Luz Noceda is the main protagonist of The Owl House.
She is an eager, teenage Latina human who accidentally stumbled upon a
portal to the Boiling Isles in the Demon Realm, a dimension where
magical creatures are real, and humans are despised and treated as
lesser beings. In order to prove herself as a witch, Luz begins learning
magic under Eda's guidance, despite not having magical abilities of her
own.
Luz is kind-hearted, outgoing, eccentric, geeky girl. She is eager to find her place in the world and be accepted for who she feels she truly is. She is seen as an outcast on Earth due to making herself seem strange and difficult to engage with by her peers, school staff and her own mother, leading to her having no friends besides imaginary ones or reptilians.
Luz is determined to be who she wants to be regardless of the opposition she receives, even if said opposition has legitimate backing. She is proven to be remarkably headstrong, and her excessive determination and refusal to show conformity lead to her social life and school performance stagnating. This is translated to the Boiling Isles by way of disobeying Eda and getting into trouble.
Despite this, Luz is intelligent and
surprisingly introspective when she allows herself the room to breathe,
seen in quieter scenes, such as when showing Amity Blight how she can
perform spells by drawing associated glyphs on paper. Despite being
typically cheerful and good-natured, Luz knows when to draw the line, as
shown after King insulted and discarded her ideas in the episode Sense
and Insensitivity. Luz has also been shown to utter small phrases in
Spanish when experiencing certain bouts of emotion. 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 Amity's crush on her.
However, she is
not entirely self-assured as she actually has underlying self-esteem
issues mostly regarding school, calling herself a screw-up and
suggesting she belongs in the trash. Luz 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 Amity and Boscha. After Eda is captured and
essentially sentenced to execution, Luz enters a state of
despair-induced aggression capable of not only appearing to boost her
magic, but even striking fear into veteran members of the Emperor's
Coven such as Eda's sister Lilith Clawthorne and earning the admiration
of Emperor Belos himself.
After causing several problems at her
school because of her book report, which involves live snakes, her
mother Camila decides to send Luz to a Reality Check Summer Camp to
straighten out her wild imaginative personality. While waiting
disappointedly for the bus to go to the camp, she chases a little owl
who picks up her favorite book that she threw to the trash before, and
ends 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 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 realizing how unsatisfying her life in the camp would be, she decides to stay at the Owl House and learn magic with Eda, to which Eda agrees.
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