Fanfic / The Light of Abyss

The Light of Abyss is a The Owl House and Marvel Universe crossover story by Rater202. The core idea of the story is that when the Symbiotes invaded in the 1990s, Camila and Manny were both briefly hosts to one, but while they were freed from the possession they unwittingly carried traces of the eldritch material in their cells, which they then passed on to their daughter Luz. Once she makes her way to the Demon Realm, the Background Magic Field then wakes said residue up...AO3 location FFN location

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Tropes:

• Abusive Parents: Odalia, as in canon. Amity is keeping her developing ability as The Empath secret because she fears that Odalia will force her to switch into the Oracle track so Amity will be more like her, and she cares more about Amity severing her apprenticeship to Lilith than Lilith using Amity to get back at Eda. In addition, besides Amity's necklace having a tracking enchantment that she could have used to find Amity at any point after she ran away but didn't, and the canon telepathic communication that she used, it also has spells that she can use to make Amity feel bad and bring up the memories of the previous times it was used on command, which Eda says are similar to spells that were used on slaves in the early savage ages and have been illegal since the early Deadwardian era for just that reason.
• Accidental Truth: After Eda's failed petrification, Belos tells the crowd that Luz's new symbiote powers are a blessing from the Titan. In canon, the Titan did bless Luz by leading her to the glyphs as thanks for being there for his son King.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Thanks to traces of symbiote matter Luz inherited from Manny and Camila being awakened by the Background Magic Field in the Demon Realm, giving her multiple abilities she doesn't have in canon, like enhanced strength when her shadow aura is up and sensing emotions. She can also use them to turn her light glyphs into an actual offensive power. Later she gains a full symbiote form, at the cost of losing her "shadow aura", apparently an incomplete version of the form, and the glyph detonation power.
  • After the petrification ceremony, Amity starts studying other kinds of magic, namely Bard magic, Potions, and Plant magic. She's still mainly an Abomination specialist, but she's got more options now.
  • Masha, who is by all appearances a normal human in canon, is in this universe a Sorcerer.
  • Clara, who was by all appearances a normal human, is a mutant. Same for her friends Scott and Suzy.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Hunter appears at the Covention, long before his canonical first appearance.
  • The BATTs make their debut before their canonical appearance by destroying the petrification machine.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Boscha is much more open about how seriously she takes her friendship with Amity, doing her best to stop anyone from reading the journal pages that Edric and Emira posted around the school, and being extremely relieved when Amity comes back after having run away. And she reluctantly agrees to stop being a bully (both in general and specifically towards Willow and Luz) just because Amity asks her to.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • Different circumstances at the Covention mean that Luz and Amity become friends sooner than canon.
  • The entire arc with Amity running away from home serves as a wakeup call to Alador about their relationship a whole season before he would have had a similar epiphany in canon.
• Aliens Speaking English: Hearing Belos speaking with an English accent makes Luz reflect on how everyone else on the Boiling Isles speaks American English but no other human language, with no explanation for why.
• Angrish: Amity's reaction to learning about Lilith having thrown Luz off of the castle bridge and Luz forgiving her for it.
• Apathetic Teacher: Amity calls Lilith out as a lousy teacher during their fight in Chapter 13. While Amity has to admit that she did learn a lot from the other Witch over the two years they spent together, she also points out how Lilith never gave her any support, with every lesson being clinical and academic, and the one time that she ever got any positive feedback it was a lie (so Lilith could plant the Power Glyph on her neck), which Amity later notes is something that Lilith should have considered given her own desire for approval from authority figures after hearing that Lilith is staying at the Owl House and is being taught glyphs by Luz. In contrast, just a short time being mentored by Eda at the Knee allowed her to get past needing training wands and learn the fire spell.
• Armor-Piercing Question: In Chapter 9, when Alador is starting to go Papa Wolf on Eda regarding Amity's safety, Eda snaps back by asking when's the last time he actually talked to her, which completely undercuts Alador's anger.
• Ascended Extra: Masha gets some more focus than in canon, Camila having given them a ride back from camp, which causes them to be present for the reveal of Vee's true identity.
• Bait-and-Switch: Chapter 21 has a set-up for a epic battle between Amity, Vee, Masha, and Luz against Luz's former crushes who bullied her. However, the next chapter shows Luz and Amity realizing just how pathetic those bullies are that they aren't even worth the effort of fighting at this point.
• Batman Gambit: Odalia emotionally manipulates Luz into considering breaking up with Amity, in order to provoke the latter into standing up to her, helping to secure a possible future Odalia's had a vision of, wherein Luz and Amity are apparently ruling the Boiling Isles together. A later chapter implies that the manipulation was also meant to get Amity worried about being unable to protect Luz and cause her to try feeding her symbiote form thing like Titan Humours and Palistrom wood to give her magic.
• Berserk Button: Amity has a strong reaction to cheating to get ahead.
• Big Damn Heroes: When Willow, Gus, and Amity manage to get the crowd at Eda’s petrifaction ceremony on her side, the BATTs show up and destroy the machine before Hunter can intervene.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Luz and Amity have their first real kiss in Chapter 21, when Amity defends Luz against Clara and her cronies, all former crushes of Luz who rejected her in less than kind ways.
• Black-and-White Insanity: As noted by Word of God, Belos' Fantastic Racism has warped his mentality into a form of this, where he views all humans as "good" and all witches as "evil", which is why he's so relatively lenient towards Luz despite his Politically Incorrect Villain traits.
• Blatant Lies: As in canon, as Amity realizes after the failed petrification, especially after he claims that Luz was blessed by the Titan with her new abilities, pretty much everything that Belos says is this.
• Blunt "No": When Amity hears about Gravesfield's lack of acceptance of LGBT and/or neurodivergent individuals (though it's ironically highly accepting of mutants for some reason), she asks if Luz really wants to live in this place. This trope is Luz's answer, and she follows it up by making it clear that she only comes back because her mom lives there, and most of her stuff is there too.
• Brick Joke: When the subject of Luz's Klatchian Coffee first comes up, it's mentioned how she jokingly prays to Loki when making it. Several chapters later, Vee reveals that when she was impersonating Luz at camp and Loki came to visit Masha, he told her that no prayers to him could ever help that "abomination".
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Luz hears that there was an Alien Invasion while she was in the Isles, she barely bats an eye besides asking which alien faction was behind it this time.
• Callback: Luz and Amity bring out their dancing skills they used against Grom in Chapter 11 to flex over Luz's bullies in Chapter 22.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When Odalia tries to emotionally manipulate Luz into breaking up with her, Amity snaps, shifting into an Abomination and grabbing Odalia by the neck, before chewing her out and threatening to ruin the family reputation if her mother doesn't leave the couple alone.
• Can't Catch Up: After realizing just how much of a Death World the Marvel Earth is, Amity starts getting worried that she and Luz won't be able to protect each other from the dangers in both realms, and essentially invokes this by deciding that, since all she can do to get stronger herself besides gaining her own Palisman soon is just keep practicing her magic, she'll try to find a way to make Luz more powerful instead, deciding to have her symbiote form absorb leftover chips of Palistrom wood and the five Titan Humours in order to allow her to innately use magic.
• Cassandra Truth: When Tiny Nose examined Luz after she first displayed her powers, Luz and Eda thought that her talk of Luz's blood testing positive for "pure evil" was just her usual conspiracy theorist ramblings. It's not until over a dozen chapters later, when Luz is learning about Knull's invasion that occurred while she was in the Isles, and gets told some key factoids on symbiotes, that Luz realizes that Tiny Nose was right.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • When telling Amity things about the Human Realm, Luz mentions symbiotes and sketches Carnage as an example, which ends up giving Amity nightmares. Which in turn provides Grom with fuel when she's fighting it, taking on Carnage's form to allow it to get the upper hand on her when she'd previously been dominating it.
  • The Emperor Coven sigil that a Coven Scout branded Luz with in Chapter 6 gets some importance when Amity notices it. Especially when Lilith activates the trap in the Sigil to stop Luz from stealing the Healing Hat. Amity subsequently uses the memory of that incident to start a riot in Bonesborough to stop Eda's Petrification Ceremony.
  • During the arc of Amity running away, Eda is mentioned to have looted some textbooks that the high school in Gravesfield threw out and sold them to the library. Later, Amity starts studying them as part of her plan to prove that she's an awesome girlfriend, and it's mentioned again during the narration covering the time skip between the failed petrification and Luz's return to school. This pays off when Amity introduces herself to Camila and explains that she's Luz's girlfriend and that she loves her in Spanish, and reveals to Luz that there were Spanish books in that collection and that she's been trying to learn.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In Chapter 20, Luz's group hears how three students from her school ended up presenting as mutants while she was in the Demon Realm. In Chapter 21, it turns out that Luz's ex-crushes are those students.
• Connected All Along: One of Luz's bullies and former Crushes, Scott, turns out to be the nephew of Jacob Hopkins whom he calls to take Luz Noceda off their hands after they knocked her out and kidnapped her.
• Crossover: Aside from being a mix of Marvel Comics and The Owl House, Luz and Amity end up bumping into Stan and Ford while in Gravesfield.
• Cult: Luz explicitly refers to the Emperor's Coven as one when she first hears details about Belos' reign, though she doesn't openly state this, for fear of how people might react to it.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Luz inflicts one on Belos after fully unlocking her powers at the petrification ceremony fight, and proceeds to bash him around the room so badly that not only is it wrecked, he actually blacks out for a moment.
• Cute Monster Girl: Amity's Abomination form is noted to have a "cute" look to it by Lilith.
• Death World: Amity comes to realize that the Human Realm is this due to being a Marvel world, given all the Physical God level mutants and other superhumans, attempted alien invasions, the planet-eater Galactus, etc., and even guesses that part of why Luz adapted so well to the Demon Realm is that it's actually safer by comparison, even with Belos out to get her.
• Disabled in the Adaptation Neurological variant, Amity has undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder in the fic.
• Discard and Draw: After Luz unlocks her full symbiote form, she cannot do the "shadow aura" anymore, with the symbiote form popping out instead, causing her to theorize that the "aura" was basically symbiote goop in aerosolized form. She also can't detonate glyphs anymore, which she theorizes is because it was the magic of the glyphs reacting negatively to said goop.
• Discriminate and Switch: As it turns out, the girl who got suspended on a bunk charge right after asking if she could take her mutant girlfriend from another school to prom, Masha's older sister Sveta, didn't even say anything about said girlfriend Sophie being a mutant until after she was suspended, the vice-principal at the time was just homophobic, and Sophie just let the news make their own conclusions.
• Dramatic Irony: When she notices that Amity is upset by learning of Gravesfields witchhunting past, Luz reaasures her that that was a long time ago and they'll never have to deal with witch hunters, still ignorant to the true nature of Emperor Belos at the time.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Luz gives her bullies a "Reason You Suck" Speech about how pathetic they truly are as people, how they have no real friends or love interests because they choose to look down on everyone else, while Luz no longer cares about their approval whatsoever because she has actual friends and a girlfriend who love and appreciate her for who she is. The only thing that seems to reach the bullies' thick skulls was how Luz is thinking she is better than them.
• Easily Forgiven: Unlike canon, Eda eventually works up the motivation to interrogate Owbert about the events of "Escape of the Palisman" (which occurred offscreen), but because Owlbert forgave Luz, Eda only made Luz take him out for ice cream in order to earn her trust back.
• Emotional Powers: Witch magic is tied to how witches feel about themselves. Eda even speculates that Amity needing a training wand for a fire spell is because her self-doubts have convinced her that she needs one rather than actually needing one.
• The Empath: Amity starts to develop an ability to sense the emotions of others around her. Luz's abilities also let her sense emotions, but notably only negative ones.
• Everyone Can See It: More than one character notices and comments on Amity's crush on Luz.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Tiny Nose may be a Conspiracy Theorist who think that the world is a triangle, but even she thinks that the Demon Realm equivalent of anti-vaxxers are crazy.
  • Eda may be a self-admitted scoundrel, but she won't let a kid Amity's age live on the streets/in the woods, and gives her genuine advice about what she should do.
  • Lilith and Steve are dedicated members of the Emperor's Coven and enforce Belos' harsh rule, but are furious when a coven scout ends up branding Luz with a sigil against her will.
  • Vee and the other Basilisks left the Greater Basilisk behind when they escaped because they didn't like her constant talk about getting revenge on the witches, Vee even outright calling her crazy when she hears that she somehow escaped on her own.
• Evil Is Petty: After Luz manages to give Belos a good thrashing with her fully awakened symbiote powers and escape without needing to give up the portal door, Belos decides to put greater scrutiny on her by claiming that it's a blessing from the Titan. He even lampshades it, wondering if it's too petty, but decides to indulge his own vices after ignoring Luz's supposed "vice" in her relationship with Amity and do it anyway.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Amity has hers sooner than canon, in stages. She changes the style to its looser form after her runaway arc, loses the green dye when she morphs into an Abomination to confront her mother when the latter tries to manipulate Luz into ending their relationship, and afterwords replaces it with lavender to further separate herself from Odalia.
• Fix Fic: The author is making a point of excising Early-Installment Weirdness, incorporating later retcons right away, and overall dealing with perceived problems with canon.
  • Camilla is shown to be a much more attentive and caring parent like later in the series, as opposed to how out of touch she seemed in the pilot.
  • Eda is fairly familiar with human culture from her repeated trips to Earth, which the author notes makes more sense than her having no real understanding of things. Also, the Running Gag of her not knowing what hugs are is removed due to not making sense, since Demon Realm inhabitants are shown hugging plenty of times.
  • Tiny Nose is established as being a friend of Hooty's from her first appearance, rather than that being thrown in as a random gag later on.
  • Katya indirectly references being Raine's apprentice in her first appearance, instead of randomly brought back as part of the BATTs later on.
  • Hunter's Adaptational Early Appearance is justified by the fact that as Belos' right hand, he really should have shown up a lot sooner than he did in canon.
  • Masha learning about Vee's true identity and general presence in the Gravesfield arc is explicitly an indulgence on the part of the author, due to disliking the fact that Cabin 7 never learns the full story in canon.
• Flat "What": Vee's reaction to first hearing about Luz's taxidermy project from the pilot.
• Fusion Fic: The story fuses Luz's Earth with the one from the Marvel Universe.
• Green-Eyed Monster: During the graveyard confrontation, Amity realizes that the reason Clara, Scott, and Suzy confronted Luz at the concert while she was dancing with Amity wasn't because Luz was being disruptive, since they weren't doing anything that the others there weren't, but because the three have no real friends or romantic interests and they were jealous that Luz, who they look down on, was happy with friends, and thus "beating" them at something.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Luz has symbiote essence that was passed down from her parent's time as hosts and awakened by the background magic of the Isles, but she lacks an actual secondary symbiote consciousness, even after awakening her full symbiote form, making her more of a human/symbiote hybrid than a human host of a symbiote. Author notes even compare her directly to April Parker.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Suzy's mutant power may only be to control the clothes she's wearing, but it's Omega level. Making them float through the air and strong enough to hold her weight is just the first thing that she figured out
• Human Subspecies: Eda subscribes to the theory that Witches like herself are descended from humans that ended up in the Demon Realm thousands of years ago that managed to learn to stomach the food and adapt to it over the generations, with occasional interbreeding with the more human-like biped demons being responsible for throwback traits like Boscha's Third Eye, citing how there are too many similarities between humans and Witches for them to be completely unrelated. Luz compares them to Atlanteans or Inhumans. Interestingly, the Emperor's Coven hates this idea, which means that it would get Eda's vote even if it didn't make sense. More evidence comes up later with the existence of "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes to be the Witch equivalent of mutant powers.
• I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: When Amity gives Luz the note asking her to Grom, Luz is surprised that someone "pretty, smart, classy, sophisticated, and cool" like Amity would like someone like her, given that her previous crushes had rejected her, viewing her as creepy or cheesy. She's so surprised that Amity (or anyone) would like like her by the time she processes it all and realizes that she does like Amity back and would like to go to Grom with her, Amity's already been announced as Grom Queen and run off. On Amity's end, Grom manifests her insecurities as Luz claiming that no one would ever love her and she admits a chapter later that she didn't think a "kind, loving, friendly person" would like her back even as she wrote the note.
• Hypocrite: Luz's bullies exclude Luz for being weird and not fitting in with anyone else. This is after they find out they are actually mutants that, only several years ago, were a marginalized group that was heavily discriminated for acting different from everyone else.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...:
  • Shortly after they reconcile, Willow point blank asks Amity about her crush on Luz, and when Amity confirms Willow first acknowledges that they'd be cute together but then threatens to "throw hands" if Amity hurts the human girl, which Amity agrees is fair.
  • Boscha evidently gives Luz a speech like this after she and Amity get together at Grom, saying that she'll feed Luz her own squeedlyspooch if she hurts Amity.
• Incompatible Orientation: Luz tried to ask out Clara before the events of the story, but besides not liking Luz personally, Clara is straight.
• Impersonating an Officer: As it turns out, the "scout" that branded Luz with the Emperor's Coven sigil was an imposter that abducted and replaced a real scout, who was later busted out of prison.
• Inhumanable Alien Rights: The "Genetic Diversity Preservation Act" guarantees that Human Subspecies like the Mutants, Inhuman, etc., other superhumans, and any sapient aliens on Earth have full legal rights.
• Innocently Insensitive: Masha does this a couple of times after meeting Amity and Luz, assuming that the former being a witch is a learned skill like their own magic rather than her species, and jokingly commenting on the latter's cheesy choices in romantic music. To their credit, they immediately apologize when they realize that Amity is taking offense and that Luz is being reminded of past experiences with bullying.
• In Spite of a Nail: The events of several episodes occur more or less unaltered off-screen due to lack of major changes.
  • Despite Ed and Emira's successful prank causing her to run away, Amity still goes to the Knee, just with Luz and Eda instead of them, and she still works on her fire spell.
  • Luz and Amity still face Grom together even if the details are a bit different.
  • Since Eda still lost her magic and a lot of her business even though she kept the portal, the events of "Separate Tides" still happened with only minor changes.
• Irony: Despite Gravesfield's early history of witch hunting, and lack of resources and tolerance for issues like Luz's ADHD, and occasional homophobia, they're largely pro-mutant.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: It's implied in the text, and confirmed by Word of God, that Boscha has an unrequited crush on Amity. Upon realizing that Amity has a crush on Luz, she's upset, but supports Amity due to wanting her to be happy.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When manipulating Luz to try and break up with Amity, Odalia points out how, since the human girl is Eda's apprentice, Amity might suffer as a result of her association with Luz since she's connected to the Owl Lady by proxy, which isn't unreasonable given what Belos is like.
• Klatchian Coffee: Luz mentions using coffee to help manage her ADHD, having an official diagnosis in this fic. She describes it as "black as night, with lots of sugar." A later chapter clarifies that it's dark and vicious, is still very bitter despite having enough sugar that the crystals don't fully dissolve, and Eda claims that you could stain a coffin with it and that King tried some and spent ten minutes on the floor twitching. Luz jokingly prays to Loki while brewing it. Amity tries two cups worth to keep warm at the Knee and she's jittery, says she can't feel her legs, and notes that Luz's eyes are pretty and is starting to ask her out before Luz tells her that she's had enough.
• Language Equals Thought: The residents of the Boiling Isles don't have specific words for sexual orientations because, as a Non-Heteronormative Society, differing orientations are too normal to make a fuss about.
• Like a Son to Me: When facing the petrifaction ceremony, Eda admits that Luz is like the daughter she never had.
• Love Epiphany: Luz guesses that she likes Amity when she realizes how much she enjoys spending time with her. She knows she likes Amity when her thoughts turn to how calling the Avengers hotline to get Doctor Strange's help with Grom would necessitate exposing that she lied about going to summer camp but that she's still willing to do that for Amity's sake.
• Loving a Shadow: During the confrontation with Luz's ex-crushes at the graveyard, Luz admits in hindsight that she doesn't know why she liked any of them, and upon further reflection comes to the realization that she asked them out because they were normal, and part of her was hoping that if she could get them to like her other people would too.
• Mama Bear: Eda quickly takes Amity under her wing during her time as a runaway, and later makes it clear to Alador that if Odalia drives her away again, Eda's outright keeping her. She also threatened to run Principal Bump through a woodchipper if Luz was named Grom Queen.
• Moment Killer: When Hunter is giving a big speech to set up Luz and Amity's duel, Luz ends up interrupting to exclaim in shock when he mentions Eda and Lilith being related. This throws Hunter off, causing him to forget what he was going to say and decide to just start the duel.
  • Clara turns out to be this in Chapter 22 after Luz finally gets the courage to tell her and her cronies off for what terrible people they are and how jealous they are of Luz's happiness. Amity bruising Clara's ego one too many times finally drives her to hit her with a Sonic scream while their backs were turned, knocking out Luz and sending everyone else tumbling into the flooded Graveyard.
• Monster Organ Trafficking: The Titan's body has five Humours, each with useful magical properties for the people of the Isles, and which are technically renewable (though some have been overharvested and are rarer, like Titan's Blood), which combined with the lack of said Humors on other Titan remains, which are less intact than the Isles, and the Heart reportedly still beating, leads some to believe that the Titan is still alive. Besides the aforementioned magical energy powerhouse of Titan's Blood there's Titan Earth, a highly effective fertilizer, Titan Bone (or more precisely marrow), a powerful magic source second to only Titan's Blood and useful when creating something meant to be extremely durable, Titan Bile, similar to Witch magic bile but far more potent and used in high-level spells when filtered, and Titan Breath, used as both a power source and as a reagent for spells meant to "breathe life" into inanimate objects.
• No Endor Holocaust: It's noted that there were only a couple hundred casualties from Knull's invasion.
• Noodle Incident:
  • About a year before the start of the story, a Senior at Luz's highschool got suspended on a bunk charge, coincidentally right after asking if she could bring her mutant girlfriend from the next town over to Prom. Not only did it end up on the local news, but Magneto showed up and just stood outside the property line with a Death Glare for six hours, the suspension getting overturned the next day. Masha, who is the younger sibling of the girl in question, later reveals that she didn't even reveal her girlfriend was a mutant until after the suspension; it was just plain homophobia.
  • In one chapter, Luz mentions getting kicked out of the scouts for getting too overzealous during a cardboard regatta.
  • At one point Luz and her class went to a museum and Luz got a little too excited at the replicas of the Eye of Agamotto and Wand of Watoomb there, so some Karen who didn't realize that they were replicas called the police on her thinking that she was a newbie teen supervillain, and by the time someone realized what was really going on she was already in handcuffs. The only positive is that she got her ADHD diagnosis, but Gravesfield doesn't have any real resources for that type of thing.
  • In chapter 8, Luz claims that Loki served a term as president of the United States.
  • Related to the above, as in "The Last Mabelcorn", where abolishing the Electoral College was on Mabel's list to prove herself to a unicorn had that on the list and crossed out, somehow Mabel managed to do that. It's noted that Loki was unaware of this when he ran for president and just barely managed to eke out a victory.
  • Loki met Masha in the aftermath of Knull's invasion and started tutoring them in sorcery, having been impressed by the chaos that they've caused.
  • According to Ford, about five years before "Not What He Seems", he ended up in the Boiling Isles, where he stayed for a week before a "colleague" (implied to be Rick) showed up and tried to help him home. Instead, he ended up spending a month in Amphibia.
  • Stan mentions that he and Ford went looking for witches in Salem and instead found ghosts.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Part of why Amity gets so riled up about Clara's mean behavior towards Luz, even discounting her dislike of how they've been mean to her girlfriend, is that the girl reminds her of what she was like before she met Luz and started her Character Development, like particular parallels in how Clara treats Luz to what Amity was like with Willow. Her realization that the trio doesn't have any real friends or romantic interests also derives from her own experiences.
• Oblivious to Love: As in canon, about the only person close to them that hadn't noticed the crush Amity had on Luz by Grom was Luz herself.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: During Knull's invasion of Earth, President Fiddleford McGucket fought off the attack on DC using a mecha made out of the White House, with the city only suffering minor damage as a result.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Luz, who never swears, refers to Wakanda as "bastards" for not sharing the cure for cancer (implicitly because of her father's death from it). Amity even notes that it sounds wrong for her to say something like that.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: In addition to his Fantastic Racism towards witches from canon, Phillip/Belos also looks down on superpowered humans (whom he dubs "witchbreed") and is homophobic (referring to Luz's relationship with Amity as a "vice").
• Poor Communication Kills: Gus creates an Old Man Henderson illusion to distract the coven scouts and keep them away from Eda's petrification ceremony, but doesn't tell Amity this, so when she hears that they've dealt with "the insane human", she thinks that Luz is captured or dead. The only reason that he avoids being thrashed by her is that witch puberty hit him like a truck and she figured that the after-effects of his growth spurt were painful enough,
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Inverted, when Amity's fury at Odalia trying to break her and Luz up causes her to go Abomination like Darius, the dye Odalia forced on her falls to the ground, returning her locks to their natural brown.
• Power Misidentification: When Luz fully unlocks her symbiote powers, Belos assumes that she's a "witchbreed" (an archaic term for "mutants"), not knowing that she lacks the mutant gene or that there are multiple kinds of superhumans on Earth. He also initially assumes that Luz's shadow aura is a result of some kind of unusual glyph combo, when in reality she hasn't figured out that combos exist by that point in time.
• Prison Riot: Instead of just freeing a couple of prisoners and them fighting off Warden Wrath, Luz ends up freeing enough to cause one of these.
• Psychic Nosebleed: As she starts to develop her abilities as The Empath, Amity starts getting nosebleeds.
• Rage Breaking Point: Luz hits hers during the fight with Belos when he takes Owlbert from her, leading to her symbiote powers fully unlocking, at which point she delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle on him.
• The Red Mage: While she's still primarily an Abominations user, Amity branches out after the failed petrification. She starts learning Bard magic after seeing what it can do in the hands of the BATTs, signs up for some Potions classes, both to reconnect with Boscha and because of the overlap between potion-making and creating Abominations or raw slime from scratch instead of conjuring it via magic, and Plant magic classes both for a similar reason with Willow, because she already knew a little, and to take advantage of the ideas Jerbo has.
• Resistant to Magic: When Luz awakened her symbiote form during the petrification ceremony, it absorbed her witch's wool cloak, so now it's a part of the form and said form protects her against magic like witch's wool does.
• The Runaway: After Edric and Emira successfully post her diary at Hexside, Amity runs away, ending up at the Owl House when she goes to return Luz's Azura book and Hooty owl pellets her.
• Running Gag: Eda rewarding Luz's successes by teaching her how to commit crimes.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • As part of her I Want My Beloved to Be Happy stance, Boscha immediately makes herself Amity's wingman in regards to hooking up with Luz.
  • Hooty is also revealed to be a Lumity shipper even more than the rest of the Owl House crew, even trying to come up with a ship name for them.
• Shout-Out:
  • Eda mentions marrying a human in Las Vegas, and that she can't go back to Oregon ever again, clear references to Gravity Falls. She also paraphrases Stan's realization that they can swear for real with the kids gone at the Knee.
  • Luz and King deliberately and unknowingly, respectively, reference The Pirates of Penzance when King offers to make Luz a major-general in his army.
  • When Luz is explaining supervillains to Amity, she mentions that presentation is what makes a villain "super", not just powers or a costume.
  • Coffee on the boiling isles is referred to as bitter bean blood, as in Witches Among Humans, though Eda does clarify briefly that it's just differant words for the same thing.
  • Luz and Amity's defeat of Grom involves doing a waltz in order to fire a combined fireball that blasts a whole through the monster and, per the following chapter, promoted a girl from the HAS to ask if it was a deliberate reference to an "animated documentary" from the human world that Luz described as a work of fiction about the nation that rules the world being decided by a giant robot martial arts tounrmenet
  • Luz recites a poem paraphrased from Sappho to Amity and offers to play her "the gooiest, cheesiest love song in all the human realm" which turns out to be Let Me Drive My Van Into Your Heart
  • In her offscreen If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... speech, Boscha apparently threatened to feed Luz her own squeedlyspooch.
  • Hooty mentions the calamity box in the Owl House’s basement
  • To distract the scouts at Eda’s petrifaction ceremony so he, Willow, and Amity can sway the crowd’s opinion in the Owl Lady’s favor, Gus creates an illusion of Old Man Henderson.
  • The events of the Gravity Falls episode "The Last Mabelcorn" is mentioned by Luz when explaining the American government to Lilith, as Mabel in that episode managed to successfully disband the Electoral College.
  • When Loki ran for President he made Fiddleford McGucket of Gravity Falls his vice-president, and after Loki decided not to run again McGucket ran himself and won. He also fought off Knull's invasion force attacking DC with a mecha made out of the White House.
  • When Ford was in the Boiling Isles he encountered someone is all but stated to be Rick Sanchez, and when he tried to enlist his help in getting back to Earth he ended up in Amphibia instead.
  • Clara, Scott, and Suzy having mutant powers and challenging Luz and company to a fight rather than apologize when Amity calls them out for being jerks to the girl was inspired by a fan-comment about Clara being the first of Luz's Evil Exes.
• Sleep Cute: Chapter 7 opens with Luz, Amity, and King piled up in Luz's sleeping bag, and when Amity manages to wiggle her way out without waking them up, the other two start cuddling as well.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Clara and her cronies turn out to be this, acting like they are better than everyone else when they don't really have much worth bragging about. Scott acting like some jock without being on any teams, Suzy criticizing other people's clothing, and Clara acting like every Mean Girl stereotype and overreacting to everything.
• Summon Bigger Fish: Discussed when Luz offers to go back to the human realm and call the Avengers Hotline in order to get Doctor Strange's help dealing with Grom. Amity shoots it down on the grounds that it'd look like she was running away from her duties and that he probably wouldn't get there in time.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: As it turns out, Sveta's bunk suspension was 'merely' because the vice principal was homophobic, having not mentioned that Sophie was a mutant at the time. Sophie just let the news draw their own conclusions from the matter.
• Take That!:
  • When Luz is telling Amity about the Superhero Civil War, she explains how it was all engineered by Mephisto as part of his plan to manipulate Spider-Man into giving up his marriage. She writes it off as a petty act by a "complete loser", with Luz speaking dismissively of his ranting about "Spider-Man being more relatable when he was single", which was the official explanation given for One More Day by Marvel.
  • Disney briefly used "Luzity" as a ship name for Luz and Amity instead of "Lumity", which Hooty uses as as suggestion when trying to come up with a ship name himself, Eda saying that it sounds like an herbal supplement from a 3 am infomercial.
  • When Luz and Masha are telling Amity and Vee about the various power players of the Marvel Universe, the fact that Wakanda is withholding all its advanced technology because the rest of the world doesn't "deserve" it is presented in a fairly negative life.
• Unequal Rites:
  • Eda insists that human magic users like Doctor Strange, or even Wanda Maximoff despite her hero name, are Sorcerers, not real witches like herself, and that they can't just learn what they do when Luz expresses her desire to stay and be a witch. After their duel, Amity assumes that Luz had to have bargained with some spirit for her powers. Amity in particular has a dim view of Sorcerers, comparing their bargaining for power to cheating, which Luz agrees with when she thinks about it from a witch's perspective. Because of this, Amity is initially uncomfortable with Masha when the latter reveals that they're a Sorcerer, but tries to not let her prejudices taint their interactions.
  • Then there's "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes are the equivalent of mutant powers in witches. They can fall roughly into one of the nine main types of magic or align with the basic spells anyone can use, but aren't sealed by sigils and don't require spell circles or use bile, though a user can still tire themselves out with them. Despite this, for some reason most witches who have them only really use them much if they're aligned with the type of magic they specifically use, with Amity keeping her own abilities as The Empath secret so Odalia won't try to force her into the Oracle track just so she'll be more like her mother, since she likes Abomination magic.
• Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection: It's noted that Luz's ex-crushes were rather mean in their rejections of her feelings, making fun of her and calling her things like "creepy" or "cheesy".
• Violently Protective Girlfriend:
  • Amity turns Abomination form and threatens to strangle her mother for trying to make Luz feel bad about herself and manipulate her into breaking off their relationship.
  • When Amity hears about just how much bullying Luz suffered at her Human Realm school, she starts making plans to burn the building down.
  • Amity tells off the Bullies who were mean to Luz for being creepy and cheesy, defending her and talking about what a great person she is who deserves all the love and appreciation she has been denied before.
• What If?: The core idea of the plot is that Luz grew up in the Marvel Universe instead of just a generic version of Earth, which has some knock-on effects. The opening of the story even mentions the origins of the For Want Of A Nail phrase.
  • Manny and Camila were infected by symbiotes during the symbiote invasion of Earth in the 1990s, and they unwittingly passed down the traces of Living Abyss in their bodies to their daughter Luz, which grants her powers when she travels to the Demon Realm due to it reacting to the Background Magic Field.
  • Luz got diagnosed her her ADHD because of a Karen that mistook her for a teenage supervillain due to not realizing that the magical artifacts that Luz was going gaga over were replicas. Unfortunately, it didn't help much due to Gravesfield not having much resources for that kind of thing.
  • Using her powers and their interaction with the light glyphs, Luz is able to win the duel with Amity, no cheating from Eda required.
  • Things going differently means that Luz starts bonding with Amity earlier, and gets shown Amity's secret spot by Amity herself.
  • Odalia takes an interest in Luz and Amity’s relationship due to a prophecy her Oracle spirit made.
  • Thanks to Luz not getting mixed up with Edric and Emira's pranks, neither she or Amity are able to stop them from posting Amity's diary at Hexside, causing her to run away and end up at the Owl House when she tries to return Luz's book and Hooty owl pellets her.
  • Amity ends up accompanying Luz and Eda to the Knee instead of going with her siblings.
  • Amity starts to develop abilities as The Empath, with Luz theorizing that she has the witch equivalent of the mutant gene.
  • The Superhero Civil War is cut short before it ever resorts to violence due to May Parker being shot and killed after Peter outed himself as Spider-Man, causing a general Heel Realization about the SRA. Also, the rest of the events of One More Day don't happen, as Mephisto is exorcized before he can manipulate Peter into making the deal to save May's life in exchange for giving up his marriage.
  • Luz discovers the fire glyph on the Knee instead of the ice glyph, due to needing a fire to keep her and Amity warm after they get lost. She ends up finding the ice glyph in the Owl House refrigerator's frost, offscreen at some point between the events on the Knee and Amity's return to school.
  • After the "Freaky Friday" Flip ended, a coven scout grabbed Luz with a branding glove and gave her an Emperor's Coven sigil for some reason, causing the developing brawl to stop when she screamed and Steve and Lilith started berating the one responsible.
  • The events of "Understanding Willow" never happen, due to the Character Development that Amity has undergone by this point meaning that she's not desperate to bury her past relationship with Willow. Instead, she confesses to Willow why she stopped being friends, leading to a reconciliation.
  • Amity manages to give Luz her note before Grom in this AU, and with Luz having different interactions that caused her to start developing feelings back earlier than in canon, they get together well before canon. Amity also faces Grom without Luz taking her place, since Luz's surprise at Amity asking her out means that Amity avoids her prior to the fight, though they still work together to beat Grom in the end, just in a different manner than in canon thanks to Luz having the fire glyph.
  • Amity doesn't hurt her leg, so she's at the field trip to the castle with Luz and company, allowing her to call out Lilith for being a poor teacher. The Coven sigils being able to restrain their bearers also comes up earlier due to Lilith using it on Luz.
  • Thanks to Amity witnessing what the Coven sigils can do and revealing it at the petrification ceremony, the protest to free Eda turns into a full riot. And during this riot, Steve fights off another Scout to protect Matt, triggering a Heel Realization and Steve quitting the Emperor's Coven a full season ahead of canon.
  • Thanks to Luz's powers fully unlocking during the fight with Belos at the petrification ceremony, the Portal Door never ends up destroyed and stays in the Owl House's custody. Because of this, Luz is actually able to go back to the Human Realm when the camp she's supposed to be attending ends.
  • Becoming totally disgruntled with the Emperor's Coven after the events of the petrification ceremony, Amity decides to start multi-tracking.
  • Luz and Amity are there when Camila brings Vee back from camp disguised as Luz, causing her identity to be revealed immediately, and Masha hitched a ride with Camila and Vee, so they find out as well. And thanks to Luz being there in person instead of a projection from the In Between, Camila takes the whole situation much better and actively encourages Luz to keep studying magic in the Demon Realm instead of making her promise to stay on Earth out of desperation.
  • Clara, the blond cheerleader girl, and her cronies (a boy named Scott, and a girl named Suzy), are all people that Luz asked out before ending up on the Isles, who turn out to be mutants when Knull invaded.
  • Thanks to Vee and Masha being present to sense the magic after Clara challenges Amity to a fight at the graveyard rather than apologize to Luz for the way she and her friends rejected Luz's advances among other things, they find the Titan Blood without needing Flapjack's help.
• What Is This Feeling?: Amity doesn't know why she was nervous asking Luz if she wanted to hang out and feels possessive anger and a sour-sick feeling when Luz admits that she thinks Ed and Em were hitting on her but doesn't know what to call it beyond a "new emotion."
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: When Amity hears that one of the three mutants who gained their powers in Gravesfield during Knull's invasion has the ability to mentally control the clothes she's wearing the witch clearly thinks this, with Masha lampshading that a lot of mutants can have overly specific powers.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: A literal example, as just prior to the duel with Amity, Luz and Eda get the idea to see if something happens if Luz activates or draws a light glyph with her shadow powers active, and find out that doing so causes the glyph to turn into a miniature explosive that can apparently disrupt magic, as Amity is unable to use any magic immediately after her Abomination is destroyed by them. The other glyphs similarly explode, but besides Ice and Fire glyphs blowing up bigger than Light and Plant being more like firecrackers than a grenade there doesn't seem to be any noteworthy differences in the blasts. She loses the ability after gaining her full symbiote form, and theorizes that it was a reaction between the aerosolized symbiote goop she suspects made up her "aura" and the magic.

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