#simatra

Imagine how she and Simon enter new Car and Catra realizes that she is back on Etheria, and almost immediately she gets a panic attack. She is back in a place she tried not to think about.

So Catra thinks she's back on Etheria, and she's afraid she'll meet Adora and the others.  And then she looks at her hand and sees that the number is still with her. She realizes that this is not Etheria, and her panic only gets worse.She begins to doubt that she is a real person, and not a denizen of the Train who received the number by mistake. She is afraid that at any moment she will see Adora and the others.

And then she and Simon meet local denizens who don't look like creatures from Etheria at all, and Catra has mixed feelings because she can't figure out if she's glad she's a real person or not. And Simon is constantly trying to help her.

I do not yet know what location from Etheria would be in this car, but in any case, the thing is that One-One created this car after looking through Catra's memories.

Oh man, this is quite the conundrum for poor Catra. Seeing all this and having all these worrying, maddening thoughts going though her head, it's understandable why she wouldn't be having a good time. I imagine she'd be unwilling to tell Simon what's happening to her or what she's feeling, at least not fully - so she'd instead just let it bubble up inside of her while Simon is torn between leaving her to it or coaxing her worries out of her.

Hmmmm...!

So, this is a crossover of the Owl House and Infinity Train.

Philip, after returning to the human realm, recovers faster than in the canon. And he learns how much the world has changed. He is glad that humanity has created so many things without any magic, but the realization that his views are outdated, that magic is no longer considered evil, that witch hunters are not considered heroes, makes him feel very bad.

He studies everything that has happened over the centuries. This world is not the world that he left once. There are completely different problems in this world (Which he could solve with magic, but he can't even think about it). It makes him feel even worse. Some part of him wants to believe that all this is not true, some part of him wants to return to the Boiling Isles and continue to rule the witches, as he has done for many years, some part of him just wants to be a hero or at least a good person.

He uses the ability to turn into slime to get into different places and steal different things. He feels bad that he has to do this to people, but this is the only way. After some time, he decides to leave Gravesfield and move to another place that will not remind him of the home that is no longer there.

And that's how he gets on the Infinity Train. I think that Philip would be the first passenger whose number would cover the whole body immediately after getting on the Train.

This place amazes him, each car has its own separate world with different inhabitants. But he doesn't know what to do with them. The variety of these creatures reminds him of the inhabitants of Boiling Isles, but he knows that his actions on the Isles would be considered evil if he told anyone about them.

He remembers what he heard from the video from the Conductor, about the Denizens and about the essence of the number. All this sounds strange and so unlike what he managed to learn about the modern Human Realm. He's not going to just believe the words of some sphere. If he was naive, he would have been dead long ago. So, he decides to study the Train the same way he once studied the Boiling Isles.

Honestly, I'm not sure if he would have called his real name or called himself Belos. But he would act the same as in Elsewhere and Elsewhen. As Lilith said, “The confidence, the compliments. He says everything you want to hear.”

He wears his suit, he has bags with things from the Human Realm and he is ready for anything. And at some point, he meets Amelia. Maybe it was just a chance meeting, or maybe she was purposefully looking for him, a passenger with such a high number, after she saw him on one of the monitors in the Engine.

She is a human being just like him, so he asks for help. And Amelia is shocked to hear Alrick's voice. At first, she thinks that Philip is another Turtle Person who can transform into a human, like Hazel. But his number looks so real, unlike Hazel's number. She agrees to help Philip, simply because it is the only way to hear Alric's voice besides Aloysius. And it is more enjoyable for her to talk to a human than to a turtle.

What do you think about it? Oh, and I do not know where to put it, but Simon is alive and he has Catra as his partner. This ship still seems interesting to me

Wawawa I love this! For real, this was a delight to read. Philip finally meeting a human who kind've(??) understands him? He has no idea of the effect his voice has on Amelia though, not that she needs to tell him right now. Amelia herself honestly can't explain how it's happened, but she doesn't want to leave the guy who sounds so much like him - *and* is a human man, as a plus.

And don't you worry, Simatra is still very much alive in this lil joint AU. They're still travelling the train, with Simon having a high, body-spanning number, and Catra dreading the day he'll have to leave (she understands what happens now), although she doesn't really talk about that with him. Not right now, anyway.

imagine all four of them meeting up.

- I like the idea of Luz not being able to properly move on from her trauma wrought by the events of the series, leading her to become a darker, angrier person. As such, she ends up on the Train when she's visiting the Human Realm.

- her assigned denizen is none other than Alan Dracula, the weird super-laser deer (although she doesn't call him that, as you can imagine). Just picture her riding on his back or feeding him grass, all while trying to figure out how to get off this goddamn train, while missing her friends.

- another idea: both Luz *and* Camila end up on the Train, since both of them have unresolved issues of trauma and pain, and perhaps they both have issues communicating with each other? In a similar vein to Ryan and Min-Gi. So the both of them trapped. I think it'd make for an interesting dynamic, since I'd like to see more of them interacting.

Actually, both of your ideas about who Catra is for the Train seem interesting.

If she is a passenger on the train, then Simon will be very shocked. Catra looks like a denizen, but she has a number. By her existence, Catra contradicts the idea that the denizens are not living beings, since they do not have a number.

If Catra is a denizen, then as you said earlier, it's more dramatic for her. Her whole world is just a car in an infinity train, the purpose of which is psychological help for passengers who have come from somewhere outside.

There are also a couple of details that work in both cases.

Catra is a cat girl who becomes Simon's new companion, just like Samantha The Cat once was. I don't know if you thought about it initially, but it's cool.

Also, in both cases, the members of Apex will be shocked to see Simon traveling with the denizen.

Yeyey, I'm glad you like it! I really like your input too. Both scenarios offer interesting avenues for plot and dissection (and thus, drama and angst, as well as character development).

Simon would have to work hard to move past his hatred for 'nulls', and it wouldn't be a day-long process. At the same time, Catra would also have to work on her trust issues. As you can imagine, these two aren't exactly warm towards one another at the start. No matter the timeline, a lot of their story/arc would be them travelling through the train and growing as people, no matter how long this takes. As well as this, they'd eventually - perhaps inevitably - fall for each other.

Well, I have two major ideas for it:

- Catra ends up on the Train due to her issues, and has a particularly high number. As such, she eventually runs into Simon, who still has a VERY high number across his body; he was exiled from the Apex by Grace for his actions, and so has been wandering the train on his own and doing some soul-searching.

- second scenario is a bit more mind-bending and dramatic for Catra. Etheria itself is a train car, and Catra - after surviving the war and going into self-imposed exile - happens upon one of the exits/entrances and finds herself outside. She travels the train for a good while, utterly perplexed by this event and trying to find how deep the rabbit hole goes (as well as trying to get away from Adora and her old life). She eventually runs into a number-laden Simon, same as above.

Why, certainly!

Only comfortable with cuddling each other, although it took a while to work up to it.

Classic rivals-to-friends-to-lovers storyline; Simon had somewhat dropped his null-hatred by this point.

Both insanely attracted to each other.

Power bottom Catra; gentle top Simon.

Catra has a thing for blondes, and Simon has a thing for bad girls who take charge.

The curious and inquisitive side of Simon takes iver sometimes and he'll examine Catra's claws and fur, being utterly fascinated by her. Catra's fine with this up to a point, whereas she'll yank her hand away bashfully and self-consciously.

Simon's the only one Catra will let stroke her. She especially likes it when he scritches the back of her neck, and she'll just 'shut off' and lay there for a while as he does it.

Lots of cuddles when they're ready.

Shared trauma.

Both have anger issues they're trying to keep under control.