Eda Clawthorne

**Her family:**

* Luz Noceda (best friend)
* King
* Hooty
* Owlbert
* Amity Blight (best friend)
* Willow Park
* Gus Porter
* Lilith Clawthorne (older sister)
* Hunter
* Emperor Belos

**DuckTales 2017:**

* Scrooge McDuck
* Flintheart Glomgold
* Gandra Dee
* Launchpad McQuack
* Bentina Beakley
* Huey Duck
* Dewey Duck
* Louie Duck
* Webby Vanderquack
* Lena Sabrewing
* Violet Sabrewing
* Bubba Duck
* B.O.Y.D.
* Gosalyn Waddlemayer
* Donald Duck
* Della Duck
* Daisy Duck
* Gladstone Gander
* Fethry Duck
* Officer Cabrera
* Gyro Gearloose
* Ludwig Von Drake
* Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera/Gizmoduck
* Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck
* Zan Owlson
* Emily Quackfaster
* Zeus
* Don Karnage
* Magica De Spell
* Mark Beaks
* Ma Beagle
* Original Classics (Bouncer Beagle, Burger Beagle and Big Time Beagle)
* Goldie O'Gilt
* Faris Djinn
* Storkules
* Selene
* Penumbra
* Duckworth
* Goofy
* Rescue Rangers (Chip, Dale, Gadget Hackwrench, Monterey Jack, Zipper)
* José Carioca
* Panchito Pistoles
* Kit Cloudkicker
* Molly Cunningham
* Gene the Genie
* Manny
* Lil Bulb
* Tootsie
* Butterbear

**Amphibia:**

* Anne Boonchuy (best friend)
* Sprig Plantar
* Hop Pop Plantar
* Polly Plantar
* Frobo
* Mrs. Boonchuy
* Mr. Boonchuy
* Domino
* Sasha Waybright
* Marcy Wu
* Leopold Loggle
* Wally Ribbiton
* Sadie Croaker
* Archie
* Captain Grime
* General Yunan
* Lady Olivia
* King Andrias

### Likes

Human stuff, apple blood, bad girls, shiny objects, individuality, Hexes Hold'em, money, body-swapping, bragging to her sister, being sassy and rebellious

### Dislikes

Dating, her body parts falling/breaking off, school, covens, *The Good Witch Azura*, babysitting, witches eating babies/kids, her curse, garlic, Luz in danger, Luz and King Comedy Hour, being alone

### Paraphernalia

Owlbert (owl palisman)
Portal (formerly)
Lute

### Quote

"I'm Eda the Owl Lady. The most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles."

**Edalyn "Eda" Clawthorne** (also known as "**The Owl Lady**") is the deuteragonist and one of the eleven main characters of the animated series, *The Owl House*. She is a powerful rebellious witch, who Luz befriends and takes her on as her apprentice.

## Background

Eda is known as the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles. But due to her rebellious nature, she is pretty much an outcast/criminal who has a great number of enemies - some of which who are business rivals or ex-boyfriends. She is the sort of teacher that would not only throw someone into the deep water but also set the entire lake on fire.

Eda makes a living selling human treasures at the markets, and sometimes homemade elixirs and potions. She also happens to be a collector, as she keeps most of her human treasures at home. However, she lacks any knowledge and experience on the stuff she sells or keeps. For example, she refers to a TV set as a "black shadow box that reflects only sadness", mistakes batteries, paperclips, deodorants, and buttons for human candy, and mistaking anime movies as workout videos.

She has been known to have occasional short-lived boyfriends. Many monsters and demons will use any methods necessary to capture her, so they can ask her out on a date. Eda always turns them down and in return, her ex's will either try to insist or kill her. She even has the same issues with business rivals.

She is known as "The Owl Lady", due to having been cursed to become a giant and feral owl-like creature, though she managed to counter this with an elixir that prevents her from transforming.

### Physical Appearance

Eda is a tall, slender middle-aged woman in her mid to late forties. She has ivory skin, pointy ears, maroon lips, and golden eyes. Her untamed hair is long and thick and is layered with two tones of gray (originally orange when she was younger). She has a single golden fang, orange claw-like nails, and an oval amber gem on her sternum. After splitting the curse between her and Lilith in "Young Blood, Old Souls", her gem becomes blackened, her left eye becomes gray, and she gains a white streak on the left side of her hair.

She wears a sleeveless two-tone maroon dress with a ripped-like hem design and gray leggings. Her jewelry consists of two orange spherical earrings and an amber spherical ring. For footwear, she wears maroon high-heeled boots. Her nightwear consists of a plum sweater with amber cuffs, a stained, long, violet nightgown, and light yellow worn out bunny slippers.

In Season 2, she gains a new two-tone maroon dress with a ripped-like hem design on the front, and darker sleeves.

### Powers and Abilities

* **Magic:** Eda is extraordinarily skilled in witchcraft, proclaiming herself to be the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles. As such, she has enough expertise that she is qualified enough to educate others on the subject. Since Eda never joined a coven, there is no seal limiting her to only one type of magic. Like all witches, her connection to magic comes from a sack of magic bile attached to her heart. As of "Young Blood, Old Souls", her magic is heavily crippled due to her curse. Because of this, Eda began learning to use magic through glyphs.
	+ **Fire Magic:** Eda can summon flames with the snap of her fingers. She can produce fire in all forms, from lighting candles simultaneously in "A Lying Witch and a Warden" to conjuring streams of flame in "Witches Before Wizards". Eda can also grasp balls of fire, as seen on her wanted poster and "Covention".
	+ **Water Magic:** Eda can summon water from the palm of her hand.
	+ **Earth Magic:** Eda can summon pillars of earth to protect herself from attack and trap opponents. The tops of the pillars have owl faces similar to Hooty and are large enough to swallow enemies whole.
	+ **Light Magic:** Eda can create small orbs of light.
	+ **Mystical projection:** Eda can twirl her hand and make a glowing glyph-like symbol to project imagery through it.
	+ **Magic platform:** By slamming the Owl Staff on the ground, Eda can conjure a magical platform for others to travel on.
	+ **Portal creation:** Eda can create a pair of short-range portals one at a time, and whatever enters the first portal will exit out the second portal.
	+ **Force field generation:** She can create and maintain force fields powerful enough to withstand boiling rain and scorching heat.
	+ **Magic trap creation:** Eda can conjure landmines that do elemental damage, ranging from bursts of flame to gusts of wind and even dirt spikes.
	+ **Invisibility:** Eda can make herself invisible using a glyph combination inspired by Luz. However, this spell only lasts as long as she can hold her breath.
	+ **Body Swapping Spell:** Eda was shown in one of the episodes to use a spell to swap bodies with King and Luz.
* **Staff:** Eda owns a magic staff that helps focus her magic and serves as her main mode of transportation. Owlbert, the staff's palisman, can come to life and detach himself, which Eda mainly uses for retrieving items from the human realm.
* **Invulnerability:** Eda has survived things that would seriously injure or kill a normal person. So far, she has survived decapitation from Warden Wrath without dying, then later took a direct blast of fire from Lilith without being burned.
* **Dimensional Storage:** Eda occasionally uses her hair to store items, usually books and scrolls.
* **Curse:** According to Eda, she was cursed as a pre-teen and had no memory of who did it or how it happened until it was revealed in "Agony of a Witch" that it was her sister who did it. As a consequence, she must regularly consume a golden elixir to keep it at bay. Whenever Eda doesn't take her elixir, she transforms into a giant, scary owl-demon, hence her nickname, "The Owl Lady". In this form, she has a feral mind and can quickly climb and punch through walls, but is sensitive to bright lights and retains her fascination with shiny objects. Additionally, she cannot perform magic while in this form. Any living thing she consumes in her cursed form will be regurgitated in a giant owl pellet when she returns to normal. When partially transformed, a part of herself remains intact, making her partially suggestible. In this state, she can understand and respond to commands and can recognize anyone she knows. By "Agony of a Witch", Eda's curse worsened and the elixir she took became less effective, forcing her to strongly limit her use of magic to keep the curse at bay. Her curse eventually overcame her when she used all of her magic to save Luz, seemingly turning her permanently into the Owl Beast. In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Emperor Belos restores Eda's mind while still in her Owl Beast form, although, given how she became feral again when Luz found her in captivity and didn't regain consciousness until recognizing Luz, it is implied that she can turn feral again when under stress and/or anger. After escaping Emperor Belos, Lilith used a spell to reduce the curse's effects on Eda by sharing it with her, turning her back to her normal form but also leaving her unable to conjure magic.
	+ **Limb autonomy:** As a side effect, the curse has caused Eda's body to fall apart. However, the separated parts remain active and within Eda's control. Eda can also reattach her body parts without ill effect, making her immune to dismemberment.
	+ **Cursed magic:** The curse has also had an effect on Eda's magic aside from weakening it. When she played the lute in "Eda's Requiem", her cursed magic caused everything and everyone around her to shrivel and die, including almost herself.
	+ **Harpy form:** by embracing the curse in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Eda obtains a harpy like form that is a cross between herself and the owl beast. In this form, she has silver wings and black sclerae, with yellow irises. She maintains her red dress, but her arms, neck and a portion of her head become the same shade of red as the dress as well. Her ears are notably larger than her normal form, and their size is halfway in between her normal form and the owl beast form's ears. She has grey bird-like feet that bend in a different way than her normal form. She appears larger than normal, and has a strikingly different voice. Unlike her owl beast form, Eda is fully concious and in control while in this form, and can transform back and forth between her witch and harpy forms on command.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Her large silver crowned hair combined with her large yellow eyes make her slightly resemble an owl, which is fitting for her title. She also sleeps in a nest instead of a bed, coughs up pellets, and is attracted to shiny objects. These all contribute to the theories of why Eda was called the Owl Lady before her curse was revealed.
* Eda's hairstyle, as well as her personality, are somewhat resemniscent to that of Ryoko Hakubi from the anime series *Tenchi Muyo!*
* Wendie Malick likened Eda to her character from *Just Shoot Me*, Nina Van Horn, due to their similar personalities and the way they dress.
* Following the events of "Lost in Language", Eda has begun to display symptoms of Empty Nest Syndrome. While obviously meant as a one-off joke, the fact that Eda is an owl may also be the case for this.
* While her height is unknown, the episode "Once Upon a Swap" gives a slight indication that she is at least under 6'5" tall as she wears high heels and her hair makes her look 7'5" tall.
* Eda shares many similarities and is most likely based on, the legend of La Lechuza. In Mexican folklore, La Lechuza is a woman by day, but an owl by night. In some legends, Lechuza was a witch who had sold her soul to live forever. In other versions, Lechuza was a woman who lost her child and was cursed to be an owl. Based on the various tellings, Lechuza would either simply curse someone who gazed eyes at her or would snatch away or even kill children who came near her.
* She's also a tiny bit similar to Remus Lupin of the *Harry Potter* franchise, given that both were tricksters in their youth and turn into a fully fledged monster if they don't take their potion. Additionally, Eda's alias of "Lord Calamity" and the secret room of shortcuts she created may be a nod to the Marauder's Map.
* Eda once implied the curse causes her looks to age faster (given she originally had bright orange hair); at one point, she saw her reflection and noted "*Man. This curse is getting bad."*
* According to Dana Terrace, Eda once went to Las Vegas and "wasn't impressed".
* On the secret commentary for the *Gravity Falls* box set, Grunkle Stan describes his ex-wife (who robbed him only a few hours after marriage) as having "hair like an airline stewardess", "a neon pink shirt that said; Over thirty and very flirty", "pale bingo-hall skin" and "one weirdly sharp tooth". The description suspiciously matches Eda, implying that she is the ex-wife he mentioned and explaining why she disappeared adding that her hair and name, "Marilyn" were both fake. In "Yesterday's Lie", Eda is revealed to have been known as Marilyn in the human world.
* So far, Eda has only been absent in "Through the Looking Glass Ruins".
* Eda is shown to have feelings towards non-binary character Raine Whispers, in turn confirming her as LGBTQ+. This makes Eda the third main character in a Disney-related production to be LGBTQ+, after Luz and Loki Laufeyson.
	+ She is also the third LGBTQ+ main character in her own show, following Luz and Amity.

## External Links

* Eda Clawthorne on The Owl House Wiki
* Disney Wiki