Vee

Vee in Basilisk Form

**Vee** is a character of *The Owl House*. She is a basilisk from the Boiling Isles in the Demon Realm, who after escaping from the Isles, shapeshifted into a doppelgänger of Luz Noceda and currently lives with Camila Noceda in the Human Realm.

## Appearance

### Body

Vee has a small, chubby serpentine body with two arms, and a tail in place of legs. Her face is round, with wide eyes and a turned-up nose. She has a catlike mouth in a "W" shape, with two small teeth poking out from her bottom jaw. She has pale, swamp-green scales with cream-colored spots on her head, tail, underbelly, and the bottom half of her face. There are tufts of navy-blue hair on her head, neck, and ears. Her eyes consist of yellow-gold pupils, black irises, and aqua sclera. She has off-white fins or tufts of hair on the sides and tip of her tail.

In Vee's disguised form, her silhouette is almost identical to Luz's, save for clothing and hair. Her hair is put up and smoothed down far neater than Luz's is, with a noticeably thicker sheen. The top does not stick up to one side, as it is clipped down by hair barrettes.

In Vee's partially disguised form, she mostly resembles her disguised form, except she has her basilisk ears and eyes. There are two spots underneath each of her eyes, which resemble those of her true form, a spot on the back of each hand, a spot on the back of each ankle, and spots around her ears.

### Clothing

Vee has a dull peacock-blue ring piercing on the left side of one of her tail tips.

When she first assumed Luz's form, Vee wore the same outfit. Later, she started wearing an air force-blue hoodie with darker cuffs, a mustard-yellow shirt underneath with a white collar and a pair of black buttons at the neck, Prussian blue leggings, and white sneakers with silver-gray laces and soles. She has a single yellow hair barrette on each temple.

When partially disguised, she dons a camo-green winter hat with cat ears and paws, and a pair of massive yellow-tinted cat-eye sunglasses.

### Additional features

Vee has nictating membranes, a second set of eyelids that close vertically in her true form, which manifest in her disguised form in times of stress.

## Personality

Vee is shown to be rather insecure about her identity as a basilisk, and is fearful and wary of strangers. However, she became more comfortable after shapeshifting into an impostor of Luz. She then started living with Camila, easily deceiving her and others into thinking she was the real Luz for months. As the impostor, Vee is shown to be laid-back, opportunistic, and more toned down compared to the real Luz.

## Background

Vee was part of a batch of basilisks that were brought back from extinction by Emperor Belos along with the help of his coven, in order to study their ability to extract magic from living beings. Labeled as subject Number 5, Vee was put through various experiments where she was forced to extract magic from living creatures until they were completely drained, which she heavily detested doing. Eventually, she and a few other basilisks became fed up with the inhumane tests and escaped, going into hiding afterward.

While in the market one day, Vee spotted Luz when she first met Eda at the Human Collectibles stand, and covertly, Vee crawled through the portal in Eda's tent while the crowd was distracted. Entering on the other side of the portal to the Human Realm, Vee turned into Luz on instinct as soon as she heard Camila approaching her, and after learning that the woman was Luz's mother, Camila offered to give her a ride to the camp. Vee was surprised by the kindness from Camila and the prospect of having a real life, so she decided to continue the charade as Luz and went to the camp in her place. At camp, Vee made friends with a few kids and wrote letters to Camila telling her about her time there.

## Relationships

### Camila Noceda

After Luz went to the Demon Realm, the young basilisk snuck into the Human Realm and assumed Luz's appearance, living with Camila ever since due to her kindness. Camila was completely unaware of Vee's true identity until "Yesterday's Lie", when she was captured by Jacob Hopkins. However, after learning of Vee's true identity, she still offers her a place to stay at her home, calling her a strong girl.

### Luz Noceda

When Luz tried to see her mother, she was shocked and scared at the idea of someone pretending to be her. However, after learning the truth about Vee's past, Luz felt great sympathy for her. Vee felt resentment towards Luz for running away, as the latter's life seemed happy compared to the former's own, unaware of the circumstances that made Luz so miserable.

When Vee was captured, however, Luz immediately called her mother to get her to save her, and Vee thanks her later on.

### Jacob Hopkins

Jacob was spying on Vee and caught her, thanks to a camera he installed, claiming that she was a monster from Mars. Jacob felt no emotion towards her as he stated he was more than willing to cut her open and sell her to the government for the sake of proving his theories were true.

## Powers and abilities

* **Magic absorption:** As a basilisk, Vee is capable of absorbing and feeding on magic.
* **Shapeshifting:** Vee is able to change her shape into anything she chooses, however, she needs magic in order to utilize the ability.