Luz Noceda, the Inky Witch
is a crossover between The Owl House and Batman Beyond, in which Luz, a young girl living in Terry's era of Gotham, is kidnapped by scientists trying to replicate the powers of Inque, and while Terry manages to rescue her she's forever changed by the experience. Several years later, she and her other friend, fellow metahuman Roxy, find their way to the Boiling Isles, and the rest is history.
This work contains examples of:
- Adaptational Badass: Luz has powers based on the mercenary Inque in this AU, and is capable enough in their use to defeat Warden Wrath. She's also been taught things like lockpicking by Bruce even before she arrives on the Isles.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Luz discovers Vee much earlier than in canon, and recruits her to help keep Camila in the dark about Luz and Roxy being in the Isles while she stays safe on Earth.
- Art Initiates Life: As in canon, the Wailing Star brings the books in the Bonesborough library to life, but in this AU it includes comics with several members of the original Batman's Rogues Gallery. They (or at least Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and Scarecrow) find a way to escape the library and stick around after the Wailing Star moves on, introducing new threats to the Isles.
- Beast Man: Roxy is one as a result of genetic splicing with the DNA of a Tasmanian Tiger.
- Blessed with Suck:
- Luz's abilities are potent, but besides the fact that she was experimented on to get them, they make her incredibly vulnerable to water.
- Roxy's metahuman abilities actually required her to get spliced with Tasmanian Tiger genes (despite it normally being illegal). Her enhanced senses also have a few downsides, like when Eda takes her to the trash slug and she throws up from the stench.
- Blob Monster: Luz herself, in this AU, is turned into a sentient mass of ink-like sludge as a result of the experiments conducted on her. Also, the Abominations, one of which Luz impersonates on one occasion by using her shapeshifting abilities in an effort to help Willow.
- Call-Back: Luz's speech to the version of the Joker brought to life by the Wailing Star clearly takes largely from Terry's in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. The Joker even states that he's "not hearing this again".
- Kidnapped by the Call: Luz's kidnapping at the hands of Dr. Mercer is what starts this story's events.
- Kidnapped for Experimentation: How Luz was mutated into a sludge-like metahuman in the first place.
- Kill It with Water: Luz is highly vulnerable to water due to the nature of her mutation.
- Sexy Cat Person: Roxy is a teenage metahuman with Tasmanian Tiger traits, and is fairly attractive, if a bit intimidating at times. Both the Blight twins start crushing on her pretty quickly once they meet her, which she plays on a bit to mess with them.
- Slime Girl: Due to the experiments conducted on her in order to replicate and improve on Inque’s abilities, Luz was mutated to the point where she now has Inque’s sludge-like body composition as well as her abilities.
- Superior Successor: Thanks to her mutation being the result of the process being refined, Luz's abilities are superior to Inque's in a few ways, namely that unlike the latter, Luz can make herself seem fully human.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Luz can change her shape at will as a result of the experiments on her. She can also do this with any mass she detaches from herself.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Luz is highly vulnerable to water. Besides the practical issues of this, she worries that she can't be an effective hero with such an easily exploitable weakness.
- Wham Episode: In Chapter 11 a good chunk of the original Batman's Rogues Gallery is unleashed by the Wailing Star from some comics, and in the end at least Joker, Harley, Scarecrow, Freeze, and Poison Ivy manage to stick around and escape into the Isles.
