Line #17 Recap/LuzClawthorneHexsidesNumberOneDelinquentWitchChapter20


1	!Chapter 20: Blighted by the Light
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3	[[caption-width-right:350:Art by Crash X Fusion: She's been keeping that drawing with her at all times for no good reason.[[note]][[LoveEpiphany At least until she realizes why...]][[/note]]]]
4	As Amity questions what she wants for herself, Mabel ropes Luz into what she thinks is sister bonding time.
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7	!!Tropes that appear in this Chapter:
8	* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The Blight siblings' parents, Odalia (not counting her EarlyBirdCameo in "[[Recap/LuzClawthorneHexsidesNumberOneDelinquentWitchChapter6 Emotional Guilt]]") and Alador, make their first appearance during the events of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E12AdventuresInTheElements Adventures in the Elements]]", not "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E15UnderstandingWillow Understanding Willow]]".
9	* BaitAndSwitch: It seems like Blubs is going to do the responsible thing and use the mall's P.A. to ask the patrons to bring Luz to the food court. Instead, he warns everyone that Luz may be about to go on a rampage and tells everyone to get out of the mall while they can.
10	* TheBeastmaster: Puck manages to calm down the Slitherbeast by listening to its thoughts and figuring out what it wants.
11	* BeYourself: Luz tells Mabel the reason Amity likes her is because Luz does this, and it means a lot to her.
12	* BirdsOfAFeather: The whole reason Eda and Stan didn't stay together; they were too alike, both being con artists and agents of chaos who're too stubborn to give up on anything. As Eda puts it, they were "a match made in hell."
13	* CallBack: Amity and Levi's muggings are brought up once more, and it's revealed that Levi's has forced him to make a difficult choice.
14	* CharacterDevelopment: Mabel accepts that she can't force the bonds she wants with Dipper and Luz and decides to let them develop naturally. She also foregoes her goal of having a summer romance.
15	* CommonalityConnection: Along with their con artist lifestyles and rebelling against law, Eda and Stan also share a hatred towards Florida.
16	* ContinuityNod:
17	** Amity is shown to have kept the "Purple Rain" t-shirt Luz gave her for pajamas in "[[Recap/LuzClawthorneHexsidesNumberOneDelinquentWitchChapter10 The Conjuring Conflict]]".
18	** Edric using lemons to see Puck and the statement about sugar keeping Fae away were previously mentioned in "[[Recap/LuzClawthorneHexsidesNumberOneDelinquentWitchChapter9 I Ain't Troubled Yet!]]"
19	* CuteLittleFangs: Luz is revealed to wear a fake one just like Eda.
20	* ADayInTheLimelight: Amity is the main focus of the A-plot, while Mabel is the star of the B-plot (which she shares with Luz.)
21	* TheEmpath: Puck subdues and calms down the Slitherbeast by sensing its emotions.
22	* EyeColorChange: Amity's eyes glow pinkish-purple when she's voicing her hatred for feeling like a coward because of her upbringing and expectations.
23	* EyeScream: Puck threatens to yank out Eyepatch's remaining eye if he doesn't spill who sent the demon hunters after the Slitherbeast.
24	* FailedASpotCheck: As Mabel points out, Luz pretty much announced her crush on Amity to everyone (besides Mabel herself, Wendy, Soos, Candy and Grenda) when she told Gus.
25	* FelonyMisdemeanor: For accidentally knocking over a pile of books, Luz is banned from Books-A-Jillion preventing her from buying the fourth Good Witch Azura book. Since the manager knows of her reputation, he thought she was causing trouble.
26	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Amity's power boost.
27	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Edric points out that nobody can stand being friends with Boscha because of her attitude.
28	* TheGhost:
29	** As previously stated Hooty is only mentioned, no physical appearance to his name.
30	** The real Stanford Pines is mentioned by his twin Stanley.
31	* GirlsNightOutEpisode: The B-plot has Mabel invite Luz on a girls' day trip with her, Candy and Grenda before returning to the Boiling Isles that evening.
32	* GlowingEyes: Amity's go from gold to glowing purple/pink during her rant over her feeling weak.
33	* GroinAttack: Mabel whacks Jeff below the belt for trying to come on to her.
34	* HeroicBSOD: Amity starts to have a panic attack after Edric and Emira are captured. Luckily, Puck arrives before she can spiral further.
35	* HiddenDepths: Edric and Emira started pulling pranks as an act of rebellion towards Odalia's attempts to control their lives. They pranked all the kids she wanted them to be friends with, which is why they're not friends with any of their classmates.
36	* InconvenientAttraction: It's implied that Amity sees her newfound crush on Luz as becoming this.
37	* InelegantBlubbering: Unseen, but Skara is not taking what happened between her and Bo well.
38	* InternalReveal:
39	** Edric and Emira learn it was Puck who previously scared them after the library incident.
40	** Thanks to Dipper, Luz learns her human surname and her mother's appearance from a newspaper article detailing the crash.
41	* InSpiteOfANail: Edric and Emira still get captured by the Slitherbeast, and Amity rescues them via the fire spell she manages to learn. And Amity ''finally'' develops a crush on Luz!
42	* ITasteDelicious: Stan namedrops this while eating the waffles shaped like his face.
43	* ItsAllMyFault: After learning Levi's going to drop out of school, Amity can't stop blaming herself saying she should've reported her mugging so maybe his wouldn't have happened.
44	* LaserGuidedKarma: Puck restrains and prepares to torture the Demon Hunters for trying to capture the Slitherbeast.
45	* LoveEpiphany: Amity, after much inner debating, realizes she's crushing on Luz when she realizes how much the idea of not being friends with her anymore hurts.
46	* LuminescentBlush: Luz has one when she gives Amity the Azura book she found to thank her for all her tutoring, causing Amity to hastily thank her before running home with her entire face turning red. Amity does it again when she realizes her feelings for Luz have changed.
47	* MisplacedRetribution: Luz gets banned from Books-A-Jillion because her attempts to get away from Mabel led to her knocking over some books.
48	* MorningRoutine: The chapter begins by alternating between Luz and Amity's routines between realms.
49	* MultiPartEpisode: This is the third and final part of the "Gravity Falls Vacation" arc.
50	* MustMakeAmends: The previously mentioned MisplacedRetribution leads Mabel to apologize to Luz by giving Candy and Grenda her allowance and having them buy the book she wanted (although they end up forgetting which book Luz wanted and buy the whole series.)
51	* MythologyGag:
52	** Mabel forces Luz to wear the same cat-eared hoodie she wears in canon while trying on clothes.
53	** Luz's statement towards Mabel about wearing sweaters in the summer is based off Dipper giving Mabel the same statement in the ''Reunion Falls'' version of "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E13BossMabel Boss Mabel]]".
54	* NoodleIncident:
55	** Luz has been banned from 10 stores in the Gravity Malls for causing trouble. She later gets banned from the salon for attacking a stylist.
56	** When Amity was four, she rode a sled into a tree and was buried in snow, resulting in her getting the flu.
57	** After Luz is banned from Books-A-Jillion, it's shown that Stan, Old Man [=McGucket=], Jean-Luc the Waiter, and Mr. Poolcheck have also been banned.
58	** After learning Mabel nearly got forced into marrying the gnomes, Luz reveals they tried that with her when she was 11.
59	** According to Eda, Hooty ate everyone's beds the last time they were gone too long.
60	* OldFlame: It's implied that Eda and Stan still carry torches for each other.
61	* OutOfFocus:
62	** Eda, King, Dipper, and Stan play minor roles in the B-plot with the focus being on Mabel and Luz.
63	** Since Gus returned to the Boiling Isles last chapter, this is the only part in the three-parter where he doesn't appear. Same goes for Soos and Wendy, who don't appear at all.
64	* PointOfDivergence: To "Adventures in the Elements": with the Clawthornes still on Earth, Hooty is absent without King's subplot of making an army.
65	* PrecisionFStrike: After one of her failed attempts to use the fire spell, Amity shouts "Dammit". The twins happily point this out.
66	* TheReveal:
67	** Eda does know about the dimensional portal and Stanley's attempts to use it to find his brother.
68	** Luz has never gotten a haircut in her life. And like Mabel, Jeff tried to capture and marry her when she was 11.
69	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Luz gives one to Mabel for trying to force a bond between them and making the former more like herself.
70	* SadisticChoice: Rather a ''demand''. Odalia tells Amity that since she'll no longer have to tutor Luz, once the semester exams are over, Odalia expects her to end their friendship so Amity can focus on her studies again.
71	* SecretKeeper: Eda is aware she married Stan''ley'', not Stan''ford'' Pines, and that he's trying to get the dimensional portal working to bring his brother back.
72	* SelfDeprecation: Throughout the chapter, Amity continuously puts herself down for not reporting her mugging just to preserve her family's image. It gets to the point that she takes the blame for Levi dropping out and panics at being unable to save the twins from the Slitherbeast. It's only when Puck shows up that she saves her siblings and gets over it.
73	* SequelHook: Whether Amity goes through with her mother's order to end her friendship with Luz or not.
74	* ShipperOnDeck: Despite her current stance with them, Luz supports what Blubs and Durland have with each other.
75	* ShoutOut:
76	** Before leaving the Blights, Puck calls Amity "Pixie Dust", which leaves her confused. It's a reference to Tinker Bell, as both characters are voiced by Creator/MaeWhitman.
77	** WordOfGod confirms the Wade Dipper mentions is the same Wade from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.
78	* SoProudOfYou: Once they hear Amity's aforementioned PrecisionFStrike, Edric and Emira happily take it as her first step to becoming a bad girl.
79	* StalkerShrine: Edric reveals that Emira has a shrine to Viney hidden in her room.
80	* StealthHiBye: Mabel sneaks up on Luz while she's on the Shack's roof. Luz says she's worse than Gus when popping up out of nowhere, but she takes it as a compliment.
81	* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Luz finds Stan soon after he exits the secret door behind the vending machine, she links his nervousness to the snacks in the machine not being FDA approved. He rolls with it.
82	* TakeThat:
83	** WordOfGod confirms the ReasonYouSuckSpeech is meant to be one to Mabel's canon personality, namely her habit of projecting herself onto others.
84	** Eda and Stan admit that they have a shared hatred of Florida.
85	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Luz isn't happy when Mabel drags her to a salon to have her hair stylized.
86	* {{Touche}}: Luz questions why Candy and Grenda would joins her and Mabel for a girl's day out if they're forbidden from hanging out with her; she concedes when Mabel asks if she really expects kids to listen to their parents.
87	* TragicDropout: Levi becomes one when he decides to leave school to help with his dad's fishing business.
88	* TheUnReveal: The scene changes just before Puck learns who sent the Demon Hunters to capture the Slitherbeast.
89	* UnseenNoMore: After an EarlyBirdCameo 14 chapters ago, Odalia makes her physical presence known.
90	* WhamEpisode: Eda is shown to know the truth about Stan and his brother, Amity meets Puck for the first time and realizes she has feelings for Luz.
91	* WhamLine:
92	** Levi declares he's dropping out of Hexside so he can help his dad with his fishing business full time.
93	** The last line is enough to please the readers and gives Amity quite a shock.
94	-->'''Amity:''' Oh Titan, I have a crush on Luz…
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