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Witches Among Humans
is a The Owl House fan comic created by Tumblr user MoringMark (best known for their Star vs. the Forces of Evil webcomics Echo Creek: A Tale of Two Butterflies, Ship War AU and SVTFOE Metaverse)Luz Noceda is the most wanted criminal in the Boiling Isles. Raised as a wild witch, Luz is a master of all magics and uses her powers to undermine the oppressive system that rules over her people. One day, a quest went terribly wrong and now she has been sent to another realm: Earth.
After several issues, it was quietly dropped when the author returned to making his standard one-shots. This series also serves as the inspiration for Among Humans.
Witches Among Humans provides examples of:
- Adaptational Badass: In canon, Luz's mother is a vet who finds Luz's willful, though admittedly destructive imagination exasperating. Here she raised Luz as a wild witch (which, if the Boiling Isles in the comic is anything like the show, is illegal).
- Adaptational Villainy: The strip has the Bat Queen and other demons go on rampages in the Human World that Luz has to stop.
- Adaptation Species Change: In this version of the story, Luz is a witch, King is a cat and everyone else is human. Demons are still demons.
- The Alleged Car: Eda's car is prone to having its engine randomly die. It eventually gets brought to life by Luz to remedy the problem.
- Anachronic Order: The comics don't appear to be told in any specific order. For example, after several issues being dedicated to the progression of Luz and Amity's relationship, we then later get an issue showing how the two of them first met, and the exact timeframe of the issues between them or immediately after isn't clear.
- Badass Normal: Despite being human and legitimately old Eda can still smack monsters real good.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: It's implied that Luz started liking Amity because she defended her from Boscha and her posse.
- Butch Lesbian: Being a witch from the Boiling Isles, this version of Luz is more crass than her canon-counterpart and is in a relationship with Amity.
- Everyone Has Standards: While this Luz is a vigilante and a lot rougher than her canon self, she won't turn things into gold for Eda and screw with humanity's economy.
- Fish out of Water: Being a witch of the Boiling Isles, Luz is unaccustomed to certain realities in the Human World.
- She calls coffee "bitter bean blood."
- Luz shows a Grom heart (which is an actual organ) to Gus who is visibly unnerved by it.
- When it starts raining, she clings to Amity, thinking it would melt the flesh off her bones if left out in it.
- Heel–Race Turn: According to the Giraffe that Luz confronts, their species collectively abandoned soul-eating centuries ago.
- Inspector Javert: This version of Lilith is a cop hunting Luz down, seeing the witch as a threat.
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies: At one point, Luz interrupts what appears to be Amity confessing her feelings so she won't get caught up in her conflict with Lilith.
- Just Like Robin Hood: Having been born and raised as a wild witch, this version of Luz is a vigilante that undermined the governing bodies on the Boiling Isles. When she winds up in the human world, she becomes a full-on superhero.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Luz has no memory of exactly how she wound up in the Human World.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Amity is fairly feminine and is in a relationship with Luz.
- Loves My Alter Ego: Amity is not among her list secret keepers, Luz's secret identity (or in her case, her real identity) coming close to being blown to her girlfriend more than once. One comic panel hints this will eventually change with Amity learning about Luz's secret.
- Mage in Manhattan: Luz escaped the Boiling Isles in the human world. In fact, it looks like it takes place in Manhattan.
- Mugging the Monster: Or the witch in Boscha and co's case. Honestly, Amity threatening them with a recording is them getting off easy.
- Mythology Gag:
- The designs of Luz, Amity, and a few others are based on their prototype designs.
- In the Witches Among Humans intro, King wears a skull that resembles his canon counterpart's head.
- During a trip to the zoo Luz confronts a giraffe, which in The Owl House are confirmed to be monsters banished from the Boiling Isles.
- Non-Standard Character Design: The giraffe Luz confronts is designed to be slightly more realistic than the rest of the cast, most likely to highlight how they're actually demons.
- Not So Above It All: Despite being a battle-hardened vigilante, Luz chooses to use the otter suit from the canon show as her backup costume when her main costume is still drying.
- Official Couple: Luz and Amity end up a couple at some point... presumably after she shot down Amity so she won't get caught up in her conflict with Lilith.
- Role Swap AU: The entire setting of the webcomic is established as a complete inversion of its parent series. While The Owl House is about a human that stumbles in a demon-infested Magical Land, Witches Among Humans is about a witch (Luz) that gets lost in the human world.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: During the 5/15/21 comic Luz is forced to use her otter outfit to disguise herself to fight the Bat Queen because Eda is washing her witch outfit, but because everyone (including said Bat Queen) laugh at her she immediately leaves. Presumably the Bat Queen laughed herself to a state of unthreat after that.
- Secret-Keeper: While canon!Luz is public knowledge, this version of Luz tries keeping her identity a secret (wearing a beanie to cover her ears in disguise, her hood used to mask her face while performing magic), with Eda, Willow, and Gus being the ones to keep her secret on-panel and a comic hints Amity set to learn it at some later point.
- Shout-Out:
- The 1/21/2021 scene of Amity celebrating a date oblivious to the battle behind her is a self-admitted one to Sym-Bionic Titan and a similar scene in the show.
- Before confronting the giraffe Luz rushes to a booth to change like something out of classic Superman.
- Sinister Car: After Luz magics Eda's car to life it gains sentience, wings, and fangs. It may desire to eat Boscha.
- Super Fic: Since magic is uncommon in the human world, Luz's antics in the human world are framed as a hero debut.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Sure, the giraffes gave up their diet of eating souls centuries ago and are therefore harmless, but seeing a giraffe speak is still going to make everybody at the zoo scared of it.
- Trapped in Another World: An inverted example; Luz is a witch from the Boiling Isles who was accidentally transported to Earth.
- The Unmasqued World: Downplayed. While humans don't have magic like in-canon, the reality that magic and witches are real is a given here, Eda recognizing Luz for what she is on-sight and Lilith claims that "Among Humans, there are good witches, and there are bad witches."
- You Can Talk?: Luz confronts a giraffe at the zoo, but when it claims to have given up eating people's souls Luz assures everyone present not to panic... and they panic anyway, weirded out by a talking giraffe.
