Line #16 Fanfic/DancingWithDemons


1	''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48037675 Dancing With Demons]]'' is one of [[Creator/MrHardcor3 Mr. Hardcor3's]] ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' AU stories in which Luz is the daughter of Lucifer. Forced to hide her inner kindness to live up to her father's expectations, when she finds her way to the Boiling Isles she's finally free to be who she truly is for once. Can also be found [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/14246889/1/Dancing-With-Demons here]].
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4	!!''Dancing with Demons'' contains examples of:
5	* AbsurdPhobia: Amelia is highly afraid of blood, to the point that she faints when Skara pricks her finger in front of her. And this is despite eating rotten corpses, with Skara and Cat mentally lampshading the FridgeLogic InUniverse, since the corpses should logically still have blood, their best guess being that hunger can overpower the phobia.
6	* AdaptationalBadass: Unlike her canon counterpart, Luz already has several powers and skills when she arrives on the Boiling Isles and is thus much more experienced. For instance, she sees through Adegast instantly and kills him in the mansion.
7	* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Cat's still a witch, but is now half-cat demon through her grandfather.
8	* AntiAntichrist: Despite saying that it's her duty to bring the Apocalypse to freak out Wrath, Luz doesn't seem to really like the idea of doing so, and is still rather kind-hearted, even if [[HiddenHeartOfGold she hides it well]].
9	* AnywhereButTheirLips: Invoked. Luz kisses Amity in different places but refrains from kissing her on the lips because she wants their FirstKiss to be special.
10	* AscendedExtra: The Banshees are forced to become Luz's friends, but overtime they become close to her and form a friend group with Willow, Gus, and Amity.
11	* AuraVision: Luz can sense the deadly sins a person is committing at a particular moment. For instance, she notices Amity has pride, wrath, envy, and a small bit of lust for revenge [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E3IWasATeenageAbomination when they first meet]], though she also notes Amity has a large amount of guilt as well.
12	* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: As the Antichrist, Luz sometimes dips into this, like telling King to have a "bad" night instead of "goodnight", which he lampshades.
13	* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[GoodAngelBadAngel Angel Luz]] is ''pissed'' when Lilith destroys the Healing Hat.
14	* {{Blackmail}}: To coerce Edric and Emira into cleaning up the library after the monster attack she caused, Luz uses a book to dress them up as babies and takes a picture she threatens to give to Amity so she can post it on Penstagram unless they help the girls.
15	* BodyHorror: Luz's immortality and HealingFactor cause some gruesome scenes at some points. For instance, when showing off her skills to enter into Hexside, she snaps her head to the side, takes out her spine and uses it as a whip, then swallows it to return her spine to her body. A grossed out Bump even says that he'll let her in the school, regardless of her score, if she promises to ''never'' do that in front of him again.
16	* BreakTheHaughty: Amity is struck by this when she realizes that the terms of her duel with Luz was a literal DealWithTheDevil and that she had just lost, dooming her soul, luckily Luz decided to show Amity mercy relinquishing her claim to Amity's soul in exchange for a favor to be cashed in whenever Luz chooses.
17	* CurbStompBattle: The duel with Luz and Amity in “One-Sided Battle” is exactly that. Even without cheating or Glyphs, Luz wipes the floor with Amity, only winning when forcing Lilith to admit she cheated after finding the Power Glyph.
18	* DealWithTheDevil: Luz naturally engages in this, at one point tricking Amity into betting her soul on a duel the poor witchling had absolutely no chance at winning. Luckily for Amity, Luz was feeling merciful that day and let Amity keep her soul (for now) in exchange for a future favor.
19	* DivineInfernalFamily: Luz refers to the Holy Grail as "Uncle's Grail", implying that she sees UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as her uncle. She also refers to Death as her uncle.
20	* TheDreaded: Luz quickly shows off her chops and becomes a terrifying being to those who know her. Bump even lets her study as many kinds of magic as she wants right off the bat so she won't set him on fire. The entire Emperor's Coven is later revealed to be terrified of her.
21	* DualWielding: Amity fights with two Abomination Swords in her duel with Luz.
22	* EvilLaugh: Luz indulges in this when proclaiming herself in the middle of the duel with Amity.
23	* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Hell is hot enough that just jogging can ''set you on fire''.
24	* FreakyFridayFlip: As part of her messing with the Blight twins, Luz puts them through a body swap and leaves them in that state. A week and a half later, she's surprised to find they're not swapped back and moreso when Amity tells her it helped them come out as trans, so Luz makes the swap permanent.
25	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Lucifer may be the Lord of Hell, but he was ''also'' the first angel, so Luz literally has both an inner angel and an inner demon. Unsurprisingly, neither gets along with the other...until [[ShipperOnDeck they tell Luz not to screw up her chances with Amity]]. And then when they both agree that Belos seems incredibly shady. And when they're both ''pissed'' at Lilith destroying the Healing Hat before they can cure Eda with it.
26	* GreenEyedMonster: While hanging out with Boscha, Skara, and Amelia, Luz flirts with Amelia much to Boscha's annoyance. When she keeps doing it, Luz tells Boscha to make a move before somebody else does and she loses her chance.
27	* HealingFactor: Luz can regenerate damage from any injury, though it isn't always a quick process. When the Owl Beast bites her foot off she notes it'll take all night to grow back.
28	* HiddenHeartOfGold: Luz puts up a fearsome outer image, because of who her father is, but she's still the kind-hearted girl she is in canon deep down.
29	* HopeSpot: Luz is able to successfully steal the Healing Hat using her powers, but right before she can use it on Eda Lilith blasts it.
30	* HorrifyingTheHorror: Luz seriously tops whatever the Boiling Isles has to offer, regularly horrifying everyone she comes into contact with (intentionally or not).
31	* InsultToRocks: After telling the Banshees about Philip Wittebane and how he's a touchy subject to Caleb and Evelyn, Skara calls him a piece of garbage: Luz laughs and says she's insulting garbage more than Philip, calling him worse than "the worst kind of animal shit".
32	* InternalReveal: Luz lets ''everyone'' on the Isles know who she is during and after her duel with Amity.
33	* LovedINotHonorMore: Luz is worried about getting together with Amity despite her clear feelings for the other girl because of a combination of not wanting to take Amity's soul, worry about Amity getting hurt or killed by dangers she can easily handle, or have her be exposed to Hell, which is hot enough to cause you to catch fire if you jog just for starters.
34	* MagicMisfire: At one point Luz tries to help Eda with her curse using her spellbook and ends up accidentally turning her into an oversized Lego figure version of herself.
35	* MegatonPunch: Luz delivers this to break Amity’s barrier and end the duel.
36	* MonstrousCannibalism: Luz implies that demons in Hell eat each other all the time and that Luz isn't above doing the same when the mood fancies her.
37	* NoSell: Luz grew up living with the flaming weather of Hell, so boiling rain doesn't even affect her.
38	* TheNoseKnows: Boscha can smell potions easily due to years of experience with them.
39	* OffhandBackhand: Luz gives this to Lilith twice, the first after she confesses to cheating and the second so hard that she loses some teeth.
40	* PetTheDog: Luz cancels the contract with Amity, which would have allowed Luz to claim Amity's soul, upon seeing the scared look on her face. Instead, she brands her with a pentagram for a favor she intends to cash in on anytime she wants.
41	* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The meteor was just a cover for the War in Heaven.
42	* PottyFailure: At one point, Luz intimidates Skara enough to make her pee her pants. As the bard changes clothes, Luz casually tells Boscha and Amelia that she ate a sinner; it scares the girls so much, they have to will themselves to not have an accident like Skara did.
43	* PowerCrutch: Luz currently requires her personal TomeOfEldritchLore to use most of her demonic abilities.
44	* ReadTheFinePrint: Luz never really read the DealWithTheDevil contract she uses, so things like Amelia and Boscha being unable to be killed due to their souls not being in their bodies, or their demonic transformations, catch her by surprise.
45	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After being forced to join Luz on her and Eda's trip to the Knee, Cat airs out her personal opinion and calls Luz a spoiled, power-mad teenager who scares everyone into doing what she wants. Luz would be happy to prove her wrong, but her inner angel tells her to let Cat get to know her.
46	* ScrewDestiny: As the Antichrist, Luz is destined to bring the end of the world, but Eda helps Luz realize she has no such expectations on the Boiling Isles and she can finally create her own destiny.
47	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Given how flirty Luz is here from the start, it's not surprising that early Season 1 Amity has to resort to saying this whenever someone sees Luz's shameless advances, naturally no one believes her much to Amity’s annoyance, made worse when Luz's immediate reaction to hearing this line is "Not yet, I'm not."
48	* ShipTease: Luz is a lot more openly flirty with Amity from the get-go, thinking the witch is hot and even kissing her on the nose at their first meeting, with Luz's romantic antics simply escalating from there.
49	* SirSwearsalot: Being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in this version, Luz isn't above swearing, especially when she's pissed off.
50	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When Luz expresses her LovedINotHonorMore worries about getting into a relationship with Amity, especially regarding potentially owning her soul and not wanting Amity to feel forced, Eda points out that she can just ''talk'' to Amity about it so she knows what she's getting into.
51	* SuperStrength: When King mentions that the Snaggleback's shell is as strong as a diamond, Luz summons a diamond and casually crushes it.
52	* TomeOfEldritchLore: Most of Luz's powers require her personal Tome to use.
53	* {{Transflormation}}: Eda keeps a "Barking Potion" on hand to throw at Lilith, its effects being that it turns her into a tree for 12 hours. Luz seems to find this hilarious.
54	* TroubledFetalPosition: Luz finds Amity in this after winning the duel due to Amity now knowing [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she made a literal]] DealWithTheDevil to surrender her soul if she lost.
55	* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Luz puts on her mean and strict face and hides her HiddenHeartOfGold to please her parents, especially her father.

Context Fanfic / DancingWithDemons