List of The Owl House characters
This is a list of characters featured in the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House, created by Dana Terrace.
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Luz Noceda
Luz Noceda is a 14-year-old Afro-Dominican-American girl from Gravesfield, Connecticut who ends up on the Boiling Isles and becomes Eda's apprentice and a new exchange student at Hexside Academy. Luz loves all things fantasy and magical, wanting to become a witch even before receiving training. She often feels as though she does not fit in, which results in poor self-worth when she messes up and a desire to be seen as special and valued, and it is implied her low self-esteem has caused her to have a guilt and martyr complex. She learns she can use magic by drawing glyphs that she sees in the environment and through spell circles witches cast to do magic. After becoming an official student of Hexside, she is disappointed upon learning students are not allowed to study more than one type of magic. Later, however, with help from the detention track students, Luz saves the school from a magic-eating Greater Basilisk who disguised herself as the Emperor's Coven inspector. As a result, Principal Bump is convinced mixing magic is not bad and lets the other trouble-making students study more than one track, with Luz becoming the first student officially allowed to learn magic from all tracks. At the end of season one, Luz is forced to destroy the portal, her only way home, to prevent Emperor Belos from invading it.In season two, Luz begins teaching Eda and Lilith to use glyph magic as she searches for a way home. Unbeknownst to her, there is a doppelgänger posing as her while living with Camila. She also begins to realize that Amity Blight has a crush on her, with the two of them becoming a couple in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door". Luz eventually uses a portal to see her mother, and discovers an opportunistic yet kind young basilisk named Vee was posing as her. After convincing her mother to look after her, Luz accidentally gives the impression that she wanted to get away from her, and as she is forced back to the Boiling Isles, she promises her she will come back and stay in the Human Realm. Luz eventually tells Eda and King, but neglects to bring this up to others until Amity finds her cell phone and asks what is happening with her. In "Reaching Out", it is revealed her father died when she was young, and she annually collects flowers to remember him. Luz later enacts a plan to help disrupt the Day of Unity by allowing herself to be captured by Kikimora while disguised as Hunter using Gus's illusions. Luz manages to stop the Day of Unity, but is forced to leave King and Eda behind in the Demon Realm and returns to the Human Realm with Amity, Gus, Willow, and Hunter, where she reunites with her mother.
In season three, Luz eventually returns to the Boiling Isles alongside her friends and mother. She finally gains a palisman in the form of a "snake shifter" which she names Stringbean. After reuniting with Eda and King, she also shows compassion towards the Collector, befriending him and learning King's parent, the Titan, has been aiding her through her glyph magic. When Belos possesses the Titan's heart and attempts to kill everyone on the Isles, Luz sacrifices herself to save the Collector's life. After meeting the Titan's spirit in the In-Between Realm, Luz is temporarily given the last of his power, which revives her and allows her to defeat and destroy Belos with help from Eda, King, and Raine Whispers. Afterwards, Luz is able to live with her friends and family in both the Human and Demon Realms, after the Collector creates a new, permanent portal door for her. In the series' final scene, when Luz turns 18, everybody throws a "King-ceañera" party for her, to make up for her using her previous three birthdays to help rebuild the Boiling Isles. She also learns that, while her original glyph magic died with the Titan, the growing King has developed new glyphs for her to learn.
According to Dana Terrace, Luz is named after her Dominican-American roommate, Luz Batista, a story consultant for the show, and is Disney's first confirmed bisexual lead character, a trait that she had to fight for.
Eda Clawthorne
Edalyn "Eda" Clawthorne, also known as "The Owl Lady", is the self-proclaimed most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles, and Luz's mentor. A reward has been offered for her capture due to her criminal record, which includes offenses such as selling human items, not joining a coven, and theft. Whilst Eda's approach to teaching is often chaotic and uncoordinated, she has a deeper understanding of magic than she lets on, is able to effectively perform powerful spells, and her approach is ultimately instrumental in Luz discovering her own magic. Eda attended Hexside School of Magic and Demonics when she was younger, but now despises it. While she is pleased to see Luz banned from campus following an incident, she relents upon realizing Luz wants more knowledge, and makes a deal with Principal Bump to allow Luz to attend classes, admitting that she cares about Luz and her happiness. Eda initially claims she was called The Owl Lady because of her home and possessing traits similar to owls, but it is later revealed to be due to a curse that causes her to turn into an owl beast and which she must drink an elixir daily to suppress. Over the course of season one, the elixir begins to lose its potency on her, and it becomes harder for her to keep the transformation at bay. Eda's relationship with her sister Lilith is complicated, and while they clearly care about one another, Eda is resistant to working with her under the Emperor's Coven and openly fights with Lilith to retain her freedom. It is later revealed that Eda wanted to join the coven, but was willing to give up her position since Lilith wanted it. It is later revealed that Eda was cursed by Lilith when they fought for the position, and she had been working to try and break the curse. They make up as Eda's condition worsens, and Lilith decides to share the burden of Eda's curse, lessening its effects but greatly weakening their magic and giving them two different colored eyes.In season two, Eda begins to deal with the fact that she is no longer all-powerful and initially struggles to earn money for the Owl House. With Luz's help, they manage to secure Selkigris and are fiscally secure. In "Echoes of the Past", it is revealed Eda found and took King in when he was a baby, and, while raising him, unintentionally convinced him he was the King of Demons. In "Keeping up A-fear-ances", she reunites with her mother Gwendolyn and makes amends after making her realize that she has been using holistic medicine to hide the shame of her curse. She is also reunited with fellow witch and head of the Bard Coven Raine Whispers, her ex-partner who she is implied to still have feelings for. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Eda realizes her fear of her curse has caused her to push those close to her away. After confronting her owl-beast side in her dreams, she makes a truce with it and gains the ability to transform into a harpy-like owl-creature. During the Day of Unity, Eda allows herself to be branded with a Bard sigil by the rebel group Covens Against the Throne so she can sneak in and disrupt the ceremony. When the plan fails, Raine pulls off Eda's sigil-branded arm so that she would not be subjected to the spell.
In season three, Eda and King reunite with Luz upon her return, and they work together to befriend the Collector and, with Raine's help, destroy Belos for good. In the epilogue of the series, Eda becomes a teacher at a school for wild magic and gains a hook hand.
Malick compared the character to previous roles in her career, "When I saw Eda I immediately went 'oh, that's my girl'... she even dresses a little bit like Nina Van Horn from Just Shoot Me!... I love her dress, I love her tooth... I just fell in love with her the second I saw her".
King
King Clawthorne is a small young titan with a skull-like head, and Eda's roommate who is the self-proclaimed "King of Demons". While it is not known if he truly is the King of Demons, he does have a confident and domineering attitude, which implies that he once held some greatness. He was initially frightened of Luz when he first met her, but warmed up to her when she helped him. King wants to be seen as "cool" and claims to have vast knowledge of all monsters and demons, though some of it might be based on his own false presumptions. Regardless, he is willing to acknowledge it if it was incorrect. While he is quick to poke fun at Eda, he cares about her and wants to help repress her curse. King is shown to be bossy and manipulative, but ultimately shows his heroic and caring side whenever he and his friends are in danger. His ultimate goal is to obtain followers and have absolute power, which results in him finding himself in ludicrous situations such as bringing dolls to life to do his bidding, becoming a teacher at Hexside, and using Eda in her monster form to rule a playground. All efforts usually result in him losing this "power" and things going back to normal. Despite his rambunctious nature, he cares for Luz and misses her whenever she goes out to Hexside or hangs out with others.In season two, King's origins begin to be revealed. In the episode "Echoes of the Past", King is revealed to not be the king of demons. Eda found him as a toddler on an island, being watched over by a strange amorphous creature that she managed to evade. While raising him, she unintentionally convinced him he was the King of Demons. He discovered that he had just hatched from his egg and, believing that his father was someone important, has Luz reattach his horn so he can retain some memories to look for his father. In "Eda's Requiem", he legally gets adopted by Eda and changes his name to King Clawthorne. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", King discovers that he can produce an echoing blast after admitting that he is upset about his father leaving him. In "Edge of the World", it is revealed that King is a Titan. This news affects him emotionally and he begins to question his goals; it is only through a meeting with former Coven Guard Steve that he begins to accept himself. King ends up stopping the Day of Unity by releasing the Collector, who his father had sealed away in the past. King then sends Luz and her friends away to the Human Realm to protect them from the Collector's games.
In Season Three, As King spends time with the Collector as his chosen playmate, he comes to understand that he is misguided rather than malicious and discourages Eda and Lilith from attempting to reimprison him. Upon Luz's return, King and Eda reunite with her and aid her in befriending the Collector and, with Raine Whispers' help, destroy Belos once and for all. In the epilogue, King's developing Titan powers allow him to create a new glyph system, which he begins to teach Luz.