The Owl House/Characters/Luz Noceda

Luz Noceda

Voiced by: Sarah Nicole Robles

"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?"

A teenage girl who discovers a portal to the Boiling Isles, where she studies with Eda as a witch-in-training. Towards the end of the first season, Dana Terrace stated that Luz is Bisexual, Afro-Latina, and Neurodivergent, specifically having ADHD.

A-C

 * Affectionate Nickname: Is called "Mija" by her mother Camila.
 * All-Loving Hero: Luz is the kind of person who has kindness and compassion toward just about everyone she meets.
 * Battle Trophy: Downplayed. She kept a piece of Emperor Belos' mask that she chipped off as proof that he can be beaten.
 * Befriending the Enemy: In "Lost in Language" Luz tries to befriend Amity as a way to bury the hatch between them, only for the latter rebuff the former attempts. However, Amity starts to grow fonder of Luz after they fight together against a corrupted children's book character and Luz lends Amity her Good Witch Azura book.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Sweet and kind Luz may be, but hurting those she loves is a sign that someone's getting their asses whupped. "Young Blood, Old Souls" shows how terrifying she can be when she's pushed into a corner.
 * Beware the Silly Ones: While she's a goofy and socially-awkward Azura fangirl, she's shown to have a lot of untapped magical potential and ingenuity, both of which she uses to great effect in the Season 1 finale, where she spends most of the episode on a warpath to free Eda from the Emperor's clutches.
 * Big, Thin, Short Trio: The thin to Willow's big and Gus's short.
 * Boyish Short Hair: Luz has a slightly outgrown pixie cut that's just long enough to cover her earlobes.
 * Brainy Brunette: She's shown to be highly creative, a fast learner, and a quick-thinker.
 * Challenging the Bully:
 * In "Covention" she challenges Academic Alpha Bitch Amity to a witch's duel.
 * After getting fed up with Boscha bullying her and her friends, Luz challenges her to a grudgby's match.
 * Gratuitous Spanish: Being Dominican-American, Luz has the tendency of speaking Spanish sometimes, like when she's feeling overwhelming joy or anger or when talking to her mother.
 * Green Thumb: At the beginning of "Enchanting Grom Fright" she learns a spell that makes plants grow after seeing the glyph on a petal.

D-K

 * Friendless Background: Opening scenes of the series establishes Luz as having no real friends due to her "weird" interests. She has a hard time making friends even when she goes to magic school with witches more her age.
 * Genki Girl: She's an energetic and playful teenage girl who's enthusiastically learning to become a witch.
 * Gratuitous Spanish: Being Dominican-American, Luz has the tendency of speaking Spanish sometimes, like when she's feeling overwhelming joy or anger or when talking to her mother.
 * Green Thumb: At the beginning of "Enchanting Grom Fright" she learns a spell that makes plants grow after seeing the glyph on a petal.
 * I Choose to Stay: Eda originally intended to keep her promise to send Luz back home, but the young teen decided to stay and learn magic from the witch (though she has every intention of returning home to her mother at the end of the summer). Later, Luz destroys the Earth portal to stop whatever Belos is planning, thus stranding herself in the Boiling Isles for time being.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: She's all too eager to become Eda's apprentice. And in "Witches Before Wizards", she entertains the idea that she is the only human to reach the Boiling Isles for some special reason. This allows Adeghast to trick her into thinking she's The Chosen One and going on a "quest" that turns out to be a trap to lure Eda to him.
 * I Just Want to Have Friends: Due to her Friendless Background, Luz is determined to keep the friendships she has with the people she's met in the Boiling Isles.
 * Kid Hero: The 14-year-old main protagonist.
 * Kiddie Kid: She is a high school-aged teenager and has the rowdiness, wonderment, and imagination of a child at least in their elementary years. She has even played with dolls at her current age before and is interested in action figures.

L-O

 * Meaningful Name: Luz means "light" in Spanish. The first spell she learns is to create light.
 * Naïve Newcomer: Being an ordinary human girl who only recently decided to stay at the Boiling Isles, she is new to both magic and the dangers of the isles, and is often a Wrong Genre Savvy.
 * Nice Girl: Luz is weird but is also very kind, a quality that especially stands out when she's placed between Eda and King.
 * Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The nice (kind, caring, and compassionate) to King's mean (the most arrogant and violent loving) and Eda's in-between (not a Nice Girl like Luz but is also less obnoxious than King).
 * Nightmare Fetishist: She is obsessed with fantasy and all things macabre, which are some of the reasons she struggles to relate to anything in her own world. Her Establishing Character Moment is the first episode opening with a fantasy about her in-universe fanfiction character fighting against a giant monster. It's also why Luz adapts to the Boiling Isles so quickly; whereas most people would be freaked out by all of the strange things around the place, Luz is genuinely fascinated.
 * Not So Different: To her rival Amity Blight, with "Lost in Language" being partly dedicated to showing that Amity has her own vulnerable, awkward side that she tries to keep concealed, which includes also being an Azura the Good Witch fangirl.
 * Not So Similar: In "Lost in Language", Edric and Emira clearly see a kindred spirit in Luz, but the similarities between them end when it comes to compassion and empathy toward other people, which Luz has in abundance while they... don't.
 * Otaku: She makes AMVs, considers shipping to be Serious Business, and has her own Azura self-insert OC. It was also mentioned in a Reddit AMA that she's a fan of series like Hunter × Hunter, Your Name, and Children of the Sea.

P-T

 * Plucky Girl: A feisty girl who is confident in herself and refuses to give up.
 * Queer Colors: She's canonically bisexual, and this neon promo poster for the Enchanting Grom Fright episode depicts her with pink, purple, and blue colors, which are the colors of the bisexual pride flag.
 * Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux: "Enchanting Grom Fright" has Luz wearing a tuxedo with a tutu on it.
 * Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She has quite a few tomboyish traits such as typically wearing more unisex/androgynous clothes and was happy with her battle costume given from the magic-powered magazine that looked a lot like Cloud Strife’s from Final Fantasy VII as well as keeping her hair short. She has shown an interest in action figures, sports and movies about sports, is an implied Gamer Chick, and is a lover of all things macabre usually unfazed by creepy and or gross stuff. Contrasting from her boyishness though is a more girly side like wearing skirts on occasion with no qualms and even considered picking out a dress to wear to the school dance. Her fictional idol Azura is rather feminine and Luz owns a doll of her. She loves cute animals, romance and shipping, and is bubbly and sweet. Her Grom attire perfectly mixed her masculinity and femininity together, half of a suit and combat boots along with a frilly pink tutu.
 * Tuckerization: Luz is named after a friend of the show's creator, Luz Batista.
 * Twofer Token Minority: Is Dominican/Latina and bisexual.

U-Y

 * Wrong Genre Savvy:
 * Luz keeps assuming the Boiling Isles will provide a glamorous High Fantasy-style adventure, but the conflicts she runs into there are typically much more mundane or bizarre.
 * Luz wants to be a witch, not really understanding that people are born as "witches" in this setting, and she doesn't need to be one to learn magic.
 * She challenges Amity to a witch's duel based upon a situation from her favorite book series, somehow missing the significance of that situation transpiring in a place called "the Bog of Immediate Regret".
 * Played with in "Lost in Language", she expects she can make her rivals friends like Azura does. While Amity does get closer to being Luz's friend, it only happens once Luz backs off and gives her space rather than attempt to force the friendship to happen, which only causes Amity to misinterpret the motives this human has behind not leaving her alone.
 * In "Wing It Like Witches", her experiences watching sports movies has her convinced that she and Willow, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, can defeat Boscha (despite never having played Grudgby before) through the power of "team spirit". In practice, it takes far more than a positive attitude to improve their chances.