| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' '''[[Characters/TheOwlHouse Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles 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]] | '''Other''' ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]] |
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| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | !!Fictional characters |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[folder:''Good Witch Azura'' Characters]] |
| 9 | !!Good Witch Azura |
| 10 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AnairisQuinones, Sarah Nicole Robles (Luz's story only) |
| 11 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gw_azura.png]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ->''"Do not underestimate me, Gildersnake, for I am the Good Witch Azura, warrior of peace!'' [Beat] ''[[SophisticatedAsHell NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!]]"'' |
| 14 | |
| 15 | The titular star of the books of the same name. Luz is a huge fan of her. |
| 16 | ---- |
| 17 | * AmbiguouslyGay: Being a bit of a foil for [[spoiler:Luz and Amity]], there are hints here and there that Azura and her rival Hecate become a couple at some point in the books, with Luz comparing Raine and Eda's situation in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" to one Azura and Hecate had in Book 5. In "Thanks to Them" [[spoiler:Amity suggests she and Luz dress up as the two for a Halloween Couple's costume]]. |
| 18 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: She's called a "witch", but how she compares to the MageSpecies of the Boiling Isles is unknown, as her book series is written by humans who probably don't know anything about real magic. We can't even guess from physical appearance, as the top of her ears are covered by her hair, and the one time we do see them it's in a movie where her actor is human. [[spoiler:"Any Sport in a Storm" reveals that there's a version for the Boiling Isles that changes her ears to be pointed like actual Witches, but this version is a bootleg by Tibbles.]] |
| 19 | * BoomStick: In Luz's recounting of her story she holds her staff over her shoulder like a rocket launcher, cocks it, and fires a massive blast of magic. |
| 20 | * CoolCrown: Wears a crown around her hat. |
| 21 | * LightIsGood: She wears a white witch outfit and is the "Good Witch". |
| 22 | * MagicStaff: She wields one, which she uses like a rocket launcher in Luz's story. |
| 23 | * NiceGirl: As part of being a ParodySue, Azura is cartoonishly kind to everyone, including her enemies. |
| 24 | * ParodySue: According to Luz, Azura is utter perfection; Eda says she hates the prose because it's so flowery and Azura is a {{Glurge}} representation of witches. She's a powerful witch and a FriendlyEnemy even with her bitterest rivals. Azura can face giant snakes, a magical destiny, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking conflicts in love]]. Despite her being a magical [[TheAce Ace]] in-universe, Azura is considered the underdog in a movie with magic sports, as Luz and Amity note, and she rallies her teammates to secure an unlikely victory. No wonder Eda is disgusted. |
| 25 | * PurpleProse: Azura's dialogue can be a bit "ornate", as [[JerkassHasAPoint Boscha]] demonstrates by reading aloud. |
| 26 | -->'''Boscha:''' 'Twice have I tarried at Tanabrak, yet ere have I kept my troth to thee, Azura'. |
| 27 | * ShowWithinAShow: She's the main character of a popular series of books on Earth that Luz is a fan of. "Lost in Language" reveals that [[AliensStealCable it has some readers even on the Boiling Isles]] (with "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" revealing that a box full of the books washed up on shore some time ago). However, in "Any Sport in a Storm" [[spoiler:it's revealed through Tibbles involving a scam switching the book's human author to a witch, that Amity is the only one on the Isles who actually buys and subsequently reads the series]]. |
| 28 | * SophisticatedAsHell: She tells a Gildersnake that she is "Good Witch Azura, Warrior of Peace"... before shouting "NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!!!" and trying to kill it with a magical-staff-turned-magical-bazooka. |
| 29 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: In the second movie, when she and Hecate are betrayed by the villainous Lucy, she declares that they will never forgive them. [[spoiler:Lucy being an IdenticalStranger to Luz, who is already suffering guilt over her perceived fault in causing the Day of Unity, does little to help her guilt complex.]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | !!Hecate |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Azura's rival turned ally in the ''Good Witch Azura'' series. |
| 34 | ---- |
| 35 | * AmbiguouslyGay: It's hinted that she and Azura become a couple later in the series as Luz directly compares Eda and Raine's situation in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" to a plot point from book five, while [[spoiler:she and Amity dress up as the two for a couple's costume on Halloween.]] |
| 36 | * CosmicMotifs: She seems to have an association with crescent moons, and it's implied that this influenced Amity's own moon motif after the events of "Escaping Expulsion". |
| 37 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She's shown to have 3 faces like her mythological namesake the first time she's shown, but all future appearances only show her with a single face. There might be something in the ''Azura'' books that explains this, but the audience never hears it if that's the case. |
| 38 | * HeelFaceTurn: She starts off as Azura's enemy, but the two later become close allies (and possible lovers). |
| 39 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: She's named after a Greek Goddess and even seems to be visually inspired by her, due to both having multiple faces in her first appearance, as well as using the crescent moon motif. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | !!Villainous Lucy |
| 42 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KariWahlgren |
| 43 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/villainous_lucy.png]] |
| 44 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"It was for the greater good."'']] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | A villain from the second ''Azura'' movie, "The Betrayening". Once an ally of Azura, she betrays her and tries to kidnap Hecate. |
| 47 | ---- |
| 48 | * AerithAndBob: Compared to "Azura" and "Hecate", "Lucy" is a fairly common name. |
| 49 | * BrightIsNotGood: While her skin and hair are rather monochrome, she wears a robe of bright colors with gold lining, but is a traitorous villain. |
| 50 | * CardCarryingVillain: For all her talk about greater good, she still goes around calling herself Villainous Lucy. Even if she gained the epithet after her betrayal, she doesn't seem to mind it, despite seeing herself as a WellIntentionedExtremist. |
| 51 | * CompositeCharacter: Though she's a ShowWithinAShow character, Villainous Lucy appears to be a combination of Luz and Emperor Belos. Though her appearance resembles Luz, she also has a staff that looks like Luz's egg covered by the monstrous blue eyes and horns of Belos' monstrous form. And she presents herself as a WellIntentionedExtremist before demanding Azura to hand over the formerly villainous Hecate to her, saying it's ForYourOwnGood. [[spoiler:Tellingly, before Belos departs to the Demon Realm to resume his witch extermination, he also says to Luz and friends it's "[[MeaningfulEcho for the good of [their] souls.]]"]] |
| 52 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: Despite existing in a ShowWithinAShow, she seems to be one for Luz herself, sharing just enough superficial similarities [[spoiler:for Luz's mind to see them]]. |
| 53 | * EvilCounterpart: To the unnamed hero of a book discussed in the classroom in the same episode. [[spoiler:They're both used to show how guilt is eroding Luz's mental state, as she projects onto them heavily. But Luz sees the hero as an UnwittingPawn of another man, whose actions caused more harm than good and it would be better off for the world if he was never born, completely ignoring the line from the book saying he learned and became a better person from his experiences. With Lucy, Luz fears her friends will reacts to learning how she helped Belos the same way Azura [[ThisIsUnforgivable reacts to Lucy's betrayal]], ignoring that she was tricked by Belos and never meant any harm, while Lucy is blatantly acting on her own volition and openly calling herself Villainous.]] |
| 54 | ** Also to Chief Engineer O'Bailey, ''Cosmic Frontier'' character [[spoiler:that Hunter projects onto, except for Hunter it has a clearly therapeutic effect, while for Luz projecting onto Lucy makes her already severe guilt even worse]]. |
| 55 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Within the confines of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Good Witch Azura]]'', she is a villain attempting to kidnap an enemy-turned-ally character away from the protagonist, while claiming to be acting for their own good. [[spoiler:This description also fits what Belos is doing in the climax of the very same episode, when he tries to steal Hunter's body and claims to be acting for the good of "their" (probably meaning Luz and all of humanity) souls.]] |
| 56 | * ForYourOwnGood: Says this verbatim to Azura when she orders her to hand over Hecate. |
| 57 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a rather wicked looking scar crossing her eye and eyebrow. [[spoiler:It mirrors Luz's smaller scar, which crosses just her eyebrow]]. |
| 58 | * IdenticalStranger: Despite being a fictional character designed by someone who would have never met her, Lucy bears a strong resemblance to Luz, only slightly older and with different skin and hair colors. She has the same short pixie cut Luz had in seasons 1 and 2, a similarly round face, ear piercings, and even a scar over her left eyebrow like what Luz got in "King's Tide". Even her clothes have a similar color scheme to Luz's Hexside uniform. |
| 59 | ** By WordOfGod, the colours were eye-droppered (copied directly) from Luz's multi-track school uniform design. |
| 60 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Being a fictional character, Villainous Lucy isn't meant to harm real-life people's self-esteem. But her appearance looks like Luz if she adopted the villainous persona of Emperor Belos, [[spoiler:which makes Luz fear that her friends would see her as a willing accomplice to Belos's evil agenda.]] |
| 61 | * KnightOfCerebus: In context of the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Good Witch Azura]]'', at least how little we know of it. Azura is always polite and friendly with all her foes (one of many thing about the books Eda takes an issue with), she easily defeats Gildersnake in a scene Luz describes, her rival Hecate joins her side, and the first ''Azura'' movie had to be a sport story to make [[TheAce her]] an underdog. In contrast, Lucy is a WellIntentionedExtremist villain in a BigDamnMovie, appears to have easily overpowered Azura and Hecate, and pushed the former to furiously swear to never forgive her betrayal. [[spoiler:It may even spilled a bit into ''The Owl House'' itself, as watching her movie clearly did not help Luz's mental state.]] |
| 62 | * MagicStaff: Wields one shaped like an egg with inlaid gems and SpikesOfVillainy. |
| 63 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: If it wasn't just Azura calling her out, she apparently goes by and responds to '''Villainous''' Lucy. |
| 64 | * ObviousJudas: For the in-universe ShowWithinAShow. The fact Azura seems genuinely shocked by being betrayed by a person who calls herself '''Villainous''' Lucy tells more about her own naivety than severity of the betrayal. |
| 65 | * ObviouslyEvil: With the exception of the aforementioned BrightIsNotGood, Lucy had pale skin and eyebags, purple hair, black, teeth-shaped earrings, her staff has SpikesOfVillainy, and she goes by '''Villainous''' Lucy. One has to wonder why Azura trusted her, though she might have looked different before her betrayal. |
| 66 | * PsychologicalProjection: [[spoiler:Luz, who blames herself for helping Philip find the Collector and thinks her friends will hate her if they find out, sees herself in Lucy, a traitor whom Azura vows to never forgive]]. |
| 67 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: For a character who appears in one scene of a ShowWithinAShow, [[spoiler:that one scene seems to have been just the last nudge Luz needed to decide not to return to the Boiling Isles, a red flag for her mental health so big it pushed Camila to go to the Demon Realm with Luz]]. |
| 68 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: She claims that her betrayal of Azura was for the greater good, though what that greater good is, one can only guess. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Otabin]] |
| 72 | !!Otabin |
| 73 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EdenRiegel (normal form); Creator/FredTatasciore (monstrous form) |
| 74 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/otabin.png]] |
| 75 | [[caption-width-right:350:His normal form]] |
| 76 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/otabin_is_not_so_good.png]] |
| 77 | [[caption-width-right:350:His monstrous form]] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | ->''"Making friends, taking friends, never be without my friends!"'' |
| 80 | |
| 81 | A mouse-like creature from a children's book who comes to life the night of the Wailing Star, but is corrupted due to his book being vandalized by Edric and Emira. |
| 82 | ---- |
| 83 | * ArtInitiatesLife: Otabin isn't a real person in the setting, he's a fictional character who gets magically brought to life for one night. |
| 84 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: His motivation in his book, and he ends up getting friends at the end. |
| 85 | * TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: When his appearance is altered by Amity's siblings defacing the drawings in his book, his personality becomes similarly warped. |
| 86 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: In "Lost in Language". |
| 87 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Amity turns him back to normal, he apologizes to her for the whole sewing-her-and-Luz-into-his-book thing. |
| 88 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: When Luz attempts to use the Wailing Star's power to become "Luzura" and take him down, he just knocks the staff out of her hand, closes the book that gave her the outfit, and starts sewing her inside as well. |
| 89 | * ObliviouslyEvil: When attacking Luz and Amity and attempting to trap them forever in his book, he does so while humming about how they're going to become his friends. |
| 90 | * RhymesOnADime: While attempting to sew Luz and Amity into his book, he starts speaking in rhyme (though Luz isn't impressed by how he [[RhymingWithItself rhymes "friend" with "friend"]]). |
| 91 | * SignificantAnagram: Otabin is just the word "obtain" rearranged. |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:''Cosmic Frontier'' Characters]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Characters from ''Cosmic Frontier'', a [[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore thinly-veiled parody]] of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' that both of Luz' parents were fans of, and that Gus and Hunter get into in "Thanks to Them". |
| 97 | |
| 98 | !!Chief Engineer O'Bailey |
| 99 | |
| 100 | Hunter's favorite character. He is secretly a clone created by the enemy. |
| 101 | ---- |
| 102 | * CloneAngst: Apparently has a lot of inner turmoil about being a clone and keeps it a secret from the rest of the crew, [[spoiler:which Hunter clearly identifies with]]. |
| 103 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Chief Engineer Miles O'Brien]], with few visual cues taken from [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Seven of Nine]]. |
| 104 | * GoodCounterpart: To Villainous Lucy. [[spoiler:Hunter projects heavily onto him, just like Luz projects onto Lucy. But while Hunter is able to process his own problems through O'Bailey, seeing Lucy just makes Luz spiral even harder into guilt and fear.]] |
| 105 | * MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Hunter]], a character who goes through a lot of psychological suffering, picks as his favorite an {{Expy}} of O'Brien, character who would often go through a lot of the same, to the point the phrase "O'Brien must suffer" became a RunningGag among ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' writers. [[spoiler:It almost feels like a dark joke, that Hunter goes through a brand new dose of trauma while wearing an O'Bailey Halloween costume]] And on a less serious note, O'Brien was HappilyMarried to a botanist of Asian descendant, [[spoiler:which lines up quite nicely with Hunter's crush on Willow (though Keiko was Japanese while Willow is the equivalent of Afro-Korean).]] |
| 106 | * PsychologicalProjection: [[spoiler:Hunter projects his own issues with being a Grimwalker onto O'Bailey's struggle with being a clone, and is clearly able to at least partially process and come to terms with it thanks to that.]] |
| 107 | * TheUnseen: The closest we get to seeing him is when [[spoiler:Hunter]] cosplays as him. |
| 108 | * WalkingSpoiler: Not for ''Cosmic Frontier'', but for ''The Owl House'' itself, due to the fact he is a favorite of a character who is already an example of this trope. Even discussing what draws [[spoiler:Hunter]] to him in the first place requires openly addressing one of the biggest secrets of Season 2. |
| 109 | |
| 110 | !!Captain Avery |
| 111 | |
| 112 | The captain in ''Cosmic Frontier'', and seemingly Gus' favorite character. |
| 113 | ---- |
| 114 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, Gus and [[spoiler:Hunter]] disagree on whenever he is about to discover his Chief Engineer is a clone, or already knows and is waiting for the man to be ready to admit it himself. |
| 115 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Captain Benjamin Sisko]]. He's even named after Sisko's [[Creator/AveryBrooks actor]]. |
| 116 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Implied. He's the captain, and neither Gus nor [[spoiler: Hunter]] are concerned about him finding out O'Bailey's secret, suggesting he is a trustworthy character. |
| 117 | * SecretSecretKeeper: Gus believes he has already figured out Chief Engineer O'Bailey is a clone, but is waiting for O'Bailey to be ready to reveal it on his own terms. [[spoiler:Gus may've been trying to give Hunter a hint that he knows Hunter is a Grimwalker.]] |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:The Man / The Hero]] |
| 121 | !!The Man / The Hero |
| 122 | |
| 123 | TheHero of a book Luz learns about in school. |
| 124 | ---- |
| 125 | * DesignatedHero: InUniverse, this is Luz's interpretation. While the book frames him as the hero because the good he did outweighs the suffering needed to get there, Luz feels that he only ever caused his loved ones trouble and pain. Of course, this is ambiguous, since Luz was going through a severe self-loathing crisis with PsychologicalProjection at the moment. |
| 126 | * {{Expy}}: Of the archetypical hero from Joseph Campbell's ''Literature/TheHeroWithAThousandFaces'', a figure with few to none identifiable features who goes on a lengthy journey involving a lot of suffering, but ultimately returns to his home as a hero. Given the description of him walking the shores of his homeland and the mentions of a lengthy journey, he could also be [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odysseus]]. |
| 127 | * TheHero: Of the unnamed book from Luz's class. |
| 128 | * NoNameGiven: We never learn his name. |
| 129 | * PsychologicalProjection: Luz sees the man's failings and difficulties on his quest as a parallel to [[spoiler:her own failing in helping Belos find the Collector]]. While her teacher tries to argue that the good the man did outweighs the pains he caused, Luz thinks he only brought suffering and it would've been better if he had never existed. Which has [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything distressing implications]] about [[DespairEventHorizon her mental state]]. |
| 130 | * UnwittingPawn: Luz rants that the hero was being manipulated by the villain the entire time and had aided the enemy. Not unlike herself. |
| 131 | * WhatTheHellHero: Luz goes on a rant that the hero put his loved ones in danger and all the suffering that occurred could be linked back to him, meaning that even if everyone's lives turned out better, they should hate him for being the reason they were threatened in the first place. It is made very clear that this rant is directed at Luz herself. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | !!Monsters |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Greater Basilisk]] |
| 137 | !!Greater Basilisk |
| 138 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AprilStewart |
| 139 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greater_basilisk_human_form.png]] |
| 140 | [[caption-width-right:250:Her witch form]] |
| 141 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greater_basilisk_true_form.png]] |
| 142 | [[caption-width-right:250:Her true form]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | An elusive and thought-to-be extinct monster that disguised herself as a Coven Inspector in order to infiltrate magic schools and feed on their residents' magic. She appears as the antagonist in the episode "The First Day". |
| 145 | ---- |
| 146 | * AchillesHeel: She can absorb witch magic, [[spoiler:but not Luz's glyph-based WildMagic, since there's usually a small delay before the magic activates, and it burns up quickly upon taking effect. Unfortunately, Luz isn't skilled enough in her own magic to exploit this weakness, forcing her and the Troublemakers to defeat it through trickery]]. |
| 147 | * AntiMagic: Thanks to her ability to drain magic almost instantaneously even from completed spells, the basilisk is functionally immune to magic attacks. [[spoiler:The only exception to this would be Luz's glyphs, which actually cause the creature harm when she tried to absorb her spell.]] Magic does work on her if she's caught off-guard, however. |
| 148 | * AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Barely so, but "Yesterday's Lie" reveals that basilisks went extinct a long time ago and some of them were somehow brought back by Belos, who kept them imprisoned and subjected to tortuous experiments to investigate their magic-absorbing powers. The Greater Basilisk's actions in "The First Day" can be read as a way of taking revenge against the Coven System for what they did to her and her kind, although her modus operandi of targeting children makes her way less sympathetic.]] |
| 149 | * ChekhovsGunman: Not her exactly, but [[spoiler:her presence and the reveal that Basilisks aren't extinct sets up a major character reveal down the line]]. |
| 150 | * EscapedFromTheLab: [[spoiler:It's implied she's also a rogue Basilisk who escaped from the Emperor's Coven and went on a killing spree]]. |
| 151 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: She initially wears the form of a Coven Inspector witch, which was convincing enough to fool even a veteran witch like Principal Bump. |
| 152 | * HorrorHunger: Once the creature drops the inspector act, her insatiable hunger for magical energy is readily made apparent. Although this may be [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in [[spoiler:"Yesterday's Lie", which indicates that basilisks need magic to use their shapeshifting abilities -- but not for survival, as Vee has no desire to feed outside of disguising herself... possibly meaning her attacks on the schools may have been her lashing out for her imprisonment and experimentation]]. |
| 153 | * KillAndReplace: It's heavily implied she killed the real inspector and has been impersonating her ever since. |
| 154 | * MagicEater: She eats magic. Not magic beings, not magic users, but straight-up ''magic''. If beings are MadeOfMagic, they're in ''serious'' trouble. |
| 155 | * ManaDrain: She feeds on the magic in witches, and can just as easily drain traditional spells even as they're being cast. |
| 156 | * ManOfKryptonite: She's a creature that can rapidly drain the magic from its targets vs a school of witches. Chances are she would have easily sucked the whole school dry and moved on to her next meal if it weren't for Luz and the Troublemakers, and had done so before. |
| 157 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: In "The First Day". [[spoiler:Her presence turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} for a major twist later on, though.]] |
| 158 | * NoOntologicalInertia: Her defeat allows all the magic she had stolen to return to its original owners, restoring them. |
| 159 | * NotSoExtinct: Viney states that it's believed the species had gone extinct, but the existence of this specimen proves otherwise. [[spoiler:"Yesterday's Lie" reveals that Basilisks ''were'' extinct, but Belos [[FossilRevival brought them back]] to study their magic-eating properties as part of his plans, before a number of them were able to escape.]] |
| 160 | * ScaledUp: Her true form resembles a sea serpent-like creature several meters long with a huge and unsettling [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily toothy]] [[GlasgowGrin grin]] and wide slanted eyes, while [[MorphicResonance retaining]] her hairdo and dress. |
| 161 | * SnakePerson: Her true form leans more into the snake side, as it's a large serpentine creature with humanoid arms, [[NonMammalianHair hair]], and a face that's a grotesque hybrid of human and reptile. |
| 162 | * SquashedFlat: The basilisk is ultimately defeated when Luz and the Troublemakers drop her several stories down through the dimensional doors from the Troublemakers' detention hideout back to the school stage, and then dump several sandbags on top of her, popping the monster like a balloon and releasing her stolen magical energy. |
| 163 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Although it's unknown if the Basilisk can assume any other form besides the inspector one and her true form, she may have assumed another form during her attack on Glandus High. [[spoiler:Vee's example during "Yesterday's Lie" indicates that Basilisks ''can'' assume different forms, wildly different from their original appearance, up to and including producing a facsimile of [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter Luz's clothing]] when assuming her appearance.]] |
| 164 | * WouldHurtAChild: Kids are just smaller magic batteries to her, and she quickly goes through piles of students during her rampage at both Hexside and Glandus. [[spoiler:The events of "Yesterday's Lie" revealed she never had any actual need to do this, suggesting a level of genuine malice, or perhaps retribution against the Coven system, given how she seemed to exclusively target schools to drain magic from--schools that produced future witches to join the ranks of the coven system.]] |
| 165 | * YouAreNumberSix: [[spoiler:Implied, though we never learn her designation.]] |
| 166 | * YourSoulIsMine: The way she drains magic from its victims is akin to her stealing their souls, the resulting theft leaves the victims enervated and [[ColorFailure dull]]. When the creature is defeated, even the escaping magic from her body looks like hundreds of souls spilling forth and racing back to their original bodies. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Grometheus, the Fear Bringer]] |
| 170 | !!Grometheus, the Fear Bringer |
| 171 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grometheus.jpg]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | Grometheus, Grom for short, is a monster that dwells beneath Hexside. It is an amorphous, telepathic shapeshifter that can manifest as its victim's worst fears. Every year it regains its strength and attempts to escape its confines and spread people's fears throughout the Boiling Isles. |
| 174 | ---- |
| 175 | * BlobMonster: A shapeless black blob that can become whatever its victim fears and use that against them. If it's destroyed, it simply spends a year reforming until it's back to full strength. |
| 176 | * DarkIsEvil: It's black and it's intimidating. |
| 177 | * TheDreaded: Nobody likes having their fears exposed by a shape-shifting monster. |
| 178 | * EmpathicShapeshifter: The thing that makes it so terrifying is that it has the ability to turn into it's victim's greatest fear. |
| 179 | * FaceYourFears: The first step in defeating it before destroying its physical form is to accept your fears. |
| 180 | * IKnowWhatYouFear: It's able to read minds via physical contact and then shapeshift into that person's fears. |
| 181 | * InvincibleVillain: No matter how many times it is defeated, Grometheus will never be truly killed, as it will simply return the next year. Even though Luz and Amity end up thoroughly destroying the creature, little bits of it can be seen crawling back towards Hexside. |
| 182 | * KickTheDog: Justified. Since it preys on people's worst fears, it needs to torture them psychologically to make them vulnerable, like when it [[spoiler:ripped Amity's note by playing on her fear of being rejected by Luz]]. |
| 183 | * MonsterOfTheWeek: In "Enchanting Grom Night". |
| 184 | * RedBaron: It isn't called the Fear Bringer for no reason. |
| 185 | * RegularlyScheduledEvil: It breaks free from its containment on the same day every year. |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Jean-Luc]] |
| 189 | !!Jean-Luc |
| 190 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0_ts8idjwi8zw6ysas.png]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | A mysterious creature living on an island outside the Boiling Isles, it protects a castle King claims was once his. |
| 193 | ---- |
| 194 | * DramaPreservingHandicap: Considering its ImplacableMan nature, it's a good thing that it becomes inactive outside the tower, otherwise it could have [[spoiler:torn through the Emperor's Coven the next time the heroes fought them]]. |
| 195 | * FleshGolem: Jean-Luc appears to be artificial, and constructed of rotten flesh for the purpose of protecting the castle [[spoiler:and a young King]]. |
| 196 | * {{Golem}}: It appears to be a construct, though made from a blend of stone and flesh. |
| 197 | * GoodAllAlong: The others thought it to be attacking them indiscriminately, [[spoiler:but it turns to have actually been protecting ''King'' the whole time]]. |
| 198 | * ImplacableMan: Nothing the main characters throw at it do anything more than slow it down, shrugging off being impaled with ice spikes or hit with explosive potions. |
| 199 | * LastOfHisKind: The castle ruins contain the remains of many other creatures like it, but Jean-Luc is the only one functioning. |
| 200 | * SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaid: It seems to be a combat construct repurposed as a guardian for [[spoiler:a young King]]. |
| 201 | * TheVoiceless: It doesn't speak, and has no visible mouth. |
| 202 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Its flesh and bones can morph into weapons such as blades, or even a bow and arrow. |
| 203 | * WalkingSpoiler: Its connection to King and his origins make discussing it without revealing too much difficult. |
| 204 | * WallCrawl: Another of its abilities, letting it climb along ceilings to ambush trespassers. |
| 205 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:He's never mentioned again after the Emperor's Coven sacks the Owl House during their raid at the end of "Edge of the World".]] |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:The Hand Dragon]] |
| 209 | !!The Hand Dragon |
| 210 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker |
| 211 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hand_dragon_render.png]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | Kikimora's pet and personal muscle. The creature vaguely resembles a fusion between Eastern and Western dragons, but with all of its major components being [[BodyOfBodies comprised of hands or fingers]]. |
| 214 | ---- |
| 215 | * AttackAnimal: Kikimora's, and appropriately enough, she calls and controls it with a whistle. This allows Luz to hijack the beast when Kikimora drops the whistle. |
| 216 | * BodyMotifs: Hands, particularly where they don't belong, much like its master. |
| 217 | * DraconicAbomination: It's shaped like a dragon and any other resemblance ends there. Its head looks like two hands clasped in prayer which can [[FlowerMouth open up]] to reveal rows of fangs underlining each finger. It has three pairs of stubby fingers on each side of its body in place of legs. Its wings are another pair of hands, with webbing in-between each fingers to make it look like bat-wings. Finally, a six-digited hand lies at the end of its tail. |
| 218 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Kikimora feeds it [[spoiler:the Golden Guard]]'s helmet which it slurps up happily and when it finds the [[spoiler:Guard's cloak]] it devours that too. This while it searches for its true meal, [[spoiler:the Golden Guard himself.]] |
| 219 | * FluffyTheTerrible: Luz calls it "Princess" in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", though it's unclear if this is its original name or one she assigned it. |
| 220 | * GiantFlyer: Roughly as big as the Golden Guard's balloon, and thus it towers over its owner, Kikimora. |
| 221 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: The creature can also serve as Kikimora's mount and cargo transport. |
| 222 | * MultiPurposeTongue: Its tongue is long, prehensile, and serrated at the tip, which allowed it to cut [[spoiler:Hunter/Golden Guard]]'s balloon ride short with a flick. |
| 223 | * NonMaliciousMonster: While initially a very present threat to both Luz and the Golden Guard, it ultimately proves to simply be a trained animal acting according to its handler's wishes. It eats what it's offered and pursues the targets that its handler sets it upon. When the whistle that it responds to ends up in Luz's hands, it promptly starts following her commands and is no longer a threat. |
| 224 | * TheNoseKnows: Kikimora hands it [[spoiler:the Golden Guard]]'s helmet so it can get his scent to track him down. Ditching his cape seems sufficient to distract it. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | !!Earth |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Camila Noceda ('''UNMARKED SPOILERS''')]] |
| 230 | !!Camila Noceda |
| 231 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ElizabethGrullon |
| 232 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/camila_render_s1.png]] |
| 233 | [[caption-width-right:250:''"Summer camp is a chance to make some friends, but [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda you]] have to try. Can you do that?"'']] |
| 234 | %% Yesterday's Lie, Thanks to Them, For the Future, and Epilogue images pulled per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=17091511960.20199400&page=1 |
| 235 | |
| 236 | ->''"''Mija'', I love your creativity, but it's gotten out of hand."'' |
| 237 | |
| 238 | Luz's single mother, whose decision to send her daughter to Reality Check Summer Camp sets the plot in motion, though she only did so because she wants the best possible life for her daughter. Getting back to her forms the core of Luz's motivation to get back home in the second season, and she later takes a central role in the third season, due to her daughter and her friends getting trapped in the Human Realm. |
| 239 | ---- |
| 240 | * EleventhHourRanger: In "Thanks to Them", Camila opts to travel with her daughter to the Boiling Isles in order to save them from Belos and the Collector as well as Camila doing so in order to try and help support her daughter's emotional wellbeing. "For the Future" even shows her [[ActionMom getting active in combat situations alongside her daughter]]. |
| 241 | * ActionMom: As it turns out, just because Camila is a vet in the Human Realm, it very much does not mean she isn't capable of [[MamaBear beating up cruel maniacs like Jacob Hopkins when he kidnaps Vee]]. She continues this in "For the Future" where she accompanies her daughter to the Demon Realm to help liberate it, and shows that she is able to use Glyphs, albeit not very well, and she primarily relies upon a red baseball bat that she brings with her. |
| 242 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Both "Thanks to Them" and "For the Future" put a spotlight on Camila as a person, and her motivations in regards to her parenting of her daughter. "Thanks to Them" shows how Camila was initially fully supportive of Luz's quirks and was ultimately pressured into sending Luz to Summer Camp to try and keep her from suffering the same sort of bullying that Camila herself did when she was Luz's age. "For the Future" sees Camila [[CharacterDevelopment freely admit that she was wrong to send Luz away all the while openly stating that she now supports her daughter come hell or high water]], while also focusing on her attempts to be a better parent to Luz that ultimately lead up to this moment. |
| 243 | * AdoptingTheAbused: She all but officially adopts Vee and acts as a foster mother to Amity and Hunter, all three of whom come from abusive backgrounds. |
| 244 | * AllLovingHero: Much like her daughter, Camila is more than happy to show love and affection to anyone regardless of their species, as shown by how she takes in Vee even after learning about how the wayward basilisk impersonated her daughter, or the rest of the Hexsquad when they are forced into the Human Realm at the end of "King's Tide". |
| 245 | * ArtEvolution: Much like Luz, Camila has her hair restyled in the third season to make her Afro-Latina heritage more apparent. Specifically, Camila allows her hair to enter its [[QuirkyCurls natural curls]], in addition to gaining a [[DiseaseBleach streak of grey in her hair]] as a result of the stress of taking care of the Hexsquad. |
| 246 | * AscendedExtra: Camila starts off as a very minor character who none the less [[SmallRoleBigImpact plays a substantial role in her daughter's character arc and provides a goal for Luz to strive for in return home]]. As a result of the Hexsquad including Luz getting trapped in the Human Realm as a result of the events of "King's Tide", Camila takes a far more prominent role in "Thanks to Them", with a good portion of the episode showing her attempts to adjust to the presence of the Demon Realm teens. "For the Future" sees this go ever further as she accompanies Luz back to the Demon Realm to help fight against Belos and the Collector, with a significant portion of the episode focusing on Camila's relationship with her daughter and her attempts to be a good mother to Luz. |
| 247 | * TheAtoner: "For the Future" sees Camila vow to improve her parenting of Luz, with her realizing just how much of a mistake it was to try and encourage Luz to surpress her nerdy tendencies in the hopes of not having to endure the same kind of ridicule that Camila had to endure when she was Luz's age. |
| 248 | * BadLiar |
| 249 | ** She's only able to fool a ConspiracyTheorist into believing she works for the government thanks to his delusion that the government would actually take an interest in his ridiculous conspiracy theories. However, when he starts doubting her, Camila barely makes an attempt to lie before admitting she doesn't have the creativity to think something up, and ends the charade. |
| 250 | ** In "For the Future" she attempts to play off her shock at the [[EldritchLocation the Demon Realm]] and its many disturbing aspects when she is assuring Luz that she supports her daughter that she approves of Luz remaining in the Demon Realm after seeing how much she loves the Isles. Emphasis on attempts as she is clearly quite nervous and Luz herself calls Camila on this saying that she doesn't have to pretend to like the Boiling Isles. |
| 251 | * BadassNormal: Even without the amount of experience with Glyph Magic that her daughter has, Camila is still more than capable of mopping up anyone who would cause harm to any innocent children. |
| 252 | * BatterUp: Camila takes up a red baseball bat nigh identical to the one used by "Beta Luz" in "For the Future" when she accompanies her daughter back to the Demon Realm. Ironically, the most prominent time she uses the bat is as a throwing weapon against Kikimora. |
| 253 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Camila gets this threefold. |
| 254 | ** Camila sent Luz to Reality Check Summer Camp hoping that she would learn to act more "normal" and avoid the bullying Camila herself suffered. The version of Luz she got back seems to be behaving as if it worked... but said version is not her daughter, and she even seems uncomfortable that the camp actually changed her daughter. |
| 255 | ** In the Boiling Isles, Luz meets people who accept her for who she is, but it comes at the cost of her being trapped in a DeathWorld where (almost) EverythingIsTryingToKillYou and being mentored by a wanted criminal. In "Yesterday's Lie", Camila doesn't get a chance to learn the former before Luz is pulled back, and is left to assume her daughter just hated living with her that much. |
| 256 | ** In "Yesterday's Lie", she wanted nothing more then for Luz to stay with her in the Human Realm, even making Luz promise to do so; by "Thanks to Them", she has far more information about the situation and about how much happier Luz was in the Demon Realm due to her finally making friends and being able to live the life she always dreamed of, so when she discovers that Luz plans to go through with the promise, Camila knows that it's a ''massive'' red flag for Luz's mental health. |
| 257 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Camila is just as sweet caring and compassionate as her daughter is. And just like her daughter, giving Camila a reason to hate you is a ''very'' poor decision, as [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E10YesterdaysLie Jacob Hopkins]] and [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E2ForTheFuture Kikimora]] learn the hard way. |
| 258 | * BigBeautifulWoman: She is slightly heavyset and plump yet curvy, still beautiful at the same time as she was when she got married and became a parent. |
| 259 | * BootsOfToughness: In "For the Future", she wears these when she travels with her daughter to save the Demon Realm from Belos and the Collector. It's especially notable given that Camila is doing so to help protect her daughter as well as show her that she will always be with her daughter. |
| 260 | * CharacterDevelopment: When Camila is faced with clear evidence that her daughter is hurting, she immediately drops any pretense of having Luz stay in the Human Realm after she saw how much Luz has grown as a person thanks to her time in the Isles. Likewise, Camila later freely admits that she was wrong to ever encourage Luz not to be true to herself while also embracing [[ClosetGeek her own nerdy hobbies]]. |
| 261 | * ClosetGeek: "Thanks to Them" reveals that she's the in-universe equivalent of a {{Trekkie}}, being the fan of a series called ''[[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore Cosmic Frontier]]'' and has an entire closet full of memorabilia in the basement. The label on one of the boxes even hints that she used to go to conventions with her late husband. Luz is delighted to find this out in "For The Future": |
| 262 | -->'''Camila:''' I forgot about the Astral Oath.\ |
| 263 | '''Luz:''' The what?\ |
| 264 | '''Camila:''' The Astral Oath is a promise made between Captain Avery and his family to love and protect each other just as they are, through supernovas and solar winds.\ |
| 265 | '''Luz:''' Mom, are you a secret nerd?! |
| 266 | * CondescendingCompassion: As it turns out, this is the reason that she sent Luz off to Summer Camp. Much like her daughter, Camila was a major nerd when she was growing up, though with Sci-Fi as opposed to Fantasy. As a result of her nerdy hobbies she was ''mercilessly'' bullied throughout the years, to the point that when a school educator specifically brings this up to Camila in relation to Luz going to Summer Camp, Camila ultimately caves in and agrees due to not wanting her daughter to have to go through the same experiences that she did, even if doing so requires Luz to repress who she really is. She later fully recognizes just how wrong this decision was and does her best to make amends to her daughter. |
| 267 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: She may just look like an ordinary civilian, but she has risked life and limb throughout her whole career for living creatures. In other words, she’s prepared to face anything. |
| 268 | * CutenessProximity: Much like her daughter, Camila tends to gush over particularly cute critters. When she first lays her eyes on King after confirming that he was the little kid Luz talked about, Camila copies Luz's initial reaction to him word for word. Likewise, when she first meets Stringbean and embraces the rest of the Hexsquad's Palismen she once again gushes about how cute they are in Spanish. |
| 269 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: "Thanks to Them" reveals that Camila was an outcast in her youth, and was bullied for it. Part of why she agreed to send Luz to Reality Check Summer Camp was because she had been convinced it would help her daughter make friends. "For the Future" confirms that this past is also the reason why she initially wasn't as supportive of Luz's authentic self, as Camila was afraid that her daughter would have to endure what she had to. |
| 270 | * DiseaseBleach: Downplayed. In season 3, Camila gains a streak of grey hair. This is likely due to the stress she had placed upon her from attempting to care for 5 extra teens in addition to her own daughter, all of whom have a great deal of trauma on their shoulders (and 4 of them having special dietary needs). |
| 271 | * EmotionSuppression: Camila kept a clear head once she's hit with the revelations that her daughter is living in the realm of demons and the person she thought was her daughter was actually a shapeshifter, successfully freeing Vee and attacking her capturer. However, once she has a moment to breathe, she breaks down and reveals to Luz that this is the most horrifying moment of her life. |
| 272 | * EveryoneHasStandards: In "Yesterday's Lie", while she initially brushes off Jacob Hopkins' ranting as that of just some crackpot ConspiracyTheorist, the instant she sees Vee imprisoned and frightened she promptly turns on Jacob and beats him down. |
| 273 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the time skip in "Thanks to Them", she has let her hair go back to its natural curls, with a straighening iron visible in the trash bin. It reflects her starting to move away from what is expected of her and towards what she actually feels is the best. |
| 274 | * FailedASpotCheck: Vee misspelled Luz's name in one of the letters she sent from camp, something Camila doesn't seem have to noticed, or consider to be unusual. |
| 275 | * FantasyForbiddingMother: |
| 276 | ** Downplayed. While she loves Luz's creativity, she thinks Luz's obsession with fantasy is responsible for her being unable to make friends with other kids. She sent Luz to Reality Check camp not because she wanted to get rid of Luz's creativity -- indeed, Camila says that she loves how creative her daughter can get -- but to teach Luz how to hide it at school so she wouldn't be bullied as Camila was. |
| 277 | ** As of "Thanks to Them", this is a DeconstructedTrope. She fully embraces Luz's eccentricities and would often defend her daughter from judgemental onlookers. It was the school principal that not only disapproves of Luz's disruptive behavior, but also reminds Camila of how her own eccentricities got her bullied. If anything, she doesn't want Luz to suffer the bullying that she did at her age. |
| 278 | ** It's later completely {{subverted}} as of "For the Future", where although she was visibly disturbed by many of the traits of the Boiling Isles, she also clearly recognized just how much her daughter loved the place and how much leaving would negatively impact her. As such, Camila taps into [[ClosetGeek her own nerdy roots]] to assure Luz that her love of the macabre of the Boiling Isles along with other aspects of Fantasy are completely okay and that Camila was wrong to try and suppress them. |
| 279 | * FishOutOfWater: God bless her, she tries so hard when she first gets to the Boiling Isles, and overall holds her own pretty well, but she's still freaked out and in completely over her head. Camila, unlike her daughter, does ''not'' immediately take to living on a corpse or eating rodents. That said, when Luz herself first visited the Isles, this was not far from her own reaction, it's just that she needed time to adjust, though Camila ''does'' show less comfort with the... unique traits of the Isles than Luz did. |
| 280 | * {{Foil}}: Camila serves as this to Eda. Both of them fulfill the role of Luz's Parental Figure with Camila being her biological mother and Eda being her adoptive mother. Camila has a very small role for most of the series until Season 3, whereas Eda spends most of the series as one of the central characters, but isn't quite as central in Season 3. Whereas Eda started off as being lax towards Luz but was fully encouraging of her magical studies and later matured to be more caring of her, Camila started off as being too protective of Luz by encouraging her not to embrace her weird tendencies and magical studies, until Season 3 where Camila becomes much more allowing of Luz and fully supports her studies in magic and her life in the Demon Realm. |
| 281 | * ForYourOwnGood: This is why she sends Luz to "Reality-Check Camp" for the summer. Notably, Camila comes to ''deeply'' regret this attitude when she sees just how much Luz felt ostracized from her by Camila trying to encourage her to "be normal". |
| 282 | * FreudianExcuse: "Thanks to Them" provides a lot of context for her actions. While she was happy to let Luz be weird and creative as a kid, other parents were judgmental, calling Luz a tryhard and Camila a bad mom. Then, after the death of Manny, Luz's principal showed (valid) concern over the fact that Luz had no friends, and he speculated that a lot of her strange behavior was her trying and failing to process her grief. While Camila said that Luz was always a bit different even before her father died, this gave her serious pause, especially when it was pointed out that Camila herself was badly bullied as a teenager. The principal suggested the Reality Check camp to help Luz make friends and act more "normal." Ultimately, Camila did the things she did mostly to try and protect her daughter, and help her deal with the loss of her dad. |
| 283 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: She's shown to have a very easy time freeing a rabbit from an animal trap and later threatens to call the police on Jacob specifically for setting up the traps on her private property. She is a vet, after all, so empathy for animals is to be expected. She is even protective of Vee, despite learning she's been deceiving her for months, and initially being repulsed by her appearance. Likewise she is happily supportive of the rest of the Hexsquad living in her home when they lack a place to stay in the Human Realm after "King's Tide", and even tells Luz that if her friends would like to drink blood, she'd find a way. |
| 284 | * GoodParents: "For the Future" ultimately shows that Camila is a genuinely good and loving mother for Luz, even if she isn't a [[ParentsAsPeople perfect one]]. When she sees just how depressed her daughter is despite returning to the place she truly considers to be her home, Camila immediately asks for the advice of others who are close to Luz on how to best console her. Later, she freely admits that she shouldn't have tried to surpress Luz's geeky, and creative tendencies with Camila citing a detail from ''Cosmic Frontier'' called the Astral Oath, a proclamation for the Captain (Camila) to always care for and support her crew (Luz) regardless of circumstances, all the while assuring Luz that she shouldn't feel so awful about failing at times. |
| 285 | * GratuitousSpanish: Much like Luz, Camila can slip into this from time to time, particularly in moments of intense emotion for her. A standout example of this is her reaction to all of the Palismen including the newly hatched Stringbean embracing her at the end of "For the Future", where she [[CutenessProximity gushes about how cute they all are in her native language]]. |
| 286 | * HereditaryHomosexuality: Implied. Her daughter Luz is canonically bisexual, and makes no attempt to pretend otherwise. While Camila's own sexuality is never specified outside of her attraction to men due to her marriage to her late husband, the fact that she had a bisexual pride magnet on her fridge ''before'' Luz came out to her suggests that she is bisexual as well. |
| 287 | * HiddenDepths: "Thanks to Them" shows that Camila had the same sort of difficulties that Luz experienced when she was growing up. Specifically, she was ostracized for being seen as weird and nerdy when she was at school, and as such Camila is afraid that Luz would have the same difficulties if she chooses to embrace her authentic self which is why she ultimately decided to send Luz to Summer Camp. "For the Future" reinforces this as Camila informs Luz that the single greatest mistake of her entire life was ever encouraging Luz not to be true to herself. |
| 288 | * ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: In "Watching and Dreaming" the puppet form of Camila begins shedding tears when Belos kills Luz. What's notable is that she isn't actually aware of what happened, but nonetheless seems to understand that something terrible just happened to her beloved daughter. |
| 289 | * IneptMage: As a result of lacking the months of experience and experimentation with Glyphs that her daughter had, Camila shows that she isn't particularly effective at using them, in particular her attempt at casting an Ice Glyph backfires spectacularly and causes a massive cave in of the area where she is when she uses it. She does get better in the series finale, where she quickly draws up many glyphs on papers for the Hexsquad to use. |
| 290 | * InterspeciesAdoption: As of "Yesterday's Lie", this applies to the relationship between Camila and Vee. Even after learning that Vee is a basilisk who stole her daughter's identity in order to try and live a peaceful life free from the Emperor's Coven, Camila doesn't hold it against her and is more than happy to let Vee stay with her to the point that earlier in the episode, Vee outright referred to Camila as her mother. Likewise after "King's Tide", this effectively also applies to the rest of the Hexsquad [[note]]PlayedWith regarding Amity who is Camila's daughter-in-law in all but name, but is still being fostered by her for the time being[[/note]] whom Camila fosters in the intervening months between when they were forced out of the Demon Realm after the Day of Unity, and when they manage to find a way back in "Thanks to Them". |
| 291 | * {{Irony}}: Decided that it was fine to leave her daughter alone to be taken to camp. By the time she changes her mind to personally drive Luz there, it's too late, as Luz is off to the Boiling Isles. In a darker example, when Camila shows a happy willingness to support Luz staying in the Boiling Isles in "For the Future", Luz herself is so overcome with grief and shame over the events of the series that ''she'' is the one who feels like she shouldn't stay in the Boiling Isles. |
| 292 | * KindlyVet: Camila works as a veterinarian. In "Yesterday’s Lie", we see her kindness and empathy in action as she releases animals from traps, angry that would do something so cruel; when she learns that a basilisk has been impersonating her daughter for months, she winds up adopting her as her own. |
| 293 | * LackOfImagination: In "Yesterday's Lie", Camila tries to trick a ConspiracyTheorist by saying she just got a phone call from the President, only to give up partway through and admit she doesn't have the imagination to continue with the lie. |
| 294 | * LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Turns out she's just as much of a nerd as Luz is, only she was a sci-fi nerd. She also panics in a similar fashion when asked about the closet of Cosmic Frontier merch. PlayedForDrama in that the reason why Camila is so insistent on Luz trying to fit in more is because she's terrified that Luz will be bullied like she was in high school because of these shared quirks. |
| 295 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: She's initially unaware that Luz is at the Boiling Isles, and "Enchanting Grom Fright" and "Keeping Up A-fear-ances" reveal that ''someone'' is keeping it that way by faking letters from Luz at camp and by sending a doppelganger to impersonate Luz respectively. "Yesterday's Lie" brings her into the loop once she learns that not only has Luz been in the demon realm this whole time, the "daughter" she thought she was housing since then was actually Vee, a basilisk from the Boiling Isles, and she's the one who did all those things. |
| 296 | * LoveObstructingParents: Unintentionally. She makes Luz promise to remain on Earth once she finds a way back, which is a serious threat to Luz's relationship with Amity. However, she wasn't actually trying to get in the way of their romance given that she didn't know that Amity existed (let alone that she and Luz were dating) at the time. Ultimately subverted; when Amity ends up stranded on Earth, Camila instantly [[OpenMindedParent accepts her as Luz's girlfriend]], and later decides to go back to the Boiling Isles ''with'' Luz to deal with Belos, showing that she's rethinking the whole "staying on Earth" thing. |
| 297 | * MamaBear: Camila has a real soft spot for small animals and children (especially her own daughter); hurting them is a good way to end up with a large shoe print on the side of your face. "For the Future" reinforces this, with the very first thing that she declares upon setting foot on the Boiling Isles being how she intends to give Belos a piece of her mind for what he's done, and she immediately leaps in front of the Hexsquad when she sees the Titan's Skull, thinking it to be dangerous. |
| 298 | * MomentOfWeakness: In "For the Future" this is how she views her decision to send Luz off to Summer Camp with the benefit of hindsight, as well as her overall [[CondescendingCompassion attitude]] towards Luz's many quirks. She freely admits that it was one of, if not the biggest mistake she made as a parent while giving Luz [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre a pep talk about how making mistakes is part of growing as a person]] to help console her over her guilt with regards to the events of the Day of Unity and her continual failings. |
| 299 | * TheMourningAfter: Is still single, even years after her husband Manny (Luz's father) died. |
| 300 | * MuggleWithADegreeInMagic: {{Downplayed}}. One of the stills in the credits for "Thanks to Them" show Luz teaching her how to use glyphs. Because she hasn't had anywhere near the amount of practice that her daughter has had with them, her first attempt to properly use one in battle during "For the Future" doesn't go so well, resulting in a MagicMisfire due to Camila drawing a slightly incorrect sigil for an Ice Glyph. It's also the only time in the episode that Camila uses a Glyph as a result, leaving most of the magic casting to the rest of the Hexsquad. |
| 301 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 302 | ** "Yesterday's Lie" features Camila experience this when Luz accidentally lets slip that she willingly chose to remain in the Demon Realm instead of going to Summer Camp. Camila breaks down and (not unjustifiably) assumes that the reason for Luz doing so was because she hated living with Camila that much. The episode ends with Camila stating that she never meant to push Luz away from her as she tearfully promises to be a better parent while begging Luz to come back and stay in the Human Realm. |
| 303 | ** In "For the Future", Camila realizes just how much of a mistake it was to cave into her own fears that allowing Luz to embrace her true authentic self would cause her to experience the same sort of bullying and ostracization that Camila herself faced when she sees how utterly broken Luz, despite Camila accompanying her to the Demon Realm, as Luz says that she hasn't changed her mind on leaving the Demon Realm as a result of [[GuiltComplex her guilt over her role in the Day of Unity]]. |
| 304 | * MyGodYouAreSerious: In "Yesterday's Lie", Camila is contacted by Luz, who tells her about the Demon Realm and how Vee is a VoluntaryShapeshifter who's been supplanting her, and asks her mother to rescue Vee from Jacob. [[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame Camila simply takes this as an elaborate game made by her daughter]], who she already knows to have an [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} overactive imagination]], and plays along to make her happy. Then she finds Vee in the museum, bound, gagged and trapped in a cage, and slowly realizes that this is no game. |
| 305 | * MyGreatestFailure: As it so happens, Camila has two major examples as seen in "For the Future". The first is how in spite of moving to Gravesfield out of the hope that the fancy hospital nearby would be able to save the life of her ill husband and Luz's father Manny, and she is understandably crushed when the move amounts to nothing. The second and most prominent example is how Camila feels like she failed as a mother to Luz by sending her to Summer Camp to encourage her not to be true to herself, all out of fear that Luz would be subjected to the same sort of bullying and ostracization that Camila herself did. This damaged Luz's already fragile self-esteem and sense of self worth, and left it vulnerable to almost irreperable breaking by subsequent events. While she can't change the former, she makes it clear to Luz that she does intend to fix the latter, as she states how she will always support Luz no matter what and encourages her to embrace her nerdiness and love for the Boiling Isles and all the weirdness it represents. |
| 306 | * MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Camila has a minor but nonetheless heartbreaking example occur in "Watching and Dreaming". When Luz is temporarily killed by Belos, and the motes of light representing her soul ascend past the Hexsquad and Camila, she starts crying despite being a puppet at the time. While she isn't aware of what actually happened, she clearly recognized that something happened to Luz on an instinctual level. |
| 307 | * NiceGirl: Just like Luz, she's kind, caring, and well-meaning. Unfortunately, in her attempts to be caring for her daughter, she ends up accidentally pushing her away, though she grows out of this. |
| 308 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Camila utterly mops the floor with Jacob Hopkins when she goes to rescue Vee from his clutches, effortlessly managing to beat him down with her [[ShoeSlap sandal]]. |
| 309 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: Camila delivers one of these to her daughter in "For the Future" combined with YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre. When Luz once again berates herself for her plans to save the Boiling Isles get turned on their head thanks to the surrounding circumstances, Camila assures her that making mistakes is part of life, citing her own failings as a person and a parent all the while noting how much like her daughter, Camila is also a [[ClosetGeek massive nerd]], culminating in Camila stating that her biggest mistake as a parent was in encouraging Luz not to be true to herself out of fear that her daughter would have to endure the same sort of bullying that Camila did when she was her age. |
| 310 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Camila's [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beatdown]] of Jacob Hopkins to rescue Vee occurs entirely offscreen, though given the complete lack of visible effort on Camila's part after the fact, it's strongly implied that it was ''[[ActionMom extremely]]'' one sided. |
| 311 | * OpenMindedParent: Zigzagged. She loves Luz and her creativity, but [[ParentsAsPeople Camila has her limits]]. |
| 312 | ** The show begins with Camila sending Luz to Reality Check camp. It's not because she wants Luz to stop being creative, but because Camila worries that this behaviour will cause Luz to be bullied like she was unless she learns to hide it. When Vee impersonates Luz and tries to be as mundane as possible, Camila worries that [[GoneHorriblyRight the camp actually changed her daughter]]. |
| 313 | ** In the Season 3 opener, when Luz officially comes out to her about her sexuality and relationship with Amity in "Thanks to Them", Camila happily pulls both girls into a hug. Afterwards, she makes a habit of wearing a heart-shaped pride pin on her shirt and she's shown to have books on raising an LGBT child in her room. It's implied that even when Luz placed a bisexual sticker on the fridge, Camila didn't think much of it at the time. |
| 314 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: Briefly in "Watching and Dreaming", Camila outlives her daughter Luz due to Luz being killed by Belos. When the motes of light representing Luz's spirit ascend past Camila, her puppeted form promptly starts to weep. Thankfully, Luz is returned to life shortly thereafter, ultimately subverting the trope. |
| 315 | * ParentsAsPeople: |
| 316 | ** Camila really loves Luz and how creative and imaginative she can be, but agrees to send her to the Reality Check Summer Camp after pressure from the school, and fears that Luz will be bullied like Camila was if she doesn't learn how to act "normal". She even decided to take the day off work to drive Luz there, giving her full control over the playlist, to make the transition easier on her. However, Luz and Vee had already unknowingly switched places when she came back. |
| 317 | ** It's unclear how much Camila knows about Luz's life in the Boiling Isles, but when Luz let slip that she chose to stay on the Isles for an extended period of time, Camila is so scared that it was because of something ''she'' did that she makes Luz promise to stay in the Human Realm upon her return, swearing things will be different. This is in spite of Luz saying the reason she dislikes Earth has "never been you", because Luz loves her mother with all her heart. |
| 318 | ** In "Thanks to Them", she immediately accepts Luz [[ComingOutStory coming out as bisexual to her]], doesn't express any open anger about Luz going to the Isles, and does her best to be a good caretaker for the displaced witches. She also has a nightmare where it's revealed that she always did her best to love and support Luz, quirks and all, and that her sending Luz to camp was in part motivated by wanting her to be happy and be able to fit in so she wouldn't be bullied like Camila herself was, and after getting to know Luz's friends and getting the full details of Luz's time in the Demon Realm she's able to recognize that Luz saying that she plans to stay in the Human Realm is a ''massive'' red flag. |
| 319 | ** In "For the Future" she doesn't take the environment of the Demon Realm well, but she's willing to put aside her disgust for Luz and wants to talk things out about her choice to stay in the Human Realm. She invokes this in order to help Luz stop lambasting herself over her mistakes, even revealing that she was a massive nerd herself when she was Luz' age. Additionally, she asks Luz's friends for greater insight on her daughter and how to best support her in light of everything that has happened. |
| 320 | * ParentalSubstitute: |
| 321 | ** During Season 2, She takes in Vee after mistaking her for Luz, and tells her that she can stay as long as she wants after learning the truth. Vee even refers to her as "Mom" on reflex due to how grateful she is for Camila taking care of her. |
| 322 | ** Also applies to the rest of the Hexsquad at the start of season 3. She takes them all in with no hesitation, and even expresses surprise on becoming a mother of six so suddenly. A notable example as she also does her best to look out for their emotional wellbeing as well as their living arrangements as seen in "For the Future" where Camila encourages Willow not to try to suppress her emotions, primarily her fears, stress, and trauma. |
| 323 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Camila delivers one to Jacob right before [[ShoeSlap she smacks him around with her sandal]]. |
| 324 | -->'''Jacob:''' I won't let you take my discovery! I'm the good guy here!\ |
| 325 | '''Camila:''' Yeah, a lot of bad guys say that. |
| 326 | * PrematurelyGrayHaired: She has uniformly brown hair in her first appearances, but the stress of becoming involved with the Demon Realm leads her to develop a noticeable band of grey across her hair. |
| 327 | * PrimAndProperBun: In her initial few appearances, Camila wore her hair like this, showing how she's more grounded and no-nonsense than her creative and imaginative daughter. Later appearances as of "Yesterday's Lie" would show her wearing her hair loose and "Thanks to Them" reveals that her no-nonsense persona is a facade. |
| 328 | * {{Ponzi}}: PlayedForLaughs. Camila was apparently duped into selling energy drinks for one of these for almost three years. She admits this to her daughter, listing it as one of her more amusing failures. |
| 329 | * QueerColors: [[AmbiguouslyBi Possibly]]. In Season 3, Camila starts wearing an LGBT Pride Pin on her outfits. What's unclear is if she is wearing this to represent herself or if she is wearing it to show solidarity and acceptance for her daughter Luz after she came out to her in "Thanks to Them". The ambiguity comes from the fact that Camila herself already had a Bisexual Pride fridge magnet ''before'' Luz actually came out to her, possibly suggesting that Camila shares her daughter's orientation. |
| 330 | * QuirkyCurls: Camila has naturally curly hair that grows out once she stops trying to force her quirky side down and shows more support for her daughter's nerdy tendencies. The straightening iron in Camila's trash implies that her formerly straight hair was her own attempt to conform to the rest of the community. |
| 331 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Her reaction to her daughter showing up in the rain with four children she doesn’t know is to welcome them into her home with open arms, giving them a place to sleep, food and new clothes. This is highlighted when Hunter bows to her like he did for [[AbusiveParents Belos]], only for Camila to immediately tell him to stop as she's just a nice person and doesn’t want to be revered. Likewise, when she sees that her daughter is displaying extremely dangerous levels of emotional distress thanks to being away from the Boiling Isles for so long in addition to her [[GuiltComplex shame over the events that led up to the situation she is now in]], Camila ''immediately'' opts to go to the Demon Realm with her to show how she recognizes how important the Isles are to Luz. |
| 332 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: Camila shares her daughter's tendency to offer up a nervous and dismissive laugh whenever someone broaches a subject that causes her great emotional distress. Specifically, she shares Luz's tendency to try and brush off the topic as if it wasn't affecting her even when one of her eyes is visibly half closed and she is acting odd. The most prominent example of this is when Hunter and Gus discover all of her [[ClosetGeek Cosmic Frontier merchandice]], which is her last reminder of her late husband Manny. |
| 333 | * ShipperOnDeck: [[{{ImpliedTrope}} Hinted at in "Thanks to Them".]] When Luz comes out to her mother and reveals her romance with her girlfriend Amity, Camila happily embraces both of them with a bright smile and never shows anything but support for the two as a couple even adding an LGBT Pride Pin to her wardrobe at all times, though she hasn't directly addressed the topic as of yet, and it isn't clear if the pin is meant to show solidarity for her daughter exclusively, [[AmbiguouslyBi or if it also represents Camila herself]]. |
| 334 | * ShoeSlap: She'll use ''la chancla'' as a weapon if need be, even carrying one around in her purse. She's quite effective with it at that, since she knocks out Jacob with just a slipper and saves Vee. |
| 335 | * SilkHidingSteel: Camila seems like your run-of-the-mill mother character, loving but not all that exceptional. However, "Yesterday's Lie" showed everyone that Camila is perfectly capable of suppressing her fear in high-stress scenarios and knocking a fully grown man out with a single sandal. |
| 336 | * TheSixthRanger: Camila becomes this to the Hexsquad in "For the Future", taking Vee's place when she travels with them back to the Demon Realm to save it from Emperor Belos and the Collector due to Vee not being ready to truly face off against the Emperor just yet and Camila wanting to look out for her daughter's mental health. |
| 337 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Camila leaves Luz outside their home for the bus to pick her up for camp instead of personally driving her daughter there... where Eda's owl comes in when she's not looking to take Luz's book away and Luz winds up chasing after it and entering the Boiling Isles. "Yesterday's Lie" reveals this ''also'' had a big impact on Vee, a young basilisk on the run from the Emperor's Coven, as Luz entering the Isles allowed Vee to realize a way to escape them. In Season 3 this no longer applies firstly due to Luz and her friends getting trapped in the Human Realm and then with Camila accompanying them back the Demon Realm to save it from Belos and the Collector. |
| 338 | * StrugglingSingleMother: Downplayed. She doesn't seem to be having any problem supporting herself and Luz at the start of the series, despite having been widowed for years at this point, but in "Thanks to Them" there's a large number of coupon clippings scattered around her room, suggesting that having to take care of an additional five kids (all but one of whom are shown to have special dietary needs) is starting to put a strain on her finances. |
| 339 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: This is her reaction when Hunter and Gus reveal that they found the collection of ''Cosmic Frontier'' stuff in her basement. It's likely due to the merchandise being Camila's [[TragicKeepsake last reminder other than her daughter of her late husband]]. |
| 340 | -->'''Camila:''' ''(forced grin)'' Oh. Ha ha! Funny how things just ''show up'' in basements, right? Without you hiding or putting them there! ''(nervous forced laughter)'' Life sure is FULL of surprises! |
| 341 | * TheTeamNormal: In "For the Future" Camila becomes this to the rest of the main cast including her daughter. Due to her complete lack of experience with Glyph Magic in comparison to her daughter, Camila primarily relies upon the red baseball bat that she brings with her from the Human Realm to defend herself. While she ''can'' use Glyphs she isn't very ''good'' at using them due to the lack of experience. |
| 342 | * TokenAdult: When the Hexsquad returns to the Demon Realm in "For the Future", Camila is the only grown up of the group and stands out in particular when it's revealed that aside from a few ''extremely'' lucky individuals, she is the only adult on the entire Boiling Isles who hasn't been turned into one of the Collector's puppets. |
| 343 | * TokenHuman: Much like Luz herself, Camila becomes this to the rest of the Boiling Isles when she travels with the Hexsquad to the Demon Realm. She stands out even more than her daughter due to Camila also being the only ''[[TokenAdult adult]]'' Human on the Boiling Isles. |
| 344 | * UnSorcerer: {{Downplayed}}. In the end of "Thanks to Them", Luz is shown showing her mother various Glyphs in the end segments. This carries over into "For the Future", where Camila activates her very first Glyph in the entire series... However because she drew the Glyph slightly wrong, the spell backfired and caused a large explosion. {{Justified|trope}} by the fact that unlike her daughter, Camila hasn't had months of experience in using them, meaning that while she ''can'' use Glyphs she isn't very good at it. |
| 345 | * UnfazedEveryman: Very much {{averted}} but notable anyways given its story importance. When Camila sees the Boiling Isles for herself in "For the Future", she is ''clearly'' [[FishOutOfWater deeply uncomfortable]] with the many macabre elements of the Isles. However, as Camila is well aware of how much the Boiling Isles means to her daughter, she does her hardest to power through her foreboding with regards to the Boiling Isles no matter how difficult it is for her to do so. |
| 346 | * WalkingSpoiler: Due to the amount of importance that Camila posses to Luz's character especially in light of several ''extremely'' spoiler heavy events that further increase Camila's prominence to the point of the very fact that she joins her daughter in returning to the Demon Realm in "Thanks to Them" being a ''massive'' spoiler, it's safe to say that getting into major discussions about Camila is basically impossible without spoiling many major events throughout the show. |
| 347 | * WantsVersusNeeds: Camila wants more than anything for her daughter to have a happy and fulfilling life. However, she feels that in order to do so she has to suppress her daughter's nerdy and energetic tendencies in order for Luz to have said fulfilling life. Learning that she can help her daughter to be a functioning member of the world while embracing her status as a noble Witch is central to Camila's CharacterDevelopment. |
| 348 | * WarriorTherapist: Camila proves herself to be capable of fighting in "Yesterday's Lie" and "For the Future", with the latter episode showing how Camila is attempting to look out for the wellbeing of the Hexsquad, with her encouraging Willow to let out her own repressed emotions over her situation and not knowing if her dads are okay, and making sure to console Luz on how it isn't bad that she fails from time to time and how Camila supports all of Luz's quirks and nerdiness. |
| 349 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 350 | ** In "Yesterday's Lie" she doesn't hesitate to voice just how deeply hurt she is upon learning that her daughter didn't actually attend Summer Camp and instead ran away from home to the [[EldritchLocation Boiling Isles]] and willing chose to stay there, with Camila thinking that she did so because she hated living with Camila that much. |
| 351 | ** Camila directs one at ''herself'' in "For the Future", with her remarking that the biggest mistake she ever made in her life was to try and encourage Luz to surpress her nerdy tendencies so she doesn't have to experience the same sort of bullying that Camila herself did in spite of how much it hurt Luz to not get that unconditional love and acceptance from her mother. |
| 352 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: |
| 353 | ** "Thanks to Them" shows that Camila actually ''didn't'' want to send Luz off to Summer Camp at least at first. She was initially fully supportive of Luz's many quirks and was actually pressured into sending her away only after the educator in her NightmareSequence reminding Camila how ''she'' was bullied in school at the same age and for the same reason that Luz was, ultimately leading her to support the decision. |
| 354 | ** "Thanks to Them" also sees Camila firmly make up her mind in regards to going with Luz to the Demon Realm for the sake of her daughter's well-being, indicating that she is more than willing to let go of her own preconceived notions for the sake of Luz. Notably it takes place after she witnesses a video diary of her daughter deciding to remain in the Human Realm out of shame for the events of the Day of Unity. |
| 355 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Camila goes to console her daughter over Luz's sense of [[GuiltComplex guilt]] for everything bad that has happened to the Demon Realm because of Luz's presence, she makes sure to explain to her daughter that it's okay to fail while admitting that her own biggest failing was in ever not seeing Luz's authentic self for the beautiful and loving young girl she is out of fear that her nerdiness would get her to go through all of the same hardships that Camila herself did. |
| 356 | * YouAreNotAlone: Camila is on the giving end of this several times throughout "For the Future", the two most prominent examples being her brief offer of comfort to Willow in letting her let out all of the emotions that she has been trying to plug up, and her consoling of her daughter after Luz suffers yet another breakdown over a personal failure, with Camila admitting that she was wrong to try to send Luz to Summer Camp and encourage her not to embrace her nerdy quirks, all the while telling her daughter how it is okay to fail from time to time. |
| 357 | * ZombieAdvocate: Camila isn't about to let little things like species get in the way of caring for people that she takes in as children. She spells this out to Jacob Hopkins just before she beats him down and rescues Vee from his clutches, despite Vee being a shapeshifting basilisk who stole her daughter's identity. Likewise she is more than happy to care for the Witches in the Hexsquad when they get trapped within the Human Realm and is naturally also opposed to Belos [[MamaBear when he attempts to kill them]]. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Principal Hal]] |
| 361 | !!Principal Hal |
| 362 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeithFerguson |
| 363 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/principle_hal.jpg]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | ->''"Your book report is why you're in here."'' |
| 366 | |
| 367 | Luz's beleaguered principal. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * JerkassHasAPoint: More so "angry ReasonableAuthorityFigure" has a point; him telling off Luz for her book report would come off as mean... if it weren't for the fact that it involved live snakes and a firework. Luz visibly has no response when she finds out the backup snakes get loose and attacked the student body. Then the one she's holding attacks ''him.'' We can only hope they're nonvenomous. |
| 370 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: From what we've seen of him, he'd rather have a conference with her mother than ban Luz ''outright''. She was already in the office several times already for childish and NightmareFetishist behavior, and he only calls her mother after the third time. What's more, he seems to agree that sending Luz to Reality Check Summer Camp is a good idea, as opposed to expelling her. |
| 371 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Just like with Luz's mother above, but because he agreed to having Luz go to a summer camp, it spiraled into Luz entering the Boiling Isles. |
| 372 | [[/folder]] |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder:Gravesfield Teens]] |
| 375 | !!Gravesfield Teens (Cabin 7) |
| 376 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ZenoRobinson (Teen Boy) |
| 377 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gravesfield_camp_kids.png]] |
| 378 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Cabin 7, hoo-hah-hah!"]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | Three teenagers who went to Reality Check summer camp together. |
| 381 | ---- |
| 382 | * EyesOutOfSight: The laidback teen's eyes are hidden behind his bangs. |
| 383 | * MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: The trio consists of a boy, a girl, and the non-binary, if feminine-presenting, Masha. |
| 384 | * NoNameGiven: Their names aren't revealed in their brief appearance, nor are they shown in the end credits. Masha's is revealed on their nameplate in "Thanks to Them" when the Hexsquad visit the Gravesfield Historical Society. |
| 385 | * TeensAreMonsters: Defied; Luz at first fully and (based on her past) justifiably fears they are this, warning [[spoiler:Vee]] to be cautious around them. But they soon prove to be perfectly nice. |
| 386 | * UnwittingMuggleFriend: [[spoiler:All three of them only knew Vee while she was pretending to be Luz, which makes things incredibly awkward when she runs into Masha in her new human guise and they note how familiar she seems.]] |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Masha]] |
| 390 | !!Masha |
| 391 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GreyGriffin |
| 392 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masha_2.png]] |
| 393 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Sounds like big bro got a hot witch girlfriend and lil bro got upset."'']] |
| 394 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see them as of "Thanks to Them"]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masha_work_profile.png ''"If you ever need a tour guide, hit me up!"''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | One of Vee's friends from camp. They also volunteer at the Gravesfield Historical Society. |
| 397 | ---- |
| 398 | * ChildishToothGap: Masha has a very prominent one in their front teeth. |
| 399 | * ColdHam: They aren't loud, but they like to make eerie and grandiose statements. |
| 400 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: Masha uses the Hexas Hold'Em cards they obtained to give [[spoiler:Vee]] a scarily accurate Tarot reading. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Whether the cards still had some magic within them or if it was just a coincidence is unclear]]. Later turns out to be {{downplayed}} since while Masha presents as feminine, they are nonbinary and go by they/them pronouns. |
| 401 | * HaveWeMet: When the Hexsquad comes to pay a visit to the museum and Masha looks at Vee's new form, they ask if they've seen them before. This is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because the last time Masha met Vee, she was in her Luz disguise, while her new form looks completely different from her. |
| 402 | * IfOnlyYouKnew: Masha tells a story about [[spoiler:the Wittebane brothers]] and corroborates with some of their own comments, including [[spoiler:suggesting that Philip is still chasing his brother, or that Caleb got a "hot witch girlfriend" and Philip got upset. Unbeknownst to them, they are completely right on both accounts]]. |
| 403 | * MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:"Thanks to Them" hints at a possible romance between them and Vee without saying anything concrete, but Dana specified in a post-series livestream that fans were free to interpret the two as a couple by the time of the DistantFinale.]] |
| 404 | * MrExposition: Downplayed. As a member of the Gravesfield Historical Society, Masha is able to tell the story of [[spoiler:the Wittebane brothers and Evelyn]] to the Hexsquad during the hayride in "Thanks to Them", [[InternalReveal though most of it is information that the audience already knew]]. |
| 405 | * OldFriendNewGender: Implied. Luz (who doesn't know them personally) refers to them in passing as "that girl" in "Yesterday's Lie" and they're definitively shown to be nonbinary in "Thanks to Them". This discrepancy is never addressed, making it unclear if they transitioned during the several months between the two episodes (which is supported by their VocalEvolution between the two points), if Luz accidentally misgendered them and [[spoiler:Vee]] was simply too distracted from their current predicament to correct her, or if they had their gender retconned. |
| 406 | * PerkyGoth: They're introduced dressed in a very goth style, but are a fairly nice and excitable person. |
| 407 | * QueerEstablishingMoment: A nameplate in "Thanks to Them" shows that Masha uses they/them pronouns, and their nails are painted in the colors of the nonbinary flag. |
| 408 | * SuperGullible: When Masha says Vee looks familiar when meeting her in her new form, the basilisk panics and begins frantically repeating that she in no way has any more than the normal number of faces. Masha laughs and replies that they too only have one face. |
| 409 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Masha doesn't play a big role during "Thanks to Them", but it's thanks to them that [[spoiler:the Hexsquad manage to decipher the puzzle they've been trying to crack, and leads them to the location of Titan's blood, which eventually leads them back to the Demon Realm for the last two episodes.]] |
| 410 | * VocalEvolution: When Masha reappears in "Thanks to Them", their voice is noticeably a bit deeper and raspy than the soft-spoken tone in "Yesterday's Lie". This would imply they came out between those points. |
| 411 | * WeirdnessCensor: Masha takes notice of the "weird look" in the partially-transformed [[spoiler:Vee's]] eyes... only to assume she's wearing special contact lenses. [[spoiler:In the season 3 premiere, they also feel like they have previously met Vee, who's adopted a new form, only to laugh it off when Vee says she just has one of those faces.]] |
| 412 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They're nowhere to be seen during the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming", not even as a quick cameo in the human realm. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Jacob Hopkins]] |
| 416 | !!Jacob Hopkins |
| 417 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RogerCraigSmith |
| 418 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacob_2.png]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | ->''"Oh, I know enough. I'll EXPOSE your vile plans on [=MewTube=] and finally... get my account verified."'' |
| 421 | |
| 422 | Head of the Gravesfield Historical Society and a ConspiracyTheorist. |
| 423 | ---- |
| 424 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: {{Downplayed}}. While he doesn't intentionally set out to harm the local wildlife, he doesn't seem to care that the traps he's been illegally setting up around the neighborhood to catch demons will also trap wild animals like rabbits, something which outrages [[KindlyVet Camila.]] |
| 425 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: When he's shown for the first time while he is working at the museum, he comes across like a very friendly, upbeat and polite person who is just doing his job. However, it's soon revealed that he is an out-of-touch egotist who doesn't care if innocent creatures get hurt as long as he gets famous. |
| 426 | * CassandraTruth: He may have more luck convincing people that witches and demons are real if he didn't lace them with obvious conspiracy crap from the internet, and even outside his misconceptions about magickind, he's a Flat Earther and is implied to believe a load of other conspiracy theories that even the residents of WesternAnimation/GravityFalls, a town full of {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}s that has SeenItAll because it's a weak point in the barrier between dimensions, would find ludicrous. As a result of the utter nonsense he parrots uncritically, nobody believes him. |
| 427 | * ConspiracyTheorist: He works on StringTheory, his theories have an EntertaininglyWrong conclusion, and he has all of the hallmarks of a nerd who has lost touch with reality. |
| 428 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:He accuses Gus as a witch in disguise... [[ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself in the middle of Halloween.]] Having no proof that Gus is not wearing ear extensions or that his magic is real, and especially having '''assaulted a child''', Jacob is immediately arrested by the police.]] |
| 429 | * EntertaininglyWrong: He's right that witches and demons are real and that Gravesfield has a rich history with them, but that's where the line ends. He's wrong about them planning on invading the Human World, that they're from Mars and that they have teeth-powered time machines. |
| 430 | * FatalFlaw: His arrogance drives him to [[spoiler:dissect a sentient creature and redecorate exhibits to promote himself. These acts get him slapped by Camila and fired respectively.]] |
| 431 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 432 | ** To Luz. Both are humans with knowledge of witches and demons, but their experiences differ. Luz is a teenage girl who has only known the truth for a few months, while Hopkins is a man who has been searching for proof for years. They react differently to learning that fantasy is real, with Luz adjusting to a DarkFantasy world and Hopkins relying on conspiracy theories. |
| 433 | ** [[spoiler:To Philip Wittebane. While Philip is wrong about witches being evil, he is an intelligent man who makes serious observations of the Boiling Isles and its wonders, which gives him the knowledge to not only become the Isles' ruler, Emperor Belos, but also the most powerful witch of all time. Jacob, on the other hand, only gets his information from random [=MewTube=] conspiracy videos and [[RightForTheWrongReasons any accurate information he may get is purely coincidental]]. As a result, he's more of a harmless joke compared to Belos despite sharing the same profession.]] |
| 434 | * GloryHound: He's clearly hungry for fame and recognition, [[spoiler:desiring to dissect Vee in order to get his account verified. It gets him fired when he uses exhibits to promote his own ego]]. |
| 435 | * HateSink: If he was just a comedic conspiracy theorist that was ultimately harmless, he wouldn't be this. However, the methods Jacob uses to uncover the so-called conspiracy are not only illegal but also downright creepy and potentially lethal. Not that he particularly cares. |
| 436 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Jacob is human, but compared to literal monsters from a realm of demons and witches, it's easy to see who we're supposed to root for. [[spoiler:Vee is a completely harmless CuteMonsterGirl, but Jacob doesn't care; all he wants is to dissect the poor girl on camera. Even then, it's not out of curiosity about the Demon Realm, the Boiling Isles, Eda, witches, or anything else; he just thinks it will get his account verified.]] |
| 437 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: While he is more of a villain than he is hero, he is still pretty bad at it regardless. He is EntertaininglyWrong about the demons, barely understands the difference between right and wrong, and makes hasty actions that are not only stupid but also completely humilating. |
| 438 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He believes demons and witches are time-travelers from Mars. [[spoiler:He also assumes Camilla is a government agent despite a clear lack of evidence.]] |
| 439 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He wants to expose the "evil" witches, all so he can be hailed as a hero for it. |
| 440 | * JuniorCounterpart: [[spoiler:He's more or less the modern day version of Philip Wittebane, being a superstitious human who believes that witches and demons are inherently evil (despite all evidence to the contrary) and tries to wipe them out for the good of humanity. Fortunately, he doesn't get anywhere near as far as Philip did.]] |
| 441 | * KnightTemplar: An ego-driven ConspiracyTheorist out for attention who's convinced that he's the hero, [[spoiler:while he's stalking and trying to kidnap what amounts to a scared if otherworldly child, past the point where it would become clear to most sane people that said otherworldly child is no threat.]] |
| 442 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Jacob is right to believe in witches and demons, but he also believes they are from Mars and have time machines. He also has a weak grasp of the law ([[spoiler:even mistaking Camilla for a government agent]]), and the fringe theory videos he relies on have led him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. |
| 443 | -->'''[[spoiler:Vee]]:''' You... don't actually know anything about us, do you? |
| 444 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Camila knocks him out and stuffs him in the same cage that he had Vee trapped in. In "Thanks to Them", Masha reveals he was fired for his ego and trying to make egocentric "edits" to the exhibits. Then his attempt to expose Gus as a witch falls flat on its face because [[DidntThinkThisThrough it's Halloween]]; he only manages to get himself arrested]]. |
| 445 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Shares his name with the infamously zealous Witchfinder General, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins Matthew Hopkins]]. |
| 446 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Jacob is convinced of his role as TheHero, but he is motivated solely by attention and perceived glory for proving the existence of demons, disregarding the feelings of others, as evidenced by his cues and word choices. |
| 447 | * ObliviouslyEvil: He says "I'm the good guy here" when he wants to dissect [[spoiler:Vee]], believing himself to be the one to reveal a vast conspiracy. [[spoiler:Camila]] quickly calls him out on this, saying that "a lot of bad guys say that" before belting him in the face with her shoe. |
| 448 | * ObviouslyEvil: The SpikesOfVillainy and color of his armor make it clear that he's ''not'' a good guy, even if [[ObliviouslyEvil he's convinced otherwise]]. |
| 449 | * PsychopathicManchild: To a considerably lesser degree than [[spoiler:Belos]], but he is nonetheless a pathetic, overgrown lowlife who spends his time believing in conspiracy theories on the internet and has no qualms about dissecting an innocent young creature solely for the glory. |
| 450 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Any accurate claim about witches are purely coincidental. Often, he gets some facts right but then follows up with nonsensical junk that even a 17th-century witch hunter [[spoiler:like Philip]] would be baffled at. |
| 451 | ** He is right that [[spoiler:the Wittebane brothers' disappearance in the 17th century]] is proof that witches and demons are real, but never seriously researched into their disappearance. Instead, he somehow jumps to the conclusion that witches came from planet Mars of all place rather than another dimension connected by a portal gate. |
| 452 | ** [[spoiler:He tries to expose Gus as a witch in disguise, even removing his costume headpiece to show his pointy ears. He is right, but he screws up his evidence by then claiming Gus -- in reality, an interdimensional refugee aiming to get back to his world and save it from a BizarroApocalypse -- is out to steal human teeth and is from Mars, which allows Gus to portray himself as a human with a good costume. Then the police arrive to arrest Jacob.]] |
| 453 | * ShadowArchetype: He represents what Luz could be if her obsession with the strange eclipsed her compassion for other people and common sense. |
| 454 | * SinisterSurveillance: Jacob has tracked down the fact that the abandoned cabin is the location of the portal to the Isles, and set up a spy camera inside it. |
| 455 | * SmallNameBigEgo: A curator for a small museum that believes that the President themself would send someone to contact him about his proof of the existence of demons. [[spoiler:He even got fired from his job for creating an exhibit about himself labeled: 'Local Hero: Humanity's Last and MOST HANDSOME Hope'.]] |
| 456 | * SocialMediaBeforeReason: He wants to dissect a specimen he found from the Boiling Isles on camera because it will finally get his account verified on [=MewTube=]. |
| 457 | * SpikesOfVillainy: He had a custom built set of armor made at a Renaissance Fair for fighting against demons that has a spiky helmet and shoulder pads. |
| 458 | * SuperGullible: [[spoiler:He immediately believes that Camila works for the government without proof.]] |
| 459 | * VanHelsingHateCrimes: He is all to eager to dissect a helpless and scared [[spoiler:Vee]] while they're ''still alive'', simply for being a demon. |
| 460 | * WouldHurtAChild: He wants to dissect [[spoiler:Vee]], even though she is still a kid. Even after Camila calls her an innocent child, he refuses to back down. And that's not even mentioning kidnapping [[spoiler:Vee]] in the first place while she was still in the guise of [[spoiler:Luz]]. |
| 461 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Jacob is a ConspiracyTheorist who correctly claims witches and demons are real, but his ideas about their origins and motivations are inaccurate. He also [[ObliviouslyEvil appears to see himself as defending Earth against demonic invasion]], dissecting [[spoiler:Vee]] for glory [[VanHelsingHateCrimes even though she is completely harmless]]. |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Mildred Featherwhyle]] |
| 465 | !!Mildred Featherwhyle |
| 466 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mildred_6.png]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | The author of ''The Good Witch Azura'' series. |
| 469 | ---- |
| 470 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: Despite presumably being human, her series somehow exists for sale on the Boiling Isles and her author's photo on Amity's copies of the books depict her with the tell-tale pointed ears of a witch. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out that she really is just an ordinary human. A box with the series washed up on the shore in one of the many temporary Titan's Blood-induced portals that bring junk to the Isles, which Tibbles proceeded to sell in an attempt to make a profit (with Mattholomule doctoring the ears in her photos and Tiny Nose pretending to be her in public appearances).]] |
| 471 | * CollectiveIdentity: Played with. [[spoiler:She is a single person, but the bootleg copies of her books on the Boiling Isles are produced by Tibbles, Mattholomule, and Tiny Nose all pretending to be her.]] |
| 472 | * TheGhost: The closest thing she gets to an onscreen appearance is her author photo [[spoiler:and Tiny Nose pretending to be her as part of Tibbles' scam]]. |
| 473 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She's only mentioned in two episodes and never directly interacts with any of the cast, yet the overall influence she had on the series is immeasurable given just how much of an impact her writing had on Luz both directly and indirectly. |
| 474 | [[/folder]] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | !!Spoiler Characters |
| 477 | |
| 478 | '''WARNING: Each of these characters is a WalkingSpoiler. All spoilers in their folders are unmarked.''' |
| 479 | |
| 480 | !!!'''Administrivia/CharacterSpecificPages''' |
| 481 | * '''[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]]''' |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[folder:The Owl Beast]] |
| 484 | !!The Owl Beast |
| 485 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker |
| 486 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b4aca4bf_c434_4c68_afc3_81e6421414d4.png]] |
| 487 | |
| 488 | An as of yet unnamed mysterious owl-like monster that appears in Eda's mind every time she transforms into her cursed form, taking over her body. It was initially assumed to be the manifestation of the curse, but was actually once a separate entity before being trapped in a scroll and unwittingly sealed inside Eda by Lilith. |
| 489 | ---- |
| 490 | * AnimalisticAbomination: It is a demon alien to the Boiling Isles, and resembles a rather nightmarish four-legged barn owl with a gaping maw and BlackEyesOfEvil. |
| 491 | * BerserkButton: The Collector, or possibly Collectors in general. Seeing them again immediately drew it to take over Eda just for a shot at him, although Lilith's homemade elixir has kept it at bay for the time being. Whether or not this is MisplacedRetribution is uncertain. |
| 492 | * BizarreAlienBiology: Assuming Eda's demon form possesses the same anatomy as the Owl Beast, it has teeth in its stomach. It also has a beak on its upper jaw but not on its lower jaw, and appears to lack teeth. |
| 493 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: The Owl Beast possesses solid black eyes, which its "host" manifests when the curse transforms them -- variously depicted as Eda's pupils dilating to take up her eyes or a black film forming over her eyes. |
| 494 | * DealWithTheDevil: Parodied. In “Eclipse Lake” it agrees to let Eda transform in her Harpy mode with one condition, which leaves her uncomfortable at first. It turns out that said condition is that Eda must include [[TrademarkFavoriteFood live voles]] on her diet. |
| 495 | * DemonicPossession: Up until the events of "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", it attempted to take over its host, Eda, causing her to [[TransformationOfThePossessed transform into a monster similar to itself]]. |
| 496 | * DirtyCoward: As soon as Eda fights back, it shrinks into a baby form and tries to run away from her. This eventually gets subverted when we learn it's really just a frightened, traumatized animal that was only attacking and threatening her out of what it thought to be self-defense - it's still none too brave, but its motives are much more sympathetic. |
| 497 | * EmotionEater: Implied. It makes sure to terrify young Eda when it first appears, going out of its way to intimidate her into running with its creepy appearance and when she [[FaceYourfears turns on it]] by the episode's end, its left noticeably weakened into a baby-esque state. Given that Lilith's monster form is shown to be noticeably larger and stronger than Eda's, and that Eda and Lilith usually transform when upset or under stress, it's implied that the curse feeds off the target's negative emotions to power the beast form. |
| 498 | * EnemyWithin: It's initially presented as the manifestation of Eda's curse within her mindscape, but in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Eda discovers it was a demon that had been sealed in the scroll Lilith used to curse her. Realizing that the Owl Beast is just as much a victim as she is leads Eda to declare a truce with it. |
| 499 | * FaceYourFears: How it was defeated by Eda, and the first step of regain control of her body. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Eda glimpses some of its past prior to being sealed inside her, and extends an offer of a truce. |
| 500 | * HungryMenace: When it took over Eda in "The Intruder" it ate the Snaggleback -- which Eda later regurgitated -- and tried to eat King and Luz. After partially taking over Eda in "Escape of the Palisman" it began eating [[ExtremeOmnivore the playground equipment]], leaving Eda confused when she vomits a swing. Even after it [[HeelFaceTurn reaches a more amicable relationship with Eda]], its condition for letting her transform into her harpy form in "Eclipse Lake" is that she feed it live voles. |
| 501 | * IJustWantToBeFree: The Owl Beast hates being stuck with Eda just as much as she hates being cursed. In the mindscape at the end of her dream in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", it's constantly trying to fly away. |
| 502 | * ItCanThink: While it tends to act like a feral predatory animal whenever it takes over Eda's body, attacking anyone it comes across out of fear, anger, and hunger; "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals that the Owl Beast is intelligent enough to understand speech -- though incapable of talking itself -- and agrees to a truce with Eda. "Eclipse Lake" further confirms this by having it bargain with Eda for use of the harpy form. |
| 503 | * ItsPersonal: When Eda tries to rescue King at the beginning of "For the Future", the Owl Beast forcibly takes control the second they're close enough to see what the Collector looks like and attacks them in a rage, obviously recognizing them as the one (or a member of the same species) who sealed them in the first place. |
| 504 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: Given that Lilith split the "curse" between herself and Eda, and is capable of transforming into a "Raven Beast" form of her own, the Owl Beast now possesses a ModifiedClone of sorts dwelling within her. |
| 505 | * MisplacedRetribution: Possibly. Upon seeing the Collector again, it immediately tries to attack him. Since it's later revealed there are multiple Collectors, whether the current one is the one who trapped it is unknown. |
| 506 | * MysteriousPast: While "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals how it ended up in the scroll that Lilith used on Eda, it isn't revealed why the Collector was chasing it, or even where it ''came from'', given that the giant skull in the background of the flashback looks ''vastly'' different than the Titan that serves as the foundation for the Isles. |
| 507 | * NightmareFace: Shows off a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/575e971fe7ac90e4619b342ffbff1fca/2b63d27c5645ab14-e0/s1280x1920/4362586bf00bd30d830474259a8e488a9c553226.jpg truly terrifying one]] in its first appearance. |
| 508 | * NonMaliciousMonster: While it tends to rampage and attack everything around it whenever it takes over Eda's body, "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals that the Owl Beast was a separate entity that was sealed inside Eda, and isn't any happier with the arrangement than Eda is herself. When Eda realizes this, she and the beast manage to make a truce. |
| 509 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" it's revealed that the Owl Beast is just as much a victim of the curse as Eda is, having been shackled and turned into the curse by the Collector. It's when Eda reconciles with it in her dream is she able to achieve a harpy-esqe SuperMode. |
| 510 | * OminousOwl: As its name suggests, the Owl Beast is a quadrupedal gryphon-like demon with large wings, a head resembling a barn owl's, a JaggedMouth with a beak on its upper jaw, and solid black eyes. Until "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" it's assumed to be the manifestation of Eda's curse within her mindscape, but it's revealed to have been a demon sealed in a magic scroll and unwittingly implanted into Eda by Lilith, taking over her body every time she transforms. |
| 511 | * OneWingedAngel: When Luz dies in "Watching and Dreaming", Eda's grief and rage causes the Owl Beast to take over and transform her into a six-winged version of her demon form with glowing red eyes and a red ThroatLight. |
| 512 | * RedStringOfFate: Non-romantic example, but in the mindscape in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" Eda and the Owl Beast are tied together by a red string. |
| 513 | * SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals that the Owl Beast was once a separate entity before it was sealed inside the scroll that eventually washed-up on a beach in the Boiling Isles, was found and stored away, then purchased by Lilith - who used it to curse Eda, which trapped the Owl Beast inside her body. |
| 514 | * SuperEmpowering: Prior to their truce, the Owl Beast would attempt to take over Eda's body, transforming her into a demon resembling itself with a monstrous version of her own face. In the rare instances where Eda was able to regain control of her body, she was able to use her demonic form's claws, fangs, wings, and immense strength to her advantage. After arranging a truce with Eda, the Owl Beast lets her transform into a humanoid version of her Owl Beast form dubbed "Harpy Eda", granting her its advantages with none of the drawbacks. |
| 515 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Subverted. Everyone - including Eda - assumes it's this, but it's really just an animal with simple, modest desires for food, kindness, and companionship (and the intelligence to communicate and negotiate in order to get it). The only sacrifices Eda needs to make in order to draw upon its powers are to treat it politely and to start adding live voles to her diet. |
| 516 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Voles, fittingly for a creature based off a barn owl. In "Eclipse Lake", it only agrees to give Eda access to her Harpy form again when she promises to eat at least eight voles on the way home. |
| 517 | * TransformationOfThePossessed: When Eda's curse acts up, she transforms into a four-legged winged monster closely resembling her inner demon -- albeit keeping her regular face -- and the Owl Beast takes over her body, often rampaging and attacking everything it comes across. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Eda arranges a truce with the Owl Beast that lets her undergo a controlled transformation into a humanoid version of her Owl Beast form, which is promptly dubbed "Harpy Eda". |
| 518 | * TraumaButton: {{Implied}}. |
| 519 | ** Sudden flashes of bright light tend to set it off and can be weaponized against it. Although King's exposition in the Owl Beast's debut episode indicates this is a natural trait for a demon with black eyes, "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" hints it might also be due to the circumstances behind it being sealed in the scroll. |
| 520 | ** In "For the Future", the sight of the Collector causes the Owl Beast to forcibly subsume Eda for the first time since "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" and try to attack the former, the Beast evidently remembering its traumatic ordeal at the Collector's or another of their kind's hands centuries ago that led to the Beast's current state. |
| 521 | * VagueAge: It's unclear just how ''long'' it's been trapped in that scroll, but it's implied that since the Collector was apparently free when it happened, the event might ''predate the Boiling Isles themselves''. |
| 522 | [[/folder]] |
| 523 | |
| 524 | [[folder:Philip Wittebane]] |
| 525 | !!Philip Wittebane |
| 526 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlexLawther/Creator/MatthewRhys |
| 527 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/philip_witches_bane.png]] |
| 528 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Thank you for your kindness, crab maiden. Perhaps we were destined to meet."'']] |
| 529 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the present]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/philip_render___kings_tide_no_scar.png ''"You want to help? Go find a hole to wither away in."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 530 | |
| 531 | ->''"My name is Philip Wittebane, and I found myself in a world so horrid yet so fantastic, few minds could have dreamt it."'' |
| 532 | |
| 533 | The enigmatic human resident of Bonesborough from the 1600s who Gwendolyn's great grandmother spoke of many years ago, and the one person who might hold the key to Luz finding a way back home. However, he's not as nice or helpful as he seems. Between Luz's trip to the past and the present day, he would eventually take on a very different mantle: the tyrant of the Boiling Isles, Emperor Belos. Even worse, thanks to a certain moral panic he was exposed to growing up, his true intentions may spell deadly trouble for magickind...\ |
| 534 | \ |
| 535 | For tropes about Emperor Belos, see [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos his page]]. |
| 536 | ---- |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | [[folder:Caleb Wittebane]] |
| 540 | !!Caleb Wittebane |
| 541 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caleb_season_3_episode_2.png]] |
| 542 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I tried to save your soul. It's YOUR FAULT this all happened!"'']] |
| 543 | ->'''Belos:''' Out of all the Grimwalkers, [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard you]] looked the most like him. |
| 544 | |
| 545 | The older brother and caretaker of Philip Wittebane. Like Philip, he was a young witch hunter of Gravesfield, participating in witch hunts alongside Philip until the day they encountered a witch named Evelyn. Entranced by the beauty of her magic and having an open mind, Caleb eagerly went with Evelyn to the Demon Realm to see its wonders, unaware that Philip was watching. Philip went into the Demon Realm, believing his brother to be under an evil spell, only to wind up killing Caleb in a fateful fight. Later, Philip would use Caleb's body to make the Grimwalkers, in an attempt to make a "better" version of his brother, though he is haunted by his murderous crime. |
| 546 | ---- |
| 547 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 548 | ** Until "Hollow Mind", it wasn't known what happened to him since he was absent when Luz met his brother Philip in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" and wasn't mentioned in Philip's diary entries either. A series of background {{Freeze Frame Bonus}}es in "Hollow Mind" all but reveal his fate: Philip killed him for cozying up to witchkind and subsequently went on to all but outright erase his brother's existence from history. This is even the case InUniverse, since "Thanks to Them" has Masha recounting the story of the Wittebane brothers' life on Earth, ending at the point they both entered the Demon Realm. Masha hypothesizes that they either reunited happily together or that Philip is still chasing after his brother, 'caught in a cycle of horror and strife'. The truth is a [[SiblingMurder disturbing mix]] of the [[CameBackWrong two]]. |
| 549 | ** Very little is known about him and the events surrounding his death. While it is clear that he was killed, the only information on this comes from Belos' memories, which depict the brothers fighting during a fire and Caleb dead on the floor. Masha reveals Philip originally had tracked him down to the Demon Realm to save him, and that Caleb had probably started a romantic relationship with a witch, yet it remains unknown as to why Philip would apparently murder the person he had intended to save. Evelyn's absence from their fight and a prior memory portrait showing him approaching them with a knife behind his back implies he sneak-attacked her in order to 'save' Caleb from her manipulations, with Caleb reluctantly fighting his brother to protect his wife and unborn children, leading to Philip fatally wounding him in a fit of rage over his brother 'betraying' him for the witches. |
| 550 | ** Belos' memories show Caleb as being an overall happy person throughout his life, yet his brief appearance in "Thanks to Them" has Caleb in worse shape than Hunter. It isn’t known which portrayal is closer to the truth, though Philip's hallucination of him in a gaunt and unhealthy form when his suppressed guilt starts affecting his unraveling mentality suggests that Caleb's condition whilst caring for the younger Philip was far worse than his brother realized at the time, only recognizing in hindsight how much strain it put upon Caleb... and subsequently ignoring that in favor of his preferred narrative, because accepting otherwise would conflict with his self-perception that Caleb deserved his fate. |
| 551 | ** Why he never returned to Earth to check up on Philip is left unclear, which in turn further re-enforced Philip's self-narrative that his Brother was 'trapped' in the Demon Realm. The Knowledge of the Gravesfield portal and Evelyn's apparent ability to use it with ease to travel between their worlds indicates Caleb could have returned at any point he wished to, but was happier in the demon realm. Despite that, he apparently never made an attempt to check up on his sole remaining family left behind on Earth, which further stoked Philip's anger when he discovered the truth. Further muddying the waters is the implication that the collapsible portal door that Eda used was actually partially made by Caleb, with his implied skills at woodcarving and the portal connecting to the abandoned house in Gravesfield, hinted to once be the Wittebane Brother's home, further reinforcing the idea that he could have seen Philip any time he wished, but apparently chose not to. |
| 552 | ** When he is falling apart in "For the Future", Belos sees his brother in front of him, silently judging him with a look of empty resignation. It's not really known if this was a genuine ghost following his brother or if it was a hallucination that Belos was seeing as his last strands of sanity melted away with his body. |
| 553 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Hunter was confirmed to be bisexual via WordOfGod, and since Hunter is a clone of Caleb, this makes it possible that he was bisexual as well. |
| 554 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: In "Hollow Mind", Evelyn bears some subtle physical similarities to members of the Clawthorne family, and is visibly pregnant, implying he might be one of their ancestors. Dell Clawthorne also has the same angular nose that Caleb and Hunter sport, which was a big facial feature that hinted at the latter two being related. [[https://twitter.com/dunn_juliette/status/1652154700136087556 Dana confirms it to be true in the final Post-Hoot]]. |
| 555 | * BattleAmongstTheFlames: How he apparently met his end. One portrait shows Philip approaching his brother and a witch with a jagged-looking knife behind his back; another shows the pair of them apparently fighting in a burning forest, Caleb reluctantly defending himself with his woodcarving knife; a third painting shows Caleb's prone body on the burning forest floor, Philip's [[DeathGlare angry eyes]] reflected in his knife's blade with a red splatter on his face. |
| 556 | * CainAndAbel: It's strongly implied that Philip killed him for being in a relationship with a witch. Ironically Philip would have seen himself as the Abel. |
| 557 | * CoolBigBro: Belos's memories of Caleb as a child are overwhelmingly positive, as they're shown playing multiple games and doing chores together. Caleb also carved the wooden mask that Belos's inner self wears, and which inspired Belos's current look. "Thanks to Them" reveals that the brothers were orphaned when they came to Gravesfield, meaning Caleb basically raised Philip by himself. |
| 558 | * DeathByIrony: A memory portrait shows him and Philip playing witch hunters, with Philip as the hunter and Caleb as the witch. Philip later killed him for being in a relationship with a witch. "Thanks to Them" further clarifies that Caleb and Philip had to adopt the profession of witch hunters as the views of his time to better fit into the town. But while Caleb was mature enough to accept the possibility his worldviews may be wrong, Philip's immature mind was much more impressionable... |
| 559 | * DisappointedInYou: The hallucination (or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possibly his actual ghost]]) of him that Belos sees as his mind starts to come apart with his body gives this impression. He doesn't say anything or move a muscle, just stares quietly at Philip with an expression of combined exhaustion, resignation and visible disappointment at how low his brother has fallen from his mad refusal to accept the Isles or his own hand in his warped monstrous existence. Furthermore, Philip's absolute ''refusal'' to accept his wrongdoing even whilst staring Caleb in the face just makes him quietly close his eyes with a solemn expression, as if aware Philip's path will inevitably lead him to a bad ending from his own flaws, and nothing can be said or done to avert it anymore. |
| 560 | * DramaticIrony: Both Hunter and Luz assume he was a witch hunter like Philip was, going by what scant information Belos let out about him as an 'old friend' he tried to resurrect. As the paintings in "Hollow Mind" show, this couldn't be further than the truth. "Thanks to Them" has them somewhat learning the truth, of their familial relationship and how Caleb was 'spirited away' by a witch with Philip in pursuit of him, but likewise, that portion of the story ends when they both enter the Demon Realm, and nobody on Earth is aware of what became of them. |
| 561 | * {{Familiar}}: He's all but said to have been Flapjack's previous owner. A sketch of the brothers portrays him with a very similar looking bird on his shoulder, Flapjack suggests "Caleb" as a fake name for Hunter during his time undercover at Hexside, and when Belos sees Flapjack in Hunter's hands, he flies into a blind rage and screams Caleb's name at the top of his lungs. |
| 562 | * FamousAncestor: Averted. While he is an ancestor of the Clawthorne family, his place in history as the first known human to live on the Boiling Isles has been lost thanks to him having been {{Unperson}}ed by his brother, with the only surviving record of his existence being an urban legend surrounding his disappearance from Gravesfield. |
| 563 | * FreezeFrameBonus: |
| 564 | ** Looking carefully at the pictures in the background of Belos's mindscape reveal much of his story, showing him growing up with Philip and his eventual death. |
| 565 | ** His body is shown to have collapsed on the ground [[https://sepublic.tumblr.com/post/682301543232454656 in the exact same way the Titan itself is laid out]] in Philip's memory portraits. Given the implications he sired a child with Evelyn, it [[RuleOfSymbolism marks him]] (like King's father) as another [[PapaWolf father who died protecting their unborn child]] from the malevolence of others opposed to their very species. |
| 566 | * GuiltByAssociation: "Thanks to Them" reveals that, thanks to Caleb's true nature being so [[{{Unperson}} utterly obscured]] over the centuries by Philip trying to remake him into [[LovingAShadow the brother he wanted him to be]], Hunter has no frame of reference for what Caleb was really like, and assumes that, based on his and Philip's close connection, he was another witch hunter who supported Philip's genocidal ambitions. He isn't even aware they were siblings, and believes they were partners or close friends, until Masha's recounting of the historical 'ghost story' during Halloween clues the Hexsquad in. |
| 567 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Despite the prejudices of his era, he is shown to have gotten along with the inhabitants of the Demon Realm to the point that he fell in love with a witch. He's also shown happily embracing Philip in his cursed form. |
| 568 | * HairstyleInertia: Subverted. The memories show his hairstyle changing across his life, with him sometimes cutting short, other times growing it out in a small ponytail. |
| 569 | * IdenticalStranger: Justified and downplayed. He's all but said to be the man Hunter is a clone of, with Belos noting Hunter looks the most like him out of the Grimwalkers. Following "Thanks to Them", there are very few major differences between the two other than Caleb not being a witch or having scars. |
| 570 | * IdiotHair: He has one that curls over his forehead. |
| 571 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: He's been seen playing with a young Philip, being friendly with the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles and may have even fallen in love with a witch. He's also seen hugging a corrupted Philip. If the Grimwalkers are indeed based on him, [[CopiedTheMoralsToo then these traits never disappeared no matter how many times Belos tried to make a clone that would follow him]]. |
| 572 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: [[AmbiguousSituation Possibly]]. Among the portraits from within Philip's mindscape is one showing him approaching Evelyn casting a flame from her hand with Philip looking on nervously in the background, followed him her leading him by the hand through the Gravesfield portal right in front of Philip, implicitly the last time he saw his brother on Earth. The portraits frame his actions as if he completely ignored his brother's presence, supporting Philip's assertion that Caleb was "enchanted" by a witch, but it's unclear if Caleb even knew Philip was watching them, or if he realized how badly his younger brother would take him leaving him behind. He most ''definitely'' was this when they reunited in the Demon realm, blind to the signs his brother still held onto his anti-witch sentiments and was being driven to murderous anger over his embracement of the Isles. |
| 573 | * InterspeciesRomance: It's said he became entranced by the witch Evelyn, and they would frequently cross through realms to meet up. Given that one of the portraits in "Hollow Mind" showcases Evelyn as being visibly pregnant, it's heavily implied their relationship was indeed romantic. |
| 574 | * LoveAtFirstSight: {{Implied}}. The memory portrait depicting what appears to be their first meeting has Caleb apparently entranced by Evelyn conjuring a flame, backing up Philip's assertion that his brother was "enchanted" by the magic of the isles. However, closer inspection of Caleb's face has his line of sight looking ''beyond'' the flame, indicating that what he was entranced by was Evelyn herself. The next portrait has him joyfully following her into the Demon realm, totally oblivious to Philip's presence in his love-stuck haze. |
| 575 | ** Subverted via WordOfGod, in reality, Caleb and Evelyn's relationship began as platonic, united by a common interest in birds, and they eventually fell in love. |
| 576 | * LovingAShadow: The Grimwalkers made in Caleb's image are Belos's attempts at bringing his brother back, but not in the way he actually was. Caleb was the oldest of the two of them, fell in love with a witch, and embraced the Boiling Isles and its magic to the point where he carved himself a Palisman. The Grimwalkers, meanwhile, are created to be so much younger than Belos that Hunter is told Belos is his ''uncle'', forcibly isolated from the outside world, and taught to fear "wild" magic. It was said in a livestream that Belos' brother is only an abstract concept to him at this point and his Grimwalkers are barely more than toys that can never be what he wants. |
| 577 | * MoralityChain: Philip looks up to Caleb due to being his caretaker and Caleb did steer Philip into witch hunting based on certain memory portraits, heavily implying that Caleb could have changed Philip's mind had they not been separated shortly after encountering Evelyn. Without Caleb's guidance, Philp's anti-witch beliefs begin to entrench themselves into Philip's mind until becomes impossible for even Caleb to dislodge. And when Caleb ends up getting killed, Philip lost any chance of saving himself from his heroic delusions. |
| 578 | * MotiveDecay: He ''is'' the motive. Philip came to the Demon Realm specifically to 'save' him from the deceptions of the witch who'd 'enchanted' him away from Earth, fully immersed in his self-narrative that he needed to 'rescue' his brother from evil. Upon finding out that the truth of events was not as he thought, [[IRejectYourReality he doubled down on enforcing his own perception of what had happened]], attacking Evelyn with a knife and apparently murdering Caleb in the struggle. Wracked with guilt over his SiblingMurder, Philip eventually rationalized that his brother was 'corrupted' by the Witches into turning on him and the profession of witch hunting as a coping mechanism, dedicating himself to [[FinalSolution wiping them all out]] to ensure no other human would suffer his 'tragedy'. This also enabled him to keep pretending he was still the 'hero' who was out to save humanity from evil, even having lost his original motivation. The Titan himself eventually points out to Luz that what truly drives Philip/Belos in the present day is enforcing his heroic narrative no matter the cost so he won't have to self-reflect on his failures. He even declines to elaborate on Caleb's role in Philip's past as it's too far removed from the present dilemma to have a difference. Symbolising this, Belos' possession of a failed Grimwalker in Caleb's image ''literally'' decays down to the bone, and Caleb himself never factors into Belos' final defeat at all. |
| 579 | * NiceGuy: Unlike Philip, the memories show him always smiling and getting along with the inhabitants of the Demon Realm, with the implication that he was even able to find love there. |
| 580 | * NoNameGiven: Since he's only ever seen in background images, his name was never explicitly mentioned until "King's Tide", where Belos snarls it in rage when he spots Flapjack in Hunter's hands. "Any Sport in a Storm" has implied that this was his name however, as Flapjack seemingly suggests "Caleb" as an alias when Hunter needs to think of a fake name on the fly. |
| 581 | * NotBrainwashed: When Caleb falls in love with a witch, Philip/Belos believes that he is forcefully being brainwashed by her, even though that couldn't be further from the truth. Caleb was with Evelyn of his own free will, and Belos simply refused to accept the what was really happening. In the process, Belos believed that the only way to "cure" him was to [[ExpendableClone kill him and start anew]]. Since there was no brainwashing involved in the witch's part, each of Caleb's clones had the exact same mindset as he did, yet Belos still believed that they were all brainwashed, leading to Belos killing clone after clone. |
| 582 | * OnlySaneMan: According to Dana, when Evelyn first came to the Human Realm, she disguised herself as a human and decided to approach Caleb since she correctly deduced he was the least crazy person there. |
| 583 | * ParrotPetPosition: "Yesterday's Lie" shows an old illustration of Philip and Caleb, with Caleb carrying a cardinal -- likely Flapjack -- on his shoulder. |
| 584 | * PosthumousCharacter: Caleb was murdered by his brother ''centuries'' before the start of the story. Still, his presence lives on in the rest of the story, such as the Grimwalkers Belos creates in his image, the Clawthornes that are his descendants, and Belos himself, who blames witches for Caleb's death, emboldening his quest for genocide. Additionally, Caleb is already dead during all time shown on screen. |
| 585 | * PromotionToParent: Caleb and Philip were orphaned as children and Caleb took it upon himself to do everything he could to take care of his younger brother. |
| 586 | * RemovedFromThePicture: His eyes are scratched out in all the memories of Belos' childhood. Only the pictures of him as an older teenager or an adult are still intact. |
| 587 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Belos created the Grimwalkers after Caleb's death, in an attempt to make a better version of him. Of course, Belos's idea of "better" really means "completely and unquestioningly obedient". |
| 588 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: Implied. Given that his descendant Eda and his clone Hunter are both revealed to snort whenever they laugh, it's possible that they may have inherited this trait from Caleb himself. |
| 589 | * SiblingMurder: The paintings that can be seen in Belos's mind in "Hollow Mind" show he was murdered by Philip, possibly after finding out he had a relationship with a witch. |
| 590 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He is long dead by the time the show starts and only appears as paintings in Belos's mind, a statue, and a deteriorated history book, but he's the basis from what the Golden Guards were cloned from, he provides motivation for Belos's actions, and may also be one of Eda's own ancestors. |
| 591 | * StarCrossedLovers: He was a witch hunter, and the memory portraits of his and Philip's childhood implies he saw it as a noble profession. However, further portraits show him looking fascinated by magic and, after being trapped in the Demon Realm, falling in love with a witch. Their relationship ends tragically when Philip, who never got over his bigotry towards witches and demons, murdered Caleb. |
| 592 | * ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Heavily {{Implied|Trope}} to be the real cause of his and Philip's separation. One memory portrait shows him being joyfully lead by the hand by Evelyn through the Gravesfield archway portal, too enamored with her to realize Philip is standing back from them in fear and trepidation of the unknown world on the other side. It's hinted that Evelyn actually made the offer to both brothers to come with her through the portal and explore the wonders of the Demon Realm, and Caleb assumed his younger brother was following right behind him, unaware that he was too scared to follow until the doorway had closed. This would leave Philip alone to be completely indoctrinated by Gravesfield's anti-witch sentiment, compounded by his own personal experiences and inability to accept his own faults in their separation, steadily corrupting him into the monster that would destroy Caleb's happy life upon their reunion and enact a centuries-long campaign of murder and deceit against the realm. |
| 593 | * TrappedInAnotherWorld: What Philip ''believed'' was the case with him, fuelling his life-long journey to find him, though it's [[AmbiguousSituation left unclear]] exactly how much of this is true. The fact he never returned to Earth despite leaving his only remaining blood relative behind there certainly implies that he couldn't freely travel between worlds, and Philip himself likewise found the Demon Realm through a one-way portal without any concrete means of returning, despite his clear longing to do so. However, Evelyn is shown to be using the Gravesfield portal doorway to visit Earth and take Caleb back with her, a doorway that is hinted to be nearby her family home on the Boiling Isles, meaning Caleb was aware of a ''method'' to return home, unlike Philip, but apparently never put it into practice. Furthermore, it's hinted the collapsable portal door utilised by Eda may have been carved/created by both Caleb and Evelyn to enable easy travel between their respective homes, given how Philip seemed incapable of making his own doorway despite having extensive notes on it in his journal, and had to resort to stealing Eda's, making it further unclear exactly how 'trapped' Caleb really was. |
| 594 | * {{Unperson}}: {{Downplayed}}. Philip/Belos hasn't gone out of his way to obscure his brother's existence, but he has no intentions of remembering, or allowing others to find out what his brother was ''truly'' like, outside of his [[LovingAShadow selfish perception of him]]. When Gwendolyn revealed that there were other humans in the Boiling Isles before Luz, she only mentioned 'a' human, singular, and none of Philip's notes in his diary made a reference to his presence alongside Philip on the isles, with Philip refusing to answer when Luz sees a drawing of his brother alongside Philip in his diary -- hinting at Philip's UnreliableNarrator status before TheReveal as to his [[TheSociopath true nature]] in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" -- and it wasn't until "Yesterday's Lie" that it was revealed that Philip apparently has a brother who was lost with him through the town records left behind in Gravesfield. For some reason, in Philip's Mindscape, he appears to have also scratched out his brother's eyes in every picture leading to memories of them as children. Even after finding out he was cloned from him, Hunter assumes that, based on the close bond between them, Caleb was another witch hunter who supported Philip's plans, and doesn't even realize their familial connection, assuming they were simply close friends or partners. A brief moment during the TimePassesMontage has Hunter hallucinate Caleb's solem expression in place of his own in the mirror, swiftly replaced by Belos' own visage giving him a DeathGlare, showing how Hunter is unable to see Caleb's better nature thanks to his [[GuiltByAssociation connection to Belos]]. |
| 595 | * UnwantedRescue: One of Belos' main motivations is that he wanted to "save" his brother from the "curse" of the "evil" witches. Problem is, there wasn't any curse to begin with, and Caleb was siding with the witches of his own free will, thus neither him, or any of his clones, want Philip to save them from their "tyranny," as Belos is blinded by his own FantasticRacism. |
| 596 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It's unknown whether he left for the Demon Realm intentionally, but Caleb is implied to have remained there due to falling in love with Evelyn. However, this resulted in Philip arriving in the Demon Realm to save his brother and subsequently jumpstarting most of the major conflicts in the series. |
| 597 | * TheVoiceless: Caleb is long dead by the present day with the only apperances we get of him when he was alive being memory portraits that Luz and Hunter never enter, and he only "properly" shows up as a silent spectre [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane that might not even be there]]. That said, we can assume that he probably sounded like an older version of Hunter given that every single one of the Grimwalkers we hear sounded identical. |
| 598 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to talk about him without mentioning that he was murdered by his brother Philip, that Belos and Philip Wittebane are the same person, and that Hunter is a Grimwalker based on his appearance. Heck, even his ''name'' is a spoiler, as the fact that Hunter uses it as an alias in "Any Sport in a Storm" implies that Flapjack likely used to belong to Caleb. |
| 599 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: InUniverse. Masha's recounting of the Wittebane brothers' past ended at the point where Philip set off in pursuit of a means to reunite with Caleb, only able to speculate whether he was successful or not in the end. Whilst Luz and the rest of the Hexsquad do eventually find out Hunter is a Grimwalker based on him, and thus that he's long dead, it's never elaborated on if they found out that he wasn't [[GuiltByAssociation an insane genocidal witch hunter like Belos]], as Hunter feared. Owing to Philip/Belos refusing to ever talk about his SiblingMurder and obfuscating the details of what happened even within his own head, as well as all others who could give an unbiased recounting being long dead, his final ending is never revealed to the heroes. The Titan himself declines to elaborate because by the present, [[MotiveDecay his death no longer has any real bearing on Belos' insane fixation on witch genocide]], with it being implied that he regrets not being able to reveal Caleb's true character, but does so to ensure that there's no [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathy expressed towards his amoral sibling]]. |
| 600 | * WrongNameOutburst: Belos repeatedly calls Hunter by Caleb's name when he's angered after it's revealed that the boy is a clone. It's made fairly clear that he only sees the Grimwalkers as copies of Caleb and blames them for whatever his brother apparently did. |
| 601 | -->'''Belos:''' ''(To Hunter)'' Caleb! You would stab me in the back!? |
| 602 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: His brief appearance as a hallucination of Hunter's lingering trauma and identity issues in "Thanks to Them" has him looking noticeably solemn, with his appearance being more haggard-looking and unhealthy than the fresh-faced and happy recollection of him presented through Philip's memory portraits. The hallucination (or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane actual ghost]]) of him that shows up in "For the Future" looks even ''worse'', with sunken eyes that have no light reflection, torn clothes and hollow cheeks, like he was a resurrected corpse seeking vengeance. |
| 603 | [[/folder]] |
| 604 | |
| 605 | [[folder:Evelyn]] |
| 606 | !!Evelyn |
| 607 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evelyn_3.jpg]] |
| 608 | ->'''Masha:''' Sounds like big bro got a hot witch girlfriend and little bro got upset, but that's just me. |
| 609 | |
| 610 | The witch whom Caleb had fallen in love with. Her first name was confirmed in "Thanks to Them". |
| 611 | ---- |
| 612 | * AdamAndOrEve: It probably isn't a coincidence that the wife of the first human in the Demon Realm, the one who by tempting him with magic [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom indirectly]] resulted in almost all suffering on the Boiling Isles, had a name derived from Eve. |
| 613 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: She [[https://twitter.com/HeyRebeccaRose/status/1642950324796428288 appeared pregnant]] in the portraits in Belos' mindscape and her spiky red hair, torn dress fashion, and yellow-colored magic hints that she may in fact be Eda's (and, by extension, also Lilith's) ancestor. Adding to this is the Clawthorne family's long legacy of being Palismen carvers and the fact that Eda's father, Dell Clawthorne, has a yellow cardinal Palisman that looks identical to Flapjack. Even her name sounds similar to Eda's. In the presentation about the Wittebane brothers, her hand is drawn similarly to Eda's, with long gold nails and fire. [[https://twitter.com/dunn_juliette/status/1652154700136087556 Dana confirms it to be true in the final Post-Hoot]]. |
| 614 | * CommonalityConnection: Dana states that Evelyn and Caleb's relationship started similarly to two dog owners meeting each other, with them both thinking Flapjack is super cool and their bond growing from there. |
| 615 | * TheFaceless: {{Downplayed}}. Every single memory portrait featuring her either has her face obscured or heavily shadowed out, showing how Philip [[{{Dehumanization}} only saw her as an obstacle]] that stood between him and his brother, rather than a person in her own right. When recounting the tale of the brothers Wittebane, a cardboard caricature showing her from the front is used to depict her, but it bares little resemblance to her, having a traditional witch's hat and entirely different hairstyle to her, as the modern kids of Gravesfield went with the depiction of a stereotypical witch to represent her. |
| 616 | * GenderBlenderName: Though Evelyn is strictly feminine in modern times, it was mostly used for boys in the Colonial period when she and Caleb were alive. |
| 617 | * HumanDisguise: By WordOfGod, Evelyn disguised herself as a human in order to meet a reasonable, less violent human. |
| 618 | * InterspeciesRomance: She's a witch that had started a relationship, and later had a baby, with the human Caleb. Tragically, their romance was clearly cut short. |
| 619 | * ItsPersonal: Philip/Belos clearly holds a ''lot'' of animosity towards her for her actions in 'spiriting' Caleb away to the Demon Realm and away from him, with Masha's tale recounting how he set off in pursuit to 'bring her to justice' whilst brandishing a knife. Even after several hundred centuries later, when he gets his hands on Flapjack, he refers to him as '[[WrongNameOutburst Evelyn]]' before impaling the Palisman with multiple spikes, demonstrating that his murderous desires towards the one who 'took' Caleb from him have not lessened in the slightest by the passage of time. |
| 620 | * NoFullNameGiven: While her first name is revealed in "Thanks to Them", her last name is never specified. It might be Clawthorne, given that she and Caleb are both confirmed to be Eda and Lilith's direct ancestors, but it's equally likely that any one of the other members of the family tree married into the Clawthornes or changed their name for some reason in the 300+ year interim. |
| 621 | * PlayingWithFire: Both Philip's memories and the Gravesfield hayride depict her casting a fire spell during her first meeting with Caleb. |
| 622 | * PregnantBadass: While she's not seen in much detail, one portrait in Belos' mindscape has her holding hands with Caleb while looking visibly pregnant. Another portrait shows her sending Philip running for the hills after he murdered the father of her child. |
| 623 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She doesn't even appear onscreen except as still images in a painting, but her impact on both Philip and Caleb is undeniable, as she is supposedly the reason Caleb came to the Boiling Isles and subsequently why Philip arrived as well, triggering a chain reaction of events without which the series as a whole could not have happened, and several characters, both implicitly and explicitly would not have been born. |
| 624 | * StarCrossedLovers: She's a witch who fell in love with a human trapped in the Demon Realm, only for their relationship to be cut tragically short when her love is murdered by his own brother, a witch hunter. |
| 625 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her decision to bring Caleb to the Boiling Isles, which got his brother [[BigBad Philip]] involved as a result, pretty much started four centuries of suffering for the Boiling Isles and the events of the series. A memory portrait depicting her "luring" Caleb away to the demon realm greatly hints that neither of them were aware that Philip was nearby and watching, nor how badly he'd take his brother leaving him behind. |
| 626 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: In one of Belos' memory portraits, she is seen blasting a runaway Philip with magic after he kills Caleb. |
| 627 | [[/folder]] |
| 628 | |
| 629 | [[folder:The In Between Realm]] |
| 630 | !!The In Between Realm |
| 631 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skjermbilde_08.JPG]] |
| 632 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Stay here"'']] |
| 633 | ->'''The Titan:''' This is the space In Between... well, in between a lot of places. |
| 634 | |
| 635 | A mysterious realm connecting the Human and Demon Realms which Luz visits in "Yesterday's Lie". |
| 636 | ---- |
| 637 | * AfterlifeAntechamber: In addition to a more general VoidBetweenTheWorlds, it's also the limbo between life and death. When Luz dies in the finale, her spirit ends up there and meets the Titan's own soul, which has been holding back from passing on to keep an eye on his son. The Titan notes that if she sinks into the In-Between's waters, she'll go on to the afterlife proper, and thus her body will fully die. |
| 638 | * GeniusLoci: It understands speech, allowing whoever's within this realm to see people they ask for. There are faint whispers audible, and a few of them seem to reply directly to Luz, saying hello to her, and when she asks if anyone can hear her, it says yes. |
| 639 | * IKnowYourTrueName: It knows Vee's name is derived from Five, and won't show her to Luz until the latter accidentally says it. |
| 640 | * MirrorMonster: Not the realm itself, but it makes whoever's inside it into one, showing them to other realms through reflective surfaces. |
| 641 | * NoNameGiven: It hasn't been given an official name in the show, the current label coming from Philip Wittebane's notes and the music suite for "Yesterday's Lie". The Titan refers to it simply as "the space in between", noting that it's an intermediary for much more than just the Human and Demon Realms. |
| 642 | * NothingIsScarier: The voice that can be heard may be from something living in the realm, or the realm itself, but one whisper tells Luz to stay there. In either case, something is watching her. This voice also ''isn't'' the Titan's spirit or the Collector, which both sound completely different. We never learn what it is. |
| 643 | * PrisonDimension: The Titan sealed away the Collector in this realm, and trapped them in a sphere for good measure. |
| 644 | * PurgatoryAndLimbo: As the Titan notes, it's the place "between" a lot of things... including between life and death, meaning that it serves as the AfterlifeAntechamber that everyone passes through before moving on to the afterlife proper. The Titan's spirit has been resisting this process and remaining in the In-Between for the centuries since he died in order to watch over his son and try to [[SpiritAdvisor assist anyone he thinks could stop Belos]], such as Luz. Luz herself goes there when she dies and is given the choice of returning to the living world to help her friends and family or resting in peace. She chooses the former. |
| 645 | * VoidBetweenTheWorlds: It's not a complete void, since there is stuff in it, but it seems to operate as this, since Luz ends up there when jumping through an unstable portal. |
| 646 | * WaistDeepOcean: The water only comes up just past Luz's ankles when she's standing in it, yet it's deep enough to fully engulf the Titan when he finally passes on. Though considering the fact that it's technically part of the afterlife, normal physics need not apply. |
| 647 | * YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Luz's glyphs do nothing within this place, and spending hours in the realm appears to damage her witch's wool cape. Implicitly this is due to it's nature as [[PurgatoryAndLimbo a reality outside the boundaries of the living world]] and was the entire reason the Titan imprisoned the Collector there. |
| 648 | [[/folder]] |
| 649 | |
| 650 | [[folder:Manny Noceda]] |
| 651 | !!Manny Noceda |
| 652 | [[quoteright:277:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/manny_noceda.png]] |
| 653 | |
| 654 | Luz's father and Camila's husband, who died before the series began. |
| 655 | ---- |
| 656 | * DisappearedDad: He passed away from some unspecified condition several years before the start of the series. |
| 657 | * FlowersOfRomance: When she first talks about him, Luz mentions how he would always bring Camila flowers on her birthday, which led to the annual tradition of leaving flowers at his grave after he passed. |
| 658 | * GoodParents: By all indications, he appears to have been a loving and supporting father to Luz. |
| 659 | * GivenNameReveal: At first, he's only ever referred to as "my dad" by Luz, though we eventually learn his name via Camila's FlashbackNightmare in "Thanks to Them". |
| 660 | * TheLostLenore: Manny is this to his still living wife Camila, as even years after his death, [[TheMourningAfter Camila is still visibly grieving him]] and has never taken another romantic partner. |
| 661 | * PosthumousCharacter: He's been dead since long before the series began. However, he's the reason Luz is obsessed with the ''Good Witch Azura'' books and the reason behind the conflict of the A-plot in "Reaching Out", where Luz is desperate for a distraction on the anniversary of his death. |
| 662 | * SatelliteFamilyMember: His character, not counting his death and connection with Camila, almost entirely revolves around the impact he had on our main character, Luz, his daughter. |
| 663 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He's long dead by the start of the series and only directly mentioned in two episodes, but he had a massive influence over Luz, due to giving her a copy of ''The Good Witch Azura'' causing her to develop her love of fantasy and created the initial CommonalityConnection that led to Luz and Amity getting together. Not to mention that the only reason the Nocedas live in the house they do (close to the shack the portal was connected to) was because he was seeking treatment from the nearby hospital. |
| 664 | * SoapOperaDisease: We only get a brief clue into his cause of death; Luz mentions in her diary that the family has moved to Gravesfield, and that while her mother says it was because she wanted a change of scenery, Luz suspects it's so they will be closer to a better hospital for Manny, which hints that he died of some kind of terminal illness. |
| 665 | * {{Trekkie}}: If Camila's closet is any indication, the two of them used to go to ''[[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore Cosmic Frontier]]'' conventions together. |
| 666 | * UnseenNoMore: He's first hinted at in "Yesterday's Lie" and is briefly shown in "Reaching Out", but his face isn't actually seen until "Thanks to Them". |
| 667 | * WalkingSpoiler: The very fact that he is dead is a fairly significant spoiler as not only does it inform Luz's actions in "Reaching Out" but it also plays a major role in her character in general as he was the one who gave Luz her first copy of ''The Good Witch Azura'' [[ItWasAGift as his final gift to her]]. |
| 668 | [[/folder]] |
| 669 | |
| 670 | [[folder:The Sludge Monster]] |
| 671 | !!The Palisman Monster |
| 672 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geeky_waffle_owl_house_hollow_mind_recap_palisman.png]] |
| 673 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Get away from him. Danger! Danger! Run!"'']] |
| 674 | ->'''Luz:''' Are those... ''Palismen''?! |
| 675 | |
| 676 | A monster that Luz and Hunter encounter in Belos' mind that they try to run from, believing that it is the Inner Belos. In reality, it's an amalgamation of the souls of the Palismen that Belos had consumed. |
| 677 | ---- |
| 678 | * AndIMustScream: They are fused together and trapped in Belos's mind, screaming and trying to get out. Most of them have been stuck this way for ''centuries''. Their attempts cause Belos to suffer sporadic, painful episodes of slipping into his true form and hearing voices in his head. Inner Belos thus manipulates Luz and Hunter to capture the monster and silence it for good. |
| 679 | * BaitAndSwitch: Luz and Hunter mistook it as the Inner Belos, but it turned out to be the embodiment of the palismen Belos consumed. |
| 680 | * BodyOfBodies: Individual Palisman can actually be seen surfacing on its body, trying to break free. [[AndIMustScream And every one of them is screaming]]. |
| 681 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Their monstrous form is a full preview of what Belos actually looks like under his human glamour. And fittingly, it's the form that Belos refuses to associate himself with because he cannot imagine himself as this wretched monster. |
| 682 | * GoodAllAlong: It spends the entirety of its appearance trying to warn Luz and Hunter that they're in danger and the child with them is the Inner Belos, but its horrifying appearance keeps Luz, Hunter, and the audience from realizing the truth until it's far to late to make a difference. |
| 683 | * HearingVoices: They are the voices in Belos's head. Belos considers them a nagging presence that he wishes to silence, especially since they cause him to lose control of his human shape. In a symbolic sense, they represent the guilt inside Belos trying to get out, only to be repeatedly repressed and then permanently silenced. |
| 684 | * MindHive: Is a conglomerate of the souls of every Palisman that Belos had devoured, with every one of them in pain and torture. |
| 685 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 686 | ** Though they attempt to force Belos's true form to emerge from his body and show the Boiling Isles what he truly looks like, this only causes Belos to seek another palisman to consume, giving him control over his body again and adding another palisman to the monster's tortured form. |
| 687 | ** They try to warn Luz and Hunter that the child is actually Inner Belos, but their monstrous appearance only convinces them that ''they'' are the Inner Belos. |
| 688 | * SuddenlySpeaking: They're shown speaking in an attempt to warn Luz and Hunter even though every Palisman to appear prior to this point (barring the truly ancient and somewhat human-shaped Bat Queen) has only ever made animal noises. How they're able to talk is never explained. |
| 689 | [[/folder]] |
| 690 | |
| 691 | [[folder:The Titan Trappers]] |
| 692 | !!The Titan Trappers |
| 693 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2022_05_28_at_20953_am.png]] |
| 694 | ->'''Tarak:''' We are Titan Trappers, under oath to protect the world from giant monsters of death and destruction. But, uh, not many of us have seen a ''live'' one of course. |
| 695 | |
| 696 | Seemingly appearing to be King's species at first, they are revealed to actually be a cult of witches from a different Titan who Luz, King and Hooty meet in "Edge of the World", their appearances are costumes to lure young Titans to be killed and plan to summon the Collector. |
| 697 | ---- |
| 698 | * AffablyEvil: When Luz, King and Hooty meet them, they are all welcoming and accommodating, allowing King into their good graces. When they find out that King is a baby Titan, they are all perfectly willing to throw that away and kill them to please the "Grand Huntsman" (The Collector). |
| 699 | * TheBusCameBack: After only appearing in "Edge of the World" and then disappearing for the rest of the second season and most of the third, Tarak and Bill reappear in "Watching and Dreaming" as part of King's nightmare. |
| 700 | * ForTheEvulz: As we see in "King's Tide", sacrificing King wasn't really necessary to release the Collector. The Titan Trappers opted for ritual sacrifice because they wanted to relish killing the last Titan. |
| 701 | * HollywoodSatanism: While the people of the Boiling Isles worship the Titan they spawned from as a god, the Titan Trapper's entire culture is built around finding and killing Titans, worshipping [[SatanicArchetype The Collector]] (who's implied to be the sworn enemy of the Boiling Isle's Titan) as their TopGod. The fact that they express this worship via dressing up in demonic costumes made from bones and skins of child-sacrifices certainly doesn't help. |
| 702 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: They believe that killing the last Titan (King) is what the Collector wishes of them. "King's Tide" reveals that the Collector has actually always wanted to ''play'' with King, not kill him. "For the Future" implies that they were pawns in the war between the older Collectors and the Titans, since the Titans can cancel out Collector magic, and are unaware of the full nature of what their now sole god wants. |
| 703 | * ProudHunterRace: Their entire culture revolves around capturing and killing Titans. It's implied though that, outside of King, Titans have been driven to extinction and most of the current generation of Titan Trappers haven't actually ''seen'' a Titan. |
| 704 | * SinsOfOurFathers: Most of the Titan Trappers believe that titans are evil and tyrannical creatures who need to be wiped out, and have no issue killing an ''infant'' just because he's the child of a titan. |
| 705 | * SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: They disguise themselves as Titans, reasoning they need to look like a Titan to "trap" one. Part of this involves wearing Titan skulls as masks. |
| 706 | * WouldHurtAChild: Since Titans are, well, ''titanic'' in adulthood, they seem content with hunting them as babies. The fact that they wear their skins and skulls just makes it worse. |
| 707 | [[/folder]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | [[folder:Tarak]] |
| 710 | !!Tarak |
| 711 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson |
| 712 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tarak.png]] |
| 713 | ->''"I assume your father was lost in the hunt of yore, but a Titan Trapper is never alone."'' |
| 714 | |
| 715 | Initially believed to be King's father and later revealed to be called Tarak, he invites King to an island where his species reside, revealing them to be called the Titan Trappers who as their name says, oppose the Titans in the name of their God, the Grand Huntsman. While not actually King's father he nonetheless takes a father-like role to King during the latter's stay in the Trapper's island. |
| 716 | |
| 717 | However this being is eventually revealed to be a deranged witch cultist bent on summoning the Collector by sacrificing King, who is a baby Titan, his appearance being merely a costume used to lure Titans to be killed and all the other cultists being disguised witches as well. |
| 718 | ---- |
| 719 | * AdultsAreMoreAnthropomorphic: He seemed to be a fully grown member of King's species, who looks far more humanoid and has hands. King is still a youngling, who looks and acts like a dog for the most part. "Edge of the World" reveals it's a disguise that he and all Titan Trappers wear, and that he's neither a member of King's species nor would he have been full grown if he truly were, as King is a baby Titan. |
| 720 | * AffablyEvil: He's sincerely nice when he meets King, Luz and Hooty and assumes King is a fellow Titan Trapper. It's only after he finds out King is a Titan that he turns cold and is willing to sacrifice him, but even then there are some hints he felt bad about doing so. |
| 721 | * ApocalypseCult: He's revealed to actually be a member of a cult that worships the Collector and plans on summoning them. |
| 722 | * BaitAndSwitch: From his appearances in "Eda's Requiem" and "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" it looks like he may be King's DisappearedDad. "Edge of the World" reveals he isn't, but left a message for King because he believed King's father was a fellow Titan Trapper. |
| 723 | * BaitTheDog: Tarak treats King with nothing but kindness, accepts him as a member of the Titan Trapper community, and is willing to fight King and Luz's enemies no questions asked. He even seems genuinely touched when King asks if the two of them can play catch. Seconds later, after Tarak finds out King is the last Titan his cult's been hunting, there's enough ambiguity in Tarak's reaction to make it seem like he may not want to hurt King. Ultimately, though, he buries whatever reluctance he may be feeling and goes through with offering King up to be sacrificed and coldly writes King off as "never being one of us" when the truth is revealed. |
| 724 | * EvilAllAlong: His first two appearances make it look like he's King's father and even when "Edge of the World" reveals that's not the case, he still treats King like family and happily accepts him as part of his village of Titan Trappers. Then it's revealed his group is really a cult that worships the Collector and plans on freeing him from his prison and that the Titans his group have been trained to hunt are not mindlessly evil creatures. While his reaction upon learning the truth about King hints at some internal conflict, he ultimately goes along with his people's attempt to sacrifice King to free the Collector. |
| 725 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: The skull isn't part of his body, it's a Titan skull he wears. The malevolent part comes in trying to sacrifice a child who trusts him, even if he did initially seem reluctant to do so. |
| 726 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: In what could be considered the inverse of Belos, light naturally shines in Tarak's pupils, unlike King or the rest of the Titan Trappers. It's the first hint that the Trappers aren't quite what they seem. |
| 727 | * ParentalSubstitute: When King meets him, he asks if Tarak is his father. Even after Tarak tells him he isn't, King latches on to him in particular as a father figure, even asking if they can play catch like a father and son. Tarak seems touched, until he finds out King is the Titan his people have been hunting and then tries to sacrifice him (and even then, there's a definite moment just after learning the truth where he seems conflicted). |
| 728 | * SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Just like the rest of the Titan Trappers, he wears the skull of a Titan. |
| 729 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Subverted. He is not King's father, he and his people just dress up to resemble the beings they hunt: Titans. Of which, King is the last. |
| 730 | * SuddenlyVoiced: Speaks for the first time in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", after his previous appearance had him silent. |
| 731 | * WalkingSpoiler: He is key to King's backstory, as well as the greater lore of the Boiling Isles. Not because of any blood bonds, however. |
| 732 | * WhamShot: His resemblance to King makes his appearance watching King's message in "Eda's Requiem" shocking as it ties into King's search for his long-lost father. Of course, things aren't quite what they seem. |
| 733 | * WouldHurtAChild: When he finds out King is a Titan, he willingly offers him up for sacrifice despite King being a child. |
| 734 | [[/folder]] |
| 735 | |
| 736 | [[folder:Bill]] |
| 737 | !!Bill |
| 738 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisHoughton |
| 739 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bill_render.png]] |
| 740 | [[quoteright:200:[[labelnote:Click here to see him unmasked]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/download_5_21.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 741 | ->''"With this gift, the Grand Huntsman will return and I shall ride cloaked in glory above all others!"'' |
| 742 | |
| 743 | The elder of the Titan Trappers. |
| 744 | ---- |
| 745 | * AmbiguousSituation: While it's clear that his description of Titans as evil is bogus, his closeness to the Collector/Grand Huntsman is less clear. While he seems to genuinely believe that the Collector will reward him if freed by him through the sacrifice of the Last Titan, the fact that he's initially willing to aid Luz against Belos, who is allied with his god (even dismissing him as "no big deal"), before realizing that King is an infant Titan implies that the Collector has little to no direct line of communication with him. |
| 746 | * {{Baphomet}}: The candle on his skull-mask evokes the iconic look of the demon. |
| 747 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Well, Interquel. Both he and Belos are leading a cult of witches and are manipulating them to feed their own egos, but the are otherwise exact opposites. Belos spread lies about serving the Titan, [[EvilIsBigger towers over most of his followers]], and is more than capable of holding himself in a fight. Bill spread lies about Titans being evil, is the shortest of the Titan Trappers, and has to rely on others to do his dirty work. |
| 748 | * TheDragon: To the Collector, leading an ApocalypseCult devoted to their craft and freeing them. |
| 749 | * EvilOldFolks: He's the oldest of the Trappers and at first he just seems to be an [[GrumpyOldMan unpleasant jerk]]. Then it's revealed he's the evil leader of an ApocalypseCult. |
| 750 | * FantasticRacism: Harbors a vendetta against the Titans and will not rest until they are all exterminated. |
| 751 | * FreudianSlip: He accidentally lets slip that he wants glory for ''himself'', and not the rest of the Trappers too. |
| 752 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He's trying to free the Collector because he believes he'll be rewarded and "shall ride cloaked in glory about all others!" When Tarak points out Bill promised the Collector would reward all of them, and Hooty and Luz question him further, Bill hastily and unconvincingly backpedals. |
| 753 | -->'''Bill:''' [[BlatantLies I'm totally not lying!]] |
| 754 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He's an unpleasant curmudgeon but he does promise to help Luz in her fight against Belos. Then it's revealed the Huntsman he worships as a god is the Collector and he's trying to free him from his prison. He's also the only one among his tribe that has personally seen and hunted Titans before, painting them to his followers as inherently evil monsters, which, as King demonstrates, is clearly untrue. He is also intent on taking all the glory of freeing the Collector for himself, leaving his followers out in the cold. |
| 755 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: He and his followers wear Titan skulls as masks and Bill is the most malevolent of them given that he's lying about the Titans' nature to his followers and is only out for personal glory. If the adult Titans are any indication, said skull came from a ''[[WouldHurtAChild baby Titan]]'' not far from King's own age. |
| 756 | * PoorCommunicationKills: He has no idea that Belos is also working towards freeing the Collector and immediately agreed to fight against him as soon as Luz asked. |
| 757 | * SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: He and the rest of the Titan Trappers wear the skulls of dead Titans as part of their costumes. |
| 758 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Much like King, he is very small, and is only the eldest member of the Titan Trappers, but he prioritizes his own benefits above that of the tribe in regards to freeing the Collector. Bonus points for having the exact same number of letters in his name as King, as well. |
| 759 | * TomTheDarkLord: He's a Titan hunter and the leader of a cult that worships the Collector. His name is Bill. No, it's not short for anything. |
| 760 | * UnreliableExpositor: All the other Titan Trappers defer to Bill and rely on his knowledge because he's the only one among them who's seen a Titan and spoken with the Trappers' god, the Grand Huntsman. However, given that King's good nature contrasts with Bill's description of them as inherently evil bringers of death and destruction, his "god" actually being the Collector, and his [[FreudianSlip accidental admission]] that he only cares about being personally rewarded and not about the rest of the Trappers, it's clear nearly everything he's taught his followers about Titans is a lie, with what isn't falsehood mainly being their physical traits (like their skulls and the Titan VerbalTic of "weh"). Luz and Hooty even lampshade it when Bill slips and reveals that he's only interested in his ''own'' glory, and not that of the other Trappers as well like he promised. |
| 761 | -->'''Hooty:''' Are Titans even evil?\ |
| 762 | '''Luz:''' How much have you been making up? |
| 763 | * WhamLine: He lists off a number of traits that existed in the only living Titan he had ever seen; a mighty appetite, a god complex, and a powerful, offensive roar that manifests as a "Weh." Sound familiar? |
| 764 | * WouldHurtAChild: King is only just a baby in comparison to the other Titans, but the key words there are "other Titans". Being a Titan marks him as a sacrifice regardless of his age. |
| 765 | [[/folder]] |
| 766 | |
| 767 | [[folder:The Grimwalkers]] |
| 768 | !!Golden Guards |
| 769 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ZenoRobinson |
| 770 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skjermbilde_2023_01_22_122103.jpg]] |
| 771 | ->'''Collector:''' I'm starting to think you make those things just to destroy them. You have fun with it; '''admit it!''' (cackle)\ |
| 772 | '''Belos:''' Of course I don't, Collector. It hurts every time he chooses to betray me. |
| 773 | |
| 774 | A line of Grimwalkers created by Belos to serve as his Golden Guards over the centuries. |
| 775 | ---- |
| 776 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: They are clones of Philip's brother Caleb, yet it's unknown if they are genuinely related to Belos given he and his brother were humans and the Grimwalkers are witches. |
| 777 | * BlindObedience: Belos has been trying to create a Grimwalker that will never betray him, working hard on his manipulation over the years so he'll finally have a Golden Guard who will follow him without question. The [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses pile of bones he eventually created]] stands as a testament to the fact that eventually, they were all aversions to the trope. |
| 778 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: {{Downplayed}}. Philip's mindscape contains a corridor of memory portraits strewn with the broken masks of the prior Guards who 'betrayed' him, the portraits showing the various -- and inventive -- ways in which he killed them. About 16 masks or so can be seen, but when King searches for the Collector's mirror in "King's Tide", he [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses finds it amongst the skulls and decayed bones]] of a ''lot'' more Golden Guards Philip tossed off the bridge, showing that even if Philip remembered ''some'' of his prior victims more than the others, he'd still racked up a high enough body count that not even he could remember them all. TheReveal that Philip eventually took to naming them all [[MeaningfulName Hunter]] as [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour a sick form of humour]] after the originally named Guards kept betraying him furthers this, showing that they started to blur together in his memories after the repeated betrayals, and he [[IdenticallyNamedGroup went with a singular name for them all]] out of a lack of care for their individuality, or how many of them he went through over the years. |
| 779 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: No Grimwalker has ever remained loyal to Belos and all eventually betrayed him, though it's arguably {{Inverted}}, as only Belos would have seen it as a betrayal, and if Hunter is any indication, each one of them were desperately hoping that their master wasn't as evil as his actions made him seem, making it more along the lines of Belos betraying ''their'' trust and goodwill as he executed each one. |
| 780 | * ClonesArePeopleToo: The Grimwalkers are implied to have generally similar personalities, but are their own people. Even though Darius takes a shine to Hunter because of his friendship with previous Golden Guard, he doesn't treat them as the same person like Belos. |
| 781 | * CopiedTheMoralsToo: Each and every Grimwalker without fail eventually turned on Belos and his insane plot to eradicate all witches, with Belos' comments implying these traits came from the original. |
| 782 | * DarkIsNotEvil: The two that have been seen so far wore dark uniforms under their cloaks but, while they both did reprehensible things under Belos' orders, like all the other Golden Guards they eventually turned on their creator. |
| 783 | * ExpendableClone: Belos refers to the Grimwalkers as a singular 'he', hinting that he sees them only as the person they were based on despite the implications they had [[ClonesArePeopleToo varying appearances and personalities]], showcasing his utter lack of guilt over repeatedly murdering multiple people for his own selfish goals. |
| 784 | * HumanResources: One of the ingredients of a grimwalker is the "bone of ortet". An ortet is the original plant from which a scion is taken for grafting, implying that the grimwalker recipe requires a piece of the original. |
| 785 | * IdenticallyNamedGroup: In a livestream it was revealed that when Belos started making them he gave the Grimwalkers individual names, but eventually decided to call them all 'Hunter' as a sick form of humor. |
| 786 | * IdenticalTwinIDTag: Since they're made from the same base stock, they all look very alike, especially with their masks on. That said, when they appear in "For the Future" many of them look notably different. Some wear slightly different outfits, and others are more damaged or have different hairstyles. One standing next to Caleb has notably long, messy hair. |
| 787 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: The Golden Guard before Hunter was responsible for mentoring Darius, but was killed like his predecessors for betraying Belos. |
| 788 | * NothingButSkulls: As revealed in "King's Tide" Belos has produced so many different Golden Guards over the years that their skulls (and masks) have been given a large, ''dedicated'' chamber in his lair. Of course, they're ''all'' failures. |
| 789 | * NotSoExtinct: According to one of the books Hunter obtained about grimwalkers, they're an extinct species ([[https://theowlhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Hunter/Gallery/Season_2?file=Labyrinth_Runners_-_290.png see screencap]]), but Belos somehow made a clone based on them and his human brother Caleb. Granted, his repeated murdering of them after they failed to live up to his expectations and only making one of them at a time until he 'got it right' means that Hunter is effectively the LastOfHisKind regardless, so it's more like 'almost' extinct. |
| 790 | * OurHomunculiAreDifferent: The Golden Guards are artificially created witches made with stonesleeper lungs, selkidomus scales, Palistrom wood, a galdor stone, and a bone of ortet (a botanical term for a genetic source being cloned). How they're made has not been shown, but their picture in Belos' book involves a fetus and both a background painting in his memories and The Collector mimicking one by bursting his hand from the ground implies they are grown in the ground, being a more PG version of how alchemical homunculi are said to be made. "For the Future" verifies this, showing a hidden laboratory with dirt pits where new Grimwalkers are grown. |
| 791 | * PlantPeople: Though not visibly, they're strongly implied to be like plants. The grimwalker book uses the hogricultural term Ortet to refer to the original person the grimwalkers are made from, and one of Belos' memories shows him standing over a field with hands sticking out. |
| 792 | * ReplacementGoldfish: It's all but said the Golden Guards were made to replace Philip's brother after he murdered him, with Belos killing them every time they turned on him and trying to create a Grimwalker that would follow him. |
| 793 | * RousseauWasRight: No matter Belos' attempts to keep them loyal, in the end, none of them could stomach helping him to murder the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles and eventually betrayed him. |
| 794 | * UnfortunateNames: Though he started out giving them individual names, eventually Belos tired of the practice after the repeated betrayals and took to naming them all Hunter, alluding to his occupation as a witch hunter and goal to murder all witches in the Boiling Isles. [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor He did this intentionally a sick joke with himself]]. |
| 795 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's rather difficult to give any information about them without mentioning Belos' backstory, relationship with his brother and ultimate plans for the Demon Realm, nor the fact that Hunter is one of them. |
| 796 | [[/folder]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | [[folder:The Collector's Kin]] |
| 799 | !!The Archivists |
| 800 | [[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skjermbilde_2023_01_26_203149.jpg]] |
| 801 | ->''"Collectors live long, we watch things pass. To preserve, to observe, we must amass. What flies, what swims, be it predator, or prey, seal them up so they may never fade. But should they meddle in our affairs, we'll clean the planet and scorch the air."'' |
| 802 | |
| 803 | The Collector's older siblings, a group of their species responsible for wiping out the Titans. Their whereabouts are unknown by the time the story takes place, but their young sibling remains trapped in the Demon Realm as a consequence of their actions until he is eventually released by King. |
| 804 | ---- |
| 805 | * AbusivePrecursors: They are implied to have once ruled over the Demon Realm and had a tight grip on its inhabitants with their reality bending powers. It is unclear whether they were mutually eradicated by the Titans or simply returned to the stars once the Titans were wiped out, but by the present day only the Collector remains in the Demon Realm. |
| 806 | * AliensAreBastards: They're a group of FantasyAliens coming "from the stars," and given their extermination of the Titans, they can pretty easily be assumed to not be the best of people. The Collector's storybook describes them as sealing up lifeforms in what is akin to your typical AlienAbduction stories. |
| 807 | * AmbiguousSituation: Pretty much everything about them is unknown. All we know is that they existed, that they were powerful, that they had conflict with the Titans, and that they aren't really around anymore. It's unclear if they were an entire species or a small group, where they came from, if they still exist somewhere out there, if the Collector is a typical member of his species or if he's unique, and many other questions. |
| 808 | * CondescendingCompassion: It's implied that part of the reason for their NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist actions towards "preserving" mortal life whether they want it not, and pulling a FinalSolution on any worlds that sufficiently annoy them by fighting back, is that they were boosting their own egos about their power and immortality compared to the mortals of the planets in the Demon Realm, like someone who commits acts of "charity" to look good. Sure enough, when an actual threat to their power appears in the form of the Titans, the Archivists are more than happy to make them all "disappear". |
| 809 | * CosmicMotifs: Like their sibling the Collector, they are associated with stars, moons, planets etc. The Collector himself is outright referred to as a "child from the stars". |
| 810 | * DisappointingOlderSibling: "Watching and Dreaming" indicates that they... weren't the best big siblings in the universe by a long shot. They sent the Collector down to the Titans' planet either to get him out of their hair or to use him as [[TheBait bait to draw the Titans out,]] then they wiped the Titans out despite the Collector's fondness of them. The Archivists also apparently didn't lift a finger when the last adult Titan imprisoned the Collector for ''their'' crimes, nor during the intervening millennia where the Collector remained trapped and alone. Tellingly, the Collector never speaks fondly of the Archivists and he seems to be somewhat afraid of them. |
| 811 | * FinalSolution: While they were dedicated to preserving life on paper, the Collectors' creed says that if the inhabitants of worlds they preside over attempt to fight back they "clean the planet and scorch the air". The Collector disapproved of this, crossing it out and replacing it with a line about playing and having fun, and urgently telling King not to read it. |
| 812 | * GreaterScopeVillain: "Watching and Dreaming" reveals that the Archivists are responsible both for the extinction of the Titans and the Collector's presence in the Demon Realm, having sent him to "see if the Titans wanna play" before enacting their genocide. None of them appear in the show itself outside of images, however, leaving the Collector and Belos as the ultimate BigBadEnsemble. |
| 813 | * GreatOffscreenWar: The Archivists waged a war against the Titans to exterminate them, as Titan magic is the one known thing that can disrupt and negate Collector magic. While the Titans were all but wiped out, the fate of the Archivists and the rest of the Collector species remains unknown. |
| 814 | * HateSink: While they never appear directly, from what we ''do'' know about them, the Archivists were a group of genocidal JerkassGods who abandoned their sibling and wiped out the Titans, in the process causing pretty much every tragedy in the series. |
| 815 | * HideAndNoSeek: They apparently did this to their younger sibling on a regular basis, namely when they sent them down to the planet the Titans were on, assuming that they weren't using them as bait for the Titans. |
| 816 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: The Collector does not think fondly of his kin, sounding outright scared when asking King to skip the part in their book about the Collectors scorching planets and burning the air. |
| 817 | * HumanoidAbomination: Assuming the Collector is an average (if young) example of his species, the Archivists and other Collectors were humanoid in shape with only minor visual differences from humans, but are also ''immensely'' powerful {{Reality Warper}}s who can tear at the fabric of reality at their whims. |
| 818 | * JerkassGods: If the child one we're seeing is any indication, they have an immensely powerful form of magic that allows them to [[RealityWarper bend reality to their whims]], yet they are more than willing to commit genocide on any species that angers them. |
| 819 | * KickTheDog: On top of all of their {{Jerkass}} actions that reach degrees the viewer could consider downright evil, they "sent" the Collector down to the Demon Realm and then completely abandoned him there while simultaneously wiping out the Titans he'd grown close to. As far as his recollection goes, which could be tainted by UnreliableNarrator, they outright did not care about him whatsoever and made sure he couldn't even come back home. |
| 820 | * KryptoniteFactor: Titan magic is capable of cancelling out Collector magic, hence why the Archivists enlisted the Titan Trappers in helping to wipe them out and avoid any threat to their power. |
| 821 | * LongLived: They live an ''extremely'' long time, to the point that King outright calls the Collector immortal. The book the Collector has King read to them even says "Collectors live long". |
| 822 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Although the books King reads to the Collector claims that the Collectors are dedicated to preserving mortal life so it "never fades", the fact that they are willing to FinalSolution any world that fights back shows that they cared more about their egos, as does the fact that the Archivists tried to wipe out the Titans simply because they had the power to cancel out Collector magic. |
| 823 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: They're a race of celestial entities with a strong association with [[CosmicMotifs the stars]]. If the Collector's storybook is anything to go by, they exist to study and catalogue the universe, implying them to be a CelestialBureaucracy who "save" lesser beings and [[FinalSolution take a scorched-Earth approach]] to any opposition. They are diametrically opposed to the Titans, a race of ancient, Devil-like giants who begat Demon-kind. The only one of their kind we actually see -- The Collector -- is himself a SatanicArchetype ([[SatanIsGood albeit a complicated example]]), having been banished "below" with the Archivists either none-the-wiser or apathetic to their imprisonment. |
| 824 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: They only appeared 2 episodes in Season 3 as background characters, but... If they didn't abandon their younger sibling The Collector and leading him into getting imprisoned by The Titan for years in order to commit genocide in the Boiling Isles, then in the series wouldn't have happened and exist in the first place if it wasn't for them. |
| 825 | * UncertainDoom: It's unknown what happened to them during the Titan-Collector War, whether they were all killed off or if they survived and left the Demon Realm. |
| 826 | * WouldHurtAChild: The genocide of the Titans also involved (likely at the hands of the ancient Trappers) the slaughter of the ''very'' young Titans as well, including those still in their eggs. Only King was able to escape this. |
| 827 | [[/folder]] |
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