Fanfic / Outsiders (The Owl House)

Outsiders is an Alternate Universe The Owl House fic written by Ocil91.

Edric and Emira have always had each other's backs; that remains true even after they both come out as gay and their parents disown them but allow them to continue to let them live at Blight Manor until they're old enough to join a coven. Years later, they both take respective interests in multi-trackers Jerbo and Viney and upon learning their sister Amity is crushing on the human Luz Noceda, they must find a way to keep all of their budding relationships safe and secret or face their parents' wrath.

The story has been completed. A set of short stories titled Outsiders: Beyond take place a few months after the main story.

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This work contains examples of:

• Adaptation Expansion: The reason the twins don't take Amity's place as Grom king or queen isn't because she doesn't want them to; it's because despite their skills, their parents made it so they couldn't be under the insistence that whatever form Grom took it'd be scandalous to the Blight family name.
• Adapted Out: Since the story was written before season 2 came out, the Story Arc involving Vee will be omitted.
• Alternate Universe Fic: The story splinters off from canon after the Grudgby game from “Wing It Like Witches”. Word of God explains this as not feeling qualified to explore the themes of rebellion that come with later episodes.
• Armor-Piercing Question: In the penultimate chapter of the story, Edric gives one to Lilith regarding her relationship with Eda as Lilith still sees her as Edalyn, the rowdy teenager she used to know.
  Her name is Eda! Eda the Owl Lady. The most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles and the Wild Witch of Bonesborough. She’s someone who has never been anything short of amazing to us exactly as she is. I get the feeling that you knew your sister Edalyn a long time ago… but do you actually know who Eda is?
• Ascended Extra: Edric and Emira are the main characters of the story. And since they're in a respective relationship with Jerbo and Viney, they along with Barcus become major recurring characters.
• The Atoner: For their final prank on Boscha for hurting Amity, the twins trick her into drinking a truth-telling potion. However, when this causes Boscha to confess her recently discovered feelings toward Amity who's forced to reject her, leaving her in tears, they realize they crossed a line and must make it up to her.
• Beach Episode: The first chapter of the Beyond series has Emira, the troublemakers, Luz and Amity going to the beach on the first day of summer vacation.
• Beautiful Dreamer: Emira has this with Viney when she and Edric end up spending the night at Jerbo's, though it's as much Played for Laughs as it is Ship Tease because a major reason Emira is sitting up watching Viney sleep is because Viney snores so badly Emira never actually went to sleep.
• Berserk Button: Odalia and Alador don't respond well to being called a "loser" and a "coward", respectively.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: It takes a while, but Odalia and Alador pretty much become the story's main villains.
• Big Damn Heroes: Edric and Emira act as these for the Dual Track students, saving them from being caught during a ‘surprise inspection’ at the school by the Emperor’s Coven.
• Big Brother Instinct: After Amity gets hurt in a Grudgby game because of Boscha bullying her friends, Edric and Emira make Boscha’s life hell for the next two weeks as revenge.
  • Downplayed but when the twins realize that Luz has been so mistreated by her peers in her native world that she can't conceive the idea of being the object of someone's attraction, they're both furious and are quick to comfort her.
  • Later played in the "Little Sister" variant, as Amity uses an everlasting oath to keep Odalia from harming the twins or Luz when she discovers their relationships.
• Birthday Episode: Chapter 6 of the Beyond saga takes place on Edric and Emira's seventeenth birthday.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Twice from Hooty in back-to-back chapters. The others have no idea what he’s talking about and write it off as Hooty being Hooty.
• Brutal Honesty: The truth potion the twins give Boscha forces this onto her. It goes a step too far when she has to unwillingly reveal her crush on Amity.
• But Now I Must Go: In Chapter 41, Luz returns to the human realm since the summer camp she was supposed to go to has ended. Planning to slowly ease her mom into the truth so she can come back, Eda goes with her under the cover of a camp counselor staying in town for a week.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: To cement their declaration of Odalia and Alador no longer being seen as their parents, Ed & Em start doing this. Amity later does the same.
• Cerebus Retcon: In canon, it's heavily implied that Edric and Emira get away with their pranks and school skipping because their parents spoil them and prefer them over Amity. Here however, it's the reverse; Amity is the only "true Blight" due to Emira and Edric having come out and they get away with their antics because their parents don't care about them anymore.
  • Edric and Emira's fears they mention during Luz's training for Grom are Played for Laughs in canon; here Emira's statement that she fears being stuck with Edric was a Moment of Weakness she deeply regrets and that deeply hurt him.
  • After the grudgby match against Boscha, the story officially diverges from canon to the point that Luz has to return home once she realizes camp's about to end.
• Chekhov's Gun: The truth potion unfortunately ends up being one: Odalia finds it in Edric's room and uses it on Amity to learn everything she knows about her children's lives that they've been keeping from her.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Camila ends up being one. The twins see Grom take her form at the dance in Chapter 7, and recognize her much later on at the mall in Chapter 37. Her appearance causes the twins to fake an injury to keep her from finding out Luz is not at camp, and forces them to air some family drama they had been keeping to themselves.
• Chekhov's Skill: In the last chapter of Act 2, Luz discovers that she can use light glyphs to take control of abominations. Near the end of the story, she uses this knowledge to stop one of the Abomatrons the Blight parents are using before they overwhelm her and her friends.
• Coming-Out Story: This is one for Edric and Emira, who not only have to deal with the ramifications of parents that won’t accept their orientation but also have to help their younger sister hide hers so she doesn’t face the same scrutiny and navigate their first relationships.
  • Chapter 33 is one for Skara who, upon learning Luz is bisexual, reveals she has recently begun liking girls along with guys with her crush being...
  • Boscha, who comes out in the very next chapter. Under the effects of a truth potion, she comes to realize that she has feelings for Amity, only to end up being rejected.
• Continuity Nod: When Edric and Jerbo visit the playground after dark to avoid Jerbo’s arguing parents in Chapter 30, the boys notice the slide has a giant bite taken out of it and wonder who did it. Little do they know Eda did in “Escape of the Palisman” while in her cursed form.
• Defiant Captive: Every time one of the kids are captured by Odalia and Alador, they become very outspoken toward their captors.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • When the twins slip Boscha a truth potion for their final revenge against her, neither anticipated it would result in Boscha being forced to admit her crush on Amity nor that Amity would have to gently turn her down.
  • Edric ends up keeping the last of the truth potion, which Odalia finds and keeps hidden away in a safe in her room until she uses it on Amity.
  • To keep Odalia from going after the twins or Luz after learning about their relationships, Amity swears her to an everlasting oath so she doesn't lay a finger on them. Unfortunately, Odalia's skill of Loophole Abuse means she can use other things to hurt them or go after other people, including Amity herself.
  • Odalia herself actually falls for this thrice:
    • She was so excited to get the approval of the Emperor's Coven to mass produce abomitrons that she realized too late that she and Alador can only make abomitrons for the Emperor. As a result, she has to deny orders from longtime clients who're cutting ties with them and tries to find a way out of it so the coven doesn't become their only connection left.
    • In an act of desperation, she grabbed Edric's bad arm and pulled him to the ground. This violates her deal with Amity about laying a hand on the twins, and she becomes an oathbreaker, severely crippling her body and magic.
    • During the final battle, she advertises the capabilities of the abomitron 3.0 during the kids' livestream. This violates her contract with the Emperor and he claims all assets and rights regarding the abomitron from Blight Industries.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After years of having to endure Odalia's abuse and threats, the Blight siblings cut themselves off from their parents and are free to date their respective partners while living on their own in a home in the woods. Edric and Amity become multi-trackers and the latter is now genuine friends with Boscha, who's happily dating Skara.
  • Not only does Luz get Camila's blessing to balance life between the Human and Demon Realms, but Camila enters a relationship with Eda, who still gets the curse split between herself and Lilith to give them more time to find a more suitable solution.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Edric and Emira thought Amity was a cold-hearted brat who threw Willow aside as soon as she was inconvenient while Amity thought they were spoiled rotten trouble-makers; all three parties feel horrible when they realize the respective truths.
• Exact Words:
  • Emira challenges Eda to a duel. Eda immediately assumes a witch’s duel, but Emira points out she never specified what kind of duel and instead wants a duel in Hexes Hold ‘Em.
  • Intentionally Invoked near the end. Odalia tells Amity not to move from the spot she's in until the final battle's over. When Odalia tells her to jump in, Amity reminds her of what she said and happily stays put.
• First Love: Jerbo for Edric. On the training trip up to the Knee, Edric mentions to his sisters that it is difficult to find an attractive boy that is not toxically masculine.
• First-Name Basis: Jerbo's parents, Alcuin and B, and Viney's mother, Gloria, allow the twins to refer to them as such.
• Flight of Romance: Emira and Viney have one of these as their first date.
• Graceful Loser: Unlike Odalia, Alador accepts the loss to his children and Edric's statement that Alcuin is a better man and father than he ever was.
• Hate Sink: Odalia and Alador are basically Beyond Redemption: they decide to kick the twins out when they're of age when they come out. On top of that, Odalia threaten the parents of their respective partners, tricks Amity into drinking a love potion to get information out of her, exploits every loophole in their deal to not hurt Edric, Emira and Luz and all the while, Alador does nothing to stop her.
• Her Girlfriend's Jacket: Skara starts wearing Boscha's grudgby jacket when they start dating.
• Insecure Love Interest: Edric and Emira are both nervous coming out to Jerbo and Viney because they aren’t sure they would reciprocate. Edric has it especially bad because it was tough for him to find someone like Jerbo to begin with and is not sure who else he could possibly fall for.
  • Luz manages to be one without even realizing she's actually a love interest as her reaction to Emira suggesting she has a secret admirer is to laugh and say Emira should stop messing with her, ultimately curling into a distressed ball when it appears Emira is taking the "joke" too far.
• In Spite of a Nail: Even though the plot diverts so the second season's events don't happen, the Abomitron 2.0 is still created as well as Luz's invisibility glyph. The story ultimately ends with Lilith coming clean about cursing Eda and splitting it between them. The first chapter of Beyond reveals that Amity's dyed her hair purple.
• Internal Reveal: In Chapter 44, Camila learns everything about Luz spending the summer on the Boiling Isles and eventually accepts that it was better for her.
• It's All About Me: A flaw of Emira’s, she gets tunnel visioned with her own issues sometimes that she does not realize she’s hurting her siblings. While helping Jerbo make tarts for Edric in exchange for his help finding Viney a present, Emira forgets the incredibly important detail of Edric being allergic to dairy.
• It's Personal: At first, Eda refuses to make the twins a truth potion for the sake of petty revenge on Boscha. But when the twins show her a photo of Luz covered in garbage with the words "Round Ears" drawn on her face, Eda goes full Mama Bear and agrees to brew the meanest truth potion she can. Later when Odalia threatens to have Luz arrested for mixing magic, Eda tries to deck her and has to be restrained by a hidden Emira.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Odalia gets hit hard with this at the end of the story. Her kids all manage to cut off her influence for good, she gets her finger broken by Eda, her breakdown on the twins' livestream turns her into a laughingstock while allowing Emperor Belos to claim all rights to the abomitron and Alador chooses to leave her behind and become an independent engineer for the Emperor, leaving her with nothing.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Chapter 5 ends with Edric wondering if Luz is the main character of a story the Blights only see parts of, to which Emira says she'd watch it if she could.
• Likes Older Women: After meeting Eda, Emira confesses she looks good for her age, causing Edric to ask if she's got the hots for the Owl Lady. This attraction is shown to have stuck even when Em got a girlfriend her own age.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Lilith wasn't aware of Amity being inducted into the Emperor's Coven as Odalia made the deal with Kikimora.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Not counting each other, Edric and Emira seemingly have no friends they hang out with until they start befriending Luz and the dual track students.
• Loophole Abuse: Odalia is an expert at exploiting this so things always go her way.
• Love at First Sight: Edric falls in love with Jerbo the moment he witnesses Jerbo becoming one of Hexside’s first dual track students.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Like Amity around Luz, Emira gets very flustered around Viney. Edric starts out better than his sisters, but later becomes just as bad around Jerbo. Viney and Jerbo aren't much better themselves, as seen when they get alone time with Edric and Emira respectively.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: While Eda isn't one of the main protagonists of the story, she's the one who ultimately takes down Odalia, by breaking her finger so the kids can get the upper hand before Eda gets stuck dealing with Lilith.
• Not What It Looks Like: In chapter 15, Jerbo runs up to Amity in a panic because something is wrong with the twins; after he explains, she is able to tell him he ran into the twins' illusions which are convincing enough but limited in their reactions.
• The Oath-Breaker: Breaking an Everlasting Oath makes a witch one of these and cripples their magic severely. Odalia becomes one when she injures Edric, violating her deal with Amity to never lay a finger on her siblings.
• Official Couple: Emira/Viney, Jerbo/Edric, Amity/Luz, Boscha/Skara and Eda/Camila.
• Once More, with Clarity: Chapter 25 has Skara provide an outside point of view on Boscha’s situation with the twins, often having her too far away to know what’s going on. The next chapter shows the twins’ side of that same day. Then the chapter after that does Luz’s POV.
• Open-Minded Parent: Both Jerbo and Viney have these, as their parents have always supported their dreams of dual tracking, with Viney's mother uprooting herself and Viney when their neighbors discovered Viney had combined healing and beastkeeping to tend to baby!Puddles' injuries rather than forbidding her daughter to do so; Viney's mother also has this mindset towards her relationship with Emira, saying that while she doesn't know Emira, she knows Em and everything she knows about Em shows that she's worthy of Viney's attention.
  • This later applies to Camila; after learning about the demon realm and seeing how much Luz has gained in friendship, love and motivation for her education, she agrees to compromise with finding a way for Luz to balance life in both realms so she isn't forced to give up her friends or her relationship with Amity.
• Parental Neglect: The only reason the twins aren't already out on the streets is because the Blight parents need to keep up appearances but they casually destroyed all of the twins' relationships with their peers and have made it clear that as soon as the twins join a coven, they're to be thrown out and away.
• Parents as People: Jerbo's parents love him dearly and support his desire to dual track but their jobs in the Construction Coven are plentiful but not well-paying so money is tight a lot and when money runs truly thin, the stress tends to make them fight, both with each other and Jerbo; how expensive Jerbo's track supplies are doesn't help. Jerbo knows his parents love him but the fighting always stresses him out, with Chapter 30 having him call up Edric at 2AM simply because he needs an escape.
• Pirate Episode: The Beyond two-parter "A Pirate's Life for Me" is this.
• Plot Allergy: Edric’s allergy to dairy comes into play when Jerbo makes tarts for him, with help from Emira, and they make him sick later that evening.
• Red Mage: As per canon, Luz and the troublemakers all study different types of magic at Hexside. By the story's conclusion, Amity chooses to study everything alongside Luz while Edric decides to dual-track in illusions and beast-keeping.
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Upon learning about the deal Amity made with Odalia to keep her siblings, their partners and her girlfriend safe, Emira blasts through the library and storms through town with the intent of confronting their mother to save her little sister.
• Running Gag: Each of the twins have one. Emira gets woken up in a ridiculous way each time she is shown asleep. Edric tries to ride in the pouch Barcus uses to fly on Puddles every time he sees it despite being told no.
• Secret-Keeper: Edric and Emira become this for Amity in regards to her crush on Luz. Their parents reacted badly to their sexual orientations, so they decide to help Amity keep hers hidden.
• Secret Relationship: Edric and Emira try to keep their relationships with Jerbo and Viney, respectively, hidden from their parents out of fear that they will do something to ruin Jerbo and Viney’s futures like they threatened to do if Amity did not stop being friends with Willow.
• Self-Deprecation: The sixth book of the Good Witch Azura series has the subtitle of “Outsiders” like the story itself, and is reportedly worse than the first five books. Amity even remarks that the title is strangely self-indulgent.
• Shout-Out: Chapter 22's title is a tribute one, "Ed, Ed n Eda".
• Skewed Priorities: When Amity gets hurt in the Grudgby game from “Wing It Like Witches”, Alador and Odalia are more invested in the idea that Amity is playing again than that their daughter is injured.
• Smug Smiler: Odalia's signature smirk, which she sports so often it makes the kids hope to be the one who punches it off her face as she becomes more antagonistic towards them.
• Stepford Smiler: Discussed when the twins wonder just how much of Luz's "little ball of sunshine" personality is authentic versus how much of it was cultivated so people wouldn't abandon her.
• Sweet and Sour Grapes: Edric and Emira get stood up at what is going to be their last Grom due to their parents forcing them into a fast-track to graduation program...however, this leaves them free to hang out with Jerbo and Viney, even getting to dance with them.
• Supporting Protagonist: Luz becomes a major recurring character in this story while Eda and King only get occasional supporting roles.
• Talk to the Fist: Viney ends up being the lucky one to punch Odalia in the face and wipe off her smug smirk in the final confrontation against the Blight parents.
• Teen Pregnancy: Viney is said to be the result of one. Her mother was apparently younger than Viney currently is when she had her. Since Viney, Jerbo, and the twins are all sixteen…
• There Is Only One Bed: When the twins and Viney have to stay at Jerbo’s house overnight, Jerbo does not have enough extra blankets for everyone so he and Edric share his bed while Viney and Emira share the sofa.
• Twerp Sweating: Subverted by Jerbo's father when Edric goes to meet Jerbo's parents. The man intimidates Edric using his physique and a serious tone when they first meet, only to quickly reveal he did it as a joke.
• Understanding Significant Other: Edric and Emira are both very good for their respective partners. Edric happily agrees to go out and about with Jerbo at 2AM just because the latter needs an escape from his parents and Emira insists on helping Viney with her responsibilities when she comes over and finds Viney a frazzled wreck from trying to do all of said responsibilities while spiraling with stress over test prep so her girlfriend can focus on studying (and even get some sleep).
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee
• Villainous Breakdown
• Voice Changeling: Emira uses this trick to mimic Principal Bump’s voice as part of a ‘prank’ to gain the attention of Lilith and the guards inspecting Hexside.
• Your Mom: When Eda arrives at the final battle and is asked where she was, she says she was on a date with Camila. Luz assumed she was making one of these jokes at the time.

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