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I will be talking about the character Luz from "The Owl House"

Hey there my loyal readers, today I will be continuing from my last Owl House post where I was talking in depth about the 3 main characters who live in the Owl House. In this post I am going to talk about Luz Noceda in the first episode of The Owl House.

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Luz Noceda is a typical teenage human girl. When we are first introduced to her Luz is portrayed to be quirky, as she demonstrates her book report with a doll and snakes. Luz is in the principal’s office when we see her with a doll and a couple of snakes in one of her hands. Luz’s mom is also there, she tells Luz in a gentle but firm manner that Luz needs to ‘grow up’ in a sense. Luz is reminded of why she has been in the principal’s office three times before now, and we see that Luz is very… in the nicest way possible, creative.

Luz is shown to have been in the school play of Romeo and Juliet and by the dialogue she seems to have been Juliet, saying “Oh happy dagger, give me death!” and she pretended to stab herself with a spork. But she also seemed to tear the dress open a bit and sausages fell out as her intestines as Luz played dead.

Another instance is during an unknown class, Luz made a model of a baby griffin, but she made it as taxidermy, using what looks like a pigeon and a squirrel, Luz also says in this flashback, “Now for the final anatomically correct touch, spider breath.” Luz opens the pigeon’s beak and spiders come out of the mouth, all the other students scream while Luz seems to be unfazed and is curious why everyone else is freaking out.

The next instance shows Luz at cheer tryouts, where a girl does a backflip and Luz says as a response, “You think that’s impressive? Check this out.” Luz then flips her eyelids inside out. Honestly people who flip their eyelids inside out kind of freak me out. Like cool, you guys can do that but your skin is the way it is for a reason.

Then it cuts back to Luz currently being in the principal’s office for her book report. Luz is then told again by her mom that “..If you can’t learn to separate fantasy from reality, you may need to spend the summer here.” And Luz is shown a pamphlet for a summer camp called Reality Check Summer Camp. I’ll be honest watching this for the first time, that hurt. To have your mom tell you in front of the principal that if you don’t shape up, she’s going to send you to a Summer Camp where you learn to stay inside the box.

I felt bad for Luz. Luz then tells her mom that she’ll stop being weird, then the snake she holds in her hand jumps at the principal and bites him, and Luz asks out loud, “That doesn’t count right?” Then I became slightly confused because the next cut shows Luz with a messenger bag backpack standing outside a house which is shown to be where she lives when Luz’s mom comes walking out. So what I’m confused about is because, in the following pieces of dialogue, it’s revealed that Luz is being sent to the Reality Check Summer Camp, so does that mean that the book report was an end-of-the-year kind of project? Or was this a time skip and we just assume that Luz did something else that influenced her mom to send her to this summer camp? While watching the series again, I haven’t found any evidence in the show that gives a definitive answer. But moving back on track, Luz’s mom tries to help Luz see the bright side of this. I think it’s sweet but also just twisting the knife, Luz didn’t want to go to this camp, and her mom is trying to get Luz to see the bright side by saying, “Learning to appreciate public radio” I’m sorry but how is that a plus?

Anyway, Luz tells her mom what she likes to do instead of the examples of what her mom suggested she would be doing at this summer camp, “I like editing anime clips to music and reading fantasy books with convoluted backstories.” When Luz said what she liked to do, I instantly felt a connection. Luz suddenly became relatable to me. Then her mom said this and I felt so sad for Luz, “Mija, your fantasy world is holding you back. Do you have any friends? Real ones, not imagined, or drawn, or reptilian. Summer camp is a chance to make some friends, but you need to try.” I felt sad that Luz didn’t have friends, I would love to be her friend. I even remember saying that out loud to Luz as if she was in the same room.

But I also just want to try and explain things to her mom, because she did have a point, going to summer camp is a chance to make friends, but at least send her to a summer camp where she’ll have fun. I personally have never gone to summer camp. My summers were always with my family, and we would usually go camping, to the beach, or sometimes we would just stay home. But I always wondered what it would be like to go to a summer camp, then I remembered one big reason I could never bring myself to ask my mom if I could go to a summer camp, I would be homesick real fast. But to get back to Luz, as she tells her mom what her actual interests are she takes out a book from her bag. After her mom said that Luz’s fantasy world was holding her back, Luz walked over to their trashcan that was out on the curb and open. Luz’s mom says that she has to try and make friends and asks Luz if she can do that, I could hear Luz’s soul die just a little when she responds, “Yes, mom.” These two simple words but depending on the inflections and how these words are said have many meanings. Now I may have exaggerated slightly about Luz’s soul dying, but she did sound defeated. Luz’s mom leaves for work after giving Luz some kisses on her forehead and tells her to be careful and to text her mom when she gets to the camp. But I was happily surprised when Luz’s mom spoke Spanish, because that made me connect with Luz’s character a little more.

Almost immediately after her mom leaves Luz goes to grab her book out of the trash but finds it missing and freaks out slightly. Luz looked slightly up to see that a distance away behind the trashcan was a little owl with a sack in it’s beak. Inside the sack was Luz’s book and she chases after the little owl. Luz follows the little owl through the door of an old house in the woods near where she lives. And this is how Luz traveled to the Demon Realm, specifically onto the Boiling Isles. But I will remind you guys, as I describe these events about Luz, this is the first episode and introduction to the show.

I took the time to go more in-depth about this specific part of the first episode for a reason. Luz is one of the main characters if not the main character of the show, and this part of the pilot plays a key role in how the show truly begins.