S1 - Ep 13: Betrayed and Alone

Luz meets All For One again in the Vestige Realm while in a coma and comes to term with her actions, with the latter offering to mentor her on her powers. After she recovers, Luz finds out her quest for revenge isn't over yet.

This chapter contains examples of:

Abusive Parents: If kicking her out of their house and having her surname changed post-death wasn't bad enough, Julia's parents helped the Governor with his plans for the Death Camp, effectively sending her off to her death.
Admiring the Abomination: Shigaraki admits he's been to the Boiling Isles before and found the creatures and powers he saw there… to be outstanding.
All for Nothing: Wittebanes were always planning for Julia to die at summer camp. Quirk or no Quirk.
Arbitrary Skepticism: : Luz is willing to accept The Multiverse as a thing but initially doesn't believe in parallel worlds in her own dimension until All For One dryly points out this flawed logic.
Apologises a Lot: Luz mentally noted that her crying mother couldn't stop apologising for a week over what happened to her at the Death Camp. Luckily, it seems her daughter has forgiven her.
The Atoner: Camila vows to improve her parenting of Luz, with her realizing just how much of a mistake it was to try and encourage Luz to suppress her nerdy tendencies got her involved in the Death Camp.
Beware the Nice Ones: Pastor Domenico is nice man of god, however, the Wittebanes deliberately sending their daughter to their death makes angry enough to ask Luz avenge Julia for him, something the girl is willing to oblige.
Bilingual Bonus: Luz and Camila gain speak some Spanish, as well as Dr. Rodriquez. Translations below.
- Te di poder, mama (I gave you power, mom)
- Mierda… Ow, eso dolio… (Shit… Ow, that hurt…)
- Mio's dio (My god)
- Todo esto es culpa mia (This is all my fault)
- Vamos, oye ahore (Come on, hey now)
- Ese pedazo de mierda (That piece of shit)
- Gracias (Thank you)
Bittersweet Ending: The end of Season 1 is this.
- Bitter: 27 of the former campers are dead, including Luz's First Friend Julia, the fact that 20 of them died to Luz's hands in self-defence have permanently damaged the girl, as she's now a Broken Bird and now more easily influenced by All For One to get One For All. Camila feels immense guilt for unwittingly sent Luz there and turned her into a killer. The Wittebanes, the collaborators of the Deadly Game, are planning to spread their Fantastic Racism on a national level.
- Sweet: Governor Rodger Maxwell is arrested and is charged with enough crimes and evidence to put him in prison for a long time. Luz has maintained contact with her surviving team-members even after they move back to their states and Shigaraki agrees to be her Evil Mentor. She also gives her mother a Quirk to improve her veterinarian skills and ahs forgiven her. Luz now plans to take on the Wittebanes.
Blood from the Mouth: Luz coughs up a bit of blood not long after she wakes up from her coma.
Call-Back: Shigaraki admits that All For One can be replicated and has had imperfect copies like No. 6 and Nine. He laments he could never fully able to copy the thing to ensure his Villainous Legacy.
The Chosen One: Shigaraki calls Luz this before she wakes up.
Commonality Connection: Shigaraki claims he understands her murderous rage over the death of someone you care about that any rational person would want revenge by any means necessary. He's most likely referring to his brother's death after passing One For all to his successor.
Cool Old Guy: Luz certainly thinks Domenico is this.
Determinator: All For One is STILL completely obsessed with claiming One For All for himself (as it houses the spirit of his younger brother whom he had always wanted by his side in his schemes) even after dying to it at All Might's back in his world. Not even experiencing death by its hands can dissuade him.
Didn't See That Coming: Shigaraki admits he did not think that things would've escalated quickly to the point that Luz would steal more Quirks than her body can contain and suffer a bloody Heroic RRoD.
Don't Ask: Luz does NOT want to talk about her actions in the forest. The part where she took those kids' Quirks after killing them.
Dude, Not Funny!: Dr. Rodriquez jokingly calls Luz a weapon of war and Super-Soldier after talking about footage of her killing twenty people her age in self-defence. This didn't make Camila happy in the slightest.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Luz notes that the 20 murderous kids were never going to see their parents thanks to her killing them in her rampage.
Evil Feels Good: Luz is disturbed that this might apply to her.
So if what she did was bad… why didn't she feel bad about doing it? She committed a crime, one of the worst kinds, murder, and she felt nothing for doing it.
Evil Is Bigger: All for One is over 7 ft. tall, easily dwarfing Luz, an average-sized teenage girl.
Evil Mentor: Shigaraki offers to be this to Luz, since she that doesn't have any better options.
Finger-Tenting: Shigaraki does this.
Faux Affably Evil: Shigaraki greets Luz in a seemingly genuine, friendly tone but she can practically hear the fake smile on his face.
Freak Out: Not long after she wakes up from her coma, Luz has a panic attack after having flashbacks of all the horrible things she witnessed at the Death Camp. This occurs in front of her distressed mother as she is hurried out of her hospital by the doctors trying to sedate her.
Good Is Not Soft: When Luz hears about the Wittebanes' plans and their role in their daughter's murder, she is so outraged that she vows to stop them even if it means she has to take more lives to stop them.
Good Thing You Can Heal: Shigaraki points out Luz is lucky for the Regeneration Quirks she had or otherwise, she would've died from her "Quirk Overload" implosion. Even her heart was cut in half. He recommends that she keep the "Super Regeneration" Quirk no matter what as its too rare and useful to give up.
Gratuitous Spanish: Luz invokes this so that only her mother would understand that gave her a Quirk.
Half the Man He Used to Be: According Shigaraki and the doctor performing surgery on her, Luz almost became this to due to the blowback from having too many Quirks in her, and was only held together by a few threads of muscle and skin.
Hates Their Parent: Downplayed. When Luz wakes up and first sees her concerned mother, she admits to herself that part of herself does hate Camila for unwittingly dumping into that horrible situation. However, she doesn't want to take her anger out on her or tell her that as her mother already feels guilty enough.
Heroic BSoD: Camila became shell-shocked when she hears about Luz's experience at the Death Camp.
Heroic Safe Mode: Luz appears to like this in the Mental World as she comes to terms with fact she's a killer now. She comes out of it not long after she wakes up and has a panic attack.
I Did What I Had to Do: Shigaraki encourages Luz to have this mindset when come to killing her foes.
I Have No Son!: To drive to point home. Julia's parents change her last name to Delmisso, her mother's maiden name, just before her funeral they don't even bother to show up at.
It's All My Fault: Camila has this reaction when she hears what happened to Luz at summer camp, being forced into a kill or be killed situation. She vows to to never fail her daughter again.
If Only You Knew: At that point, Luz muses that had done what The Governor probably wanted to happen. She has no idea how right she is.
Innocently Insensitive: The pastor initially believes the white parts of Luz's hair is dyed. Luz corrects him it's from stress caused by the Death Camp. He apologises for this.
Internal Reveal:
- Camila finds out what happened to Luz at summer camp. She doesn't take it well that it was turned into a Death Camp run by her state's governor.
- Pastor Domenico reveals to Luz that Julia's parents disowned her for being a lesbian, much to their disgust.
It Can Think: Luz's "Super Regeneration" seemed to know what the doctor's performing surgery on her were doing and avoided getting in our way while healing.
Karma Houdini: Luz is also concerned that she made The Governor's job easier, would acquitted of all of his charges, return to his job, and it would all be swept under the rug, and be played off as a rumour that never happened, due to his political power and riches.
Last Disrespects: Her parents didn't even bother going to her funeral and even as far as to change her last name to distance themselves from her. Whatever love they had for their daughter, was NOT unconditional.
Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Shigaraki pretty much tells Luz this after seeing her cringed reaction for using the phrase "spill the tea".
Like a Son to Me: Or granddaughter, in case of Julia to Domenico.
List of Transgressions: When Governor Maxwell is arrested he's charged with long list of crimes.
Dr. Rodriquez: Governor Rodger Maxwell was arrested by the Military for, and I quote: Human Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Serial Murder, Domestic Terrorism, Endangerment of Children, first-degree manslaughter, Kidnapping, Money Laundering, Embezzlement, Fraud, and the list goes on for a country mile, so to save myself from reading a literal novel worth of crimes, I'll cut it short there.
Locked Out of the Loop: The Wittebanes made sure their disowned daughter, Julia, knew nothing about their connection with Governor Rodger Maxwell, so that she would die in the Death Camp.
Meaningful Rename: Julia goes through a posthumous one. Her surname is changed from Wittebane to Delmisso, her mother's maiden name, signalling her parents have disowned her, even after her death.
Messianic Archetype: The pastor notes that her Stigmata in her hands as perhaps a sign from heaven.
My God, What Have I Done?: Luz begins to feel this after seeing all the pained vestiges of the people she killed, only for Shigaraki to talk her out of it.
News Travels Fast: Camera footage of Luz's Roaring Rampage of Revenge leaked online and has gone viral on many social media websites.
No One Should Survive That!: One of the doctors stated that, by all accounts, Luz should be dead after being ripped in half, including her heart. He chalks it up due to her miracle Healing Factor.
No Sympathy: Downplayed. While Luz does have brief moments of These Hands Have Killed, she's quick to remind herself that the people she killed were Asshole Victims tried to murder her first so it wasn't as if they didn't deserve it.
Not Enough to Bury: Julia's funeral was a closed casket, for obvious reasons. In fact, it's later revealed that not all the dead kids came back in body bags, but urns because the condition of their bodies was so severe that it wouldn’t have been right to show the parents that.
Older Than They Look: Shigaraki looks like a barely middle-aged man but his true age is more akin to a hundreds-year-old entity.
Open-Minded Parent:
- Despite being a religious woman, Camila didn't have Luz baptized as a baby, much to her own mother's chagrin, because she wanted Luz to make that choice, and not force her to go to church.
- Pastor Domenico is a grandparent version of this. He doesn't discriminate against gay people (even though he admits understand or know much about them.) He also sees children gaining Quirks as a gift from God, with his own grandson being one of them.
Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: It disturbed Luz just how that much blood had come out of her body from her Quirk Overload. What's more, was that she still managed to survive after the fact.
Pay Evil unto Evil: All For One reassures Luz that she shouldn't feel guilt about killing of teams to avenge her murdered friends. A dark, twisted side of her tells her that was a fair trade.
Personality Powers: Camila has been given a Healing Hands Quirk which goes well with her Kindly Vet job and Nice Girl nature. She also wants to "Repair" her relationship with her daughter.
Prayer of Malice: Camila not only for her prays daughter's recovery after her surgery, she also prays for the Antagonistic Governor that orchestrated the Deadly Game, which resulted in Luz Killing in Self-Defense multiple times and experience a Heroic RRoD, to suffer in agony for the rest of his miserable life in prison.
Precision F-Strike: The Pastor refers to Julia's Abusive Parents as "damnable bastards".
Prematurely Grey-Haired: Luz's hair starts to turn white like Shigaraki's due to the constant stress, use of her Quirk and PTSD from the Deadly Game she survived.
The Reveal: Pastor Domenico informs Luz that the Wittebanes not only knew about the Deadly Game that Governor Maxwell set up but actively helped him and plan to bring back their witch hunting ways across the country, using superhumans as scapegoats.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Dr. Rodriquez points out to Camila that the Death Camp event wrecked her daughter mentally, giving her PTSD.
Shout-Out: Luz gives Julia's "Vine" Quirk to a boy that wanted to emulate Spider-Man.
Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Luz fears that this will happen to her.
Super-Empowering: Luz does this a lot after the Death Camp ordeal to reduce the number of Quirks in body to a safe level. She starts with her mother.
Super-Intelligence: The Quirk "Hyper Intellect" allows the user to temporarily enhance their intellect at the cost of stripping away their emotions. Its because of this drawback, Luz gives it away to a scientist as well wanting to be herself instead of super smart. T
Survivor Guilt: Luz has shades of this after living through The Massacre of Fools. Especially since she killed most of them.
Take Over the World: All For One admits to Luz that this was his purpose in life.
These Hands Have Killed: Played With. Luz is quite troubled by her lack of remorse for killing twenty people. She does feel that she's no better than the person who put them the Death Camp.
This Is Unforgivable!: Both Luz and Pastor Domenico see Julia's parents sending their daughter the Death Camp to die as this.
They betrayed Julia… they did that because of her feelings… they left her alone…. They kicked her out and signed her up for that camp while knowing everything.
Tomboy: Luz is not much of a girly girl, and always preferred suits more to dresses, which is what she wears to Julia's funeral.
Totally Radical: Downplayed. Shigaraki once used the phrase "spill the tea". After seeing Luz's Lame Pun Reaction he promises her that he will never say that sentence again.
Tragic Keepsake: Averted. Luz doesn't keep Julia's (or any of her deceased friends') powers because they kept reminding her of their grim fate and triggers her PTSD that she got from that nightmare camp.
Training from Hell: Shigaraki recommends Luz go through this in order to hold more Quirks.
Tranquil Fury: Hearing about the Wittebanes' involvement with the Death Camp makes Luz's blood boil but she keeps a calm and collected expression.
Turbulent Priest: Pastor Domenico has no problems calling out Wittebanes for disowning Julia, and not coming to their daughter's funeral for being gay, as well as their Fantastic Racism. He sees the Mass Super-Empowering Event not as the Devil's work but as a blessing from God, as his grandson was one of them. He lets Luz know even if she isn't religious, as a friend of her mother, she is always welcome at his church, as well as giving his blessings to avenge Julia's death.
Villainous Lineage: The Wittebane Clan, descendants of Belos, are a family of Witch Hunters during Salem Times. After the Mass Super-Empowering Event, they're trying to get all the families in Gravesfield who were once families of witch hunters together to start "hunting those who were cursed by the devil."
What Have I Become?: Luz acknowledges she killed 20 kids with her own hands after stealing most of their Quirks but she can't bring herself to feel real remorse at her actions, despite recognising her actions as terrible and trying to feel something. This scares her.
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: All For One didn't believe that Emilia's Quirk was worth stealing.
White Sheep: Pastor Domenico states that Julia was the only good one of the Wittebane family.
The Witch Hunter: The Wittebanes' ancestors were these, even after Phillip and Caleb.
Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Luz initially is unable to feel remorse for killing the 20 kids that slaughtered her new friends and tried to murder her first for money in summer camp in her Roaring Rampage of Revenge, until All For One hums in approval at the carnage her actions caused.

This was her town. She wasn't about to let some stuck-up, rich, assholes do what they wanted. She already had enough of that. If she had to become the protector of Gravesfield, then so be it. Even if…. Even if….

Even if it meant she had to get her hands bloody again.

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