The Owl House/Awesome

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General
 * Luz is a walking moment of this. She's confirmed to have ADHD and identifies as bisexual, but is a human. She thus lacks the bile sac that would allow her to do magic the normal way. What does Luz do? Find a new way to cast spells. It becomes a game-changer in season 2 when Eda and Lilith discover what combining glyphs can do, Amity learns to use them in a pinch, and even Hunter casts them at a crucial time.

Season 1
 * "A Lying Witch And A Warden:
 * When it seems Eda is cornered, beheaded, and coerced into going on a date with Warden Wrath, she distracts him by giving him a refusal while her body and Luz team up to handle the guards. Luz grabs Owlbert and the staff, experimentally trying spells to fly out of there. Eda sighs and says, "Can it, magic staff." Owlbert speeds up, and Eda helps Luz free all the prisoners.
 * Eda and King shoo Luz away on Owlbert, saying that it's more important for the powerless human to get away than for the two to sacrifice an innocent person. King cheerfully says that Eda's last "boyfriend" was much worse than this one.
 * Luz then rallies the escaped prisoners that they need to standup to those that want to stamp out their weirdness. She says, "Us weirdoes need to stick together!" and that they can stop the Warden. Cue one of the coolest jailbreaks ever, with Luz firing her book report fireworks into Wrath's mouth.


 * "Witches Before Wizards"
 * Doubling as a heartwarming moment, but Eda and King track down Luz in record time when they realize that she was led into a trap.
 * Adegast captures Eda and King when they come to rescue Luz, and starts strangling them. He puts Luz in a hallucination where all the "Friends" she made on her journey encourage her to submit to his will and believe this fantasy. Luz breaks out of it with sheer Heroic Willpower.
 * Luz had the sense to pack one of Eda's toy swords to go on her quest. When she fights Adegast, it's surprisingly effective.

Season 2


 * "Yesterday's Lie"
 * Vee and Luz call a truce when Luz covers for the shapeshifter and then calmly asks for an explanation of why this mysterious girl took over her life. Since Luz doesn't have a way home, and Vee doesn't have anywhere to go, they agree to keep each other's secrets.
 * When Jacob captures Vee and forces her to reveal her true form, Vee tells Luz not to get Dr. Noceda. She says that Camila wouldn't understand, and Luz would be busted. Luz says nuts to that: she alerts Camila to the situation because rescuing an innocent person is more important than maintaining the lie.
 * We see where Luz inherited her strong sense of justice to help the helpless. When Camila realizes that Luz is not playing a game and that this is a real magical situation, she registers that Jacob is about to dissect a scared girl as a gagged Vee gives pleading eyes. Camila takes off her chancla, beats Jacob soundly, and leaves him in his own cage. She quickly makes sure that Vee gets the cards needed to revive her magic. Only then does she start berating Luz for lying to her and escaping from Earth to pursue a "witch fantasy".
 * "Them's The Brakes, Kid"
 * Doubling as a heartwarming moment, given this is Terra's only decent onscreen interaction with Eda, she refuses to kill Eda and Raine when they refuse to fight to the death for her behalf. Instead, she decrees that no one gets a ribbon, but will talk with Principal Faust so that Eda can complete her schooling at Hexside. Eda treats it as getting immunity and starts planning chaos with Raine.
 * Turns out Raine is not brainwashed! They were faking it, using their ability to modify liquids to keep their memories intact. And Darius claimed they were terrible at acting.
 * "Hollow Mind"
 * Credit to Hunter, despite being furious that Luz got him trapped in Belos's mind, he agrees to a truce when Flapjack via walkie-talkie reveals that he went to Eda and King for help. And he whispers to Flapjack, "I love you" after Eda explains they're creating a counter-potion. "Aww!" as Luz and Eda put it.
 * It didn't work out the way that Luz intended, and Hunter laughs that she intended to interview him to get dirt on his uncle considering he is loyal to the bitter end, but she convinced at least one important person that Belos is evil. Namely, Hunter when he sees the truth firsthand. More importantly, she got the proof about the Day of Unity and what exactly it entails.
 * Raine, Eberwolf, and Darius escaped from Hunter's arrest thanks to Luz getting trapped instead within the Emperor's mind. When Hooty puts the Owl House under lockdown, Raine gets an idea: they disguise the right potion as a bouquet of flowers and a card, with instructions on how to use it. Eda might not have accepted the gift, but Hooty does because he's a romantic, letting it into the Owl House. And to top it off, Raine risked blowing their cover to Eda about being brainwashed.
 * One thing about Belos; you have to admire that despite being a few hundred years old, he remembered "Luzura" and recognized her as Luz the human in the Boiling Isles when she appears as the Owl Lady's apprentice. Belos decided to keep her alive until the Stable Time Loop happened. When Luz tells Belos that she's going to reveal to everyone he's a human witch hunter and she can't believe they followed a liar, he reveals his former self to her. To prove it, he shows memories of their past encounter and addresses her by her "Luzura" moniker before switching to Luz. It's the only time in the series that Belos had called her "Luz" rather than "human".
 * It seems to be the end of the line. Belos has cornered Luz, who lacks glyphs, and breaks her spirit by revealing that he used to be Philip Wittenbane. He then reveals casually that he is human, and it is his intention to rid the world of "evil" -- that is, all the residents in the Boiling Isles. Staring death in the face, and realizing that she enabled a man about to perpetuate genocide, Luz responds: "No, you're evil." Brave kid.
 * Hunter has been buried alive in Belos's mindscape, after learning that Belos isn't his uncle, lied to him about everything, and didn't actually love him. He was also holding onto Luz's Grudgby jacket, packed to the brim with glyphs. What does he do? Use them to create a wall of vines to protect Luz, lift himself up from the mindscape before he can suffocate, and helps clear a path to the walkie-talkie, where Eda creates the exit portal. It's not until they're safe in the Owl House that he panics when all of the implications settle into his mind.
 * "Edge of the World"
 * Lilith suggests that Hooty go with King and Luz to investigate the beings that sent the letter to King. She says that Hooty is more than up to the task of handling any threats to the children. Hooty then proves this by going on the offensive to rescue King from the Titan trappers, as well as shield the two from a deadly fall.
 * The Titan Trappers reveal that King is more than what he initially thought he was. Far from being the King of Demons, he is the Lost Son, a Titan. It means he is basically a child god.
 * "Labyrinth Runners"
 * For the first time ever, Hunter directly defies the Emperor and Belos's orders by rescuing Gus from Graye, pulling him into one of Gus's illusions. Even he can't believe what he did when they stop to catch their breath,
 * Willow versus the Coven Guards is a Curb Stomp Battle, which one even cheerily notes as a Graceful Loser. Amity keeps trying to protect Willow out of guilt, and Willow loses it. She catches a falling bookcase, saying she doesn't need protection, she needs a fellow fighter! The two end up striking a Sailor Moon pose and duke it out with the rest of the guards, sending them running.
 * Bump finds out that the Illusion Coven Head was going to brand his students unwillingly, and his rage knows no bounds. He evacuates as many students as possible while admiring Gus's illusion work. Later, he storms the gym when Hunter reveals that Graye took Gus hostage, leading the students on a charge, and Willow realizes that Hunter is telling the truth.
 * The way that Hunter identifies Severine as an impostor when she poses as Willow. He tells her to get away from Gus, because "The Captain" is not scared of anything. Even Gus couldn't figure it out because he trusts Willow innately.
 * After they scare Graye and the Emperor's Coven, Hunter tells the kids and Bump the truth about the Day of Unity. He's accepted he's no longer on the Emperor's side and has to undo his uncle's lies.
 * "O Titan, Where Art Thou"
 * The heist to rescue Francois almost goes off without a hitch. Eda and Luz successfully infiltrate the warehouse with the Owl House items, and she seems to find the bunny.
 * Raine and Darius's Xanatos Speed Chess when the Emperor's Coven arrests Luz and Eda. They intercept the delivery to the Conformatorium and escort them instead to the CATTs hideout. Raine apologizes for scaring them.
 * "Clouds on the Horizon"
 * Darius has thought long and hard of a plan to undo the Draining Spell. Everyone agrees that while his plan is risky and could go wrong in a number of ways, it's the best option they have, to have Eda take Raine's place after receiving a sigil and using her curse to block the spell. As we find out in the next episode, it would have worked if Terra hadn't smelled a rat.
 * King convinces Alador to switch sides, merely by informing him what the Day of Unity really involves. When Alador frees the children and confronts Odalia, he says he cannot tolerate a world where innocent witches die and fight both her and Kikimora head-on. Also, he quits and seals the deal by blowing up their factory.
 * One for Luz. While captured with her friends, she whispers a desperate plan to Gus after Kikimora lets it slip that the Emperor figured out the Owl lady was involved. Gus then puts an illusion on her and an unwitting Hunter after Alador frees them all, so that she appears as Hunter and vice-versa. To ensure that Kikimora goes for her, Luz-as-Hunter gives an uncharacteristic raspberry, taunting the lady to grab her. And it works!
 * "King's Tide"
 * Gus casts an illusion over the entire airship, providing a window of opportunity for Hunter and Willow to defend against the Emperor's Coven. They still crash, but that's by bad luck more than incompetence.
 * Alador holds off the Emperor's Coven guards to buy time for Amity and her friends to storm the Emperor's castle. He gives her a kiss on the forehead and reassures her that he'll be fine, even as the eclipse approaches.
 * Kikimora delivers who she thinks is Hunter to Belos. Belos uses magic to push her out of his chambers and approaches the Abominoton prison orb. Turns out he already knew that she captured Luz instead.
 * Round two of Luz versus Belos goes relatively better. She uses invisibility glyphs to get behind him and starts combining them for fireballs and icicles. He even notes that she learned it in weeks, while it took him years. Yet he casually dispels her icicles, remembering what she did last time, and grabs her. Four hundred years of experience doesn't go away in a flash.
 * As he petrifies Luz, she quickly comes up with a plan: point out that four hundred years have passed on Earth, no one believes in magic, and he'd be way out-of-date with his values and clothes. Belos realizes that she has a point, while also knowing that Luz would never willingly be his guide. She begs for her friends' lives instead, saying she'll guide him if he spares them. Luz makes him shake on it, and takes the opportunity to brand him with his own sigil.
 * It ends up being King and not anyone else that defeats Belos indirectly, by freeing the Collector. King knows that it's risky, given his nervous expression, but he figures out that the Collector is a kid. He says he knows a great game, but it needs lots of players. If he frees the Collector and agrees to teach him the rules, the Collector will end the Draining Spell. The Collector agrees when King offers a pinkie swear.
 * The Draining Spell starts, and Hunter feels his sigil draining him. Nevertheless, by being a Grimwalker, he lasts much longer than the regular witches do. What happens during that time? He helps the others fight off Belos. When Belos attempts to manipulate him by shapeshifting into his human face, Hunter says, "You're lying!" Remember this is the same kid that blindly followed his uncle even when seeing evidence of his war crimes and deception.
 * Collector Vs. Belos is over in a matter of seconds. The Collector saves the kids from Belos, casually saying that their game doesn't seem to be fun. Belos goes Oh Crap and backs away, saying he's glad the Collector is free as planned. The Collector calls bull because Belos tossed him into the caverns before the castle, but asserts they're not mad. They start a game of tag. "I'm it," they say before smashing Belos into goop.
 * When King reminds the Collector of their deal, the Collector casually eyes the moon and the dying witches. "Boop!" they say, moving the moon out of the eclipse like it's an icon on a computer touch-screen.
 * Luz was prepared to stay and deal with whatever chaos the Collector brings to the Boiling Isles. Sure, she knows that King is a Titan and can help her build another portal if he wishes, but Eda and the CATTs are still out there. But to keep her friends safe, she uses vine glyphs to stabilize the crumbling portal and makes a one-witch stand.