Luz Noceda

Luz Noceda is the main protagonist of the 2020 Disney Channel animated series .
She's an optimistic and imaginative Afro-Latina teenage human girl, who accidentally stumbles upon the portal that takes her to the Boiling Isles, an archipelago made from Dead Titan, where all residents have magic. Seeing this, Luz begins to study magic to prove herself as witch, despite not having magical abilities on her own.
She is voiced by Sarah Nicole Robles, who also voiced Judy in Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer and Scarlet from Star Darlings.
==Appearance==
===Body===
Luz is a teenage Dominican-American girl with tan skin, dark brown short hair that is usually styled in a pixie cut, and brown eyes. During her fight against Emperor Belos in "King's Tide", Luz suffers an injury that results in a scar through her left eyebrow. Over the course of her stay on Earth, her hair begins growing out, giving it a curlier appearance.
In the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming", she is shown to be taller, have slightly shorter hair and a bit of mascara on her eyelashes. She also got her left forearm tattooed with a symbol of Flapjack in his honor.
=== Clothes ===
For her usual outfit, Luz wears a dark blue shirt with a hood with cat ears that has a large white stripe running through it. She wears gray shorts, black tights and white shoes with beige soles. She also wears black stud ear piercings. For the latter part of Season 1 and some episodes of Season 2, she dons the cloak of witch's wool Eda made her, being a dark blue cloak with a gold button. Following the events of "Reaching Out", Luz always wears Eda's grudgby letterman jacket, being a brown jacket with beige sleeves, a black collar and cuffs with a white line and a yellow star and a red letter E emblazoned on it. Said jacket also has black pocket slits.
Originally, her nightwear during her first night in the Demon Realm consisted of a gray sleeveless top, purple shorts with an orange moon and star on the right leg, and white-and-indigo socks. Starting from "Hunting Palismen", she wears a short-sleeved lilac shirt, dull purple pajama pants with a gold waistband, a blue diamond pattern, and the pale pink head of an unknown creature on the ends. She usually wears her loafers while in this outfit but was seen barefoot while sick with the Common Mold in "Eclipse Lake". In "Thanks To Them" her nightwear consisted of a bluish-gray t-shirt with a lighter horizontal stripe, dark blue pants with gold trim and a star pattern on the left leg, and pink socks.
During the C.A.T's rebellion against Emperor Belos, Luz wears Eda's jacket with a teal inner shirt, as well as poofy brown pants and boots. She also has a small ponytail tied up with a purple hair tie.
During the first episode of Season 3, Luz wears an orange beanie with a light blue pin with a darker eye on it, as well as a pin of the bisexual flag. She continues wearing Eda's jacket (which has a darker beige patch on the right sleeve), a light blue shirt with a white stripe, long brown drawstring pants and red sneakers with white details and stars on the side.
For the rest of Season 3, Luz dons a Halloween costume, being a cosplay of Azura. She wears a white witch's hat with a dark teal interior and a golden tiara with a blue gem. She wears a white tunic with a dark blue collar with a yellow star, dark blue tights and white boots with a gold bottom, black soles and are lilac in between. She also carries a light brown side pouch.
After receiving the Titan's power, Luz's sclerae turn blackish blue and her pupils become golden, with her hair becoming longer and dark purple. She grows a pair of fangs, horns, and dons a black, furry witch's hat that has an orb of light at the top, a dark blue interior and a gray tip resembling King's tail. She wears a furry black coat with a glowing yellow glyph on her chest, bone-like armor pieces on her midsection, hands and tips of the coat, with the coat having a light grey trim. She also wears light grey pants with bone-like armor that resemble the Titan's feet.
During the epilogue, Luz now wears additional black ring piercings on her ears. She wears a dark blue collared shirt with snake motifs, an inner shirt similar to the one she wore at the beginning of Season 3, as well as Amity's eclipse necklace. She wears orangey-brown pants with patches, including two with symbols of a beaker and music note, as well as white shoes with purple tongues, dark blue soles and stars on them, overall resembling Azura's colour scheme.
==Personality==
Luz is an energetic, eager, fun and weird girl who is ready to discover and find new possibilities. She's also adventurous and will take things into her own hands. Luz is an outsider at school, as she does weird and creepy stuff a lot. As such, she has been to the principal's office many times and feels more at home in the Boiling Isles.
Luz is a very excitable young girl. With a high fascination for all things fantasy and a knack for adventure, Luz is very outgoing and willing to hop into anything thrown her way. She sometimes has trouble looking before she leaps, but always manages to somehow land on her feet. In "A Lying Witch and a Warden", Luz describes herself as someone who enjoys "editing anime clips to music and reading fantasy books with convoluted backstories" while in "The First Day", her aura is described as "strong and silly like a baby's laughter".
However deep down, Luz possesses deep insecurities due to the years of ostracism she endured in the Human Realm prior to arriving in the Boiling Isles. Because of her eccentric interests and neurodivergent behavior, she is seen as an outcast on Earth and difficult to engage with by her peers, school staff and, initially, her own mother, leading to her to not only suffer an utterly friendless childhood in Gravesfield but also frequent resentment and open ridicule from other children and their parents. This constant rejection from her peers, along with her inability to make friends, has resulted in Luz developing underlying self-esteem issues which will occasionally manifest.
Another factor that weighs heavily on Luz's mind is the loss of her father, Manny, whom she still grieves for, even years after his passing. It's also been implied on occasion that much of Luz's creativity, eccentricity, optimism, and love of fantasy, especially her fondness for the Azura franchise, which was the final gift her father gave her, are a means of coping with his loss.
As the series goes on, Luz's mental health would slowly crumble, which started when she blamed herself intensely for both Eda's capture by Lilith and later the loss of her magic, but while Eda reassures her that it wasn't her fault, this sense of guilt would slightly increase when she shows her Mom that she's been living in another world and accidentally gave the impression that she ran away, which made her sadly promise to stay with her, but the biggest point of her sense of guilt traumatically increasing is when she discovered the truth about Belos' identity and the role she inadvertently played in his rise to power, finding The Collector, and nearly wiping out all of witch and demon-kind on the Day of Unity. Which all comes to a breaking point where, after the Collector is freed and start wrecking havoc, Luz attempts to hold open the portal to rescue Eda, but King ends up sacrificing himself instead, which utterly devastates her to her core.
During her return to earth, Luz is at her psychological worst, having gone from a girl with boundless optimism and happiness into a cold, self-loathing person. Spiraling even more into her guilt, only genuinely smiling when consoling someone else and with Amity being her happy and joyful self, she decides to permanently leave the Demon Realm once the Boiling Isles are saved, as she's convinced it's the best she could do for everyone.
Thankfully, with acceptance from her Mom and hearing wise words from The Titan, Luz is able to finally forgive herself and move on from her guilt from helping Belos, allowing her to finally defeat him for good.
In the four years since defeating Belos and restoring peace to the Boiling Isles, Luz continues to maintain her recovered eccentric, geeky, cheerful and optimistic personality as she prepares to attend the University of Wild Magic in the Demon Realm, having finally acquired the acceptance and happiness she had always longed for.
==Powers and abilities==
*Magic: Luz is studying the art of witchcraft under the tutelage of Eda the Owl Lady. Since Luz lacks the same magical anatomy that witches have, she can't perform magic with her bare hands; instead, she casts spells by drawing glyphs that are found within the spell circles witches tend to use.
**Light Magic: This is the first spell Luz learned, discovering it on her phone while hiding from Eda in her cursed form. By drawing the glyph, Luz can create small orbs of light or blinding flashes depending on the size of the circle. Like fire magic, the spell is also capable of incinerating objects.
**Ice Magic: Luz found this spell in a snowflake at the Knee while trying to save Eda and the Blight siblings. By drawing the glyph, Luz is able to create an ice pillar capable of catapulting people into the air and blocking attacks. She can also infuse weapons with the ice glyph to repel multiple enemies at once.
**Plant Magic: Before her fight with Grometheus, Luz experimented with plant magic. By drawing the glyph, Luz is able to make plants grow, ranging from flowers to pillars of thorns.
**Fire Magic: Luz discovered this spell during her grudgby match with Boscha and her friends. By drawing the glyph, Luz is able to create a ball of fire and set items aflame. She can use it to melt objects by simply activating the glyph near it without having to attach it to the object itself.
**Invisiblility: Luz devised a combination of glyphs to become invisible, inspired by Lilith's history books. However, this spell only lasts as long as she can hold her breath.
**Safety Hover: Luz can utilize a hover glyph to break falls from high heights.
* Titan magic (temporary): After meeting the spirit of King's father, he gives Luz the last of his magic. It fades away after Belos is defeated. 
** Sonic shout: When possessing Titan Magic, Luz could generate a sonic shout.
** Enhanced Glyph magic: In this state, she seems able to create any of the above Glyphs out of thin air and use them with much greater power and efficency.
** Phytokinesis: She could create odd red vegetation that covered and destroyed Belos' corruption. 
** Enhanced durability: When a boiling rainstorm appeared that weakened Belos to the point where Eda, King, and Raine could crush him, Luz herself was not harmed by its caustic properties.
*Glyph Enchantment: By attaching a spell glyph to an object and tapping the glyph or striking with the object, Luz can enchant that object with the spell. She has some control of how long it takes for a spell to trigger giving her time to get out of range of certain spells like flames.
*Bilingualism: Luz is shown to speak English and Spanish.
*Weapon Proficiency: She is shown capable of wielding a toy sword, and was able to defeat Adegast's puppets. Later, she demonstrated some skill with a flail while fighting Grometheus.
*Drawing/Painting: She is capable of drawing with nearly anything, as seen in the Owl Pellets "Eda's Curse Bush" (she uses random thing to draw), "Paint Scare!"(she was painting a background), and "Art class with Luz"(she makes drawings good enough to fool Hooty).
*Intelligence: While not the best student and acting somewhat air-headed at times, Luz is rather intelligent and, owing to her creativity, is capable of coming up with numerous schemes and plans in short amounts of time. Notable examples of this are when she uses plant and light glyphs to create a fake Selkidomus to fool the Golden Guard, when she orchestrates the "kidnapping" of Kikimora and Raine (only foiled by Kikimora's betrayal and Terra's deduction), and when she successfully brands Belos by hiding a nearby branding glove with an invisibility glyph. 
*Charisma: Luz is a skilled speaker and has been shown to be able to convince and change people through her words, with her sunny disposition often encouraging others to improve themselves. This ability to convince and sway is so great, she managed to successfully trick Belos into letting his guard down by sweet-talking her way to him, allowing her to brand him and try and force him to undo the Draining Spell.
*Dancing: While fighting Grom, Luz successfully performed a perfectly choreographed dance routine with Amity, additionally demonstrating a very strong capacity to improvise as this was not something that she had likely rehearsed before.
==Quotes==
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==Trivia==
*Her name translates from Spanish as "light", while her surname from Spanish means "grove of walnut trees".
**According to Dana Terrace, the creator of the show, she was named after Luz Batista, the show's animator and storyboard artist, with whom Dana was very close to, and at same time Dana said that much of Luz's background based on her own (like both being bisexual and losing their fathers and young age) and she likes telling her story through Luz's adventures.
*She's Disney first bisexual main character, as all other bisexual characters in Disney animated series have minor roles.
*Her outfit during "Thanks to Them" resembles her beta-outfit prior to the show's release, as it was meant to have a darker tone before it was toned done, which reflects on her mental-health & self-loathing throughout the episode.
**Furthermore, Luz donning an Azura costume at the end of the show somewhat represents that she has reached similar heights as her idol, even surpassing her in many ways. 
*She is the second main character in a Disney show to die & get resurrected after Anne Boonchuy from Amphibia, with both coincidentally presumably taking place in the same multiverse.
*It's revealed that for most of her life, Luz actually had long hair and only changed her hairstyle to her current one after she attempted to cut her hair with a toy sword.
*Luz is ambidextrous as seen from her drawing glyphs with both of her hands.
*Luz apparently has rather poor hygiene as she turns down Eda's quitters' badge "until she stops showering", claimed that braces were for storing candy to Gus and in one of the storyboards, claimed that she hasn't showered in a couple days.
==External Links==
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*Luz Noceda on the Guile Heroes Wiki
*Luz Noceda on Wikipedia
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