Luz Noceda
Luz Noceda is a fictional character who serves as the main protagonist of the Disney Channel animated series "The Owl House". She is voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles. Luz is confirmed to be bisexual by show creator Dana Terrace, some calling her the "first bisexual lead character" on a Disney Channel show. In April 2021, the show’s creator also revealed that Luz Noceda is neurodivergent. Creation. According to series creator Dana Terrace, Luz is named after her Dominican-American roommate, Luz Batista, a story artist and consultant for the show. Terrace also said that Luz's character  evolved from conversations she had with Luz Batista, who later became her best friend. Later, Nancy Kanter, EVP, Content and Creative Strategy of Disney Channels Worldwide explained that while they loved the "combination of magic and mystery in this other world" of "The Owl House," they really "fell in love with the main character Luz," leading them to green-light the show itself. This connected with Terrace's hope that audiences are "entertained by Luz’s world and her off-the-wall adventures." On July 7, 2020, when responding to a fan who posted a still of Amity putting her  hands on Luz's shoulder, from a promotion for the upcoming episode "Enchanting Grom Fright" on Twitter, Terrace said that there is no heterosexual explanation for the moment. Later, on August 10, Terrace confirmed on Twitter that the episode features a bisexual character, but didn't confirm whether this was Amity, Luz, or both, but many fans assumed this referred to Luz. On September 2, during a Reddit AMA, Dana Terrace confirmed that Amity is intended to be a lesbian and that Luz is bisexual. She also stated that the relationship between Amity and Luz would be explored in Season  2 and that Luz is "oblivious to some things in front of her," including Amity's crush on her. In the same AMA, Terrace stated that Luz was Amity's first crush and that she was thrilled to see people connect to the show's characters, like Luz and Amity. Character. Luz Noceda is a 14-year-old Afro-Dominican-American girl from Gravesfield, Connecticut. She has short dark brown hair, brown eyes, and typically wears a cat-ear hooded indigo-and-white t-shirt, denim shorts, black leggings, and white shoes. Luz is very quirky, outgoing, and unpredictable. She  is a fan of the novel series "The Good Witch Azura". She loves fantasy to the point of being detached from reality and has a hard time making friends. However she still does have a heart and good intentions. In the first episode of the series her mother sends her to a reality-check camp, but she accidentally ends up going to the Boiling Isles instead through a portal in a nearby house. Due to her love of all things fantasy and magical, she wants to become a witch. She soon becomes a friend of an old witch named Eda  and a small wolf-like demon with a skull-like head named King. Later, Luz enters Hexside Academy as a new exchange student. Fictional character biography. Season 1. Luz Noceda is a young girl who has a strong love for fantasy. So strong, in fact, that it gets her into trouble. After failing her book report at school due to her outlandish presentation, her mother decides to send her to "Reality Check Summer Camp" to help her focus more on reality. To show confirmation towards her mother's wishes, she throws her copy of "The Good Witch Azura" book in  the trash. As soon as her mother leaves, however, she fishes for it, only to see it being carried away, along with other garbage, by a diminutive owl and follows it into a dilapidated house. Luz suddenly gets transported to the magical world of the Boiling Isles, specifically a town called Bonesborough. Luz is immediately taken in by a notorious witch named Eda Clawthorne and her small "roommate" King and begins to live with them at the Owl House, the series' namesake. Realizing that her life back home would be unfulfilling, she decides to stay in Bonesborough to train under  Eda and become a witch, despite the fact that she herself is incapable of performing magic. Shortly afterward, she befriends two young witches named Willow Park and Gus Porter who attend Hexside, a school that Luz begins vying to attend. She also meets Amity Blight, a snooty student who initially looks down on Luz and her friends. During her time in Bonesborough, Luz slowly learns that she can perform magic through drawing symbols on paper. Her first symbol, a magic orb that produces light, stuns Eda. In a Coven Convention, Luz challenges Amity to a witch duel, which she accepts . Amity is disqualified as she is found to have been cheating, and leaves, ridiculed. Luz finds her and offers her her friendship, and Amity, reluctant at first, allows Luz to continue her magic studies. She discovers that Eda had been cursed as a child and wants to help her try to remove it. Her relationship with Amity begins to improve when she realizes that she genuinely cares for her well-being and end up having a shared love for "The Good Witch Azura" series. Through the actions of Eda, and a little from Gus, Luz finally gets accepted into Hexside  and, contrary to the initial rules, is allowed to learn from every track after she saves the school from a Greater Basilisk. She helps Willow regain her confidence on school, and, by entering her mind, manages to discover the roots of her troubled past with Amity. She helps them both start over again their relationship. On Grom night, Luz offers to fight Grometheus, a monster that manifests as the fighter's deepest fears, instead of Amity, who was originally chosen. When she is overpowered, Amity comes to her help. They dance together while casting multiple magic spells, defeating Grometheus. Despite  having an increased confidence and security about herself, Willow keeps getting bullied by Boscha and her friends, to which Luz, Gus, and Amity decide to help. They challenge Boscha to a Grudgby match, in which, while they lose, they gain the respect and sympathy of Boscha's teammates. Luz cares for Amity in the Owl House, as she suffered a broken leg during the match. Luz attends a field trip to the Emperor's Coven and plans to steal an item to cure Eda. She ends up getting discovered by Lilith, Eda's sister who has been trying to capture  her, and kidnaps Luz to lure Eda out. They collectively learn that she had been the one who cursed Eda and has been trying to capture her, not just to cure Eda's curse, but to also have her join the coven, something Eda had long detested. Luz ends up getting sent back home after Eda gives herself up willingly to save her. Luz and King head back to rescue her from the Emperor's Coven and reluctantly teams up with Lilith after she admits that Emperor Belos plans to kill Eda, rather than cure her. Luz faces off against  the Emperor who will only let Eda go if she gives him the key to the real world, which Eda used when Luz first came to the Boiling Isles. However, Luz uses her magic to destroy it and she rescues her friends before fleeing. Lilith uses her magic to share the curse between herself and Eda, and Luz decides to help them reclaim their magic after theirs diminish. Season 2. Luz, now more adept and skilled with her glyph magic, decides to teach it to Eda and Lilith, to cope with their newfound weakness due to their curse. Eda, sensing  Luz's guilt for the recent events, tell her that her life has been better with her in it, and she feels better the situation. Luz, Willow, and Gus are expelled from Hexside, by virtue of Amity's powerful parents. Luz, attempting to help her friends be admitted back into Hexside, offers herself to the Blights as a test subject for their new product. She is saved by Amity, and their relationship continues to improve. Luz, along with her friends, are accepted back to Hexside. She learns from Eda's mother that she was not the first human on the  Boiling Isles, and heads to the library, where she learns that Philip Wittebane managed to arrive to the Isles in the 1600s. For further information, she seeks Philip's diary, which can only be accessed with Amity's help. They secretly search for the diary, with Amity showing interest in visiting the Human Realm. They find the diary, but its contents have been eaten by a mouse, angering Luz. Her outpour blows their cover, and Amity is fired by the master librarian, Malphas. Feeling upset for what happened, Luz undergoes multiple trials and challenges, and manages to get Amity's  library card back. When she goes to her house to give it back to her, she discovers Amity has dyed her hair purple. The mouse, who hitched a ride in Luz's leg, turns out to be an Echo Mouse, and Amity teaches Luz that the contents of the diary that the mouse has eaten can be replayed and seen. Amity thanks Luz for returning her card, and, as a gesture, kisses her on the cheek. Luz is rendered speechless, which prompts Amity to flee the scene in embarrassment. On Palisman Adoption Day, Luz can't create a connection with  any of the Palismen, as she is skeptical about her future and her aspirations. She decides to spend the night in the nest, hoping to bond with a Palisman. The nest is stolen by the Golden Guard, who seeks to deliver them to Emperor Belos, who needs them to hold back a curse he suffers. She learns that his name is Hunter, and that he, like herself, does not have magic on his own, relying on a staff to create spells. She manages to get him to do the right thing, and Hunter reluctantly surrenders the Palismen. She returns the  nest to the school, and back at the Owl House, Eda and King giver her a log of palistrum wood, for her to carve her own Palisman. After what happened at Amity's house, Luz is now more confident of the feelings she has for her, and wishes to ask her out in the best way possible. Hooty tries to help her, by kidnapping Amity, and placing both of them in a tunnel of love. As they traverse the river, Luz feels embarrassed at the tunnel's romantic messages, without realizing that Amity is flattered. When more messages start to  appear, Luz destroys them to prevent Amity from seeing them, as she believes she will be made fun of. However, Amity mistakenly believes that Luz is uninterested in her, and turns to leave, heartbroken. Hooty, upset at being unable to help Luz, Eda, and King with their respective troubles, lashes out, wreaking havoc in the House. Luz tells Eda that she wants to ask out Amity, so Eda and King repel Hooty from them. Luz explains to Amity that while she does not know what will happen in her future, she does know that she does want her to be  in it. Excitedly, they both verbally ask each other out, and begin dating. Luz continues to study the contents of the Echo Mouse, with the help of Amity. Luz discovers from the Echo Mouse that one of the components for creating a portal back home is Titan's Blood, which can be found in Eclipse Lake. Eda, King offer to get it for her, as she is sick. Amity tags along, wanting to prove to Luz that she is a good girlfriend for her. Luz worries for their well-being, and when they return from their perilous mission, Luz joyfully  embraces Amity, happy that she is safe. With the Blood recovered at the mission, Eda and King create a temporary portal for Luz to check on her mother, Camila, back in Gravesfield. Luz discovers that a shape-shifting Basilisk, named Vee, has been living her life back on the Human Realm, as Camila was kind and loving to her. Luz learns that Vee escaped the Boiling Isles, as her species was being experimented upon by the Emperor's Coven. With the help of Camila, Luz rescues Vee from a demon-crazed curator, and Camila allows her to stay. Luz reveals  that staying in the Boiling Isles was her own choice, deeply upsetting Camila, who believes she was pushing Luz away from her. The portal weakens, and before being pulled back by Eda and King, Luz promises Camila to stay in the Human Realm, once she manages another way to come back. Reception. Luz's character was received positively. She was described by some as a teen who "aligns herself with a witch and a demon" to fulfill her dream to become a witch, and praised her character, with some calling her a "fantasy-loving human." Others praised the plotlines of  episodes where Luz explored the magic school and met other witches of the same age, and the growing romantic relationship between Luz and Amity. In the season 1 episode "Enchanting Grom Fright," Luz and Amity dance together for the first time. Spencer Wan says that he's "never been prouder of any other board." Alex Hirsch (voice of King, creator of "Gravity Falls", and Terrace's partner) was very proud of Disney for including this scene in an episode. After it was confirmed that Luz was bisexual, actress Lili Reinhart, who plays Grace in "Chemical Hearts", welcomed the development, saying  that often people have told her that being bisexual is "a phase," and felt validated by Luz's character.