History Characters / TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles

The covens of the Boiling Isles; it was issued once Emperor Belos became the ruler of the Boiling Isles due to his hatred of WildMagic. There are nine main covens: [[MagicMusic Bard]], [[GreenThumb Plants]], [[MasterOfIllusion Illusion]], [[{{Seers}} Oracle]], [[TheBeastmaster Beast Keeping]], [[DishingOutDirt Construction]], [[HealingHands Healing]], [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Abominations]], and [[AlchemyIsMagic Potions]]. Once a person is assigned to a coven, they receive a sigil that binds them to only using that coven's magic. The only exception is the Emperor's Coven, which is an elite military force working directly under the Emperor with special clearance to use all forms of magic.

* TheCameo: In "Young Blood, Old Souls", in the flashback to Eda and Lilith's duel, what appears to be her younger self can [[https://twitter.com/EDASlMP/status/1299530093258248192 be seen if you look carefully]].

* TheCameo: In "Young Blood, Old Souls", within the flashback to Eda and Lilith's duel, what shows up to be his more youthful self [[https://twitter.com/EDASlMP/status/1299530093258248192 can be seen in case you see carefully]].

'''The Boiling Isles''' ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard The Golden Guard]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

* EqualOpportunityEvil: There doesn't seem to be any discrimination by what counts as races and skin tones, there are several women holding high government positions and no one looks twice at Willow's dads or at [[spoiler:Luz and Amity [[InterspeciesRomance being a couple]].]] The only thing that matters is compliance with the Coven System.

->''"Mama to [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Mittens]]. Remember our deal, make this look good and we'll forgive your recent lackluster performance at school."''

[[caption-width-right:290:''"I goofed off a lot back then. But [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight you]] have a bright future and shouldn't waste it on that nonsense."'']]

'''The Boiling Isles''' ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard The Golden Guard]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

* AbusiveMom: Odalia threatens Amity with ruining Willow's life if she doesn't cut ties with her, expels Luz, Gus, and Willow for interfering with her education, uses her children as bargaining chips, forces everyone on Boiling Isles to die for Belos' royalty, and makes a deal to serve the Collector.* AffectionateNickname: [[spoiler: While acting as his servant, the Collector refers to her as "Mama-dalia". It's pretty clear that Odalia herself does not approve of the name, but is in no position to do anything about it.]]

* AbusiveMom:
** Her very first scene quickly paints her as such. Odalia threatened Amity with ruining Willow's life if she didn't cut ties with her, simply because Odalia viewed their friendship as an embarrassment.
** In Season 2, [[spoiler:she tries to get Luz, Gus, and Willow expelled for what she perceives as interfering with Amity's education. Odalia is the main force behind the action, with Alador being too much of an AbsentMindedProfessor to even be involved except for being a mouthpiece for his wife. When Odalia tries to go back on her deal with Luz to allow her and her friends back into Hexside, he calls her out on this and [[PragmaticVillainy argues that Amity is actually growing stronger despite what his wife thinks]].]]
** In "Clouds on the Horizon" [[spoiler:she uses her children as bargaining chips to force Alador to keep working under threat of them being forcibly conscripted into Blight Industries and later tries to force her children to allow everyone else on the Boiling Isles to die because she believes Belos will make them royalty in exchange. She doesn't even care at all when her actions turn her entire family against her.]]
** "For the Future" [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] this: [[spoiler: Odalia makes a deal to serve the Collector in the hopes of secretly manipulating him for her own ends. But when confronted with a child she can't just bully into submission like she did with her own children, Odalia's totally out of her depth and is unable to assert any sort of control over the Collector.]]
* AffectionateNickname: [[spoiler: While acting as his servant, the Collector refers to her as "Mama-dalia". It's pretty clear that Odalia herself does not approve of the name, but is in no position to do anything about it.]]

* ArmsDealer: Blight Industries sells Abominations and Abomination-based accessories for use as personal security, with them specializing in weaponry. Odalia handles the sales portion of the business while Alador actually creates the products. [[spoiler:Belos ends up buying all their Abomaton 2.0s to gain a personal army for himself rather than allowing anyone else to possess one and when Alador later becomes concerned over their deal due to the sheer number of them Belos has requested, Odalia makes it clear she doesn't care what their customers do with the weapons they buy.]]
* BadBoss: While we don't see much of her business, what we ''do'' know is that she's a slave-driver. She has her husband work day and night with no breaks, creating a divide between him and their children. She uses Amity as a test subject for demonstrations of their products as a punishment, and tries to have Luz killed as part of their Abomaton demonstration. In "Clouds on the Horizon", Alador reveals that not only does she make him work while still recovering from fire-flu, but in that time [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity she had half his team fired]] while ''still'' expecting them to finish their projects.

* TheBully: Strip away her rank and social standing, and this is who Odalia is at heart. She happily insults, humiliates, and terrorizes those weaker than her for fun and to make herself feel big, going as far as to antagonize Willow, and also Luz.

** Season 2 reveals that Odalia--in addition to being an abusive mother--[[spoiler:runs Blight Industries, an abomination-based home security and weapons manufacturing corporation that frequently holds {{Arms Fair}}s to show off their product line. Odalia, in particular, uses her connections in "Escaping Expulsion" to get Luz, Gus, and Willow expelled (temporary), basically blackmails Luz (her daughter's crush) into being the guinea pig for their weapons showcase, and is all-but said to be trying to ''kill'' her, and shown to have had no intention of following on her end of the bargain; her husband has to call her out on this last one to get her to honor their agreement.]]

** In "Escaping Expulsion", [[spoiler:her attempts to control Amity's life by expelling her friends and trying to kill Luz only serves to motivate Amity to lash out and rebel against her--then afterwards, she still intends to break her promise to Luz until Alador explains why that'd be bad for their reputation. Also, she openly brags about Blight Industries forming its own army--while clearly not considering how the Isles' authoritarian Emperor might feel about that, which results in the Golden Guard paying them a visit at the end of the episode.]]

** After she's [[spoiler: disowned by the rest of the family, she vows to find a new business partner, forgetting that Alador was the main reason why Blight Industries was so profitable. She also doesn't consider that no one would be willing to work with her after the draining spell kills almost everyone and she enabled it.]]

* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:"Clouds on the Horizon" reveals there's an element of emotional/psychological abuse in her and Alador's marriage. Not only does she push him to keep working 24/7 at the cost of his own physical health, but she also generally shows little regard for his autonomy or opinions. She also uses their children as pawning chips to get what she wants, threatening to make them "more involved" with Blight Industries (what exactly this means isn't revealed, but Alador's reaction makes it clear it's nothing good) if he doesn't bow to her will. The episode heavily implies she sees Alador, along with his creations, as cash cows and lackeys to do her bidding, and very little else.]]

* FatalFlaw: '''[[DidntThinkThisThrough Lack of Foresight]]'''. Ironically for an Oracle, Odalia can be remarkably shortsighted and often doesn't think about the potential consequences of her actions until they come back to bite her. In many instances, she's too fixated on getting what she wants to consider them or thinks that her status means that such things won't apply to her. The best example of this probably comes from "For the Future" [[spoiler: where Odalia fails to anticipate that making a deal to serve the Collector would leave her stuck being his maid rather than being in a position of power as she clearly hoped she would be. In the end, her shortsighted decisions permanently separate her from her family, who want nothing to do with her.]]

* HateSink:
** She is a mean-spirited and manipulative socialite who cares more for power, wealth, and reputation than the happiness of her children. While both she and her husband have SocialDarwinist tendencies, Odalia is the primary disciplinarian while Alador has little interest in anything aside from his studies.
** "Clouds on the Horizon" has her reveal that [[spoiler:she knew all along that Belos plans on wiping out life on the Boiling Isles with the Day of Unity. But Odalia kept it a secret because she believes her family will be spared and made into royalty as a reward for their service, all while acting smug and self-righteous about it. This is too much even for Alador who sides with their children, destroys their factory, and "quits" his and his wife's partnership. She also disapproves of Amity's relationship with Luz, telling Amity that they'll find her a more appropriate girlfriend once Luz is arrested, which causes Amity to disown her mother and vow to never speak to her again. After everything is said and done, she doesn't even acknowledge Alador as her husband but heartlessly says she'll find another business partner.]] All of this is done with the intention of making Odalia into a character that the audience would want to see fail.

* IGaveMyWord: [[spoiler:Averted. She repeatedly states that "A Blight always keeps their word." However, this is revealed to not be something she believes in personally and only uses it to help the Blight family's image and whenever it suits her.]] [[spoiler:When Luz and Amity take the fall against the Abomaton 2.0 on the promise that Luz, Willow and Gus can be let back into Hexside, she tries to vow to use all her connections and every authority to ensure that they remain banned. Alador immediately stops and scolds her, reminding her of her own words that "A Blight always keeps their word." She concedes that he's right.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: She claims that everything she does is for her family's best interests even when it hurts them, but it's clear from her actions she's a ControlFreak who's only concerned with what benefits her. She tries to control every aspect of her children's, especially Amity's, lives from their friends, romantic partners, education and future jobs all so it will reflect better on her. "Clouds on the Horizon" [[spoiler:shows she's literally willing to let Belos kill everyone else on the Boiling Isles if it means the Blights will be made royalty afterwards, all while justifying it as being what's best for her family, even as her husband and children are disgusted by her and fight against her.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Odalia cares about the Blight family's social standing so strongly that she's willing to ruin her daughter's friendship with a less-than-satisfactory witchling [[spoiler:and get her daughter's friends expelled]] to keep up appearances. Worse, in "Escaping Expulsion" she [[spoiler:tries to kill Luz, and plots to use her connections to ruin Amity's friends' lives before Alador sternly reminds her that she gave her word not to.]] Of course, calling her a jerkass is being quite generous, as we see in "Clouds on the Horizon" where she remains haughty, self-righteous and mocking [[spoiler:even when her husband and daughter are disgusted by her willingness to let everyone on the Boiling Isles die just so she'll profit from it.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Despite being forced to served as the Collector's nanny for a time in "For the Future", she manages to avoid any significant punishment for her role in the Day of Unity (especially compared that to Belos, who ends up decaying into a skull that gets stomped on). That said, Blight Industries appears to be finished, and she's been disowned by both Alador ''and'' Amity, who'd she'd spent years trying to control. The last shot showing her in "Watching and Dreaming," shows that while she's still alive and free to her own devices, she's little more than Alador and Amity's petty stalker. She also isn't seen walking free, so it's really anyone's guess what happened to her during the four year timeskip.]]

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: [[spoiler:Not really a housewife since she has a lucrative full-time job (and she is clearly the one in charge of the family business)]], but overall, she's a wealthy, high-status woman who's stuck-up, haughty, controlling, selfish, vindictive, manipulative, expects everyone else to accede to her personal wants, and goes to unreasonable extremes just to assert her authority over others. [[MyBelovedSmother Her daughter is afraid of her]], [[spoiler:[[HenpeckedHusband her husband is exasperated with her]]]] and Principal Bump only reluctantly goes along with her demands because she's the head of the Boiling Isles' equivalent of the PTA.

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: While the emperor is a danger who causes everyone great dread, and whose defeat will be what matters to most, Odalia's role in the narrative is rather inconsequential. That said, she is a different kind of monster to Luz in that she serves to remind everyone the idea that corruption is never centralized--corruption in the Boiling Isles is a byproduct of the Emperor's reign, and Odalia's role is tantamount to being a snake in a jungle of snakes. She may be a pawn to a much bigger player, but she takes advantage of the corruption that exists in the Boiling Isles to be a personal threat to Luz, her daughter Amity, and their closest friends in all her appearances.

* PowerStereotypeFlip: Odalia is a member of the Oracle coven, but she is a very [[ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife selfish and short-sighted woman]], so focused on getting what she wants right now, [[DidntThinkThisThrough that she doesn't consider the long-term consequences of her actions until things backfire.]] Basically, she's an oracle who lacks foresight.

* SocialDarwinist:
** She believes Blights should only associate with the strongest of witches, and consider Willow to be weak, either because of Willow's low aptitude at the time, or because she's not as mean as Boscha, and in Season 2 [[spoiler:the only reason she allows Amity to associate with Luz, Gus and Willow is because their influence is clearly making Amity [[ThePowerOfFriendship stronger]].]]
** [[spoiler:Deconstructed in "Clouds on the Horizon". Odalia has apparently known for some time about the Day of Unity's real purpose as a draining spell, but is so convinced of her family's superiority that she's let Belos talk her into being part of his plan, and seems to be under the delusion that the Blights, the only witches left alive, will be treated like lesser royalty when all is said and done -- an ''absurdly'' unlikely possibility, but one she wholeheartedly believes. Moments after her husband leaves her, she walks off, implicitly abandoning her entire family for a more willing and ruthless partner.]]
* TheSociopath: Odalia cares more for their family's social ranking than her children's' wellbeing and happiness, and is very controlling of them, with Alador mostly going along with whatever she wants.
** Season 1 reveals she caused Amity to end her friendship with Willow at the threat of making her life hellish, and is fully responsible for all of Amity's issues; while Season 2 [[spoiler:has her intimidate her daughter into not standing up for her friends when they're expelled, and tricks Luz into agreeing to help demonstrate her company's weapons--something that would have gotten Luz killed had Amity not stepped in and finally stood up to her.]]
** [[spoiler:In "Clouds on the Horizon", she reveals that she's willingly gone ahead with the Day of Unity even knowing it'll be mass murder, solely because she's convinced, that she and her family will thrive and imprisons and attacks her children and spouse just so they can't attempt to stop her. When Alador has finally had enough and "quits" being her husband, she stalks off, sneering that she's "been meaning to find a ''more competent'' business partner, anyway".]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Her appearance in a flashback shows her looking a lot like her future daughter, Amity. [[spoiler:Enforced by Odalia, as according to WordOfGod she forces Amity to dye her hair green because "she likes her kids to be color-coordinated". This becomes increasingly downplayed as the series goes on thanks to Amity dying and restyling her hair, which represents Odalia's grip on her loosening. It reaches its apex by the time of the epilogue (by which point Amity has completely cut ties with her), as even with Amity beginning to inherit [[HartmanHips her figure]], the two look less like each other than ever before.]]

* UnholyMatrimony: She's a horrible mother (and a horrible person in general), though she does appear to have a stable marriage. In "Clouds on the Horizon" [[spoiler:reveals their marriage is less stable than it first appeared. Alador apparently made a "deal" with her so their children wouldn't have to be involved in their business, she's been firing his workforce and making him work nonstop to meet the Emperor's demands, and Alador finally turns against her when he finds out she's willing to sacrifice everyone else on the Boiling Isles to Belos]].

* YouWouldntShootMe: Though it goes unsaid, she is so confident of the threat she and Alador represent that she knows they're untouchable. Their actions would amount to BullyingADragon since every potential victim has magic powers and can potentially retaliate. For starters, she has a prestigious reputation that attacking her would net serious backlash. Also, she can easily find leverage to blackmail the witch unfortunate enough to cross her. Or in the case of Principal Bump, all she has to do is stare him down and he's intimidated enough to do what she and Alador say. [[spoiler:After revealing she'll actively allow the Emperor's genocide and will gladly murder anyone who tries to prevent her from being rewarded, she's fair game to the heroes]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite the fact that his parenting abilities are lacking, he and Odalia do appear to care for each other. He also cares for Amity and the twins, even if his workaholic tendencies prevent him from showing it. [[spoiler:"Clouds on the Horizon" deconstructs this by showing how Odalia commits domestic abuse against Alador, from working him like a dog to threatening to force their children to work for Blight Industries if he doesn't obey her. Alador eventually has enough of Odalia when he discovers she knew all along that Belos is going to use the Day of Unity to commit genocide. Alador even states "This is too much, even for you."]]

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Amber is a part of a group called the [=BATTs=] and has bat-like ears, bat-like wings and a slightly upturned nose like a bat. [[spoiler:Mostly averted once the groups rebrands as the [=CATs=] though she does sport a CatSmile.]]

* MonsterProgenitor: All of the various demons of the Boiling Isles arose from the decomposing body of the Titan.

'''The Boiling Isles''' ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesAToF A-F]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesGToO G-O]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesPToY P-Y]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard The Golden Guard]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

'''The Boiling Isles''' ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesNumberToC #-C]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesDToG D-G]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesHToM H-M]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesNToS N-S]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesTToZ T-Z]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesAToF A-F]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesGToO G-O]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesPToY P-Y]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard The Golden Guard]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]