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Fanart by Anim-nee-art: twitter . com/anim_nee/status/1524134020711260160?s=20t=pmsySXBtimqKeOPyTCfaOw
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I also made something, this is what i think Tate would look like: www . reddit . com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/unz1nv/a_repost_im_using_for_a_fanfic_i_may_delete_and/?utm_medium=android_apputm_source=share
Also, someone asked me what my headcannon voice for Tate is and I'm sorry to say that i can't for the life of me remember. Though, maybe the image in the reddit link i made would help you imagine it.
Enjoy.
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"Ahh, nothing like a hot drink to start the day." Said Tate happily in his silver scout costume.
"Yup." Added a scout next to him cheerfully. "Especially since you're patrolling Bonesborough today."
Tate removed his mask and took a sip out of his drink. "A day here at the station away from the castle is good every once in a while."
"Always great to have you here" said the scout cheerfully as he walked away.
Suddenly, as Tate was enjoying his drink, the entire building shook. At first, Tate thought nothing of it...then the building shook again.
Without questions, Tate pulled out his sword, put on his mask and got ready for combat.
The moment he left the room, he had to dodge the body of a poor scout that was flung to the wall behind him.
"R-run! S-she's too strong!" Cried the scout desperately.
Tate immediately covered his sword in blue aura and walked slowly to the source of the chaos.
Scouts were being thrown left and right like paper. Tate narrowed his eyes under his mask as he saw the shadow of the intruder.
"You've got to be kidding me." Deadpanned Tate tiredly before calling to the intruder. "Grandma Gwen! What are you doing here?!"
Gwendolyn heard her grandson's voice from around the corner and immediately ran towards him with a limping scout in one hand.
"Tate!" She said as she threw the helpless scout away and hugged her grandson tightly...so tightly he could barely breathe.
"I..can't...breathe." Tate was barely able to utter out before Gwendolyn excitedly let him go. "H-hey!"
Tate was able to breathe for a few seconds before Gwen began forcibly pulling him away.
"C'mon, witchlet, we're going to visit your family." Said Gwendolyn with a bright smile as they were nearing the entrance of the station.
"You guys, don't look for me! I'll be fine!" Tate yelled towards the remaining conscious scouts he could see. He was met with groans of pain and acknowledgement. Tate then turned towards his grandmother and spoke trying to control his anger at the situation. "Can you please explain what you're doing?"
"I'm visiting your aunt today and i thought you should properly meet your family." Said Gwendolyn as she summoned her staff and forced Tate to ride it with her.
"I have work!" Tate cried out angrily as they began flying in the air. "I can't just-"
"Is work more important than your family?" Gwen replied with a frown.
Tate sighed knowing that there was only one answers and spoke. "No, it's not."
Gwendolyn nodded in agreement before having her staff fly at a much faster speed, not caring about what's in the way.
"Can you at least slow down?!" Exclaimed Tate angrily as he tightly clutched Gwen's staff. "I'm not used to flying on something that isn't an airship!"
"There's no time, we'll be late!" Replied Gwen cheerfully as she sped up even more.
Soon, much to Tate's annoyance, the two made it to The Owl House.
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"Well, I may have been using it to hide from someone."
"Hide from who?"
"Probably me!" Declared Gwendolyn cheerfully as she landed gracefully in front of Eda and Luz at the owl house
"Old lady with a hawk! And The Silver Scout!"
Tate landed right beside her, still wearing his costume. He shook his head to recover himself from the horrendous flight before turning to Gwendolyn who was already approaching Eda.
"Hello, litte witchlet!" Said Gwen happily as her staff vanished before trying to hug her daughter. "Come here!"
"Gwendolyn." Eda hissed as she stopped Gwen by the head. "And why is he here?"
Tate was more than happy to explain. "She dragged me here by force after ruthlessly beating up my subordinates." He said calmly causing Eda to wince as the fate of the poor scouts.
One thing Tate noted was surprising, was how Eda was calm about him being here even without a proper explanation.
Gwendolyn, not even sparing Tate's comment a glance, cheerfully replied to Eda. "Oof. Are we still on that? I'm your mother. Call me 'Mom.'"
""Mom?!""
This sentence seemed to surprise not only Luz, but Lilith who heard it from inside the house as well.
And Lilith was even more surprised to see Tate next to Gwen.
"You! Why are you here?! Didn't i say-" Lilith spat before realizing that her 'son' was brought here by her mother. "Does she...know?"
"I'd be concerned if she didn't." Muttered Tate tiredly so that only Lilith would hear.
Lilith frowned before turning to her mother who was too preoccupied with Edalyn to notice her.
"It is so good to see you again." Said Gwen cheerfully as she squished Eda's face with her hands. "How are you feeling? Are you eating well? I heard all about the Petrification Ceremony. Trust me, I have a lot of strong words for that Belos."
Lilith jumped at the opportunity "Mother! You know i was ther-"
Gwendolyn finally noticed Lilith and cut her off. "Oh, hello to you too, sweet flea. Look who i brought!" She said as she gestured towards Tate. "Now, you two can chat all you like while i go talk to Edalyn. It's important."
"But- i- want-" Lilith was paralyzed as she tried reaching out for her mother before pulling her hand back dejectedly. She went to the owl house and sat on the ground with her back to the door.
Tate saw this and almost wanted to chuckle at the irony, but found no reason to laugh on Lilith's broken expression. He stared at her looking miserable until he heard his grandmother's declaration.
"-today i shall be curing your curse!"
"No thanks." Deadpanned Eda as she used her finger to clean out her ear.
""What?!"" Exclaimed Lilith and Luz in union.
"I said, 'No, thanks.' I got my elixir system. I'm good." Eda glared at Gwendolyn.
"But- but who knows what they put in those nasty concoctions?!" Replied Gwendolyn worriedly.
"Actually, I do. Now, can you stop visiting me every year with a bogus cure and tell me why you kidnapped the kid?" Asked Eda with a frown as she gestured towards Tate. Lilith did not miss how Gwen visited Eda regularly.
Tate immediately stood between Eda and her mother and spoke.
"No need! I have work and I should be getting out of your hair. Farewell." Said Tate, waving as he was beginning to leave.
"B-but Lilith's here. Aren't you happy to see her?" Asked Gwen in a confused tone.
"Wha? Why would he be happy to see her?" Asked Eda in confusion. "Is there something I'm missing here?"
Tate ignored Eda's question and answered Gwendolyn's "Hardly. I don't want anything to do with that old hag." He replied calmly.
"And I don't want anything to do with that brat." Added Lilith in a bitter tone.
Gwen's gaze switched between Lilith and Tate before she crossed her arms and frowned.
"Well, that's no way for a mother and son to act towards each other!"
The silence that followed was deafening and the question that was asked was even more so...as well as a gasp of happiness and excitement from Hooty.
""WHAT?!"" Eda and Luz exclaimed.
Tate and Lilith groaned in union at the situation before Gwendolyn forcibly removed Tate's mask and cloak.
"And look! He looks just like his mother when she was his age." Said Gwendolyn happily as she presented the true face of the Silver Scout.
Eda didn't say anything and instead pounced in front of Tate and began squishing his face. As he struggled to tell her to leave his face alone, she noticed something poking out of Tate's pocket: a pair of round glasses...Lilith's glasses.
"*gasp* glasses!" Eda immediately placed the glasses on Tate's face and took a good look at his face. "You look just like her. That's why you called me auntie. I-i have nephew?"
"Okaaay, questions later, can you please let go of my face now?" Asked Tate trying to frown before Eda silently let him go. "Thank you. Now, I'll be taking my mask and cloak back and leav-"
Tate couldn't finish before Hooty coiled around him and dragged him inside the owl house.
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Lilith's day couldn't get worse. Everyone now knows that she has a kid, one that she had never asked for.
And worst of all, she learned that she was the last thing on her mother's mind. While her sister gets visited regularly, she got nothing. Even her "son" got more attention from her mother than her!
So, after Eda flung their mother into the air and Luz going after her, she did the one thing she felt she could do this situation.
"I give up." She said dejectedly as she dragged her depressed body inside the house.
"Lily?" Called Eda only to see that Lilith was too depressed to reply.
After going inside, Lilith went to the kitchen and brought some ice cream buckets and layed down on the floor.
"Hey! Can you get your bird friend to let me go?" Asked Tate as Hooty tried forcibly becoming his friend.
Lilith didn't answer and just quietly began eating some ice cream. Something that took Hooty's attention off of Tate, finally.giving him some room to breathe.
"She didn't even care i was here." Said Lilith in a depressed tone, eating some ice cream.
Tate stared at her a frown and narrowed his eyes before speaking. "First time?"
"Oh, shut up! At least SHE wanted to be a parent!" replied Lilith as she downed another scoop of ice cream.
"Isn't it amazing, Francois? If Eda's mom can just pop up, who says my dad can't?" Said King excitedly as he stared at Gwendolyn through the window, not paying attention to Tate and Lilith's conversation. "Nyeh! Better get my hugging arms ready."
"Ha!" Lilith laughed attracting the tiny demon's attention. She continued speaking while eating ice cream. "Yeah, good luck with all that dad stuff. Sometimes it doesn't matter how dutiful you are or successful you are, parents just won't give you the time of day."
"I second that." Tate raised his arm as he lied on the couch next to King.
"Don't listen to her, Francois. My dad won't be like that."
Lilith sneered. "Right. Your mysterious father, who didn't even stick around to watch you hatch." She said causing King's excitement to break down. "Looks like you and I are in the same boat, King."
"Great, and I'm just dangling in the water tied to your boat." Added Tate tiredly. "I wanna go home."
Eda stared at the scene of everyone depressed and moping and took a deep breath.
"Okay, we've got to work on..." said Eda before gesturing towards the entirety of Tate and Lilith. "All of this."
Tate frowned. "Just give up; I've been trying to do that for the last 15 years and i give up." Said Tate dejectedly as he covered his face with his hands. "You should too."
"Please, sister, let this go." Added Lilith as she downed another scoop of ice cream.
Eda winced, realizing that this was going to be much harder than she initially thought.
"Look, no one said this was going to be easy, but you're my family and i-"
"There's a sign for apple blood outside. I'm assuming that's for you?" Said Tate raising a brow after remembering this part of the episode by getting a glance at one of Luz and Gwen's signs.
Eda stopped and turned to the window to see that there was indeed a sign. Eda turned to Tate and frowned.
"Don't worry! I'll male sure they get along!" Declared Hooty cheerfully
Eda sighed "We'll finish this later." She said before running outside and following the signs for apple blood.
Seeing that Eda was gone, Tate buried his face in the couch as Lilith and King groaned in depression with Hooty being the only one in a good mood.
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"How do you get a parent's attention?" Asked King in depression as he groaned on the floor with Lilith from the quantity of ice cream they ate.
"Heck if I know. Mother wasn't even at my Coven Initiation." Replied Lilith eating another scoop of ice cream.
"Tell me about it." Commented Tate in exasperation as the only one not drowning in ice cream.
"Can you just shut up already! I never wanted to be a parent!" Said Lilith angrily.
"Uh, maybe you ate a bit too much ice cream." Said Hooty with a nervous laugh. "You know Eda gets that stuff from the night market, right?"
"Oh leave her be, at least it'll be enjoyable." Said Tate frowning as he glared at his mother.
That comment made Lilith get up from the ground and raise her voice at Tate.
"Why are you still here?! I already said I don't want to be a parent! I don't want and never wanted anything to do with you!"
This made Tate angry. He got up from the couch and looked Lilith dead in the eye and yelled.
"Well, couldn't you have just left me alone or ignored me?!" He cried out angrily. "No! You just kept putting me down! Why?! What is it that made you hate me so much?!"
"That you have my face! That every time i look at you I'm reminded of all my old mistakes! That I feel pathetic every time you beat down an obstacle i fell to when you're weaker than i was! Heck! You're never even phased by my insults! You just shrug them off like nothing happened! SO WHY DO YOU CARE IF I DO ANYTHING?!"
"I DON'T SHRUG THEM OFF! I CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP SOMETIMES LISTENING TO MY STUPID RECORDINGS OF YOU HATING ME!" Said Tate as he began tearing up.
Lilith went stiff from shock and her widened. She took a step back as she took in what she just heard.
"I WISH I CAN SHRUG IT OFF LIKE YOU WANT! BUT I CAN'T! BECAUSE STUPID BODY WON'T LET ME!" Tate said as he began to cry before running out of the house and into the woods.
King and Hooty stared at the scene with not so happy expressions that were only filled with fear a second later when Lilith began sprouting feathers.
Lilith tried to scramble for one bottle of the elixir only to find out that they all had disappeared and that she could only scream as she transformed into a large beast.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
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"*sniff* ugh! I hate this body! I don't want it!" Said Tate as cried with his back to a tree. "*sob* I just wanna go back."
Suddenly, as he sat there crying his sadness away, the tree he was sitting with his back to was destroyed by none other than Lilith in her cursed form chasing after King.
"Can't leave me alone even when you're a monster, huh?" Said Tate in a bitter tone as he got up. "Now i have to make sure nothing changes."
Tate quickly followed King and Lilith into the forest until they all made it to where Eda, who was also in her beast form, was.
"So Lilith and her son got into a fight and, uh, the light glyph didn't really work. So, uh... uh... uh..." said King nervously as Tate rushed in and stood in front of him with his sword ready for a fight. "SHE TURNED INTO THAT THING!"
Suddenly, a large shadow flew over Gwendolyn and Luz and landed right in front of the owl beast.
Gwen stared at her eldest daughter in shock. "Sweet flea?" She said as the two beasts fought their way to Bonesborough. "That…was my little sweet flea? That means she's also..."
"Cursed? YES! Were you not paying any attention to her?!" King yelled angrily
"She wasn't." Said Tate coldly. "I'll follow them and try to minimize the damage, don't be late."
With that Tate used magic to strengthen his body to make a dash to Bonesborough.
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Tate had two worries about this fight.
First, people could see his face and recognize him because of his sword usage since he didn't have his mask. Second, he was afraid the curse would mess with the spell that allows him to safely decapitate targets.
So, as a solution for both problems, Tate abandoned his sword and any recognizable part of his costume in the forest where he'd look for them later.
For now, he kept both beasts focusing on him; giving light kicks here and there to only aggravate them until Gwendolyn arrived...which she did.
"My beautiful daughters, I failed you." Said Gwendolyn, guilt dripping from her voice.
Like in the show, Eda in her cursed form approached Gwendolyn and she comforted her.
What was different was Lilith.
"Again?" Asked Tate as Lilith attacked him only for him to knock her down. "Why can't you ever help me for once?!"
The beast roared angrily as it tried to get away from Tate who pinned it down by the neck.
"You keep calling everyone a brat while you're the one who keeps causing trouble! For once in your life do something good and START FIGHTING THIS STUPID CURSE!"
Somehow someway, Tate's words had an effect on Lilith. The beast started tearing up and it's struggle lessened as Eda also started calming down.
"Now!" Said Gwendolyn prompting Luz and King to pour the elixir into the two sister's mouths.
The two sisters soon turned back to normal and Tate sighed in relief.
As he was about to jump and head into the forest to get his sword and costume back, Lilith who was full blown crying reached out to him.
"T-Tate, i-"
"I'll be back at the owl house to collect my mask and cloak." Said Tate tiredly before leaving Lilith to have a moment with her mother.
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After getting his sword back, Tate sat with his back to the outside walls of the owl house.
A bit after everyone came back, Lilith approached him with a guilty expression.
"Tate, i...am so-"
"Sorry? It's too late for that." Tate cut her off with a frown
"I know. I am moving in with mom and dad to make up for some lost time." Said Lilith looking down in shame.
""WHAT?!"" exclaimed Eda and Luz in shock.
"You lived here?" Asked King in confusion.
As Gwen began explaining things to Luz and Eda, Hooty ran towards his friend.
"NO!! LULU, YOU CAN'T!!!" Said Hooty in tears.
"Hootsifer, I have to. But don't worry, we can be pen pals." Said Lilith with a warm smile.
"BUT I CAN'T HOLD A PEEEEEN!!!"
Lilith turned back to her son and spoke with a guilty expression.
"I thought that since I'm going to mom and dad's house, we could try to fix things...slowly. mom told me about your visits."
Tate went frowned as he stared at her expression. "...no. You don't know anything about being a parent. Unless you can magically find a way to understand it, you'll only make things worse."
Lilith's shoulders dropped dejectedly, the regret seeping into her mind. Though, at that moment, her eyes widened as she had an idea.
"What if there was?" She asked with a smile earning a confused look from Tate. "I'll make you a sibling!"
Gwen and Eda simultaneously choked on air upon hearing that.
"I'll try to depend on myself as much as possible, so, would watching me suffer at the hands parenthood allow you to give me a chance?" Lilith pleaded with a hopeful look.
Tate went silent for a few seconds before laughing. "Maybe." He said as removed a tear from laughter.
"I'll take it!" Said Lilith cheerfully before Eda stepped up.
"Uhm, Lily, i don't know if...uhh"
Gwen was next to try and mend this seemingly awkward situation. "Don't you think you should discuss this with your partner first?"
"Partner?" Asked Lilith before the realization dawned on her. "Oh, no! I don't have a partner. Tate's mine alone...and i don't mean my partner left me, Tate's essentially a clone of me. I made him using this scroll." She pulled out a scroll from her pocket.
""Oh!"" Said Eda and Gwen with relief in union.
"Why were you acting so weird about that?" Asked King in confusion
"When you're older, King." Said Eda as she clamped his mouth shut.
Tate was surprised that Lilith kept that scroll and it seems that she was able to see that.
"I kept it because it looked so old. I thought it might have some historical value." Said Lilith sheepishly
Tate stared at the scroll before noticing something on it's seal. It was faintly glowing and Tate decided to hold his finger against it.
Lilith was confused, but a few seconds later a scroll was poofed into existence and fell to the ground.
"What?" Asked Lilith in confusion before repeating what Tate did only for the scroll to teleport up and fall down again. "How did i miss this?"
Tate ignored her and began reading the new scroll, Lilith shortly following.
"Instructions manual? Baby formula? Genetic variations? Possible mutations? This isn't a cloning spell! This is a spell for those who want kids without a partner!" Said Tate in surprise.
"...huh...that explains a lot." Said Lilith in realization.
Tate's eyes widened before he cleared his throat and turned to Lilith. "Uhh, can we keep this as a family heirloom or something? I'm, uh, i don't think I'd like to have a romantic relationship anyone so..."
"Hmm, from this i can see that children can look different from the parent so it's technically not cloning." Said Lilith with a hand on her chin before shrugging. "I don't see why not. Looks like this scroll is about to be the lifeblood of our bloodline."
Tate genuinely laughed at that joke, marking the beginning of the two making up.
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