Chapter 17: Raising Human
Art by Crash X Fusion: It took so long for her to recover. Question is, what did the trick?
Eda's struggles with being a parent are revealed; Luz helps King as he rises to fame.
Tropes that appear in this Chapter:
- Actually Pretty Funny: There's this moment:Amity: Luz, have you thought of submitting a story of your own?Luz: Nah, I'm not the writer type. I'm just helping King with his dream of being an author so he can develop a cult or something.Amity: You mean a fandom?Luz: What's the difference? (Amity almost snorted, which didn't go unnoticed by Luz.)
- Aesop Amnesia: Puck lampshades that King didn't learn his lesson about hubris from the last time he saw him.
- Befriending the Enemy: Puck's considered an enemy to the Isles with King having a personal beef with him, yet Luz ends up befriending him after he helps her out.
- Berserk Button: Luz savagely attacks Piniet when he indirectly insults Amity.
- Crossover: Anne Boonchuy and Steven Universe appear during the chapter's opening statement with Luz's canon self, making a Take That! at how communities will leak spoilers.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Luz against Piniet, Eda against the scam artist.
- Disappointed in You: Luz disapproves of King plagiarizing stating that coming from her of all people, it's pretty bad.
- Eye Scream: Luz is implied to have scratched Piniet's third eye out.
- Flashback B-Plot: The flashbacks focus on Eda trying to rebuild Luz's confidence three years after the slayground incident. The last one shows Eda's first trip with Luz to the human realm before that point.
- Foreshadowing:
- Puck uses a strange kind of dust to turn all the authors back to normal.
- According to a laid up Piniet, Luz's eyes turned blue during the beating.
- Heroic BSoD: Luz goes into one after she sees the unconscious Piniet, which is why Puck helps her and King escape.
- Humiliation Conga: Piniet is savagely beaten by Luz, then attacked and burned by all his writers after they're freed by Puck, and is eventually killed by Kikimora to make sure he doesn't reveal anything about Luz.
- Ignored Aesop: When Puck finds Luz and King, he reprimands King for letting his ego get out of hand again.
- In Spite of a Nail: Eda's plot involving the Bloom of Eternal Youth is mostly unchanged up until the end.
- Internal Reveal:
- Lilith informs Eda of Emperor Belos taking a specific interest in Luz.
- King learns that Luz met Puck already and they both discover he's the friend Hooty's been talking about.
- Killed Off for Real: Doubling as Killed Offscreen, Kikimora injects Piniet with a potion without the reader seeing it, and it isn't confirmed until later that he perished.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: King says his becoming a writer would make excellent a-plot material, and Luz agrees by saying they would be the main focus.
- Mythology Gag: The ad for the Mystery Shack is the same one from "Gravity Falls TV Shorts".
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Again, Luz and Eda to Piniet and the con artist, respectively.
- Point of Divergence: To "Sense and Insensitivity":
- A-Plot; Since Luz doesn't have any interest in writing, King writes his own story for the writing contest. Amity (once again making an appearance unlike canon) tells him it's no good, so he submits a story someone else wrote and threw out instead. It gets popular enough to garner potential movie rights, forcing him to confess and an angered Piniet threatens to harm him for endangering his business earning a beatdown from Luz.
- B-Plot; Eda tries to convince Lilith to let her have the Bloom of Eternal Youth, Steve (who joins Lilith on the journey) picks it instead, Eda single-handedly beats up the con artist and Lilith's talk with Eda about her curse switches to her suggesting Eda send Luz away for her own protection.
- The Resenter: Puck admits he's a little jealous of Luz's life since she has a family who'd do anything for her.
- The Reveal:
- Eda was acquainted with a coven guard named Larry in the past, as well as Stan Pines.
- Turns out both Clawthorne sisters have had relationships that ended poorly, with Lilith having dated a man who left her.
- Puck was banished from his own kind and was only passing through the Boiling Isles when he started observing Luz after the library incident.
- Shout-Out: During her quest, Eda passes by a camp and asks a guy wearing a hockey mask for directions, a nod to Friday the 13th.
- Vagueness Is Coming: Lilith isn't sure why Belos wants Luz, but she tells Eda it can't be good.
- Wham Episode: Luz officially befriends Puck, Eda decides to take Luz and King to the human realm for a vacation and she's also revealed to have history with Stan Pines.
- Wham Line: "Hi, I'm Mr. Mystery. Do you like to be befuddled? Bewild-wi-wuddle- Bewildered? Then behold! The Mystery Shack! Your one stop shop for mysteriously cheap oddities!"
- Wham Shot: During her first trip to the human world, Luz watches a TV commercial for the first time. What's the commercial for? The Mystery Shack!
