So @midnitedancer and I got to talking about this dumb idea I had for a monster AU and it turned into a whole thing (this is huge) so here we go.
AU WHERE EVERYTHING IS BASICALLY THE SAME EXCEPT EVERYONE IS A MONSTER.
- Eric Richard Bittle is a small town witch from Georgia.
- He’s not a very powerful witch, and is actually terrible at most spells. He can’t cast a charm to save his life and he almost blew up his house trying to cast a tiny pimple hex on a bully at school. His mother was a champion on a broom, but Eric can’t stay on for more than a minute or two without falling off. For a while he thinks he might have gotten too much of his human father in him, and magic isn’t made for him.
- And then his mother teaches him how to bake.
- Eric is a demon in the kitchen. It’s where all of his magic comes out.
- He always knew his mother was a kitchen witch, but no one really ever knew how that would translate to him. Kitchen witches are typically female, but Suzanne Bittle was thrilled when she realized her son had inherited her knack for magical baked good.
- Eric can bake good luck, misfortune, love spells, hexes, confidence, you name it and he can bake it, into a pie. Cookies and brownies can work as well, but they tend to have a smaller effect.
- His father is a human with no magic, and head football coach for the local high school. Coach is aware that his wife is a witch, though the extent of her powers are a little nebulous to him. Eric tends not to share his own magical abilities with him.
- Doesn’t matter though, because he’s headed off to college at Samwell University to play hockey with the Big
MonstersBoys.- Eric comes from a pretty small community of mainly witches and humans. There was a werewolf pack that had some kids in his high school, and the odd phantom or two, but he knows Samwell is going to be a whole different ball game. There were at least five species he didn’t even recognize on the brochure alone.
- “Are you sure about this?” His mom asks for the 50th time. “I read online they allow demons to attend. Demons, Dicky!” “Mom, stop.” “Okay, but make sure you have your garlic. And your silver. And the gold. And iron. And-” “MOM.” “Okay, okay!”
- Samwell is an even bigger mess than Eric or his worried mother could have ever imagined. He is absolutely
terrifiedexcited.- During athletic orientation Eric ends up between two of his fellow hockey players (Ollie and Pacer, he thinks their names are), both of whom are a foot taller than him. They are both also very excitable werewolves who seem to be forming a pack right in front of him. Or around him, as he is still stuck between them.
- Those two, however, are absolutely nothing compared to the rest of his team.