Characters / The Owl House - The Emperor's Coven

aka: The Owl House Lilith Clawthorne

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The Boiling Isles (Palismen) | The Owl House (Luz Noceda) | The Hexsquad (Amity Blight) | The Emperor's Coven (Emperor Belos | The Golden Guard) | Hexside | Other (The Collector)

Emperor's Coven

Character-Specific Pages

• Emperor Belos (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
• The Golden Guard (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

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In General

The most coveted Coven in the Coven System, the Emperor's Coven operates directly under Emperor Belos as his Secret Police.

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• Affably Evil: The Emperor's Coven, for the most part, are a bunch of likable and goofy guys. From Lilith's guard Steve to the rather incompetent guards at Belos's castle.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Downplayed. The Emperor's Coven learned the hard way for wanting to prepare and celebrate the Day of Unity very badly, but... In "King's Tide", they are seen celebrating the Day of Unity with everyone present at the event. When the Draining Spell finally commences, they realize their Emperor's true intentions and try to escape, but the Abomatons seal them and everybody else inside. They are last seen having their magic and life force drained until The Collector stops the eclipse and the spell before it was completed.
• Being Evil Sucks: Being in the Emperor's Coven is considered a huge honor on the Boiling Isles, but ask the coven members and they would tell you otherwise. You only get one day off a year, endure Training from Hell, you're forced to give up your palisman so that Belos can feed on it and if you aren't cut off from your family entirely, it certainly makes it difficult to interact with them at all.
• Fascist, but Inefficient: The closest thing to a functioning government the Boiling Isles has seems to be the Emperor's Coven. All signs point to Emperor Belos being an absolute monarch who can do as he pleases. There seems to be no instituted checks and balances in place and law-enforcement can be as brutal as they want, Lilith's constant bending of the rules with no perceived demerits on her part implying that nobody can hold them accountable for any miscarriages of justice they could commit. All practitioners of magic are to join a Coven - which would cut them off from using any form of magic that is not their hat - or be branded a criminal. Any law-breakers, ranging from those who reject joining any covens like Eda or simply being "abnormal" (like writing fanfiction or being a Conspiracy Theorist), are sent to the Conformatoriam where they will be imprisoned and tortured at the Warden's leisure. With this in mind, the Boiling Isles is still a lawless cesspit populated by demons who would kill you, eat you, enslave you, rip you off and every other manner of horror with law enforcement either absent or apathetic to it. Just the fact that the Owl House seems to be an Open Secret, yet it takes luring the Owl Lady to the Emperor's castle with Luz as bait in "Agony of the Witch" in order to capture her, is a sign that the Emperor's Coven only has a superficial grip on things. In "Eda's Requiem", it's mentioned that Belos has less control outside urban areas like Bonesborough, implying that he doesn't send his forces out to rural areas very often.
  • This makes sense following the reveal that Belos is a human who plans on killing the entire population of the Boiling Isle's on the Day of Unity, who only set up the Emperor's Coven as another form of control over the populous while he puts the pieces of his plan together. There exists no real laws, or systems actually promoting a functioning society because as far as Belos is concerned none of that actually matters to his plans.
• Fossil Revival: "Yesterday's Lie" reveals the Emperor's Coven brought basilisks back from extinction somehow to study how they drain magic.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: The Emperor's Coven, which has a golden emblem, is the only coven whose members are able to use all kinds of magic.
• Informed Attribute: The Emperor's Coven is supposedly among the very best magic users on the Boiling Isles. With the exception of Lilith and the Golden Guard, none of them really live up to the hype. Though the Coven Heads more than live up to their hype themselves, with two of them (Darius and Eberwolf) being able to put Eda and Raine on the ropes during their fights. In "Any Sport in a Storm", Darius claims that the Emperor's Coven isn't exactly starving for new members, implying that the quantity of members outweighs quality. Whether this has been a part of the coven longterm or just a recent development with the Day of Unity drawing near is never discussed.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: The Coven operates on a twisted sense of justice that allows them to arbitrarily punish citizens for any action they deem a crime. Hundreds of people (both innocent and not), end up in the conformatorium or dead.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Remember, that's what they get for trusting Emperor Belos for years during the Day of Unity in "King's Tide".
• Laughably Evil: The Emperor's Coven members (with the exceptions of the Emperor himself, who's completely serious, and Lilith, who nonetheless has several Not So Above It All moments) are a bunch of bumbling buffoons who get beat up by Hooty, tricked by children, and are seen watching Eda's and Lilith's battle like children.
• Light Is Not Good: The Emperor's Coven has white as their uniform color with a golden winged sword as their symbol and are enforcing Belos's dictatorship.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Almost all of the Coven wear masks from the foot soldiers, to the ranking members, to Belos himself. Lilith is even shown to have one but rarely uses it. Kikimora's the only exception though her face is usually covered by her bangs and collar.
• Press-Ganged: "Any Sport in a Storm" heavily implies that you can be forced into the Coven against your will.
• The Red Mage: The Emperor's Coven is the only coven that allows their members to use all forms of magic.
• Resignations Not Accepted: This holds true for the Emperor's Coven—once you join, you're in it for life, even if not an active member. Attempt to abandon or defy the Coven, and you will meet the same fate as all other coven-less witches—petrification. Even banishment will still earn you the sentence of petrification. Season 2 also makes clear that members often have little-to-no time off, may have to cut ties with their friends and loved ones upon joining, and may even be forced into joining against their will.
• Restraining Bolt: "Eda's Requiem" reveals that members of the Emperor's Coven can use coven tattoos to restrain problem witches.
• Sigil Spam: Flags with the symbol of the Emperor's Coven are hanging all over the walls of Belos's Castle.
• Training from Hell: "Any Sport in a Storm" reveals that the training regiment for scouts is rather hellish, to the point that a good chunk of trainees don't survive.

Lilith Clawthorne (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Lilith Clawthorne

Voiced by: Cissy Jones (adult), Abigail Zoe Lewis (child; pre-teen — "Them's the Breaks, Kid"), Lily Sanfelippo (pre-teen — "Young Blood, Old Souls")

"You make it so hard to want to help you, Edalyn."

^{Click for her appearance as a teen} "Being in the Emperor's coven was... my dream."

^{Click for her appearance in Season 2} "We have a whole week until the Day of Unity. We'll figure out how to keep them safe."

^{Click for her appearance in Season 3} "At least Luz and her friends are far, far away from this madness."

^{Click for her Raven Beast form}

^{Click to see her in the epilogue}

^{Click here to see her Harpy form}

"Maybe you are stronger than me but that made me work smarter—I became sharp! Crafty!"

Eda's older sister and another powerful witch. Lilith is the head of the Emperor's Coven, the highest authority on the Isles below the Emperor and Titan themselves. She hopes to petition the Emperor for a cure for Eda's curse in return for her sister joining the coven, though Eda is not particularily open to the idea.

"Agony of a Witch" reveals that Lilith was the one who cursed Eda in the first place, having originally thought it would merely weaken her for a short time so she would lose the competition for the last remaining place in the coven. Eda had unbeknownst to Lilith decided to forfeit the contest, and Lilith has been searching for a cure ever since out of guilt.

At the end of season 1, Lilith casts a spell that splits the curse between herself and Eda, cursing herself and greatly weakening her magic in the process. Having defected from the Emperor's Coven, she lives with Eda at the Owl House until she moves back home in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances". She returns in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", having been hired as the assistant curator of a local museum, and goes on an adventure to the past with her niece.

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• Academic Athlete: During her years at Hexside. Not only was she a dedicated student, but she was also captain of the school's Grudgby team.
• Adopted to the House: Since Lilith is a traitor and an accessory to aiding and abetting enemies of state, she has no place to live, so Eda lets her crash at the Owl House, and she acts like the weird aunt trying to figure out her life. Later on, she leaves with her mother and moves back into her childhood home.
• Advertised Extra: Downplayed. Despite being advertised as a major character in Season 2 and getting a Promotion to Opening Titles, Lilith stays in the Owl House for the first four episodes before deciding to leave with her mother. However, she still returns for episodic appearances with relative frequency.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Played with a bit because anytime Eda calls her "Lily", it's either to belittle her or trick her; it does seem to be the nickname Eda called her as a child, though. Played Straight in Season 2 where Eda almost exclusively refers to Lilith by Lily.
  • Hooty starts calling her "Lulu" when she moves into the Owl House, and she calls him "Hootsifer" in return.
• All for Nothing:
  • Nearly all her years of loyal service to the throne is driven by the belief that if she can get Eda to join the Emperor's Coven (either willingly or by force), Emperor Belos will pardon all of Eda's crimes and lift Eda's curse. When she finally brings Eda in after forcing her to fully succumb to her curse, Belos reveals that he never intended to cure Eda.
  • This even shows up in Lilith's backstory. A teenage Lilith cursed Eda to strip away her powers so that Lilith could beat Eda in a duel and gain a place in the Emperor's Coven, only for Eda to immediately forfeit. Worse still, she used the curse on Eda under the impression that it would only last for a day, only to realize after the fact that it was permanent and the effects would only get worse with time. This means that Lilith cursed her sister and ruined her life for no reason.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Lilith's cursed Raven Beast form is much bigger than Eda's Owl Beast form and is considerably more dangerous.
• Always Second Best:
  • She's a weaker magic user than Eda, at least in part due to her sister being a Jack of All Trades Combat Pragmatist. Notably, she's only able to keep up with Eda after she has a Villainous Breakdown and starts fighting dirty too, and even then she is only capable of stalling long enough for Eda's curse to kick in. Eda even lampshades this, saying that Lilith still can't beat Eda, even when Eda is at her worst.
  • It's revealed in "Agony of a Witch" that she cursed Eda when they were teens. "Young Blood, Old Souls" goes into more detail regarding the reason: Lilith wanted to join the Emperor's Coven, but she and Eda were pitted against each other in a witch's duel to win the one open slot in the Coven. Lilith knew Eda was superior to her, so she cursed her to weaken her enough to beat her.
  • She apparently did outperform Eda in sports as children however, winning a significantly larger grudgby trophy being one of the few accomplishments she smugly holds over Eda's head, and though Eda managed to beat her fair and square in their rematch as adults the competition was close enough that it could have gone either way.
  • Somewhat Averted in "Escaping Expulsion", Lilith proves to actually be much better at glyph magic than Eda, this is mainly because glyphs are a much more academic approach to wielding magic compared to spell circles. Eda was always stronger than Lilith, but Lilith was the more studious of the two, so in a magic style that is entirely built on academic understanding of runes Lilith comes out on top.
  • Completely averted in "For the Future", where it's shown that she's the superior potion brewer of the two due to being able to recreate the elixir from scratch, something that Eda had never been able to do in the 30 years she's lived with the curse despite having also studied the subject at Hexside and knowing the ingredients list.
• Ambiguous Situation: With the reveal that the Owl Beast is actually a separate entity inhabiting Eda due to the curse, it's currently unclear what this means for Lilith and her Raven Beast form. Whether the Raven Beast is part of the Owl Beast, a separate creature, or something else entirely remains to be seen.
• Ambition Is Evil: The reason she cursed Eda, turning her into an outcast and sentencing her to a Fate Worse than Death? So she could guarantee her spot at the Emperor's Coven. Granted, she didn't know the curse would be permanent, but cursing her own sister while she was asleep is still a rotten thing to do.
• Animal Motifs: In contrast to Eda and owls, Lilith's theme is ravens, as seen with her spells and her staff.
• An Arm and a Leg: Taking on Eda's curse also affected Lilith with Eda's demonstrated ability to detach her limbs, as she discovers when her left hand falls off and Eda literally screws it back into position, advising she'll get used to it.
• And I Must Scream: After being restored to normal following her first transformation into her Raven Beast form, Lilith says she was aware of what was going on, but couldn't stop herself from trying to attack her family.
• Anti-Villain: Lilith holds a lot of power in an ominously-dictatorial magic society, doesn't mind cheating just to upstage her sister, and isn't above responding to simple mockery with violence. On the other hand, she's generally a kind teacher to her students, desires a friendly relationship with her younger sister despite her jealousy, and truly believes that she's doing good by working for the Emperor.
• The Archmage: Lilith approaches her sister in magical power and knowledge, and being part of the Emperor's Coven leaves her abilities likewise unrestricted. She fits the archetype much closer in social standing, being in a position of authority overseeing magical education and working directly for the Emperor. She also turns out to be a natural at rune magic and manages to devise formulae for several spells on her own.
• Arc Villainess: She's the primary recurring antagonist in season 1, heading the effort to capture Eda. It's not until the season finale that Belos takes center stage.
• The Atoner: She deeply regrets cursing Eda, and the main reason she was so adamant in capturing her was that she truly believed that Emperor Belos would cure her. At the end of the first season, she even transfers half of the effects of Eda’s curse to her, severely weakening her own powers and giving herself the curse but allowing Eda to regain her humanoid form. That being said, she decides to leave with her mother to research the curse to come up with a cure on her own.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: "Sense and Insensitivity" shows that despite being on opposite sides of the law the sisters do still care about each other. When Lilith is in danger, Eda saves her because she is The Only One Allowed to Defeat You, and later Lilith expresses her wish for Eda to join the Emperor's Coven willingly rather than Lilith having to capture her. Even though Lilith put Luz in danger and revealed she cursed Eda, she was more than willing to betray Belos and share Eda's curse to start making amends.
• Badass Decay: In the first season of the show, Lillith showed herself to be pretty intimidating, cruel and powerful, becoming a sort of rival to Eda and enemy of Luz. By the second season however, she, like Eda, loses her magic and becomes a nicer, less intimidating witch.
• Beneath the Mask: Lilith tries her hardest to portray herself as a composed and mature witch, but often reveals herself to be a petty, childish, and bad-tempered woman. At the climax of "Agony of a Witch", the mask slips completely with her revealing to have cursed Eda when they were kids to gain a coveted spot in the Emperor's Coven, something that she regrets to this day, but never told Eda about.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: As a teen, all Lilith wanted was to join the Emperor's Coven. She did so, but only after cursing Eda and unintentionally ruining her life, which turned out to be pointless in the first place since Eda was willing to stand aside and let Lilith have the one available spot in the Coven.
• Blue Is Heroic: Subverted in that despite being rather amiable, she still supported Belos' reign while wearing a primarily blue outfit. Played straight later on after her Heel–Face Turn and defection from the Emperor's Coven.
• Boring, but Practical: Lilith is able to master the use of glyphs faster than Eda simply because she took the time and effort to actually study the basics, gaining a better understanding of how they work and interact with each other, while the impatient Eda jumped straight to mashing up different glyphs without any idea of what she was doing to disastrous results.
• Break the Haughty: She's arrogant, and prone to misfortunes.
• Bring My Brown Pants: As a child, she was so excited to see the Emperor's Coven, she "peed a little", as Eda told Lilith's students to embarrass her.
• Broken Ace: She's the famous head of the Emperor's Coven and one of the most powerful witches on the Boiling Isles....but it doesn't take much to break her composure, revealing a very flawed, troubled woman with a lot of issues stemming from both her deep-seated jealousy of her much more talented outlaw sister (whom she's more alike than she'd care to admit) and her immense guilt over cursing said sister when the two of them were teens.
• By the Hair: She suffers from this in "Covention", when Eda has Owlbert pull at her hair to distract her, and again in "Young Blood, Old Souls", when Luz attacks her.
• Butt-Monkey: For all of her confidence and pride as the emperor's right hand, she's very prone to humilitiating slapstick, whether it's Eda pulling pranks on her or being tossed around by Hooty. After being stripped of her magic and forced to live on the run, her misfortune becomes even worse.
• Cain and Abel: Her relationship with Eda is antagonistic and they're on opposite sides of the law. However, Lilith still has plenty of sympathy for her sister—which Eda is all too quick to exploit. However she's shown to be more of a Cain upon revealing that she cursed her own sister.
• Celibate Heroine: Her Voiceover Letter in the March 2022 charity stream has her admit to Hooty that while she's happy to hear about Luz and Amity's Relationship Upgrade, she's never personally had any interest in pursuing romance herself. It's implied at the time (and later confirmed by her voice actress) that she's an aromantic asexual.
• Character Development: After leaving the Emperor's Coven at the end of season one, Lilith slowly drops the strict, uptight persona she had as a Coven leader and begins to express a more happy, dorky side of herself as she moves past her insecurities and guilt over her past actions, forming new friendships with Hooty and Luz in the process. She also senses that Philip is flattering Luz to get what he wants because it's what Belos did for Lilith to capture Eda, and prepares appropriately for a betrayal though as Luz points out, most of the Boiling Isles is murderous and "weird".
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: At Hexside, she wore the yellow uniform of a potions student.
• Combat Pragmatist: Deconstructed. While she claims that she "works smarter" to beat Eda, in actuality she just plays dirty, plain and simple. From cheating at a witch duel on Amity's behalf to using Luz as a literal Human Shield to get an advantage at her rematch to Eda to resorting to curse her own sister while she was asleep so she could beat her for sure.
• Commuting on a Bus: After the first four episodes of season 2, Lilith leaves the Owl House to reconnect with her mother and find a job, but returns periodically to help out the heroes.
• Cool Aunt: Of the surrogate variety, but by "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" Luz has come to view her as one, openly referring to her as "cool Aunt Lilith".
• Cop/Criminal Family: Lilith is a major figure in the Boiling Isles' coven system, the very thing Eda rebels against, and is eventually tasked with bringing Eda in to the Emperor.
• Costume Evolution: After her initial appearance in regal black, she regularily makes changes to her appearance reflecting her current state of mind;
  • In her appearances in season 2a, she wears an old, patched skirt and a shirt with a low battery print, reflecting her loss of status and depression after leaving the Emperor's Coven.
  • In her appearances in season 2b, she wears a neater and more colorful outfit consisting of a dark violet red skirt, green top, and brown vest, and she has started wearing her glasses again. Her hair has also started puffing out at the bottom. The outift is overall neater than her earlier outfit, but nowhere near the strict perfectionism of her original outfit, reflecting her getting her life in order while also embracing her dorkier, less dignified side.
  • In season 3, she has switched to a more practical garb, lost her glasses, and her hair is cut short and back to its original color, reflecting that with the Collector having taken over the Boiling Isles, practicality is the priority above comfort and dignity.
• Court Mage: Is the leader of the Coven that answers directly to the Emperor of the Boiling Isles. Downplayed since the Emperor resides over a Mage Species, and therefore every member in his court is a mage.
• Dark Action Girl: Is a very powerful witch and fighter who whose job is to enforce Belos' rule over the isles and acts as an antagonist towards Eda throughout Season 1.
• Dark Secret: For decades, she hid that she was the one responsible for cursing Eda due to the shame she felt for ruining her sister's life.
• Dark Is Evil: Is an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette who dresses in all black who works for Evil Overlord Emperor Belos and spends most of Season 1 trying to aprehend Eda so she could join the Emperor's Coven and is revealed to be responsible for giving Eda her curse as a kid. It's subverted in "Young Blood, Old Souls", where owns up to her mistakes and shares the curse with Eda, saving her.
• Deal with the Devil: After cursing Eda, Lilith devoted herself to serving the Emperor, eventually becoming the leader of his personal coven. Lilith made a deal with the Emperor: in exchange for her loyalty and getting Eda to join the Emperor's Coven, Belos would pardon Eda's crimes and heal her of her curse. Unfortunately, Emperor Belos lied.
• Defector from Decadence: She betrays Belos after he reveals that he lied about his promise to her to cure Eda.
• De-power: After taking on half of Eda's curse, she is left severely weakened and is unable to use magic. The Season 2 premiere shows that, like Eda, she can do some magic, but it's extremely weak and unreliable; when she tries to use ice magic, she only succeeds in producing a single small ice cube.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Much of Lilith's season 2 character arc is centered on her trying to figure out a new direction in life without her magic and position as leader of the Emperor's Coven after spending so much time defining herself by both.
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: In "Covention". Despite Luz having little to no chance at beating Amity in a fair witches' duel, Lilith still cheats by using a power glyph to make Amity stronger. She claims she knew Eda was going to cheat (which was true), but the end result is still turning what could have been a clear victory for Amity into a mutual loss.
• Dirty Coward: For all of her bravado, Lilith is quick to let her fear get the better of her when things get rough. Despite her immense guilt over cursing Eda, Lilith has kept the truth from her sister for decades instead of confessing what she did. When it becomes clear that Lilith can't beat Eda during their battle in "Agony of a Witch", Lilith decides to use Luz as a Human Shield to give herself an advantage. She even allows Eda to fully succumb to the curse so that she’d be easier to capture. Post-Heel–Face Turn, Lilith develops out of this, becoming willing to rush in to save Luz from a Stone Sleeper despite not having any magic.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: Lilith wants Eda to joing the Emperor's Coven in part because the two sisters will then no longer be on opposing sides of the law.
• The Dragon: Lilith is the head of the Emperor's Coven and Belos' most recurring subordinate throughout the first season. However, It's Personal with the Dragon due to her being Eda's sister and the one who cursed Eda in the first place.
• Drowning Her Sorrows: A PG version. After finding out that her mother Gwendolyn didn't visit her once but did visit Eda regularly, she drowns her sorrows eating dozens of slime ice cream, which came from the Night Market.
• Duality Motif: After she saves Eda from being completely consumed by her curse at the price of infecting herself, Lilith's right eye turns permanently gray, similarly to the Owl Beast's monochrome palette.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Neither Eda nor Luz were quick to trust her after she revealed to have cursed her sister and nearly killed Luz in order to capture her sister, with Eda about to maul her in response to all that. But after it was revealed the curse was meant to be temporary, and that she not only chose to betray Emperor Belos after he said he wouldn't heal her curse but also saved Eda from most of the curse's effect by sharing it with herself, the two warm up to her more, showing that forgiveness didn't come without some heavy sacrifices on her part. However it's worth noting that while Lilith apologises several times to Eda for cursing her and goes to great lengths to atone for it, her trying to kill Luz and then ordering her to leave the BI is swept under the carpet with nothing but the vaguest possible reference.
  • In "Separate Tides" Luz says that she hopes everyone, including her can become friends, showing she does not see Lilith as a friend yet. Which is justified as Lilith tried to kill her before.
  • Played straight with her mother Gwendolyn and her father Dell. After Lilith tells her parents that she gave Eda the curse, they don’t hold it against her in the slightest.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Her skin is as pale as Eda's, but her hair is very dark. However, she used to be a redhead just like Eda before she dyed it.
• Empathic Healer: She has a spell that can split injuries and curses between herself and another person, halving their effects by sharing them. This is how she ultimately saves Eda from the Owl Curse, or rather buys Eda more time.
• Entitled Bastard: In "Young Blood, Old Souls"; she seems genuinely surprised when Luz attacks her on sight and refuses to listen to her, even after she held Luz captive, used her as a Human Shield, then captured Eda and taunted her over it.
• Epic Fail: Despite being the head of the Emperor's Coven, most of her time was spent chasing after Eda and trying to capture her so that Belos would cure her curse and forcibly induct her into the coven. Not only was this rendered All for Nothing since Belos revealed he had no intention of curing Eda's curse and was going to petrify her instead, but it is later revealed that Lilith had no idea about more important events happening while she was focused solely on her sister, like the true purpose behind the Day of Unity, or that several Coven Heads had been working against Belos. This is hilariously lampshaded by her when Steve asks her if she was aware of any of this when she was in charge.
  Lilith: I'm... starting to think I wasn't very good at my job.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She cares about Eda and genuinely regrets cursing her. She even entered a Deal with the Devil with Belos in hopes of curing her. However, it's deconstructed; while Lilith genuinely loves her sister, she's willing to ignore Eda's wishes if it means accomplishing what Lilith thinks is best for Eda. In addition, Eda seems to be the only person Lilith cares about, so she's willing to hurt or endanger others (either emotionally, like with Amity, or physically, like with Luz) without any apparent remorse.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She and Eda became estranged because she wouldn't listen when Eda argued that the Emperor's system of covens is unfair to magic users. Lilith also seems unable to truly accept that Eda genuinely doesn't want anything to do with the Emperor's Coven; instead, she acts as though getting Eda to join (even if it's by force) will eventually lead to her coming around to Lilith's point of view.
• Evil Counterpart: To Eda. While Eda is something of a magical outlaw, she also opposes an oppressive magical system. Lilith is more openly straight-laced, but she willingly follows authority. Lilith is also willing to use a child (Luz) in her own schemes and to protect herself, while Eda was willing to sacrifice her magic to save her charge.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: She's the Arc Villainess of season 1 and she can use fire magic.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: As a teen, Lilith placed a curse on Eda that she thought would only take away her magic for a day so that she could win their duel. To her horror, the curse turned out to be permanent and would only get worse with time. As an adult, she made a deal with Emperor Belos, promising to bring Eda to him if he removed the curse in exchange. When she finally succeeds in that task, Belos reveals he had no intention of honoring his end of the deal and sentences Eda to be petrified instead.
• Expository Hairstyle Change:
  • An old photo of her during her time in Hexside shows that she used to have puffy and bright red hair. invokedWord of God reveals that she dyed it darker and styled it differently upon joining the Emperor's Coven because she thought it made her look more intimidating.
  • In Season 2B, Lilith's hair is starting to revert to its original puffy state, which happens to coincide with her embracing her nerdier side as a "bad girl historian".
  • "For the Future" shows that, in the wake of the Collector taking over and the Clawthorne sisters going underground, she's cut it short and stopped bothering to dye or straighten it, as she's instead spent the time trying to brew elixir to keep their curses at bay.
• Fantastic Racism: Lilith refers to Luz as Eda's human pet rather than Eda's student or friend, and later she tells Luz to go back to her own world. This changes in season 2, however, as Lilith begins to see Luz as an equal as shown in "Escaping Expulsion", where she sees Luz as a teacher and becomes a teacher's pet towards her.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Envy. A big part of why the Sibling Rivalry between Lilith and Eda is so easy for Eda to exploit is that Lilith hates getting outdone by her sister, and will agree to go along with ideas she really shouldn't just because it gives her a chance to best Eda at something. All of Lilith's other flaws, while significant, stem from Lilith's envy of Eda being a better witch than she is. This envy got so bad when they were young that Lilith inflicted Eda with the Owl Beast curse. Even though Lilith badly underestimated the severity of the curse, the fact remains that Lilith's envy led to her greatest regret.
  • Wrath. It takes very little to set Lilith off, and when she loses it, she starts getting sloppy. Eda is able to trip her up very easily because Lilith starts losing focus when she's mad. During their fight in "Agony of a Witch", Lilith gets so angry after one too many barbs from her sister that she snaps and reveals that she was the one who cursed Eda, after decades of keeping the secret.
• Femme Fatalons: Has sharp, black nails.
• Fiery Redhead: Just like her sister, she also had bright red hair when she was younger. Later in the series she lets her hair go back to its original red, although it's not as vibrant as when she was younger.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Mostly one-sided on her part. Lilith initially finds Hooty to be just as annoying as the other inhabitants of the Owl House do—compounded by him having humiliated her on a number of occasions—and brushes off his attempts to befriend and help her with increasing vehemence. When she picks a fight with a hive of fire-bees and realizes she's in over her head, Hooty rescues her—leading to her warming up towards him and giving him the nickname "Hootcifer" in repayment for him nicknaming her "Lulu".
• Foil: She's one to the Blight twins, Edric and Emira. All three are magically gifted older siblings who have a conflicted relationship with their younger sister. But while Edric and Emira may be bullies, they seem to do it out of Tough Love and are genuinely remorseful after their prank in "Lost In Language" puts Amity's life at risk. In their next appearance, they're shown doting on her, while still making playful jibes at her, and are nothing but proud of her being a talented witch in her own right. Lilith insists to want nothing but Eda's good, but tries to impose her authority over her and make her bend to the coven system. Later, it's revealed that she is the one who cursed Eda to strip her powers away during their duel to secure her place in the Emperor's Coven. Which, ironically, Eda was already willing to forfeit for her sister's sake.
• Flash Step: One of her spells allows her to move short distances as a burst of flame and reform.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She—"prim, proper Lilith" as Eda calls her—is the responsible sibling to Eda's foolish sibling. Or at least that's how it seems before we learn she enables a broken magical system. It's ultimately subverted: she cursed Eda out of fear of her taking the only spot in the Emperor's Coven at the time, and didn't expect Eda to be the responsible one and willingly give it up for her.
• Forehead of Doom: Due to her hairstyle, her forehead is very prominent.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten:
  • Luz reluctantly allies with her to save Eda. While this action makes her part of the Owl House family, as does taking part of Eda's curse, Eda and Luz take her in but make it clear it was only because she sacrificed everything.
  • In season 2, Eda seems to be much more at ease with her sister, but still reminds Lilith of the curse in a teasing manner from time to time.
• Forgiveness: After roasting her about the curse and nearly killing Luz for about a dozen episodes in season 2, the Owl House residents, sans Hooty who went Easily Forgiven, have forgiven Lilith for the terrible things she has done to them. In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen," Hooty invites them to a party to celebrate Lilith's new job, and Luz reaches out to her both to comfort Lilith about her Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life and to ask for help in getting more leads on rebuilding the portal. Eda trusts Lilith to take Luz on a journey that may lead them to more answers, albeit warning her not to let anyone hurt a single hair on her apprentice's head. Lilith shows that she has changed by warning Luz that Deadwardian Philip Wittenbane doesn't seem to be benevolent because his flattering manner seems familiar, and quickly leaps into action when Luz faces a Stone Sleeper to save them both after Philip leaves them to die. Lilith of season one wouldn't have said, "Eda is going to kill me!" before rescuing Luz, or attempting it since Luz found out how to tame the Stone Sleeper from Lilith's lecutres.
• For Your Own Good: She takes this attitude towards forcing Eda to become a member of the Emperor's Coven. Lilith sees it as both her way of fulfilling Emperor Belos' order to bring Eda in and her chance to have Eda's curse lifted.
• Fun T-Shirt: In Season 2A she wears a shirt with a low battery symbol, a commentary on her depowered state. Hooty also bought her a shirt that said "I was sacrificed to the Grand Huntsman!" during his trip to Titan Trapper Island, though she's never seen wearing it.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: As part of her EC makeover, she ditched her round glasses to appear more "intimidating". She starts wearing them again later on after she defects, adopting a more scholarly appearance.
• Good Costume Switch: After her Heel–Face Turn, she ditches her formal Emperor’s Coven attire for a more tattered dress and novelty shirt. She goes even further later on in season 2, when she starts wearing glasses again and her hair returns to its natural curliness.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: Is a powerful witch and her black hair, pale skin, dark clothing and makeup give her a gothic appearence.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Lilith was jealous that she could never beat Eda in magic, which is one of the reasons why she ended up cursing Eda. Even though Lilith regrets doing so and genuinely wants to cure Eda, she's still bitter over her feelings of inadequacy and desperately wants to outdo her sister. It's also literal as she actually has green eyes.
• Guest-Star Party Member: She briefly joins the main cast for the first four episodes of Season 2 before leaving with her mother to make up for lost time.
• Harping on About Harpies: The epilogue shows her having achieved a transformation into a harpy form similar to Eda's.
• The Heavy: Is effectively the main antagonist of the first season while still taking orders from the distant Emperor.
• Heel–Face Turn: In "Young Blood, Old Souls", she betrays the Emperor’s Coven and joins the Owl House, thus becoming a fugitive. She even transfers half of Eda’s curse into herself, which severely weakens her own magical powers, but in turn saves Eda from being trapped in her cursed form.
• Heel Realization: She finally realizes that her efforts to get Eda to join the Emperor's Coven were misguided after Emperor Belos reveals that he never intended to honor his word and cure Eda and Luz calls her out for capturing Eda and making her suffer. Not helping matters is when Owl Beast Eda shields her from the petrification spell; Lilith has a horrified look as she's Forced to Watch her sister's execution, knowing that it's all her fault.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Non-lethal variation. She uses her magic to split the curse between herself and Eda, stripping herself of her magic but allowing Eda to return to her humanoid form.
• Honorary Aunt: She eventually becomes one to Luz, who sees Eda as her surrogate mother. With King officially adopted by Eda, Lilith is now his adoptive aunt.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Fully believed that Belos would remove the curse afflicting Eda even though Eda repeatedly tells her not to trust the Emperor. It's only when Belos reveals that he's not going to cure Eda that Lilith finally realizes how right Eda was.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: In Season 2. Not only did taking half of Eda's curse cost her her magic, but she is now considered a traitor by the Emperor's coven, and forced to live as a fugitive.
• Hypocrite:
  • In "Covention", her pupil Amity calls Luz out for cheating when Eda had planted booby traps in the playing field. Almost immediately afterwards, Eda discovers that Amity was unknowingly using a power glyph from the construction coven (which Lilith placed on Amity's neck without the young witch realizing it) to strengthen her abominations.
  • In "Once Upon a Swap", she calls Eda a "horrible sister" despite the fact that she was the one who cursed Eda. While it was later clarified that she only intended to remove Eda's magic for a day and genuinely didn't realize how dangerous the spell was, it was still a rotten thing to do to her little sister.
  • She constantly calls out Eda for acting like a child despite not being very mature herself.
  • Lilith frequently taunts Eda over how the curse has rapidly aged her, despite showing concern over that very thing. It gets even more hypocritical when it's revealed that Lilith was the one who cursed her and desperately wants to cure her out of guilt.
  • For someone who claims to want to heal her sister from the curse she placed on her, Lilith has the nerve to let Eda succumb to it, so she can capture her and save her own skin from the Emperor’s wrath.
  • After capturing Eda, she tells Luz that she's with her "real family"... the same family who cursed her.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Her reasons for staying with the Emperor's Coven are so that she could make a deal with Emperor Belos to remove Eda's curse in exchange for her being inducted into the coven.
• I Should Have Done This Years Ago: Once she, Eda, King, and Luz escape from the Emperor's castle, Lilith magically takes half of Eda's curse upon herself. She admits that she should have done so a long time ago.
• Incompatible Orientation: Her letter to Hooty in the March 2022 charity stream makes mention of being asked out by multiple suitors. Given that she's aromantic asexual, she ends up turning them all down.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: Season 2 likes to demonstrate that Lilith has some rather skewed ideas of what constitutes "fun".
  • In "Echoes of the Past", when experimenting with glyph combos, she finds that the best part is watching the ink dry.
  • In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", she thinks the history of Deadwardian balusters would make for an exciting new museum exhibit, though she seems to quickly realize that she's the only one who finds it interesting. Still, after traveling back in time to the Deadwardian period with Luz and having some free time before going back, she takes the opportunity to excitedly watch a builder carve a baluster. Luz herself doesn't quite get it but she can relate to having weird interests.
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Any Sport In A Storm" shows Lilith posting reviews of inks on penstagram, tagging it as "#Cool".
• Ironic Name: She's named after Lilith, the so-called first woman who rebelled against God because of how he made women second to man and then went on to sire countless children with demons. By contrast, she's aromantic asexual and has a recurring problem of sucking up to authority figures.
• Irony: Lilith has a lot of misgivings about being Always Second Best to her sister. However, the two types of magic Lilith does excel at above Eda are ones that one would expect Eda to be good at; Lilith is one of the three best glyph casters in the world, the epitome of wild magic, despite having spent her life working for the Coven system that seeks to eradicate wild magic, while Eda is a wild witch. She also proves more skilled than Eda in potions, being able to brew Eda's healing potion from scratch with limited supplies in just a few months, whereas Eda spent 30 years never figuring out how to make them herself, despite Eda's primary source of income having been potion selling.
• It's All About Me: In "Agony of a Witch", while waiting for Eda to come for Luz, she grumbles that Eda would be late when she really needs her.
• Jerkass Ball: In "Keeping Up A-fear-ances". After a depressed Lilith learns her mother visited Eda regularly but never did so with her in thirty years, she tells a very excited King that his dad was no father for not waiting around to see King hatch from his egg. Cue King joining her as they drown their sorrows with ice cream. Justified as she’s understandably bitter about her mother only paying attention to Eda, and karma soon hits her when the curse activates.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zig-Zagged between this and Jerk with a Heart of Jerk; Lilith is a part of a dictatorship and is trying to bring in her own sister, but she seems to genuinely believe in Emperor Belos and wants Eda to come in peacefully so he can lift her curse. Then it's revealed that she will go to dire lengths to hurt Luz and revealed herself to have cursed Eda, painting her more as a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. Then it gets subverted in "Young Blood, Old Souls" where it's revealed that Lilith deeply regretted cursing Eda and genuinely wanted to help her. When Belos refuses to cure her, she turned on him and helped Luz rescue Eda; afterwards, she takes on part of the curse as a way to start making amends.
• Kick the Dog: While threatening to kill Luz to force Eda to succumb to her curse was something they thought necessary to get Eda cured, she was needlessly callus and dismissive to Luz's anguish over it, stating Eda was with her "real" family despite the massive betrayal of such she just admitted to.
• Kid from the Future: She ends up doing this in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" when she interacts with Philip, since (while neither of them are aware of it) he's actually her great uncle many generations removed.
• Lady of Black Magic: As the head of the Emperor's Coven, Lilith wears a conservative and elegant black dress and carries herself with an air of properness and composure, in contrast with her Hot-Blooded wild witch sister Eda. However, that composure goes out of the window the minute her buttons are pressed or when in situations of high stress and frustration.
• Late Coming Out: She didn't even begin to suspect she was aromatic asexual until mid season 2 (by which point she's in her late 40s). Given that she spent most of her life either training to get into or serving in the Emperor's Coven, it's likely that she mistook her lack of interest as simply not having the time for it.
• Lean and Mean: A rather lean villainous witch in a black uniform who led the tyrannical Emperor’s Coven.
• Locked into Strangeness: Lilith gains a streak of white in her hair when she magically shares Edith's curse; one of her eyes turns grey too.
• Loss of Identity: In the season two premiere, losing her magic and position as head of the Emperor's Coven has Lilith feeling that she has no purpose and leaves her questioning of who she even is now. Fortunately, she manages to work through most of these issues with some unexpected help from Hooty.
• Magic Staff: Like her sister, Lilith uses a staff topped with a bird of prey. The bird can come to life and do her bidding just like the owl on Eda's staff.
• Mama Bear:
  • After turning sides and growing close with Luz in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" she grows protective of her and accepts her as her honorary niece as shown when the first thing she does upon reuniting with Philip Wittebane after betraying her and Luz to the Stonesleeper is to punch Philip in the face and breaks his nose as a result.
  • When the Collector starts bending the Boiling Isles to his will, she doesn't hesitate to charge at him to rescue King, all while yelling at him to "stay away from [her] nephew". She is later the first to object to King's suggestion that he ask the Collector to revive Hooty. While she may want her best friend back, she won't let King risk himself to do it.
• Mark of the Supernatural: After taking half of Eda's curse into herself, her right eye turns grey.
• Meaningful Name: The original Lilith is said to have been the first woman created by God and went on to give birth to demons, a rather appropriate name for an eldest child who cursed her sister to turn into a demon.
• Messy Hair: Flashbacks to her childhood and teenage years shows her with frizzy red hair, though in the present day she's straightened it out and dyed it dark blue. By season 2B her hair has started to curl at the bottom again although she still keeps it dyed dark blue.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: She brought Eda in to Emperor Belos, hoping that Belos would remove the curse like he promised. Belos reveals that not only does he have no intention of removing the curse, but he's going to have Eda turned to stone as an example to anyone who challenges his rule. This finally convinces Lilith to betray Belos and save her sister.
• Moment of Weakness: During their battle at the Emperor's castle, Lilith accidentally reveals to Eda that she was the one who cursed her. After Eda is captured and Emperor Belos goes back on his deal with Lilith to cure the curse (instead planning to have Eda petrified permanently), Lilith teams up with Luz to rescue her. Lilith reveals to Luz what happened: when the two were teens, they were pitted against each other in a witch's duel to see which one of them got to enter the Emperor's Coven. Lilith knew that Eda was the superior witch and would win easily, so she went to the black market and got a curse that was supposed to weaken Eda's powers for one day. However, Eda forfeited the duel and let Lilith win; as Eda left, the curse took effect and transformed her into an Owl Beast in front of the assembled crowd, turning her into an instant pariah. What makes things worse is that the curse turned out to be permanent and would gradually get worse until Eda was fully turned into a mindless beast.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The curse that she put on Eda was only supposed to strip away her powers for a day so that Lilith could win their duel and earn a place in the Emperor's Coven. She was horrified when she realized that the curse was not only permanent, but that it would get progressively worse over time. She has been frantically trying to find a way to cure Eda since then. She ultimately turns against Belos when he reveals that he has no intention of removing Eda's curse, rendering her efforts All for Nothing.
• My Greatest Second Chance: She's very guilty in season two about the fact that she nearly killed Luz and used her as bait to capture Eda, with even Luz not trusting her in "Separate Tides". When Luz risks her life to save them both from a Stone Sleeper, Lilith squeaks, "Eda's going to kill me!" before running to help. She later punches Philip in the face for attempting to bargain with Luz to do more dangerous tasks for him, telling him to shove off and they don't need him.
• Mythical Motifs: In the epilogue she gains a Harpy mode just like her sister, presumably working things out with her version of the curse.
• Nerd Glasses: As a child, Lilith wore a pair of large, round glasses. Starting with Season 2B, she goes back to wearing them.
• Nerd in Evil's Helmet: Played with. While Lilith has always been something of a nerd, it's only really revealed to the audience after her Heel–Face Turn. In a way, it's actually a heroic trait, as it's a sign of her no longer conforming to Belos's facist regime and just being herself.
• Never My Fault:
  • For most of the first season, she wants to go against Eda's wishes and force her to join the Emperor's Coven so that Emperor Belos can cure her curse. Even when she reveals that she caused the curse in the first place, Lilith aggravates it further to capture Eda in the Season 1 finale and acts like Eda is being bratty about not wanting the cure. It takes Belos revealing he's going to execute Eda instead of curing her and Luz calling her out on her actions for Lilith to admit how badly she messed up.
  • She briefly regresses to this in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances" and it's zigzagged; both of the Clawthorne sisters acknowledge that Gwendolyn's favoritism is unfair, and Eda doesn't want to be the center of her mother's attention since it means receiving multiple scam cures. On the other hand, Lilith doesn't acknowledge that Gwendolyn's favoritism spiked after Lilith cursed Eda because any parent would be frantic on learning their child became chronically ill on a random day.
• No Love for the Wicked: Played With. She was The Dragon in Season 1, and she's later confirmed to be aromantic asexual, although this was only revealed after her Heel–Face Turn and her kindness upgrade.
• Not So Above It All:
  • In "Covention", she cheats on Amity's behalf in the latter's duel with Luz, correctly assuming Eda would do the same for Luz. When Eda exposes this, she gloats that Lilith has stooped to her level.
  • When she loses her temper, Lilith behaves just as childishly and recklessly as her sister. In "Young Blood, Old Souls", when Eda (in her Owl Beast form) ends up Blowing a Raspberry at Lilith, Lilith retorts that she's above that... then promptly engages in an Eyelid Pull Taunt.
  • In "Separate Tides", she watches Hooty's battle with the fire-bees with childlike glee.
• Obliviously Evil: She really thinks that serving the Emperor's Coven is a good idea and ignores Eda's protests that Lilith is little more than an overpowered attack dog. After it was revealed that she was the one who cursed Eda, in "Young Blood, Old Souls" it is elaborated that it was only meant to be a temporary spell that would have sabotaged Eda during their duel for a chance to be in the Emperor's Coven. The fact that it would be a permanent affliction that ruined Eda's life was a complete accident.
• Odd Friendship: After betraying the Emperor and moving into the Owl House, Lilith becomes buddies with Hooty, complete with Affectionate Nicknames.
• Oh, Crap!: Lilith has a silent, horrified reaction when she loses her temper and blurts out that she was the one who cursed Eda.
• Older Than She Looks: She looks and sounds like she could be in her twenties or thirties, but invokedWord of God has confirmed that she is in her mid-to-late forties. This contrasts her further with Edalyn, who is a couple of years her junior but looks like she is at least well into her fifties.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Completely loses it when Eda scores the winning point in their grudgby match, thus winning their bet and costing Lilith the chance to bring Eda in peacefully. She lets out a Big "NO!" when Eda is about to score, then breaks down (either in distress or outright fear) at going back to Emperor Belos empty-handed, again. It got to the point Eda gave Lilith her ring so she could tell Belos she put up too much of a fight and hopefully be punished less severely.
• Out of Focus: She's a main character for the first four episodes of Season 2 before leaving with her mother and vanishing for the rest of the season's first half—with "Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty's Door" only having a voice over and a flashback. She returns in Season 2B, though.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: The commander of the Emperor's Coven is a powerful, versatile, resourceful, and (when her temper does not get the best of her) cunning sorceress by any reasonable measure. She... just isn't Eda, and never got over that fact.
• Parental Neglect: Suffered from this growing up, it wasn't done out of malice or anything, but Gwendolyn was so busy trying to cure Eda, and Lilith seemed so self-sufficient, that Gwendolyn ended up neglecting her in a lot of ways.
• Pen Pals: Lilith tells Hooty she’ll write to him in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances" when she leaves with her mother to reconnect with her parents. As of "Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty’s Door" one of these letters are shown, wherein Lilith gives him emotional support.
• Playing with Fire: Like Eda, she's fond of fire magic, only blue instead of Eda's orange.
• Pragmatic Villainy: While she gladly puts Luz in danger to get Eda to transform into the Owl Beast, Lilith doesn't bother to attempt so again after the fight (though she does grab Owlbert, presumably for the Emperor to consume). She instead throws Luz to the other end of the bridge and tells her to go back to Earth.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: She's given a spot in Season 2's Title Sequence.
• Put on a Bus: At the end of "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", she moves back in and leaves with her mother, Gwendolyn, in order to study the curse more as well as to finally do some much needed mother-daughter bonding.
• Psychological Projection: In "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", Lilith projects her issues with her mother onto King's absent father, telling King that he was no father for not being there when his son hatched, bumming King out.
• Pungeon Master: Develops a love for puns and similar wordplays in season 2, blaming it on Hooty's sense of humor affecting her.
  Lilith: Whoever sent that letter was sending them on a wild Luz chase. [chuckles]
• Queer Colors: Post-curse, her eyes are green and grey, the colors of the aromantic flag.
• Queer Establishing Moment: A Voiceover Letter during the March 2022 charity livestream reveals that she's aromantic when she admits to Hooty that she's never felt attraction to anyone.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Lilith is the head of the prestigious Emperor's Coven and is able to go toe-to-toe with Eda.
• Riches to Rags: In season two, as a result of betraying Belos in the last season, Lilith has lost all of her former status, including her position as head of the Emperor's Coven, and now lives as a fugitive with her sister.
• Sanity Slippage: It's implied that Emperor Belos is growing impatient with Lilith’s lack of progress while hunting her sister, and this is affecting her mentally. In "Wing it like Witches", her failure to win the Grudgby game (which would have resulted in Eda willingly turning herself in) has her suffer a massive break down, falling to her knees and striking the ground with her fists at the thought of going back to Emperor Belos empty-handed, again. Even after Eda gives her some "evidence" she put up too much a fight, the usually merciful Lilith who hoped Eda would willingly join the Emperor’s Coven says she’ll be returning with backup, clearly making sure Eda knows she’s joining the Emperor's Coven, whether she wants to or not. The following episode has her lose it even more and it causes her to reveal that she cursed Eda.
• Sapient Eat Sapient: In "Agony of a Witch", Lilith suffers a one-sided beatdown courtesy of Hooty that ends up with a tree falling on her. Disheveled and humiliated, she's recalled by Kikimora—who informs her that she has a bird on her head. The bird demon mockingly tells Lilith she's in trouble, and when next seen Lilith spits out a mouthful of feathers—implying she vented her anger on the bird demon by eating it. Justified, since both owls and ravens are known to eat other birds.
• Saying Too Much: In "Agony of a Witch", after decades of keeping it secret, Lilith lets her temper get the better of her and blurts out that she was the one who cursed Eda when the two of them were children.
• Self-Made Woman: In her speech at the Covention, she says that she came from "humble beginnings" and is now the head of the Emperor's Coven. The thing is though, she attempted to cheat her way in, and she only got in when Eda gave up.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!:
  • As a member of the Emperor's Coven, she's free from the normal Power Limiter restrictions a Coven puts on a witch that limits them to the magical specialty of said Coven.
  • As the leader of her Coven, she temporarily suspends Eda's status as a wanted criminal in "Covention" so Luz and Amity can duel.
  • When two officers tell her they're ordered to send Luz-as-Eda to the Conformatorium, she burns the order and says, "The order is changed."
• Shipper on Deck: The 2022 charity livestream reveals she's been supporting Luz and Amity after Hooty wrote about them in a letter to her, and she was happy to hear they finally got together. This is quite a big deal given that Amity wanted nothing to do with Lilith after her cheating stint.
• Sibling Rivalry: Even besides being a magic authority and renegade, respectively, Lilith and Eda trade petty barbs and make constant attempts to one-up each other. It takes a darker turn when it’s revealed that she’s the one who cursed Eda so she could win their duel and join the Emperor's Coven, though she genuinely didn't realize how dangerous it truly was.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift:
  • A picture in "Wing It Like Witches" shows that as a student she used to have unruly bright red hair and wear glasses with no makeup. She stopped wearing glasses and adopted her signature straight black hair and jet black lipstick after joining the Emperor's Coven.
  • In the second season, after leaving the Emperor's Coven, she is seen wearing a graphic tee (supposedly from the Human World) of a "low battery" symbol.
  • In Season 2B, she wears a slightly more formal outfit consisting of a vest over a dress. She also goes back to wearing glasses while her hair is starting to become curly again.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Lilith and Eda resemble each other with their pale skin, narrow chins, and long hair with side bangs. It's also revealed that the two both have naturally red hair.
• Super Mode: In "Watching and Dreaming", the Distant Finale reveals that Lilith managed to make a pact with her Raven-Beast, letting her transform into a Harpy form similar to Eda's.
• Teacher's Pet: Humorously turns out to be one when Luz starts teaching her rune magic, including getting excited when Luz praises her work and doing projects for "extra credit" in her free time. The fact that her teacher is a human teenager and her school is a shack in the woods doesn't seem to phase her.
• Technician vs. Performer: The technician compared to Eda's performer. Lilith is by far the more academic of the two sisters, but finds herself at a disadvantage in Season 1 because Eda has more raw power, and her intuitive style is less predictable. Being the technician has advantages in Season 2, however, because she takes the time to understand the basic principles of glyph magic, giving her a great deal more control over the results. While Eda comes up with the idea of combining glyphs to produce new effects, Lilith is the one who figures out how to actually make it work.
• Teen Hater: In "Agony Of A Witch" when the Hexside students are visiting the Emperor’s Castle, she greets them by rolling her eyes and tells them "Good luck with puberty!" Plus, she hates the Golden Guard with a passion because he's such a brat.
• This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: In "Separate Tides", Lilith insists on collecting the ingredients for the scrying potion herself even though her magic is too weak to do so because she wants to prove she can do it without help, and to make up for what she did to her sister.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After turning on Belos and reconciling with her mother, Lilith becomes a rather endearing dork and an aunt figure for Luz.
• Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Towards the end of Season 1, Luz was livid that Lilith betrayed her own sister and lied about it, and vows to let Lilith have it when she sees her again.
• Tsurime Eyes: She has noticeably sharp eyes, giving her a refined and serious look in contrast to Eda. After mellowing out in season two, her eyes become more rounded.
• Uneven Hybrid: It's implied that Caleb Wittebane was an ancestor of the Clawthorne family, therefore making her, her sister Eda, and their father Dell all part human (by a very small percentage, given that Caleb died around 300 years before either of the sisters were born). This is confirmed in the final Post Hoot.
• Unexplained Recovery: Unlike every other member of the coven system, Lilith does not appear to have a coven sigil, being able to move and act freely immediately after the draining spell ends while everyone who were drained are still knocked out. invokedAccording to Dana, they had intended to include a line about Lilith's brand being removed as a result of her exile from the Emperor's Coven, but it slipped their mind and didn't make it in, making it ultimately unclear how Lilith avoided the fate of every other witch on the isles (though a castmember suggests that it might just be because Belos hates her).
• The Un-Favourite: Downplayed. Gwendolyn favored lavishing attention on Eda, a trait that intensified significantly after Eda was cursed, to the point of regularly visiting Eda for the last thirty years while never doing the same for Lilith. However, Gwendolyn fixates on Eda out of concern for her curse and legitimately thought Lilith was independent enough to not need the attention. By the end of "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", Gwendolyn makes it very clear that she loves and cares about both her daughters, and regrets not noticing how her distance hurt Lilith as well.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Thanks to Lilith cursing Eda, she indirectly caused her family to become broken. Season 2 flashbacks reveal that a cursed Eda accidentally slashed out her father's eye and immobilized his dominant arm when he tried surprising the girls with fireworks, while their mother tried to find a cure for her younger daughter. Gwendolyn wanting to cut out Eda's bile sac and operate on it motivated Eda to run away and become estranged, as their mother kept chasing scam cures when a medical witch told them the elixir is a temporary remedy. Raine also broke up with Eda because Eda was scared to tell her about the curse after what she did to Mr. Clawthorne. In the present at least, both Lilith and Gwendolyn take the first step towards reconciliation.
  • "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" also reveals that a good portion of Belos's hatred of wild magic came from Luz and Lilith outsmarting him, and that the shape of his nose came from Lilith punching him in the face as Philip Wittebane.
• Vague Age: She's Eda's similarly-aged sister, but looks like she's in her prime. "Sense and Insensitivity" reveals that Eda seems older than her sister due to the effects of the curse she suffers from. invokedWord of God states that Lilith and Eda are in their mid-to-late forties, with Lilith a couple of years older.
• Walking Spoiler: She is heavily tied to one of the biggest reveals in Season 1.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: "Keeping Up A-fear-ances" reveals that their mother Gwendolyn, particularly after Eda was cursed, spent all of her time with Eda instead of Lilith, and it seems highly likely that much of Lilith's drive to succeed was to try and get her mother's attention. When she learns that Gwendolyn has been visiting Eda regularly, when she didn't even attend Lilith being accepted into the Emperor's Coven, the negative emotions triggers her cursed form.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Where her season one actions ultimately fall, as she is determined to cure Eda's curse via getting Eda to join the Emperor's coven, by force if need be. She genuinely believes Emperor Belos' promise to cure Eda is the only possible way to do so, and truly wants to cure Eda of the curse that Lilith never intended to last more than a day before it becomes permanent. To achieve that goal, she bends the law she's supposed to uphold, nearly brands an innocent bystander who's just in Eda's body at the moment, leads an armed raid on her sister's home, and eventually threatened Luz to force Eda's hand.
• Wham Line: In "Agony of a Witch":
  Lilith: "Then WHY were you so easy to curse?!"
• What You Are in the Dark:
  • She failed this big time. When she and Eda were children, they were obligated to duel for the one open spot in the Emperor's Coven. Rather than talk with Eda about it, Lilith found a curse and cast it on her sister while she was sleeping. The next day, Eda immediately forfeited the duel so Lilith could fulfill her dream, only for the curse to activate and cause everyone to ostracize Eda. Rather than confessing and apologizing to Eda (and lacking the power to lift the curse herself), Lilith doubled down and became obsessed with ingratiating herself to Belos in hopes that he would cure Eda's curse. "Young Blood, Old Souls" has her finally overcoming this when she discovers that Belos had no intention of lifting the curse. Realizing that her efforts to fully cure it were All for Nothing, she instead chooses to share Eda's curse, acknowledging that she ought to have done so years ago.
  • To a lesser extent, while Gwendolyn was up to her ears trying to find a cure for Eda, Lilith never told her that the curse came from the Night Market, both out of resentment that Gwendolyn was more worried about her sick child than her healthy, seemingly self-sufficient older daughter and wallowing in guilt that it was her fault Eda's in this mess. When she finally does come clean, Gwendolyn takes it well if regretting that they both spent years barking up the wrong trees to find a solution for Eda's dilemma.
• Womanchild: Despite being the "older, responsible" sibling, she has various bouts of immaturity and would regularly throw tantrums, retaliate and act out whenever Eda gets one over her. While learning glyphs from Luz, Lilith acts like an excitable schoolchild, calling Luz "Miss Teacher" and generally behaving like a Teacher's Pet.
• Would Hurt a Child: She puts Luz in mortal danger in order to get Eda to exert her magical power and hasten her curse in "Agony of a Witch".
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She tells Hooty this via letter in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", pointing that as the Owl House himself, he takes care of all those within him.

Kikimora

Kikimora

Voiced by: Mela Lee

"You heard Terra. They want to promote me! Me!"

^{Click for her appearance of Miki}

^{Click for her appearance during the Apocalypse} "I don't need this wretched school to start my own empire. I'll make my own! And I'll start by taking you apart, piece by piece, brat by brat!"

"This could be my last chance to show Belos what I can do, and I just know that brat Golden Guard will try to spoil it."

The Emperor's personal attendant, making her a high-ranking member of his coven and a part of his inner circle.

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• Affectionate Nickname: She is sometimes called "Kiki", but whether or not it's affectionate depends on the person in question. Lilith used the nickname rather dismissively when we first hear it, which subverts the affectionate part. Later on, it's played straight when Belos refers to her as "Kiki" after reassuring her that there will be no need to hunt Eda and co. down since Belos has the portal door now.
• All for Nothing: Her promotion from "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" means that she gets to live, meaning that her going for it instead of making it to her family reunion means she's banned for life. Then comes "King's Tide" in which she makes one last attempt at impressing Belos to get back into his coven. Belos just tells her to go rot.
• Ambiguous Situation: She's seen taking part in building an extension on Hexside under Matt Tholomule in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, but it's not made clear if its a case of Defeat Means Menial Labor or if she had a legitimate change of heart in the intervening years.
• Bad Boss: She couldn't care less about what happens to the coven guards under her command as long they serve to get her greater favor from Emperor Belos. Even when informed that the tunnels they were digging through were unstable, her response for them to dig faster while she stood at a safe distance. She even made poor Steve jump over a crevice just because.
• The Beastmaster: She'd shown some Beast Keeping talents as she owns and controls what can only be called a dragon made of hands! It seems she keeps it a secret from the rest of the Emperor's Coven as the Golden Guard had no idea where it came from until Luz informed him Kikimora was the creature's master.
• Big Bad Wannabe:
  • More like The Dragon Wannabe. Kikimora is, above all else, wracked with delusions of being much more important to Emperor Belos and his schemes than she really is. While she's a modestly high-ranked member of the Emperor's Coven, she's still ultimately barely a step above a henchman but acts as if she's his right hand agent. This is likely why she has such a vendetta against Hunter the Golden Guard, Belos's actual right hand man, to the point that she tries to kill him multiple times. In "Clouds on the Horizon", after she's been demoted and Hunter has defected, she even brags to his face about how Belos might make her the new Golden Guard after she turns him in, and outright asks Belos if he's in need of a new right hand when she delivers Hunter (actually Luz in disguise) to him.
  • She becomes a straight example of this trope in "For the Future", in which she poses as Boscha's dragon and then betrays her in an attempt to take advantage of the chaos caused by The Collector's takeover. She even rants about "starting [her] own empire". Of course, she's still absolutely nothing of a threat compared to the Collector or Belos.
• Body Motifs: Hands. Her bangs resemble a clawed hand and her bun resembles a clenched fist, and she commands a dragon-centipede creature made up of hands and fingers. And of course, her primary motivation is to become Belos' right hand man.
• Boss's Unfavorite Employee: "King's Tide" finally reveals what Belos thinks of her. After delivering who she thinks is Hunter to him and asking to be his right hand, Belos insults her to her face and tells her to go wither and die. While Belos hates all witches and demons, clearly, he especially never liked her in the first place.
• Butt-Monkey: Especially in Season 2 nothing seems to go right for her. She's suffering from Sanity Slippage, gets defeated on a regular basis by Luz with or without help, and worse, in her most recent appearance, not only does she get easily tricked by Terra Snapdragon due to being Super Gullible, but that also means that she's banished from her home of Palm Stings for life due to not attending a family reunion. Not to mention that she later got demoted for her repeated failures, leading the division of the Emperor's Coven that handles the transport of Abomatons. She does get a bone thrown when Odalia reveals the Abomatron, allowing her to overpower and kidnap Luz, but she initially thought that it was Hunter and was aiming for him specifically. Then in "King's Tide", Belos makes clear that he has no appreciation for her loyalty or work at all and tells her to go die in a hole.
• Chekhov's Hobby: In "Hunting Palismen", she secretly listens in on Belos' private discussion with Hunter, which leads her to sabotage Hunter's mission. "King's Tide" shows that listening to Belos' private meetings is a regular occurrence for her, meaning she knows about the Collector and is able to guide King to them.
• Corrupt Bureaucrat: Kikimora is more of a politician within the Emperor's Coven who handles all state affairs, but she feels threatened by the Emperor's favor towards the Golden Guard, so much so that she attempts to assassinate him.
• Creative Sterility: In "For the Future", Luz lampshades how what she's doing at Hexside is basically just the same as what Belos did; fearmongering to gain power, showing that she doesn't have the brains to bother to come up with an original plan.
• Cute Is Evil: Her small stature, high voice, mostly obscured face, and Laughably Evil tendencies all combine to make Kikimora seem like a cute individual. Her adorable appearance contrasts with her ambitious and ruthless personality. Perhaps best seen in the opening credits of Season 2 where Lilith and the Golden Guard start off looking imposing while Kiki looks shy, only for the next images of them show Lilith and the Golden Guard looking more vulnerable while Kikimora looks deranged.
• Defeat Means Menial Labor: Possibly. At the end of "Watching And Dreaming", she's seen helping with the construction of a new museum wing of the library with Matt and Lilith, though it's unknown if she's doing it as punishment or out of a change of heart.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: In "For the Future", no matter how much Matt's suggestions make sense, she just shoots them down, being more interested in her own power-base than forming a functioning community.
• Determinator: Attention isn't drawn to it but she seems to have a surprising amount of willpower as when the draining spell is activated, most of the other demons and witches are left completely incapacitated, including the coven heads, yet she's still able to move and talk enough to help King by leading him to the Collector's mirror so she can stick it to Belos.
• Dirty Coward: When Luz threatens her with a fire spell, she immediately, without a second of hesitation, frees Eda, King, and Lilith.
• The Dog Bites Back: Her loyalty to the Emperor finally expends itself when Belos tells him, upfront, that the best she could ever do to win his favor is to "find a hole to wither away in." After that, she helps King stop him, out of nothing more than an urge to see him paid back for his treachery.
• Dragon-in-Chief: In "For The Future", she takes the role of Boscha's dragon in the ruins of Hexside, but her position as chief advisor essentially makes her the one in charge as she manipulates Boscha into consolidating power and vetoing efforts to reform their living conditions. It's made abundantly clear that Boscha is just a pawn, and Kikimora inevitably plans to double-cross her to start her own empire.
• Dragon Rider: Thanks to her pet, the Hand-Dragon.
• Enemy Mine: After being cast aside by Belos despite everything she's done to earn his favor, Kikimora decides to help King release the Collector from his prison so he can stop the Draining Spell, all so she can get revenge on Belos.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Kikimora is seen calling her mother during "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" and it's clear she wants to please her, to the point of bawling her eyes out over her mother threatening her with banishment from her home of Palm Stings if Kikimora choose work over attending a family reunion. Luz is moved enough to see the similarities with her own mom. Ultimately zigzagged as when given the choice between the family reunion and getting a promotion, she chooses the promotion and says, "Palm Stings can burn for all I care!"
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", she is crestfallen that she has to skip out on a family reunion to attend the parade and is brought to tears when she tells Luz her mother's threatened her with banishment if she doesn't come home. Downplayed by the end, as she deems her career to be be more important than her family, choosing not to go to the reunion when she hears she's getting a promotion. But, considering her reward from that was being allowed to live, she wonders if it was worth getting banished from her family.
• Evil Is Petty: In "For the Future", she takes particular pleasure in both mocking and attacking Luz, despite Luz barely doing anything to her at all.
• Extreme Doormat: Kikimora has always been walked all over by others. She finally proves everyone wrong about that in Season 3.
• Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Even in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" she laments that she's been reduced from the Emperor's personal attendant to a "glorified party planner." As of "Clouds on the Horizon" her constant failures have her demoted to a delivery driver for the Emperor's Coven. As of the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming" her current job is now in construction and is seen working on the additions to the library.
• Family Versus Career: Her conflict in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" is that her mother wants her at a reunion, but the Emperor's Coven wants her in the parade and she can't get out of it. Despite Luz going through with a plan to fake her kidnapping so she'll be able to do both, she decides firmly on "career" when she hears Terra talking about a "promotion" for her, even attacking Luz. And of course, her "promotion" is just that she gets to live.
• Fangs Are Evil: Though her mouth is usually hidden, when she blows on a whistle to summon the Hand-Dragon it's revealed she sports boar-like tusks, though they come across more like Cute Little Fangs.
• Fatal Flaw: Envy combined with ambition. She's super jealous of the Golden Guard and will do anything to become the Emperor's right hand woman. She also jumps at the chance for a political promotion despite it being an obvious ruse showing how see-through her ambition is, which ends up costing her family's love. By the epilogue, Kikimora ends up as a lowly employee being bossed around by Matt Tholomule.
• Faux Affably Evil: Can speak in a calm and grandmotherly fashion, but it's usually laced with condescension, at best.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She is starkly envious of the Golden Guard's closeness to the Emperor and she arranges for him to be killed. Also seemed to be the case with Lilith as well.
• Hair Substitute Feature: Has what looks like clawed hands emulating hair; an open palm grasping her head for bangs and a clinched fist directly attached to it loosely resembling a bun. Unsurprisingly, they're revealed to be fully functional and can be used to activate spells like any other pair of hands.
• Hate Sink: Cowardly? Check. Sleazy? Check. Arrogant? Check. Self-righteous? Check. Petty? Check. A backstabber who's perfectly willing to kill a child whether they're on her side or not? Check. Being aware of what the Day of Unity will actually entail and not caring one bit about others for her own gain out of a deluded belief that Belos would spare her? Check. From all of the aforementioned negative traits Kikimora has, it is safe to say we're not supposed to enjoy her screen time. After other villains get more positive traits or outright defect in Season 2 she comes to share this role with Odalia, who not only willingly allows the Emperor's genocide to happen but thinks her family's social status will be elevated in exchange for her loyalty. Kikimora on the other hand is fairly humbler in her desires and thinking by comparison. She seems open to the possibility she will die in the process, so she'll at least take the satisfaction knowing she'll stick it to Hunter before the Day of Unity happens, and she thinks she'll be rewarded and enjoy it before she dies. On top of that, she’s at least willing to admit when she’s wrong, and accepted her punishment with dignity.
• Height Angst: It's implied her short stature may be a sore-spot for her given that she rides on Abomaton 2.0s to be literally above her underlings and her first reaction to piloting the Abomatron is joy that "[she's] taller than everyone!"
• High Collar of Doom: A rare instance where the collar actually obscures most of her face, making her mouth rarely visible.
• Humble Pie: Kikimora spent all of Season 2 trying to win the Emperor's favor, and kill Hunter. Between being disowned by her own family, and being told to go find a hole to wither in after failing again, she's completely broken from all of it, but it has granted her enough perspective and is forced to accept Belos isn't the man she thought he was, and she's quite somber when spilling her secrets. For the first time, she’s willing to admit she’s wrong. After coming to terms with this, she gives King, the last Titan, the opportunity to release the Collector in order to give Belos the middle finger on his plans if he so chooses, her own life be damned since she's about to die anyways. Tellingly by the end of Season 3, Kikimora ends up accepting her punishment to serve in the library without protest.
• Hypocrite:
  • She lays into Warden Wrath for being defeated by Luz, and even drawing her a map, but the second Luz threatens her with a fire spell, she caves and releases Eda, King, and Lilith.
  • Even without fully understanding the irony (she's so drowsy she can't recognize whom she's fighting against), she accuses Hunter of "treason against a Coven official" for bringing down her mount and defending himself from her attacks, when she was the one who plotted to destroy his airship and kill him.
• Insane Troll Logic: It's revealed at the end of season two that she actually always knew the truth about Belos — that he's a False Prophet leading people away from the Titan's true teachings, that he's planning to kill everyone with the Day of Unity, that he's working with the Collector, everything. Why does she keep helping him and not try to stop him? She thinks she can make him like her by serving him and thus make him spare her life. Needless to say, she is very wrong about this.
• Jerkass: Kikimora just doesn't like people, full stop. Being abrasive, demeaning, and insulting is her default state of being. She only drops it around Belos, who she treats with professional politeness and deference, and it's clear that that's only out of fear and ambition rather than any sincere fondness. She also adores giving Lilith a hard time. Her relationship with the Golden Guard isn't much better, as she tries to have him assassinated. She also betrays Luz after she tries to help Kikimora visit her family, and chooses her career over her family.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: The misfortune she suffers throughout Season 2 would make her come off as pitiful if it weren't for the fact that Kikimora is a self-centered and arrogant backstabber who will do anything to earn Belos' favor, even if it means killing Hunter, betraying Luz after she goes out of her way to help her attend a family meeting (with Kiki burning the bridge with her family in the process), and being complicit in Belos' plan for the Draining Spell under the delusion she would be spared.
• Kick the Dog: After sending her pet dragon to crash Hunter's airship, she claims to the rest of the Coven that the crash was a result of Hunter being "incompetent".
• Laser-Guided Karma: Due to her Green-Eyed Monster and Bad Boss tendencies she tends to get hit with this a lot. It's shown in recent episodes that she's on very thin ice with Emperor Belos due to her failures, in the most recent case saying that the emperor will kill her if she's not in the annual Coven's Day Parade. Needless to say, she deserves it. By "Clouds on the Horizon", she's rewarded for all her treachery and backstabbing with a demotion to a mere cargo pilot. And suffice to say she is definitely deserving of it.
  • In a way, she delivers this to Belos in "King's Tide". Belos dismisses her as useless, so she reveals to King that she knew about his talks with the Collector and ends up bringing up Belos' demise.
• Laughably Evil: As season 2 goes on and her failures continue to mount, Kikimora becomes a bigger source of comedy. Her desperation, pettiness, and screw-ups don't make her quite sympathetic enough to be an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain but they do serve to make her more amusing.
• Leeroy Jenkins: In "Eclipse Lake", Kikimora is so determined to show up the Golden Guard that she disregards her subordinate's suggestion to be careful. This ends up costing her dearly when the mine carts formed from Abomatons she and her henchmen use derail due to them going too fast.
• Locked Out of the Loop: While she's aware of Belos' true plans for the Boiling Isles and dealings with The Collector, Kikimora seems ignorant of the fact that every Golden Guard was a Grimwalker made by Belos specifically for that role and fully believes she could take the title for herself.
• Magical Barefooter: Apparently she prefers to go barefoot, possibly because of her clawed, vaguely birdlike feet.
• Meaningful Name: A kikimora refers to malevolent house spirits in Slavic folklore. And while Kikimora is a demon native to the Boiling Isles and not a house spirit, she is definitely malevolent. Kikimora are also sometimes considered the cause of sleep paralysis, and she paralyzes Raine while saying "night night~"... In modern colloquial Russian, "kikimora" is used as an insult against people who look or are weird or annoying. She is certainly annoying to her subordinates, who are tired of her paranoia.
• Mini-Mecha: In "Clouds on the Horizon" Kiki becomes the test pilot of the Abomatron, an Abomination-mecha meant to be piloted from the inside. Given her recent demotion to delivery driver and the machine's power, Kiki is quite delighted.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In "King's Tide" after she's both been rejected by Belos as his "right-hand" and finds out she's not immune to the Draining Spell, she takes King to where the Collector was cast away in order to stick it to her boss.
• Mouth of Sauron: She is the Emperor's personal assistant who acts as an intermediary between him and his followers, and usually speaks on behalf of the state, making her the equivalent of a prime minister.
• My Beloved Smother: From her side of her phone call with her mother, it's implied Kikimora's mother is this to her. In less than a minute, she asks if Kiki's seeing anyone, makes sure she's standing up straight, guilts her over not visiting the family and threatens her with banishment if Kiki doesn't make it home for the family reunion.
• The Napoleon: Donwplayed. Kikimora is small and while she has no aspirations to conquer, she is pretty obsessed with becoming the emperor's right-hand-woman. She's also fairly arrogant and bossy to her subordinates and those she deems inferior.
• No-Sell: Downplayed in "Hunting Palismen". Luz applies a thick cloud of Knockout Gas directly on Kikimora, and such an amount is implied to be potent enough to do a human in. However, the fact that Kikimora could shrug it off enough to put up a fight before succumbing shows she has a pretty decent tolerance for the stuff.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: She's a tiny sycophant who either surrenders when threatened or relies on her pet dragon to do her dirty work. But don't get in her way when she's trying to earn Belos' favor. Debilitating sleeping gas serves to barely slow her down and her aim is still pretty accurate and deathly even as she fights off the effect of the gas as Hunter/Golden Guard finds out.
• Not So Similar: "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" has her being torn between gaining approval from her mother by attending a family reunion and advancing in the Emperor's Coven, with Luz clearly seeing similarities with her own conflict especially after her promise to Camila in "Yesterday's Lie". But while Luz doesn't want to sacrifice one side for the other, once Kiki thinks that she'll be getting a promotion from it, she quickly turns on Luz and shows that she cares more about advancement politically than her family.
• Not Worth Killing: In "King's Tide" she brings "Hunter"—really a previously disguised Luz—to Belos in the hopes of being made his right-hand. Belos, despite noticing her failure, doesn't kill her. He just coldly throws her out and tells her to "find a hole to wither away in." Given that the Draining Spell has already started and he believes she'll die along with the rest of the Boiling Isles, it's clear Belos thinks so little of her that he won't even bother dirtying his hands to kill her personally. However, this backfires when she tells King about the Collector, deciding that if the Day of Unity is coming, she might as well see him suffer this one time.
• Obviously Evil: The second opening spoils her as a villain by making her first look shy, then Ax-Crazy.
• Oh, Crap!: Take a good look at her at the end of "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" when she is told she was going to be killed, she gets Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises and in her public speech she is sweating and looks incredibly tense.
• Our Demons Are Different: "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals that like all other non humanoid witches who can do magic, Kikimora is a biped demon.
• Pick on Someone Your Own Size: She really has it out for Hunter, targeting him specifically because she can't stand the fact that a 16 year-old outranks her. She's tried to kill him on multiple occasions, becomes paranoid about the idea that he may be trying to undermine her, and in "Eclipse Lake", she has to actively be reminded that they're there for Titan blood, not to kill one of their own allies. After Hunter defects from the Emperor's Coven, she's practically salivating over the idea of taking him back to Belos and witnessing him being punished for insubordination, gleefully telling him that Belos will probably snap him in half.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: In "For the Future", her scheme of trying to make her own empire out of the Hexside students is a mere side issue compared to Luz and co.'s mission to free the Boiling Isles from the Collector, with Kikimora herself treated as more of an annoying obstacle than an actual threat. The Hexside students themselves actually take on Kikimora while the Hexsquad make their way to the Collector's abode. "Watching and Dreaming" continues this, with the Hexside students being shown back at the school some time later, none the worst for wear, showing that Kikimora is so inconsequential to the story that her defeat wasn't even worth showing on-screen.
• Prehensile Hair: Prehensile Alien Hair at least. She can draw spellcircles with the claws of her hairdo.
• Pretender Diss: In "For the Future", when she reveals how she is planning to betray Boscha and start her own empire, Luz yells that Kikimora is simply copying Belos and his "scare people into worshiping" tactics because she has no original ideas of her own.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: She is given a spot in Season 2's Title Sequence with Lilith, the Golden Guard, and Emperor Belos.
• Properly Paranoid: Kikimora drives her subordinates crazy with her paranoia about the Golden Guard coming in to disrupt her operations and she's not wrong, as he has followed her group. At one point she even blasts a tree to splinters thinking she heard his voice from behind it. Hunter hid right behind the tree.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Kikimora got demoted to airship pilot after failing to turn over a single resident of the Owl House during the raid in "Edge of The World".
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her right sclera and left iris are red, and she's revealed to be a Not-So-Harmless Villain in Season 2.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: She's named after a type of temperamental house spirit from Slavic Folklore.
• The Resenter: This appears to be the reason for her dislike of the Golden Guard, seeming to hate that he has a closer relationship with, and the trust of, Emperor Belos.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: While Kikimora and the Golden Guard both serve as Belos's chief enforcers, each of them works against the other in order to gain the Emperor's favor.
• Sanity Slippage: "Eclipse Lake" reveals that, after her attempt to eliminate Hunter in "Hunting Palismen" failed, she's become increasingly erratic, paranoid that the Golden Guard is out to get her.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: "King's Tide" reveals that she knew all about The Collector due to constantly listening in on Belos in an attempt to curry his favor. If her comment about the piles of the Grimwalkers being "failures" is any indication, she knew about them all along as well.
• Skewed Priorities: In "Eclipse Lake", she's more interested in getting revenge on Hunter than getting the Titan's Blood.
• Spanner in the Works: In "King's Tide" she's the one who ulitmately brings the end of Emperor Belos by telling King about the Collector and guiding him to the mirror where Belos trapped him.
• The Starscream: Not towards Belos, but towards Hunter, vying for his position as The Dragon.
• Super Gullible: In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", she immediately buys Terra's claims of a promotion for her, despite the obvious hints that it's just a ruse to lure her out of hiding. When Amity points out that it sounds too good to be true, Kiki says that it's a risk she's willing to take. Sure enough, after turning on Luz, Terra reveals that the "promotion" is that she lives.
• Technicolor Fire: "Hunting Palismen" reveals that her fire spells are purple-colored.
• Too Important to Walk: After the Emperor's Coven starts using Abomatons, Kikimora tends to perch on one whenever she has the chance.
• Trigger-Happy: Her reaction to hearing the Golden Guard's voice was to immediately have her Abomaton fire in its general direction.
• Troll: While giving the Hexside students a tour of the Emperor's Palace, Kikimora encounters Lilith on her way to meet the Emperor. Kikimora humiliates her by having the students wish her luck while ignorant that she's actually on her way to be chewed out after her latest failure to capture her sister.
• Ungrateful Bastard: In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade"; after Luz goes out of her way to help Kikimora to visit her family without putting her job at risk, Kikimora decides to attack Luz instead, mocking her all the while.
• Villainous Breakdown: "Eclipse Lake" shows that her humiliating failed attempt at assassinating Hunter has left her edgy and paranoid that he'll sabotage her again, as well as more openly cruel to her subordinates; as Eda puts it, "that poor girl's going through something". In general, the longer the show goes on and the more her favor with Belos slips away, the more unhinged, cruel, and manic she becomes.
• Villainous Friendship: She wishes she and Emperor Belos had this, and on some level even seems to delude herself into thinking they do have one. It is painfully one sided on her part, and while Belos seems to encourage it to get results out of her, he actually sees her as nothing more then a useful nuisance at best and has every intent of letting her die with everyone else in the Day of Unity, even directly telling her that the only thing she could do to engender herself to him is to quit bothering him and go find a hole to die in.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Is left to ask this of herself when the promotion she was trying to get was just that her life would be spared, meaning that she gave up her last chance to see her family again for nothing.
• Weasel Co-Worker: She and Lilith have an antagonistic working relationship, with Kikimora taking every opportunity to subtly mock the latter's failure to capture Eda. Season 2 shows her relationship with the Golden Guard isn't much better, to the point of trying to kill him.
• What You Are in the Dark: After the Collector is released, Kikimora is in a situation where, barring the omnipotent god-child, there is no one to boss her around or for her to suck up to, as Belos is out of the picture, the Coven Heads are literal puppets, and the Emperor's Coven all scattered. But rather than try to make anything better of her life, Kikimora settles for becoming the tyrannical ruler of a children's school. In the process, she prevents the closest thing the Boiling Isles has to La Résistance from mobilizing against the Collector, all for a vain and unimaginative attempt to pursue the power like Belos she longed for.
• Wig, Dress, Accent: Kikimora's disguise as "Miki" is a white wig, some goggles, a St. Epiderm Abomination track uniform, and talking in a less squeaky voice. Given how the members of the Hexsquad aren't really used to seeing her face due to her mouth having usually been covered by the collar of her Emperor's Coven, it's incredibly effective.
• Womanchild: Not helped by the fact that she has the stature of and sounds like one, but Kikimora is just so childish, and acts a lot like an immature brat. And when riding the Abomaton carts in "Eclipse Lake", she squeals as if she were a child on an amusement park ride.
• Would Hurt a Child: Tries to have the Golden Guard, a teenager, assassinated just so she can be Belos's right hand. Months later, she takes extreme pleasure in trying to personally exterminate Luz at her own hands.
• Yandere: She is a devout follower of Emperor Belos and is so jealous of the Golden Guard's closeness to him that she tries to assassinate him. This could also explain her antagonism towards Lilith in Season 1.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Her left sclera and right iris are yellow, and she proves quite manipulative at times.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Her mother threatens her with banishment from her home of Palm Stings if she chooses work over making it home for a family reunion. Given that Kiki chooses work, presumably her banishment sticks.
• You Have Failed Me:
  • She did not take kindly to Raine Whispers' rebellion against Belos and his hatred of wild magic, thus she is forced to send them into a Forced Sleep until the Day of Unity. At least until Terra Snapdragon used a special tea to brainwash Raine into obedience instead.
  • In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" Kikimora knows she's failed Belos too many times in the past and is worried that if she bails on the parade to visit her family, the Emperor will kill her. Terra Snapdragon reveals at the end that her mission was one last chance to prove herself, and by choosing the Emperor over her family, Kikimora is rewarded by "getting to live." "Clouds on the Horizon" shows she was actually demoted to cargo pilot.
  • In "King's Tide" she mistakenly brings Luz, who had been disguised as Hunter with an illusion, to Belos, hoping to be made his right-hand for her success, even if for a short while before dying. Though she doesn't even notice her mix-up and Belos is actually more pleased to have Luz with him than Hunter, he still coldly dismisses Kiki, not bothering to kill her personally because he knows she'll be killed along with everyone else on the Boiling Isles. Not killing her actually ends up blowing up in Belos' face as she's able to lead King to the Collector just to stick it to her former boss one last time.

Warden Wrath

Warden Wrath

Voiced by: Roger Craig Smith

"Let this be a lesson to all of you, there's no place in society for you if you can't. Fit. In."

The fearsome warden of the Conformatorium, a prison for misfits and troublemakers. Has the hots for Eda.

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• All Crimes Are Equal: Thing is, he practically has discretion over what actions aside from defying the Emperor are considered crimes. All of the "criminals" Luz meets in the Conformatorium are in for relatively minor weird things like writing fan-fiction about food, spreading conspiracy theories, or eating your own (regenerating) eyes, but to Warden Wrath they all deserve to be locked up and tortured into obedience and compliance with what he considers "normal". He'll even have you arrested just for unknowingly talking to a criminal!
• Back for the Finale: He returns in the Season Finale, wanting revenge on Luz from the events of the first episode. Unfortunately for him, Luz is a lot stronger now.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Can transfigure his hands into axe blades for an easy Off with His Head!.
• Breath Weapon: He has the ability to breathe fire from his mouth.
• Connected All Along: "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" reveals that Braxas (that kid with the deep voice Amity was reading to in "Lost in Language") is actually his son.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's a bad guy and a loyal servant of the Emperor, definitely, but he cares deeply for his son, Braxus.
• Evil Is Petty: He apparently had a tendency to steal the lunches of his coworkers, enough for him to eventually get demoted for it.
• Good Parents: He shows concern for his son's wellbeing after he was in danger.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Not only does he have a son but apparently he's a very loving father given his gratitude towards the Glandus students for saving his son.
  • He apparently has some level of scientific expertise given that he took part in the basilisk experiments.
  • His words to Eda regarding the Day of Unity implies that he may not be as loyal to Belos as he originally seemed to be and has his doubts and possible fears about his intentions.
• Hypocrite: Demanding "normalcy" is a rather strange sentiment to come from a fanged, fire-breathing tentacle monster. Plus he lives in a world where everyone is some type of monster, so how much of a freak do you have to be to get jailed or "banished"!? One might assume he's imprisoning his victims for weird behavior rather than appearances, but in this case he still falls under the trope, as being a Stalker with a Crush is a much nastier kind of "weird" than any of the harmless things he's imprisoned his victims for. And that's before it was revealed that he partakes in illegal witch battles and stole his coworkers' lunches.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: He's madly in love with Eda, as the one criminal in the Boiling Isles who's always evaded capture.
• Interspecies Romance: For a certain value of "romance", he's a demon while his crush Eda is a witch.
• Mad Scientist: He helped bring the basilisks back from extinction and studied how they fed on magic for Belos.
• Monstrous Humanoid: Beneath the mask, his face is entirely taken up by a hideous fanged mouth, and he can shapeshift his arms into all sorts of deadly weapons, from cutting blades to Combat Tentacles.
• Mook Lieutenant: Wears a different mask than the Emperor's regular mooks, showing he is a higher ranking officer.
• Our Demons Are Different: When giving a lesson on Demons, Hooty uses Wrath's picture as one of several examples of a bi-ped demon, noting that this breed has access to a Bile-Sac and thus can produce magic on the level of witches.
• Plague Doctor: His uniform, particularly the mask, is extremely reminiscent of one. Fittingly, he seems very concerned about germs.
• Sadist: He shows an extreme amount of enjoyment in torturing the various prisoners of the Conformatorium, as well as showing excitement at having Luz watch Eda get petrified, so yeah, this does apply.
• Starter Villain: He is the first antagonistic character introduced in the show, and the first of the Emperor's goons Luz fights. While threatening in his first appearance in the series premiere, Luz shows how far she's come by effortlessly curbstomping him in the first season finale.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Aside from colouring and size, he and his infant son Braxas look very similar.
• Terrified of Germs: When Eda blows a raspberry in his face, he recoils and starts whining about all the germs in her mouth.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: When he first appears, he's a threat to Luz but Eda can easily handle him. In the season 1 finale, after Luz has learned several spells and is angry enough to use them offensively, he barely lasts a second against her and is threatened into revealing Eda's location.
• Villainous Crush: An antagonist to the heroes and is in love with Eda.
• Villains Out Shopping: In "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" he's shown as a civilian with his son Braxas. In "Reaching Out" he's in his warden uniform but is participating in the Bonesborough Brawl off the clock.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: After he was fed a botched potion and went on a rampage, he had to puke, but when he did, he put his head into the snow before him, audibly puked and when he raised his head, not a trace of vomit could be seen in the snow before him.
• Wardens Are Evil: He's the warden of the Conformatorium, where "weirdos" who don't fit into society are imprisoned, and he takes great joy in tormenting his prisoners.
• Would Hit a Girl: He beheads Eda. Luckily, it does nothing but annoy her, but still.
• Would Hurt a Child: He threatens Luz when the latter says she hates how he's asking out Eda. This is what makes Eda fight back.

Flora D'splora

Flora D'splora

Voiced by: Eileen Galindo

Flora, Flora, Flora the Explorer (Flora!) Boots and super cool Exploradora!

Lilith's old mentor in the Emperor's Coven.

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: Lilith describes her as a "bad girl historian".
• Apathetic Teacher: Zigzagged. She attends Lilith's promotion party but only because she was ordered to keep an eye on her by the Emperor. Lilith would also complain that while she stayed in her office doing paperwork, Flora would run off to have awesome adventures without her.
• The Beastmaster: She's quite talented when it comes to taming wild animals, from griffons to snorses.
• Casting Gag: As part of her whole Dora the Explorer reference, she shares a voice actress with Dora's mother.
• Corrupted Character Copy: She's based on Dora the Explorer being a Latina explorer who adores adventures, her friends and all animals. But unlike Dora, Flora prioritizes adventures and living a thrilling life while losing her affection for the people around her, especially animals.
• Failed a Spot Check: Despite supposedly being knowledgeable enough about the Titan race to have written a book about last surviving specimen, she was completely oblivious to the fact that she was in the same room as him while attending Lilith's party. This indirectly leads to the Day of Unity failing as Belos never would have let King live long enough to free the Collector had he be made aware of his true nature.
• Punny Name: Her name is a pun on Dora the Explorer. Luz even lampshades it.
• Rhyming Names: Her first and last name form a rhyme.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears during the opening scene of "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", yet she ends up having a major influence of the overall series since her dropping off Lilith's time pool detector helps close the 400-year Stable Time Loop that led to Belos' rise to power.
• Tail Slap: Her whip is actually the tail of her monkey Palisman.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: Her Palisman staff takes the form of a whip, which she's shown using to wrangle a passing griffon. It's to cement her character as an Adventurer Archaeologist in a similar vein as Indiana Jones.

Coven Soldiers

In General

Coven Guards and Scouts

Voiced by: Arin Hanson, Matt Chapman, Roger Craig Smith, Dana Terrace, JB Blanc, Fred Tatasciore, Dee Bradley Baker, Zeno Robinson

The rank and file of the Emperor's Coven, often seen patrolling the streets of the Boiling Isles' cities, or in government buildings. The scouts are slightly higher than the Guards in rank, serving on special assignment and as inspiration for young witches. Guards function more like police.

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• Ambiguously Human: Ambiguously witch, at least. Hooty is at one point able to stick his head right through a guard's hood, where his head should be, implying that they may be Animated Armor. But “Any Sport In A Storm” shows they vary in appearance and size, such as one having noticeably concealed pointy horns/ears, and another having a tail poking out, meaning they are living people in uniform.
• Faceless Goons: They wear hoods and masks at all times. The times that we actually do see scouts without their masks on, it's because they're quitting the job altogether.
• Fake Ultimate Mook: Scouts despite being supposedly elite, are usually as useless as standard soldiers.
• Mauve Shirt: A few soldiers have actual names and personalities, the biggest being Steve, and as of "Any Sport in a Storm" they mostly vary in size and appearance.
• Mooks: They're the cannon-fodder of Belos' regime, serving as a police force in urban areas like Bonesborough and prison guards at the Conformatorium. They are hardly ever a threat even to unexperienced witches.
• Patrolling Mook: Their main job seems to patrol Bonesborough and other urban areas.
• Punch-Clock Villain: They're not really that mean, they just work for people who are.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Their leader is the Big Bad and resident Knight of Cerebus, while they… are not.

Coven Captain

Coven Captain

Voiced by: Fryda Wolff

An officer in the Emperor's Coven.

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• Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: Her metal Cool Mask creates this effect.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When interrogating Amity, she makes it about halfway through one question before getting bored and tossing her off a cliff.
  Captain: So, uh, did you come with anyone else, or... Ugh! This is boring.
• Beleaguered Assistant: In "Eclipse Lake" she expresses increasing exasperation towards Kikimora's paranoia and obsession towards one-upping Hunter.
• Cool Mask: She wears a similar style of helmet to the rank-and-file Coven Scouts, but with six eye holes instead of two big ones and a pair of tusks or fangs that end up giving the whole thing a spider theme.
• Mook Lieutenant: Clearly has some authority in the Emperor's Coven but not to the extent of Kikimora or Hunter.
• Perky Female Minion: Subverted, she's not that enthusiastic about her job or her supervisor.
• Would Hurt a Child: She seems levelheaded enough when compared with Kikimora, but when left alone to guard a captured Amity, she gets bored in seconds and casually tosses her into a chasm which would've probably killed her if not for Eda's intervention.

Steve

Steve

Voiced by: Alex Hirsch (Season 1), Matt Chapman (Season 2)

"Yeah! All hail Lulu!"

"Steve is beginning to regret his choices."

A Coven Scout and Lilith Clawthorne's assistant. See This page, under Coven Defectors.

Severine

Severine

Voiced by: Dana Terrace

^{Click here to see her unmasked}

"You know what? It has been a rough year, and my self-esteem can only take so much. I quit!"

An ineffectual scout who serves Head Witch Graye of the Illusion Coven.

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• Biting-the-Hand Humor: Considering who voices her, what she has to deal with, and what she says in the brief time she's on screen, it isn't hard to guess that she's Dana's way of venting about Disney's less-than-stellar treatment of her and her show right under the Mouse House's nose.
• Butt-Monkey: She's the most frequent target of Graye's bullying and disrespect, and the Coven Captain above is implied to not treat her much better.
• Cat Folk: She looks vaguely cat-like, with lizard features, and she mentions once having been part of the Tiny Cat Coven.
• Faceless Mooks: Averted. She's the first Coven Scout to ditch the mask and reveal their face onscreen when she quits.
• Horned Humanoid: Her cloak sticks up because it's raised over two horns.
• Imposter Forgot One Detail: While disguised as Willow, she calls Gus "Augustus" instead of by his new nickname. Though Gus doesn't notice the discrepancy, her acting afraid of Hunter is enough of a give away for him to know she's an imposter. Because the real Willow isn't scared of anyone.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Even if she is trying to force students into Covens, her superiors' constant poor treatment of her and her sad reactions make her too pitiful to dislike.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: After quitting the Emperor's Coven she announces her intention to go back to the Tiny Cat Coven.
• Lizard Folk: Out of uniform she resembles a humanoid lizard.
• Our Demons Are Different: Unmasked she's revealed to be a biped demon.
• Punch-Clock Villain: She's helping Graye's plan to forcibly place every student in Hexside into a Coven but she doesn't seem malicious and ends up quitting after being disrespected too many times.
• Spotting the Thread: Hunter is able to see through her Willow disguise, first because she uses one of Graye's non-words as an adjective, then because she acts scared of him even though both he and Gus know Willow is way too tough to be scared of anyone. Naturally, Graye blames her even though she followed all his notes.
  Graye: So maybe you should've figured out the note inside the note.
• Take This Job and Shove It: First she tries to sneak off unnoticed but when her Coven Captain spots her and threatens her to get on the ship, she finally lashes out over how poorly she's been treated and quits.

Abomaton 2.0s

Abomaton 2.0s

Voiced by: JB Blanc

The crowning achievement of Blight Industries, they were created to serve as home security but were all bought by the Emperor to bolster his forces — and to keep them out of potentially rebellious hands.

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• Arm Cannon: They can form their hands into arm-cannons that shoot blasts powerful enough to punch holes through trees.
• Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: Played With. Their machine-parts give them an armored look, which is a recurring theme with the Emperor's Coven in contrast to their opponents.
• Barrier Warrior: They can project a barrier around themselves and their users to shield them from magical attacks.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: They can morph their arms into bladed weapons.
• Catch and Return: They can form their hands into pincher-like tools to catch any energy attacks thrown at them and keep it contain.
• Elite Mooks:
  • Of the Blight Industries creations, the Abomatons are easily their most powerful product. Even beyond the extra gadgets, fire-power, and defensive abilities, Amity was able to tear apart the Abomaton 1.0 that the company was selling with ease while the Abomaton 2.0 was much more resistant to her.
  • When the Emperor integrates them into his army, it's clear that Abomatons are much tougher than the rank and file scouts.
• Giant Mook: Substantially taller than human sized Witches and Demons.
• It Won't Turn Off: Once activated and locked onto a specific target, they won't stop attacking until the target is completely destroyed. In the case of humans, then they won't stop until they are killed. Fortunately, they're not very smart; Amity and Luz outsmart one by playing dead.
• Logical Weakness: They're vulnerable to witches in the Abomination Coven, who can manipulate their body mass due to them essentially being abomination cyborgs.
• Mecha-Mooks: The most robotic out of Belos' troops.
• Punny Name: A combination of Abombination and Automaton.
• Replacement Mooks: Downplayed, there are still more Coven Guards and Scouts than them, but Belos is still bringing them in to bolster his army.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: They're quite a versatile piece of equipment. Not only do they possess the malleability of traditional abominations, allowing them to form weapons from their mass, but their advanced design means they can form more complex weaponry like hand-cannons and use their internal power source for offense and defense.
• Transforming Mecha: Being part Abomination means that they can shift and transform their non-mechanical parts as needed. In "Eclipse Lake", Kikimora even has two turn into mine carts.
• The Voiceless: They don't speak, nor do they moan like most abominations.

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