Tear Jerker / All For Luz

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Luz is not a leader of a revolutionary group. Luz is not a War Hero. Luz is not a Machiavellian villain in this story. She's just a girl, who got wrapped up in something she had no business being wrapped up in, and now is forced to go through the motions. She didn't want this, but she got it anyway.

— The author summing up our protagonist.

In General

• It’s depressing to see Luz lose her innocence and happiness as more and more bad things happen to her over the course of All For Luz due circumstances beyond her control. At first she was happy that superpowers are a thing in her worls only for it all to go through a brutal Deconstruction. Having Power Parasite superpowers and a Card-Carrying Villain, All For One, in her head doesn't help her mental health at all in the slightest.
• The Luz Noceda who finally manages to walk away from the trauma she endured under the Death Camp is colder, darker, and more brutal. While in some might see her change to a badass Anti-Hero as something be praised, to others (especially her mother) Luz's radical change is something to mourned instead, hoping that she'll return to the kind Genki Girl she once was and Earn Your Happy Ending.

Season 1 - Summer Camp Saga

Arc 1 - The "Not-So-Dull" Summer Camp

Chapter 1

• Luz clearly doesn't want to go to what appears to be a soul-crushing camp, but she's still going anyway for fear of disappointing her mother any further after the snake incident. She was even hoping that the Mass Super-Empowering Event giving her and other kids powers would lead to it being cancelled or least post-pone it.
• Luz's school life also reveals that only is she a social outcast for being a "weirdo" but out of racism for her Latina heritage and ADHD. And the one teacher that's nice to her has led to rumors at school that they're having an affair but Luz doesn't tell her mother because she doesn't want her to worry anymore than she already does (who is implied to have taken up drinking).

Chapter 2

• Luz's relationship with her mother is even more strained than in the show, thanks to her being an Alcoholic Parent in this story. After the massive argument they had last night that resulted with Camila throwing a wing glass at Luz while revealing she's a Resentful Guardian towards her. While Luz tries to tell herself her mother didn't mean what she said due to being drunk, she remarks to herself that the one good thing about Reality Check Camp is that she can get away from her mother after that verbal abuse. She even considers running away from home if Camila doesn't get her act together.
• Julia Wittebane was just kicked out onto the streets by her parents (on her birthday no less), for having superpowers. Poor girl needed that hug.

Chapter 3

• Camp Counsellor Johnson being coerced by Governor Rodger Maxwell into helping him effectively kidnap the children with superpowers going to his camp to turn them into Super Soldiers for the government. He really didn't want to go through with it as The Governor threatened the lives of Lydia and Masha: his beloveded wife and child, the latter of whom is also a Quirk user.
  Camp Counsellor Johnson: I'm sorry, but I have no choice. Please, God, forgive me, because I'm sending these children to their doom…
• We get more insight into Julia's home life. When Kennedy sarcastically asks her if her parents keep her locked away in a room due to her Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure, her silence is deafening to the other kids who are shocked.
• Rodger Maxwell, the governor of Luz's state, has her and 32 other kids with powers going to Reality Check Summer Camp kidnapped to be put in a Deadly Game with, as far as anyone could tell, is supported by the U.S. government. This was after Luz witnessed his army unit murder the non-powered kids and scout masters to Leave No Witnesses. They're essentially forcing these frightened kids to murder each other, on the pretences of turning the survivors into Super Soldiers, under the threat of being gunned down if they try to escape, with their families and loved ones that sent them to a normal summer camp being none the wiser.

Arc 2 - Search and Steal

Chapter 5

• When Shigaraki gets Luz excited by hyping up the fact she's inheriting his Quirk a d it makes her The Chosen One to be the World's Strongest Woman, she is aghast by The Reveal that its a Power Parasite ability. Its the one Quirk she would never have wanted, believing it to be evil and Greed incarnate.
• Camila, meanwhile, is not coping well as she blames herself for Luz's disappearance. Her alcoholism has only gotten worse, not helped by the fact that both her sister-in-law and her own mother refuse to have anything to do with her.

Chapter 6

• Luz is slowly becoming more cynical in her captivity and more resentful towards her mother, due to their last conversation, slowing not caring what Camila thinks of her.

Chapter 7

• The beginning reveals Luz having doubts on her ability to be The Leader of her team due to her having No Social Skills and a Friendless Background. When she has a dark thought about wanting to to kill The Governor, she fears that her power is going to corrupt her into some kind of evil tyrant.
• The chapter also explains Julia Wittebane's Dark and Troubled Past. Her parents are practicing Christians with fundamental extremist beliefs that denied her from doing normal child activities that "went against God" in a cult-like fashion. They were not at all accepting at all of their daughter being a lesbian after catching her kissing her girlfriend Rebecca, so they ostracized her, verbally abused her and locked her to one specific part of the big house that she wasn't allowed to leave for a month with only her butlers' pity. When her superpowers appeared, they kicked her out of the house and onto the streets with only a few belongings, with her church and her religious friends abandoning her and her girlfriend Driven to Suicide. This is sadly Truth in Television for many LGBT youth who don't have Open Minded Parents.
• The Wittebane girl also notes she's not the only case of this. Hundreds of kids from around her town were being kicked out of their homes by their parents because of their “demonic powers” and “unholy appearances.” Julia was looking forward to Reality Check camp to get away from it all but turned out to be a death game.

Chapter 8

• A desperate Camila turns to Masha and her Tarot Card Quirk to help find out if Luz is okay. They foresee a Bad Future where its implied that Luz snaps and goes on a killing spree at the Death Camp. A horrified Masha then sees another where Luz and another combatant are responsible for the destruction of Gravesfield, where they then proceed to tell the mother to give up on her daughter and save herself from what's to come.
  • On a side note, Masha mentions to Camila that You Can't Fight Fate and that she did a reading for Julia, who's destined to die soon.
• Shigaraki's Breaking Speech picks Luz and her situation apart. She sees taking away other people's powers as not only taking away what's special about them but projecting her own pain and loneliness onto others. That she has an I Just Want to Be Special wish and deep down likes the idea of taking power away from those who don’t deserve it, especially those that discredited her creativity and wrote her off as just a weirdo.
• The real kicker of his Hannibal Lecture is that he points out that the original Reality Check Camp was going to strip away her creativity (going as far as to compare it to a conversion camp) when it would've been better to give her better direction instead and her mother could've prevented getting her in this situation by not caving into to them. As much as Luz hates it, she can't deny that the Villain Has a Point and the poor girl is left Trying Not to Cry wondering if her own mother doesn't love her for who she is. Trying to manipulate Luz into developing hatred towards her mother for sending her to this “prison” camp. Now that’s something AFO would definitely do.
• While he is exaggerating to unfairly paint Camila as a Resentful Guardian and Useless Bystander Parent, All For One isn't wrong in his deduction that Luz's mother gave into the peer pressure from the very people who thought her daughter as an inconvenience when she should have stood up for her more. This fact hurts Luz more than anything else.
  This was different. Sure, her mother might not’ve known that this whole “death camp” thing would come out of it, but she knew that it was meant to convert her into a pencil-pushing snore-fest of a person. And to Luz, that was unforgivable. No matter how she sliced it or diced it, that was something that only someone who hated a part of that person would do, even if peer pressure was involved.
• Not to mention that the real Reality Check Camp really was meant to help kids like Luz and the others like the way all For One suggested that they should. Had it not been for Maxwell, Luz could've had a good time with her new friends there.

Chapter 9

• At the end of the chapter, Judy and Arla are brutally Killed Off for Real by the enemy teams, Stanley is fighting for his life against Hilbert, Amber, and Lucas and Luz is left alone to fight Cody.

Chapter 10

• By the end of the chapter, half of Luz's new friends get slaughtered by the other 2 teams, the Heaven’s Devils and Foxtrot, working together. The poor kids didn't stand a chance against the ambush.
  • Special mention goes to Arla, The Medic. She gets burned alive and dies screaming in terror.
  • With 2 others making a Last Stand, Julia tries to escape in order to warn the rest of the team... only to be get the Impaled with Extreme Prejudice treatment In the Back by Darlene and bleed out after being stomped on.
  • Darlene tries to interrogate the dying Julia where Luz is, the girl refuses to say anything. Even if she did know her leader's location, she would refuse to betray her. Julia's last thoughts while in pain are that she was glad she met Luz despite the horrible circumstances around them.
  • There's also the implication the two girls could've been more than a First Friend to each other.
  • To add insult to injury, Kennedy, the mastermind behind the attack, delivers Last Disrespects to Julia by giving her an Off with His Head! with his Razor-Sharp Hand and callously kicking her severed head like a soccer ball. All this because her last name is Wittebane, not knowing that she was disowned by them and didn't share their prejudiced beliefs.

Arc 3 - The Hunt Begins

Chapter 11

• An awoken up Luz rushes to find her unaccounted teammates after noticing a giant plume of smoke in the direction of their Home Base. She is greeted by a grisly scene of scattered corpses of her new friends. It didn't take long for the poor girl to realise they didn't die peacefully.
  Luz’s eyes narrowed, and a small sneer made itself present on her face. She told herself that she wasn’t going to cry repeatedly, over and over again. But… it didn’t work. She fell to her knees, hands lying limply on her legs as she sobbed. She failed them. She failed them all.
• When Luz goes over What Ifs on how she could've prevented this to herself, All For One in his Brutal Honesty tells her nothing she could have done would have saved her friends causing the poor girl great pain and to hit her Rage Breaking Point.
  Luz screamed in agony, as she clasped her hands around her face. And then, a wave of anger rolled over her like an incoming tsunami, and suddenly, something in the back of her mind snapped. A damn of pent-up aggression cracked, then exploded, allowing a tidal wave of rage to overcome her.
• With Shigaraki's encouragement, Luz gives in to the influence of All For One and starts taking the Quirks of her fallen comrades, with a Psychotic Smirk. Luz Noceda's innocence died along with her new friends.
  Of all the years of being bullied. Of all the years of being called a loser. Of all the years of being treated as an outcast. Of all the years of being told to be “normal” by everyone around her, including her mom. All of it came to a boiling point. And it was all because of this… bloodbath. Her tears were no longer of sadness but of rage. Pure, unadulterated, rage. Something that she never thought she had in her.
• Stanley has a It's All My Fault moment for failing to warn his team about Kennedy. He's so filled with guilt that he requests Luz to take his Quirk from him, believing himself to be unworthy.

Chapter 12

• During Luz's Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Emilia, The Leader of the Foxtrot team, tearfully begs for her life claiming she never killed anyone and was never on board with Kennedy's plan. Fortunately, seeing the 14-year old girl saying sorry in a Madness Mantra in the All For One user's Villainous Face Hold, Luz decides You Will Be Spared.
• While carrying out her Mook Horror Show, Luz appears to be Talking to Themself: One is a more rational side of herself screaming at her to stop her killing spree and pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here and the other is a louder, angrier side wanting Revenge Before Reason having No Sympathy for her victims. Its little Battle in the Centre of the Mind between the old Nice Girl Luz and the new Revenge obsessed one influenced by All For One. In the end, the latter one wins out, even going as far as to blame Camila for situation she's in.
• As Luz is about to kill Kennedy, the last victim of her carnage, she tells him that because him she's lost her belief in people and would have preferred it if they worked together to take down the Arc Villain.
  Luz: And here I thought diplomacy would’ve worked… My faith in humanity plummeted when I got here, but maybe, just maybe you and the other team would’ve been more humane than the bastard running this cruel joke. Guess I was wrong. (Proceeds to kill Kennedy)
• When Luz suffers a Heroic RRoD from having too many Quirks, she hears that the three soldiers she was just about to fight came here to rescue her and her friends, as well as have Governor Rodger Maxwell in their custody to answer for his crimes, before she loses consciousness. Had only they arrived 2 days earlier, perhaps all 33 lives could've been spared a grisly fate.

Chapter 13

• 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. Instead she feels No Sympathy for towards her victims and justifying her actions as Pay Evil unto Evil (Which there is truth to). This realisation scares Luz that she's becoming more like Shigaraki who encourages her to not feel remorse for it.
  20 people, 20 kids were never going to see their parents thanks to her. 20 kids were never going to grow older because of her, and 20 kids would never fully realize their potential because of her. She took their powers and killed them without a single shred of remorse..
• She's 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. This would have happened had he not been arrested.
• Not long after she wakes up from her coma, Luz has a panic attack after having flashbacks of all the horrible things she witnessed and did 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. Its possible that her seeming lack of remorse for her actions was a Delayed Reaction.
• When Luz wakes up and first sees her concerned mother, she admits to herself that part of her hates Camila for unwittingly dumping into that horrible situation.
• Poor Camila is told by one of the doctors what happened at the Summer Camp orchestrated by her State's Antagonistic Governor as a case of Children Forced to Kill, with her daughter having the highest body count and gaining serve PTSD from the experience. She has a Heroic BSoD and believes its her fault for forcing Luz to go there.
• Keep in mind that in canon, Camila had a difficult childhood similar to her daughter and her decision to send Luz to the summer camp in the first place was to avoid history repeating in every way. That backfired horribly even more so than in the show, as not only did Luz loss the first real friends she ever made but became a killer herself to survive the ordeal.
• After Luz was discharged from the hospital, she off-loaded 18 of her Quirks to bring it down to a safer 10. Notably, she did not keep Julia's (or any of her deceased friends') powers as a Tragic Keepsake not because they where too weak but because they kept reminding her of their grim fate and triggered her PTSD she got from that nightmare camp.
• Julia's funeral was a closed casket, for obvious reasons. In fact, it's later revealed that not all the dead kids came out of the camp in body bags, but urns because the condition of their bodies were so severe that it wouldn’t have been right to show the dead children's families that.
• 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.
• Luz remembers that her apologetic mother couldn't stop crying for a week over what happened to her at the Death Camp. Luckily, it seems her daughter has forgiven her.

Season 2 - Hunt for the Wittebanes Saga

Arc 4 - Summer Break Shenanigans

Chapter 14

• Its revealed that Luz and Camila had moved house. Rather than feel Moving Angst, Luz appears to be somewhat glad to making a fresh start. Though its rather sad as she admits she had fond memories of of her old house but is so scarred that she wants to forget the past and move on.
• Luz still has a rep of the weird kid, not because she's still the Cloud Cuckoo Lander we know and love but because now she's turned into The Quiet One. The line below shows how badly traumatized by everything she's experienced since gaining All For One. Time hasn't healed this broken child.
  How could she feel the same passion for what she did after that week in literal hell? After seeing all that needless violence. After feeling all of that blood on her skin — blood that wasn’t hers. How could she take even the slightest bit of joy out of anything she did knowing that she was a mass murderer, who would never be punished for her actions?
• At a donut shop, one of Luz's former bullies tries to antagonise her, only for the teen to put her in place. As awesome as it is in The Dog Bites Back fashion, it's a reminder that this Luz is a lot more violent person now as a coping mechanism for her PTSD, and according to her, Shigaraki wasn't to blame as they hadn't spoken to each other in a 2-month time gap.
• When girl called Natasha tries to apologise to Luz for not defending her from her bullies out of peer pressure when they tried to be friends, Luz rejects it saying its not wanted or needed.
• Her therapist notes that extreme reluctance to form meaningful relationships, friendships or otherwise because she was afraid to lose them; just like how she lost Julia. Luz's Survivor's Guilt also gives her nightmares about failing to save Julia.

Chapter 15

• The sheriff of Gravesfield, unable to arrest her for no reason, intends to make Luz's life as difficult as possible, blaming her for his nephew's death at the summer camp (who she is confirmed be responsible for by the author) and viewing her as a Serial Killer that pulled a Karma Houdini on a technicality. He has bribed store owners, gyms, day-cares, libraries, restaurants, and even the local schools (including online ones) to ban her from their shops spreading rumours that she was a crazy murderer, preventing the girl from having some semblance of a normal life. Not even Camila is able to do much about her daughter's Hero with Bad Publicity status.
• It’s very depressing to see Luz go through all this horrible crap none of which at the end of the day is her fault but it’s probably only get worse from here. And you thought things in canon were bad for Luz but now Luz has become even more of an outcast in the Human World with people discriminating against her no thanks to that asshole cop and the Wittebanes. This actually gives Luz even more reason and actually good validation to want to leave earth and stay on the Isles, with her mother being her sole reason to put up with it all.
• Riley Stewardson, Luz's cousin from her father's side, has a Dark and Troubled Past. She too gained a Quirk from the Mass Super-Empowering Event, the power to turn anything she touched with her bare hands into bombs. This includes people, as she found out first-hand while having a fight with her abusive father and turning him into Ludicrous Gibs, losing her right eye in the explosion. She was then kicked out of her house by her mother for Accidental Murder of her husband not believing he abused her.
• After that Riley was taken in by the Wittebane Mega Church, but they didn't save her from homelessness out of a Pet the Dog moment, instead there's the catch of turning her into their personal assassin. She didn't see any other option than homelessness or ending up dead in a ditch by the Church Militants. According to the teen hitwoman, her case is not uncommon for many kids with dangerous Quirks to become killers for the very church that spread Fantastic Racism against them. Now her next target is All For One, who, unbeknownst to her, is her little cousin who she just reconnected with.
• Riley explained to Luz that Camila posted Facebook when her daughter was in the hospital and were in for emergency surgery updating her status. After she stopped updating her page, Riley and her immediate family all assumed the worst had happened to the girl.

Chapter 16

• At the beginning of the chapter, it reveals Shigaraki's Evil Plan involving Luz.: To what he tried to Touma in canon and pull a Villain Override on the poor girl, change her name, use The Boiling Isles as a way to get his own world, modify her body with help of the Mad Doctor steal One For All from All Might in the guise of an innocent girl and become a Multiversal Conqueror.
• All For One has been to The Boiling Isles before and intends to find a way to get there. Its also heavily implied the Titan's Blood he got his hands on came from King and could very well have tortured the poor guy to extract it before Eda rescued him from that monster when they both ended up in the MHA world.
• Another big kicker. All For One's death caused the Mass Super-Empowering Event to happen in Luz's world in the first place when his soul was put in her body! He's directly responsible (albeit unintentionally) for all the death and misery in the story on a global scale. Knowing the bastard, if he does get to his original Realm and confronts All Might again he's gonna reveal the Awful Truth to give him a Heroic BSoD that not only did he only give his world a few years reprieve from their world's Big Bad but is also an Unwitting Instigator of Doom to another world, ruining many lives including the little girl with the Diabolical Mastermind in her head who he's corrupting.
• Its pretty awful for Luz, as while she knows All For One is a bad guy he has, in his own words, weaselled his way into her heart to make her believe he's not completely vile and at the very least has best interests in a Spirit Advisor in a Evil Mentor kind of way. This chapter confirms beyond a doubt that All For One is, in the end, heartless sociopath that does not care for anyone but himself. All the affection and praise this monster has for Luz Noceda is superficial at best.
• Riley is having a Family Versus Career crisis in the most messed way possible: rationalizing on whether to go through with killing her cousin Luz or not after finding out she's All For One, the one that she was hired to kill for $10 million. Especially since her bomb Quirk only works under The Power of Hate so she would have to resort to Irrational Hatred by blaming her for her abusive father's death.
• While Riley knows that betraying Luz is wrong, she honestly believes she's going to be killed either way by the Wittebane's other assassins along with Riley in a You Have Failed Me procedure.

Chapter 17

• At the start of the chapter, Luz thinks to herself that her All the Other Reindeer status in Gravesfield has become so bad she'd wish her and and her mom could just move States if weren't for The Promise.
  She hated this. She really, really hated this. She wanted to move away, but her mother was too attached to the town. Even when they had the money to move, they didn’t. She didn’t blame her mama for wanting to stay. And besides, she had promised Pastor Domenico that she would protect this town and avenge Julia.
• When held at gun point by a hitman, Luz offhandedly notes he's the third person this month to point a gun at her. While she won the Superpower Lottery and is more capable of fighting back, its saddening that someone so young has been Conditioned to Accept Horror.
• After her Healing Factor kicks after being shot by the hitman's accomplices, Luz remarks that she can't even do a simple shopping trip without being harassed.
  Luz: (Tranquil Fury) You know… I just wanted to get some shopping done. Really, that’s it! (Red Eyes, Take Warning) But, it would seem as if I’m not even allowed that.
• Just after killing Derreck, the assassin with the Multi-Armed and Dangerous power, Luz laments that It Gets Easier for her to kill people with the remorse she feels for taking this teen's life nothing compared to causing "The Massacre Of Fools."
• When Luz does a Pulling Themselves Together to cheat death after being reduced to Ludicrous Gibs, she has reached her limit. Over the course of the chapter she has been made to get shopping by her mother despite being hated in her hometown out of Fantastic Racism, been attacked by a team of assassins, forced into Killing in Self-Defense multiple times again, received dirty looks from onlookers as if blaming her for the shooting, had her Vigilante Man identity and role in "The Massacre Of Fools" revealed by Millie, held at gunpoint by a squad of police officers led by the Dirty Cop sheriff that has personal created her Hero with Bad Publicity reputation and just when she was about to surrender peacefully... her own cousin, Riley, one of the few people she trusted tried an Assassination Attempt on her. Now she's just done with it all this Trauma Conga Line and is about to let loose... All According to Plan as Shigaraki predicted.
  Luz could barely see anything. That was how furious she had been. That was how angry she had been. And thus… She gave in to her hate.

Chapter 18

• While many readers can agree that this chapter is a Catharsis Factor, it's painful to read the Luz be Blinded by Rage throughout the remainder of the fight. The Luz in the show would make funny quips or goof around in a fight. She doesn't even demand to know why Riley betrayed her and tell her to surrender peacefully, like her show's probably counterpart would. No. Here in the story, there's none of that. She's just so, so angry by a member of her family's betrayal that she's gone into Gotta Kill Them All mode with no talking out of it.
• By the time Luz calms herself down after the intense fight, she finally registers the death and destruction she has caused in the space of a few minutes since the first gunman showed up. The teenager comes to the conclusion that the police officers had no intention of taking her in alive and is frustrated by the unfairness of her situation.
  Why? Luz wanted to know why everyone hated her. Was it because of what she did at the camp? That was self-defence, or what could loosely be called self-defence. The whole point of that camp was to kill one another. The rest of the camp thought it funny to kill her friends, so she returned the favour ten times over. Why couldn’t people see that she wasn’t given a choice?
• Luz notices a small, terrified crowd of mostly teens and their parents, including her own horrified mother, with some that had witnessed and filmed her carnage on their phones. The teen realises that people now know Luz Noceda is a Cop Killer and any chance the girl had of ever having a normal life, let alone becoming a superhero... is gone. Now the only person she believes she can remotely count on is the Evil Mentor squatting in her head who intends to Corrupt the Cutie by instilling a Never My Fault attitude even further now to be the "Next Me". You Can't Go Home Again Luz. Not without being put in prison for life or killed on sight.
  She knew that, despite whatever excuse she could come up with, no one in the crowd was going to believe a word of what she would want to say. They saw her kill police officers. Whatever attempt to be a hero there was for her was now gone. No one liked or routed for a Cop Killer, even if that cop was a Dirty Cop.
  • Its also entirely possible that many of the cops weren't actually corrupt but Just Following Orders. Luz notes that those police officers had families in town, now many have lost a parent, sibling and/or spouse from this incident created by a corrupt sheriff with a sense of Misplaced Retribution and a Sinister Minister blinded by Fantastic Racism.
  • Hell, there probably wasn't even a right choice to begin with for Luz. Considering that the Dirty Cop sheriff hired some of those crooks to attack Luz in the first (believing her to be All For One) he would have arrested her on trumped up charges, even if she did have good self-defense claim, assuming they were planning to take her alive. This whole situation was a Morton's Fork for Luz. We can only hope that the Owl House residents can Heal the Cutie.
• When a worried Camila asks Luz where she's going now, Luz with Brutal Honesty tells her intends to track down and kill the Wittebanes before they kill her first and informs her that her niece Riley that stayed the night with them tried to murder her. Luz fully expects her mother to pull What the Hell, Hero? response or say I Have No Daughter! for her words and actions, instead it seems she's fallen into a Heroic BSoD at how messed up the situation is that it'll only end with the death of her beloved daughter or the Villain with Good Publicity sending assassins her them. And even then her daughter has no future here other than a wanted criminal after this is all over.
  • When Luz tells her she's going to kill Tyler Wittebane she intentionally makes her voice distant, in an attempt to not show her mom the lack of conviction. This may have had the opposite effect in expressing Lack of Empathy in her belief that Murder Is the Best Solution. Luz’s life is so much more horrible here now than it was in canon now. Luz has no chance to have any sort of future or normal life in the Human Realm now.
  • Poor Camila after vowing to never fail her daughter again, in her mind, she believes she has failed in that all because she sent her to go shopping, she has with no real way to help her now. Shigaraki even notes Luz's own mother looks afraid of her now.
  Shigaraki: It seems even your mother is scared of you, Luz. What are you going to do?
• After Riley and Millie's failed Assassination Attempt on Luz, Tyler intends to request the Golden Guard from Emperor Belos to assist him. If the emperor agrees, then that would make Hunter's first trip to the Human Realm not much better that the show's experience: being told by his uncle that All For One is a dangerous mass murder to be put down. The two's first encounter won't be any friendlier than canon.
• Riley has become a Regretful Traitor after finding out Tyler also intends to have Camila killed by his Psycho for Hire to spite Luz. Drowning in her own guilt, she breaks down into tears for the first time since her Accidental Murder of her abusive father.

Arc 5 - Death To Normality

Chapter 19

• Camila. Just poor Camila in full Heroic BSoD mode. Filled with guilt and shame, she blames herself for everything that's happened the past 2 months.
  The amount of guilt that racked the Noceda Matriarch was unlike any she had felt before. What happened at that camp was something that Camila could have never seen coming, Luz and Dr. Rodriquez said so. She knew that, and yet she blamed herself for sending Luz there. Luz should have never gone to that camp. If she hadn’t sent Luz to that camp, then Luz would have been happier. She wouldn’t have to deal with all this.
• Having noticed her once Genki Girl daughter has become jaded and... extremely pessimistic after the Deadly Game, she still didn't expect her to openly announce the fact that she was more than fine with committing murder. Camila barely recognises her own child anymore.
  She used to be so energetic, so full of life! But now she was… almost like a husk. When she looked at Luz, Camila didn’t see her daughter. She saw someone who looked like her daughter, sounded like her, and had the same likes and dislikes, but she wasn’t her daughter.
• The Kindly Vet is under no illusion that Luz going to be coming back home, not because she'd disown her but because the town of Gravesfield won't let her. She's already feeling her house more empty already without her daughter.
  “I’m going to go kill the Wittebanes…” Those words haunted her thoughts. Kill… Luz killing someone outside of self-defence such as during The Death Camp and the front of the store was just something that she couldn’t even begin to comprehend. Her mija… killing someone in cold blood? No… her mija would never. And yet, here was the future, staring her in the face. Her daughter was going to run away, get as far away from Gravesfield as she possibly could and leave her old life behind. In the process, she would leave behind her mother, and she did so telling her of what she was going to do.
• As Camila is about to break down in tears with her face in her hands, she left asking her why this is happening to her family. First, her husband, Manny, died of acute heart failure, then her parents died in an earthquake, and now her daughter had been put through hell and back by pretty much everyone around them. They weren't even safe from her own relatives, considering her niece Riley just tried to murder Luz not too long ago. Camila doesn't even have the closure of an explanation on why she'd do something so unforgivable to her own blood.
  Camila: Oh, Luz… I’m so… so sorry…
• Once Camila becomes aware she's Alone with the Psycho in her own home, Jonah Smith, who she heard about from news of this monster's crimes against his wife, causing her to rightfully scream in horror and then struggles to breathe as the hitman uses his Quirk on her. With only her Healing Hands power, the woman knows full well she has no chance of survival either fighting off The Brute or escaping due to his Super Smoke power.
  • As the Giant Mook, lifts her by the hair, he explains before he kills her that he was sent here because Riley failed to kill Luz. Camila realises that her niece was Trapped in Villainy all the long. Had Riley informed Luz or Camila about her situation and the threat of the Wittebanes, its likely the Nocedas would've did their best to help their relative get out the assassin life, as they worked together.
• In her last moments, Camila is in great pain, believing she failed Luz as a mother and knowing she's going to die alone with only her sadistic murderer as witness, Camila still has it in her to Face Death with Dignity and Go Out with a Smile. Her one regret being the Unwitting Instigator of Doom by sending her daughter to the Summer Camp.
  Camila: (Smiles) I-I’d rather die than… I’ve already lived a fulfilling life… the only regret I have is making my baby go to that horrid camp…
• While Camila has no doubts that Luz will defeat all the assassins sent after her and avenge her murder, her final thoughts are that she truly doesn't want Luz to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge in her name. Not to mention that with Camilla gone, All For One will be more than happy about Luz having no other people on her side other than him.
  • The Sadist takes great delight in terrifying the poor woman and tossing her around like a ragdoll in her own kitchen with his powers before finally killing her with a Boom, Headshot! After that he kicks her corpse, just For the Evulz.
• As Luz is on her way to the Wittebane Mega Church, she remarks to herself that ever since she woke up with her Quirk her life has pretty been ruined and can never go back to normal (unaware her mother was just murdered), even if she finds peace in killing Tyler Wittebane.
  First, it was the camp, the death of Julia, the rampage, and the aftermath of all of that. She thought that, after the camp, her life would return to some semblance of normality. But, as was obvious now, that was never going to happen. Especially with what had just happened.
• When Luz tries to convince a squad of cops not to fight her, a new assassin shows up, and informs the now terrified cops by pointing out that the Cop Killer recently killed their friends on the force and that they deserve to be avenged.
• As Sophia fires an Energy Ball at the cop squad, Luz intercepts it with her Forcefield Projector. Despite the Gravesfield police having been the ones to spearhead a lot of grief given to her in the past month, that doesn’t stop her from trying to save as many lives as she could. If things were different, Luz could've been superhero she always wanted, instead she will be forever known as a mass murderer.
  She wasn’t a monster. She wasn’t a villain. She wasn’t going to be like him.
• After being knocked into a nearby store by the hitwoman's attack, many customers and store owners ran away as fast as they could when they saw her get up, heading toward the exit. Luz laments her Hero with Bad Publicity rep exceeds her.

Chapter 20

• Luz notices that several innocent bystanders are being killed in the crossfire of her fight and turned to Ludicrous Gibs. At the rate they were going, Gravesfield, the town Luz wants to protect, is going to be destroyed and her opponent doesn't appear to give a damn as long as her job is completed and gets a good fight out of it.
• After recovering from the latest attack, Luz notices she has received enough Clothing Damage that's she's barely decent. What does she do? She chooses to assault at a nearby girl that goes to her school and knocks her out cold to steal it. We understand you needed a new shirt and pants due to the attacks you suffered from, but did you really have to attack an innocent teenager and steal it from her, leaving the poor girl unconscious, alone and in her underwear? She rationalises this as needing it more but if the girl survives the battle she might be traumatised and that definitely was NOT a hero's choice.
  • She also gets a new Quirk, too. Which Quirk is it? It’s Zero Gravity! Uravity's power! Canon Luz would use her power like the hero from MHA. This Anti-Hero version Luz is more likely to use like Himiko Toga, which would appall the hero-in-training, if she found out.
• As the fight continues, Sophia compares this to something out of an oriental comic book. Two powerhouses fighting against one another and deems Luz to be a Worthy Opponent. If it were any other situation and a different Luz, the girl would agree and the feeling would be mutual with a clever quip. But here not the case due to the assassin trying to her, her town being destroyed in the process and countless innocents dying in the crossfire. So instead the All For One user gives a Death Glare to the Blood Knight.
  • This situation has all ended up being a classic 'Hulk Scenario'. Had the Wittebanes, police and the locals left Luz alone, so much destruction and death could've been avoided.
  • Before Sophia is killed, Jonah joins the fight. Luz has no idea that this monster just killed her mother not long ago.

Chapter 21

• My god, this chapter. The Giant Mook hitman, seeing the odds of winning his aren't in this favor, decides to play his "trump card". Camila Noceda was already dead, but Luz didn’t know that. He doesn't just dump Camila's corpse in front of her superhuman daughter to induce a Heroic BSoD. Oh no. The Sociopath goes beyond that to make her think that she had been the one to kill her mother with her Forcefield Cannon, at a point where its too late to stop it, when his accomplice teleports her corpse in the attack turning Camila's body into Ludicrous Gibs, she goes into a Despair Event Horizon to leave her open for a killing blow. Its bad enough Jonah killed Camila but to trick her daughter into believing she just became a Self-Made Orphan is just beyond scummy. it would've worked if it wasn't for Shigaraki.
  Luz stared, her body shaking as her mouth was left agape. She fell to her knees, her body slumped over as she clenched her hands into fists, tears welling up in her eyes.
  Luz: No… No… No, no, no, no! T-That… that wasn’t…. that couldn’t have been…!
• While Shigaraki is able snap his successor out of it, he does so by invoking The Power of Hate and to Pay Evil unto Evil. Luz all but says that's all she has nothing left now but vengeance, as her eyes become a permanent crimson red.
  This anger… This despair… this hatred she felt. She would never let it go. It was one thing to imprison her in a camp meant to kill them all like Governor Maxwell had. It was another hurt her friends—to kill them, like Kennedy had. But it was another thing to trick her into killing her mother.
• While Luz able to kill Jonah once and for all, her beloved mother is still dead and she believes to have been the one to kill her by accident. Keep in mind the last conversation she had with her mom was telling her that she going kill more people and Camila seemingly now just as afraid of her as the rest of the townsfolk and with the assumption she'll disowned her for that, when that wasn't the case. Unless she hears a second-hand source, Luz will never know the truth.
  • Hell, she doesn't even have a body to bury alongside her father and can't even take the "Repair" Quirk back as a Tragic Keepsake or it for good like Camilla no doubt would've wanted.
  • Now that Camila is gone there’s nothing to hold Luz back from staying on the Boiling Isles, permanently. Let's just hope the Owl House gang find a way to bring some semblance of happiness and peace for Luz but it’s definitely gonna be an uphill battle that’s for sure, especially with Shigaraki's machinimas at work.
• With all the immediate assassins now dead by her hands, Luz finds herself not wanting to fight anymore. She may never get physically exhausted anymore thanks to one of her Quirks but can still get mentally and emotionally exhausted from all this. She plans, after killing the Wittebanes, to seclude herself away from the rest of society and never show her face ever again because of all the death and carnage she just caused in one day, hoping to find some semblance of peace. However, with the authorities now after her and her battle likely becoming front page news, its unlikely she's find it in the Human Realm. Too bad she doesn't have a therapist anymore.
  Narrator: Luz looked down at the road below, where all the carnage had taken place. It looked like a warzone. The blood, the fires, the destruction, and the bodies that lined the floor. She only realized now that the fighting had killed more than just Sophia, her mother, Jonah and Charlie. There were more than over a dozen bodies, and it made Luz’s stomach knot. She didn’t mean to kill all of those innocent people. Really, she didn’t. They were all caught in the crossfire, none of them deserved that. And yet, here they were. Blood coated her hands, a heavy sin, and her body shook. She was fine with killing her enemies—current circumstances forced that to happen. But the blood of the innocent? It was never meant to touch her hands. And yet, here it was.
• Riley approaches soon after and tries to apologise to her cousin for trying to kill her and explain why she did, but Luz has no desire to listen to the older cousin she once loved and looked up to. She blames Riley for the carnage that transpire today, including her mother's murder, then she steals her Quirk "Bomb Touch", ignoring the young woman's screams of pain and proceeds to kill her with it, turning her into Ludicrous Gibs. No Redemption Quest for The Atoner its a Heel–Face Door-Slam. Say what you want about Riley, its a horrible way to go and Luz just added a family member to her body count.
  Riley: Luz… I… I know y-you’re probably very, very mad at me… but you have to understand that I w-wasn’t given a choice…
  Luz: Shut up. This is your fault… all of this. Everything that happened today… It was all on you. So do me a favour, and die.
• Keep in mind, that Riley's Quirk is fuelled by The Power of Hate. In Riley's, last moments knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that her own little cousin hates enough to kill her with her own power.
  • Had Luz not been tricked into believing she just killed her mother, its entirely possible that she would've had least heard Riley out. Even if she didn't forgive her, they could've worked together to take down Tyler Wittebane. But alas, Luz wasn't in the right headspace to do or think of that and instead concludes that Murder Is the Best Solution.
• As soon as Luz kills the Bombardier, an enraged Millie attacks Luz fully-intending on Avenging the Villain using various spells in her arsenal on the teen. It seems Riley's Villainous Friendship with the witch was mutual after-all and beyond mere professionalism from two co-workers. The first Interspecies Friendship between human and witch in possibly centuries has literally been blown to bits.
  Millie: THIS IS FOR RILEY!
• Luz fires a massive Deadly Force Field at the little witch, only to dodge and accidently [[Hellish Copter hits one of the news helicopters, knocking it out of the sky and sending it crashing into several buildings below, causing a massive explosion. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. You've added even more innocent civilians to your kill count.
  • Luz always wanted to become The Chosen One and a heroic figure. But because what happened today, she'll be remembered as a supervillain responsible for the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands. Hell, it's likely Tyler will use the demise of Gravesfield to vindicate his beliefs to followers and make lives worse for Quirk users with increased Fantastic Racism.
• At one point, Luz directly asks Millie what has she or her mother had ever done to her as she just wanted to be left alone in peace. The responds that she brought on herself and believes that Luz and Shigaraki are the same All For One, despite looking different from before. Heavily, implying the Emperor's coven officer has met the Card-Carrying Villain personally while causing trouble for Emperor Belos and has not had a good experience with her.
• As cool as it is seeing Luz getting more power and showing no mercy to her despicable enemies, you can’t help but feel sad to see all that Luz has lost now because of the Wittebanes. Ironically, she ended up losing all the things that Vee accused luz of running away from in the show.
  • A mom that loves her: After what happened at the the grocery store Luz couldn't go back to her mom, not with the police looking to arrest her and her believing that staying with her mom would just put her in danger. But Camila is dead because she wasn't there to protect her so Luz has no one she’s all alone now more than she was before. That is a part from the Enemy Within who's bidding his time to pull a Grand Theft Me on her.
  • A home: Luz’s home was a town that hates and fears her with people banning her from stores and places and have discriminated and isolated her making her an outcast bigger than she was before. Now Luz’s home, Gravesfield, is completely destroyed with thousands dead, partly thanks to her.
  • A life: Any chances today Luz had of living a normal, peaceful life is now dead. She now is a wanted terrorist for things that weren’t entirely her fault but now the world either wants to throw her behind bars or have her dead.
    • At the end of the arc, Luz has lost everything and everyone she's ever cared about, now all she has is power. She's passed the point of anger to just being tired, after her cousin, her family, betrayed her. She's just given up on any sense of normality. She has nothing to live for now except revenge and spite, until Shigaraki convinces her to go to the Demon Realm.
• It's good that Luz is taking responsibility about the Accidental Murder, but she's also painfully aware that if it wasn't for everyone around her trying to kill her so many more would still be alive. These innocents are dead because others couldn't leave well enough alone. The town is getting destroyed because they can't leave one girl alone.
• Hunter has arrived and, oh boy, there's the feeling that he and Luz are NOT going to have the Like Brother and Sister relationship they have in the show. Its likely that they're definitely gonna hate each other: Luz because Hunter is working for Emperor Belos and indirectly the Wittebanes, while Hunter wouldn't enjoy being around a teenager with a massive body count. Seeing everything that Luz has been through with Hunter only adding on to her hardships, its really doubtful that Luz is gonna want to be friends with the Golden Guard at all. He’s just gonna be her enemy and that’s that. Even if they do join the same side because of Shigaraki or by other means, its unlikely they'll be close to each other as in canon.
  • This is also Hunter's first time in the Human Realm. His uncle often told him fond stories of this world and his time coming here is witnessing the destruction of an entire city, deaths of thousands and is now fighting a dangerous and murderous Luz Noceda. This is arguably just as bad as his first time in canon.

Arc 6 - AFO versus The Golden Guard

Chapter 22

• Hunter backhand slaps Luz through an entire block of houses with little effort, causing them to collapse on their occupants, killing them. The Conveniently Empty Building trope is averted here.
  • When the teenaged girl internally rants she has nothing to counter him with, despite having 11 more Quirks than him, Shigaraki decides to tell her he has been holding back the entire time, something that fills her with despair in what appears to be a Hopeless Boss Fight. Forget Sophia Humbolt being the Wake-Up Call Boss in this Saga, she has nothing on The Golden Guard.
• During her conversation with her opponent, Luz notices how much colder voice has become since the supermarket fight, like it belonged to someone else's. It seems All For One has changed her not just physically but emotionally, too. She wants to question this more but has more pressing concerns.
  Had she been talking like that the whole time? She hadn’t noticed, and it had actually shocked her when she heard her voice. It sounded… distant, detached, and downright sociopathic.
• After recovering from the Golden Guard's attack and realising she's landed at her old school, Luz picks out another target to mug for his top. Seeing he also has a Quirk, a fire-based one, she decides to steal that too, Godzilla Threshold move as she was already at her limit. After using her Power Parasite ability and taking his hoodie and shirt, Luz notices she accidently just killed her victim as he Dies Wide Open with fear marring his face. While Luz expresses some remorse for her Accidental Murder, its more muted than it should be. To the eyes of the school children that just earlier were about to call an ambulance for the Anti-Hero, a superhuman monster just straight up murdered their fellow classmate and friend for his clothes and powers. No wonder they run away from her, screaming in terror.
  • It Gets Easier for Luz now applies innocent bystanders, not just her enemies, a far-cry from the Luz in the previous saga. It wasn't even a case of simple Collateral Damage. She might not have meant to do it, but she's now valuing her own needs more now. Choosing to live out of Revenge and spite. Now she's prepared to do whatever it takes to win.
• When Luz fires her Deadly Forcefield at Hunter, he cuts it in half with his Sword Beam. Unfortunately, one half landed on top of the school, and the other half landed on a small group of other buildings. This results massive explosions that blow both parties back a bit, and when the dust settled, all that's left were 2 craters. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. Both of you, that's a lot of kids that won't be going home tonight.
  • To make it worse Luz's first concern was that there's now no one left alive to dump off the excessive Quirk she stole, rather than have a My God, What Have I Done? reaction to having killed people. The former Genki Girl has developing a severe Lack of Empathy thanks to recent events.
• And the ending of the chapter… As she stares down at the Golden Guard from the sky, Luz unironically calls herself The Chosen One. It seems she’s starting to believe Shigaraki's lies.

Chapter 23

• Its revealed that Hunter's loyalties are not with Emperor Belos or Shigaraki. He has realised that they're both monsters that need to be put down. Must make you wonder how and when he figured it out. He might know what what the Day Of Unity really is, which is why he wants Luz as an ally to liberate his people. However, he's completely unaware of All For One's presence in her.
  • The Golden Guard also notes that Luz is accidently destroying the town she's trying to protect with her Quirks, and sees all of the terrified civilians in the crossfire and vows to stop her before its too late.
• During the fight Luz regains the "Vines" Quirk, from the boy gave it to as he apparently died as Collateral Damage. The girl remarks that she told herself that she would never keep this Quirk, when Hunter asks why she would do that Luz snaps at him. Julia's death is still a store spot.
  • Taking that extra Quirk has taken its toll on the poor girl, as she's sent flying into a school. She can no longer move, in crippling pain, having difficulty breathing, and her heartrate as slowed to a crawl. Because of this has reached her Despair Event Horizon.
• As Luz starts to break down into tears, she laments how in just a single month her life has turned to hell. She once thought that the Mass Super-Empowering Event was a dream come true that would vindicate her worldview only for to turn into a living nightmare as she suffers a long Trauma Conga Line as her life just keeps getting worse.
  Life didn’t get better, it got worse! Because of it, she lost her mother, lost her faith in humanity as a whole, and lost her innocence! She had to kill to survive because people kept trying to kill her, and it robbed her of her chance at a normal childhood! Anger, mixed with pain, mixed with regret, mixed with sadness flowed all through her body as she clasped her forehead, weeping. Her life had taken a turn for the absolute worst, and it was all thanks to this stupid power!
• Just as it looks like Luz has been defeated, she awakens her Quirk. As much of a Moment of Awesome it is, this gives Shigaraki a very good reason to pull a Villain Override on her instead of Tomura.
• At climax of their battle, Hunter believes he has no choice but to play his trump card: combining Selective-Gigantism and Overclock. Despite Luz's best efforts, she's horrified as she's unable to stop him even with all her power boosts.
• Their fight ends up completely destroying Gravesfield. This is especially worse for Luz as she ended up contributing her Doomed Hometown that she vowed to protect. Now its nothing more than a giant crater and she's going to get full blame for it.
  • What's worse is just how avoidable all this was. Luz never wanted the fight at all since the beginning and Hunter just wanted to carry out a Secret Test (and to turn her into the Boiling Isles saviour), but unfortunately they both just kept getting pushed to the point where they couldn't hold back anymore. Had either been more willing to talk things out and get on the same page, perhaps thousands of lived would've been spared.
  • At one point, when Hunter believes he just killed Luz for good, the boy laments she could’ve been a great ally to him and his mission to save his homeland from The Emperor.
• After Luz punches Hunter in the Demon Realm, she calls him out for his role in her hometown's destruction while acknowledging her actions contributed to its demise as well. She all but states that she doesn't she the point in fighting or killing him anymore, not even Revenge.
• After two whole seasons, Luz is finally in The Boiling Isles. Unbeknown to her she's become an Unwitting Pawn to her Evil Mentor.
  • When Tyler's wife, Mary, voices her concerns about Gravesfield, he's dismissive towards it. He doesn't show any remorse for his role in the destruction of his ancestral home or the lives lost; only that (he thinks) Luz is dead and done "God's work".

Season 3 - The Boiling Isles Saga

Part 1: Arc 7 - A Late Start To A Wacky World

Chapter 24

• Shigaraki's "brief" visit to the Boiling Isles 24 years ago was actually a 10-year long war. Lord knows how many people died because of it.
• If a witch is given a Quirk, they lose with ability to use magic as a result. This due to Bile Sac shrivelling up from it. Even if the Quirk gets removed, it would take 3 years to show signs of recovery and further 10 years to fully restore, as in Alador's case. Considering his passion for his work and he's the main breadwinner of his family, it must not have been pleasant experience for the man.
  • During that time, many unfortunate witches became Unwitting Test Subjects for Shigaraki's Quirk experiments. This included the parents of the Blight children that were forcefully given Quirks and painfully so after Odalia was foolish enough to try and make a deal with the monster.
  • This also resulted with Amity being born without the ability to ever use magic, instead a second-generation Quirk user. But not just any Quirk: its a replica of One For All. Her birth was essentially a Superpowerful Genetics experiment by the monster to "get back what was rightfully his" with the 2 replica Quirks, including his long dead brother. Fortunately, he was chased off the Isles before Amity was born and could find out his witch experiment worked.
• Its also heavily implied that Amity's conception was of Questionable Consent too, making her The Unfavorite of the family. The twins see their younger sister as freak, not wanting much to do with her. Her own father, despite claiming to love her, is reluctant to even look at her in the eyes on the best of days, due to being a constant reminder of what All For one did to them and was home-schooled for her own protection. Good thing Odalia is way better mother here than in the show.
  She was a witch by blood, but she didn’t have a functioning Bile Sac. She was a walking paradox. Her mere existence was contradictory, and because of that, she had very few friends.
• Amity is a Lonely Rich Kid like the beginning of the show but for different reasons. Her family's wealth attracted more enemies than allies or people who would wish to get on their good side, only to try to get money from them. Right now she only considers Willow and Boscha her real friends due to seeing who she is beyond her family name and riches. Even then Boscha is closer to Willow and isn't above cracking jokes at her expense.
• This makes her incredibly worried about going to Hexside, a school for magic which she doesn't possess, giving her very low self-esteem, despite having a much better mother in her corner.
  So, with very few people by her side, and in a place that focused only on magic, the very thing that she couldn’t do because of an experiment that she had no say in due to the fact that she was nothing but a clump of cells at the time, her life for the next three or so years was going to suck. She couldn’t join a coven, so she would be ostracized by that alone. The only reason she had to go there was to make friends and listen to lectures that didn’t apply to her.
• If you were a witch with a Quirk, you would be a target for discrimination. There are about 200 "Unique" children that exist in Bonesborough alone, and all of them, were made social outcasts by The Emperor's Coven. Knowing Emperor Belos is likely a feature and not a bug in the social system. Many weren't wanted by their parents. They were haunting reminders of what Shigaraki had done to their home 14 years ago. All For One had destroyed whatever semblance of a normal life for many witch children could have had.
• As Amity heads to the market, she notes the Blight Family more than a few enemies. Most were political in nature but others genuinely despised them for letting Shigaraki use their manor as ahis Home Base during the war not too long ago, wanting revenge. The Emperor didn’t blame them until recently as their conversations with him had been more hostile lately. Now the most powerful and influential man in the Boiling Isles seems to have it out for them.
  • Amity still dyes her hair, but not because she was forced to by her mother (in fact she discouraged it). She did it to herself so that she'd look more like her older siblings. Taking into account they don't even like her, that's just depressing.
• A concerned Eda mentions that according to Owlbert the place she gets her merchandise from vanished in a massive explosion. The owl Palisman only just barely got away in time, to which Amity comments that which losing their familiar is like a parent losing their child.
• Luz is now going by the alias All For One planed for her: Toshiko Shigaraki. Its heavily implying That Man Is Dead is in effect and she's fallen further into the monster's influence.
  • Luz's first encounter with Eda isn't as friendly as in the show. When Eda first lays eyes on the girl, she remarks that she looked like someone she wished she never met. Its unlikely they will have a teacher-student relationship much less a pseudo mother-daughter relationship that they did in the show.
  • When Amity hears her surname, she mentally notes its the same as All For One's. It may only be a matter of time before History Repeats itself and the girl becomes a Hero with Bad Publicity if Amity tells her family and Sins of the Father comes into effect, ruining any they have of being an Official Couple.

Chapter 25

• The chapter starts off by mentioning Luz has become a Homeless Hero due to the destruction of Gravesfield and hasn't had a decent night's sleep in the past 3 days, having slept in alleyways and caves. Her Evil Mentor recommends that she ditch the name her parents gave her for a new one, due to the fact that it haunts her and the Wittebanes are currently on the Isles. When the girl tries to blame the vestige for her situation he brushes it off using logic to deflect fault onto the other enemies she had to face.
  • When Rikitatsu praises the girl for achieving "Quirk Awakening", something he couldn't accomplish in his entire life, he tells her he's proud of her. The teen is thunderstruck, remarking Camila was the only one to have ever said that to her… only recalling one time, when she got a Grade A on a Spanish test in 5th grade… While readers know Camila was always proud of her daughter, its clear the 14-year old didn't hear it enough times for her self-esteem and she never will now that she's gone forever.
• As Rikitatsu continues to praise his apprentice, he stops as he notices the girl Trying Not to Cry. This genuinely catches the man off guard and flat out asks her if she's okay... only for her to hug the person she recognises as a monster and break down into tears. She's so thoroughly broken and traumatised by her experience as a superhuman in the past month that she's willing to seek comfort from All For One of all people. Even some one with a black heart like him is compelled to comfort the girl, which is probably only altruistic thing he's done in over a century.
• Rikitatsu is initially confused about what to do here until this scenario reminds him of when his late brother Yoichi, one person who ever truly gave a damn about other than himself, did this when they were kids.
  • The supervillain recalls the days when it was just him and his twin brother. Despite viewing him as weak and pathetic, the elder Shigaraki brother he loved him as much as someone like him was capable of and took care of him the best he could do.
  • Its revealed, he locked him up not because he refused his We Can Rule Together offer, but it was his misguided way to protect him from the outside elements, due to his illness worsening. Unfortunately, Yoichi didn't see it that way, just more cruelty from his evil brother.
  • He was genuinely distraught and angry when the two future One For All successors of La Résistance broke him out because he died not long afterwards, due to compromised immune system causing his body to be unable to clot blood. This adds more depth to his hatred towards the second One For All user.
  • Hell, he flat out admits to himself that he didn’t care about the power that claiming One For All would give him, implying he didn't need it to achieve his goals, but because it was a Tragic Keepsake of the last of his kin.
• The villain admits that Luz was just a means to an end to get back to his world, have her steal One For All from All Might or whoever he passed it on to, and then pull a Villain Override on her body and with the newly evolved All For One come back to life stronger than ever to restore his criminal empire bigger than ever before. And now he has a What Is This Feeling? moment in his heart when seeing the girl in question in emotional turmoil, instead of his just usual sadism.
  Rikitatsu Shigaraki: You’ve been through a lot. More than any child should have to go through. But you survived. That’s all that is important.
• The Last Words that Yoichi ever said to Rikitatsu? Deep down there is good in him and he can be better than just a cruel villain. Due to his Evil Cannot Comprehend Good nature of being a Card-Carrying Villain he brushed it off as nonsense, but now, as he hugs Luz back, he proves Yoichi right for just a moment. Had things been different, such as having parental figures and guidance in his early life, its possible that the first All For One user would recognise his capacity to do good for good's sake like now. Time will tell if this causes a Heel Realization for the Symbol of Evil.
• The second All For One user has come to the conclusion that Luz Noceda died along ago with her friends back at summer camp and hadn't realised it until now. She now takes the name her Evil Mentor suggests offically confirming That Man Is Dead.
  In truth, she always knew, in the back of her mind that when she saw all of those whom she called friends dead, she too died that day. Luz Noceda had died, and in her place was Toshiko Shigaraki. A girl who had nothing but hate for those who killed her friends. Oh, sure, she paraded around the name Luz, but she hadn’t truly been Luz. She was just… taking her place, so to speak. Luz had died the day everyone else had. Toshiko merely wore her skin and stole her name. But now, she didn’t need that. She didn’t need her name anymore. She was in a different world, meaning she had no longer had to hang onto the past.
• On her way to the forest, Toshiko comes across Willow and Gilbert, one of her dads, who is in enraged by the sight the new comer as her appearance reminds him of Rikitatsu: The man who murdered his husband. Toshiko tries to warn him to not start a fight with her for his daughter's sake but it falls on deaf ears as he's about to punch him. At first it looks like he's about to become a dead man in a case of Killing in Self-Defense, but luckily the girl decides to spare his life.
  • When Toshiko says she wouldn't take away a parent from their child, she adds not intentionally. This likely a reference to the cops she murdered and people that died in the crossfire in her fights.
• After Toshiko leaves, its revealed Eda was trailing her. Had the All For One user left Gilbert to die in front of Willow, the Owl Lady would have attacked and put a permanent end to any chance of the 2 having any sort of relationship they had in canon.
  • The Strongest Witch of the Boiling Isles recalls how she was an Unwitting Instigator of Doom that inadvertently brought All For One's attention to her homeland, resulting the deaths of many and the cruel experiments on many more. That's a lot of indirect blood on the woman's hands.
  • Things got so bad that Eda had to pull a Enemy Mine with Emperor Belos, of all people, and her estranged sister in order to drive All For One back to where he came from. Even then, her older sister paid a horrible price in losing her arm and right eye, something Eda will no doubt feel immense guilt over.
• The Owl Lady also recalls how a broken Gilbert was with the loss of Harvey in the war going as far as to go to her so she could end his life, but she refused knowing Harvey wouldn’t have wanted that and would've left poor Willow an orphan as she wouldn't be able to care for her properly.
  • When Gilbert comes back to his senses, the father acknowledges that shouldn’t have tried to attack the girl, not understanding why, feeling remorse in trying to attack a child and comforts his crying daughter.
  • Looking on Eda notes that if Gilbert had such a visceral reaction towards Toshiko then she dreads to imagine how King would react. It seems unlikely that the two will have their sibling-like relationship like in the show, thanks to All For One.

Chapter 26

• Amity is in Heroic Self-Deprecation mode as she's dismissed by a rude vendor as she's just short on money to buy her mother a much wanted birthday present: black diamond ring. This is due to her forgetting to get her a gift last year, even though Odalia didn't hold it against her. Now she's resorting to Fight Clubbing in place where it could easily become a Deadly Game just to repay her mother's love that this Odalia would tell her doesn't need to be repaid.
  • She also notes that getting a rich person a meaningful present is extremely difficult as they can just buy most things themselves. Amity almost gave up until she heard from Odalia's drunk ramblings. According to Amity, this Odalia has a hard time being open with regarding things that she wanted and or expected of others. This is likely her way of avoiding becoming the abusive mother she was in the show but leads Amity to believe she's not being honest saying her daughter is her world.
• In this story, a Fantastic Caste System is in place: Witches were at the top, followed by demons, "Unique Children", Cyclopes, and finally the trolls. The trolls got the most brunt of the beatings. They were often treated less than dirt and were often victims of hate crimes. Even cyclopes use their higher power over them. This likely a feature put in by Emperor Belos to Kick the Dog even more and it really says something when The Underdark, a hidden Underground City built by All For One's followers, has a more welcoming environment to social outcasts.
  • Amity meets Gus for the first time in the story, the latter is suspicious due her being a Blight and takes her to get vetted by his father. Luckily the man is more than welcoming.
• Perry Porter is the founder of The Underdark and a follower of All For One, based around the Quirk user's ideals: Strength Above Status, Ideals Above Rules, and Emotions Above Morals... Except those aren't All For One's ideals. In fact, he doesn't have any beliefs. He adopts this rhetoric in his Rousing Speeches to his followers, and seeks out those on the fringes of society to bestow his "gifts", like he has done many times in the past. In reality, Rikitatsu only recruited people who are the victims of prejudice or who fail to fit in because they're vulnerable and more willing to fight and die for his sake, much like how real cultists seek out new members. People like Perry would likely be devastated if they ever found out the truth.
  • Perry also still believes that the Blights, especially Odalia, are still on All For One's side and wants them to join the rebellion against Emperor Belos. However, he's completely unaware that the family see the supervillain as the monster he really is who's just as bad as the tyrant ruling over them.
• When Amity is made aware that fights to the death are common in the tournament, she chooses to abide by the Thou Shall Not Kill code believing murder to be monstrous. This may cause some issues with her Love Interest Toshiko who discarded that way of thinking long ago.

Chapter 27

• The start of the chapter gives us an insight into Rikitasu's past as a 12-year old street urchin along side his brother, dressed in nothing but rags and squatting in rundown houses. They often went without food for days with Yoichi getting excited at being fed an un-mouldy but stale loaf of bread instead of getting half-eaten or slightly rotted food. Rikitatsu had to steal a The Needless Quirk (implied to be Energy Saver) so that he could give more food to Yoichi and not starve.
• Yoichi's hemophilia certainly didn't make things easier and needed two layers of bandages to stop him bleeding out. Rikitatsu feared his little brother would die simply by sleeping because of his condition if he didn't "borrow" the Healing Hands Quirk. His brother approve of him using his Power Parasite Quirk but he was right it was key to their survival.
  Yoichi saw him taking other people's Meta-Abilities as cruel, and while that was fine—Rikitatsu didn’t care what his brother thought of him in that regard—it was him taking those Meta-Abilities that ensured his brother's survival. After all, who would he have without him? Yoichi would have died before the age of four without Rikitatsu being around.
• At the end of the flashback, Rikitatsu tells Yoichi he intends to save the world via iron fist and stealing enough Quirks. While a Well-Intentioned Extremist is a step up from him wanting to become a Demon Lord, it shows there really was good in All For One and could've been a genuine hero if he had the right guidance.
  Rikitatsu: With my power… once I get enough Meta-Abilities, I’ll be able to rule the world with an iron fist. No one will have to worry about wars because I’ll end them before they begin. No one will have to worry about hunger because I’ll stop hunger from getting nearly as bad as it is now. No one will have to worry about electricity because I’ll provide it. Everyone will rely on me because by then I’ll be immortal. I’ll be this world’s saviour! (Wide Smile) I’ll own this world, and when it’s in my possession, I’ll take great care of it. Just like how I take great care of you! Wouldn’t that be great?
• Back to Toshiko, she sees the beautiful forest as a representation of Death, Destruction, and Suffering since her time in the Death Camp. She used to love the wilderness, now it haunts her.
  It wasn’t often, but whenever she was in the forest, she could hear their screams. Their pained cries and their pleas for mercy. She could hear the sound of blood squelching and bones cracking—ruptured limbs and faces torn asunder. When she committed the act that she had done all of those months ago, she never really saw what she was doing. She only acted on her emotions. But the phantoms she saw… the faces, or lack thereof of some of the people she had killed, haunted her. Every now and again, she could hear faint whispers in the back of her head. Telling her that everything was her fault.
• Not only does she blame The Governor and Wittebanes for her life going to shit, but to a smaller extent her mother too, even though she admits that it wasn’t fair on her to say that.
• Toshiko encounters King who looks down at the girl with anger that she reminds him of the villain that attacked his homeland and fractured his face and horn. Toshiko’s only gives uncaring expression and acknowledges the fact, prompting the much larger beast take her anger out on her if she doesn't leave.
• As their fight comes to an end, Eda notices a column of blue fire and runs towards as fast she can towards it panicking about her family's safety. Luckily, things were resolved by the time she got there.
  A million different thoughts raced through the Wild Witch’s head. Was King alright? Was Hooty nearby, and was he safe? Was King still alive after that? She knew he was strong but was he that strong? Just what was that Shigaraki girl doing to her adopted son?
• As Eda and King welcome her into their house, Toshiko feels a sense of hope for the first time in months she could actually live here in The Boiling Isles without having to look over her shoulder constantly. However, if the Clawthornes ever find out about All For One squatting in her head this maybe lead to a Tragic Dream as they could kick her out instead of trying to help her.
• In the Vestige Realm, Rikitatsu makes plans involving Eda and King in his schemes while remembering himself killing Knuckleduster. This doesn't bode well for the Owl House residents.
  • But the biggest twist of the story is the appearance of Julia Wittebane as a vestige! All For One speculates its because she was only person who truly vowed allegiance to Luz. Her face is described as being full of confusion and fear after remembering she was murdered. She isn't going to react well when she hears her friend is planning to kill her parents in her name.
  • This also implies Luz could have got a vestige of Camila had her body not turned into red mist thanks the assassins putting her corpse in the way of the girl's Forcefield Projection.

Chapter 28

• Amity accidently kills her opponent. While she suffers no legal consequences and her enemy was an Asshole Victim who Would Hurt a Child, the crowds cheers on her victory just invoke Your Approval Fills Me with Shame and leaves the arena not wanting to be in the presence of the corpse any longer as she broke her Thou Shall Not Kill rule. While Witches weren’t afraid of bloodshed, that didn’t mean they like it.
  Amity: I… I killed him…
• The tournament's host is none other than Raine Whispers, who was thought to have fallen in combat in the war 14 years ago. Turns out they faked their demise and had been hiding out in the Underdark with All For One's followers. According to Amity, Eda still thinks her Love Interest is dead and likely won't take it well that Raine allowed her to think that for over a decade even if it was for a good reason.
  • Yoichi is building a connection to Amity, and will likely be horrified by what his Evil Twin has done to the Boiling Isles. Its likely he'll encourage her to fight Toshiko later down the line.
• Perry Porter has figured out that Amity has One For All is likely including her into his schemes. He recalls the time Shigaraki saved his life from a bunch of Emperor Coven minions when he tried to report on a story that would have painted Emperor Belos in a bad light. Though is likely because he saw the news reporter a potential pawn he could make use of.
  • While he has a noble cause in stopping Emperor Belos from carrying out the Day of Unity, Perry's more than willing to resort to creating Nomu to make that happen, seeing it as a necessary evil. He also notes that his old friend Eda will likely take exception him being All For One's follower even when he ravaged the Boiling Isles.
• Then, there's the story of Dr. Jade, otherwise known as Hilbert Jade, father of Skara. He was a famous scientist who had been living down in the Underdark with his daughter for 4 years ever since he went into hiding. He had been a part of the Emperor's Science Division, only to have been kicked out and arrested when he tried making an illegal potion for someone in the Emperor’s Coven. The scout had been caught and executed, and Hilbert had been next in line for execution after the fact and it was only because The Golden Guard had swooped in to stop said execution at the tearful request of Skara that they were saved but at the cost of being fugitives from the law and leaving their old lives behind. Now, he works for Perry Porter to recreate the Nomu.
• Gus wants to go to Hexside and act as The Mole for his father not just to follow All For One's doctrine and make his father proud but because he doesn't want people to think he's getting special treatment by being Perry's son. At least at Hexside, he’d be treated the same as everyone else. Its likely to cause conflict with the rest of the Hexsquad sooner or latter.

Arc 8 - Truth, Lies, and The Inbetween

• In chapter 29, in the beginning its revealed that the Shigaraki twins are the result of Child by Rape and when they found out Rikitasu and Yoichi Shigaraki tracked down their father to confront him and the older brother murdered him with a Neck Snap, to his brother's protests. All For One was also plotting to overthrow the Japanese government with the Meta Liberation Army and the Yakuza for his personal gain.
  • In the Vestige Realm, Julia is horrified to find out from All For One that Luz has became her murderer in her name and is in a Cold War with her horrible father that resulted in Gravesfield's destruction just a few days ago.
  • Its shown in the Owl House that Eda doesn't trust Toshiko, due to her possible connection to All For One. She's so afraid of the girl potentially starting another war that considers she may have to sell her out to Emperor Belos or even kill the teen herself if it comes to it.

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Season 1

• When Julia found out Luz could take away powers in Chapter 7, Julia begged her take them away so for a chance for her family to take her back, despite being painful. She acknowledges that this could be All for Nothing if the governor finds out and pulls a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness or her parents wouldn't want her back just for being gay.
• In Chapter 9, Ronny, one of Luz's teammates, makes a joke to Luz that their parents must hate them if they sent them here to some shoddy education camp. A depressed Luz, who Shigaraki put in her head that Camila is a Resentful Guardian, says he might be right, making the boy grimace and immediately takes it back telling her not to take him seriously.

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