ooough man i love it but there is so LITTLE of it in the fandom that i like. Actually Like lmao.

okay - well a big one that i really like is the idea of Belos getting to Luz first. like he snatches her up before Eda can and keeps her and plays into her main character syndrome and her tendency early on to view this all as one of her fantasy adventures. she's the honored guest of the noble witch emperor etc etc - i especially like him slowly grooming her and maybe trying to see if she and Hunter will play nice together and meanwhile Hunter knows exactly what is happening and is so mad and so jealous and so worried for her.

love when Hunter is the third player here, either because Belos wants to make his Barbies kiss or because he's playing them against each other.

i love the idea of like, time-travel Philuz too... that one fic of mine where Luz gets separated from him and Lilith and he tells her Lilith died and takes her in (keeps her in his nasty murder cave to groom and molest her) is a favorite concept... in this case i like Luz thinking she can fix him, admiring and looking up to him, maybe even seeing this as a sort of forbidden romance type of thing.

and of course there's my unwritten au where they both get thrown into another dimension together and have to cooperate to get out. i love enemies-to-reluctant-conspirators, when people are put in a survival situation together. the intimacy! i want them to have no one but each other to rely on, to be in each other's back pockets constantly, for her to be forced to get to know him as a person and not just her enemy.

i love her falling for his manipulation, especially when she thinks she's on the lookout for it. i also love him coercing her into stuff which she doesn't want to do but feels like she has no other choice - her sacrificing herself for the others is always good. love him having Hunter help 'train' her or 'break her in' and the two of them having a fucked up relationship because of that. i really love thinking about the ways Belos could manipulate Luz and play on her tendency to fantasize and daydream and see things in terms of stories where she's the main character in order to draw her deeper into his web, and the ways that she might fall back on that tendency to try and deal with the abuse she's experiencing from him as it escalates.