Brewing Bad
is a 2023 The Owl House Breaking Bad AU, by Nope0101. It can be read on Archive of Our Own. The author describes it as a "loose retelling of Breaking Bad but with Owl House characters".
After being diagnosed with cancer, high school chemistry teacher Edalyn Clawthorne enlists the help of her former student Luz to make a meth lab in an RV.
All spoilers for The Owl House and Breaking Bad will be left unmarked in the trope examples below. You Have Been Warned!
Brewing Bad provides examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: Needless to say, the protagonists of The Owl House were not cooking meth in canon.
- Canon Foreigner: Maggie, Adrian's daughter, isn't in either Breaking Bad or The Owl House.
- Getting High on Their Own Supply: Luz tries to snort some of her and Eda's meth before Eda stops her.
- We Used to Be Friends: Luz used to be friends and partners in crime with Maggie, before Luz abandoned her to save her own skin from the police.
