There's trouble brewing at Hexside Academy. Dark magic is running afoul in the Boiling Isles. This not only draws Luz and her friends into the fray, but also draws in a certain "dabbler" in the dark arts.
Raisin' Some Hell
(AO3 link here) is a crossover fic between The Owl House and DC Comics, specifically John Constantine and the more mythical side of DC Comics. The story is written by Halo20601 AKA MasterCheifMan, the same author of Defenders of the Universe.
Raisin' Some Hell provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Amity's parents are shown to be pretty awful. They only see their daughter as representing their legacy and not an actual person. It's telling that not only is Lilith a much better mother figure for Amity, but she's also thoroughly disgusted with how terrible the Blights are.
- Acceptable Breaks from Canon: The fic operates under multiple
Fandom Specific Plots such as Lilith being Amity's Parental Substitute and other differences such as Eda being the older sister, but this is partly justified due to the story being written and reaching those points before either the canon plot or Dana Terrace's Reddit AMA showed and informed otherwise. - Achilles' Heel: John and Nolan's magic may be versatile, but unlike the magic that Eda and Lilith use, it requires that they speak the incantations. When Eda casts a spell that clamps Nolan's mouth shut, he's reduced to just dodging and running from her attacks.
- Adaptational Badass:
- Besides her glyphs, Luz also starts to learn how to perform the type of magic Constantine can perform.
- Amity learns how to set her Abominations on fire to amplify them and can summon many at once.
- Adapted Out:
Word of God states that Luz's world is a variation of the DC universe where the Justice League doesn't exist. While DC characters do exist, it's mainly those connected to Hellblazer and John Constantine's mythos. - Age Lift: The episode "Wing it Like Witches" reveals that Lilith is the older of the Clawthorne siblings. Here, it's reversed with Eda being the older sister.
- Alternate Universe Fic: Word of God confirms in one of the AO3 tags that the story is an alternate universe to The Owl House canon and that it's following its own thing, diverging from the main continuity seeing as by the time it was written, Season 1 hadn't been finished yet. Among the differences so far is character age and relationships between said characters being altered.
- Amicable Exes: Averted. Lilith and John's relationship didn't end on pleasant terms and she still holds a grudge against him. When they first re-encounter in Chapter 5, she nearly attacks him on sight.
- Big Bad: At first, it seems like Nick Necro is this, but he's revealed to actually be The Dragon. June Moone, aka the Enchantress, is revealed to be behind the main plot.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- John saves Luz and her friends from Shadow Hounds when they were attacked in the woods in Chapter 2.
- Happens again in Chapter 6, where John, Eda, and Lilith arrive just in time to save Luz and her friends from the Ifrit they accidentally set loose.
- Bilingual Bonus: Luz's POV often has her thoughts told in Spanish, with her sometimes exclaiming things in Spanish as well. Some examples include:
- "Toda... toda se siente..."Translation
- "Club de lectura... secreta..."Translation
- "De ninguna manera!"Translation
- "No dejaré que me tiente." (thoughts)Translation
- Composite Character: John is an amalgamation of different versions of the character. He has the appearance and personality of his Arrowverse and DC Animated Movie Universe versions, the tattoos of his Keanu Reeves version from the live-action film and other elements from the Vertigo and New 52 comics.
- Crush Blush:
- Happens with Amity when her feelings for Luz are brought up or implied.
- Lilith whenever John or their past relationship comes up. Black Orchid even senses that she still has feelings for him.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Luz and her friends try to fight off Nick Necro by themselves...and they promptly get their asses handed to them since at the end of the day, they're a bunch of inexperienced teens going against a master of sorcery who is empowered by the magic of the other Hexside Students.
- Demonic Possession: Luz ends up getting possessed by a demon when one of the Shadow Hounds bites her in Chapter 2. John, with some help from Amity and Eda, is able to exorcise it.
- Easter Egg: In the House of Mystery, there are brief appearances from various DC artifacts and objects:
- In Chapter 4, there's the Dreamstone of Doctor Destiny, the Lasso of Truth, the Soul Taker sword, a Fatherbox, and the Book of the Black.
- In Chapter 6, there are the appearances of a broken Green Lantern ring, an angelic sword, and Neptune's Trident.
- Enemy Mine: Lilith may be an Anti-Villain who's against her sister and Constantine for different reasons, but she's more than willing to team up and work with them if it means saving the Hexside students.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Lilith is more of an Anti-Villain, but she does genuinely love her sister despite their differences and is a Mama Bear towards Amity.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The sheer depths of the Blights selfishness in how they treat their daughter as a tool for their ambitions leaves Lilith repulsed. Eda even notes that Lilith never once got that angry before, not even at her.
- First-Person Perspective: The story is written in first person and each chapter takes place from a different character's perspective. Chapters 1 and 3 are from Amity's perspective, Chapters 2 and 4 are from Luz's perspective, and Chapter 5 is from Eda's perspective.
- Funetik Aksent: Both John Constantine and Nick Necro speak in their canonical accents.
- Genius Loci: The House of Mystery is a sentient place filled with infinite corridors and mysterious and powerful artifacts. Its sentience takes the form of Black Orchid to interact with the heroes and it actively keeps the Helmet of Fate from finding a host to possess.
- Godzilla Threshold:
- How Jason Blood feels about Etrigan and himself. He'll only ever leave the House of Mystery as a last resort. The Enchantress and an army of the undead that are also on fire certainly fits the bill.
- Nick Necro planning to open a portal straight to Inferno is enough that John has Lilith retrieve something (later revealed to be the Helmet of Fate) from the House of Mystery to even the odds.
- Good Is Not Nice:
- John, considering he's been lying to everyone about June Moone being a victim of the Enchantress just so they wouldn't back out.
- Nabu is a Lord of Order, but he's clingy with his hosts and refuses to release them. As John puts it, he's as much a parasite as the Enchantress is.
- Hellhound: The Shadow Hounds are an example of this. They're ferocious, multi-headed supernatural dogs created to track down and hunt after any source of magic they sense, be it living or otherwise.
- I Am a Monster: Eda is very self-loathing because of her curse and views herself as a monster, as shown when she's attacked by a Woe Wyrm. She's especially scared of the possibility that her curse terrified Lilith and drove her away, making her the unwitting reason her sister joined the Emperor's Coven.
- Inn Between the Worlds: Quite literally in the House of Mystery's case. It normally exists outside of all known reality, literally being between the various worlds of the universe.
- It's All My Fault:
- Luz takes full responsibility for the Ifrit's release and the destruction it caused due to her carelessness. She also blames herself when her friends get captured by Nick Necro.
- Chapter 9 in Lilith's POV heavily implies that, like canon, she's responsible for cursing Eda, which she actively hates herself for.
- Mythology Gag: A couple to Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
- John, after some excessive drinking, immediately sobers up upon using magic similar to the Parademon pub brawl.
- John references one of his exes, Nanaue, aka King Shark, whom he dated in the animated film continuity.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A literal case, since Luz gets called out for breaking the Ifrit's container and almost burning the House of Mystery down. She acknowledges that she messed up.
- Nightmare Sequence: Amity has one in the first chapter where she's hunted by the Shadow Hounds and desperately screams for help - only there's no sound - until Lilith manages to wake her up.
- No Body Left Behind: Lilith incinerates Nick Necro, leaving nothing but ash.
- Not So Above It All: Well, considering that Lilith and John first met at a tavern after a stressful day of work, it shows that she's not above getting plastered to unwind. She's also shown to be willing to smoke cigarettes to unwind as well.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: John teleports the Enchantress away and spends most of the group's fight with Nick Necro and the undead army warding her off.
- Older Than They Look: John's been living in the House of Mystery for twenty five years. When Luz asks if he's been living there since he was a child, John responds:John: Since me early thirties, actually. I'm older than I look, Squire.
- Opposites Attract: Subverted. While the prim, orderly Lilith and the rogue, cocky John did date for a while, it was because of how opposite they were in values that they broke it off, though Orchid implies that she's still attracted to him.
- Order Versus Chaos: John explains to everyone at the Owl House that there exist many realms in the universe. About half the realms pertain to order while the other half pertain to chaos (The Boiling Isles being among the chaos realms), with the human world in neutral territory. The conflicts between these realms tend to cause chaos, mayhem, and many other problems for the human world ranging from global warming to large-scale demonic possessions.
- Our Demons Are Different: According to Constantine, the demons that come from Inferno (and the ones he has to contend with on a frequent basis) are far more malicious and dangerous than the ones that live on the Boiling Isles.
- Our Mages Are Different: The magic John practices and the magic used by witches of the Boiling Isles are very distinct from one another. Boiling Isles magic is much easier to pull off, safer, can be done on a whim with spell circles, and comes from an internal magic source while John's is far more complex and dangerous due to varying factors, requires that the user vocally speak incantations, and can come from sources external to the user that he goes over when explaining it to Luz.John: Can ye speak backwards without gettin' tongue-tied? Recite a brown bread language as well as ye can recite ya first? Have a magical bloodline? Cop ye mitts on a magical artifact that requires ye t' trade a part o' ya humanity? Or made a deal wit' an Old God or Archdemon? The last one I strongly suggest against. Trust me, ye're better off learnin' the way ye are.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Since the story is set before the events of "Understanding Willow", Amity is only really nice towards Luz and is still rather mean to Willow and Gus.
- Ship Tease:
- Between Luz and Amity:
- When Eda calls Amity Luz's girlfriend, her response is to blush and yell out "She...She's not my girlfriend!"
- Amity immediately gets between Luz and John when she thinks he's going to hurt her. She's also the most worried during her exorcism and is the first to run up and hug her when she's freed.
- Black Orchid also senses Amity's feelings for Luz and claims how she's confused by them.
- John and Lilith also get some, with Black Orchid implying that Lilith still has feelings for him.
- Between Luz and Amity:
- Trauma Button: After her nightmare in Chapter 1, the Shadow Hounds become this for Amity. When they're being chased by them in Chapter 2, Luz notes that Amity is the only one of them having an outright panic attack throughout the entire ordeal.
- Uptight Loves Wild: Zig-zagged. Lilith did end up falling for and dating John Constantine briefly, but they broke up because of how much of a rogue he was. However, it's implied that she's still attracted to him despite this.
- Who Writes This Crap?!: When Amity read a passage in the fifth Good Witch Azura book to bring out Luz's soul during her exorcism, this is everyone else's reaction to the actual writing quality of the book, more specifically the sickeningly sweet Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe style of writing.Eda: So, flowery.
Willow: How can they like that?
Gus: Not that we're judging.
King: You get used to it.
