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“ | So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome, don't you see? [...] Because us weirdos have to stick together! And nobody should be punished for who they are! | „ |
~ Luz rallies the Conformatorium's inmates with Eda's motto. |
“ | 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 relizes what she truly wants while Stringbean hatches her from egg. |
“ | Do not underestimate me, Belos! For I am the Good Witch Luz! Child of the Human Realm, Student of the Demon Realm and Warrior of Peace! NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA! | „ |
~ Luz during her final battle with Belos, quoting the Good Witch Azura. |
Luz Noceda is the main protagonist of the 2020 Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
She's an optimistic and imaginative Afro-Latina teenage human girl, who accidentally stumbles upon the portal that takes her to the Boiling Isles, an archipelago made from Dead Titan, where all residents have magic. Seeing this, Luz begins to study magic to prove herself as witch, despite not having magical abilities on her own.
She is voiced by Sarah Nicole Robles, who also voiced Judy in Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer and Scarlet from Star Darlings.
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 suffers 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 of "Watching and Dreaming", she is shown to be taller, 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.
Clothes[]
For her usual outfit, Luz wears a dark blue shirt with a hood with cat ears that has a large white stripe running through it. She wears gray shorts, black tights and white shoes with beige soles. She also wears black stud ear piercings. For the latter part of Season 1 and some episodes of Season 2, she dons the cloak of witch's wool Eda made her, being a dark blue cloak with a gold button. Following the events of "Reaching Out", Luz always wears Eda's grudgby letterman jacket, being a brown jacket with beige sleeves, a black collar and cuffs with a white line and a yellow star and a red letter E emblazoned on it. Said jacket also has black pocket slits.
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 on the right leg, 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". In "Thanks To Them" her nightwear consisted of a bluish-gray t-shirt with a lighter horizontal stripe, dark blue pants with gold trim and a star pattern on the left leg, and pink socks.
During the C.A.T's rebellion against Emperor Belos, Luz wears Eda's jacket with a teal inner shirt, as well as poofy brown pants and boots. She also has a small ponytail tied up with a purple hair tie.
During the first episode of Season 3, Luz wears an orange beanie with a light blue pin with a darker eye on it, as well as a pin of the bisexual flag. She continues wearing Eda's jacket (which has a darker beige patch on the right sleeve), a light blue shirt with a white stripe, long brown drawstring pants and red sneakers with white details and stars on the side.
For the rest of Season 3, Luz dons a Halloween costume, being a cosplay of Azura. She wears a white witch's hat with a dark teal interior and a golden tiara with a blue gem. She wears a white tunic with a dark blue collar with a yellow star, dark blue tights and white boots with a gold bottom, black soles and are lilac in between. She also carries a light brown side pouch.
After receiving the Titan's power, Luz's sclerae turn blackish blue and her pupils become golden, with her hair becoming longer and dark purple. She grows a pair of fangs, horns, and dons a black, furry witch's hat that has an orb of light at the top, a dark blue interior and a gray tip resembling King's tail. She wears a furry black coat with a glowing yellow glyph on her chest, bone-like armor pieces on her midsection, hands and tips of the coat, with the coat having a light grey trim. She also wears light grey pants with bone-like armor that resemble the Titan's feet.
During the epilogue, Luz now wears additional black ring piercings on her ears. She wears a dark blue collared shirt with snake motifs, an inner shirt similar to the one she wore at the beginning of Season 3, as well as Amity's eclipse necklace. She wears orangey-brown pants with patches, including two with symbols of a beaker and music note, as well as white shoes with purple tongues, dark blue soles and stars on them, overall resembling Azura's colour scheme.
Personality[]
“ | Luz is a Noceda. You know what that means? It means she's way too stubborn to let any of this get her down. | „ |
~ Camila described Luz to encourage her fellow Hexsquad. |
Luz is an energetic, eager, fun and weird girl who is ready to discover and find new possibilities. She's also adventurous and will take things into her own hands. Luz is an outsider at school, as she does weird and creepy stuff a lot. As such, she has been to the principal's office many times and feels more at home in the Boiling Isles.
Luz is a very excitable young girl. With a high fascination for all things fantasy and a knack for adventure, Luz is very outgoing and willing to hop into anything thrown her way. She sometimes has trouble looking before she leaps, but always manages to somehow land on her feet. In "A Lying Witch and a Warden", Luz describes herself as someone who enjoys "editing anime clips to music and reading fantasy books with convoluted backstories" while in "The First Day", her aura is described as "strong and silly like a baby's laughter".
However deep down, 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.
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.
As the series goes on, Luz's mental health would slowly crumble, which started when she blamed herself intensely for both Eda's capture by Lilith and later the loss of her magic, but while Eda reassures her that it wasn't her fault, this sense of guilt would slightly increase when she shows her Mom that she's been living in another world and accidentally gave the impression that she ran away, which made her sadly promise to stay with her, but the biggest point of her sense of guilt traumatically increasing is when she discovered 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. Which all comes to a breaking point where, after the Collector is freed and start wrecking havoc, Luz attempts to hold open the portal to rescue Eda, but King ends up sacrificing himself instead, which utterly devastates her to her core.
During her return to earth, Luz is at her psychological worst, having gone from a girl with boundless optimism and happiness into a cold, self-loathing person. Spiraling even more into her guilt, only genuinely smiling when consoling someone else and with Amity being her happy and joyful self, she decides to permanently leave the Demon Realm once the Boiling Isles are saved, as she's convinced it's the best she could do for everyone.
Thankfully, with acceptance from her Mom and hearing wise words from The Titan, Luz is able to finally forgive herself and move on from her guilt from helping Belos, allowing her to finally defeat him for good.
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.
Powers and 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.
- Invisiblility: 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.
- Safety Hover: Luz can utilize a hover glyph to break falls from high heights.
- 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 Raine could crush him, Luz herself was not harmed by its caustic properties.
- 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.
- 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).
- Intelligence: While not the best student and acting somewhat air-headed at times, Luz is rather intelligent and, owing to her creativity, is capable of coming up with numerous schemes and plans in short amounts of time. Notable examples of this are when she uses plant and light glyphs to create a fake Selkidomus to fool the Golden Guard, when she orchestrates the "kidnapping" of Kikimora and Raine (only foiled by Kikimora's betrayal and Terra's deduction), and when she successfully brands Belos by hiding a nearby branding glove with an invisibility glyph.
- Charisma: Luz is a skilled speaker and has been shown to be able to convince and change people through her words, with her sunny disposition often encouraging others to improve themselves. This ability to convince and sway is so great, she managed to successfully trick Belos into letting his guard down by sweet-talking her way to him, allowing her to brand him and try and force him to undo the Draining Spell.
- 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.
Quotes[]
Season 1[]
“ | And that's the end. | „ |
~ Luz's first words in the series |
“ | I'm Luz. Luz Noceda. | „ |
~ Luz introducing herself to Eda for the first time |
“ | ¡Ay, que lindo! Eda, he's so cute! Who's a widdle guy? Who's a widdle guy? Is it you? Is it you?! | „ |
~ Luz upon meeting king for the first time |
“ | Do not underestimate me, Warden Wrath, for I am Luz, the human, warrior of peace. Now eat this, sucka! | „ |
~ Luz before throwing her fireworks at Warden wrath |
“ | Okay. I know you got your head cut off, and we started some kind of prison riot, but this was the most fun I've ever had. I don't fit in at home. You don't fit in here. If I stay, we could not fit in together. | „ |
~ Luz asking Eda to take her in as her apprentice |
“ | This is it, old girl. Your first day on the Boiling Isles, as a Witch Apprentice! | „ |
~ Luz during her first day on the boiling isles |
“ | I was a nobody back home. But becoming a witch is my chance to be someone. | „ |
~ Luz explaining why she wants to be a witch. |
“ | I just did magic, I just did magic! | „ |
~ Luz after triumphantly doing her first spell |
“ | I challenge you to a Witch's Duel! | „ |
~ Luz challenging Amity to a fight |
“ | I don't care what Belos is up to... because today, I'm saving Eda! | „ |
~ Luz determined to rescue Eda after being captured by Emperor Belos. |
Season 2[]
“ | ...And that's how we escaped from the Emperor. Everyone told me he was the most powerful witch alive. But look at this, Mom. I chipped off a piece of his mask! I know he's not invincible now. It's a strange feeling, having gone through so much and, not having you here to share it with. And I don't know when or how I'm gonna see you again. But I will find my way home to you. I promise. Deja una luz puesta para mí. Te quiero. | „ |
~ Luz's video recording after escaping from Belos and saving Eda |
“ | I stayed here because I wanted to learn magic, right? I wanted to be a witch like Eda and Azura. But what does that even mean? And I read stories like this. The main character always has to return home, and what? Did I expect to be a witch back in Connecticut? | „ |
~ Luz unsure on what she wants to do in her future |
“ | Everything is so crazy right now, and I have no idea what my future holds, but it would be so cool if you were in it. | „ |
~ Luz confessing her feelings to Amity |
“ | Luz: Amity Blight, do you wanna go out with me? Amity: Yes! [Laughs.] Luz: Okay [Unsure of what to do now, Luz timidly holds out her hand and Amity takes it into her own.] Luz: Why is this still so scary? Amity: I don't know. |
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~ Luz and Amity after working up the courage to ask each other out |
“ | Luz: Yes! I've learned so much... Staying here was the best decision I ever made. Camila: You... [Getting angry.] chose to stay there? Luz: Oh, uh... Camila: Were you trying to live out some witch fantasy? Did you... did you hate living with me that much? [Turns to look at Luz with a hurt expression.] Luz: Mama, no! [Luz is then dragged back up by the rope she is attached to. Cut back to the In Between Realm.] Luz: No. [Pulls herself down on the rope.] Not yet. Not... yet! Mom! [Luz drops the hovering cube. A wide shot of the In Between Realm reveals Camila's face on many of the cubes. Cut back to the human realm.] Luz: I'm being pulled back! Camila: Baby? No, no, no, no, no, no... [Luz is pulled back further.] When you come home, promise you'll stay here. I didn't mean to push you away. I swear things will be different. Luz: [Starts tearing up.] Mom, it's not you, it never was! Camila: Promise me, Luz... please! Luz: [Sad expression.] Okay, Mom. I promise. [Fades away from view.] |
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~ Luz accidentally giving off she ran away from home, and sadly promising to leave the Demon realm (forshadowing her later decision) |
“ | No, no, no! You're Belos! You're just Belos!!! | „ |
~ Luz utterly shocked and in denial after finding out that Belos is really Philip Wittebane |
“ | Oh, crikey. | „ |
~ Luz after sharing her first kiss with Amity |
“ | Luz: We gotta stick together. We gotta stick together! King: [Contemplates for awhile.] I'm sorry, not this time. But I can keep you safe. Luz: [Tears start to drip down her face.] No! King Luz, I'm so happy I had you as a big sister. WEH!! (echoes) [King deeply inhales and uses his sonic shout, losing his grip to Luz and causing her, Amity, Willow, Gus and Hunter to get knocked into the portal and Human Realm altogether.] Luz No! [Runs back towards the door.] King! [Luz runs back to the portal to get king, but it quickly closes, and when she opens it again, she realizes to her horror that it no longer works] |
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~ Luz before being blasted back into the human realm by king |
“ | Hey Mom, I'm back. | „ |
~ Luz reuniting her mother |
Season 3[]
“ | Who cares about the ripple effects?! He was just a pawn in someone else's game, a-and he was never smart enough to realize it. If his friends and family knew about his mission, they'd know that their lives would have never been in danger if it weren't for him. They should hate his guts, and it would have been better if he literally never existed! | „ |
~ Luz's heroic breakdown and rant about how she genuinely feels about herself right now |
“ | Dear Diary, all I ever wanted was to be good at something, to be around people who also liked that something. And when I found the Demon Realm, I-I thought, "Wow, I found it. I can learn magic. I can be a witch. I-I won't be the dummy in the principal's office anymore!" But I messed up too much and put everyone in danger. Mama says I have to learn from my mistakes. So, I know what I have to do now… On Halloween, after the Hayride, I'm telling everyone I'm staying in the Human Realm. Permanently. | „ |
~ Luz's video diary entry and plan to permanently leave the Demon realm forever. |
“ | Amity: Um, Luz. What did Belos mean when he said you helped him meet The Collector? I mean, that was a lie, right? Luz: No, it was true. [walks away] If it weren't for me, the Day of Unity would have never happened. There was this time pool, and I met him. I met him when he was still just Philip, and I taught him the light spell. I introduced him to The Collector. I set everything in motion. I'm sorry, everyone. |
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~ Luz confessing that she helped Belos meet the Collector |
“ | Luz: But... Hunter: You were tricked. That's what Belos does. He tricks people. But if it weren't you, it would have been someone else, and then there'd be no one left to fight back. So let's do that. Let's fight back. Please? For Flapjack? Luz: ...For Flapjack. |
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~ Hunter assuring Luz that she has nothing to blame and convincing her to save the isles |
“ | We're gonna rescue everyone from the Archives and SAVE the Boiling Isles! | „ |
~ Luz's attempt to rally everyone in hexside against the Collector |
“ | She's a snake shifter! Her name is Stringbean, and she's PERFECT! | „ |
~ Luz introducing stringbean to everyone |
“ | King: Weh? Luz? LUZ! [King happily pounces towards Luz while laughing and crying happy tears, causing her to fall backwards. ] Luz: Hey, buddy! [chuckles] [Eda stands up and looks over at them.] Eda: Is this— real? Is that Luz? [Eda starts crying happy tears and exclaims in delight, running over to the duo.] Eda: Are you both really here? Luz: Get over here, you witch! [Eda rushes over and kneels down right next to Luz and King, hugging them both tight and squealing in pure happiness. She then kisses them both and the reunited trio hug each other blissfully]. |
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~ Luz after reuniting with Eda and King |
“ | Eda, King. Looks like we're gonna be split up again. I feel like I should be used to this feeling by now, but... I still don't know what to say. | „ |
~ Luz's last words before her death |
“ | Oh. I know what I should have said... I should have thanked them. | „ |
~ Luz before being rescued by The Titan |
“ | Oh, Titan. | „ |
~ Luz after meeting King's father |
“ | I'm back! I - wait - Uh. Couldn't keep me away from - Hang on. Ugh! I still can't think of anything to say! | „ |
~ Luz after being ressurrected and given the Titan's powers |
“ | And that's how we saved the Boiling Isles. Well, as much as we could. We were so relieved to see everyone safely released from the Archives. They were spared the worst of it, at least. Because of that, everyone got to reunite with their families and loved ones. And if someone thought they had no one waiting for them, well, they were in for a nice surprise. Still, there was a lot of work to be do... And not everyone was keen to change things, but we were ready to give it a shot. All of us. As for the Collector, he and I made a pinky promise to keep trying our best. He said he had a lot of growing up to do, so he decided to return to the stars. No one argued, but I think I heard King whisper, "I hope I see you again." We got our happy ending, but I realized something in that moment. When the Titan had finally passed on, so did the powers of the glyphs. I had learned the Titan's language, but now I had no one to speak it to. It had helped me find my place when I had no other way. In my heart, I'll never forget it. A whole chapter of my life was over, but a new one was just beginning. | „ |
~ Luz's narration after slaying Belos and saving the Boiling Isles |
“ | Eda, King, thank you. For everything. | „ |
~ Luz thanking Eda and King, while also finally telling them what she was gonna say 4 years earlier |
“ | They're nearly gone... Okay everyone, on the count of three. One, two, three… BYE! | „ |
~ Luz's last words in the series. |
Trivia[]
- Her name translates from Spanish as "light", while her surname from Spanish means "grove of walnut trees".
- According to Dana Terrace, the creator of the show, she was named after Luz Batista, the show's animator and storyboard artist, with whom Dana was very close to, and at same time Dana said that much of Luz's background based on her own (like both being bisexual and losing their fathers and young age) and she likes telling her story through Luz's adventures.
- She's Disney first bisexual main character, as all other bisexual characters in Disney animated series have minor roles.
- Her outfit during "Thanks to Them" resembles her beta-outfit prior to the show's release, as it was meant to have a darker tone before it was toned done, which reflects on her mental-health & self-loathing throughout the episode.
- Furthermore, Luz donning an Azura costume at the end of the show somewhat represents that she has reached similar heights as her idol, even surpassing her in many ways.
- She is the second main character in a Disney show to die & get resurrected after Anne Boonchuy from Amphibia, with both coincidentally presumably taking place in the same multiverse.
- It's revealed that for most of her life, Luz actually had long hair and only changed her hairstyle to her current one after she attempted to cut her hair with a toy sword.
- Luz is ambidextrous as seen from her drawing glyphs with both of her hands.
- Luz apparently has rather poor hygiene as she turns down Eda's quitters' badge "until she stops showering", claimed that braces were for storing candy to Gus and in one of the storyboards, claimed that she hasn't showered in a couple days.
External Links[]
- Luz Noceda on the Pure Good Wiki
- Luz Noceda on the Disney Wiki
- Luz Noceda on the The Owl House Wiki
- Luz Noceda on the Guile Heroes Wiki
- Luz Noceda on Wikipedia
- Luz Noceda on the Shonen Heroes Wiki
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