The Owl House/Characters/Amity Blight

Amity Blight

Voiced by: Mae Whitman

"You know, I used to be like you, Boscha. Obsessed with status, challenging my competition, but I grew up. When will you?"

A gifted witch who is the top student in Willow's former "Abominations 101" class. While initally antagonistic to Luz and Willow, she eventually warms up to them. In her Reddit AMA, Dana Terrace confirms that Amity is intended to be a lesbian.

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 * The Baby of the Bunch: Defied. Amity is the youngest of the Blights, but she acts more mature than her older siblings.
 * Badass Bookworm: "Lost In Language" reveals that she spends a lot of time volunteering at the local library and she even has a secret hideout hidden behind a shelf in the "Romance" section. The same episode shows that she is skilled and resourceful even without relying on her magic.
 * Because You Were Nice to Me: Luz's endearing kindness and desire to be her friend, slowly but surely helps Amity open up to her. To the point that Amity is now in love with Luz.
 * Brainy Brunette: Flashbacks and pictures shows Amity once had brown hair but now most of her hair is dyed green. She's also an intelligent Badass Bookworm.
 * Cannot Spit It Out: Amity is in love with Luz, but can't bring herself to say it. This is in spite of all the obvious hints that Amity gives out. She tried to ask Luz to Grom through a letter but chickened out of giving it to her. The monster transformed into a facsimile of Luz and tore the letter in half, showing that Amity's greatest fear is getting rejected by Luz.
 * Closet Geek: Amity's library hideout has copies of the first four books in the Azura series and her diary cover has fanart based on it.
 * Covert Pervert: Has an interesting reaction when invited to join the grudgby team in "Wing It Like Witches". Upon being asked, Amity imagines "running around in cute uniforms, sweating". This causes her entire face to turn red with a blush and sprint away in embarrassment.
 * Crush Blush:
 * She blushes multiple times in "Adventures in The Elements" and "Understanding Willow." In "Enchanting Grom Fright", Amity blushes multiple times around Luz, heavily foreshadowing the later reveal in this very episode where we find out that she does indeed have a crush on Luz.
 * Taken Up to Eleven in "Wing It Like Witches", where we see her whole face go red multiple times and she blushes at least once during every single conversation she and Luz have.

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 * Easily Forgiven: Averted. In "Understanding Willow", Willow wasn't just going to forgive Amity for years of bullying on the spot just because she now knows the full story of their failed friendship. She is, however, willing to give her a chance, and by "Wing It Like Witches" (which occurs after an adequate period of time had passed) they're on better terms, though still not as close as when they were little.
 * Fangirl: Of the Good Witch Azura book series. This is how Luz manages to make a good impression on her: by lending Amity a book from the series that Amity didn't have.
 * Fairytale Motifs: Her reddish-brown roots resemble a crown, mirroring her upper-class family, her popularity among the students at Hexside, and her status as a talented witch-in-training.
 * First Love: According to Dana Terrace, the first person Amity has ever really fallen in love is Luz, complete with Crush Blush moments and Gibberish of Love when it start getting really bad. Amity acts so awkward in "Wing it like Witches" because she doesn't really know how to deal with those new emotions. Even when trying to motivate people to act against Boscha, Amity has to do a few Verbal Backspaces when she clearly lets slip about her crush.
 * Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She's the responsible sibling, while Edric and Emira are the foolish siblings. Edric and Emira tend to coast on their family's money and power, whereas Amity constantly puts pressure on herself to succeed at all costs.

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 * Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Contrasting with Luz's Tomboy with a Girly Streak, Amity is the far less "boyish" of the two and definitely has a very brains-over-brawn mentality, but she was also the former captain of Hexside's grudgby team and is shown to have not lost her skill in the sport, and is more than capable of throwing hands if prompted- such as when she utterly brutalizes Hooty offscreen after he gets into her face.
 * Goth: Just about everything in the Boiling Isles is varying levels of Goth, but Amity's the one with the right look, age, and attitude for a classic Goth teen. She regularly wears black nail-polish, and in the season 2 intro, Amity is shown wearing a black dress.
 * Green and Mean: Subverted. She has dyed green hair, and acted like a bully to Luz and her friends but eventually had a Heel Realization and slowly Took a Level in Kindness.
 * Insecure Love Interest: In addition to all of her pre-established insecurities, "Enchanting Grom Fright" reveals that she has developed feelings for Luz and her biggest fear is being rejected by her.
 * Insufferable Genius: She may be arrogant, but she is the top student for a reason. She can summon her abominations effortlessly, which took the rest of the class quite a bit of effort to conjure. However, she's also one to rub it in everyone else's faces how much better she is, as evidenced by her Establishing Character Moment where she undermines Willow's project.
 * Interspecies Romance: By "Enchanting Grom Fright", Amity, a member of a Witch Species, wants one with Luz the Human.
 * Ironic Name: Amity means "friendship", but she's not particularly friendly at first. Of course, if her second appearance is any indication, her first name paired with her last name - Blight, which is any disease that kills plants - might stand for Friendly Enemy.
 * Another dose of irony is that she did have a friendship with Willow when they were children, so the name wasn't even ironic once upon a time, and even then the fact that they are no longer friends when introduced wasn't even Amity's choice as her parents forced her to end her friendship with Willow.
 * And yet another piece of irony is that she eventually comes to wish she was more than just friends with Luz, but remains just friends with her because she's terrified of rejection.

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 * Laugh of Love: The only times she's ever really shown laughing are in Luz's presence. In fact, one of their first truly positive interactions together was her laughing at one of Luz's jokes.
 * Lesbian Jock: Is the former grudgby captain and has a crush on Luz.
 * Lipstick Lesbian: The traditionally feminine Amity quickly develops a strong crush on another girl after really getting to know her but is afraid of being rejected as seen in "Enchanting Grom Fright".
 * Not So Different:
 * "Covention" shows that she's just as passionate about magic and becoming a witch as Luz, with the two even being fans of the same book series. The main difference between them is that she's lost her innocence after years of hard work to reach the top. "Lost in Language" takes it further, with both of them viewing the other as a bully due to negative first impressions, only for both to concede that there is more to each other than meets the eye and that they both have things that they need to work on. They're also fans of the Good Witch Azura series, with Luz handing Amity the fifth book as the first step in befriending her.
 * "Hooty's Moving Hassle" shows that she and Willow are not so different either: while Amity has developed a massive ego and Willow has developed negative self-esteem, both of these opposite reactions stem from a feeling of insecurity at living up to others' expectations of them in regards to their magical skills, and they both tend to get worked up in their desire to prove themselves.

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 * Pink Is Feminine: Besides her school uniform, she also wears pink in both her casual and grom outfit.
 * Playing with Fire: She learns to shoot fireballs while training with Edric and Emira.

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 * When She Smiles: Her genuine smiles are very adorable, especially when she is around Luz.
 * Worthy Opponent: Despite initially despising Luz, Amity respects Luz's drive to improve herself and her ingenuity when it comes to magic. In a strange twist this ends up causing Amity to fall for her.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Amity's hair is dyed green, which contrasts with her siblings' naturally green hair.