History Fanfic / FeathersLikeGoldAndBlackberries

* MayflowerDecemberRomance: Part of why Luz is wary about a relationship with Amity is that she's immortal, and Amity is not.

** Luz's wing was nearly ripped off her shoulder, preventing her from flying, and leaving her collarbone in two pieces. Even worse, because angel and Nephilim wings are normally intangible and invisible, her options for treating it are extremely limited. She even drops the trope name during her ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe moment with Amity.

* GoodWingsEvilWings: Luz's feathers are a mix of gold and purplish-black, befitting the fact that, while she might be quirky and weird, she's still a good person.

** Luz's wing was nearly ripped off her shoulder, preventing her from flying, and leaving her collarbone in two pieces. Even worse, because angel and Nephilim wings are normally intangible and invisible, her options for treating it are extremely limited.

* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:While Luz is described more like a living battery, this is basically Michael's plan for Luz. God is slowly dying and he had Michael create Luz -- a being with both a grace and a soul, making her the only [[CompleteImmortality truly eternal being]] -- so that he can make himself truly eternal and rule over the universe for all of eternity.]]

* GodIsEvil: Luz's abuelo -- {{God}} -- responds to any angels wanting to be anything other than an obedient soldier with oblivion. It's also implied that Luz's family puts her through HalfBreedDiscrimination as part of TheChainOfHarm enforced by him.

* ShoutOut: Luz's Uncle Lucifer is obviously based off of the titular character from ''Series/Lucifer2016''; he's missing his wings, he quit his time ruling over Hell and is now lazing about in Los Angeles, being the most pro-human of his angelic siblings..

* AdaptationalVillainy: While he never officially appears outside of photographs in canon, Luz's dad Manny was nothing but a loving husband and father. Here, Michael is a dutiful soldier of {{God}} who saw Luz as nothing more than an experiment, eventually killing Camilla and [[spoiler:attempted to ritualistically sacrifice Luz to make God more powerful]], voicing nothin but his contempt for his half-breed daughter when he dropped his paper-thin veneer of paternal love.

** In a following chapter, [[spoiler:Luz reveals that she revived her mother after her father killed her.]]

* AbusiveParents: Luz's father -- the ArchangelMichael -- [[spoiler:created Luz as a ritual sacrifice for his father God]] and only barely showed a paper-thin veneer of paternal affection towards her until then, even creating his "human"-aspect Manny to fulfill his role in the family-unit when he couldn't be bothered. Otherwise, he saw her more as an extension of himself, not allowing her to have any human friends while growing up and erasing their memories if he ever tried. By the end, he had Camilla's soul destroyed and permanently crippled her with a soul-destroying sword before Luz had to kill him in self-defense.

* AbusiveParents: Luz's father -- the ArchangelMichael -- killed Camilla and permanently crippled Luz trying to cut off her wings. Luz wound up killing him as self-defense. He even uses as sword that can harm the soul, Luz being the only angel with a soul since she's half-human.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While he never officially appears outside of photographs in canon, Luz's dad Manny was nothing but a loving husband and father. Here, Michael is a dutiful soldier of {{God}} who was perfectly content with smiting Camilla for being "in the way" and tries cutting off Luz's wings on orders from Heaven.

* ShoutOut: Luz's Uncle Lucifer is obviously based off of the titular character from ''Series/Lucifer2016''; he's missing his wings, he quit his time ruling over Hell and is now lazing about in Los Angeles.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While he never officially appears outside of photographs in canon, Luz's dad Manny was nothing but a loving husband and father. Here, Michael is nothing but a dutiful soldier of {{God}} who was perfectly content with smiting Camilla for being "in the way" and tries cutting off Luz's wings on orders from Heaven.

* GodIsEvil: Luz's abuelo -- {{God}} -- responds to any angels wanting to be anything other than an obedient soldier with oblivion. It's also implied that Luz's family puts her through HalfBreedDiscrimination as part of TheChainOfHarm.

* GodIsEvil: Luz's abuelo -- {{God}} -- responds to any angels wanting to be anything other than an obedient soldier with oblivion. It's also implied that Luz's family puts her through HalfBreedDiscrimination as part of a ChainOfHarm.

* InvisibleToNormals: Angel wings are usually invisible and intangible to non-angels, though the shadows of said wings can be seen sometimes when they use their powers. Interestingly, Amity can see ''and'' touch Luz's wings, and Lilith can see them too, along with Edric and Emira later on.

* BrokenAngel: Luz's wing was nearly ripped off her shoulder, preventing her from flying, and leaving her collarbone in two places. Even worse, because angel and Nephilim wings are normally intangible and invisible, her options for treating it are extremely limited.
** The angel that goes after Vee, mistaking her for Luz, also looks like his wings have been put through the ringer.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/47660242/chapters/120131482#workskin Feathers like Gold and Blackberries]] is an AU of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' in which Luz is not human, but instead a Nephilim, the child of a human and an angel, and has had several adventures of her own by the time of the story. Unfortunately, these escapades have scarred her both mentally and physically, and chasing cryptids and hanging with the Mothman mean that she's not exactly fitting in. When she finds herself in the Isles, it's a dream come true, as she can not only make new friends, but she can learn a new kind of magic to avoid overly relying on her angelic powers and their side effects, and so a new adventure begins...