History Fanfic / TheRavenAndTheOwlet

* ADayInTheLimelight: The ''Raven Pellets'' focuses on characters outside of the main cast:
** Chapter 1 shows the Blight Family trying to figure out the cause behind Odalia withdrawing after Lilith threatened her for trying to kill Luz.
** Chapter 2 had Gus attempting to get Lilith to take him as a student to strengthen his magic [[spoiler:due to feeling useless during the fight in the Emperor's Arboretum.]]
** Chapter 3 shows Willow visiting Eda's grave to vent her recent frustrations as Eda listens to her, even though Willow can't hear her whenever Eda speaks to her.
** Chapter 4, which shows Amity and Boscha watching the grudgby game mentioned in Chapter 28, focuses on Boscha as Petra speaks to her both about her friends leaving her and about her crush on Amity to which Boscha admits she's not going to try breaking her and Luz up.
** Chapter 5 shows Amity testing her healing abomination on Viney, then shows her [[spoiler:writing in her diary about her realizing [[LoveEpiphany she's crushing on Boscha]] yet in love with Luz and wonders if all three of them have a mutual attraction.]]

* ForWantOfANail: Eda's death prevents any of "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E19YoungBloodOldSouls Young Blood, Old Souls]]" from happening, including Lilith's original HeelRealization.
** When King decides to bring Lilith to his island to prove his claim that he's the King of Demons, Eda orders her to drop the issue because he isn't ready to know how she found him. [[spoiler:When Luz and Lilith find his horn and he starts remembering his life before Eda found him, they go and end up learning the truth.]]
** Dell Clawthorne, Eda and Lilith's father, debuts before his wife Gwendolyn.
** [[spoiler:It takes a month going by and realizing that Belos planned for the Coven Heads to kill her for Lilith to realize that Belos was never going to honor any of the deals he made with her.]]
** [[spoiler:Luz learns about the purpose of the Day of Unity early, and she discovers how harmful the coven sigils are directly from Belos, informing Lilith, King, Willow, Gus and Amity of the threat they pose to the populace of the Boiling Isles.]]
** Willow teaches Luz the breathing technique.
** When Lilith meets Gwendolyn again, she angrily airs our her grievances towards her mother over her neglect for the past 30 years. Gwen admits she made a mistake never staying connected to Lilith, which makes Lilith regret what she said and allows them to make up.
** The Selkidomus hunt from "Seperate Tides" occur offscreen without Luz's involvement and the events of "Hunting Palismen" take place before "Through the Looking Glass Ruins".
** Boscha joins Luz in saving the palismen from Hunter and Kikimora, which turns out to have been coincidental as she was at the grudgby field when Luz came to return Flapjack.
** Amelia and Cat leave the Banshees grudgby team due to getting sick of Boscha's attitude, something that never occured in canon.
** Lilith acquires palistrom wood from Dell for Luz to carve her palisman from.
** During the Coven Day Parade, Luz decided to ignore Kikimora, she and the Hexsquad have a picnic, and [[spoiler:Terra dies at Raine and Lilith's hands for trying to kill the kids. Because of her death, the Day of Unity has been delayed until a replacement is found]].
** [[spoiler:King is discovered to be a Titan during the events of "Elsewhere and Elsewhen"]].
** [[spoiler:With the Collector AdaptedOut, Philip Wittebane instead seeks to deactivate the defenses around the Titan's heart while being hunted down by Evelyn Clawthorne seeking vengeance for his murdering Caleb. Luz and Lilith's quest to find out how he made a portal becomes a success since Evelyn made a copy of Philip's journal, which she gives to them.]]
** Luz and King find a glyph-combo to get Jean-Luc to move again, along with activating two more of him.
** [[spoiler:Since Luz lacks Titan Blood but still has the portal key, she uses that and the super glyph to power the new portal. However, the magical backlash gives her fourth degree burns that nearly cost her her right arm, and it results in both King unlocking his SonicScream to stop it ''and'' completes the portal, giving Luz access to the Human Realm again.]]

* CerebusRetcon: Luz being teased for her crush on Amity is generally one of the more innocent and cute parts of the fic, being rare moments of levity in between the otherwise DarkerAndEdgier story. Then chapter 3 of "Raven Pellets" reveals that Willow teasing Luz isn't just friendly banter, but rather [[spoiler:Willow's way of getting revenge for Luz nearly getting her and Gus ''killed'', as well as one of the few ways she has to distract herself from learning that her fathers' coven sigils might end up killing them. The chapter also reveals that, despite not bringing it up, Willow has not forgiven Luz for the events at the arboretum, and in some ways wishes she had never met her]].

* BadassBoast: Lilith gives one to the Demon Hunters when she arrives to stop them from [[spoiler:killing Luz, Willow, and Gus on Tibbles' orders]].
-->"I am Lilith Clawthorne, the most powerful witch alive. These children are under my protection! Anyone who attempts to harm them will spend their last moments begging for death. As for you, if I ever see any of you in Bonesborough, I will paint the town with your blood."

** Amity, Willow, pretty much everyone else are of the opinion that Boscha is an unrepentant bully who will never change. Luz, on the other hand, is a firm believer that people can always change, and refuses to give up on seeing the good in her. Given that Boscha is one of Luz' love interests, she is shaping up to be proven right. Lilith later decides to have some faith in Boscha changing after seeing her dedication to her grudgby teammates.

** While not particularily big by in-universe standards, Luz' first official grudgby game is built up from chapter 22, when she offers to join Boscha's team and find a third teammate, to chapter 24, where it actually happens. Unusually for this trope, the heroic team loses, but Luz and Amity do succeed in growing closer with Boscha.

* BlackMagic: Necromancy exists on the boiling isles, but was outlawed by Belos in a rare instance of him making an understandable decree. The repression of Necromancy was even more thorough than that of Wild Magic, as there is now almost no existing resources on the art, and the rare Necromancer who pops up is dealt with before they can learn how to animate more than small animals.

** Luz becomes a bit of one regarding her crush on Amity; at first due to Lilith's endless teasing, but she later has to deal with Willow's on top of figuring out that several of her friends are betting on when she confesses her feelings.

* CrushBlush: This is ''Owl House'', so expect a ton of it from Amity towards Luz. Later becomes mutual when Luz figures out her own feelings.

** On a platonic level, everyone, including Lilith's parents, can tell that her and Luz have a mother and daughter-like relationship, way before either of them acknowledge it themselves.

* GhostlyChill: Anywhere Eda's spectral body passes through is remarkably cold. [[spoiler:She weaponizes it against Terra, pushing her hand through her head to give her a brain freeze and break her concentration]].

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Luz mentally chastises herself whenever she thinks about how attractive Amity and Boscha are. It gets to the point where she has to take precautions to avoid seeing them in a state of undress in the girls' locker room. She also finds herself focusing more on Boscha's legs after seeing them bare and has to look away while they're at the beach and she's in her swimsuit. Surprisingly, Luz catches Boscha checking her out in ''her'' swimsuit, glad it's not just her hormones going out of control for a change.

** It's a bit scattered, but Lilith does pay for cursing Eda, manipulating Luz and [[spoiler:betraying Luz by stealing the portal]]. First Belos strips her of her rank, then Amity [[GettingTheBoot tosses her out of the Owl House]] while she's weakened from being stripped of her sigil after she uses her to enter it, Kikimora prohibits any perks she would've known about the Emperor's Coven and used, Amity [[BitchSlap slaps her hard enough to leave a mark]], and [[spoiler:after learning Belos was going to double-cross her, she's hit by Raine's sonic attack in the battle against the Coven Heads which leaves her with several broken ribs and internal bleeding. Later on, Raine slugs her while visiting Eda's grave.]]
** Everyone who participated in the SideBet except for [[spoiler:Lilith and King had to clean up Hooty after Luz got the Owl House covered in filth. Particularly, this serves as a larger dose of karma for Willow, who told Emira about the bet and was the most vocal in teasing Luz and Amity, and Emira, who roped Edric, Viney, Jerbo, Barcus, Skara, Amelia, Eileen, Bo, and Celine into participating and had to be forced into the cleanup by Viney. It's doubled when Amity reveals in the following chapter that Willow and Emira had told her about the bet and wouldn't stop teasing her about not making a move.]]

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: With the exception of Barkus and Jerbo, who's name are a ShoutOut, all of Luz' friends are named after famous people somehow relating to them or their field of study;

* NiceMeanAndInbetween: As of chapter 24, the Banshees consist of Luz (Nice, a ceaselessly optimistic ray of sunshine), Amity (In-Between, she's trying but she's still slightly elitist and standoffish), and Boscha (Mean, the most aggressive of the three who barely gets along with anyone).

* SecretlySelfish: Lilith has always been this, first by cursing Eda to get into the Emperor's Coven, then taking care of Luz to get back into the coven [[spoiler:only to bond with and ultimately betray her.She comes to realize that she takes away everyone's ability to make choices for themselves.]]

* SwitchingPOV: The pov alternates between Lilith and Luz, with Lilith in odd-numbered chapters, and Luz in even-numbered chapters.

* ThisMeansWar: [[spoiler:Seeing that all her friends are betting on when she confesses to Amity with King and Lilith, Luz declares that she'll make sure Hooty is so disgustingly filthy that everyone who loses that has to clean him will regret it. While Gus is reasonably un-nerved, Willow says it's WorthIt for the hundreds of snails that are pooled in.]]

*** Later, when trying to teach Luz about the Emperor, Luz' irreverence causes her to lose her temper and strike the desk in front of Luz. Luz is terrified and Lilith is immediately regretful that she almost attacked her ward.

* FlightOfRomance: Though neither participants are romantic (nor are they frankly platonic, at least not yet), "Hunting Palismen" has all the hallmarks of one as Luz rides on Boscha's staff instead of Hunter's. Since Boscha has never flown without her mothers before, Luz helps her by leaning against her back, arms around her, and holding her hands over Boscha's]].

* ContinuityNod: Petra Arends complains that the Potion coven has been struggling recently because of [[spoiler:the fire in the Emperor's Arboretum]], as well as the deaths of three prominent potion sellers; Adeghast, Eda, and Tibbles.

** Amity eventually admits she knew about Lilith trying to rejoin the Emperor's Coven by accident, to Luz's surprise.

** In chapter 12, Luz realizes or at least strongly suspects that Lilith and Odalia were together.

* InternalReveal: Lilith discovers in Chapter 1 that Amity became friends with Luz and developed a crush on her.

* PrecisionFStrike: Luz generally doesn't swear, but she lets out a storm of "fuck" after [[spoiler:a sea serpent spawn interrupts her just as she was about to ask Amity out]].

* BigDamnHeroes: Luz, Willow, and Gus are nearly killed [[spoiler:in the Emperor's Arboreum]], only to be saved at the very last minute by Lilith showing up and taking out their attackers in a CurbStompBattle. It's one of the first times in the fic Luz is actually happy to see Lilith.

* DeathGlare: In the fifth chapter, two guards arrive to arrest Lilith. Lilith, who's having a bad day, glares at them with enough murderous intent that they immediately elect to leave

* BloodierAndGorier: While the strict events in the fic aren't that different from the kind of stuff that happens in the show (aside from Eda's death, of course), it's treated with a ''lot'' more seriousness; Being chased by a big monster gives Luz realistic panic attacks, and she suffers life-threatening injuries several times over the course of the fic, each being treated as terrifying for her and everyone around her, and the fact that everyone in the Boiling Isles is cool with violent murder as an everyday part of life is shown as being deeply disturbing for the pacifistic Luz

* GilliganCut: Chapter 5 cuts from Lilith confidently declaring that she has the means to provide for the Owl House residents, to the bank there an unfortunate teller has to inform her that her account as been locked.

** Celine Galilei, a girl with a crescent moon head, is named after GalileoGalilei, a famous astronomer.

** Cat Wright is named after James Wright, an Australian celebrity doctor.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Luz finds Amity and Boscha attractive and has a hard time focusing on anything when talking with them. It's made worse when Boscha is working out, which happens hilariously often.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:After repeatedly denying the idea that Emperor Belos won't restore her to her position as Emperor's Coven Head, Lilith eventually discovers that he couldn't even if he wanted to, and that she wasted her adult life following his ideals.]]

* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Lilith questions King about Luz disappearing (in regards to her following Tibbles' lead), he plays dumb; when Lilith asks if he'll stick to that even at the risk of Luz getting hurt, King says "As if you'd care", which actually gets to Lilith.

** Chapter 22 has 2 nods to ''Creator/{{Moringmark}}'' comics; one reference is to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/swb3o0/moringmark_why/ Boscha's friendship with Amity being]] AllTakeAndNoGive, the other is about the though of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/xytipa/hatching/ Luz's palisman possibly being a creeper.]]

** During "Hunting Palismen", [[spoiler:Boscha]] holds back a laugh at a lot of Hunter and Luz' LikeBrotherAndSister interractions, and even laughs outright when Luz does her "Too slow" trick on Hunter.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Boscha strikes a weird balance between this and AdaptationalJerkass, as she starts out a much worse {{Jerkass}} than in the show, being a lot more aggressive in her bullying of Luz throughout season 2, but has a lot more CharacterDevelopment than her canon self, and even [[spoiler:becomes one of Luz' main love interests]].
* AdaptationalSexuality: By the time Lilith was revealed as aromantic and asexual in the show proper, [[spoiler:her former relationship with Odalia had already been established]]. As such, Lilith is demiromantic and asexual in the fic.
* AdaptationExpansion: Since [[spoiler:Luz joins the Banshees]], the rules of Grudgby are explained in more detail. Lilith explains that magic that conceals or obscures the ball isn't allowed, neither is magic that summons additional teammates (hence why Amity can only summon abomination goop and limbs and not full abominations). Players also can't bring anything magical with them from the outside, so potion witches like Boscha have to rely on what they can brew up on the fly. Finally, Lilith warns Luz that no magic can be used to directly harm an opponent, but she couldn't be blamed if an opponent "happened" to run into a damaging spell.

** Luz and Boscha's relationship starts off with Boscha doubling down on her picking on Luz until [[spoiler:they become teammates on the Banshees, after which the triclops starts showing a bit of respect towards the human for her determination. According to WordOfGod, she is also being set up as a LoveInterest for Luz]].
* AdaptedOut: Aside from "Escaping Expulsion", "Echoes of the Past", and "Hunting Palismen" along with the [[spoiler:Lumity]] scenes from "Knock, Knock, Knockin on Hooty's Door", the entirety of Season 2A is cut or occurs offscreen. It's also been confirmed that [[spoiler:the Collector]] will not appear.

** [[spoiler:After becoming friends with Boscha, Luz tries to come up with a nickname for her. Eventually, she decides on "Bee".]]

** Lilith is not Luz's parent, but is her primary caretaker, and Luz dreads any moment Amity and Lilith are in the same room because of how much Lilith will tease them about their mutual crush. [[spoiler:After embracing her role as Luz' surrogate mother, Lilith also starts making "awful mom jokes". Luz later begs her not to be the kind of parent who has strongly worded talks with the principal over her daughter's education. Lilith doesn't, but she ''does'' get hired as Luz' history teacher, which is even worse]].

** Boscha slowly starts becoming more prominent when the series reaches Season 2 as Luz tries to befriend her and get her to become nicer. The author confirms in their notes for Chapter 24 that Boscha will be [[spoiler:another LoveInterest for Luz and Amity, setting them up to become a polyamorous couple]].

* BadassBoast: Lilith gives one to [[spoiler:the Demon Hunters]] when she arrives to stop them from [[spoiler:killing Luz, Willow, and Gus on Tibbles' orders]].

* BadassTeacher: [[spoiler:After being hired as Hexside's new history teacher, Lilith. When Boscha asks about her bounty, Lilith merely leans forward and says that anyone who wants to collect are welcome to try. No one does.]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: When they start fighting over whether to kill him or not, [[spoiler:Hunter]] asks if Luz and Boscha are secretly in love. Then they start talking about each other's appearance, and he tells them to just kiss already and get it over with.

* BetaCouple: Emira and Viney get together after Luz encourages Viney to confess her feelings, making them this to Amity, Luz and [[spoiler:Boscha]].

** Amity, Willow, pretty much everyone else are of the opinion that Boscha is an unrepentant bully who will never change. Luz, on the other hand, is a firm believer that people can always change, and refuses to give up on seeing the good in her. [[spoiler:Given that Boscha is one of Luz' love interests, she is shaping up to be proven right]]. [[spoiler:Lilith later decides to have some faith in Boscha changing after seeing her dedication to her grudgby teammates.]]
** None of the Blight siblings believe Odalia is actually capable of becoming a better mother, Amity being convinced the only reason she's trying to is for [[spoiler:the chance to get Lilith's attention since she's still not over her. When Odalia comes to the grudgby game in Chapter 24 and expects a compliment for supporting Amity, she tells Luz Odalia barely compliments her and expects them for showing the barest of support.]] Not even Luz can see Odalia changing, but Lilith still says otherwise.

** While not particularily big by in-universe standards, Luz' first official grudgby game is built up from chapter 22, when she [[spoiler:offers to join Boscha's team and find a third teammate]], to chapter 24, where it actually happens. Unusually for this trope, the heroic team loses, but Luz and Amity do succeed in [[spoiler:growing closer with Boscha]].
** A more notable game happens four chapters later, being both the first away game that Luz plays, and the first [[spoiler:she wins]]. It also comes immediately after Luz, Boscha, and Amity have a genuine bonding moment, [[spoiler:making them a better team than they have been previously]].

* BullyHunter: Heavily subverted. [[spoiler:Lilith would love nothing more than to disintegrate Boscha for constantly picking on Luz, but her agreement to not fight in Luz's defense in school prevents her from becoming this.]]

** Luz becomes a bit of one regarding her crush on Amity; at first due to Lilith's endless teasing, but she later has to deal with Willow's [[spoiler:on top of figuring out that several of her friends are betting on when she confesses her feelings.]]

* ContinuityNod: Petra Arends complains that the Potion coven has been struggling recently because of [[spoiler:the fire in the Emperor's Arboretum]], as well as the deaths of three prominent potion sellers; Adeghast, Eda, and [[spoiler:Tibbles]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the show, the Boiling Isles' SocialDarwinist culture is more apparent. Even otherwise heroic figures like post-CharacterDevelopment, Amity sees nothing wrong with exacting violent revenge, Lilith brutally kills Tibbles, the demon hunters who were okay with killing children even in the show are here shown as more realistically violent, and even Boscha, a 14 year old girl, [[spoiler:has no issue with trying to kill the Golden Guard, an elite member of the Emperor's Coven]]. All the repeated setbacks and failures [[AllLovingHeroine Luz]] goes through causes even ''her'' to start having such thoughts.

** Chapter 1 shows the Blight Family trying to figure out the cause behind [[spoiler:Odalia withdrawing after Lilith threatened her for trying to kill Luz.]]

** Chapter 4, which shows Amity and Boscha watching the grudgby game mentioned in Chapter 28, focuses on Boscha as [[spoiler:Petra speaks to her both about her friends leaving her and about her crush on Amity to which Boscha admits she's not going to try breaking her and Luz up.]]

* DistractedByTheSexy: Luz finds Amity and [[spoiler:Boscha]] attractive and has a hard time focusing on anything when talking with them. It's made worse when [[spoiler:Boscha]] is working out, which happens hilariously often.

** Due to Odalia [[spoiler:trying to be more open to her children on Lilith's orders-turned-suggestion]], Amity and Emira begin actively fighting against her authority.

* TheDreaded: Luz's friends are all ''terrified'' of Lilith, owing to her being the most powerful witch they know and also having a bad case of short temper that she is not afraid of showing around children. Luz is also scared of her on occasion, but has grown accustomed to her. Subverted among the adults, as only [[spoiler:Odalia]] is (briefly) afraid of her.

** Luz, who finds a lot of Lilith's humor and casual displays of affection mortifying. [[spoiler:She nearly dies on the spot when Lilith becomes her teacher and gets annoyed when she calls her "Sunspot" in front of Amity and Boscha]].
** Like Luz, Boscha seems to dread when Sylvie uses her EmbarrassingNickname for her in public [[spoiler:and mentions that she talks about Luz all the time]].

** Subverted for Willow, who's unable to forgive [[spoiler:Luz for the Phoenix Bloom incident, as she almost got her friends killed clinging to worthless hope]]. Hooty tells her not to hold it against [[spoiler:Luz as she's got enough problems to deal with without her best friend wanting to end their friendship.]]

** PlayedForLaughs in chapter 22. [[spoiler:Hunter]] reads Boscha and Luz's bickering as BelligerentSexualTension and asks if they're secretly in love. Both girls are horrified at the suggestion.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lilith refuses to understand or acknowledge whatever connection Eda had with Luz, King, and Hooty, seeing the three of them as annoyances. [[spoiler:She eventually breaks out of this and comes to see them as her own FamilyOfChoice.]]

* FlightOfRomance: Though neither participants are romantic (nor are they frankly platonic), "Hunting Palismen" has all the hallmarks of one as [[spoiler:Luz rides on Boscha's staff instead of Hunter's. Since Boscha has never flown without her mothers before, Luz helps her by leaning against her back, arms around her, and holding her hands over Boscha's]].

** [[spoiler:Boscha]] joins Luz in saving the palismen from Hunter and Kikimora, which turns out to have been coincidental as [[spoiler:she]] was at the grudgby field when Luz came to return Flapjack.

** During the Coven Day Parade, Luz decided to ignore Kikimora, she and the Hexsquad have a picnic, and [[spoiler:Terra dies at Raine and Lilith's hands for trying to kill the kids]].
** [[spoiler:Because of Terra's death, the Day of Unity has been delayed until a replacement is found]].

** Luz witnesses an endearing moment between Amity and [[spoiler:Boscha]] in Chapter 32 and mentally expresses joy at "her girls" getting along.

** Much to Lilith's own ire, Dell and Gwendolyn start getting a kick out of referring to Luz as her daughter and thus, their granddaughter which seems to double as [[LaserGuidedKarma cosmic repercussions]]. [[spoiler:Darius]] gets his own dig in by printing "#1 Aboma-mama" on Lilith's coffee mug knowing she'd be too proud to replace it.

* GoldenSnitch: Deconstructed. As [[spoiler:Boscha and Amity]] explain, the rusty smidge seen in "Wing it Like Witches" ''is'' a surefire way to win any game. However, as Luz herself pointed out in that episode, it also invalidates the entire game and is a phenomenally boring way to win. Winning by way of the smidge is therefore considered a last resort, and a lot of the game is about keeping it away from the enemy team rather than trying to catch it yourself.
* GoldDigger: When Lilith has money trouble, Eda jokingly suggests getting back together with [[spoiler:Odalia]] and coast on her generosity.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Luz mentally chastises herself whenever she thinks about how attractive Amity and [[spoiler:Boscha]] are. It gets to the point where she has to take precautions to avoid seeing them in a state of undress in the girls' locker room. She also finds herself focusing more on [[spoiler:Boscha]]'s legs after seeing them bare and has to look away while they're at the beach and she's in her swimsuit. Surprisingly, Luz catches [[spoiler:Boscha]] checking her out in ''her'' swimsuit, glad it's not just her hormones going out of control for a change.

** In Chapter 29, Luz theorizes [[spoiler:during a visit to King's tower that King could possibly be a Titan given all the clues in the tower.]] Lilith laughs off Luz's theory, but ends up eating her words when she [[spoiler:uses King's blood to power her time pool tracker.]]

** [[spoiler:Odalia gets Luz, Willow, and Gus expelled, Luz participates in a Blight Industries weapons expo to revoke it, Odalia tries to get her killed, Amity saves Luz (which leads to Luz's crush on her), stands up to Odalia and forces her to let her friends back into Hexside.]]

** The first part of "Hunting Palismen" happens more or less the same, the only difference being that Lilith instead of Eda suggests palisman adoption day to Bump and the Bat Queen, though it's implied to still be Eda's idea. Luz still doesn't get her palisman, and Lilith still resolves to let her carve her own. The rest of the episode follows the same beats, but with the addition of [[spoiler:Boscha joining Luz on her adventure]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Before the Banshees' third game]], Boscha tells Amity that while she knows she's a bully, she at least cared about her friends compared to Amity, who only pretended to like the girls Odalia forced her to hang out with and can't even remember any genuine moments of friendship Boscha considered between them. Even worse, Amity didn't even tell them that she was just spending time with them because Odalia forced her, leading them on without actually making any attempt at reciprocating their friendship. Boscha spits it in Amity's face that she just didn't try to make an effort with them, rejecting her apology and reducing Amity to tears.

** Boscha, despite being an overall {{Jerkass}} and BarbaricBully even worse than in the show, does show genuine compassion at a few points. While Luz is grieving Eda, Boscha promises to not bully her until she's better, and she later injures herself saving Luz from a rogue abomination in Potion class. [[spoiler:During the events of "Hunting Palismen", Boscha is deeply concerned about the safety of the palismen and at one point seems regretful after making Luz cry. Her HiddenHeartOfGold starts coming out more around the Grudgby match, where she is genuinely encouraging and positive towards Luz]].

** Everyone who participated in the SideBet except for [[spoiler:Lilith and King]] had to [[spoiler:clean up Hooty after Luz got the Owl House covered in filth. Particularly, this serves as a larger dose of karma for Willow, who told Emira about the bet and was the most vocal in teasing Luz and Amity, and Emira, who roped Edric, Viney, Jerbo, Barcus, Skara, Amelia, Eileen, Bo, and Celine into participating and had to be forced into the cleanup by Viney. It's doubled when Amity reveals in the following chapter that Willow and Emira had told her about the bet and wouldn't stop teasing her about not making a move.]]

* LegFocus: Luz finds herself becoming even more attracted to [[spoiler:Boscha]] after seeing her bare, well-toned legs while she's stretching.

* MamaBear: Once she starts actually caring for the girl, Lilith will go ballistic on anyone threatening Luz. [[spoiler:Even the Emperor is not safe from her wrath]]. She later threatens [[spoiler:Odalia]] to never harm Luz and her friends or her own children, [[spoiler:going as far as to comfort Amity and tell her she'll take her and the twins away from their parents should Odalia not change.]]

* MetaphoricallyTrue: To keep Amity from undermining her plans, Lilith admits she's looking after Luz in order to rejoin the Emperor's Coven, but tells her [[spoiler:that she wants Luz to join because of her use of glyph magic by wording it in a way that sounds like it benefits her and that Amity, Willow, and Gus could join her due to their magical potential.]] Amity buys it and [[SecretKeeper agrees to keep it a secret.]]

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Boscha blames Luz for all of her friends abandoning her, thus destroying her grudgby team and ruining her dream to go pro in the sport. While Luz had been the cause behind Amity leaving her group and indirectly giving Skara confidence in standing up to her, at the end of the day it was Boscha's AllTakeAndNoGive attitude towards all of her friends that drove them away.]]
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: As of chapter 24, the [[spoiler:Banshees]] consist of Luz (Nice, a ceaselessly optimistic ray of sunshine), Amity (In-Between, she's trying but she's still slightly elitist and standoffish), and Boscha (Mean, the most aggressive of the three who barely gets along with anyone).

** Lilith is this for [[spoiler:Odalia]], who still loves her.

** Luz [[IThinkYouBrokeHer practically goes catatonic]] when [[spoiler:Lilith becomes Hexside's permanent history teacher]] in Chapter 20.

* ParentalSexualitySquick: Luz makes the mistake of asking Lilith for advice regarding her crush on [[spoiler:Boscha]]. The ensuing conversation makes her consider wether she could survive jumping off Lilith's staff to get away from having this conversation with one of her moms.

* ProfessionalButtKisser: [[spoiler:Darius]] had always considered Lilith a sycophant while she worked for Belos and Eda's death served to solidify his opinion. [[spoiler:It took witnessing Lilith attacking Belos to protect Luz to change his opinion.]]

* RousseauWasRight: Discussed in the author's notes after [[spoiler:Odalia's HeelRealization]]. They fully believe that people are good and always have the potential to become better. This is a viewpoint shared by Luz, who strongly believes that everyone can improve and grow as people, regardless of how bad they might seem. Despite everyone's insistence that Boscha is BeyondRedemption, Luz stubbornly insists that there is a HiddenHeartOfGold in there somewhere.

* SecretlySelfish: Lilith has always been this, first by cursing Eda to get into the Emperor's Coven, then taking care of Luz to get back into the coven [[spoiler:only to bond with and ultimately betray her.]] [[spoiler:She comes to realize that she takes away everyone's ability to make choices for themselves.]]

** Petra seems to become one for her daughter, [[spoiler:Luz and Amity]], implying she knows Boscha feels something deeper than friendship with them.
* ShipTease: Between Luz and ''Boscha'' of all people in chapter 22. Luz feels surprisingly safe when [[ItMakesSenseInContext Boscha is embracing her]], the Golden Guard asks if they are in love after misinterpreting their bickering as BelligerentSexualTension, Luz helps Boscha fly on her staff by sitting ''very'' close and holding her arms around her, and the chapter ends with [[spoiler:Luz resolving to join Boscha's grudgby team]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when the author's notes of the next chapter revealed that the fic will be Luz/Amity/Boscha, making it setup for a future relationship and not mere teasing]].

* SignificantNameShift: In chapter 26, after a day of genuine bonding and [[spoiler:winning their first grudgby game together]], Boscha calls Luz by her name instead of just "human" for the first time.

* SlapSlapKiss: What [[spoiler:Hunter]] assumes Luz and Boscha's relationship is. Both of them deny it, with Luz even pointing out that [[DomesticAbuse that kind of relationship would be seriously unhealthy]].
* StrugglingSingleMother: Lilith, despite her initial misgivings about being a mother, is Luz' (and by extension King and Hooty's) primary caretaker, with the financial struggles that come with taking care of two children and a Hooty. She gets a lucky break after scamming Odalia out of a big sum, but the concern never really goes away, especially after [[spoiler:Luz has to destroy the portal door, losing their primary source of income]]. Still, Lilith soldiers on, refusing to let Luz find out how rough they have it because she wants the girl to have a normal childhood without worrying about financial difficulties. [[spoiler:Things get better after she gets a permanent job as a teacher at Hexside, though she's still poor enough that a single gift of 2000 snails from the Arends is a massive boon]].

* TeachersPet: Subverted. When [[spoiler:Lilith becomes the new history teacher at Hexside]], Boscha is worried that she will favor her surrogate daughter. [[spoiler:Lilith]] assures her that there's nothing to worry about. [[spoiler:Luz is equally insistent that she not be given any special treatment]].
* ThatCameOutWrong: When going to tell Boscha [[spoiler:that Amity is joining the grudgby team]], Luz asks "where's the cutie?" in reference to Boscha's palisman Maya. Everyone, Boscha included, assumes Luz was calling ''Boscha'' a cutie, causing some very shocked stares and a rumour that the two of them are a couple.

* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted. Luz, [[spoiler:Boscha, and Amity]] lose their grudgby match in chapter 24, though they get some good points in and Luz' sheer determination manages to impress even [[spoiler:Boscha]].

* WhatTheHellHero: In a shocking twist, ''Luz'' calls [[spoiler:Amity for her stubborn insistsence that Boscha is BeyondRedemption. As Luz puts it, Amity used to be just as bad as Boscha, and it was only because Luz had faith in her that she grew beyond that, so it's hypocritical of her to claim that Boscha doesn't deserve the same chance]].

** Chapter 5 shows Amity testing her healing abomination on Viney, then shows her [[spoiler:writing about her realizing [[LoveEpiphany she's crushing on Boscha]] yet in love with Luz in her diary and wonders if all three of them have a mutual attraction.]]