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The Owl Lady's Chick and its sequels Meanwhile, back at the Owl House and The Owl and the Pussy Cat are Crossover fanfics between The Owl House and The Mask (specifically, the comic series) by Light Seeker 001.

The story is relatively similar with one major difference: Luz causes trouble at her school, gets sent to summer camp, Owlbert steals her Good Witch Azura book and she ends up in the Boiling Isles and taken in by Eda the Owl Lady. But this time, she has a son, Strix Aluco Clawthorne, a powerless witch who uses a certain green mask to compensate for his lack of magic. But he's not supposed to be using the cursed thing, lest he attracts the attention of the Emperor's Lord High Executioner, Walter, the only person immune to the Mask's Toon Physics nonsense.

The Owl Lady's Chick covers Season 1, Meanwhile, back at the Owl House covers Season 2, and The Owl and the Pussy Cat covers Season 3. Masked Owl Pellets covers the shorts.

The Owl Lady's Chick contains examples of:

  • Adaptational Badass:
    • Any Owl House character who uses the Mask gets a massive power boost to their magic. In Luz's case, she becomes as powerful and indestructible as Strix.
    • Walter was already made one of these when he became Nigh-Invulnerable in The Mask animated series, but here as of "Eda's Requiem" he's carved the glyphs into his fingers so he can attack people or destroy something just by snapping them.
  • Adaptational Explanation: In "Watching and Dreaming" Strix deduces that the Collector didn't kill his father, much less trap the Owl Beast in a scroll; it was actually an Archivist.
  • Adaptational Gender Identity:
    • Raine in canon is nonbinary, while here they occasionally go by male pronouns as well.
    • The Owl Beast is confirmed to be female, contrary to its ambiguous gender in the parent work.
  • Adaptational Karma:
    • In "Senses and Insensitivity", Luz and King simply escape from Piniet after he signs a contract with Tiny Nose, and he gets to continue unpunished. Here, a Masked Strix shoves his suitcase down his throat, and while not confirmed, it's implied it killed him.
    • In "Escaping Expulsion", Amity blackmails Odalia into letting her friends back into Hexside, then she and Luz play dead so her investors can be convinced of the Abomaton 2.0's strength. Here, Strix destroys the machine with his glyphs after seeing them in danger, scaring away the investors.
    • In "Edge of the World", Luz and her friends escape the Titan Trappers and leave them relatively unscathed. Here, a Masked Luz kills a vast majority of them with an origami tommy gun. Bill gets the worst of it when the Tawny Beast bites off his left arm and gets his butt burned by Luz wielding a blowtorch, and Tarak is a close second when Luz makes him suffer an Ass Shove.
    • In "Clouds on the Horizon", Odalia doesn’t just lose her precious Abomination factory, she also loses her arm for her troubles. However, it comes off as Zig-Zagged since Strix tore off the arm with the coven sigil to spare her of the draining spell and gives her full access to all her magic.
    • In "Watching and Dreaming", Belos isn't stomped to death by Eda, King, and Raine; instead, he's torn apart by Strix before he eats his decaying skull.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Some people call Strix "Little Owlet" in reference to him being the Owl Lady's chick.
  • An Arm and a Leg:
    • Raine gets their right arm severely burned by Walter when he captures them in "Eda's Requiem", with Kikimora saying the Healing Coven Head will have to regrow a new one for them.
    • As the Tawny Beast, Strix tears off Bill's left arm in "Edge of the World".
    • And again as the Tawny Beast, Strix eats Odalia’s arm with her coven sigil on it. He says it’s because even someone as rotten as her doesn’t deserve to die by the draining spell. This one is subverted by "For the Future" as Odalia got her arm back for swearing her allegiance to the Collector.
  • And Show It to You: Not falling for Belos' Blatant Lies after ripping him off of the Titan's heart, Strix rips his heart out of his chest.
  • Apologetic Attacker: Strix is quick to apologize for punching Edric in the face after the Blight twins sneak up on him and Luz in "Through the Looking Glass Ruins".
  • Artificial Limbs: As a final act of kindness, Alador gives Odalia an arm made from Abomination goo to replace the one Strix ate.
  • Artificial Stupidity: Strix comments on the Abomaton's low intellect and poor observational skills after Amity puts on the Mask and impersonates Alador giving orders right in front of it.
  • Ascended Extra: Downplayed. Emira gets a few more appearances in Season 2 that she didn't have canonically but they're all minor supporting roles; so far, she appears in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", "Eda's Requiem", "Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty's Door", "Any Sport in a Storm" and "Edge of the World". She does get more lines in "Enchanting Grom Fright", "Labyrinth Runners" and "Clouds on the Horizon" with Edric and they both appear and star in "King's Tide", joining Amity, King, Willow, Gus and Hunter on their journey to the Head. She even appears as hallucinations in "Thanks to Them" and gets a speaking part in the Distant Finale in "Watching and Dreaming".
  • Ass Shove:
    • After being insulted by Strix when fishing for a compliment, Eda makes a second attempt while warning her son to say something nice so he doesn't get his head shoved up Selwyn's butthole.
    • Using the Mask, Luz sticks a car muffler up Tarak's butt while fighting him off.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Belos is the only villain who doesn't succeed in his goals at the end of the second story: Walter goes back to the Human Realm after honoring his deal with the Collector, who's freed by King and gets rid of the Mask before beginning to rearrange the Boiling Isles to play King's "Owl House" game.
  • Beat the Curse Out of Him: In "Hunting Palismen", Belos transforms into his cursed form. While in canon he would usually punch a wall until it receded, here, Walter fights Belos until he turns back to normal.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Unless you want to get punched in the face, never touch Strix's wings. Unless you're Emira Blight, in which case you can't stop her.
    • As Belos lists off who he can send Walter to capture and lobotomize if Luz and Strix reveal he's a witch hunter, his suggesting the Blight sisters sparks a reaction from Luz who tells him to leave their girlfriends alone.
    • The Collector implies they killed Strix’ father, the Owl Beast’s mate, which is enough to put the boy in a full rage. Not that it even phases the Collector…
  • Beta Couple: While Luz and Amity are progressing, in the background Strix and Emira hit it off (before the diary incident), go to Grom together, go on a double date with Edric and continue dating afterwards.
  • Beyond the Impossible: Willow, Gus, the Blight siblings and Hunter manage to restrain Walter and erase his memory of the Looking Glass Graveyard's location, and they did it without the Mask.
    Emira: Strix isn't going to believe this.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Strix finds himself having to look after Luz all the time, even when she doesn't need it. After accepting King as his brother, it intensifies.
    • Just before King sends Luz and Strix to the Human Realm to escape the Collector, Emira tells Strix to do one thing: protect Amity for her and Edric.
  • The Big Damn Kiss: After Luz and Amity share their First Kiss on the lips, Strix is pulled into his first kiss in general with Emira in "Clouds on the Horizon".
  • Borrowed Catchphrase:
    • Amity says (rather screams) a version of Luz's usual "Don't call me Luzer" when Strix and the twins find her crying at Blight Manor after she came home from the library.
    • Philip says "Don't call me Phil" when Strix calls him that. And he really hates it when Strix calls him that again after he finds out Philip and Emperor Belos are the same person.
  • Brain Bleach: After Bill shows off his battle scar, a grossed out Strix snarks that he'll have to stab out his eyes when they get back to the Boiling Isles.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • Canon Foreigner: Strix Clawthorne and Selywn the Dragon are original creations for the story.
  • Cassandra Truth:
    • When Strix tells Belos his and Luz's plan to tell everyone his true nature, Belos scoffs, saying that no one will believe them and even if they did, he'll send Walter to lobotomize them, including Luz's friends and loved ones.
    • Hooty asks if anyone can feel the marching at the edge of the forrest surrounding the Owl House. Unlike in canon, where no one heard him, Strix hears him, but bluntly tells him no one cares. Sure enough, the Emperor's Coven arrives to ransack the house and arrest anyone they find.
    • In "Clouds on the Horizon", Odalia flat-out ignores Strix's rant about her dying from the Draining Spell alongside everyone else. Meanwhile, the Collector refuses to believe Walter when he tells them that Belos won't set them free.
  • Chekhov's Gun: In "Escaping Expulsion", when Golden Guard commissions the Abomaton 3.0, Walter gives the Blights a vial of his blood to make them immune to the Mask. Sure enough, when multiple Abomaton 3.0s appear in "O Titan, Where Art Thou", Luz can't make a dent on them.
  • Chekhov's Skill:
    • In "Any Sport in a Storm", Strix somehow learned Philip's teleportation glyph. In "Clouds on the Horizon", he uses it to go to the Titan's Skull to try and rescue Luz.
    • "Thanks to Them" reveals Strix has enhanced hearing in his transformed state, which is how he picked up on Hunter telling Luz about Belos at the Haunted Hayride. It's later revealed that it caused him to overhear Luz making her video diary and thus, her decision to stay in the Human Realm for good the previous night.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Strix always goes for the stealthy approach and normally uses the Mask if the situation calls for it.
  • Crush Blush: Along with Luz and Amity around each other, Emira blushes after Strix pecks her on the cheek in "Enchanting Grom Fright".
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Any attempts to fight a wearer of the Mask is usually hilariously one-sided. Sometimes they last a bit longer, but unless your name is Walter, you stand no chance.
  • Curse Cut Short: In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", after Philip rudely takes his journal back from Strix, Strix is very unamused.
    Strix: You're welcome. You piece of dog sh-
  • Deadpan Snarker: If a situation or person can be made fun of, expect Strix to say something witty. For example in "Yesterday's Lie", Strix follows Luz into the junk portal, and she panics about how he'll get out since he doesn't have any rope. Strix plays up his panic before pointing out he has wings.
  • Death by Adaptation: The Greater Basilisk was crushed by sandbags in "The First Day", releasing all the magic she consumed but seemingly survived. Here, Strix makes use of Basilisks' aversion to glyphs and shoves an ice glyph in her mouth before activating it, causing her head to explode and her body to disintegrate.
  • Defiant Strip: Once Strix learns about the Haunted Hayride (meaning he won't have to wear a costume and can go as himself in his transformed state), he is more than happy to rip off the shorts he was wearing.
    Camila: Put your pants back on, Strix.
    Strix: NEVER!
  • Detect Evil: In "Hollow Mind", when the kids see the Collector in Belos' mind, Strix feels unnerved, but doesn't know why. This likely comes from the Owl Beast's offspring, who presumably remembers the threat the Collector made about keeping it as a pet when it hatched. It happens again in "Edge of the World", where Strix feels fear while on Titan Trapper Island, thanks to the Collector's influence on the Trappers.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation:
    • In canon, after defeating Adegast, Eda simply eats him alive. Here, Selwyn burns him to death and then Eda eats him.
    • Here, the trash snail that King raised in "I Was A Teenage Abomination" ends up fried to death and then eaten by Selwyn.
    • In canon, the previous Golden Guards were shown being killed in various magical ways, inflicted by Belos himself. Here, Walter killed some of them.
    • In canon, Belos dies after being stomped on by Eda, King, and Raine. Here, Strix tears his heart out, dismembers him, then finishes him off by eating his decaying skull as he's being melted by the acid rain summoned by Luz.
  • Disappeared Dad: Eda just laid an egg one day, and Strix was born. She has no idea how she became pregnant and Strix doesn't even know if he has a dad. "Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Hooty's Door" implies the Collector did something to the Owl Beast's mate, and in "Reaching Out" Luz says he "lost his dad". In "King's Tide", the Collector admits he "got rid of" Strix's father when he refused to let him have Strix as a pet, and when Strix demands to know what he did to him, the Collector nonchalantly tells him to use his imagination.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": "Don't call me 'Luzer'." That's Luz's usual response to Strix using his nickname for her. Belos really hates it when Strix calls him "Phil" and Bill hates it when he uses "Billy".
  • Dope Slap: A bit of a Running Gag between Luz and Strix, with her slapping him for some of his more hurtful sarcastic comments. It's taken to the extreme in "Yesterday's Lie" and "Edge of the World".
  • Downer Ending: "King's Tide" has Strix forced into a permanent transformation by the Collector who begins their takeover, Walter taking the portal key after returning to the Human Realm, the Hexsquad being stranded there and taking refuge in the Noceda residence after watching King and Emira sacrifice themselves and Edric to spare them, and Belos' inevitable return. The only glimmer of hope is that the Mask ends up in the Human Realm after the Collector gets rid of it.
  • The Dreaded: Just the mere mention of Walter's name is enough to get people to start sweating, and with good reason. He's the only person to have picked a fight with the Emperor and won. Though, Eda and Kikimora think he just got lucky.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: After defeating Belos, the Collector restores Strix to his witch form and gives him access to a harpy form. Four years later, Strix is still dating Emira and now the head of the Bad Girl Coven AKA the Calamity Class, keeping the Mask due to an incident caused by Tinella Nosa after she got her hands on it.
  • Empty Shell: We see a lobotomized wild witch in "Them's the Breaks, Kid". Her eyes are blank and lifeless, she has a horseshoe-shaped scar on her head where she was operated on, and she never says a word. She simply stands around until given a command.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Like Raine, the other Coven Heads are horrified by Walter's suggesting of lobotomizing wild witches instead of simply petrifying them, but they're too scared of Walter to say anything about it. When we see one in "Them's the Breaks, Kid", Raine is sickened by the sight and breaks down crying. Terra acknowledges it as horrible but brushes it aside as necessary for the Emperor's cause. She even makes a joke of it, saying that if they had done it to Eda a long time ago, Terra would have made her her personal slave.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Hooty is not pleased when he hears what Strix said to Luz about putting her future at risk during their argument.
    Hooty: Even the life I have has more dignity than a bucket of soil.
    • As the Tawny Beast, Strix eats Odalia's arm with the coven sigil on it, saying that even though she is a horrible person, she doesn't deserve to die by the draining spell.
  • Exactly What I Aimed At: Before Inner Belos uses his scythe arm attack, Strix fires a bazooka though the rocket doesn't hit Belos. When he lampshades it, Strix reveals he fired it at the memory paintings, burning Belos' memories.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: When Amity's under the Mask's influence, she regains her natural brown hair color.
  • Face Palm: Strix does this on a regular basis, often due to something he thinks is stupid happening.
  • Familiar: Along with everyone else who attends Palisman Adoption Day, Strix receives one of his own and the Magic Staff that comes with it, an Eurasian eagle owl named Bubi.
  • Fantastic Racism: Because he can't use magic like every other witch, Strix is considered nothing but dead weight in the eyes of the Emperor's Coven. As such, many witches look down on him for having no talent. This is the part of the reason why he couldn't go to Hexside (the other part being Eda not wanting him to).
  • Flat "What": In "King's Tide", during the fight against Belos, the Mask gets knocked into the air and lands on Walter's face. Everyone watches in horror, expecting to have to fight the giant with the Mask's Toon Physics, but it simply slides off his face. Luz can only say "What?" in confusion.
  • Forced Transformation:
    • Strix attacks The Collector in a fury when he hears what they did to his father. The Collector's response is to casually turn Strix into a small owl humanoid.
    • And when Selwyn tries to defend Strix, the Collector turns her into a harmless salamander.
  • For Want Of A Nail:
    • Strix destroys the Abomaton 2.0 during the Blight Industries demo, which leads to the creation of a 3.0 model.
    • Eda appears in a flashback in the story's version of "Through the Looking Glass Ruins".
    • Due to being captured by Walter, Raine gets their right arm severely burnt, leading to Kikimora moving their coven sigil to the other arm with Hettie Cutburn having to grow a new arm for Raine.
    • Since he keeps interfering with Belos' plan, Strix is the one who nearly ends up getting turned to stone instead of Luz in "King's Tide". And when she uses the Mask to blow up the moon to stop the draining spell, Belos gets to work with a Plan B Walter devised: drain all the magic from the Boiling Isles to create a bomb that will destroy everything. But before he can make his escape, Walter destroys the portal, but is later revealed to have made a deal with the Collector so he can repair Eda's old portal in exchange for the Mask. Also, Walter replaces Terra as the one who's suspicious of Raine and she only finds out when Strix teleports in front of the Coven Heads and Eda at the Head.
    • Strix picks up on Belos possessing Hunter upon his and Luz arriving at the graveyard and stops him from destroying Flapjack. Luz also doesn't reveal that Hunter's a grimwalker to everyone.
    • Luz didn't wake up from her nightmare on her own, Strix gives her a light glyph.
  • Gender Flip: Eberwolf, whose gender is unknown (only implied), is female here.
  • Godzilla Threshold: Not wanting Eda to take Raine's place in the Draining Spell, Strix suggests using the Mask to blow up the moon to interrupt it. Everyone agrees to use it as a Plan B and task Luz with doing the deed.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: In "Any Sport in a Storm", Willow while wearing the Mask throws an acorn in Darius' mouth, and grows it into a tree, turning him into an exploded pile of goop. He survives by pulling himself back together.
  • Hated by All: Nobody likes Walter, and for good reason. The team hate him because he works for Belos, Witches fear him as the brutal Lord High Executioner, the Coven Heads are sickened by his self-mutilation and his solution of lobotomizing wild witches instead of petrifying them, Belos only keeps him around because he beat him and he's useful, and the Collector openly mocks him for still "playing Kill The Collector" despite knowing he can't be harmed while in his shadow form.
  • Hates Being Nicknamed:
    • Luz, before bonding with Strix, hated the nickname "Luzer".
    • Strix calls Philip Wittebane, "Phil" once. This earns him a glare and a threatening "Don't call me Phil." He calls him Phil again in "Hollow Mind", and it nearly earns him Belos' scythe arm to the face.
    • Bill really doesn't like being called "Billy", yet Strix intended to call him that anyway.
  • Hearing Voices: Watching the Collector talk to the Mask, Luz hears a voice that only she notices. This shows that she can somehow hear Big Head. Camila later admits she heard the voice, and Strix can too once the Mask tells all of them it lets people hear it when it sees fit.
  • The Heavy: As Lord High Executioner, Walter serves as the main muscle of the Emperor's Coven.
  • High-Pressure Emotion: After Amity kisses Luz on the cheek, Luz (who's currently wearing the Mask) turns from green to red and steam comes out of her ears, whistling like a tea kettle.
  • Hurl It into the Sun: Once the Collector finally gets his hands on the Mask, they toss it skyward into the sun to get rid of it once and for all. The Mask survives this and mocks the reader for thinking it could be destroyed so easily.
  • Hypocrite: While in Belos' mind, Hunter critiques Strix for having to rely on wild magic to be a witch. Keep in mind, Hunter's had his own palisman for a while by the time he says this.
  • Hypocritical Humor: In "Yesterday's Lie", upon learning of how the In Between Realm's cubes work, Strix tries to see Emira, earning him a slap from Luz. Luz then wonders aloud if she could see Amity before immediately scolding herself. Strix makes fun of her and she punches him in the face.
  • I Heard That: The extended ending on "I Was a Teenage Abomination" has Strix comment to Luz's statement about "fails being funny" by using King as living proof of that. King shouts he heard him, and Strix yells he was supposed to. He does it again with Hunter in "Clouds on the Horizon".
  • I'm a Humanitarian: By "Clouds on the Horizon" rolls around, Strix is so consumed with rage towards what's happening that he's fine eating flesh as the Tawny Beast. He almost cannibalizes Odalia whole if not for Emira helping him snap out of his anger. But not before he eats off her arm.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Multiple things go the same as they did in canon despite different factors.
    • While Strix's presence causes some events to play out differently, they generally go the same as they did in The Owl House. Notably, despite the savage beatdown Strix lays on Philip in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", not one of his blows manage to break his nose, which is still caused by Lilith's punch.
    • In "Hollow Mind", Philip reveals Caleb's witch lover gave him the Mask to defend himself when he tried to kill him. Despite this, he still died, and Belos still made Grimwalkers.
    • In "Thanks to Them", despite Strix stopping Belos from imapling Flapjack, he still has to sacrifice himself to resurrect Hunter.
  • Insult of Endearment: Strix calls Luz "Luzer" as friendly ribbing, which she always responds to with a variation of "Don't call me Luzer". At first it was meant to be insulting, but after they bond, it's becomes something like Sam and Dean's 'bitch, jerk' routine. Notably, when Amity calls Luz this in "Covention", Strix notes it sounds way meaner than when he says it. It comes off as Malicious Misnaming when Odalia uses it in "Clouds on the Horizon".
  • Internal Reveal:
    • Luz and Strix learn that Walter is actually human in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", much to their shock. Gus and Amity are informed about this in the next episode.
    • Luz, Eda and King discover from Prim in "Hollow Mind" that wild witches have been getting lobotomized instead of petrified.
    • In "Edge of the World", Strix lets slip to Eda that Raine faked their brainwashing and asked him not to tell her to keep the Clawthornes and Luz from endangering themselves. On the way to Titan Trapper Island, he tells Emira in secret what he and Luz learned in Belos' mind. Angered when he tells her not to get involved or tell Amity and Edric to keep them safe, Em storms off to tell her siblings after Strix ends their call.
    • In "Clouds on the Horizon", Walter informs the Collector that Belos has no intention of keeping his end of the deal, though he doesn't believe him. In the same chapter, Luz finds out that Strix told Emira about their discoveries in Belos' mind.
    • In "Thanks to Them", Camila hears Big Head's voice coming from the Mask and tells Luz and Strix about it before they go back to the Demon Realm.
  • "It" Is Dehumanizing: In "Hollow Mind", Strix and Luz come across a memory of Walter lobotimizing a wild witch while Belos watches. During the whole procedure, Belos refers to the witch as "it", since he doesn't consider witches anything other than monsters.
  • It's All My Fault: Said almost word for word by Lilith as she transforms into the Raven Beast, taking it as punishment for cursing her sister and nephew and preventing Strix from using the Mask to help her.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite all his atrocities while he worked for Belos, Walter ultimately faces no punishment for anything, and exits the story in "King's Tide".
  • Kick the Dog: The Collector was already hunting the Owl Beast to turn it into a curse, but they decide to go the extra mile and taunt it by revealing they plan to keep its baby as a pet once it hatches. Eda asks where the Owl Beast's mate is, and it implies the Collector did something to it.
    • They continue to mock the Owl Beasts even further, as they gleefully admit to Strix they offed the Tawny Beast's father before forcibly turning him into a humanoid owl for attempting to exact revenge.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Willow convinces her friends to throw in the towel on using the Mask to get their expulsions revoked when Principal Bump tells them he'll be forced to call in Walter if they keep doing so.
  • Lame Pun Reaction: Strix really hates puns, and usually either groans in annoyance or threatens harm on anyone who makes them.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia:
    • In "Labyrinth's Runners", Gus has to perform this on Walter to prevent him from finding the location of the Galdorstones.
    • Lampshaded near the end of "Thanks to Them"; Strix is about to suggest that if Luz really intends to stay in the Human Realm permanently, then he could wipe her memories of the Demon Realm and everyone else's memories of her so none of them will have to experience the pain of saying goodbye to Luz. He averts this for now but considers proposing it to her later.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After lobotomizing several wild witches and painfully mining Gus' mind for the location of the Looking Glass Graveyard, Walter is paid back for it all in "Labyrinth Runners" when he's restrained long enough for Gus to burn his memory of the location, knocking him out.
  • Lobotomy: Walter convinces the Emperor to forgo petrifying wild witches in favor of lobotomizing them instead. The Coven Heads are horrified by this, but are too scared of Walter to oppose him. Terra Snapdragon eventually says it's a vast improvement as "a wild witch with only half a brain is easier to control". In "Hollow Mind", the process is shown to be very crude Meatgrinder Surgery, where Walter slices open the head of a witch, shoves memory tweezers into the hippocampus to extract every memory, then burns them all, putting them into a vegetative state, an even worse version of Willow after Amity accidentally burned her memories.
    • Walter almost does this to Gus in an attempt to extract the information of the Galdorstones from him, only to trigger the memory illusion.
  • Lustful Melt: Once Amity enters her home following the kiss, since Luz is wearing the Mask at the moment, she literally melts into a puddle.
  • Major Injury Underreaction: People in this fic seem to have amazingly high pain tolerance.
    • Walter frequently attacks Belos to show his displeasure, throwing multiple daggers at him, flicking a nail in his head, and Belos barely reacts, merely pulling them out like nothing happened. With his body being made of goop held together by magic and Palismen souls, physical harm isn't really a problem.
    • Walter throws an axe at Kikimora's head. She reacts to being struck with the blade with a understated "Ow."
    • Strix in Tawny Beast form bites off Bill's arm. Aside from a whimper of pain, it doesn't slow him down.
    • Notably averted with Odalia Blight, who reacts exactly how someone that just got their arm ripped off would react.
  • Meaningful Name: Strix's full name is the scientific name for the Tawny Owl, which is befitting as he transforms into a Tawny Beast.
  • Mind Rape: When Gus finally gets the Mask in "Clouds on the Horizon", he casts an illusion that reduces a group of Coven Scouts to screaming, babbling idiots.
  • Monster Is a Mommy: Whenever Eda turns into the Owl Beast, she never harms Strix. "Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Hooty's Door" reveals this is because the Owl Beast swallowed its egg before the Collector turned it into a curse, and the egg became part of Strix, who the Owl Beast recognizes as its child.
  • Mythology Gag: Facing the Titan Trappers using the Mask, Luz utilizes the same balloon animals (but with tinfoil origami) and muffler gags as Stanley in the first movie. However, the former ends as it does in the comic where she ends up killing them with the tommy gun rather than scare them off with it.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Two occasions at the hands of Strix; first was Philip Wittebane and the second is implied when he and Emira threaten to pound Tibbles into ground meat.
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction:
    • Eda vehemently shoots down Luz's suggestion to interrogate Walter on how he came to the Demon Realm.
    • Camila assumes that Strix is Luz's boyfriend. Strix feels sickened, since Luz is more like an "annoying little sister".
  • Noodle Incident:
    • While impersonating a transfer student in "I Was a Teenage Abomination", Strix causes the teacher and students of the Potions track to have their face cheeks and their butt cheeks to be switched; the teacher never forgave him for that. It's why Principal Bump places him in the Illusion track when he's enrolled.
    • After the final battle against Belos, the Mask ends up in Tinella's hands and she caused an untold amount of chaos with it. This prompted Strix to take it back despite feeling he no longer needed it.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Sometime after "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", Strix somehow learned Philip's teleportation glyph.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • Principal Bump isn't pleased when the troublemakers start worshiping Strix after learning his mother's Lord Calamity.
    • Strix and Luz make this expression when the Mask stops working on Strix during the fight with the Abomaton 2.0.
    • Strix reacts with horror when he puts two and two together and realizes Belos and Philip are the same person.
    • After a Masked Luz blows up the moon and puts an end to the Day of Unity, Eda, Raine, Eberwolf and Darius realize they're now at the mercy of a bunch of angry Coven witches who want them dead.
    • Everyone reacts with horror when Kikimora not only snatches the Mask, but puts it on.
    • But the biggest one of them all is when Titan!Belos takes the Mask from the Collector and puts it on.
  • Once an Episode: With only a few exceptions, each chapter features at least one instance of Strix calling Luz "Luzer" and her telling him not to call her that.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: None of the Blight children cut Alador some slack for making the Abomaton 3.0 practically invincible.
  • Out of Focus: Strix gets shafted to the sidelines in "Really Small Problems" and from "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" to "Eda's Requiem", so things progress normally.
  • Parents as People: As Strix's mother, Eda is clearly inexperienced and it's implied that she didn't even want to be one at first. Her laying his egg out of nowhere caught her by surprise but the Owl Beast's motherly instincts overrode her hesitance. As Strix grew up, Eda tried to be a bit more responsible, but still gets into heated arguments with him. However, she tries to do what's best for him by sending him to Hexside and even trying to keep him out of danger when it's clear he might be over his head.
  • Platonic Kissing: After seeing Luz and Amity take down Grometheus, Strix pulls them into a group hug and smooches both of them. Aside from the girls blushing and Strix's occasional complimenting of Amity's looks afterwards, there's obviously no chemistry between him or either girl since Strix starts dating Emira and Luz and Amity fall for each other later on.
  • Please Put Some Clothes On: In his humanoid owl state, Strix is no longer comfortable wearing any clothes besides Lilith's grudgby jacket, especially pants. Everyone forces him to wear a mask and shorts when they're in public in Gravesfield and he happily rips them off when given a chance to go to an event where he won't be considered a monster.
  • Properly Paranoid: While Luz and Lilith trust Philip, Strix is suspicious of him from the start, and calls him out for his exaggerated "frail traveller" act. Sure enough, Philip's playing them for fools, and Strix tries to kill him immediately.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
    • Lilith gives one to Strix after binging on ice cream in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", blaming him for making Eda's life harder just by existing because of his curse. Later after the Raven Beast attacks him, Strix gives one to the whole Clawthorne family, declaring he hates them for all of their underhanded and insensitive actions which causes him to transform into a Tawny Beast for the first time. Lilith later admits to Tawny Strix that everything she said to him, she was saying about herself for causing his pain and suffering.
    • Strix delivers a rather harsh one to Luz at the end of "Yesterday's Lie". He basically tells her that none of this would have happened if she had just gone to the summer camp, how she's become too afraid of her own kind and that if she keeps trying to live out her fantasy, she'll end up as a hobo. Luz, angered, tells him that if it weren't for her, he and Eda would still be criminals. Strix retorts that that's the biggest problem, she's done so many things for him, his mom and their friends, but hasn't considered the consequences of how it could affect her future. This forms a rift between the two that lasts until they make up at the end of the next episode, but Luz is still hurt by what he said.
    • In "Hollow Mind", Strix finds out Belos and Philip are one and the same and he calls him a coward for killing another human. Belos does not take it well and tries to kill the boy out of hate.
  • Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Subverted. Selwyn the dragon usually spends her days sleeping in Eda's garage and hunting, but she can prove herself loyal when the time comes.
  • The Reveal: "Eclipse Lake" reveals that Philip Wittebane dealt with the Mask during the Deadwardian Era. "Hollow Mind" reveals that Caleb's lover gave it to him to use against Philip when she learned he was going to kill Caleb.
    • "Edge of the World" reveals that the Mask and the Collector are sworn enemies for unknown reasons.
    • "Clouds on the Horizon" shows that Walter's made a deal of his own with the Collector. The next chapter reveals that in exchange for getting the Mask, the Collector would fully restore the portal door after Walter destroys it to keep Belos from escaping.
    • In "King's Tide", Terra reveals that Walter had her plant nine trees in specific places, which have the ability to absorb magic through witch's sigils to create a magic bomb that will wipe out the entire Titan.
    • Also in "King's Tide", Kikimora reveals that she knows of Big Head and that he and the Collector have been locked in a feud for the past 1,000 years. It's also shown that Luz can hear Big Head's voice.
  • Riddle for the Ages: How exactly did the Mask make its way to the Noceda residence?
  • Running Gag:
    • Strix calling Luz "Luzer", to which Luz replies back with some variant of "Don't call me Luzer."
    • Strix also has a habit of face-palming everytime something annoys or irritates him.
    • Someone occasionally says "Hi ho, Silver Wings!" in regards to Strix's wings.
    • Strix and Emira making side bets.
    • Exclusive to "Yesterday's Lie" and "Edge of the World", Luz keeps slapping Strix everytime he runs his mouth off during their time in the In Between Realm.
    • Walter attacking someone speaking to him and them either barely reacting or narrowly avoiding it.
    • Someone losing their arm.
    • Gus hoping to get to use the Mask. He gets his wish granted in "Clouds on the Horizon".
  • Sadistic Choice: Belos gives Luz and Strix one in "Hollow Mind"; either they keep what they've learned about him to themselves or he'll send Walter to lobotomize their loved ones, starting with Amity and Emira.
  • Saying Too Much: In "Edge of the World", Strix accidentally reveals Raine is faking their amnesia while lamenting just how bad the Draining Spell actually is. This leads to Eda forcing him to spill.
  • Secret-Keeper: Strix, thrice over.
    • In "Enchanting Grom Fright", Strix finds Amity's torn note asking Luz out to Grom, but decides not to tell anyone about her crush.
    • In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", Strix is suspicious of Raine's actions during the Coven Day Parade and track them down and forces them to tell the truth by threatening to blow up the Boiling Isles with a nuke. Left with no other option, Raine confesses they haven't been memory wiped. When Strix demands to know why they didn't come, Raine reveals the Emperor's foregone petrification for lobotomizing wild witches, and doesn't want Eda or her kids getting involved.
    • In "Thanks to Them", he overhears Luz making her video diary and learns about her plan to stay in the Human Realm for good, making him a Secret Secret-Keeper.
  • Self-Harm: Walter, just like in the comic, loves to mutilate and stab himself. What makes it strange is that apparently that is his way of communication to someone. Or at the very least Belos, who can somehow decipher Walter stabbing himself as speech.
  • Self-Mutilation Demonstration: Like in The Mask comics, Walter performs self harm as a way to get under people's skin. And if anyone were to complain to make him stop, a Death Glare from him puts them in their place. Darius in particular gets immediately sick at the sight of it and Walter knows this.
  • Seen-It-All Suicide: Averted. After seeing the Collector hug Titan!Belos, Strix attempts to stab himself with a sharp rock, only to be stopped by Eda.
  • She's Not My Girlfriend: Camila assumes Strix is Luz's boyfriend after they meet, to which Strix tells her he's already got a girlfriend and comes close to revealing the same can be said for Luz before she smacks him.
  • Shout-Out:
    Katya: But you read them.
    Strix: Well, of course I read them!
  • Side Bet: Strix and Emira seem to be fond of making these. They were apparently keeping a bet on whether or not Amity would be bold enough to make a move on Luz; Emira wins, and Strix owes her 50 snails. Later, they bet that if Strix won the Gland Prix, Emira would buy dinner on their next date and in the reverse if he loses; he ends up losing again. Strix finally wins a bet over Emira when Amity kisses Luz on the lips, though he remarks he'll be using it to repair the wall in Blight Manor he just had Willow destroy. After the Hexsquad teleports to the Titan's skull near the end of "For the Future", Amity tells Strix that Emira bet they would return to the Isles in a week; since Emira lost, Strix has to pay her back the money she bet.
  • Silent Antagonist: Walter naturally doesn't speak since his vocal cords were destroyed.
  • Skewed Priorities: In "Any Sport in a Storm", Strix and Emira get involved in Luz and Amity's hunt for the author of Azura not because she might have a way to travel between worlds, but because Strix claims he wants to punch her for writing the cheesy series. Emira wants to stop him, knowing Luz and Amity would not approve. He gets what he wants when it turns out to be Tibbles and Emira joins in when the revelation upsets Amity.
  • Take That!: In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", Strix says that they won't have a beach episode because "it doesn't fit the brand".
  • Toon Physics: The Mask grants Strix (and eventually Luz, with Willow, Amity, Emira and Gus using it at different points) the ability to do any outlandish thing he can imagine, from summoning anvils, performing Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs (his favourite technique) or pulling a literal nuke from his pants. Just like the comics, this does not apply to his victims.
  • Trespassing to Talk: In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", Strix heads to Raine's room in the Emperor's castle to question them about their earlier behavior, and his threats to nuke the Isles gets them to tell him about Belos approving of lobotomizing wild witches and their trying to keep Eda and her family from suffering the same fate.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Odalia, since she calls in the Coven scouts to arrest her family.
    Emira: You'd think she'd be a little bit nicer for giving her that new arm.
  • Villainous Breakdown: In "Hollow Mind", Strix causes Inner Belos to suffer one by blowing up the memory pictures, making him turn into a creature caught between the forms of Belos, Philip and the palisman monster.
    • Just like in canon, Belos has one again in “Kings Tide” but this time the shock of seeing the moon destroyed, and Walter betraying him and destroying the portal makes him even more furious than in canon.
  • Wedgie: Befitting Stanley Ipkiss, Strix tends to give people wedgies on occasion when using the Mask.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Walter doesn't appear in the third story since he's kept his end of the bargain with the Collector, though it's definitely for the best.
  • Wingding Eyes: When Eda hears the Bat Queen's paying her to babysit her child, she displays dollar signs in her eyes. Upon seeing the snails that come in the basket, they turn into gold bars.
  • Winged Humanoid: Strix has a pair of silver wings, a sign that Eda's curse passed onto him. In "Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty's Door", it's revealed he's had them since he was born, as he's also the Owl Beast's offspring.
  • Your Days Are Numbered: In Strix's case, the curse is gradual and is slowly turning him into an Owl Beast like his mother. Only the Mask combined with an elixir can stave it off. Unfortunately, the Mask slowly starts to lose its power over Strix due to the curse fighting back against it. Lilith compares it to an immune system fighting back against a disease.

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