Luz Noceda

* Debut
* Uniform
* Resistance
* Earth
* Costume
* Titan Form
* Epilogue

“
I think I just realized something. I don't know why it took me so long to figure out. The only thing I've ever really wanted... was to be understood!
”

—Luz finally having a moment of epiphany

**Luz Noceda** is the protagonist of *The Owl House*. She is an eager, teenage Afro-Latina human who accidentally stumbles upon a portal to the Boiling Isles (located in the Demon Realm.) In order to prove herself as a witch, Luz begins learning magic under Eda's guidance, despite not having any inherent magical abilities of her own.

## 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 sufferes 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 to "Watching and Dreaming", she is shown to 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, matching with the rest of her friends.

### Clothing

Her clothing consists of a pair of ebony earrings, a short-sleeved half-white and half-indigo hooded shirt with cat ears attached to the hood, high-waisted jean shorts, dark gray capris leggings, and a pair of white loafers. Since "Reaching Out", she always wears Eda's grudgby letterman jacket with her outfits.

When at Hexside, her school uniform is six different colors, separated with jagged divisions. Each of her sleeves has two shades of the same color, with the lighter tones near the cuffs: mint on the right, violet on the left. Her pant legs are similarly divided, but use different hues, with red and magenta for her right leg, and blue and cyan on the left leg. Strangely, her uniform does not show the colors for the potions, construction, and beast-keeping tracks.

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, 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".

For the Day of Unity, Luz continued using Eda's jacket but switched out her main outfit for a gray shirt under her zipped-up letterman, baggy beige pants and brown calf-length boots.

After returning to the Human Realm, she wears a completely different outfit after coming out: it includes an oversized red & white t-shirt with a blue 8-bit symbol saying "OK", matching cap that had a few pins on them, a green fanny pack on her waist, blue jeans with folded ends and a patch on the right knee, and navy-blue slip-ons. Months later, her outfits alternate: the first comprises of a white t-shirt with the Rod of Asclepius on it, the fanny pack, purple sweatpants and her navy-blue slip-ons. The second consisted of baggy green pants, a purple striped shirt, and red & white sneakers with a star design on each of the sides. For both outfits, she wears a red beanie with Bi pride and eye pins while still wearing Eda's jacket. She later wore an Azura costume for the Gravesfield Halloween Festival during Halloween in the Human Realm that she kept later when returning to the Boiling Isles.

### Titan Form

As a half Titan-Human hybrid Luz, the cloak turns black with rings of bone on the outside with purple on the inside with a pink circle glyph in the middle and her hat turns black with a grey tip on top and purple on the inside too. She also gains a pair of horns similar to King and his father. Her eyes turned black with yellow pupils, and the hands and lower legs turn skeleton like.

### Grown Up

In the epilogue, Luz is slightly taller and dons a new set of clothes. She wears a dark purple jacket with a snake design and tucked sleeves, a purple and white striped shirt, baggy yellow pants that have small patches on them, and purple & white sneakers with a diamond design on each of the sides. She wears Amity's eclipse necklace and now has a second earring on her right ear.

## Personality

Luz is a kind-hearted, outgoing, eccentric, and exceedingly geeky girl, who possesses a strong love of fantasy and adventure. She is an extremely optimistic person who always attempts to see the best in others, even in past enemies. She is eager to find her place in the world and be accepted for who she feels she truly is. She is clever, creative, and a quick thinker, capable of coming up with solutions to problems on the fly, but if she has too much on her mind, she can be oblivious to things like, initially, Amity's crush on her. Luz has also been shown to utter small phrases in Spanish when experiencing certain bouts of emotion.

Luz is determined to be who she wants to be regardless of the opposition she receives. However, her remarkably headstrong personality has also landed her in trouble on a number of occasions. As noted by Hunter in "Hunting Palismen", Luz has a tendency to rush into dangerous situations without always thinking things through. This is translated in the Boiling Isles by way of occasionally disobeying Eda and getting into trouble. Despite this, Luz is intelligent and surprisingly introspective when she allows herself the room to breathe.

Multiple times Luz has shown herself to be exceptionally brave and heroic, risking her life on a number of occasions to protect others, especially those she loves. She does not tolerate when others take advantage of their positions in life, regularly standing up for herself, those who cannot do so themselves or inspiring them to as seen against the likes of Boscha at school and Belos' oppressive rule on the Isles. In addition, when provoked enough, Luz is capable of great rage and being quite formidable as an opponent. This was seen during Eda's attempted execution at the Conformatorium, where Luz entered a state of despair-induced aggression capable of not only appearing to empower her magic, but even striking fear into veteran members of the Emperor's Coven such as Warden Wrath and Eda's sister Lilith Clawthorne and earning the praise of Emperor Belos himself.

However, behind much of her optimism and creativity, 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. This has also left Luz afraid of basic interactions with most other humans, especially those her age, as was demonstrated when she initially assumed Vee's companions from camp to be bullies that would pick on her, before being left dumbfounded when it was revealed that they were her friends. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", it was implied that Luz also was bullied by other kids for her inability to fit in, which possibly served to reinforce her fear of other teens.

In addition, 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.

Arguably, Luz's devotion to her loved ones also serves as her greatest weakness, as she is constantly placing their burdens on her shoulders and blaming herself whenever she believes that her actions have hurt them. This was seen when she blamed herself intensely for both Eda's capture by Lilith and later the loss of her magic, despite Eda's reassurances that neither were her fault. This sense of guilt would traumatically increase, however, after discovering 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. Following this, Luz's optimism was increasingly worn down by the traumas she endured and the constant blame she placed on herself for them, causing her to become a much more hardened and serious person who was determined to end Belos' evil even at the cost of her own life.

By the time of "Thanks to Them", after months of being trapped with her friends in the Human Realm, Luz has become little more than a shell of her former self, with both her mental and emotional health degrading to worrisome extents, showing multiple signs of depression. By this point, Luz's earlier insecurities and low self-esteem have transformed into an intense, unhealthy sense of self-loathing, believing herself to be responsible for all of her friends' and family's suffering, to the point of furiously cursing her very existence. Because of this, the traumas she endured, and the repeated failures in returning to the Isles, all of her previous optimism and cheerfulness have faded, leaving her near constantly miserable, sullen, listless, and somewhat withdrawn, with her mood only lightening up to save face in front of her friends and not burden them with her own problems. In addition, Luz now blames herself for nearly every mistake or hindrance that she and her friends come across, even when they aren't her fault. Eventually, this spurns her into deciding to permanently remain in the Human Realm once Belos and the Collector are finally defeated, despite both her friends' reassurances and the obvious heartbreak such a choice would bring her, convinced that being out of her friends' lives is the best way to protect them from her own flaws.

However, in "For the Future", Luz's personality begins to heal following a heart-to-heart talk with her mother, in which Camila apologized to Luz for attempting to change Luz into someone she wasn't and voiced her acceptance for who Luz truly is. This not only helped bring Luz closure, but also helped her realize her heart's deepest desire: to be understood. It was through this revelation that Luz was finally able to animate and bond with her beloved palisman, Stringbean, which proved to be a major catalyst in healing Luz's damaged mental and emotional states.

Following her palisman's birth, Luz managed to regain some of her previous spirit, being noticeably more happy, playful and confident in herself once again, which continued to grow following her heartfelt reunion with King and Eda after enduring months of separation from them. In addition, Luz also retained her sense of compassion and empathetic nature, as shown when, despite all the harm the Collector had caused to both the Isles and her loved ones, she sympathized with his yearning for companionship, offering him a chance at redemption and teaching him how to establish genuine friendships with others, being very patient with him. This selfless nature was further exemplified when Luz sacrificed herself to protect the Collector from Belos' attack, highlighting how she is willing to lay down her own life to protect others without hesitation, and assuring the Collector they did nothing wrong, not wanting the child to blame himself for failing to redeem Belos.

Then, after meeting and receiving wisdom from King's father in the In Between Realm, Luz came to make piece with her previous mistakes and was finally able to let go of her guilt over accidentally helping Belos in the past. This allowed her to fully recover from the trauma that had plagued her and restored her previously eccentric, optimistic personality, which proved essential in allowing her to master the Titan's powers and defeat Belos for good. However, after the final battle with Belos, Luz demonstrated a darker side when she confronted him for the final time. During this final encounter, Luz showed significantly little emotion aside from her silent hatred of the witch hunter, as she conjured boiling rain to painfully melt away his rotten flesh, coldly ignoring his pleas for mercy, before allowing Eda, King, and Raine to finish him off for good. This demonstrated that as compassionate and forgiving as Luz can be, even she is willing to kill enemies that she deems beyond redemption and undeserving of saving.

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. She has also become much more confident in herself as she continues to pursue her dream of becoming a witch, no longer looking down on herself as she did years prior. Because of this, Luz abandoned all pretense she once held of permanently leaving the Demon Realm, instead now being able to happily travel between realms and regularly visiting her loved ones on the Isles before staying there once again to attend college.

## Abilities

### **Skillset**

* **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).
* **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.

### **Unique 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.
	+ **Invisibility**: In "Echoes of the Past", 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.
	+ **Hover Glyph**: Luz can utilize a hover glyph to break falls from high heights.
	+ **Teleportation Glyph**: After learning the glyph combination from Phillip Wittebane, Luz utilized the complex glyph combination to send her and her companions to the Head.
	+ **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. In her clash with Emperor Belos, Luz demonstrated the ability to activate glyphs remotely by tapping Eda's staff, which activated three Fire Spell glyphs she'd left on the portal, burning it to prevent Belos from using it.
* **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.
* **Magic durability** - Luz wears a cloak made from Witch's Wool, a material capable of repelling powerful spells. Eda Clawthorne made Luz the cloak.
* **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 Rayne could crush him, Luz herself was not harmed by its caustic properties.

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## Trivia

* Luz is the third human to arrive in the Boiling Isles, preceded by Philip and Caleb Wittebane over three hundred years prior.
* Luz's hoodie has attached cat ears that connect to her hood, meaning she may like cats, just like a witch.
* Luz is pronounced "loose".
	+ Interestingly, some media outlets erroneously misspelled Luz's name as "Luce" prior to the show's premiere.
* Luz has similar traits to Atsuko "Akko" Kagari from the anime series *Little Witch Academia*. Both desire to become witches despite having non-magical backgrounds, and like Akko, who is a fan of a witch named Shiny Chariot, Luz is a fan of a witch character named Azura, with the exception being Ursula (Shiny Chariot) is a real person in that anime.
* Luz is also similiar to Izuku Midoriya from the manga and anime series *My Hero Academia*. Both are desired to become heroes (for Deku) and witches (for Luz) despite having no special abilities (Deku was born Quirkless and Luz is just an ordinary human). Both are also idolized with their role models (All Might and Azura), but All Might was a real person while Azura is just a fictional character.
* Luz is the first student to study under every track of the Hexside School of Magic and Demonics, and the first human to be enrolled in Hexside.
* Luz may be a tomboy, implied physically by her short hair and some clothing choices.
	+ In "Hooty's Moving Hassle", Luz shows interest in action figures, which is most common for boys.
	+ In "Enchanting Grom Fright", Luz calls herself a bad boy.
* It is noted that in some episodes, Luz's voice changes briefly.
* Luz's bag has a sticker featuring three hearts, with one half-full. This is a common actual depiction of a health or HP bar generally featured in video games. This detail would suggest Luz be at least somewhat of an avid gamer.
* In the episode, "Sense and Insensitivity", Luz admits that she wants to be a writer, as being a witch is not a career option on Earth. She has also stated that she enjoys book fairs, because that's "where books come to life".
* Dana Terrace confirmed in a Reddit AMA that Luz is bisexual.
	+ This was teased by her interactions with Nevareth and her reaction to Emira calling her a cutie.
* Luz can flip her eyelids inside out with ease.
* In the episode "Enchanting Grom Fright", it was mentioned and shown that Luz is lactose intolerant.
* Luz is shown to be ambidextrous in various episodes such as "The Intruder" and "Adventures in the Elements"; she can draw (and presumably write) with both hands.
* Dana Terrace and Luz Batista confirmed in a charity Twitch stream that Luz is an Afro-Latina, similar to how her namesake Luz Batista is as well.
* As was shown in "I Was a Teenage Abomination", Luz can move her ears.
* When asked during a now-deleted Tumblr AMA if Luz has ADHD, Dana Terrace stated that she didn't write Luz specifically with ADHD in mind, but based her on the observations Terrace made of her friends and herself from high school. Later on, in an interview with YouTuber Rebecca Bozza, Terrace replied that on that she did think of Luz as neurodivergent when first writing her character in 2016, and further replied that anyone can see her with ADHD to those who see themselves in her.
* In "Hunting Palismen", it is revealed that in the Human Realm, Luz lived in Template:W.
	+ Connecticut is Dana Terrace's birthplace.
* Luz is the only main character whose name wasn't part of the title of any episode.

## References

1. ↑ The Personal Story Behind Owl House's Magical New Disney Heroine
2. ↑ Dana Terrace's AMA (September 2, 2020)
3. ↑ Dana Terrace AMA. Tumblr (December 31, 2020). Archived from the original on December 31, 2020.
4. ↑ Rebecca Bozza (April 8, 2021). Interview With Dana Terrace and Matt Braly (1:30:31). “It wasn't my intention to give Luz ADHD, and that's still the case, but it was absolutely my intention to make Luz neurodivergent. But back in 2016-2017 when I was first working on that character, I have never heard that word before. So after like, doing some research and looking up that word, just seeing it more and talking to people about it, yeah, Luz is absolutely neurodivergent. Um, and people who see her with ADHD, yeah, yeah, she has ADHD, but it obviously doesn't hinder her. It, she learns a little differently, she's very visual, and she likes doing a lot of things at once, she's interested in a lot of things, and that's a boon to her. And it's a boon to people around her who can learn to do things a little differently from her. It was always, always, always, always my intention to show someone who just learned a little differently, and that's totally cool, and actually super helpful in a lot of these situations that she uses them in.”