Monty Williams

**"Monty" Montgomery Williams** is a timid but well-meaning teenage Human who accidentally stumbled upon a portal to the Boiling Isles in the Demon Realm along with Luz Noceda, a dimension where magical creatures are real, and humans are despised and treated as lesser beings.

Monty begins learned magic under Eda's guidance, despite not having magical abilities of her own, and enrolled into Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. However, in the epilogue, it is shown that Monty is leaving to university to study psychology instead of enrolling into the University of Wild Magic like her friend Luz Noceda.

## Appearance

### Body

Monty is a fourteen-year-old American girl with pale skin, dark brown long hair kept untied and her bangs swept aside along with two strands of hair in front of her ears, and forest green eyes. She's skinny and somewhat tall for her age, standing half an inch taller than Luz. Like all humans, her ears are round instead of pointed.

### Clothing

Her casual clothing consists of a deep purple, short-sleeved shoulder-exposed top with a sleeveless black tank top underneath, a dark gray skirt cut just above her knees, black tights and white sneakers. Monty also wears a pair of bronze earrings. When she is in nightwear, her pajamas consist of a short-sleeved pale pink blouse and matching pale pink short pants with white stripes.

Monty's Grom dress is a high-necked sleeveless dress fashioned by one of Eda's clothes she accidentally bought with the size too small. It was altered short in length, up to her knees, and dyed dark blue. She also wore a pair of black slip-ons and had her hair tied into a low bun.

When at Hexside, Monty's school uniform consists of a gray tunic with a dark gray belt, cowl, and her white sneakers. As part of the Abomination Track, her sleeves and leggings are a greyish-pink color.

## Personality

Monty is easily pictured as the shy and quiet type when she is first introduced alongside Luz in the first episode. She cares a lot abut her friends, not wanting to let Luz endure the boring Reality-Check Camp by herself and signing up alongside her, even though Monty had no opinions on the camp itself. In the beginning, she is viewed to be the opposite of Luz's outgoing nature, preferring to be left alone and keeps her thoughts to herself. Unlike Luz, who was seen as an outcast, Monty was often ignored by her classmates and peers.

She dislikes getting into trouble and always discourages Luz from disobeying the rules, but this drags her into Luz's antics instead. Monty lacks the necessary confidence to stand up for herself, choosing to stay quiet and let people walk over her. She is also shown to be indecisive and is unable to make her own decisions without asking someone else for their preferred option, the reason being she doesn't want to make anybody disappointed or let anybody down. Monty also has a poor habit of bottling up her emotions which leads to her snapping at others accidentally, an example was at 'Keeping up A-fear-ances' when Lilith and King were talking about how uncaring their parents were, Monty snapped at them saying they were lucky to even have parents.

Having no parents or family she can return to, this makes her self-sacrificing when she is stuck in a dangerous situation. An instance would be in 'Young Blood, Old Souls' when Monty urges Luz to escape to the Human Realm while she stayed behind to help Eda, because she has no one to return too while Luz has her mother.

Despite her negative qualities, Monty is a helpful and kind-hearted girl, putting everyone else before her. She is intelligent when it comes to studies, creative and a quick-thinker in dangerous situations. She is observant and was the first one to notice Amity's crush on Luz, but kept it to herself and playfully teased Luz instead.

## Background

### Early life

In the episode 'Eda's Requiem', it was revealed that Monty is actually an orphan. Her mother died when she was born and her father drove off when he was tasked to take care of her. She was then put into Grace Hearts Orphanage for the entirety of her life, attending the same school as Luz, and Camila Noceda acting as her surrogate mother.

### Arriving at the Boiling Isles

Monty debuted in The Owl House during the first episode, walking to Luz's house and revealing she was attending the Reality-Check Summer Camp with her to make it less boring as it seems. Camila Noceda then gives Monty the task to make sure Luz doesn't get in trouble, to which she laughs and agrees. While waiting for the bus to go to the camp, Luz spots an owl taking her Good Witch Azura book and chases after them, ending up in an old rundown house, where she finds a portal and is teleported to the magical world of the Boiling Isles in the Demon Realm.

When she gets there she meets Eda, known as the Owl Lady, as well as for constantly evading the law, who in order to escape from the guards takes her and Luz to the Owl House, where she meets Hooty and King. After escaping from the Warden Wrath by wanting to retrieve King's "crown of power", and remembering Luz's mother's promise, she decides to stay at the Owl House and learn magic with Eda, to which Eda agrees.

### Life in the Demon Realm

During her first days in the Boiling Isles, Monty complies to Eda's chores and duties reluctantly, including selling potions all over Bonesborough. Luz and Monty do not fare too well in this endeavor, realizing that Humans are not well liked in the Boiling Isles. When they go to sell the last potion they ends up in a huge fantasy castle, where they meet a wizard named Adegast, who convinces them to go on a mission in search of the Celestial Staff that can only be wielded by "The Chosen One", and thus free the Islands from an ancient evil. Monty immediately rejects and leaves, leaving Luz to take the mission instead. When Luz returned, she was shocked to learn that Luz took the quest, and lightly scolded her for it.

Monty often stayed in the Owl House with Eda, not accompanying Luz on her adventures in the Boiling Isles until much later. She once again lightly scolded Luz for sneaking into Hexside, but shows slight interest in studying magic afterwards, which Luz cheers. She is also against the idea of Luz being on a banned poster, shocked at how Eda celebrated over that matter.

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## Relationships

### Luz Noceda

Luz is one of Monty's first friends, having approached her in the first day of her school in the Human Realm. They have been best friends ever since, with Monty following her around everywhere. She admires Luz's ability to be determined and headstrong all the time, and being the mature one, Monty takes responsibility in Luz's actions. She also tends to scold Luz for running off recklessly on her own, but it never shakes their friendship. Monty supports Luz all the way, being there by her friend's side if she needs to. Luz was also the first person she told about her complicated past, but that was only after she questioned Monty on how she got her Palisman on Palisman Pairing Day. She trusts Luz wholeheartedly, and is always there to (try) and keep her out of trouble. Monty is also Eda's apprentice alongside Luz.

### Eda Clawthorne

Eda is Monty's mentor. Monty was initially wary of Eda, since she was running from the Emperor's Coven, but grew to like her. To Monty, Eda is like a surrogate mother of some sort, a parental figure she was missing in her life. Because of that, Monty feels indebted to Eda, helping her out whenever she can for letting her live in the Owl House along with Luz for the time being. Unlike her friend, Monty is completely okay with Eda's teaching, complying to her weird lessons and work duties every once in a while.

In "Agony of a Witch", Luz and Monty go to great and dangerous lengths to cure Eda of her curse when they discovers that her elixir is starting to fail. When they are captured by Lilith, Eda comes to their rescue and furiously attacks Lilith, both for kidnapping Monty and Luz, and upon finding out it was her who had placed the curse on her in the first place. When Lilith threatens Monty's and Luz's life, Eda is forced to use all of her remaining magic to save her, at the cost of succumbing to her curse, possibly forever, despite Monty's and Luz's pleas for her not to. After Lilith drags Eda away, Monty attacks Lilith with her Abomination glyph, but is easily overcome; when King asks after Eda on her return to the Owl House, Monty comforts Luz while her friend is crying; she also discovers the cloak that Eda had knitted for them using Witch's Wool, that she'd previously claimed she needed for protection against the Emperor's Coven guards.

In "Young Blood, Old Souls", Monty, Luz, and King break into the Conformatorium and fight their way through to Eda's cell where Luz and Monty manage to get through to her. When Eda tries to send them away, Luz insists that they're a family and have to stick together, surprising Monty; Eda tells them to go back to the human world where they'd be safe, Monty rejects and tells Luz to go instead, looking for a way to free Eda. When Eda is raised to the stage for her petrification, Luz and Monty isn't ready to let her go and Eda is forced to push them off, leaving her in floods of tears once she's gone. At the end of the episode, when Eda is returned to normal, Luz and Monty is elated and offers to help Eda learn magic her way after her ordeal left her bereft of her powers.