Hexside's Number One Delinquent Witch: Prologue
Art by Crash X Fusion: The moment that changed their lives...
Eda the Owl Lady was just looking through some human junk in the human world. However, she doesn't expect a faithful encounter when Owlbert leads her to a certain accident...Tropes that appear in this Chapter:
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Luz and Camila live in Gravesfield, Connecticut in canon but since the episode that revealed this hadn't aired yet, they originate from Minnesota here.
- The Cameo: Principal Bump appears at the end of the chapter to inform Eda of Luz's latest misdemeanor.
- Distant Prologue: The story begins in 1998, when Eda was scavenging for human garbage to sell in her stand.
- Establishing Character Moment: What's the first thing you learn about present-day Luz? She tricked a student at Hexside into pepper spraying herself.
- Establishing Series Moment: Eda adopting Luz pretty much sets up the chaos and familial bonds that come with it.
- The Ghost: Boscha, as the student who Luz tricked into pepper spraying herself.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Luz's birth mother Camila died protecting her baby from a car wreck.
- A Hero Is Born: Things take off while Luz (who grows up to be an Anti-Hero) is still a newborn infant.
- Minimalist Cast: The only characters to appear are Eda, Owlbert, the dead Camila, baby Luz and Principal Bump.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Camila's death leads to Owlbert finding her wrecked car and thus, the whole story regarding Eda adopting Luz.
- Shout-Out: At one point while scavenging junk, Eda finds a computor monitor with an apple symbol on it. There's also the Take That! listed below.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Owlbert leads Eda to the car crash that intertwined her future with Luz's.
- Take That!: When Eda finds a copy of Twilight, she laughs off the thought of selling such trash, thinking that every vampire and werewolf in the Isles would stake her if she tried to sell it.
- Time Skip: The end of the chapter jumps ahead to 14 years later to the year, 2012.
