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Luz Noceda

Voiced by: Sarah-Nicole Robles

"This mama is ready for trauma."

^{Click here to see her Titan form} "Do not underestimate me, Belos, for I am the Good Witch Luz: Child of the Human Realm, Student of the Demon Realm, and Warrior of Peace! NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!"

^{Click here to see her in the epilogue} "A whole chapter of my life was over, but a new one was just beginning."

"So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see?"

A teenage Afro-Latina girl who, after following an owl carrying a trash bag into an abandoned house, suddenly finds herself on the Boiling Isles, a world where magic is real. It's not long after, that Luz runs into Eda, the most powerful witch on the isle (also the most wanted), and her demon companion, King. After helping Eda and King on an adventure, Luz decides she wants to stay on the Isles and learn magic. Now living as Eda's apprentice, Luz begins her journey to becoming the witch she always dreamed of being, though it won't be half as easy as she thought.

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• 11th-Hour Costume Change:
  • "Thanks to Them" features Luz wearing her Halloween Azura costume to the Boiling Isles, aiming to stop Belos and the Collector, which embodies her newfound Good Witch identity.
  • In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz undergoes two costume changes: wearing Emperor Belos' regalia in her worst nightmare and being infused with Titan's power, transforming into Harpy Eda and King's Body, with Azura's robes and hat.
• 11th-Hour Superpower:
  • In "For the Future", Luz's Palisman Stringbean awakens, providing her with a massive boost in power, including a devastating Wave-Motion Gun, and marking the beginning of her ultimate battle.
  • Luz, briefly killed by Belos, encounters the Titan in the In-Between Realm. After a heart-to-heart connection, the Titan imbues Luz with his remaining power, making her one of the most powerful entities in the series.
• 100% Heroism Rating: Luz's kindness and noble nature are admired by everyone who interacts with her. When Belos exposes her role in the Day of Unity, the Hexsquad and Camila assure her that they don't hold her against her.
• Accent Adaptation: Somewhat in the Latin American Spanish dub: Luz is Dominican-American, but the dub was done in Argentina, and as a result, her Caribbean accent was replaced with a somewhat neutral one, through sometimes she uses Argentinian slang.^note For English speakers, that would be the equivalent to adapt a Bahamian-American accent to a Australian accent.
• The Ace: Luz is a young girl with no magical credit, yet she masters a lost form of ancient Wild Magic from scratch. She is bright and competent, quickly reaching the upper echelons of her age group. Emperor Belos, the ruler of the Boiling Isles, acknowledges her progress in Glyph Magic.
• Acting Unnatural: In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" and "Reaching Out", Luz experiences stress and sadness due to events in the Human Realm. She tries to pretend everything is fine, but struggles with irrationality and jitteriness, especially when dealing with her new girlfriend Amity.
• Action Girl: Luz's mastery of Glyph Magic has grown significantly throughout the series. In Season 1, she storms Belos' citadel to rescue Eda from petrification, defeating guards and even the Emperor himself. In Season 2, she summons ice walls to trap Selkidomus. Belos admits surprise at Luz's competency in "King's Tide". Luz has self-defense skills but only accidentally and mistakenly.
• Action Survivor: Luz had neither access to glyphs nor combat experience when she entered the Isles, meaning that until she learned how to use glyphs, she needed to rely on her quick thinking and wits just to stay alive.
• Adopted to the House: The entire reason that Luz opts to stay in the Demon Realm is because she finds her prospects there to be substantially more agreeable than attending "Reality Check" Summer Camp, as she isn't scorned as an incapable weirdo in the Boiling Isles, and under Eda's roof, Eda herself not minding looking after Luz one bit.
• Aesop Amnesia:
  • Season 1 of "Adventure in the Elements" shows Luz's impatience and failure to learn magic. Despite trusting Eda's teachings and patience, she often seeks shortcuts instead of learning the traditional way. In "Adventure in the Elements", she steals Amity's wand to prove mastery of two spells, ignoring Eda's teachings to avoid being stuck in the Baby class.
  • In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade," Luz is initially scared to reveal her past to her girlfriend Amity about "Yesterday's Lie". Amity reveals she went to the Human Realm and saw her mother, resulting in Luz coming clean. In "Reaching Out", Luz hides her emotional distress, causing Amity trouble with her father. In "Thanks to Them", Luz fears revealing a traumatic moment to her loved ones.
    Amity: Luz, I know things are scary, and I have no idea what my future holds, but it would be so cool if you were a part of that. But no more hiding, okay?
• Affectionate Nickname: Amity calls her "batata" (the Dominican Spanish word for sweet potato) because Gus gave her a cookbook to help her learn Spanish and she mistook it for a term of endearment. Luz finds it sweet either way, and she starts using "sweet potato" to refer to her girlfriend from that point onwards.
• Against the Grain: Lus is a rebellious individual who defies norms and societal expectations, showcasing her coolness through grandiose displays of creativity. Her defiance of authority figures, such as the Emperor's Coven, is evident throughout the show, resulting in her lack of friends before visiting the Boiling Isles.
• All for Nothing: Played With:
  • On the one hand: In "Yesterday's Lie," Luz discovers that attending Reality Check Camp would have been unpleasant, but she would have found friends and met two new transfer students who admire her macabre interests.
  • On the other hand: Her presence in the Boiling Isles has dramatically improved the lives of many of the people she has met, especially Eda, Willow and Amity. She also played a major role in stopping Emperor Belos' genocide on its inhabitants during the Day of Unity... even if she also (unintentionally) had a significant hand in allowing it to happen in the first place.
• All-Loving Heroine: Luz is the kind of person who has kindness and compassion toward just about everyone she meets.
  • In "Hunting Palismen" and "Hollow Mind", Luz saves and protects Hunter, an Expendable Clone Belos doesn't care for, despite his Grimwalker status, viewing him as a Clones Are People Too Real.
  • "Yesterday's Lie" explores Luz's shift in focus after discovering Vee replaced her at home. She realizes she's not evil but scared and wishing for a place free from the Emperor's Coven. Luz's lack of concern for her old life outside Camila is evident.
  • The only character Luz has absolutely no affection for is Emperor Belos, for very good reasons. Even still, she does try to reach out to him initially, only giving up once he makes it very clear he has absolutely no desire to change.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Implied. The first episode introduces Luz as a strange girl who causes trouble in school with her imagination and behavior, leading to ostracism and severe bullying in Season 2.
  • "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" implied that Luz was made fun of in the past for being cheesy by previous crushes in the Human Realm. As a result, Luz is now extremely anxious about asking out Amity, due to fearing that she will belittle and humiliate her in much the same way.
  • In "Yesterday's Lie", Luz discovers Vee impersonating her and discovers she has a group of friends in camp. She suffers from social anxiety due to bullying. Luz advises Vee to approach these teenagers but almost panics when they confront her. Luz doesn't miss her Earth life.
  • In the episode "Thanks To Them", Camila's nightmare shows us that she was even looked down upon by other kids' parents for her quirks, with the adults frequently voicing either mocking amusement or disgust at Luz's antics such as digging up the shed skin of a Garter Snake to show to other kids, or Luz's sausage links gag during the Romeo and Juliet play.
• All Your Powers Combined: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz is infused with the entirety of the Titan's remaining powers, transforming her into a Titan/Human Hybrid. This gives her the ability to create autonomous Glyphs from nothing, draw massively powerful Spell Circles like biological Witches, and utilize the Super-Scream native to Titans all at will. Additionally, she is able to cast spells which would be impossible to achieve without all of the combined powers offered to her.
• Always Someone Better: Zigzagged between her and Philip/Belos. Philip has more mastery over his Glyphs due to centuries of practice and the Collector's tutelage, while Luz is faster and learns more quickly. In "For the Future", Luz reaches her peak potential with Stringbean, while Belos falls apart with no access to magic and a decaying body.
• Amazon Chaser: Luz realizes she has a crush on Amity when she battles Odalia Blight's Abomaton, prompting a Crush Blush. Her eyes sparkle when Amity rips her hands out of Abomination restraints in "Clouds on the Horizon".
• Ambiguous Situation: In "Lost in Language", Luz defends Amity for embarrassing her at school and the convention duel, stating it was her fault for the incidents. She may take this to prevent escalation or to cope with low self-esteem from ostracizing her peers. Some episodes suggest this is the latter.
• And Then What?: At times, she fails to think certain things through. In "Hunting Palismen", Luz is the only one who doesn't bond with a Palisman because she didn't really plan ahead of what to do next. This makes her realize she doesn't know what to do with herself. Even Hunter mentions this.
• Animal-Eared Headband: The hood of her shirt has cat ears on it, though they aren't really visible unless she puts her hood up.
• Animal Motif: Luz has a strong theme of snakes, symbolizing healing and rebirth. Her childhood experiences with snakeskin and wearing snake-like items reflect her self-identity as a liar and betrayer, even though Luz herself is still a noble and kind individual; real snakes are normally passive. In "For The Future," her Palisman transforms into a snake-shifter, Stringbean. Luz's desire to learn and mold herself into unique creatures further reflects her desire to learn and adapt to various forms of magic.
• The Apprentice: She stays in the Boiling Isles to be Eda's Witch apprentice. Ironically, after Eda loses her magic, Luz becomes Eda's teacher by showing her Glyphs.
• The Archmage: In "For the Future", Luz awakens and masters Glyph Magic, surpassing the Emperor's knowledge. In "Watching and Dreaming", she gains the Titan's powers, affecting the entire Boiling Isles and almost eliminating Belos, who is leaching the Titan's power. Luz's abilities are further enhanced in "Watching and Dreaming."
• Armor-Piercing Response: Luz proves to be surprisingly skilled at delivering comebacks to other people.
  • In "Adventures in the Elements", when Luz complains to Eda about the fact that she doesn't yet know enough spells to avoid being placed with the toddlers when she starts attending Hexside, Eda attempts to suggest that it's Luz's fault for not learning more magic. Luz is having none of it.
    Eda: And whose fault is that?
    Luz: Yours.
    Eda: Ha! Yep, got me there.
  • In "Thanks to Them", Belos is exorcised from Hunter's body after resisting Demonic Possession. He accuses Hunter of backstabbing him, but Luz reveals Belos was the one who backstabbed him first. Belos retreats to the Demon Realm to finish his witch genocide and prove her wrong.
• Art Evolution: Luz's Afro-Latina features were initially downplayed in the third season, but she later subtly altered her hairstyle to make it curlier. In the Final Battle, she uses the Titan's power to create a heavily curled mane. In the Distant Finale, her hair remains curled even after a pixie cut.
• Ascended Fangirl: Luz, a fan of classic fantasy, is excited about learning magic under Eda in the Boiling Isles. In Season 3, she wears a costume from the Good Witch Azura series, resembling her idol's outfit. Her Titan form resembles her Azura costume, with longer hair and a darker color scheme.
• Attention Whore: Downplayed. Luz, initially outgoing and attention-seeking, displayed creativity to prove her worth to her mother and others. "Thanks to Them" suggests this was a coping mechanism for her father Manny's death. After receiving love from her Family of Choice, Luz reduces her attention seeking.
• The Atoner: Luz feels guilty for the events of the Day of Unity and the Collector's unleashment on the Demon Realm, trapped in a Stable Time Loop. She must make amends, even leaving the Boiling Isles, as her presence is a detriment to the island's inhabitants.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Luz learns her first four Glyphs by observing natural sources. She escapes Belos by slapping him with a Coven Sigil. She also memorizes the complicated Glyph Array for Teleportation, despite being attacked by Kikimora.
• Awesome, but Impractical: In "Echoes of the Past", Luz discovers an Invisibility glyph combo, which only lasts a minute for most people. However, she uses it effectively in combat, changing positions or sneaking behind enemies.
• Awful Truth: In "Hollow Mind", Luz is devastated when Belos and Philip Wittebane reveal their similarities. She feels guilt and horror for assisting a tyrannical maniac in his ascension, leading to her being consumed by guilt and wanting to stay in the Human Realm forever. Her self-loathing has reached a point where she no longer sees herself or her actions as valuable, leading to suicidal ideation.
• Back from the Dead: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz is killed by Belos after a corruptive attack on the Collector. However, she returns to the In Between Realm and meets the Titan, who promises to stop Belos and restore her to life with his powers.
• Bad Powers, Good People: In "Them's the Breaks, Kid", she learns an incomplete version of the petrification glyph combo from Philip's diary. Since petrification is a form of public execution on the Boiling Isles (something that Eda very nearly fell victim to in "Young Blood, Old Souls"), as well as effectively amounting to an instant death hex due to no spell being able to counter it, she labels it as "BAD" in her notes and never uses it again.
• Badass Adorable: Luz, a dorky teenager, curb-stomps the emperor's guards in "Young Blood, Old Souls". Her magical prowess grows in Season 2, with her Palisman capable of destroying things miles away with a single magical blast.
• Badass Boast:
  • When Warden Wrath is being restrained by the inmates of the Conformatorium, Luz takes the time to make herself known to him by warning him not to underestimate her for she is a "warrior of peace", just before she knocks a batch of fireworks into his mouth.
  • Luz later recreates this in "Separate Tides" when she is hunting bounties in order to put food on the table. Her boast however, fades when she sees that her initial target is a nigh harmless and small creature.
  • She replicates the battle cry one last time in "Watching and Dreaming", when she starts to yank Belos from the heart of the Titan, making sure to add in extra emphasis to give her statement more power, as seen in the quote under her Titan Form.
• Badass Bookworm: Luz is a fan of the fantasy series The Good Witch Azura and stays in the Boiling Isles for its captivating literature. She forms an Azura book club with Amity and defeats a Slitherbeast with clever planning and an impressive Ice Glyph.
• Badass Cape: Wears the Witch's Wool cloak that Eda made for her during her mission to save the latter from petrification in "Young Blood, Old Souls" and on a few adventures afterwards, until the cloak is damaged by the In-Between Realm in "Yesterday's Lie".
• Badass in a Nice Suit:
  • The outfit that she wears as Grom Queen consists of a pink flared skirt with purple leggings, and a tuxedo top with a white dress shirt. Notable due to this being the outfit that she squares off against Gromethus as part of the festivities for Grom, and she and Amity make mincemeat of the monster.
  • The Azura costume that she wears to liberate the Boiling Isles from the Collector and Belos has elements of this. The overall appearance of her top gives the image of a buttoned up dress jacket, especially with the cape she initially wears with it, given the cape's golden epaulette, making it look like a classical nobleman's attire.
• Badass Longcoat: Her Titan-Hybrid form has the appearance of wearing a longcoat with some skeletal decorations for added style.
• Badass Normal: She cannot use magic in the Human Realm without a supply of Titan's Blood for her Glyphs, due to not having a sac of magic bile bound to her heart like normal Witches, but she still has all of her expertise to draw on.
• Battle Couple: Luz forms one with her girlfriend Amity. The first time that they teamed up in a romantic manner was against Grom in "Enchanting Grom Fright", though they had yet to admit their feelings for each other at that point. They later engage several prominent members of the Emperor's Coven after their Relationship Upgrade in "Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty's Door", such as Kikimora in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade".
• Battle Trophy: Downplayed. She kept a piece of Emperor Belos' mask that she chipped off as proof that he can be beaten.
• Be All My Sins Remembered: Luz is resistant to forgiveness for past mistakes, highlighting the negative impact on those she cares about. She is baffled by the support of those she feels wronged, even when she indirectly contributed to their loss, such as Eda's magic.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In the second episode, Luz desires a grand destiny. She discovers that due to a Stable Time Loop, she travels back in time with Lilith to help Philip/Belos find the Collector, setting off modern events. Luz was destined to be in the Boiling Isles.
• Befriending the Enemy:
  • In "Lost in Language" Luz tries to befriend Amity as a way to bury the hatch between them, only for the latter to rebuff the former attempts. However, Amity starts to grow fonder of Luz after they fight together against a corrupted children's book character and Luz lends Amity her Good Witch Azura book, in the long run this goes spectacularly with the pair ending up having an enemies-to-lovers arc between them.
  • She tries to connect with the Golden Guard, aka Hunter, in "Hunting Palismen", and very nearly does over their shared interest in wild magic. However, he doesn't pull a Heel–Face Turn in spite of Luz's efforts, at least until "Hollow Mind", where both Hunter and Luz get hit with the Awful Truth of just how much of a monster Emperor Belos really is.
  • In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz learns the Titan's language by showing kindness and forgiveness. The Collector, unaware of her efforts, uses this advice on Belos, who refuses to change. Luz befriends the Collector but allows Belos to die, knowing he will never change.
• Better with Non-Human Company: Luz is adept at dealing with witches and demons but struggles with social anxiety when dealing with non-humans, as seen in "Yesterday's Lie" where she assists Vee in finding magic, suggesting exit routes for teens.
• Bequeathed Power: With his body being rapidly consumed by the essence of Emperor Belos, the Titan willingly gives the entirety of his remaining power to Luz, allowing her to come Back from the Dead with more power than any Witch could even dream of. This newfound power comes with an altered appearance, and gives her the might needed for her to finally defeat Belos, once and for all.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Sweet and kind Luz may be, but hurting those she loves is a sign that someone's getting their asses whupped. "Young Blood, Old Souls" shows how terrifying she can be when she's pushed into a corner, with her relentlessly crashing through the forces of the Emperor's Coven, assaulting Lilith, threatening Kikimora with death by immolation, and only being bested by Emperor Belos himself.
  • In "Watching and Dreaming" she completely refuses to Save the Villain despite Belos pleading with her since she knows that he is truly Beyond Redemption and would only keep trying to destroy the Boiling Isles if left alive. While she doesn't kill him herself, Luz wordlessly rebuffs his begging, allowing the boiling rain to melt away at his monstrous form and for Eda, Raine and King to deliver the final blows.
• Beware the Silly Ones: While she's a goofy and socially-awkward Azura fangirl, she's shown to have a lot of untapped magical potential and ingenuity, both of which she uses to great effect in the Season 1 finale, where she spends most of the episode on a warpath to free Eda from the Emperor's clutches, as well as in several episodes of Season 2 where she works to undermine the Emperor's Coven.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Attempted in "Lost in Language" against a mutated Otabin, but it quickly falls apart on her, with the only thing she changed being that she is now captured with Amity.
  • In "Edge of the World", when King is about to be sacrificed to the Collector by the Titan Trappers, Luz, alongside Hooty, dives in to save him, fighting off the Trappers until the trio can reach the area where they first arrived in order to escape.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Initially downplayed. In "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", after Luz manages to reclaim Amity's job at the library, Amity gives her a quick kiss on the cheek before running off in embarrassment. Said kiss is enough to bring Luz to her knees. Played straight in "Clouds on the Horizon", where after reuniting for the first time in weeks, Amity pulls Luz in for a kiss on the lips.
• Big Entrance: As Luz is quite the showman, she has a penchant for this kind of entrance.
  • In "Lost in Language", Luz dramatically shows up to rescue Amity by appearing in a cloud of purple mist dressed like Azura, having written in Amity's diary to conjure it all. A quick look at the diary shows she's written "cool entrance" into it with a picture of Amity being impressed.
  • Later, in "Reaching Out", Luz uses a Plant Glyph to come crashing down onto the stage of the Bonesborough Brawl like a meteor, before having the vines surrounding her fall to the side as her Brawl alias is called out.
  • In the climax of "Watching And Dreaming", after she's brought Back from the Dead by the Titan with all of his powers at her fingertips, she makes her first reappearance by blasting a massive hole through Titan Belos' hand and saving Eda, King and the Collector from him. She then tries to give him a speech, only for her to trip over her own words, making her look herself awkward, and lamenting how she could do it better, stating that even after being resurrected she still doesn't know what to say.
• Big Sister Instinct: While her Chronic Hero Syndrome is expected from The Heroine, Luz tends to stick up for Willow, Gus and King whenever they get picked on with protectiveness bordering on maternal (and suicidal but it is the thought that counts). After "Hollow Mind" she becomes equally protective over Hunter, even though he is about two years older than her.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The thin to Willow's big and Gus's short.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: It's mentioned in the Distant Finale that she didn't get to have a quinceañera because she spent her fifteenth birthday (along with her sixteenth and seventeenth) helping to rebuild the Boiling Isles. As a result, the series ends with the entire Boiling Isles getting together to throw her a "King-ceañera".
• Blithe Spirit: Has this affect in the Boiling Isles, by railing the Conformatorium prisoners to fight Warden Wrath; helping out Willow with school and bullies, resulting in her confidence growing; making Amity realize that she's been a bully and helping her make amends with Willow; and making Principal Bump allow the students from the Delinquent Track to mix magic.
• Body Double: She has Gus make her one for Hunter with his illusions by swapping her and Hunter's appearances. Luz then goads Kikimora into capturing her to protect Hunter from Belos and arrive at the Head more quickly to warn Eda that the emperor already knows about the rebels' plan.
• Book Dumb: Downplayed. Luz is repeatedly shown to be very intelligent, is an avid reader, and has a strong desire to learn. Despite this, her grades were implied to be rather lackluster back on Earth. The fact that she has ADHD probably has something to do with it. Additionally, her grades at Hexside where her quick thinking, creativity, and capacity for absorbing knowledge are put to good use are implied to be excellent, indicating that it was more a case of the school system's curriculum failing to accommodate Luz's specific needs.
• Boots of Toughness: Wears those as part of her grom outfit, where she will have to fight Grometheus the Fear Bringer. She wears a set of brown boots in the last two episodes of Season 2 as part of her Costume Evolution. She also wears some of these with her Azura costume when she goes to save the Boiling Isles in Season 3.
• Boyish Short Hair: Luz has a slightly outgrown pixie cut that is just long enough to cover her earlobes. Turns out this wasn't intentional — it was because Luz was being careless with a sword she got at a convention. She slowly grows her hair out in between seasons, although the Distant Finale epilogue has it cut back to an even shorter pixie cut.
• Brainy Brunette: She is shown to be highly creative, a fast learner, and a quick thinker. In fact, she is smart enough to accomplish such feats of intellect as figuring out a long-lost system of ancient magic that is almost unique to her and managing to outsmart Emperor Belos, a proven master manipulator, more than once.
• Brand X: Luz's bag has a patch with a bird skull on it in the style of a Birdhouse skateboard deck design but posed in profile like Birdhouse founder Tony Hawk's personal brand logo.◊
• Breaking Speech: Belos delivers one to her in "Hollow Mind" by revealing he is Philip Wittebane and that Luz unwittingly helped him in his plan to kill everyone in the Boiling Isles by providing him the Light Glyph which led to him rising to power as Belos, and helping him meet the Collector which allowed him to develop the sigils he needed for the Draining Spell on the Day of Unity. The crushing guilt from this revelation causes her to fall to her knees, sobbing and brokenly attempting to deny that Belos and Philip are the same person.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Breaks down into tears at the end of "Agony of a Witch" upon seeing Eda fully transform into an owl beast, her getting captured and learning that it was Lilith who cursed Eda into this.
  • Has an even worse one upon learning that, due her travelling into the past and helping Philip, she actually facilitated Belos' plans and unwittingly aided a psychopath in a plot to commit genocide.
  • By season 3, she reaches a self-loathing and cynical level of depression, coming to the belief that everyone would be better without her in their lives. She even plans to stay in the Human Realm forever.
• Broken Bird: The events of Season 2, including Belos' light spell and the Day of Unity, have left Luz feeling like she's ruined things for everyone. With Camila's advice to learn from her mistakes, she decides to stay in the human realm, expressing her belief in ruining things for others.learn from her mistakes, she decides to stay in the human realm, expressing her belief in ruining things for others.
• Broken Tears: When things get really, really bad Luz will frequently break down into these, most prominently after Eda's capture in "Agony of a Witch", and in her video dairy in "Thanks to Them".
• Butch Lesbian: Luz is a Downplayed bisexual example. She is a tomboyish teen with a pixie cut and shorts, but she also has a feminine side to her. She is energetic and expressive, embraces full-fledged dresses and hair growth, has feminine hobbies like romance and cute critters, and is excited about wearing a custom dress in the Distant Finale.
• But Now I Must Go: Subverted. Luz's time on the Boiling Isles is revealed to be temporary. She returns to Earth, attends school, and visits friends and loved ones. The story ends with her preparing to move to the Demon Realm to attend Eda's University of Wild Magic.

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• Came Back Strong: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz gains new abilities like Instant Runes and Bile sac magic. With the Titan's infused power, she displays more power than any other being in the series, purging Belos' corruption with a single Light Spell.
• Cannot Spit It Out: In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", she is extremely worried about Amity finding her cheesy, and has trouble trying to finish asking her out. Amity actually manages to ask first, but then backtracks and lets Luz do it.
• Cards of Power: Since she can't cast magic directly, Luz relies on drawing Glyphs onto things to cast spells. Late in Season 1, she starts carrying around several premade paper slips for this purpose, frequently holding these slips like a fan of cards, most prominently displayed when she uses them in her Grom Dance with Amity, and when she prepares to use them against Warden Wrath in "Reaching Out".
• Career Not Taken: In "Sense and Insensitivity", Luz admits that she had always wanted to become a writer, her #1 dream — becoming an actual witch — having been a Tragic Dream before finding herself in the Boiling Isles and becoming a writer being the more realistic option. She technically fulfills that dream in the episode, though the novel she co-wrote was thoroughly butchered by King and he winds up taking the credit for the story when she disowns the finished draft.
• Category Traitor: By the end of the series, Belos firmly considers Luz to be this. When he is slowly being killed by the Boiling Rain falling on him, he slowly crawls towards her while ranting that Luz will be "just as evil and as treacherous" as the inhabitants of the Demon Realm if she lets him die. But lacking any power he once had, he ends up imploring Luz to let him live since as Humans they're both better than Witches rather than attempting to kill her like he once did during the Day of Unity.
• Cerebus Call-Back: In "A Lying Witch and a Warden", it was established that Luz loves the Good Witch Azura books. And because of Luz's eccentric book report that unintentionally caused harm, her mother and principal decided to send her to Reality Check Camp so she could learn to separate fantasy from reality. "Thanks to Them" puts all those things into a darker light.
  • Luz's love for the Good Witch Azura books was presented mostly as an endearing character quirk, and was often Played for Laughs. This episode throws her fixation on the series into a new light, as it's revealed her father gave her the first book right before he died, and she got really into the series when she read the book after his death. In that context, it's very likely that a lot of Luz's devotion to the series, along with just liking fantasy in general, stemmed from the connection to her late father, and the books and the fandom surrounding them providing her with a means to cope with her grief.
  • Luz's eccentric book report whose consequences the series kicked off with turns out to have been an attempt to try and prove to her mother that her weirdness can be academically useful in order to cheer her up after her father's funeral.
• Challenging the Bully:
  • In "Covention" she challenges Amity to a Witch's Duel after getting tired of putting up with her haughty attitude, in particular Amity's dismissal of the possibility that Luz can become a Witch herself.
  • After getting fed up with Boscha bullying her and her friends, Luz challenges her to a Grudgby match for the sake of Willow, hoping that by literally beating Boscha at her own game she will leave them all alone.
• Character Development:
  • The first episode establishes Luz as a good-natured but impulsive teen who is passionate about fantasy stories, and often expresses this passion in odd projects that freak out her peers, and get her ostrasized for being "weird". Stumbling into the Boiling Isles, and meeting Eda, King, and others who accept her quirks gives her a sense of belonging for the first time in her life. While this helps her to rely less on stories and fiction for comfort, it doesn't solve other underlying issues her life in the Human Realm instilled in her.
  • While not that obvious at first, the events of season 2 cause her to take a level of cynicism and gradually become more and more pessimistic and self-loathing. She also shows significant signs of taking responsibility for things outside of her control, such as Eda losing her magic due to the events of the first season finale, and especially her guilt and shame over being duped by Philip Wittebane into assisting in his rise to power as Emperor Belos and development of the Day of Unity.
  • "For the Future" sees her starting to recover from the immense trauma that she had to endure over the course of Season 2. Camila manages to get through to Luz by explaining how it's okay to fail from time to time and to not be ashamed of who she is and her weird quirks. This causes Luz to realize what it was she always wanted in her life: understanding. As a result of this, Luz's Palisman awakens and the episode ends with Luz finally managing to forgive herself for the actions of others, taking the first few steps towards truly healing.
• Character Tics: Has the tendency of making finger guns when excited.
• Cheated Angle: The upswept part of her is always facing away from the camera, constantly flipping from one side to the other when her head turns. It even happens in front-facing shots.
• Child of Two Worlds: By the end of the series, Luz has come to see both the Human and Demon realms as equally important to who she is as a person and that abandoning one for the other would simply lead to unnecessary mental anguish. She even amends Azura's "Warrior of Peace" boast that she had quoted several times in the series to include that she is both "child of the human realm [and] student of the demon realm."
• The Chosen One: Double-subverted. Luz initially believes she has a predetermined path to greatness but learns that this fixation is unhealthy and self-destructive. Eda encourages her to choose herself, not waiting on prophecies. Luz's fate is to help Emperor Belos rise to power, teaching him the last glyph and introducing him to the wrong context magic collector. This realization leads to a depressive crisis; the Titan's lingering spirit chooses Luz for her extraordinary kindness.
• The Chosen Wannabe: Luz is fixated on being a Chosen One, leading to a fake quest for Eda. She realizes she has no destiny and has the chance to make her own. In the Grand Finale, the Titan chooses Luz due to her kindness and compassion, but it's up to her to accept his power.
  Luz: Are you sure you want to give this power...to me?
  Titan: Well, you're the one here, and you seem like a good witch. But I can't give you anything unless you choose to accept it. So the question is, will you choose yourself?
• Chronic Self-Deprecation: Luz, despite her happy exterior, is a girl with low self-esteem, often blaming her mistakes for personal moral failings. She expresses shame for causing Eda's magic loss, condemning Amity's dismissal, and learning about the Day of Unity.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Luz, initially positive, is deeply insecure and blames herself for events beyond her control. Her shame over accidentally helping Belos orchestrate the Boiling Isles genocide leads her to contemplate suicide, causing her to stay in the Human Realm forever.
• Closet Key: Word of God says that she is this for Amity, though this is heavily downplayed since the Boiling Isles is a Non-Heteronormative Society, so there wasn't much of a closet to begin with, with Amity not so much dealing with her sexuality but rather the general confusion and fear that stems from getting her first big crush.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Played With. Due to being shunned in the Human Realm for her "weirdness," Luz is immersed in her own world to cope. Camila sends her to Reality Check Summer Camp to teach her normality and make friends. Luz's story revolves around embracing her weirdness and finding True Companions in the Boiling Isles.
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right:
  • Her art project was a gryphon with a pigeon head that breathes spiders. While riding on top of Eda's staff, she sees a giant gryphon that's exactly like her project, spider breath and all. Upon seeing this, she excitedly proclaims that she was in fact right with her anatomically correct gryphon.
  • To the people of the Boiling Isles, some of her claims are a bit dodgy at best and downright blasphemous at worst, but everything she says has at least some basis in fact if not being outright true, such as how the Emperor is evil. However, this is because she's an outsider more than anything who hasn't lived her whole life under Belos' rule, something most witches she meets can't see eye to eye with.
• Color Motifs:
  • Is consistently associated with purple — her hoodie, her Grom outfit, her Grudgby uniform, her Witch's Wool Cape, and most prominently the glow around her freshly hatched Palisman Staff and the overall coloration of her Palisman Stringbean in "For the Future", as well as various other articles of clothing that she wears across the show.
  • Scenes around Luz sometimes have some mixture of royal blue, magenta, and lavender — the colors of the bisexual pride flag, since Luz herself is bi. The most significant example is the scene just before Luz and Amity ask each other out in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Hooty's Door". Additionally, Luz also wears this combination of colors though usually not all at once, most prominently shown with her Bisexual Pride Pin in "Thanks to Them".
  • Golden yellow, being the primary colour of her Light Glyph and reflecting her kind nature. Despite mostly being an example of Dark Is Not Evil, her Titan Form has golden eyes, aura, and Chest Insignia. It's also the colour of her girlfriend's eyes.
• Combat Pragmatist: Luz is a human with the strength, speed, and endurance of a normal human. She can draw Geometric Magic onto solid surfaces, making her unable to fight fair, but she instead uses her magic to defeat opponents, such as helping The Golden Guard defeat Kikimora on a dragon.
• Combination Attack:
  • Performs one with Amity as the climax of their dance in "Enchanting Grom Fright" with Amity creating an abomination by drawing a circle using her heels and Luz tagging it with one of her plant-magic cards to turn the resulting creature into a self-propelled Action Bomb that obliterates Grom when the abomination launched itself into the monster's open maw.
  • She performs several others with Amity throughout the series, especially after they hook up, by combining Luz's Ice Glyphs with Amity's Abomination Magic to restrain their enemies, most notably, Kikimora in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", and Belos in "King's Tide".
  • In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz performs a series of these with both King and Eda in the Final Battle against the Titan powered Belos, after Luz herself receives the power of the Titan and returns from the dead, from having Eda show her how to cast spells with innate magic, to Luz emitting a Super-Scream with King, all of the above spells driving away a great deal of Belos' corruption.
• Coming-Out Story: In "Thanks to Them", Luz reveals her sexual orientation to her mother Camila, revealing a romantic slideshow with Amity. Despite her confidence in her sexuality, Camila accepts Luz and Amity, embracing them as soon as the slideshow ends.
• Commonality Connection:
  • One of the major turning points of her relationship with Amity is when Luz discovers that the latter is also a fan of the Good Witch Azura series.
  • A darker version with Hunter, as both faced Belos' mindscape together and are keeping each other's secrets concerning some of the traumatic things they learned there.
• Conflicting Loyalty: Luz loves her mom and wants to get back to her, but at the same time deeply regrets having to promise her that she will stay on Earth once she has a way back, as she is happier in the Demon Realm then she ever was on Earth, and leaving it all behind would also mean leaving the only people who has ever accepted her as she is.
• Constantly Curious: Luz has a great love of backstory of any kind, getting uncomfortably close to Amity's face when she relates her past with grudgby. When Eda sarcastically asks Luz if she's curious after hearing about how Eda found the portal door, Luz replies, with complete seriousness, that she is always curious.
• Cool Big Sis: Her dynamic with King. A loving, protective and fun big sister who plays with and takes care of her younger brother. In both "Edge of the World" and "King's Tide", King flat-out calls Luz his big sister.
• Cosmic Motifs: Luz, like her girlfriend Amity, has an association with stars due to her connection with Azura. She discovers the Ice Glyph by looking up at the Light Glyph constellation, leading her to seek magic in snow. Stars are visible in major moments of Luz and Amity's romance, and her outfits, including her Azura costume, feature stars. In "For the Future", the sky is filled with stars.
• Cosmic Plaything: Hunter is the only character who can argue that Luz's life is worse than his. Luz's life in the Human Realm was unhappy, with the loss of her father Manny due to terminal illness and constant scorn. Upon returning to the Boiling Isles, she struggles to win.
• Costume Evolution: Luz wears Eda's old varsity jacket in most episodes, with minor customizations in "Clouds on the Horizon", with new boots, pants, and a ponytail, and "Thanks to Them", with an "Azura" Halloween Costume. She wears a beanie, striped shirt, and a white witch's hat before returning to the Demon Realm.
• Covert Pervert: In "Yesterday's Lie", she nearly uses the power of the cubes produced by the In-Between Realm to spy on her girlfriend when she realizes that they can let her see anybody, but she slaps it back into the water and admonishes herself to stay focused before she actually sees anything.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Luz's temporary demise in "Watching and Dreaming" isn't pretty. She is slowly disintegrated by Belos' necrotic flesh, after she throws herself in front of the Collector. It's made painfully clear that Luz is suffering as she is being consumed, her expression is that of visible agony as she clearly recognizes that she is about to die. Fortunately, this isn't Luz's final demise as she is soon resurrected by the power of the Titan.
• Crush Blush: In "Escaping Expulsion" when Amity jumped in to save Luz from the Abomaton 2.0, after asking if she was alright, Luz looked fondly at her while blushing and simply saying "Uh-huh". She later explodes into these almost as frequently as Amity does when she is around Luz up until the two start dating in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", and many times afterwards as well, primarily when she and Amity are being affectionate with one another, or when Amity does something especially badass.
• Custom Uniform: Because she's studying every type of magic, her Hexside unitard features shades of every coven color except for beast keeping, potions and construction. Also, she keeps her regular white slip-on shoes instead of the traditional black boots.
• Cute Little Fang: She receives a small fang in "Once Upon a Swap" when King takes over her body, then later on in "Watching and Dreaming" in her Titan form. Both episodes coincidentally involve a Titan using her body.
• Cuteness Proximity: Absolutely gushes over King when she first meets him. She tends to do this with things she finds to be particularly adorable in general as shown by her cooing at the sight of things like Eda being motherly to the Bat Queen's babies or other assorted Boiling Isles critters, provided they aren't attempting to murder her.
• Cute Witch: She's an apprentice witch-in-training who wears a hoodie with cat ears. She also frequently geeks out over particular aspects of the Boiling Isles or her studies in magic, and is always full of energy and positivity.
• Cute Monster Girl: Luz's Titan form in "Watching and Dreaming" is fairly bestial, being something of a cross between Eda's Harpy form, and King's appearance, however Luz retains all of her adorable charm from her normal appearance, and even throws in a Cute Little Fang for good measure.
• The Cutie: Energetic and cheerful? Check! A kind and loyal friend? Check! Cute as a button? DOUBLE CHECK!
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Fights involving Luz tend to be remarkably one sided, both in her favor and against her.
  • Luz gets tossed around several times throughout Season 1, most notably by Amity in "Convention", due to packing no magic other than the Light Glyph, and Emperor Belos in "Young Blood, Old Souls".
  • Luz and Amity team up against and summarily crush Grom in "Enchanting Grom Fright" in just over a minute.
  • Luz wades her way through all of Belos' minions throughout his castle in "Young Blood, Old Souls" as she goes on the warpath in order to save Eda from getting petrified.
  • Luz also defeats several opponents in Season 2 with very little difficulty, especially the fighters in the Bonesborough Brawl in "Reaching Out".
  • After gaining the power of the Titan in "Watching and Dreaming" and entering her Super Mode, Luz promptly dominates Belos, effortlessly counteracting all of his magic, and systematically cleansing the land of his taint. What's especially notable is that Belos himself is leaching off power from the Titan, and he still gets smited, notably being the only time Luz is on the giving end against Belos.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Despite being outmatched by Belos, Luz impresses the Emperor with her good hits. However, Belos allows her to survive due to a Stable Time Loop. When Luz refuses Philip's offer to join him as a fellow Human, he stops playing nice.
• Dark Secret: That she (and Lilith) helped Philip find the Collector, leading to him enacting his genocide against the Boiling Isles. In the aftermath of "King's Tide", she still hasn't told her friends, and is terrified that they'll hate her once she tells them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: "Thanks to Them" depicts Luz's childhood, where her attempts to impress peers lead to further ostracism. Luz's creativity, culminating in a book report, is fueled by her father Manny's death.
• Dark Is Not Evil:
  • In "For the Future," Luz's Palisman finally hatches and is revealed to cast extremely powerful spells that are colored with dark purple energy, and Luz is about as far from being evil as you can possibly get on the Boiling Isles.
  • Her Super Mode in "Watching and Dreaming" is similarly full of black and purple colors, yet she's still firmly on the side of good, though there is also elements of Light Is Good thrown in, due to said Super Mode also being covered in glowing Glyphs.
• Dead Hat Shot: When Luz finally succumbs to Belos's necrotic sludge to save The Collector and dies, all that is left of her is Stringbean in her staff form, as well as her white Azura hat, due to Luz herself being completely disintegrated and promptly disappearing into the light. When her spirit arrives in the In-Between Realm and meets the Titan, Luz notably lacks her hat. Strangely, her hat shows up back on her head after her revival despite this, though this could be due to her Titan Form having a hat built in.
• Death Glare:
  • Luz is actually capable of giving these out, as she gives one to Emperor Belos near the end of "Young Blood, Old Souls" after she tricks Belos into sending her topside so she can save Eda by giving him the Portal Door only for her to destroy the portal with her fire glyphs, denying the tyrant access to her world.
  • Luz displays contempt towards her archenemy Belos, displaying it in various scenes, such as "O Titan, Where Art Thou" and "King's Tide". In "Watching and Dreaming", she glares at Belos with cold contempt, watching as Eda, King, and Raine defeat him.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Cloudcuckoolander Genki Girl. Luz's quirkiness stems from untreated mental health issues like ADHD and Social Anxiety Disorder. Her unusual hobbies and fantasies cause trouble and hinder social interactions. Treating Luz with compassion and respect, understanding they may not fully understand their actions, is crucial.
• Deity of Human Origin: Downplayed. She is imbued with the lifeforce of the Titan in the finale, giving her abilities far beyond any mortal witch or demon. However, it is explicitly shown that this was a one time power up rather than something more permenant.
• Despair Event Horizon: In "Thanks To Them," Luz struggles with self-loathing and self-doubt, blatantly forlorning and pretending to be okay. She believes she shouldn't have come to the Boiling Isles; her spirit starts to recover only in "For The Future" after a cathartic emotional breakthrough with her mother. Despite Amity and Hunter's reassurances, Luz remains emotionally damaged.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Luz's desire for understanding from her loved ones, particularly her mother, leads her to suppress her creative and nerdy tendencies. This leads to crippling self-esteem issues and a desire for a grand destiny to "fix" her. Despite landing in the Demon Realm, she still struggles with self-loathing and proving her worth, causing reckless actions.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Luz is a Witch who faces challenges bonding with Palismans due to her vagueness. She freezes when asked if she can be Witch in Human Realm. Despite being given Palistrom Wood to carve her own Palisman, she waits until she's certain before carving. After a pep talk, she realizes her goal is to be understood.
• Determinator: Luz, a determined and feisty character, refuses to give up, despite her lack of natural magic. Her determination leads her to become a talented magic user, find a supportive friend circle, and even become an Official Couple in Amity. However, her determination can be detrimental.
• Detrimental Determination: Luz aspires to become a witch like her favorite book's heroine, which involves making friends with foes like Amity. However, her actions cause trouble, such as accidentally breaking Owlbert's head and getting Eda captured. This leads to a Guilt Complex, where she tries to make up for her actions, even when it's not her fault. Luz's failure to prevent the Day of Unity causes self-loathing and depression, further complicating her character's journey.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz defeats Emperor Belos, assimilating the Titan's body. Despite Belos' power, Luz manages to shut him down with impressive ease, keeping Eda and King safe. She systematically tears Belos apart and allows the Boiling Rain to finish him off.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Luz manages to pull the wool over the eyes of Emperor Belos not once but twice. Justified given that while Belos is an S-class Manipulative Bastard, his Black-and-White Insanity prevents him from seeing humans like Luz as being capable of such subterfuge against their fellow humans.
  • In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Belos puts Luz in the unenviable position of being forced to choose between giving him the Portal Door to the Human Realm, or allowing Eda, King, and Lilith to be petrified. She caves and hands him the Portal Door before she reveals that the Portal Door is now covered in Fire Glyphs that Luz then activates to destroy it, denying Belos a victory, all the while managing to save her loved ones.
  • In "King's Tide", Luz manages to sucker Belos into an agreement for her to serve as his guide to the Human Realm in Modern Day if he spares her from the fate of petrification. When the two shake on it, Luz brands Philip with a Coven Sigil while the Draining Spell is still active with an invisible branding glove, hoping that by doing so she can now force him to end the Draining Spell lest Philip himself be killed by it.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her Fatal Flaw. Luz tends to think only about the immediate situation, if she thinks about it at all. As such, Luz can be very rash and impulsive when she gets angry.
  • Due to her impulsivity and her tendency of acting like she's a typical story protagonist, Luz ends up making lots of hasty decisions, like challenging Amity to a Witch's Duel despite only knowing one non-offensive spell, or challenging Boscha to a Grudgby match despite having never played the game before, or really knowing what it entails.
  • Luz effectively ran away from her mom and her normal human life to live in the far more interesting Boiling Isles, without considering that the summer camp she was supposed to go to might notice her absence. Luz does text her mom under the pretense that she's attending, but it's clear she hasn't thought about the situation beyond that. The only reason Camila didn't realize that Luz was missing is because Vee accidentally took her place mere minutes after she first arrived on the Boiling Isles.
  • This becomes a major problem for her in "Hunting Palismen" because she hasn't thought through her goals beyond "Become a Witch" and "Find a way home", which her classmates point out are mutually exclusive. Because of this internal conflict she isn't able to create a clear emotional bond with a Palisman like the rest of her peers.
  • When Luz is made to promise to remain on Earth once she has a way back, she instantly regrets it since deep down she doesn't want to as it means leaving her found family, her friends and her girlfriend.
• Disappeared Dad: For a good chunk of the show all that was known about Luz's dad, Manny was that he wasn't around anymore, it's not until the latter half of season 2 in the episode "Reaching Out" that we learn the truth. Her dad died when she was younger, and while Luz states it happened a long time ago and she has gotten over it, it's shown that she still has trouble talking about it.
• Disappears into Light: Played with. Luz is actually killed by Belos in "Watching and Dreaming", as she takes a blast meant for the Collector that infects her with Belos' corruption and consumes her body, leaving only solitary motes of light just like with Flapjack. However, Luz doesn't actually stay dead, as the Titan infuses her with all of his power and revives her from the grave, wherein she reappears, her body now completely intact to take down Belos for good.
• Discard and Draw: In "Watching and Dreaming", with the glyphs no longer working, she and Stringbean have figured out a new way to use magic by the Distant Finale. Although King's shown to be developing his own glyphs by then, she'll still have to learn how to use them from scratch.
• Disney Death: In the Grand Finale, Luz dies when The Collector uses her lessons on redemption and friendship to defeat Belos. Luz saves them from Belos' flame-breath attack, but his attacks corrupt them. Luz blocks Belos' attacks, but the Titan revives her with her remaining life force and power to stop Belos.
• Ditzy Genius: Luz is actually shown to be rather intelligent, with sound critical-thinking abilities and a quick grasp of magical principles. That being said, she is also rather impulsive, airheaded, clueless, and lacking in common sense.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: In the Grand Finale, Luz uses her Titan Form to defeat Emperor Belos, who transforms into Philip Wittebane. Belos deceives Luz into believing he's suffering from a dark magic curse. Luz uses her Titan Form powers to summon boiling rain, dissolving Philip and disintegrating him into nothing.
• Does Not Like Spam: Justified. Luz doesn't like anything with dairy, especially milk. But that's because she's lactose intolerant, and her stomach can't handle it.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Luz's depression stems from her involvement in Belos' plans, leading her to believe she's a failure and hurting others. Her anger towards herself and her self-loathing are evident in her rants and video diary, which reads like a suicide note. Camila's reaction to this situation raises concerns about Luz's mental state and prompts immediate intervention.
• Doom Magnet: Luz tends to cause terrible events that negatively impact her loved ones. Her father's illness leads to depression; she is responsible for Eda's loss of magic and nearly execution. She is expelled from Hexside, puts King in danger of being sacrificed, and helps Philip rise to power, leading to the Demon Realm falling into the Human Realm.
• Dork Knight: Luz is a bubbly and kindhearted girl, who is absolutely ecstatic at the chance to become a Witch, as a result of her love for fantasy novels. She is easily the most unambiguously good member of the main trio and is also more than willing to throw herself into any danger, including defying the Emperor if it means protecting those that she cares about.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Luz voices her worries that she isn't going to be able to make it into her crush Amity's heart without some sort of Grand Romantic Gesture to her. What she doesn't realize (or is possibly too overwhelmed with bad past experiences) is that Amity is already completely head over heels in love with her.
  • Luz spends the majority of the second half of Season 2 dreading the deal that she made with her mother in "Yesterday's Lie" that would require her to leave the Demon Realm behind once she makes it back to the Human Realm. What she doesn't realize is that Camila only asked her to stay with her, not ask her to completely abandon the Demon Realm.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: In "Thanks to Them", Camila tells Luz that it's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them. Luz takes this to mean that she should stay in the human realm where she can't mess up her friends' lives anymore, despite the fact that it's making her deeply depressed. Camila certainly didn't mean it like that, but Luz is neck deep in depression and self-loathing.
• Dream-Crushing Handicap: Luz dreams of being a heroic Witch like her fictional idol, and when she winds up in the Demon Realm, she sees it as her opportunity to live that dream by becoming Eda's student. She then learns that Witches draw their magic from a specialized organ attached to their hearts, meaning Luz can't simply become a Witch no matter how badly she wants it. It's then subverted when she discovers the existence of Glyphs, allowing her an alternative form of spellcasting.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: In "Thanks to Them", as a consequence of all of the horrible things that she has expereinced in her time in the Demon Realm, as well as her guilt over the events of the Day of Unity, Luz goes through the entire episode with her eyes half-lidded and noticeable tired lines. It's even visible in a video diary from the past shortly after her father's funeral.

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• Eldritch Transformation: In the Grand Finale, Luz undergoes a rare heroic transformation, becoming a hybrid half-human, half-titan witch with monstrous magic power. This form is more Adorable Abomination than most, with new traits like skeletal hands and black sclera.
• Elemental Motifs: Luz, a selfless and optimistic character, transforms the Boiling Isles into a brighter place, fostering happiness in her loved ones. She uncovers the Emperor's Coven, Belos' goals, and the nature of magic, freeing the Isles from their oppressive machinations.
• Elemental Powers: In Season 1, Luz discovers four glyphs with common fantasy elements: Light 'em Up Light, An Ice Person Ice, Green Thumb Plants, and Playing with Fire Fire. In Season 2, she combines these glyphs to form esoteric magical powers.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Season 2 and 3 show Luz's mastery of Glyph Magic, making her a formidable spell caster on the Boiling Isles. She impresses the Emperor and defeats members of the Coven. In "For the Future", she casts a destructive Wave-Motion Gun.
• Endearingly Dorky: She's a dorky and bubbly fantasy geek who often gets way over her head, which ends up making Amity fall in love with her.
• Enemy Mine: Luz is more than willing to ally herself with groups that she would otherwise be at odds with for the sake of achieving a common goal, as Luz attempts to bond with those individuals, most notably Amity in "Lost in Language", and Hunter in "Hunting Palismen" and "Hollow Mind".
• Entertainment Below Their Age: Luz remains a diehard fan of The Good Witch Azura during the events of the series, even though she already aged out of the target demographic three years prior. Given the fact that her father gifted her the first volume just before his death and it helped her get through the worst of her grieving period, it would make sense that the series would continue to hold a special place in her heart even as she's preparing to head off to college in the epilogue.
• Epic Fail:
  • In "Lost in Language", Luz attempts to rescue Amity from a mutated Otabin. To do so, she exploits the effects of the Wailing Star to make herself an outfit that resembles her fictional idol Azura, complete with a staff. After twirling it around some, Otabin effortlessly defeats and captures her.
  • In "The First Day", when Luz is attempting to demonstrate her mastery of Glyph Magic for Hexside's entrance exam, she severely mucks it up, gets entangled in her own cloak and falls off the stage before being suspended in the air by an Ice Glyph. Luz herself lampshades how she probably failed, but Bump states that he has seen worse.
• "Eureka!" Moment: "For the Future" is a psychological breakthrough for Luz, who realizes her mother's failure and embraces her nerdy nature. This bond with Ghost improves her mental health, as humans cannot fully understand Luz's struggles, unlike Witches and Demons who can.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Luz is known for her loyalty to people she has had negative experiences with, such as Amity, Lilith, and Hunter. She eventually falls in love with Amity and considers Lilith and Hunter part of her family. However, she harbors hatred towards her arch-enemy, Emperor Belos, whom she inadvertently helps orchestrate the genocide on the Boiling Isles. In "Watching And Dreaming", Belos attempts to deceive Luz, but she refuses, allowing the Titan and the others to finish him off.
• Everyone Can See It: In "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" both Gus and Edric & Emira comment on Luz's crush on Amity.
• Everyone Has Standards: Luz has no qualms with voicing her frustrations or disappointment in those she cares about.
  • In "Something Ventured, Someone Framed", Luz briefly chews out Gus for lying about the ban on Luz entering Hexside being lifted so he could use her to show up Mattholomule and ultimately landing both of them in the Detention Pit.
  • In "Sense and Insensitivity" Luz is extremely upset with King for stealing her story and completely retooling it before pushing it as his own work of fiction in spite of the project having been a collaboration, especially when he tries to get her to help him with the sequel in spite of never once crediting her as the co-author.
  • In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", Luz is distraught that Eda would try to send her away to protect her from Belos' Day of Unity, to the point that she is willing to fight Eda just to prove that she is capable of helping and not a burden. Notably this example is also directed at herself as she is still reeling from the revelation in "Hollow Mind" that she unwittingly aided Philip's plan for genocide.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Luz develops feelings of guilt after emotional distress, often accompanied by a Thousand-Yard Stare. In "Reaching Out", she recreates a flower planting ritual in memory of her father Manny, while in "Thanks to Them", she spends time with them.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: She usually wears a pixie cut, but in "Clouds on the Horizon", her hair has grown long enough to be put in a short ponytail. After the timeskip in "Thanks to Them", she clearly hasn't been doing much to maintain it, letting it grow out and go curly.
• Extreme Doormat: Played With. Luz initially acted pushover, being easily blackmailed by Eda and King. She blamed herself for Amity's suffering, even though it was Amity's fault. Over time, Luz's new friends, Eda, King, and King have influenced her to develop a backbone.
• Extremely Protective Child: In the Season 1 finale, Eda is captured by Lilith, prompting Luz to rescue her, even invading Emperor Belos' castle. Luz's rage is evident in "Young Blood, Old Souls" and "For the Future", extending to her mother Camila.
• Failed a Spot Check: Despite spending a good amount of time around Hunter and his hair being cut very short, Luz never notices the green slime growing up the back of his neck or when he starts acting out of character, only realizing something's wrong when she finds Flapjack shivering in terror and sees horns burst out of Hunter's skull. In all fairness, no one else noticed either.
• Failure Hero: Subverted. Luz indirectly helped Eda and Lilith reconcile, spread the truth of Belos' benevolence, and created the circumstances for the Day of Unity, sparing the Isles inhabitants. In "For the Future", her mother supports her growth.
• Familiar: Luz carves an egg to create her Palisman, allowing her to choose her own path and learn various magic. In "For the Future", she awakens as Stringbean, a unique creature capable of morphing into any desired creature, similar to Luz herself.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Luz suffers one at the hands of Belos in "Watching and Dreaming", even if it is temporary. When Luz throws herself in front of the Collector to save them from Philip's attack, she is slightly grazed by it, and it promptly starts consuming her body. She is then painfully disintegrates as she tearfully states that she should have expected that she and her Family of Choice would get broken apart, her expression visibly pained, indicating that she is suffering.
• Fangirl: While she loves magical and supernatural fiction in general, her greatest passion is for the Good Witch Azura book series, to the point of having her very own self insert for the series, as well as several posters of the books in her bedroom. This is no doubt due to the fact that the book was her father Manny's final present to her before he died.
• Fantastic Diet Requirement: Inverted. As a human, she struggles with digestion on the Boiling Isles, leading to expensive food. She destroys the Earth portal to prevent Big Bad Emperor Belos from obtaining it, which was previously used for collecting Earth food or selling human junk.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Luz's kindness has been exploited by prominent villains throughout the series.
  • In "Hunting Palisman", Luz and Hunter the Golden Guard protect a group of Palisman from Kikimora and Hunter from demon attack. Hunter turns on Luz to secure the Palisman for Belos, but Kikimora remains functional and Hunter defends Luz, allowing her to leave with the Palisman.
  • In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", Luz helps Kikimora deal with Belos-related issues while balancing family and Emperor's Coven duties. She pretends to kidnap Kiki at a parade, but Kiki learns she's offered a promotion and turns on Luz, attempting to kill her for the Emperor.
  • Luz's attempt to help Emperor Philip Wittebane find the Collector in "Yesterday's Lie" was met with racism and condescension. Philip hoped to use Luz to eliminate life on the Boiling Isles but ultimately sacrificed her to the beast guarding the Collector's mirror. Luz is devastated when she discovers this truth in "Hollow Mind".
• Fat and Skinny: Downplayed with Vee. Initially, the two of them have identical builds due to Vee masquerading as her. After Luz comes back home however, Vee takes on a new form with slightly pudgier legs and a thick sweater, most likely in a effort to differentiate herself as much as possible. This is also shown to carry over once they reach adulthood.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Stubbornness. Luz's own determination tends to make her rather cocky and overconfident in thinking she can get out of any situation. It has backfired when she nearly got killed humoring her enemies, namely Boscha and Odalia, who took advantage of Luz's stubbornness and used it against her, requiring outside help from Amity in both cases to bail Luz out of a jam.
  • Low self-esteem. Luz, a social pariah in the Human Realm, desires to emulate magical heroines for grand destiny fixation. Her lack of self-worth leads to paranoia and self-sacrificing, culminating in a borderline martyr complex in "Thanks to Them".
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences: After Luz and Amity start dating, from time to time they will finish each other's statements, in particular when discussing topics they are excited about, most notably the couple's favorite books, The Good Witch Azura.
  Amity: Could the author of Azura...
  Luz: Travel between realms?!
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition: In "Adventures in the Elements", Luz learns an ice glyph. In the same episode, Amity practices a fire spell. Both girls also flip the power stereotypes. Luz the ice user is enthusiastic and bubbly, while Amity the fire user is cold and distant.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: Implied. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door," Luz, having been rejected and humiliated by past crushes, is intimidated by confessing her love to her new crush, Amity, without a grand romantic gesture. Hooty pulls them into a gaudy Tunnel of Love, humiliating Luz and causing her to fear being mocked or seen as a loser.
• Flashback Fail:
  • In "Yesterday's Lie", Luz recalls a conversation with her mother, Camila, but in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", she realizes that her mother asked her not to return to the Demon Realm, expressing her conflict over leaving her friends.
  • The flashback in "Edge of the World" depicts Emperor Belos' mind, but the Collector's poem differs from the previous episode's brutal poem, which narrates Belos' plans for the Boiling Isles' inhabitants.
    The poem of the Collector as told in "Hollow Mind"
    To you who stray so far from home
    To me who's trapped beneath these bones.
    We'll play forever, me and you,
    When you paint the land in nine bright hues!

    The poem of the Collector according to Luz' recollection
    Let's slash and rend and crush and bruise!
    Let's curse the land with nine bright hues!
• Flowers of Romance:
  • In "Reaching Out", Luz and Amity craft a batch of flowers in honor of Luz's deceased father Manny as part of a yearly tradition that Luz has where she and her mother Camila would plant flowers on his grave. While the moment is much more somber than most, it is still a deeply intimate moment for the young couple.
  • In "Clouds on the Horizon", when Luz goes to rescue Amity from her grounding, she creates a batch of vines with which to enter Amity's room from the second story balcony of Blight Manor. Said vines are covered in blooming flowers, and they can be seen prominently when Luz and Amity properly reunite and share their first kiss.
• Foil:
  • Luz is one to her girlfriend, Amity. Both are insecure young bookworms with a love for magic. They find happiness through a Family of Choice and each other but with different approaches. Luz, a Genki Girl Cloudcuckoolander, finds happiness by leaving her old life, while Amity, a Closet Geek, finds happiness by reevaluating her life.
  • Luz, trapped in the Demon Realm, loves the Boiling Isles and forms strong relationships with Witches and Demons. Belos, 400 years old, is immature and violent, corrupting society and citizens into callous, sadistic, sociopathic savages.
• Foreign Exchange Student: Becomes this to Hexside after "Something Ventured, Someone Framed" when Principal Bump lets her enroll at his school after removing her ban from the campus. Bump himself references her status as this when he tells Eda that he thinks enrolling Luz at Hexside is a good idea.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The shape of Luz's Palisman Stringbean has actually been visible ever since the title of the show was revealed. The title itself show's Eda's Palisman Owlbert on his staff with a part of the H in 'House' forming the shaft for his staff. The title also show's the L in 'Owl' looking extremely similar, just vertically inverted, with the end of the shaft connecting to the S in 'House'. Sure enough, Stringbean is revealed to be a 'snake-shifter' whose default form curls into the shape of an S when she is on her staff.
  • Luz being the emissary of the Titan received a deal of hints throughout the series, before the two properly met in the Grand Finale after Luz's death. When Luz discovers the Ice Glyph, she does so after being inspired to look at snowflakes thanks to seeing a coincidental constellation in the shape of the Light Glyph. Luz is the only character to ever physically enter the In-Between Realm on screen, with the In-Between Realm being revealed to be the prison of The Collector and the resting place of Papa Titan. Finally, Philip voices his annoyance at Luz's rapid skill development with Glyphs compared to his own, saying that it's almost like the Titan is holding Philip back. As "Watching and Dreaming" makes clear, he's absolutely right.
• Formulaic Magic: Season 2 reveals that this is how Luz's Glyph Magic works. By combining different Glyphs together, you can come up with different effects that neither Glyph would ever be capable of producing individually. For instance, in "Hunting Palismen", Luz combines a Fire Glyph with an Ice Glyph as well as some Sleeping Nettles to create a sleep inducing smoke.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Downplayed. Kikimora gloats about how she'll be taking Hunter to the emperor to be killed and that he's already aware of the rebels' plan to stop the Day of Unity. Luz then has Gus switch her and Hunter's appearances with an illusion before getting herself captured, allowing her to both protect the Grimwalker from Kikimora and arrive at the Head faster to warn Eda.
• Friendless Background:
  • Opening scenes of the series establishes Luz as having no real friends due to her "weird" interests. She has a hard time making friends even when she goes to magic school with witches more her age.
  • As a kid, being "weird" caused the other children to avoid her, and while her mother was always supportive of her, Camila eventually broke down from pressure by other adults to send her daughter to camp so she wouldn't be bullied like Camila was.
• Freudian Excuse: "Thanks to Them" reveals that a big part of the reason that Luz was acting out so much in school with her overzealous school projects was as a result of her attempt to impress her mother as well as the school with how productive her creativity could be (with the last being the catalyst for the events of the series). Additionally, Luz is also coping with the stress of the death of her father while doing so, which is why she dove into her world of fantasy novels, specifically The Good Witch Azura, as said book was her father's last gift before he died.
• Freudian Slip: In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", she says that if the Echo Mouse isn't happy she'll never make her way into Amity's heart before correcting herself and saying that she means making a portal back home.
• From Zero to Hero: Luz starts off as a misunderstood teenager who tries to prove her academic worth through creativity. Despite lacking natural magic, she gains command over Glyph Magic and saves her mentor Eda. In Season 2, she plays a crucial role in the failure of Final Solution and liberates the Human Realm.
• Fuel Meter of Power: Luz is revived by the Titan with his Magic, but it's a temporary boost. The Titan's power fades, leaving Luz's Soul as the Titan's Soul; her glowing rune fades as the clock runs out.
• Fusion Dance: In "Watching and Dreaming" Luz temporarily becomes half-Titan thanks to King's father, aka the Boiling Isles Titan, giving her his remaining life force. After being infused with his power, Luz becomes a Physical God and by far the most powerful witch to ever live, just in time for the Final Battle, however after defeating Belos once and for all, the essence of King's father leaves her, and she returns to her normal Human state.
• Gamer Chick: "Thanks to Them" shows that Luz is something of an avid computer gamer. On her laptop's desktop the links for Holler Knight, Moonfarm Valley, and Hades. Additionally, some other gaming consoles can be seen in other parts of the Noceda household, primarily the BS4, and the Swap.
• Geek Physiques: A Rare Female Example. She's a scrawny fantasy geek who in the first episode cursed her "weak nerd arms" for being unable to pull a level. Subverted as the show goes on, with her being able to easily Bridal Carry Amity (who is around her weight) in "Wing it Like Witches". In "Eda's Requiem", it's shown Luz does work out, likely explaining how she is able to accomplish that.
• Generation Xerox:
  • Luz shares similarities with her surrogate aunt, Lilith, who is dorky and deeply invested in special interests. Both struggle with guilt and glyph magic, leading Luz to admire her and call her Cool Aunt Lilith. They both hide their true selves behind a "cool" facade.
  • "Thanks to Them" reveals Camila's nerdy and worry about Luz's bullying. Camila's love for fantasy comes from her dad, but she fears Luz will face the same mockery. Camila encourages Luz to suppress her nerdiness and sends her to Summer Camp.
• Genki Girl: Luz is a playful teenage girl who learns to become a witch and makes the Boiling Isles a more upbeat place. However, her positivity fades due to traumatic events, leading to a listless Broken Bird in "Thanks to Them".
• Geometric Magic: Luz is unable to perform magic like witches, but she learns to replicate spell effects through associated symbols. King, a magic enthusiast, cannot see the runes until Luz draws them. King theorizes that Luz has no more glyphs and all spells are created as combinations of these four.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Luz forms the gleeful half with her girlfriend, Amity. Luz is friendly, joyful, and fascinated by the world around her. Amity is more serious, pessimistic, and condescending, although she opens up with the help of Luz. However, the roles end up switching in "Thanks to Them"; Luz becomes gloomy and self-pitying due to her Trauma Conga Line, while Amity becomes more upbeat and confident. That said, the Distant Finale has both girls becoming cheerful and upbeat adults after finally defeating the cause of their pain.
• God Was My Copilot: In "King's Tide," Belos is surprised by Luz's rapid progress in Glyph Magic, suggesting the Titan was holding Belos back. Luz discovers the Light Glyph and the Ice Glyph through coincidences. Luz is the Titan's emissary, revived and gifted with powers to slay Belos. King's friendship with Luz also influences the Titan's view of her.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: In "Hollow Mind", Luz is left utterly baffled why Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos would want to eradicate all life on the Boiling Isles, and specifically asks him why he is doing so. That said, when Philip gives his rational as saving Humanity from the "evil" of the Boiling Isles, Luz immediately rebuffs his statement, calmly labeling him as the one who is actually evil.
• Good Counterpart: Luz serves as this to Philip Wittebane aka Emperor Belos. Both of them are humans who moved to Gravesfield and eventually arrived in the Boiling Isles. Luz resisted the judgmental culture, accepting the Boiling Isles despite it not aligning with her fantasy dreams. Phillip, on the other hand, embraced the culture and murdered his brother. Luz brings hope to the Demon Realm, while Belos subjugates the Isles, aiming to wipe it out.
• Good Is Not Soft: Luz is known for her kindness and desire to befriend many people, but she is also a rather powerful character. She uses lethal force in battles with Emperor Belos, using hidden Ice Glyphs, Invisibility, and Fire Glyphs. In "Watching and Dreaming", she does not save Belos from being dissolved by the Boiling Rain or prevent Eda, King, and Raine from destroying him. Luz is even accused of summoning the rain to finish Philip off.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: In "King's Tide", she gets a small slash on her face over her left eyebrow from fighting Belos. This scar sticks with Luz without any sign of fading in the months between "King's Tide", and "Thanks to Them". The scar contrasts heavily with Belos' own scar that he received from Lilith which is significantly larger and much more disfiguring, and that's before Belos' consumption of Palismen causes the scar to warp into a band of rot across his entire face.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Being Dominican-American, Luz has the tendency of speaking Spanish sometimes, like when she's feeling overwhelming joy or anger or when talking to her mother.
• Green Thumb: At the beginning of "Enchanting Grom Fright" she learns a spell that makes plants grow after seeing the glyph on a petal.
• Guile Heroine: Along with her glyphs, she often defeats her enemies through ingenuity and trickery, culminating in her outsmarting Emperor Belos himself when he tries to pull a Sadistic Choice on her, by giving him the portal so she could save Eda from petrification and then remotely detonating it with her glyphs right after he cannot stop her.
• Guilt Complex:
  • Amity's grief towards Luz is evident when they first meet, with Amity accusing her of embarrassing her and disregarding her actions. Luz doesn't deflect blame, believing it actually is her fault.
  • In Season 1, Luz steals a healing hat from the emperor's coven, only to be captured by Lilith. She learns Lilith cursed Eda and is sentenced to petrification. Luz breaks into the emperor's castle to save Eda with King.
  • She also has one taken up to eleven when she discovers that Emperor Belos is Philip Wittebane, and her trip to the past with Lilith played a small but apparently vital part in his rise to power and his plan for witch genocide, leaving her deep remorse.
  • Luz leaves the Boiling Isles and her friends after creating a portal to the Demon Realm. Despite her friends' support, she feels she should stay until Belos defeats her. Despite her guilt, healing experiences in the finale convince her to forgive herself.

H-L

• Handicapped Badass: A neurological variant. Luz, a neurodivergent with severe ADHD and Social Anxiety Disorder, struggles with her mental health, especially in Season 3, due to her shame over her role in the Day of Unity. Despite this, she uses her magic to defeat threats.
• Has a Type: Luz either shows interest in or at least blushes at four people over the course of the series (Nevareth, Edric, Emira, and Amity). The one thing they have in common is that they're all (to use her own words) "cool and classy". Also, while Amity eventually dyes her hair purple, all of them had green hair at least at one point.
• Heal the Cutie: Whereas Season 2 has been little short of one large Trauma Conga Line for her, Season 3 has her generally move in the opposite direction.
  • In "Thanks to Them", Luz is initially depressed and bordering on suicidal ideation due to her friends' suspicions of her involvement with Belos. However, her mother and girlfriend help her cope by comforting her, advising her to learn from her mistakes, and suggesting a public Halloween event together.
  • "For the Future" follows Luz's recovery from guilt over the Boiling Isles under the Collector. After her mother admits her mistake, Luz realizes she wants to be understood. This realization awakens her Palisman Stringbean, and she flies with her, smiling in her girlfriend's embrace as Stringbean merges with her staff.
  • "Watching and Dreaming" brings Luz back to Eda and King after a nightmare, helping them educate the Collector on forgiveness and friendship. Despite a Disney Death, Luz returns stronger and optimistic, attending Eda's new college in the Demon Realm. She is granted the Titan power and is a true hero.
• Healing Serpent: In a symbolic sense. Luz's actions in the series improve the mental well-being of those around her, as seen in "Thanks to Them" and her "snake-shifter" Palisman, Stringbean, as her own emotional wounds heal.
• The Heart: She becomes this in the Owl House and for her friends, especially when she is compared to the cynical Eda, the egotistical King, or the cold and taciturn Amity. Luz is so cheery about her new circumstances that she brings out the best in her teachers and peers, gradually making them more cheery, compassionate, and optimistic as well.
• Her Boyfriend's Jacket: A subtle female/female example can be seen in the Distant Finale. Luz's outfit that she wears while packing for college features a prominent eclipse amulet necklace. This necklace being the exact same one worn by her girlfriend Amity throughout Season 2 after she rebels against Odalia.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: Luz's emotional struggles stem from her childhood, leading to a focus on self-loathing and a tendency to focus on her perceived failures. In "Separate Tides", she tries to redeem herself by slaying a Selkidomus, while in "Edge of the World", she tries to correct her mistake by halting Belos' plans. In "Thanks to Them," she feels overwhelmed by guilt and decides to stay in the Human Realm, potentially causing catastrophic health issues.
• Hereditary Homosexuality: Implied. Luz is canonically bisexual, and makes no attempt to pretend otherwise. While her mother 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.
• The Hero Dies: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz experiences a tragic loss after being consumed by Belos' necrotic flesh. Despite being separated from her family, she manages to return and defeat Belos through the Titan's sacrifice.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • In "Enchanting Grom Fright" she runs away terrified from school when Grom reads her mind and transforms into her mother, who's angry and sad for Luz lying to her about being at the camp.
  • At the ending of "Agony of a Witch", Luz walks back to the Owl House in a state of numbness and breaks down when King asks her where Eda is.
  • In "Hollow Mind", faced with the revelation that a man she admired deeply, even if he was a huge Jerkass, became the genocidal dictator Belos, and that she played a role in his rise to power, Luz is reduced to horrified sobbing, desperately trying to deny that it's true. When Eda asks her what happens, she just gives a Thousand-Yard Stare.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Has a disturbing tendency towards this trope, with her being far too willing to jeopardize her own best interests and even her physical and psychological well-being for the sake of others even when it would clearly cause more harm than good.
  • A Non-lethal variation occurs in "Young Blood, Old Souls". She destroys the Portal Door to the Human Realm so Emperor Belos couldn't use it, effectively destroying her only means of getting home for the sake of denying him a victory. While Belos only has his plans slowed down instead of stopped, Luz bought herself and her allies time with the sacrifice.
  • In "King's Tide", as The Collector is tearing apart the Demon Realm, Luz attempts another sacrifice by holding the rebuilt Portal Door together to allow the Hexsquad to escape to the Human Realm. This sacrifice is prevented by King's own sacrifice, as he blasts Luz through the Portal Door and allows himself to be taken by The Collector to play "Owl House", much to Luz's horror.
  • In "Thanks to Them" Luz plans yet another non-lethal sacrifice, this time opting to stay in the Human Realm forever after she finds a way back to the Demon Realm and sends her loved ones home, due to Luz coming to believe that she only brings them harm simply by being in their lives.
  • In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz's extreme propensity for self-sacrifice finally catches up to her when she takes a blast from Belos meant for the Collector. Said blast only grazes her but it still infects Luz with Belos' corruptive flesh which promptly consumes her entire body and actually temporarily kills her.
• Hidden Depths:
  • The Owl Pellets shorts reveal that she's a surprisingly competent artist. In fact, her ability to draw perfect circles is precisely how she's able to construct glyphs.
  • "Sense and Insensitivity" shows that she's a pretty talented writer, even if her subjects tend to be overly saccharine. King's "edited" version of her story even draws the attention of a major book publisher. She admits to have held these aspirations for some time, having carried a preparatory "author's photo" of herself (taken when she was much younger) for years. The epilogue even showed that she was awared a writing scholarship.
  • "Enchanting Grom Fight" shows that she is a really good dancer. She dances with Amity while they work together to take down Grom.
  • "Reaching Out" and "Thanks to Them" reveal Luz's unwavering happiness and sadness, influenced by her father Manny's death. She uses the fantasy series as a coping mechanism but sometimes feels the pain of missing him. Luz moves to a better hospital for her father's condition, despite her mother's belief that the new house is pretty.
  • "For the Future" explores Luz's longing for understanding from her mother Camila, who suppresses her creative and nerdy tendencies due to her teen experiences. When she receives this understanding, her Palisman Stringbean awakens.
• High-School Sweethearts: By the time of the epilogue, she and Amity have been dating for several years with no sign of their relationship slowing down as she prepares to attend college.
• Holy Halo: Downplayed. In the Grand Finale, Luz gains a new form with Titan power, a glowing golden and purple orb above her Witch's Hat, resembling a halo. This orb serves as her Messianic Archetype, cementing her status in the show.
• Hope Bringer: Throughout the series, Luz brings brightness and positivity with her wherever she goes on the Boiling Isles. From helping the Clawthornes to reconcile, to helping her friends gain self-confidence and escape from the grip of toxic authority figures, Luz is always making the world around her a better and more hopeful place.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Downplayed. Luz is normally a good judge of people's character, but she does misjudge people due to her preconceived notions of the Boiling Isles. Adegast manipulates her; she assumes Belos is a typical Evil Overlord obsessed with power. Despite realizing Belos is a genocidal Knight Templar, Luz still misunderstands him.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Luz uses Eda's magic but struggles with spell control. She accidentally fires off a massive energy beam, apologizing to Hunter, Gus, and Willow. Luz struggles with Titan-powered spells when returning from the dead in her Super Mode.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Luz has a low self-perception of her own kind due to social isolation. She prefers living among Witches and Demons from a Death World, despite Fantastic Racism. Her trauma and single human influence contribute to her negative outlook.
• Humble Goal: In "For The Future", Luz's heart's desire for acceptance and understanding leads her Palisman to hatch, revealing herself as a snake-like shapeshifter, Stringbean, which she names after her mother.
• Humble Heroine: Luz is humble and always praises others in positive events, even when she deserves the credit. Despite her friends' criticism, such as Amity's encouragement for her to take over as Grom Queen, Luz dismisses it as insignificant.
• I Am a Monster: Luz projects her failures onto a character who was tricked by a villain in "Thanks to Them". She believes she betrayed her friends and loved ones due to Philip's trick. Luz admits to Belos that she aided in his plans, revealing her intention to stay in the Human Realm forever to protect them. Her worst nightmare is being seen as the same as Belos; she is crushed when she assumes herself to be just as bad.
• I Choose to Stay:
  • Eda originally intended to keep her promise to send Luz back home, but the young teen decided to stay and learn magic from the witch (though she has every intention of returning home to her mother at the end of the summer). Later, Luz destroys the Earth portal to stop whatever Belos is planning, thus stranding herself in the Boiling Isles for time being.
  • Played for Drama in "Yesterday's Lie" when her mom forces her to promise to remain on Earth once she has a way back. Luz instantly regrets it and becomes very conflicted as she actually wants to remain with her friends on the Isles with the only real reason she even considered going home being to see her mother again.
  • Inverted for drama in "Thanks to Them". Suffering immense guilt and blaming herself for helping Belos find the Collector and enabling his genocide of the Boiling Isles, she decides that it's better for everyone if she stays in the human realm. She gets persuaded otherwise (at least for now) by everyone, including Camila, who now knows that Luz electing to stay behind against her own nature is a massive red flag indicating Luz's deteriorating mental health.
  • "For the Future" continues on from this with Luz explicitly telling Camila that she hasn't changed her mind about not remaining in the Demon Realm, seeing herself as far too much of a bad influence on its people. That said, the end of the episode sees Luz taking a substantial step towards recovering from her guilt over the Day of Unity with her finally feeling understood by her mother and her Palisman awakening, leaving whether or not that is still true up in the air.
  • In the end, she zigzags this before ultimately playing it straight for the most part, though she still visits the Boiling Isles to help rebuild and spend time with her friends she does decide to stick around Earth long enough to graduate high school before heading back to the Demon Realm full time to go to college, with it clear that she will still keep at least some of her ties to Earth, namely to keep in touch with her mom and adopted sister through the new portal door.
• Idiot Hero: Downplayed. Luz isn't stupid so much as careless and flaky. Even so, she saves the day in about every episode, culminating in her successfully ending the Day of Unity.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Luz's true desire is to be understood and accepted for who she is, rather than aspiring to become a witch. Her mother Camila encourages her to embrace her nerdy side, which brings joy and realization that ultimately leads to her Palisman's materialization.
• I Just Want to Be Special: She's all too eager to become Eda's apprentice. In "Witches Before Wizards", she entertains the idea that she is the only human to reach the Boiling Isles for some special reason. This allows Adegast to trick her into thinking she's The Chosen One and going on a "quest" that turns out to be a trap to lure Eda to him.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Due to her Friendless Background, Luz is determined to keep the friendships she has with the people she's met in the Boiling Isles. This is one of the biggest reasons she chose to stay.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Word of God says that she learned to draw by tracing over manga by Hiromu Arakawa, explaining why she's so skilled at making the perfect circles needed for her Glyphs to work.
• An Ice Person: The second spell Luz acquires creates pillars/stalagmites of ice. She learns it after seeing the glyph in a snowflake. In "Reaching Out", Luz demonstrates a variation of this as she uses a Glyph Combo to generate snow to defeat a mutated Warden Wrath.
• Instant Runes: In "Watching and Dreaming", when Luz Came Back Strong due to the Titan giving her his remaining life energy, she's surrounded by glyphs and can form them in the air at will.
• In-Universe Catharsis: "For the Future" shows Luz's journey with Camila, who loves and understands her. Camila reassures her that it's okay to fail, despite Camila's fear of her own hardships. This reaffirmation prompts Luz to Tears of Joy, allowing her to realize her desire for understanding from her mother.
• Incoming Ham: Luz has an Establishing Character Moment by giving a dramatic retelling of her favorite fantasy novel, defeating a monster epically. She becomes tamer in later episodes, rescuing Amity from Otabin in "Lost in Language" and hunting bounties in "Separate Tides".
• The Ingenue: She is a kindhearted, empathetic, innocent and optimistic girl who is prone to bouts of naivete and childishness. This is in sharp contrast to the world she finds herself in, though because Luz is so pure and good natured she slowly starts to morph the world around her into a better and more hopeful place.
• Ink-Suit Actor: She bears more than a passing resemblance to a younger version of her voice actor, Sarah Nicole Robles, especially after Luz allows her hair to grow back into its naturally curly state.
• Insecure Love Interest: In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", she is determined to make sure Amity thinks that she's cool, since back home people considered her cheesy. Unfortunately, her embarrassed reaction to Hooty's well-meaning Tunnel of Love nearly convinces Amity that she doesn't think that they would be good together before they manage to straighten things out.
• Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: Luz is consistently shown to have very little self-confidence and has a very bad habit of taking responsibility for events out of her control even when her direct actions make everyone's lives better. Her archenemy Belos is completely ironclad in his belief that he is doing the right thing by committing genocide against the Isles in spite of how wrong his view of the Isles is.
• Insistent Appellation: She refuses to refer to Arch-Enemy Emperor Belos as Philip Whittebane, citing his hatred and disgust; her determination to never be manipulated by him, even correcting herself when she slips up.
• Interspecies Romance: She eventually falls in love with and starts dating Amity, a member of the local Mage Species.
• Invisibility: In the episode "Echoes Of The Past", she creates a glyph combo arrangement that allows her to turn herself invisible, as long as she holds her breath.
• Irony: Luz, a Spanish name meaning "light", is associated with light; her first spell is the Light Glyph. Her Eldritch Transformation Titan Form is a dark, demonic version of The Good Witch Azura, with horns, claws, and a Cute Little Fang.
• It Was a Gift: "Thanks to Them" reveals that part of the reason that she loves the Good Witch Azura books so much is because her father gave the first book to her shortly before he died.
• It's All My Fault:
  • Luz blames herself for Eda getting captured in "Agony of a Witch". Her speech in "Young Blood, Old Souls" just before she goes off to rescue Eda puts the blame solely on her own shoulders in spite of the situation being the fault of Lilith for using Luz as bait to get to Eda, and Emperor Belos for demanding Eda's capture on pain of banishment and implied death for Lilith.
  • In "Separate Tides", Luz makes it clear that she feels solely responsible for Eda (as well as Lilith) losing all of her magic. As such she insists on pushing herself beyond her limits to make up for her "mistake" without help from others, as she feels that she doesn't deserve it.
  • Luz becomes depressed after realizing her past involvement in Belos' rise, fearing that her loved ones will hate her. She nearly stays in the Human Realm, not considering Lilith's potential role in the situation.
• It's Personal: Both of her most prominent fights with her nemesis Emperor Belos are extremely personal matters for Luz.
  • In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Luz's hatred for Belos grows after Lilith helps her free Eda from public execution. She maintains ire for Belos even after petrifying Eda, leading to Luz destroying the Portal Door and sharing a mutual Death Glare.
  • In "King's Tide", Luz confronts Belos to stop the Final Solution Draining Spell, feeling personally responsible for Belos's genocide. She was duped into helping secure a Stable Time Loop for Wittebane's rise to power and implement the Sigil System.
• Jack of All Trades: The main plot point of "The First Day" is that Luz wants to study all the magic Hexside has to offer, but the rules say a witch can only study one. Luckily after saving the school and talking with Bump, Luz is able to convince him to allow her to be the first student to study all nine disciplines.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: Luz starts off as a positive Genki Girl who dreams of learning magic in the Boiling Isles. However, her happiness and joy are broken down by traumas. Despite this, her friends, girlfriend, and mother's love and acceptance help her forgive herself and awaken her Palisman, promoting healing.
• Jerkass Realization: In "Yesterday's Lie", Luz realizes that she hurt her mother by revealing herself as a runaway, blaming herself for the situation. This leads to her Rash Promise, vowing to stay in the Human Realm unless she finds another way back home, despite her miserable situation in the Demon Realm.
• Jumped at the Call: Luz is very excited to be in the Boiling Isles, to the point of not leaving when given a chance to by Eda on multiple different occasions. This is due to the prospect of being able to learn magic as subsequent episodes show her to be incredibly zealously devoted to learning how to be a Witch.
• Junior Counterpart: To Caleb Wittebane. Both of them are humans who showed love for both the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles and the magic that they used. He also shared her artistic talent (woodcarving in his case) and even fell love with a witch much like she did with Amity. She even begins wearing a similar outfit and hairstyle to him by the time of "Clouds on the Horizon".
• Just a Kid: Eda attempts to send her away from Emperor Belos and his plans in "Edge of the World", and "O Titan, Where Art Thou" using this logic, due to her own fears over Luz's safety. Luz herself gets extremely upset by this act due to her own guilt over accidentally helping Belos with his plans, and her drive to make up for this by stopping him.
• Karmic Jackpot: Double Subverted. Luz, a "weird" girl, lives in the Human Realm and faces ridicule from her peers. She escapes Summer Camp and finds happiness on the Boiling Isles, where she learns magic and finds a family. However, she gets trapped in the Human Realm and inadvertently helps cause the Day of Unity. Returning to the Demon Realm, she embraces her weird habits and is brought back to life by the Titan, using her kindness to defeat Belos.
• Keeping Secrets Sucks: Luz is reluctant to share personal secrets, such as her Rash Promise, her father's death anniversary, and her helping Belos meet The Collector, despite her best efforts to hide them. She fears revealing these secrets to her friends, despite the emotional strain.
• Kid Hero: The 14-year-old main protagonist.
• Kiddie Kid: Luz is a young teen of high school age with the wonderment and rowdiness of a child at least in their elementary years. She plays with dolls and action figures at her current age too. Justified, as her fixation on fantasies is attributed to years of social isolation, societal pressure, and grief following her father's death at a young age.
• The Klutz: Luz has a tendency to trip or lose her balance at times.
• Knight in Sour Armor: In "Thanks to Them", Luz's positivity is shattered by her guilt over the Day of Unity, as she indirectly allowed it to happen. Despite being tricked into helping Belos, Luz remains courageous and heroic, attempting to combat Belos when Hunter discovers he's in the Human Realm.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Luz is excited to meet an actual Witch in Eda and wears "Witchy Clothes" for her training, mistaking a bathrobe and dirty traffic cone for a traditional Witch Garb.
• Large Ham: As a fantasy geek who's finally living her dream, Luz can act quite over-the-top and dramatic when she feels like, which is most of the time. Her boundless energy and excitement for the new world around her frequently causes her to gush about the wonder of her new surroundings.
• Lazy Alias: In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", she uses her self-name, Luzura, to disguise herself as a heroine in her favorite book. This leads to Philip Wittebane, the modern-day Emperor Belos, remembering her and arranging matters to maintain the Stable Time Loop. Belos uses this to break her.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Luz is known for her recklessness in dangerous situations, such as challenging Amity in "Covention", playing grudgby with Boscha, and convincing Gus to cast an Illusion to make her look like Hunter Xanatos Speed Chess in "Clouds on the Horizon". Despite her previous fight with the Emperor, she survived due to his support.
• Light 'em Up: The first spell she learns creates floating orbs of light. It can also create blinding flashes of light if the circle is big enough, or concussive beams of light if she slaps two Light Glyphs together at once.
• Light Is Good: Her name literally means "light" in Spanish and Portuguese and she's a friendly, loyal, and nurturing person. Her family name, "Noceda", means "of the night" and adds a Dark Is Not Evil element. She wears bright colors and uses a Light Glyph spell.
• Like a Daughter to Me: Eda eventually comes to treat Luz as if she was her own child, even referring to her as "my kid" on a few occasions, this is mutual as Luz does quickly come to consider Eda to be a second mom. As a consequence the two become extremely protective of one another, and when Luz is separated from Eda in "King's Tide" due to getting sent into the Human Realm, she does not take it well.
• Like a Duck Takes to Water: While there are some bumps due to Luz being Wrong Genre Savvy about the way the world works, Luz quickly adapts to life in the Boiling Isles and even manages to rediscover a form of magic that she can use.
• Like Brother and Sister:
  • Luz and King share a dynamic, participating in Boiling Isles activities and offering comfort. They adopt King, resembling Luz's relationship with the witch. King refers to her as his older sister; separation is emotionally distressing for Luz.
  • Luz and Hunter initially have a hostile dynamic but gradually develop a relationship similar to Luz's with King, relying on each other to keep secrets and referring to Hunter as part of her family.
• Like Parent, Like Child:
  • Both of Luz's parents seem to have been just as nerdy as she is, though her parents are into sci-fi while Luz seems to have a lot of genres she's into but the fantasy genre is her favorite. A label on a box in Camila's closet of Cosmic Frontier merch implies that Camila and Manny even cosplayed like Luz does.
  • "Yesterday's Lie" reveals that Luz got her love of cute little critters and kindness and compassion from Camila.
  • "Thanks To Them" implies that Luz takes more after her father. For example, during her Romeo and Juliet auditions, Camila chuckles that Luz using real sausage links for Juliet's entrails was something her father taught her. That, coupled with her father giving her the Azura book just before he passed away since he knew she'd love it, implies they were more alike than not.
  • "For The Future" has even more similarities between Luz and Camila, evidenced by their first day in the Boiling Isles, from flying for the first time to their word-for-word reaction to King.
  • A darker example of this is Camila's reasoning for trying to encourage Luz to "act normal", due to Camila's (not entirely unfounded) fear that by embracing who she is, Luz will be just as socially ostracized as Camila herself was when she was her daughter's age.
• Like Parent, Unlike Child: Luz and Eda are happy with their arrangement but have distinct personalities. Luz is nerdy and dorky, while Eda is grounded and realistic. They share traits like lying and cheating, but they complement each other as Luz becomes more grounded and Eda becomes more dedicated.
• Limited Wardrobe: Luz's outfits are limited to her arrival in the Boiling Isles and her standard Hexside uniform, with occasional accessories like a witches' wool cape and Eda's old jacket.
• Little Bit Beastly: The form she takes after being given the Titan's power in "Watching and Dream" includes a fang, claws and horns, yet still has a lot of her human traits included.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Luz has three major examples in the third season.
  • Luz's girlfriend, Amity, comforts her during her lowest point, helping her decode the Rebus and suggest costumes for Halloween. Luz smiles brightly during their time together; Amity's advice helps her bond with Ghost, ultimately helping her awaken her Palisman in "For the Future".
  • Luz's eccentricity in school was a way for her mother to be impressed. In "For the Future", Luz admits to forgetting her "Astral Oath" to protect her family. Camila assures her she doesn't have to surprise her, leading to her understanding and the hatching of her Palisman.
  • Luz creates a Palisman Stringbean, symbolizing her failures as a Witch. The Palisman egg in "Clouds on the Horizon" symbolizes her trapped in the Human Realm. When the Stringbean awakens, Luz embraces her Palisman, embracing it with joy.
• Living Out a Childhood Dream: Luz's motivation to stay in the Boiling Isles stems from her father's death and her dream to become a Witch Classic. She becomes the only Human Witch, gains a loving Family of Choice, and becomes the hero of the Boiling Isles, wearing an Azura costume.
• Longing for Fictionland: Luz, a dissatisfied fantasy heroine, finds herself in the Boiling Isles, despite her love for the world. Her desire to be an idealized heroine is deconstructed, as her fragile self-esteem breaks and she struggles to meet impossible standards.
• Loon with a Heart of Gold: While Luz is rather flaky, impulsive, and eccentric, she is also very kindhearted and altruistic, putting her friends' needs before her own.

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• Magical Girl Warrior: Luz, Amity's Dark Magical Girl, is a kind, bright-skinned All-Loving Heroine with a strong moral compass. However, her kindness is exploited by villains, including Belos, who tricks her into helping him meet The Collector, setting the stage for his planned genocide.
• Magical Species Transformation: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz transforms into a Cute Monster Girl Human/Titan Hybrid capable of casting god-level spells and commanding Glyphs, allowing her to control them at any time.
• Magic Focus Object: In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Luz uses Owlbert's staff to cast magic and activate her Glyphs remotely. She also uses Flapjack's magical teleportation in "Thanks to Them" and Palisman Stringbean in "For the Future".
• Magic Staff: Luz borrows Owlbert from Eda for natural magic, enabling her to cast spells without Glyphs or activate them remotely. In "O Titan, Where Art Thou" and "Clouds on the Horizon", she creates her own Palisman, which awakens into a full staff.
• Magnetic Hero: Her kindness and irrepressible energy draw several characters to her, with Amity even becoming her girlfriend in season 2 despite their rough start. This is lampshaded in "O Titan, Where Art Thou" when she's worried that her future Palisman won't like her, with King saying that she's made friends of more enemies than he has claws on his paw.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The irony of being the only human among a society of witches and demons aside, she inadvertently livens up and ultimately improves Amity's life and leads to the young witch developing a crush on her.
• Martyr Without a Cause: Luz's tendency to make personal sacrifices for others' sake, even when it's unnecessary, is evident in Seasons 1 and Season 2. She recklessly puts herself in danger for her friends, including being captured by Kikimora to face Belos in "Clouds on the Horizon".
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Luz and Amity become this when they start dating in Season 2. The former is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak with Boyish Short Hair and an androgynous appearance. The latter is a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak who wears more feminine clothing such as skirts and dresses and a pink uniform.
• Master of All: Luz, a talented Magical Acuity, is taking every major at Eda's Wild Magic academy, demonstrating her proficiency in Oracle Magic and Potions, and maintaining good grades at Hexside despite her extensive Magic Track studies.
• Meaningful Name: Luz means "light" in Spanish. She learns to create light as her first spell. Her role as The Heart makes the Boiling Isles a sad, lonely place. Her last name translates to "The Light that never gives up." By the finale, she's become the Boiling Isles' own Messianic Archetype.
• Messianic Archetype: Luz is a devoted All-Loving Hero who redeems the Boiling Isles and speaks truth to Emperor Belos. Despite being briefly killed, she defeats Belos and serves as the Titan's emissary.
• Mirror Character:
  • Throughout the first season, Luz starts finding a great deal of common ground with Amity, with the two bonding over things like their love of Azura, Magic, and their desire to be the best Witch they can possibly be. This understanding of similarities ultimately leads to Amity falling in love with Luz in Season 1, with Luz returning her feelings and the two becoming girlfriends in Season 2.
  • Luz and Hunter find themselves bonding in "Hunting Palismen" over their shared interest in Wild Magic, and their lack of natural magic. A darker example occurs between the two in "Thanks to Them" due to the revelations that occured in "Hollow Mind", chiefly how Luz aided Philip, and how Hunter is a Grimwalker.
  • The show uses parallels between Luz and Emperor Belos, both humans with wish-fulfillment fantasies. Both are intelligent but struggle to fit into human environments, learn magic, and seek a way back. Luz's character arc emphasizes self-choice, while Belos avoids this realization, focusing on his valiant witch-hunter fantasy.
  • Luz and The Collector are both influenced by their shared traits of fantasy and friendship and form a deep connection despite feeling isolated and misunderstood.
• Mirror Monster: A rare heroic and completely human example. In "Yesterday's Lie", she accesses a Void Between the Worlds where she can see (and be seen by) both Earth and the Demon Realm, but only through reflective surfaces. The rest of the episode, she essentially becomes a benevolent mirror monster to Vee and Camila (though Camila thinks it's just the phone).
• Mistaken Identity: A minor example, in that it's not her identity that's mistaken, but her species. In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", she hides her ears for the entire time she spends in the past, meaning that Philip thinks she's a witch the entire time, even referring to her derogatorily as a Witch at several points. "Hollow Mind" reveals as Emperor Belos, he figured out her identity as a human from present day, though he still uses her past alias to taunt her by showing that he perfectly recalls every detail and just how much Luz helped him.
• Morality Pet: She rapidly becomes this to Eda, King, and Amity, bringing out the best in all three of them simply because she is around.
• Muggle in Mage Custody: She is apprenticed to the Witch Eda in return for helping her learn magic. Ironically enough, in Season 2 onwards Luz is more of a Mage than her caretaker due to Eda losing all of her magic, to the point that Luz becomes Eda's teacher in Glyph Magic.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: In season 1, Amity falls in love with Luz, who returns and starts dating. Luz becomes proficient in Glyph Magic, making them equal in magical abilities.
• Muggle with a Degree in Magic: Played With. Luz is a human who can cast spells using Geometric Magic Glyphs, unlike Witches who draw from internal supplies. She can activate Glyphs with a staff or independently.
• Murder by Inaction: After Belos's final defeat, and despite the former's attempts to manipulate and guilt-trip her into sparing him, Luz is quite content with the idea of letting him die from the boiling rain. Even when Eda, King, and Raine decide to stomp him to death until he's nothing but dead goo out of self-satisfying payback, she doesn't intervene and just stares at him with contempt.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Luz is a skinny teenage girl who gains strength to effortlessly carry Amity by the end of Season 1. In Season 2, despite being weakened, she escapes her room when Echo Mouse reveals a diary entry about Eclipse Lake, impressing Gus with her strength.
• Must Make Amends: Luz's goal of saving the Boiling Isles from Emperor Belos and the Collector's cosmic power is fueled by her involvement in a Stable Time Loop. She expresses anger over failed plans and struggles to fix mistakes, leading her to avoid returning to the Boiling Isles to avoid further damage.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • When Camila voices how much Luz running away from home hurt her in "Yesterday's Lie", Luz is utterly horrified that she hurt her beloved mother in such a way, and she immediately promises Camila that when she manages to find a way back to the Human Realm, she is going to stay there, even if it means leaving behind her new friends, found family and her girlfriend.
  • Luz discovers that she helped Philip Wittebane rise to power as Emperor Belos and create the Day of Unity. She is devastated, stating that Philip and Belos cannot be the same due to their trauma.
• My Greatest Failure: Luz's Guilt Complex causes her to take any perceived major shortcoming on her behalf as a grievous personal failure, especially if the event in question had a negative effect on her loved ones.
  • In "Separate Tides", Luz is struck with significant guilt over her belief that she is the reason Eda lost her magic and now has to perform menial tasks just to get food on the table.
  • Luz being tricked into helping Philip Wittebane meet The Collector, as well as teaching him the Light Glyph, which allowed him to become Belos and plan out the Day of Unity becomes this after "Hollow Mind".
  • Failing to protect King, and Eda in "King's Tide" as well as the rest of the Hexsquad getting trapped in the Human Realm becomes a third, as seen in "Thanks to Them".
• Mythical Motifs:
  • Witches. She is a massive fan of them because of the Azura book and initially her main goal in the Boiling Isles is to become a real one. As the series progresses she slowly turns into a Cute Witch, and throughout Season 3 she wears a witch costume, which even influences her Titan form with a witch hat and longcoat.
  • Demons as well. Luz is big fan of them in general and gets along with the non evil ones. Angels might also count since traits of both are in her Titan form, having horns, claws, a darker color scheme, but also uses Light Glyphs, and a glowing orb above Luz that acts like a halo.
  • In-Universe, she is associated with the titans. King, one of her closes companions/little brother is in fact one and the Boiling Isles Titan himself is rather fond of her. It became even more prominent in her Titan form, having many traits of the titans themselves.
• Naïve Newcomer: Being an ordinary human girl who only recently decided to stay at the Boiling Isles, she is new to both magic and the dangers of the isles, and is often Wrong Genre Savvy. Additionally, her extremely positive outlook on other people can frequently result in others taking advantage of her kindness, with several members of the Emperor's Coven exploiting her desire to help to hurt her or those she loves.
• Nervous Tics: She has a tendency to wrap her arm around her stomach when she gets really nervous, seen most prominently when she and Amity become a couple in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door".
• Nice Girl: Luz is weird but is also very kind, a quality that especially stands out when she's placed between Eda and King. This kindness extends to just about everyone she meets, including plenty of her perceived enemies such as Amity and Hunter. She's even willing to assist and bond with Vee, the basilisk who technically stole her life in the Human Realm even if Luz had left a vacancy due to taking pity on the Vee's plight.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The nice (kind, caring, and compassionate) to King's mean (the most arrogant and violent loving) and Eda's in-between (not a Nice Girl like Luz but is also less obnoxious than King). While both King and Eda mellow out over the courses of Seasons 1 and 2, Luz still stands head and shoulders above them in terms of sheer good natured kindness.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Luz, fascinated by fantasy and macabre, quickly adapts to the Boiling Isles, defending their beauty and positive aspects. She also highlights her mother's love for the place.
• No One Gets Left Behind: She's a strong believer in this.
  • When King and Eda try to force her to leave them in the first episode, she turns around and saves them.
  • Knowing she can't defeat Principal Bump when Willow gets Luz out of the school in "I Was A Teenage Abomination", she goes to Eda for help, and is relieved that Willow wasn't punished.
  • In ""Covention", despite Amity having been nothing but antagonistic toward her, Luz doesn't just let her run off while clearly emotionally distraught, choosing instead to seek her out and comfort her. She does so again in "Lost in Language", although this time Amity hadn't wronged her beforehand.
  • In "Something Ventured, Someone Framed", she and Gus both agree to this sentiment as the reason for rescuing Mattholomule from detention in spite of what a jerk he is.
  • In "Hunting Palismen", she chooses to help the wounded Golden Guard instead of leaving him to be killed by Kikimora, despite him being her enemy.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Luz is a kind, loving, and heroic character who uses ambushes, manipulative deception, and deals to defeat her enemies, particularly Belos. She uses this strategy against Belos in the Grand inale, where she melts him with the Boiling Rain, while Philip attempts to manipulate Luz.
• No Sense of Personal Space: In "Wing It Like Witches"; when Amity finishes her story of what led her to quit the Grudgby team, she realizes that Luz's face is right next to hers, causing her to leap back in surprise. hypocritically, Luz has an issue with people getting into her personal space, like what Hooty did in the start of the second episode.
• No Social Skills: Played for Drama. Luz's poor social conduct has impacted her ability to make friends, leading to fear of being mocked by Amity. Her father's death worsened her situation, causing her to act out and misbehave. Her desire for any has led to overly creative displays.
• Not Quite Dead: Zig-zagged. In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz actually dies from Belos' attack, but the Titan resurrects her with his power, stopping Belos and making her stronger to win the day.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Played With.
  • In "For the Future", Luz's mother, Camila, reveals that she and Luz share similarities, including making mistakes and encouraging Luz to embrace her nerdiness. Camila also admits to being a massive nerd, much to Luz's delight.
  • Luz suffers from a severe anxiety that she and Emperor Belos are just as bad. Her worst nightmare is that her and Belos are, deep down, the same and that she is just as selfish and destructive as he is. It takes a talk from the disembodied spirit of a dying god to finally make her snap out of it.
    Luz: Belos says he's trying to save humanity, and we're saying we want to save our family. So... isn't that the same thing? Don't these feelings come from the same place?
    The Titan: You assume Belos' goal comes from a genuine place, but that man doesn't care about anything but his need to be the hero in his own delusion. And because of that, he fears what he can't control.
• Not So Similar:
  • In "Lost in Language", Edric and Emira clearly see a kindred spirit in Luz, but the similarities between them end when it comes to compassion and empathy toward other people, which Luz has in abundance while they... don't.
  • In "King's Tide", she rejects Philip's insistence that they don't belong in the Boiling Isles, stating that despite having similar traits (humans trapped in the Boiling Isles, mastery of glyphs, and living out their childhood dreams), she is not like him at all.
  • The Titan lampshades how different Luz and Belos are in "Watching and Dreaming". As Luz is lamenting how she still sees herself as being just as bad as Philip was due to both of them doing what they thought to be right, the Titan spells out how everything Belos does is meant to help him live out his delusional hero complex, whereas everything that Luz does is meant to genuinely help people.
    The Titan: You assume Belos' goal comes from a genuine place, but that man doesn't care about anything but his need to be the hero in his own delusion.
• Obviously Not Fine: In "Reaching Out", Luz attempts to pretend that the anniversary of her father's passing isn't bothering her. Keyword being attempts as she continuously looks for things to distract herself and is visibly stressed out, much more so than she is normally.
• Oblivious to Love:
  • Throughout season 1, Luz is completely unaware of Amity's developing feelings for her. It becomes especially visible in "Wing It Like Witches" where Amity is constantly reduced to a babbling wreck by Luz's presence, but Luz never seems to notice. According to Dana during a Reddit AMA, it's due to Luz being too worried about Eda's curse to focus on romance, as well as Luz just being a bit dense in general.
  • Subverted in the first half of Season Two. Amity rescues Luz, hinting at a crush. Luz shares feelings with Amity, leading to a kiss; they become official couple girlfriends.
• Odd Friendship: Luz, one of the only two Humans on the Boiling Isles, forms close friendships with wanted criminals Eda and King, who are known for their arrogance and connections to the totalitarian dictatorship. By contrast, Luz is a cheerful, optimistic, kind-hearted character.
• Official Couple: She and Amity start dating after the two end up asking each other out at the end of "Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Hooty's Door".
• Only Mostly Dead: After being blasted by Belos and sent to the In-Between, when Luz asks the Titan if she's dead like he is, he notably doesn't answer, only saying that she will be if she sinks into the In-Between's waters without a portal. The implication is that some part of Luz was still technically alive before the Titan fully restored her.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Luz is a friendly, kind-hearted Nice Girl, which makes her rage and desire for revenge against Lilith in "Young Blood, Old Souls" stand out, especially given how where she is normally willing to hear out anyone when they attempt to talk to her, Luz dismisses Lilith attempting to inform her of her Heel–Face Turn by attacking her.
  • Luz holds Eda in reverence, as she becomes her mentor and adoptive mother. Her anger towards her being sent away from the Day of Unity in "O Titan, Where art Thou" is fueled by guilt over aiding Philip.
• Opposites Attract: Luz is a bubbly, energetic, and naive human newcomer, whereas Amity is a somewhat dour, composed, and taciturn Witch ace student. These differences actually only serve to make their love for each other even stronger, as their respective strengths complement their respective weaknesses. Amity brings Luz stability to her life, while Luz encourages Amity to buck the system.
• Ordinary High-School Student: She used to be a weird but otherwise normal 14-year-old girl before stumbling upon the Demon Realm, afterwards, while she still has elements of being a normal high school student, she is also adding elements of the supernatural due to her beginning to learn magic.
• Otaku: She makes AMVs, considers shipping to be Serious Business, and has her own Azura self-insert OC. It was also mentioned in a Reddit AMA that she's a fan of series like Hunter × Hunter, Your Name, and Children of the Sea. Finally, Word of God says that she's really good at tracing magical glyphs because she traced transmutation circles from Fullmetal Alchemist.invoked
• Our Angels Are Different: In the Final Battle, Luz is killed by a Titan-powered Belos. She ascends to the In-Between Realm and meets the Titan, who offers to bring her back to life. Luz becomes a Human/Titan hybrid, transforming into an Angel. She descends from heaven to save Eda, King, and the Collector from Belos, surrounded by Titan Magic.
• Our Mages Are Different: Luz discovers a unique way of doing magic in the Demon Realm through Glyph Magic. She discovers spell circles contain runic pictoglyphs, allowing anyone to cast a spell on objects. This works because the Boiling Isles fuel spells, unlike Earth, where the same thing renders the object inert.
• Pals with Jesus: In "Edge of the World", it's revealed that King (who she has a sibling-like relationship with) is actually an infant Titan. This turns out to be a vital plot point in "Watching and Dreaming" when it's revealed that the reason the Titan revealed the secrets of Glyphs to her (and why he grants her the power to defeat Belos once and for all) was because of the kindness she had shown his son.
• Paper Talisman: Since Luz must draw all her Glyphs on some kind of medium before she can active their magic, she has made a stockpile of these which she carries on her person. Overlaps with Cards of Power as she does hold them in a fan formation when in combat.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", she disguises herself as a Coven Scout with a helmet but is recognized by future Emperor Belos. In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", she successfully disguises herself due to common Day of Unity preparations.
• The Paragon: Despite her low self-perception, Luz is a shining example of the best in the Boiling Isles. She brings hope, goodwill, and kindness to others, even enemies. Her inherent goodness molds the population, guiding the Isles back to its past state before Emperor Belos' reign.
• Patchwork Kids: Luz looks like a younger version of her mother (to the point that a random Hexside student can be heard wondering who "tall Luz" is when seeing Camila for the first time), but with a lighter skin tone and different hair and eye color that came from her father. The resemblance to her father is more obvious when Luz pushes her bangs back.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Luz, despite lacking physical strength, excels in Glyph Magic, destroying foes with powerful spells. In "For the Future", she uses a Palisman Stringbean to cast a Wave-Motion Gun, and in "Watching and Dreaming", she gains the Titan's power, rivaling only the Collector in power.
• Personality Powers: Luz discovers the Light Glyph, a powerful reagent for illuminating the darkness and powering Glyph Combos. A bright, optimistic teenager, she uses magic to improve the world and build relationships. Her name, meaning "light", begins with her use of the Light Glyph to illuminate Amity.
• Personality Swap: Played with in regards to her dynamic with her girlfriend Amity. The series begins with Luz, a bright and optimistic character, dreaming of becoming like her fictional hero, The Good Witch Azura. Amity, a bitter and miserable character, mellows over Seasons 1 and 2, dropping her distant Alpha Bitch mentality. However, Luz's optimism is crushed by her experiences, leading to a bitter and depressed character in "Thanks to Them". Luz undergoes a healing experience in "For the Future".
• Phenotype Stereotype: Luz is specified as being of Afro-Latino descent and is shown as having darker skin than her Caucasian classmates back on Earth. Her real life inspiration, Luz Batista, has a similar complexion.
• Physical God: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz gains the Titan's remaining powers, becoming one of the most powerful beings in the series. She effortlessly casts spells, battles Belos' corruption, and maintains Eda and King's safety, even dominating Belos after assimilating the Titan's corpse.
• Playing with Fire: In "Wing It Like Witches" she learns a fire spell from a glyph shaped scorch mark. She can even detonate them from a distance using Owlbert's staff.
• Plucky Girl: A feisty girl who is confident in herself and refuses to give up, in particular undertaking the challenge of learning magic despite Humans having no natural ability to use magic. Her drive, passion and determination ultimately result in Luz discovering an entire branch of lost Wild Magic that is nearly exclusive to her and allows her to cast spells like Witches and Demons without the need for a Bile Sac.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: Luz has been an avid fantasy geek ever since the death of her father, and it's a trait that never really goes away even as she grows into a capable witch over the course of the series. This reaches its apex when she uses a Good Witch Azura quote as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner during the final battle while imbued with godlike power.
• Positive Friend Influence:
  • Luz significantly influenced the lives and personalities of those she interacted with, fostering responsibility, self-confidence, and reconciliation between Eda, Willow, and Amity, ultimately leading to Amity falling in love with Luz.
  • This gets tragically Played for Drama in regards to Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos. Luz teaches Belos how to unlock the Glyph magic system, making him the strongest magical being on the Isles. Belos uses this power to enact plans for total genocide on the Day of Unity. Luz is guilt-ridden for enabling Belos' harm.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: When Amity gives her a peck on the cheek in "Through The Looking Glass Ruins", she just silently stands there for a minute before slumping to her knees.
• Poster-Gallery Bedroom: In "Thanks to Them" it's shown that over the years Luz has had a significant number of posters up in her bedroom depicting various fictional media that she is interested in. The Good Witch Azura is obviously the most prominent amongst them, however she also has had posters for Spirit Devourer and Domicile Sinister 4. Interestingly, this devotion to fictional media can only really be seen after Manny's death due to Azura getting her hooked on fiction as a coping mechanism.
• Power Limiter: Luz is a human who lacks a sac of magical bile like the Boiling Isles, so she uses Glyph Magic instead. However, in the Human Realm, she can cast Glyphs using Titan's Blood, which powers the Background Magic Field.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: When Luz is resurrected by the Titan, he imbues her with all of his power, resulting in Luz undergoing a transformation into a Half Titan Witch. This transformation includes Luz's hair becoming even curlier and growing to the point that it rivals Eda's mane in terms of sheer size, both in length and in volume. Notably, when Luz transforms back after she defeats Belos', her hair returns to it's normal length.
• Psychological Projection: A Nice Girl with insecurities, she tends to assume that the people she interacts with are the same as her on some level even when they aren't.
  • In Season 2, Luz assumes that fellow Boiling Isles-exploring human Philip Wittebane wants to return to the Human Realm. However, she later discovers he's a more malevolent person than Luz. Despite his atrocities, Luz still believes his desire to protect humanity is genuine, despite Belos's apparent extroversion.
  • In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", she's clearly projecting her own worries over being caught between the Boiling Isles and her mother back on Earth onto Kiki's situation with her own family, hoping that if she can help the demon she'll be able to prove that she can make it work.
  • In "Thanks to Them", Luz compares a Hero's Journey man's actions to her own time in the Boiling Isles, arguing that his actions caused suffering. However, the teacher argues that the man's journey was difficult but ultimately happy.
• Punny Name: Luz, a social outcast with a name that sounds like "lose", is a Determinator who experiences bad things in class and is sent to summer camp. Despite learning magic in the Boiling Isles, she accidentally gets stuck in a Stable Time Loop, assisting a genocidal psychopath.
• Purple Is Powerful: Luz is the Un-Sorcerer who is a gifted student of magic, showcasing her purple Color Motif in her clothing and accessories. She saves Eda from being petrified in Season 1, and in "For the Future", she uses a powerful Wave-Motion Gun to disintegrate objects. Luz's Palisman, Stringbean, also features a purple color scheme.
• Queer Colors: She's canonically bisexual, and this neon promo poster for "Enchanting Grom Fright" depicts her with pink, purple, and blue colors, which are the colors of the bisexual pride flag. Later in "Eclipse Lake", she spends the entire episode in her purple-toned pajamas and wearing pink and blue socks on her hands. Also as part of her appearance in Season 3 she has a bisexual pride colors badge on her beanie.
• Queer Establishing Moment: Luz is revealed to be bisexual in "Lost in Language" after Emira winks and calls her "cutie", causing her to blush (her attraction to men had already been established in "Witches Before Wizards" when she spent most of the episode fawning over Nevareth).
• Quirky Curls: Luz's naturally curly hair grows out between "King's Tide" and "Thanks to Them", reflecting her acceptance of her quirky self. This growth is a sign of her shame and guilt over the Day of Unity events; "Thanks to Them" brings her to her lowest emotional point.
• Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux: "Enchanting Grom Fright" has Luz wearing a tuxedo with a tutu on it. She's also seen in the outfit in "Edge of the World", but that is only during King's Dream Sequence of meeting his father at the beginning of the episode.

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• Rage Against the Mentor: In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", Luz becomes emotionally distressed over her role in bringing about the Day of Unity. Overhearing Eda and Raine discussing sending her away, she gets into an argument with Eda, attempting to prove her strength.
• Rage Breaking Point: Luz and Eda fight over sending Luz away for protection during the Day of Unity. They are captured by the Emperor's Coven. Luz initially begs to be taken away but is seen in anger and ready to help Eda during the Day of Unity.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": In "Hollow Mind", Luz fires a shot after Belos reveals his identity as Philip Wittebane, whom she helped develop his powers by meeting in "Elsewhere and Elsewhere" and creating the eradication of life.
• Rash Promise: In "Yesterday's Lie", Luz promises Camila to return to the Human Realm if she gets a chance. However, when pulled back into the Demon Realm, she realizes the consequences, abandoning her friends and family. This is reflected in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", where Luz fears Amity will find out.
• The Red Mage: After convincing Principal Bump to study every magic track at Hexside, Luz focuses on offense and support with her Glyphs and Glyph Combos.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the excitable, impulsive red oni to Amity's reserved, studious blue. Interestingly their color schemes invert this, with Luz's default outfit being lavender and blue while Amity wears orchid or reddish magenta. This even extends to their first elemental spells, with Luz learning how to create ice columns in the same episode where Amity learns to conjure fireballs.
• Relationship Upgrade: "Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Hooty's Door" involves Hooty trying to be a Shipper on Deck by forcing Luz and Amity into a Tunnel of Love. Luz destroys the tunnel, leading to Hooty's breakdown. Eda convinces them to confess, forming an Official Couple.
• Rescue Romance: In "Escaping Expulsion", Luz develops feelings for Amity after Amity saves her from Abomaton 2.0, possibly due to Amity calling her "my Luz".
• Reunion Vow: "Yesterday's Lie" follows Luz's lie to her mother Camila, who promises her return to the Human Realm and stay with her. However, she must leave behind her friends, Her family, and her girlfriend Amity. She returns to Camila but without a return.
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Luz storms Emperor Belos' castle to save Eda from petrification, attacking Belos' guards and Lilith, ultimately saving her mentor and maternal figure.
• Robe and Wizard Hat:
  • Played for Laughs in "Witches before Wizards". Luz eagerly awaits her training under Eda, wearing "Witchy Clothes" including a bathrobe and a dust-covered traffic cone mistaken for a hat.
  • Played for Laughs again in "Lost in Language". Luz saves Amity from a mutated Otabin using Amity's Diary, giving her a robe styled like The Good Witch Azura, which lasts 30 seconds before Otabin dismisses it.
  • Played straight in "Thanks to Them". Luz wears a Azura Halloween costume with a Witch's Hat, used in battle against Belos-possessed Hunter and in Hexsquad's return to Demon Realm.
• Romantic Rain: "Thanks to Them" introduces Luz and Amity to the rain in the Human Realm, demonstrating its safety compared to the Boiling Isles' heat. They share a Twirl of Love and embrace in the rain.
• Rule of Symbolism: Luz hatches a Palisman, a snake-shifter Stringbean, with support from Camila, allowing her to freely transform into whatever she wants.
• The Runaway: Circus Type. Luz chooses to stay in the Boiling Isles, feeling unloved, but becomes torn between her old and new home after revealing her true identity in "Yesterday's Lie".
• Sad Clown: "Reaching Out" suggests that the cheerful and kind person's comedic attitude is a coping mechanism for her father's death, as she struggles to stand up after telling Amity about it.
• Save the Villain: She helps Kikimora in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" to prove her Conflicting Loyalty and convince her mother to allow her to stay in the Boiling Isles, despite being too nice to let the Golden Guard be assassinated.
• Scars Are Forever: She ends up getting a scar across her left eyebrow (offscreen) during her fight with Belos at the end of Season 2. She still has it months later in "Thanks to Them", and even around four years later in the Distant Finale without much sign of it fading.
• Seers: Luz demonstrates aptitude for Oracle magic at a school that doesn't rely on internal magic reserves. She uses crystal balls and tea leaves to see the future and explore the human realm, despite inconclusive results.
• Security Blanket: Luz's wearing of Eda's letterman jacket signifies her upcoming trauma, with the only episode not featuring it between "Reaching Out" and "For the Future" being the Breather Episode "Them's the Breaks, Kid".
• Self-Insert: In-Universe. She has an OC named "Luzura" that is just herself in Azura's hat and robe who first shows up in "Lost in Language" when Luz attempts to save Amity from Otabin.
• Self-Serving Memory: Inverted. As seen with her flashbacks with her mother's promise and the Collector she seems to have a tendency to remember emotionally painful events as even more brutal than they actually were out of guilt.
• Semi-Divine: Luz transforms into an Eldritch Transformation Human/Titan Hybrid with gargantuan magical power, exclusive magics, and a Holy Halo glowing orb. However, after defeating Belos, the essence of Papa Titan leaves her.
• Series Goal: Luz aspires to become a witch, return home, prevent Emperor Belos from using the Draining Spell on witches and demons, and be understood by her mother. Camila encourages her to embrace her nerdy tendencies.
• Shared Family Quirks: Luz and her mother Camila often laugh hollowly when nervous, attempting to dismiss distress as unimportant, especially when discussing a matter with someone close to them.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Amity has this reaction to Luz when she sees her all dressed up for Grom. While Luz is already fairly cute, she takes it up a notch with the tuxedo and tutu combo that she wears.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Luz is prominent member of the Hexsquad and is deeply affected by her trauma from accidentally aiding Philip/Belos in his rise to power and orchestrating the Day of Unity.
• Shipper on Deck: In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", Luz becomes a shipper for Eda and Raine, revealing her feelings for them. Luz plans to kidnap Raine for their reunion, excited to meet them in person.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Lilith's previous actions led to Luz's lack of interest in her talk, but she later offered her assistance in freeing Eda from her death sentence.
  • In "King's Tide", Luz rejects Belos' plea to return to the Human Realm, arguing that he cannot be considered Human due to centuries of atrocities. Belos ops to just kill Luz immediately.
  • In "Thanks to Them", Luz confronts Philip after exorcizing Hunter, accusing him of stabbing him in the back. She claims Hunter was the one who backstabbed Caleb first. Philip, unable to accept this, opens a portal to the Demon Realm to finish his genocide.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Luz transforms into a darker outfit, reflecting her depression and desire to return to the Demon Realm, while also wearing an Azura Halloween Costume to save the Boiling Isles.
• Simple, yet Awesome: Luz uses bile-sac magic to compete with native spellcasters, combining Glyphs to create new spells and showcase their potency compared to the lost art of Wild Magic.
• Simplified Spellcasting: She starts carrying slips of paper with pre-drawn Glyphs after enrolling at Hexside. Touch to activate or slap one on a target, and the spell's good to go.
• Smarter Than They Look: At first glance, she appears to be a frisky airhead with poor social skills, but she has actually proven herself to be quite intelligent. Not only is she an abstract thinker and planner, but she can also outsmart her enemies by evaluating their weaknesses.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Luz is a noble and caring individual willing to fight against the powerful Boiling Isles dictator for her mentor, Vee. She struggles with interacting with humans and is more comfortable with talking rats.
• Sophisticated as Hell: We get this from Luz towards the end of the first episode, a callback to the first words of the episode itself. It also doubles as a Badass Boast.
  Luz: Do not underestimate me, Warden Wrath. For I am Luz the Human, warrior of peace. NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!!!
• Spell Blade: Her glyphs can be used to grant elemental properties to weapons, as shown when she uses an ice glyph on a flail during her fight against Grom.
• Sphere of Power: Luz transforms Light Glyphs into golden spheres, illuminates surroundings with Titan power, and possesses Glyph Magic. Her powerful spells burst outward, enabling incredible speed transport.
• Stable Time Loop: In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", Luz accidentally creates a Time Pool in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" to travel back to the Deadwardian Era and meet Philip Wittebane. The Pool functions on the assumption that timeline changes have already occurred before being used. Belos later reveals that Luz's actions helped him achieve his goal.
• Stepford Smiler:
  • When Amity tells her she wishes Luz didn't cause her to do stupid things, Luz tries and fails to smile through how painful it was to hear.
  • In "Yesterday's Lie", she returns to Owl House crew, not revealing her mother's promise to stay on Earth, but later reveals the truth.
  • Implied in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Hooty's Door" and "Yesterday's Lie". Luz experiences fear of being mocked by Amity and second-hand fear of Vee impersonating her, despite her cheerful behavior indicating a coping mechanism.
  • This is painfully obvious throughout "Reaching Out". Luz's father passed away years ago, and despite claiming to have recovered, her troubled fetal position and broken tears make it difficult for her to visit his grave with her mother.
  • "Thanks to Them" has Luz being ashamed of her role in Belos' rise to power and depressed after unsuccessful attempts to return her loved ones to the Demon Realm. Fearing they'll hate her, she keeps her secret and plans not to join them.
• Super-Scream: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz gains Titan powers, enabling her to emit a super-powered shout, similar to her brother King. She loses this ability after Belos' death.
• Super Mode: Luz, revived from Titan's consciousness, gains a powerful Harpy form with black eyes, yellow sclera, horns, Cute Little Fangs, and armoured carapace, using Stringbean for magic.
• Super-Senses: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz is the only one who can see glyphs in nature. The Collector is surprised by her glyph magic abilities; the Titan shows her the glyphs due to her kindness and compassion.
• Superior Successor: Luz quickly found all four basic Glyphs in weeks, while Philip Wittebane took years to combine them after learning the light spell. Luz acknowledged her glyph magic gift, speculating the Isles were sabotaging him.
• Supporting Protagonist: Downplayed. Luz has been the main character since season 1, but it also primarily focuses on the conflict between Eda and Lilith. The season 1 finale resolves this conflict, allowing Luz to regain her protagonist role.
• Surpassed the Teacher: Of a sort. When Eda loses her magic due to an owl curse, Luz takes over teaching. Despite her skill, she rarely mistakes and surpasses her mentor, particularly in Final Battle, where she possesses Titan powers.
• Symbiotic Possession: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz is possessed by the last bit of the Titan's life force, which he uses to empower her to defeat Belos. That said, Luz is very much the one in the driver's seat.
• Take a Third Option: Belos gives Luz the choice of handing him the Portal Door to the Human Realm in exchange for the chance to save Eda, or refuse and get to watch Eda get petrified. Luz destroys Belos' Portal Door with Fire Glyphs, allowing her to rescue Eda and prevent her from being petrified.
• Take Me Instead: Played with since she doesn't give anyone a choice. Luz manipulates Gus' appearance to deceive Kikimora into capturing her instead, allowing her to protect Hunter from Belos and reach Eda faster.
• Taken for Granite: In "Them's the Breaks, Kid", Luz discovers the Glyph Combo for petrification, but initially avoids using it. In "King's Tide", she is petrified by Belos after rejecting his offer to return to the Human Realm. In "Watching and Dreaming", she suffers a more horrific version, crossing with Make Them Rot.
• Taking the Bullet: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz deflects a Collector blast with her Palismen Stringbean, but Belos' necrotic energy consumes her body, causing her death. The Titan's magic revives her.
• Taxidermy Is Creepy: Downplayed. Luz is a macabre enthusiast who creates a taxidermy griffin from pigeon and squirrel, surprising others with anatomically correct spider breath instead of the actual taxidermy.
• Tears of Joy: Luz begins to shed these whenever something especially happy and emotional takes place:
  • In "Understanding Willow", Luz can be seen brandishing these when Amity reconciles with the Inner Willow after showing the cause of her initially breaking off their friendship and admitting that she was too weak to be Willow's friend.
  • In "Eda's Requiem", Luz lampshades the trope thanks to Eda beginning to shed her own Tears of Joy after King formally solidifies the fact that he is now her adopted son, just before Luz herself joins in on the tears.
  • In "For the Future", Luz shares her life mistakes with her mother, Camila, who tries to suppress her energy and geeky tendencies. She tears when she admits her desire to be understood by her mother before her Palisman awakens.
• Technician vs. Performer: Luz is the performer to Amity's technician. Whereas Amity knows the technical ins and outs of spellwork, Luz prefers to figure it out and make it up as she goes.
• Teleportation: Luz discovers the Glyph Combo in Philip Wittebane's "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" but uses it herself in "For the Future" after studying its pattern. This complex teleportation allows her to warp to any imagined location.
• Tempting Fate: Luz really needs to learn that she should never give fate any ideas on how to screw her over.
  • In "Wing It Like Witches", Luz criticizes Boscha for consistently bullying herself, Willow, and Gus throughout the day, stating that she "literally" did so throughout the day.
  • Luz manages to escape a fight, sighing relief and stating the machine cannot transport her. Abomiton intervenes, praising Luz as a fool.
  • Luz, injured by Belos, realizes she's not staying with Eda and King, but the Titan's power brings her Back from the Dead, despite her frequent separations.
  • Luz's statement about a Boiling Isles Carnival is substantiated by events like "Agony of a Witch", "Yesterday's Lie", "Hollow Mind", and "King's Tide".
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: Luz is a tomboyish fantasy nerd with Boyish Short Hair and is an All-Loving Heroine. Amity is an Academic Alpha Bitch who picks on those who are less powerful than her. However, not only does Amity get better, but they end up together.
• Theme Music Powerup: Luz's Final Battle against Titan-powered Emperor Belos showcases her new Physical God tier power, causing a Curb-Stomp Battle against Belos and his infection of the Boiling Isles. Luz violently yanks Belos out of the Titan's Heart, purging his influence.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Luz initially dislikes the Boiling Isles for not being her envisioned "PG Fantasy World", but she learns magic and applies her knowledge to the setting. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", she asks her crush, Amity, who she describes as smart, cool, and classy.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Luz often displays a negative expression in various situations, such as returning to The Owl House after Eda's capture, exploring Belos' mind, and aiding in his genocide plan. This expression is evident in "Agony of a Witch", "Hollow Mind", and "Thanks to Them".
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: In "Watching and Dreaming", Luz admits wanting to kill Belos for revenge but fears violence. After being assured emotional mistakes happen, she decides to defeat Belos, allowing the Titan and angry witches to decide his fate.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: In "For The Future", Luz's mother expresses love for her quirks and helps her understand that mistakes are natural and part of growth. This results in her palisman egg hatching as an "Eureka!" Moment.
• Token Good Teammate: Luz is the only Nice Girl in the main trio compared to Eda and King. She is known for her kindness and optimism, transforming the Boiling Isles into a brighter and more comfortable place.
• Token Human: The only human residing in the Boiling Isles aside from Belos. Since humans can't use magic, she uses glyphs that she draws on paper sheets that activate by touch instead.
• Too Dumb to Live: Her careless curiosity and naïveté has gotten her nearly killed more than once, such as when she gets herself thrown in the Conformatorium. She also tends to trust the wrong people, including Philip Wittebane, who would later become Emperor Belos. Her survival is mostly linked to the support of her friends, family, and girlfriend.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • In the first season, Luz transforms from a weak nerd to a powerful human, using her glyphs to defeat Warden Wrath, subdue guards, and even threaten Kikimiora's death.
  • Luz, depowered in "Thanks to Them", uses her Glyphs in "For the Future", awakens her Palisman Stringbean, and fires a destructive Wave-Motion Gun from her new staff, though its capabilities are not yet fully explored.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness:
  • Luz recovers from a broken listless mess in "Thanks to Them" and "For the Future" after her mother teaches her it's okay to fail and be weird. Her Palisman, Stringbean, awakens; Luz accepts her mother's love and new Familiar.
  • In the Distant Finale, Luz returns to her initial positivity after defeating Belos and redeeming the Collector, bringing peace to the Boiling Isles and celebrating her "King-ceanara".
• Took a Level in Cynic:
  • Luz becomes cynical and depressive after indirectly contributing to Belos' rise to power and the Day of Unity, projecting her issues onto a book's hero, arguing his actions should have never happened.
  • In "For The Future", Luz's mother's initial compliments about the Demon Realm, despite her skepticism about its macabre aspects, lead Luz to believe that Camila is simply polite, despite her previous excitement for strange things.
• Took a Level in Smartass: Gradually becomes snarkier and more prone to deadpan one-liners over the course of the series, going along with her Trauma Conga Line and level in Cynic.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Luz is Tomboy to her girlfriend Amity's Girly Girl. Luz is an adventurous, boisterous macabre enthusiast with Boyish Short Hair and an androgynous appearance, while Amity has a smoother hairdo and fashionable attire.
• Tomboyish Baseball Cap: She sports a red baseball cap to match her rather tomboyish personality during the Time-Passes Montage in "Thanks to Them".
• Tomboyish Ponytail: After spending most of the show with Boyish Short Hair, the end of season 2 has her put her hair up in a small ponytail to go with her Costume Evolution.
• Tomboyish Voice: Downplayed. Luz's voice is more boyish sounding than most of the other female characters, but it isn't exactly deep or raspy in and of itself. Nevertheless, it still fits her rather tomboyish personality.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Luz is a gender non-conforming girl with unisex clothing and a pixie cut hair. She interests in video games, sports, action figures, and macabre things. She also has a feminine side, donning skirts and dresses without objection, owning a doll of her fictional idol, gushing over cute critters, being into romantic stories, and being bubbly and sweet. Her outfit in "Enchanting Grom Fright" (a tuxedo top, a pink skirt, purple tights, and boots) combines masculine and feminine traits.
• Tragic Dream: Luz's two ultimate desires are to become a witch and return home to her mother, but they are mutually exclusive, as magic doesn't work in the human world. She faces Belos and the Day of Unity, requiring her to make a decision.
• Tragic Keepsake: In "Thanks to Them", Eda's Jacket and Luz's Palisman Egg become her only reminders of her family and life on the Boiling Isles. They are only seen without them when sleeping. In "For the Future", Luz transforms into a Living Emotional Crutch for her Palisman, Stringbean.
• Tragically Disabled Love Interest: A neurological variant to Amity due to struggles with severe ADHD and Social Anxiety Disorder. Despite not fully understanding her condition, Amity helps Luz cope with her unusual behavior and almost kills herself frequently.
• Trapped in Another World:
  • But only until the end of the first episode; Luz accidentally stumbled into a portal leading to the Boiling Isles and while she can leave, she decides to stay to learn how to be a witch. In "Young Blood, Old Souls" she incinerates the portal to the human world to stop Emperor Belos, trapping her there for the foreseeable future.
  • In "King's Tide", she and the other kids are forced through a portal by King to save them from The Collector, trapping them in the Human Realm. Luz becomes guilt ridden and depressed over having been indirectly responsible for the entire Day of Unity plot that resulted in everyone getting stuck and spending months trying to make a new portal to no avail.
• Trauma Conga Line: Luz has faced ostracism and death from her father, Manny. After escaping to the Demon Realm, she becomes a mentor to Eda, who is captured by Emperor Belos. Luz is guilt-ridden for assisting in Belos' genocide plan and nearly loses her life. She is forced out of the Demon Realm by The Collector.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: In "For the Future", Luz experiences a heartfelt pep talk from her mother, Camila, leading to a realization of her lifelong desire for understanding, which triggers her Palisman, Stringbean, awakening.
• Trying Not to Cry: At the end of the second season, after King's Heroic Sacrifice, Luz returns to her house with tears in her eyes while smiling. It's only at the start of the next episode "Thanks to Them" after embracing her mother that Luz cries.
• Tuckerization: Luz is named after Luz Batista, a friend of Dana Terrace's who also works as a storyboard artist on the show.
• Twice Shy: "Escaping Expulsion" explores Luz's love for Amity, despite initial shyness. "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" reveals their awkward relationship until Amity's first kiss.
• Twirl of Love: Luz frequently initiates dances with her girlfriend, Amity, as seen in "Enchanting Grom Fright," "Reaching Out," "Clouds on the Horizon," and "Thanks to Them". They twirl Amity around multiple times, reuniting before sharing The Big Damn Kiss.
• Twofer Token Minority: Luz is Afro-Latina, bisexual, and has ADHD (in addition to being the Token Human in a cast of witches and demons).

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• The Unchosen One: "Witches before Wizards" highlights Luz's non-predetermined path of glory, highlighting her impact on the Boiling Isles and her Titan favor, offering her life.
• Underestimating Badassery: Luz is a powerful warrior who often underestimates her adversaries, particularly Emperor Belos:
  • In "Young Blood, Old Souls", she scams Belos by giving him a portal door covered in Fire Glyphs, denying him a victory.
  • In "King's Tide", she tricks Belos by pretending to agree to Philip's demands.
• Undying Loyalty: Luz, a dedicated friend, tests herself to prove herself to Owlbert and test weapons for Blight Industries. Season 2's angst stems from her depression, leading to near-genocide in the Boiling Isles and Human Realm.
• Unfazed Everyman: Downplayed at first. Luz initially hesitates to visit Boiling Isles due to its unconventional escapist fantasy but eventually falls in love with their charm after learning magic.
• Unknowingly in Love: Possibly. Luz's behavior around Amity over the course of the first season suggests that she may have been unconsciously harboring a crush as early as "Lost in Language". However, by the time we actually get concrete proof in "Escaping Expulsion", she realizes what's going on pretty much immediately.
• Unreliable Expositor: Downplayed. As a consequence of her severe Guilt Complex, Luz has a notable issue with remembering conversations as being much more personally damaging or threatening than they actually were:
  • When Camila talks to Luz at the end of "Yesterday's Lie", she pleads with her daughter to come back to her, however when Luz flashes back to the incident in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", Camila's words are much more severe.
    What Camila actually says: When you come home promise you'll stay here. I didn't mean to push you away. I swear things will be different.
    What Luz remembers Camila saying: Promise me, when you come home you'll stay with me and you'll never go back to that place.
  • When she first hears The Collector inside Belos' mind in "Hollow Mind", they are talking of playing with Philip while discussing the Day of Unity. When she explains what she saw in "Edge of the World" however, The Collector sounds substantially more violent.
    What the Collector actually says: We'll play forever me and you. When you paint the land in nine bright hues!
    What Luz remembers the Collector saying: Let's slash and rend and crush and bruise. Let's curse the land in nine bright hues!
• Un-Sorcerer: Due to being the only token human on the Boiling Isles, Luz lacks natural magic. In Season 1, she uses Glyph Magic to become a Witch, but it's unusable in the Human Realm due to Titan's Blood. She can perform powerful magic with her Palisman staff, Stringbean.
• Unskilled, but Strong: As a result of her Palisman Stringbean only just awakening, Luz struggles with casting spells with her. However, she casts powerful, accidental spells. In "Watching and Dreaming", she gains Titan powers, becoming the most powerful being on the Isles. However, she struggles with spellcasting.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • In "Really Small Problems", Luz and King attend a Boiling Isles Carnival, where Luz promises to spend time with them. King buys a shrinking potion from Tibbles, causing conflict.
  • In "Agony of a Witch", Luz sneaks off to find an Owl Beast cure for Eda, leading to her capture by Lilith. Lilith uses Luz as a Human Shield, capturing her sister and triggering a chain of events that leads to both sisters escaping the Coven at the cost of losing magic.
  • Without a doubt, the biggest example is in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen". Due to Luz traveling back in time to meet Philip Wittebane and ask for his help in making a new Portal Door by helping him to meet the Collector while also comparing notes on Glyph Magic, she inadvertently gives him everything he needs to rise to power as Emperor Belos and orchestra the Day of Unity, which is in truth a massive Draining Spell meant to eradicate all life on the Boiling Isles.
• Unwitting Pawn:
  • Luz agrees to hang out with the Blight twins to form a bond with Amity. They steal Amity's diary, but Luz resists, leading to Amity misinterpreting the situation and calling Luz a bully.
  • In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", Lilith and Philip discover Philip is an apathetic sociopath, Emperor Belos, and a Witch Hunter who plans to unleash genocide on the entire witch race, revealing their inadvertent role in his rise to power.
  • In "Thanks to Them", Hunter fears Belos will steal the Titan's blood, enlisting Luz's help to track it down. Luz uses blood's ability to work, but Belos manipulates Hunter and Luz to return to the Demon Realm, obtaining the Titan's blood.
• Vancian Magic: Luz's Glyphs are a variation of the principle, activating specific effects by touch. Combining them with formulaic magic can create unique effects but can backfire if not memorized.
• Vine Tentacles: Luz tends to use the Plant Glyph for this purpose due to how versitile it is and it's basically her go-to utility spell by the start of Season 2. Unlike natural born plant magic users like Willow or Terra, she's only really capable of directing the vines at a target and lacks their finer control.
• Vocal Evolution: Luz's voice deepens as the series progresses, particularly in "Thanks to Them". Her tonal change is evident in Camila's video diary entries. Luz's voice has lost most of its energy due to trauma from the Boiling Isles, causing her upbeat positivity to be shattered. This change is evident throughout the episode.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting:
  • In "Clouds on the Horizon", Luz has Gus use his Illusion Magic to disguise her as Hunter in order to both protect Hunter from getting captured by Kikimora and then taken to Belos, as well as get to Belos herself in an attempt to take him down once and for all while also taking Kikimora out of the battle with the Hexsquad.
  • Her Palisman, Stringbean, can change into other animal forms at will, due to manifesting as a so called "snake-shifter", representing Luz's desire to chose her own path in life.
• "Wanted!" Poster: She gets one as a result of her ban from Hexside in "I Was a Teenage Abomination" that remain in place at the school until she is unbanned. Later, after Philip confirms that she has closed the Stable Time Loop in "Hollow Mind" he orders the production of more formal posters for Luz, as seen in "O Titan, Where Art Thou", and "Clouds on the Horizon".
• Wants Versus Needs: Luz dreams of becoming a Witch like Azura but struggles with magic under eccentric Witch Eda. She becomes a protective sister to King and Eda, teaching glyph magic.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Once she gets her Magic Staff in "For The Future", she starts letting out blasts of magic as powerful or exceeding the power of Kikimora's Abomitron's attacks. In fact, this is actually the lower end of what Stringbean is capable of, considering Luz explicitly spells out that the gargantuan blast of energy she shot out was completely accidental.
• Weirdness Magnet: Luz, a character in Eldritch Location, is the adopted daughter of a criminal, the older sister of the last Titan, and the chosen emissary of the Boiling Isles Titan.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal:
  • Has this attitude towards Eda. In "Enchanting Grom Fright" she admits that one of her greatest fears is being seen as inadequate by Eda. This is reinforced with Luz's conflict in "Separate Tides", as she feels responsible for Eda losing her all of her magic at the end of Season 1, thereby forcing the once mighty Owl Lady to have to take up menial jobs just to put food on the table.
  • "Thanks to Them" reveals she had this attitude towards Camila, with Luz trying her best to do what she thought would please her mother and her failed book report in the first episode having actually been an attempt to make Camila proud by applying herself in school. "For the Future" furthers this by showing that the one thing she wanted more than anything else in her entire life was for her mother to truly understand her.
• What the Hell, Hero?: "Yesterday's Lie" explores Luz's decision to leave the Human Realm for the Boiling Isles, highlighting her initial mistake and the contrasting opinions of Vee and her mother.
• What You Are in the Dark: Luz has several moments throughout the series.
  • In "A Lying Witch and a Warden", after Eda sends her away on Owlbert with the key home, she turns back to rally the escaping prisoners and save Eda and King instead of going home, demonstrating her refusal to abandon others in need.
  • In "Enchanting Grom Fright" Luz's greatest fear is revealed to actually be her fear of her mother Camila discovering that Luz has been on the Boiling Isles instead of at summer camp, a fear that she is unable to confront and she ultimately runs away from.
  • In "Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty's Door" Luz is desperate to make sure that her planned Love Confession to her crush Amity is absolutely flawless, due to it being revealed that she has a major fear of being made fun of by Amity for being cheesy, due to similar experiences back in the Human Realm.
  • In "King's Tide", Luz realizes the Portal Door is her only chance to reunite with her mother, rejecting Belos' offer to return to the Human Realm. She prefers to die in the Boiling Isles, saving everyone from death.
  • In "Thanks to Them" Luz makes a video diary entry in which she reveals that she intends on staying in the Human Realm after she makes another portal to send her friends and girlfriend back to the Boiling Isles, due to her belief that it is in their own best interest if she never sees them again, showing just how deeply Luz's guilt over Philip's attempted genocide and the role she played in it has affected her psyche.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In "Enchanting Grom Fright", Luz's fears include online debaters, cat-trapped souls, and milk. Her greatest fears are disappointing Eda and her mother Camila's shame for leaving home to stay in the Demon Realm, as revealed by Grom itself.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Luz is a cheerful teenager who struggles with life's trials but eventually recovers after a significant recovery in the final season, regaining her unshakable optimism by the Distant Finale, despite the weariness of her positivity due to trauma.
• Wild Magic: Luz uses Glyphs as her magic source due to lacking a natural sac of magic bile. These Glyphs are more closely tied to the natural magic of the Titan, as they cease to function outside the Demon Realm, far enough away from a sample of Titan's Blood.
• Witch Classic: Luz aspires to become a witch, embodying the fictional idol. In "Thanks to Them", she wears an Azura Halloween costume with a traditional witch hat, while in "Watching and Dreaming", she replaces it with a Titan-themed black outfit.
• World-Healing Wave: Luz removes Belos from the Titan's heart, cleansing the Boiling Isles of his corruption. Her new Titan powers burn away Belos' rot, restoring the landscape to its natural state.
• Wrong Genre Savvy:
  • Luz keeps assuming the Boiling Isles will provide a glamorous High Fantasy-style adventure, but the conflicts she runs into there are typically much more mundane or bizarre.
  • Luz wants to be a witch, not really understanding that people are born as "witches" in this setting; she doesn't need to be one to learn magic.
  • She challenges Amity to a witch's duel based upon a situation from her favorite book series, somehow missing the significance of that situation transpiring in a place called "the Bog of Immediate Regret".
  • Played with in "Lost in Language". Luz's friendship with Amity is delayed due to Luz's compassion and time-sharing. She saves Amity, causing the latter's Heel Realization and reflection on her behavior, as Luz expects to make her rivals friends like Azura.
  • In "Wing It Like Witches", her experiences watching sports movies has her convinced that she and Willow, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, can defeat Boscha (despite never having played Grudgby before) through the power of "team spirit". In practice, it takes far more than a positive attitude to improve their chances.
  • Luz mistakenly believes Emperor Belos is an evil High Fantasy villain, using the Coven System to control the populace and plan to invade Earth with the Portal Door. However, Belos is actually a human Witch Hunter who aims to save humanity by killing witches and demons in the Boiling Isles.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: She gets quite good at this at the tail end of season two.
  • In "Clouds on the Horizon", Luz, Amity, Gus, Willow, and Hunter are captured by Odalia, while Kikimora plans to kill Hunter. Luz devises a counter plan, switching appearances and avoiding capture, to warn Eda and protect Hunter.
  • In "King's Tide", Luz fights Belos during an eclipse but is petrified by the emperor. She discovers a branding glove on his desk and offers to guide him in exchange for her friends' safety. She uses a glyph to make the glove invisible, but it doesn't work.
• The Xenophile: Luz, a traumatic child from the Human Realm, is drawn to fantasy novels and the Boiling Isles, but her fear of humans and her Basilisk sister, Vee, causes panic.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • In "Separate Tides", when Luz tells Eda how she considers it her fault Eda lost her powers and is left struggling to make money, Eda proceeds to retort with all the good things Luz has done since she came to the Boiling Isles.
    Eda: You think throwing your life away is gonna help me?! Well, it won't! You helped me find King's crown when you barely knew me, you saved me from turning to stone, and... you even got me talking to my sister again. So, unfortunately for you... my life is pretty great because I'm friends with Luz the Human.
  • In "Thanks to Them", Luz admits to helping Belos and reveals her fear of rejection from her friends and girlfriend. She plans to stay in the Human Realm to protect them, but the Hexsquad and Camila argue about Luz's positive impact on their lives and Belos' potential deception.
    Hunter: You were tricked. That's what Belos does, he tricks people. But if it weren't you, it would've been someone else, and then there'd be no-one left to fight back.
  • In "For the Future", Camila admits her faults and encourages her daughter, Luz, not to fear failure. She admits that her greatest failure was encouraging Luz to avoid her nerdy tendencies, fearing similar struggles. This realization leads Luz to understand her actions were all for understanding from her mother.
• You Are Not Alone: Luz gets two of these in "For the Future" from two of the most important people in her life, her girlfriend and her mother.
  • Amity comforts Luz about her Palisman not hatching in Eda's nest, focusing on her desire to be free and make her own choices. Amity acknowledges that Luz misses Eda, King, and Hooty, assuring her that she will help her find them.
  • Camila reveals that making mistakes is part of life, including encouraging Luz not to embrace her nerdy hobbies. This newfound understanding and love from her mother, catalyzes Luz's Palisman to awaken.
• You Can't Go Home Again:
  • Downplayed. The Season 1 finale leaves Luz in the Boiling Isles due to her portal door destruction, but Season 2 allows her to recreate it. Eda saves Luz and Hunter from Belos' mindscape using Titan's blood but learns King is an infant titan with potential help.
  • "King's Tide" ultimately inverts the issue for Luz, as she is forced to flee to the Human Realm through Belos' portal door alongside Amity, Gus, Willow and Hunter in order to escape the Collector. With King willingly staying behind in order to appease the Collector, the group is now stranded in the Human Realm with no way of returning to the Demon Realm on their own.
  • Believing she doesn't deserve to return to the Boiling Isles after having helped Belos and thinking her mother wants her to stay, Luz resolves to remain in the Human Realm once a portal back to the Demon Realm is made. After Belos creates a portal, Luz prepares to announce her decision to everyone, only for Camila to cut her off and instead volunteer them both to go, knowing her daughter doesn't really want to stay.
• You Monster!:
  • Luz says this word for word after Lilith uses her as bait to lure out and capture Eda in "Agony of a Witch".
  • In "Hollow Mind", Luz rebuffs Belos' claim that he is 'saving Humanity from evil' by saying that Belos is the evil one.
  • In "King's Tide", Luz once again calls out Belos for being an inhuman monster when he attempts to make an offer to her to allow her to return to the Human Realm with him and forsake the Demon Realm.
    Luz: You are such a hypocrite. You talk big about saving Humanity, but after everything you've done, you're barely Human yourself.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Luz is on the receiving end of this trope four different times, all of them courtesy of Philip Wittebane.
  • In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", after they help open the door that Philip had previously tried and failed to open on his own, Luz and Lilith are both used as bait by Philip for the Stonesleeper hiding in the chamber that holds the Collector's mirror, Philip casually remarking that this occurrence was inevitable after Luz catches him pre-emptively writing about Luz and Lilith's deaths in his diary.
  • In "Hollow Mind", after Belos reveals that he and Philip are one and the same, and that Luz has helped him with his plans for genocide, he dismisses Luz's comment of him being evil, and immediately tries to decapitate her after confirming that the Stable Time Loop has been closed.
  • In "King's Tide", after Luz rejects Philip's attempt to get her to join him in returning to the Human Realm, Belos decides that Luz has been "corrupted" by the Demon Realm and opts to immediately petrify her. She only survives by convincing him that she will help him get acclimated to the Modern Day.
  • In "Thanks to Them" Belos invokes the trope almost word for word when he notes that Luz has fulfilled her purpose in his plans after he fully possesses Hunter, just before he attacks her.
    Belos: Thanks again for all the help Luz. But I don't need you anymore.
• Younger Mentor, Older Disciple: Ends up in this dynamic with Eda and Lilith, after the sisters' lose their magic at the end of Season 1. Luz is shown teaching them both glyph magic in several early Season 2 episodes.
• Your Magic's No Good Here: "Young Blood, Old Souls" reveals that her Glyphs, powered by the Background Magic Field, cannot work in the Human Realm, unlike Witches like Lilith who can use their internal reserves. However, small amounts of Titan's Blood can activate them.
• Zany Scheme: In Season 1, Luz frequently enacts or gets caught in Abomination projects, such as posing as Willow's project to gain good grades in "I was a Teenage Abomination" and being caught in Gus's scheme to show up Mattholomule in "Something Ventured, Someone Framed".
• Zombie Advocate: Luz serves as an example of this to contrast Jacob Hopkins. She defends the Boiling Isles and its inhabitants from the viewpoint of Philip Wittebane, helps Vee escape Jacob, stops Belos from genocide, and even has a witch girlfriend in Amity.

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