/5wdx4u.png)
Lilith was the head of The Emperor's Coven, the enforcers of the tyrannical rule of the throne. By cursing her sister on the day of a duel to see which of them would get into said coven, she thought she earned her spot, only for Eda to forfeit. worse, the curse, which was only supposed to last a day, turned into a condition that has continued to impact Eda to this day.
Lilith spent much of her time fruitlessly trying to catch Eda, as the Emperor promised to cure her, except when she was captured Eda was sentenced to petrifaction(Death).
Once outside of the Emperor's coven Lilith Cast a spell to share half the curse with her sister, making it more manageable by sharing the burden. She spent some time not knowing what to do with her life's work a sham, she eventually followed her passions and became a historian.
Willow Park
![[Image: z85g6s.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/z85g6s.png)
Willow is a mellow tempered young witch with an affity for plants. Originally trying and failing at a different school of magic when luz offered to pretend to be her 'abomination' homework, that set off a chain of events that led to her switching tracks.
Willow has been learning to speak up for herself and be there for her friends, as well as branch out and try new things, coming out of her shell
Agustus 'Gus' Porter
![[Image: b0av50.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/b0av50.png)
A prodigy of illusion magic and an exitable nerd of all things human, Gus has been friends with willow for a while, having found it hard to make friends after skipping a grade.
Amity Blight
![[Image: so8e06.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/so8e06.png)
Amity blight started cold and overachieving, even stooping to bullying her former friend, willow, about how bad she was at 'abomination' magic which was the school track they shared.
When Luz burst into her life, the chaos that followed started breaking down the walls Amity had put up, letting her reconnect with willow, be kinder, and find shake off the influence of her demanding family.
She's also gay as hell and Luz's girlfriend.
Hunter
![[Image: 1w227t.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/1w227t.png)
The "Golden Guard", a special rank close to being the right hand of the emperor, Hunter is a Grimwalker, one in a long list of clone like copies of the human Caleb Witterbane.
Raised as a toddler as the 'nephew' of Emperor Belos, Hunter never had a reason to question the status quo, only interested in making his 'uncle' proud and to serve the 'ideals' of the empire.
Without the ability to use magic, he feels inferior, even with the artificial magic staff Belos gifted him. when the staff breaks, an orphaned Palisman(Living wooden familiers that can turn into staves) named Flapjack chose Hunter to bond with, and with his repeated clashes with Luz and friends, has started questioning his role as a cog in Belos' machine.
Emperor Belos/Philip Wittebane
![[Image: z48m0f.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/z48m0f.png)
Phillip Witterbane Is genocidal maniac obsessed with making himself the hero of the story by slaying the 'evil' witches. He is an irredeemable monster that cannot connect with anyone, only seeing pawns in the people around him.
In the 1600's, in the small colony town of Gravesfield. Phillip and his brother Caleb, were orphans. To support themselves, they took up the profession of witch hunters.
A witch, Evelyn, wandered into their world and Caleb fell in love with her. When Phillip found out, having tracked them to the demon realm, he murdered his brother with a knife before starting to look for a way home.
His plans only grew in boldness, and he didn't want to return to the human realm without killing every single witch. by taking advantage of Glyph magic, and the knowledge of the childish godling The Collector, he set on a centuries long plan to take over the boiling isles and turn the residents into a massive ritual spell that would kill them all on the day of a solar eclipse.
The Titan
![[Image: wycxjf.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/wycxjf.png)
![[Image: 8jdgiq.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/8jdgiq.png)
The Titan of The Boiling Isles, known by no other name pronounceable to non-titans, was the last of his kind. Having believed himself tricked by The Collector into revealing the titan's weakness only for their siblings The Archivists to start slaughtering them. He trapped The collector and his soul in a realm between worlds and hid the egg of his unborn son, King.
His dying and decaying body eventfully gave rise to life, including Witches and Demons, who revered him as god, based on what they could discern of their origins and the enormous corpse they called home.
Eventually his son's egg hatched, and Eda Clawthorn found the island nursery to adopt king. using the unique magic of the In Between Realm, The titan watched his son grow up, unable to be there for him.
He is known to be good humored and jolly, with an ancient wisdom underlying the heavy dad vibes.
The Collector
![[Image: wubdbw.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/wubdbw.png)
A millennia old child godling. Naïve and fickle. The Collector has deep trust issues and a hard time seeing other people as people, and is generally more interested in playing. Though he is capable of making friends, he tends to dehumanize others into playthings, unconcerned with the harm he can do because he believes he can use his god like powers to fix anything.
Ages ago the world in the demon realm that now holds The Boiling Isles was filled with living Titans. a group of godlike beings from beyond the stars, The Archivists, arrived and found that the power of the Titans could harm them. Devising a plan, they sent one of their young, The Collector, to make friends with the young of The Titans, in hopes of finding their weakness.
While this plan worked, The Collector was clueless, and truly loved playing with The Titans. The last of the titans, who would become The Boiling isles, having felt betrayed and fearing for the safety of his unborn son, Sealed his soul and the collector in between realms.
about two centuries ago Philip Witterbane found a mirror tablet that acted as a window into The Collector's prison. He then made a deal to release The Collector in exchange for the plans for a spell to kill all the witches on the boiling isles. Of course, Philip has no intention of keeping this promise, but to a desperate Collector, Philip, AKA Belos, is their new best friend. And soon, when the spell is complete they're sure they can finally be let free and play again.
Camila Noceda
![[Image: dtjhts.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/dtjhts.png)
A stubborn and fiercely loyal mother, Camilla exemplifies kindness and looks out for kids whenever she can, regardles of if they're hers. This bitch takes no shit.
She lost her way by trying to force her daughter to go to 'Reality Check Summer Camp', not knowing another way to deal with the constant trouble Luz got in for reckless aplication of her creative mind. Such as filing a taxidermied pidgeon/squirel gryphon with live spiders for 'authentic spider breath', or hiding susauge links in her costume for the school play so she could do a gory death scene.
Late in the show its shown that other parents and adults keep saying mean things about luz, and everytime Camilla fights it, and it wears on her more. until the principle of Luz's school gives her a pamplet about the summer camp and urges her to send luz there.
Vee
![[Image: 670v6z.png]](https://files.catbox.moe/670v6z.png)
Vee is a shy, Anxious girl, with deep trauma from being raised as a test subject. She revels in the normal life she has found for herself on earth, and has taken to earth culture like a fish in water.
Subject V(five), of restoring an extinct species known as Basilisks in secret by Emperor Belos to study their ability to eat magic(presumably to help with the spell that Belos was developing to kill all witches by draining all the magic from the Boiling Isles). After escaping containment along with her siblings, Vee stumbled through the gate to the human Realm after seeing Luz leave through it. When Luz's mom comes to check up on her, Vee reflexively uses her natural shapeshifting to turn into Luz.
She then takes Luz's place at camp, eventually taking the place of Luz, who by that point she assumes wasn't coming back. Eventually Luz gets in contact with the human realm via the in between realm, befriends Vee, and helps her come out to Luz's mom, who accepts her and continues raising her as one of her own.
First appearance: Chapter 4
Source
Disney's The Owl House, animated TV show(2020-2023)
Description
This world means a lot to me. It feels magical in the same way that a certain YA magical school book series felt magical as a kid, but with the opposite of a certain popular magic school kids book author's transphobia(There's multiple canon nonbinary characters!!!).
The basic premise is a sort of western Isekai. Luz Noceda Is a teen that doesn't fit in. She's a weirdo, she's got a special interest in these sapphic witch YA novels, and constantly thinks out of the box for her school assignments which earns her scorn from her teachers. At the end of the school year, her mother and the principle talk to Luz, saying her antics are out of control and she needs to get her act together, so she'll spend her summer at 'Reality check summer camp', tagline: think inside the box.
When Luz is about to leave though, a mysterious owl steals her trash and leads her to an old house in the woods where there's a portal to The Demon Realm, and more specifically: the boiling Isles, the carcass of a dead titan collapsed in a boiling sea.
Witches and magic are real, demons of every shape and size walk the street, and wonderful and terrible sights abound in equal measure. It's not a traditional magical world. It's grosser for one. Lots of flesh and bile and goop. But the magic is real and so are the people, and Luz decides to go behind her mothers back and learn to be a witch, even though she doesn't have the organ that makes magic like witches(the species) do.
Ok so I may have spent a bit longer than I should have on the premise, but It's just so cool! It's a stunningly realized fantasy world, where the jokes come in subverting fantasy tropes with gross stuff, or horrifying monstrosities. Where there's an evil emperor that's put a stranglehold on the kinds of magic people are allowed to perform. Where massive bones dot the landscape, and red vegetation makes up the majority of the plantlife.
It's a story about the outcasts, the weirdos, and how even if you do conform to the system, it will still break you eventually, because its roots have always been evil. It's about loving something with all your heart, about having passion for a subject, about screwing the rules and living on your own terms. it's a lot of things.
Sadly it was canceled after two seasons, though they were able to get a compressed season three in the form of three hour-ish long specials. I personally think they tied up the story pretty nicely, but It's clear to see the things that they wanted to expand on that were glossed over for time, and that's. Really sad. Maybe I can explore those things myself. If nothing else I can explore this world as much as I want, finding all the nooks and crannies of lore that I have questions about, and just seeing the sights. If I have time. I still need to find my way home.
Characters of note
Luz Noceda
Luz, our plucky 14-year-old Dominican-American bisexual protagonist. She is the hugest geek. Loves these Azura the Good Witch YA books, AMVs, fanfiction, and magic of course.
She's a bundle of energy and always down to clown. Never having fit in on Earth, Luz oozes weirdness in the best way. She's unapologetically herself at all times. But this honest earnestness can sometimes become stubborn bullheadedness and a pension for leaping before looking.
Despite lacking the organ that makes it possible for Witches to perform magic, Luz has found another way, 'Glyphs', symbols hidden in the nature of the dying titan the show takes place on. By drawing these glyphs on slips of paper, the ground, or anywhere, really, Luz can activate them for one off effects before the glyph destroys itself. The main four glyphs are Light, Ice, Plant, and Fire, and all further glyphs use these incorporated into a larger pattern that speaks the 'language' of the titan's magic to perform different spells.
Hooty
Sorry for the two pics in this one, it's just. Really hard to describe Hooty in text. In picture 1 we see that he's an owl head embedded into a door. In the second, we can see that he's capable of extending himself out an absurd length as some kind of weird. Bird tube.
He's the comic relief character, always the loud, annoying idiot. Honestly, I never liked his character. He never learns. For all that he can be kind, he can be obvious. For all his caring, he's impulsive. He's a creature of extremes, always dialed up to 11.
No one really knows what he is. there's times he's been referred to as a 'house demon', and that he is the Owl House. Something like him seems to be growing out of an empty eye socket in The Titan's avatar form, and has been confirmed to be something akin to a maggot in a corpse by the show staff.
King Clawthorne
King was found as a small(er) child on a strange Island by Eda. She didn't realize he was anything but an animal, and through his playing made him look like a little 'king of demons'. By the time she realized he was a person she had enabled his belief that he really was a king of demons. still, she raised him as her own.
King's mother is unknown, if it even works that way for his kind, but his father is The Titan, the decaying corpse that makes up The Boiling Isles.
Eda Clawothorne
Eda, Aka The Owl Lady, was the most powerful witch on the boiling isles, with a bounty of one trillion Snails. Be practicing 'wild magic', AKA not restricting her magic to one specific, arbitrary kind, as well as many, many regular crimes, she has earned the ire of The Emperor of the Boiling isles.
Cursed during her teens unknowingly by her sister Lilith, Eda has to take regular 'Elixirs' to keep a monstrous demon possessing her, 'The Owlbeast' at bay. However, The Owlbeast isn't there by choice, the curse binding it just as much as her.
Lilith Clawlthorne
Lilith was the head of The Emperor's Coven, the enforcers of the tyrannical rule of the throne. By cursing her sister on the day of a duel to see which of them would get into said coven, she thought she earned her spot, only for Eda to forfeit. worse, the curse, which was only supposed to last a day, turned into a condition that has continued to impact Eda to this day.
Lilith spent much of her time fruitlessly trying to catch Eda, as the Emperor promised to cure her, except when she was captured Eda was sentenced to petrifaction(Death).
Once outside of the Emperor's coven Lilith Cast a spell to share half the curse with her sister, making it more manageable by sharing the burden. She spent some time not knowing what to do with her life's work a sham, she eventually followed her passions and became a historian.
Willow Park
Willow is a mellow tempered young witch with an affity for plants. Originally trying and failing at a different school of magic when luz offered to pretend to be her 'abomination' homework, that set off a chain of events that led to her switching tracks.
Willow has been learning to speak up for herself and be there for her friends, as well as branch out and try new things, coming out of her shell
Agustus 'Gus' Porter
A prodigy of illusion magic and an exitable nerd of all things human, Gus has been friends with willow for a while, having found it hard to make friends after skipping a grade.
Amity Blight
Amity blight started cold and overachieving, even stooping to bullying her former friend, willow, about how bad she was at 'abomination' magic which was the school track they shared.
When Luz burst into her life, the chaos that followed started breaking down the walls Amity had put up, letting her reconnect with willow, be kinder, and find shake off the influence of her demanding family.
She's also gay as hell and Luz's girlfriend.
Hunter
The "Golden Guard", a special rank close to being the right hand of the emperor, Hunter is a Grimwalker, one in a long list of clone like copies of the human Caleb Witterbane.
Raised as a toddler as the 'nephew' of Emperor Belos, Hunter never had a reason to question the status quo, only interested in making his 'uncle' proud and to serve the 'ideals' of the empire.
Without the ability to use magic, he feels inferior, even with the artificial magic staff Belos gifted him. when the staff breaks, an orphaned Palisman(Living wooden familiers that can turn into staves) named Flapjack chose Hunter to bond with, and with his repeated clashes with Luz and friends, has started questioning his role as a cog in Belos' machine.
Emperor Belos/Philip Wittebane
Phillip Witterbane Is genocidal maniac obsessed with making himself the hero of the story by slaying the 'evil' witches. He is an irredeemable monster that cannot connect with anyone, only seeing pawns in the people around him.
In the 1600's, in the small colony town of Gravesfield. Phillip and his brother Caleb, were orphans. To support themselves, they took up the profession of witch hunters.
A witch, Evelyn, wandered into their world and Caleb fell in love with her. When Phillip found out, having tracked them to the demon realm, he murdered his brother with a knife before starting to look for a way home.
His plans only grew in boldness, and he didn't want to return to the human realm without killing every single witch. by taking advantage of Glyph magic, and the knowledge of the childish godling The Collector, he set on a centuries long plan to take over the boiling isles and turn the residents into a massive ritual spell that would kill them all on the day of a solar eclipse.
The Titan
The Titan of The Boiling Isles, known by no other name pronounceable to non-titans, was the last of his kind. Having believed himself tricked by The Collector into revealing the titan's weakness only for their siblings The Archivists to start slaughtering them. He trapped The collector and his soul in a realm between worlds and hid the egg of his unborn son, King.
His dying and decaying body eventfully gave rise to life, including Witches and Demons, who revered him as god, based on what they could discern of their origins and the enormous corpse they called home.
Eventually his son's egg hatched, and Eda Clawthorn found the island nursery to adopt king. using the unique magic of the In Between Realm, The titan watched his son grow up, unable to be there for him.
He is known to be good humored and jolly, with an ancient wisdom underlying the heavy dad vibes.
The Collector
A millennia old child godling. Naïve and fickle. The Collector has deep trust issues and a hard time seeing other people as people, and is generally more interested in playing. Though he is capable of making friends, he tends to dehumanize others into playthings, unconcerned with the harm he can do because he believes he can use his god like powers to fix anything.
Ages ago the world in the demon realm that now holds The Boiling Isles was filled with living Titans. a group of godlike beings from beyond the stars, The Archivists, arrived and found that the power of the Titans could harm them. Devising a plan, they sent one of their young, The Collector, to make friends with the young of The Titans, in hopes of finding their weakness.
While this plan worked, The Collector was clueless, and truly loved playing with The Titans. The last of the titans, who would become The Boiling isles, having felt betrayed and fearing for the safety of his unborn son, Sealed his soul and the collector in between realms.
about two centuries ago Philip Witterbane found a mirror tablet that acted as a window into The Collector's prison. He then made a deal to release The Collector in exchange for the plans for a spell to kill all the witches on the boiling isles. Of course, Philip has no intention of keeping this promise, but to a desperate Collector, Philip, AKA Belos, is their new best friend. And soon, when the spell is complete they're sure they can finally be let free and play again.
Camila Noceda
A stubborn and fiercely loyal mother, Camilla exemplifies kindness and looks out for kids whenever she can, regardles of if they're hers. This bitch takes no shit.
She lost her way by trying to force her daughter to go to 'Reality Check Summer Camp', not knowing another way to deal with the constant trouble Luz got in for reckless aplication of her creative mind. Such as filing a taxidermied pidgeon/squirel gryphon with live spiders for 'authentic spider breath', or hiding susauge links in her costume for the school play so she could do a gory death scene.
Late in the show its shown that other parents and adults keep saying mean things about luz, and everytime Camilla fights it, and it wears on her more. until the principle of Luz's school gives her a pamplet about the summer camp and urges her to send luz there.
Vee
Vee is a shy, Anxious girl, with deep trauma from being raised as a test subject. She revels in the normal life she has found for herself on earth, and has taken to earth culture like a fish in water.
Subject V(five), of restoring an extinct species known as Basilisks in secret by Emperor Belos to study their ability to eat magic(presumably to help with the spell that Belos was developing to kill all witches by draining all the magic from the Boiling Isles). After escaping containment along with her siblings, Vee stumbled through the gate to the human Realm after seeing Luz leave through it. When Luz's mom comes to check up on her, Vee reflexively uses her natural shapeshifting to turn into Luz.
She then takes Luz's place at camp, eventually taking the place of Luz, who by that point she assumes wasn't coming back. Eventually Luz gets in contact with the human realm via the in between realm, befriends Vee, and helps her come out to Luz's mom, who accepts her and continues raising her as one of her own.
