Odalia Blight

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“
What he does with our products is none of our business. What is my business is keeping our family ahead of the rest.
”

—Odalia Blight

**Odalia Blight** is an antagonistic character in *The Owl House*. She is the CEO of Blight Industries, the former wife of Alador, and the mother of Edric, Emira, and Amity.

A scheming, greedy and tyrannical woman, Odalia held a controlling grasp on the interests of her employees and other members in the Blight family, playing a role that emboldened them with high expectations to vicariously satisfy Odalia's ambitions.

In order to obtain more influence, she colluded with Emperor Belos, supplying him an army through her company in a flawed attempt to ensure her family's survival during the Day of Unity. This revelation ultimately causes her family to sever all ties with Odalia, leaving her to depart with them on bitter terms. After the Day of Unity, she aligns with The Collector in an attempt to manipulate him, only to be reduced to a mere servant.

## Appearance

### Body

Odalia is a witch with a curvaceous build contrasted by the sharp features in her face. She has tufted hair similar to Amity's, but it is a two-toned mint green, lighter on the top layer and darker on the bottom layer, a trait she shares with her eldest children, Edric and Emira, with a lighter streak across the top. Unlike the rest of her family, Odalia has blue eyes.

As a teenager, she strongly resembled Amity, but with natural mint green hair that was in the same hairstyle as it is in adulthood.

### Clothes

Odalia wears a violet blouse with a white petticoat that has a triple interlocking orb pattern, navy pants, and gray heeled boots. While serving The Collector, her blouse is lighter in color with gold rings and frills halfway along the sleeves, while the other halves of the sleeves become pink. Her vest is now light purple and has purple and light pink star patterns on it. Her pants are now two-toned with a diamond on both knee areas, and her boots are now indigo with pink bands around the ankles and yellow star patterns on the toes.

In Odalia's youth, she wore a dress in a low-tied bun.

During her days as a student at Hexside, she wore a Hexside school uniform with purple sleeves and leggings as a member of the oracle track, and two-tone black boots.

### Additional features

Odalia's hairstyle is tied into a bun reminiscent of a Roman *nodus*. She accessorizes with a necklace with a pink, oval gem that matches the one Amity used to wear, purple lipstick, and golden earrings. While serving The Collector, her left earring now resembles a crescent moon while the right one resembles a four-pointed sun or star.

## Personality

As a businesswoman, Odalia is a controlling woman whose haughty and elitist thinking makes her a domineering influence on anyone around her, including her family. She is shown to be highly concerned about her family's reputation to the point where she'll interfere with her children's personal lives and opinions to ensure they stay in line, even silencing her own children when they wish to speak their mind on the matter. This is evident by how she uses her oracle magic to telepathically keep Amity in line via matching amulets that allow Odalia to directly speak to Amity in her mind. Additionally, it was Odalia who forced Amity to end her friendship with Willow due to her weak magical abilities and lower social status, making her be "friends" with Boscha and Skara instead since they came from more respectable families.

Odalia claims to be an honorable woman, always reciting her family's motto, but in actuality, has proven to have every intention of going back on her word on numerous occasions, showing that this is nothing but hypocrisy. When something doesn't end up going as she planned, she has to be told how it can potentially benefit her. Not only underhanded, Odalia has a duplicitous side in how she offered to let Luz, Willow, and Gus back into Hexside if Luz assisted her and her husband with a demonstration of their company products, but it was revealed to have actually been a plot to eliminate Luz completely. She is also quite greedy, which is evident when Amity ruined a Blight Industries demonstration and lost many investors willing to buy their products, causing her to become furious with her younger daughter.

During the Day of Unity, when it is revealed that Odalia knows about the true nature of the event, she is shown to not care about it, fully believing that she and her family will enjoy great prosperity in the "new world" once Belos' plan comes to fruition. When Alador and her children try to reason with her, she willingly brushes them off and goes to great lengths, explaining that they are not going to hinder her without a single care for their feeling or opinions. This shows that Odalia cares about keeping her family ahead of everyone else, regardless of how her family feels and whether or not they actually agree with her.

Odalia's abusive and apathetic behavior towards her family leads them to turn their back on her; even after she lost everything she had worked for, she refuses to show her remorse over her actions and poor treatment of her family and parts ways with them. She also refused to learn from her past actions, as she wasn't happy that she was reduced into a servant to the Collector and when she's seeing Amity reunited with Alador.

## Abilities

### **Skillset**

* **Charisma:** Odalia proves to be a shrewd businesswoman as she introduces her company's products to potential customers on stage.

### **Unique Abilities**

* **Magic:** Odalia is able to use magic. Like most witches, her connection to magic comes from a sac of magic bile attached to her heart.
	+ **Oracle magic:** As an oracle, Odalia's magic lets her perform tasks involving the mind and conjuring. She uses this ability through her necklace as a conduit.
		- **Foresight:** Odalia can sense extrasensory thoughts, sights, and outcomes.
		- **Telepathy:** Odalia is able to communicate through though with a person, although it appears to be limited to others wearing another conduit, as she did with her youngest daughter via their necklaces.
		- **Spirit summoning:** Odalia can summon spirits from her necklace that can attack an enemy and retrieve objects when commanded. She can also recall these spirits to her necklace as well.
	+ **Animation:** Odalia can animate objects to do her bidding, as she did with the puppet of Raine Whispers.

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## Trivia

* Odalia's appearance in the "Understanding Willow" storyboards is very similar to that of Lilith.
* Prior to her full appearance in "Escaping Expulsion", Dana Terrace mentioned in a Reddit AMA that her hair is green, the same as Edric and Emira's.
	+ The same comment also stated Odalia had Amity dye her hair green because she likes her children to be "color-coordinated". This was later confirmed in "Through the Looking Glass Ruins".
	+ Also, according to Dana's Reddit AMA, Odalia has had a rivalry with Boscha's mother since childhood and they still try to one up each other through their daughters' accomplishments.
* Odalia is the only character in the series to address Luz by her full name besides Luz herself.

## References

1. ↑ The "watching and dreaming" PostHoot with the one and only Dana Terrace! (1:00:13) (April 28, 2023).
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dana Terrace's AMA. Reddit (September 2, 2020). “Amity's natural hair is brown, like her father's. Emira and Edric's hair is green, like their mother's. Mrs Blight likes her children to be... Color coordinated.”
3. ↑ Dana Terrace's AMA. Reddit (September 2, 2020). “We haven't seen much of these characters outside of school but I like to think that Boscha's mother and Amity's mother have a tense rivalry from childhood and they're still trying to one up each other with the accomplishments of their children.”