The Owl House/Heartwarming

General

 * Luz is a walking moment of heartwarming. She's definitely chaotic and a bit unfocused, but a good-hearted kid that brings out the best in witches, demons, and Grimwalkers that she befriends. And if she can't bring out the best? She will fight others at their worst to protect her loved ones. Amity even notes in "Eclipse Lake" that Luz is good at befriending people.
 * Amity's Character Development between seasons one and two. She starts out as this bully who belittles her childhood friend in an attempt to help her shape up and be a stronger witch, and is revealed that she's terrified of her parents, namely her mother for controlling her friend group.

Season One

 * "A Lying Witch and A Wardrobe"
 * Principal Hal is not a bad guy. He considers Reality Check Camp when Dr. Noceda brings it up rather than suspend or expel Luz for her pranks, dangerous art projects, or a book report with live snakes, and seems to agree that it's a good idea.
 * Dr. Noceda tells Luz that she doesn't mind her daughter's creative spirit. She just wants Luz to learn how to reign it in so as to not get summoned to the principal's office on a regular basis.
 * Eda essentially blackmails Luz into helping get back King's crown. Luz is put-out to find out it's a Burger-Queen crown and doesn't give him powers. Seeing how disappointed Luz is that this wasn't a real adventure, Eda says that King is the only family that she has. Thus, getting a dumb paper crown for him is important to her, to ensure that he's happy.
 * Eda has only known Luz for a few hours. When the Warden corners them? Eda attempts to shoo Luz with the portal back to the human realm. Then it becomes heartwarming when Luz turns around and rallies the prisoners.
 * King is actually sad when Luz prepares to return home. Then she gets a better idea: ask Eda if she can stay for the summer and learn magic from her. King asks Eda to say yes, pointing out that Luz could make them snacks. When Luz settles in for the night in her sleeping bag, King asks if he can cuddle with her. He proceeds to circle like a cat and settle near her feet.

Season Two

 * "Hollow Mind"
 * Hunter has been nothing but a jerk for most of his interactions with Luz. He's tried arresting her, executing her, and all that. Despite that, she tries to politely interview him. When they uncover proof that Belos has been making multiple Hunters, Luz reaches out with sympathy and invites him to stay at the Owl House.
 * "Labyrinth Runners":
 * Luz sent a million Tamagotchi messages to Amity, warning her about the Day of Unity and asking her to not scare away Hunter. While Amity can't decipher most of them, she can sense all is not well.
 * Gus at first is understandably suspicious of the Golden Guard being back at Hexside, finding him hiding in the condemned Panoramatorium. Then he realizes the kid has been sleeping on garbage, and looks worse for wear. Gus lowers his staff and asks Hunter if everything's okay. Flapjack has to peck at Hunter to come clean that he's on the run from the Emperor, and didn't know where else to go.
 * While the Emperor's Coven guards are ordered to brand the kids, they sound concerned when they find Hunter. As far as they know, Belos said his nephew went missing and must be in distress. They ask if he's okay, and why he isn't wearing his outfit.
 * The way that Hunter immediately knows that the Willow who said she was scared is not the "Captain" as he addresses her. As he puts it, the real Willow is not scared of anything.
 * The group hug between Willow, Gus, and Hunter. Starts with a victory hug between Willow and Gus, but then they pull Hunter into it, much to his shock. This is clearly the first time in his life he's ever been hugged.
 * Bump allows the Emperor's Coven guards to retreat gracefully. Severine walks away, taking off her mask and shouting that she quits.
 * "O Titan, Where Art Thou"
 * Lilith had the sense to leave a map disguised as garbage in the Owl House, for Luz and King to find. As she put it, the kids would have been frantic to not know where to bury her and Eda. Later, she warns Eda that Luz is going to kill her for lying that they have a plan.
 * When seeing how upset King is that the Emperor's Coven took Francois, his toy bunny, Luz says they should stage a heist to rescue Francois.
 * King is having an identity crisis now that he knows what he really is, he got what he wanted, but he isn't happy. Seeing he's down, Steve of the Emperor's Coven takes him on a therapeutic ride around the city. This allows them to come to some epiphanies: Steve quits the Coven, and King says he doesn't want to be feared anymore.
 * Eda offers to surrender to Raine, in exchange for the latter keeping King and Luz safe. She says that she'll do anything, even accept pertification willingly.
 * Raine rescues Eda and Luz under the cover of arresting them. Instead, they have the duo escorted to the CATTs hideout, where Raine fills them in on the details. Raine apologizes to Eda and Luz for the fright, while explaining their reasons.
 * As an apology to Luz for lying to her and wanting to send her and King away, Eda reveals she disguised the Palistrum wood in a toenails box, to keep it safe from the Coven, and managed to retrieve it. They end the episode carving it since Luz feels ready.
 * "Clouds on the Horizon"
 * Darius and Raine determine the only way Eda could get close enough to using her curse to undo the Draining Spell is if Eda impersonates Raine with an illusion. It also means Eda needs to receive the Bard sigil. Eda only hesitates for a minute before she declares she'll do it if it means stopping Belos.
 * Lilith back in season one wanted to brand Eda against her will. Here, she points out with shock that she could take Eda's place. She has a sigil, and the curse. Why not use her? Eda's refusal is heartwarming, pointing out that if it goes wrong, Lilith may lose control and Eda has learned to work with the Owlbeast.
 * Eda and Raine both know that her using the curse to undo the Draining Spell could kill Eda again, even if it goes right. They don't tell anyone, because it's unlikely that any of the Owl House residents would let Eda do such a thing. Instead, when Luz asks Raine to protect Eda, Raine promises. Eda also tells Luz, in case it's their last time, that she's always wanted to sacrifice her principles with a bang.
 * Luz's Palisman is almost ready. It's revealed to be... an egg. Luz expresses that she wants the Palisman to choose its identity, the way that she chose hers as a witch. Eda marvels at how Luz is always full of surprises.
 * After storming Blight Manor, Willow helps Luz find the kids' bedroom. She rises in via vine glpyh just in time to see Amity frantically fixing the Tamagotchi, and saying that if Luz were here, she'd give a Rousing Speech about not giving up in the face of utter despair. Luz cheerfully says she would say all that, and calls out to her "sweet potato". Amity is so happy to see her that she sweeps Luz into her arms and gives her The Big Damn Kiss. Luz isn't the only one to have said, "Crikey!" afterward.
 * Darius's orders were to strictly get the Blight kids out of the Manor and to the Catts hideout. Amity asks, however, if they can try to find her father and talk to him about the Day of Unity. Luz agrees, because it's for Amity.
 * Amity ends up being right that Alador is reasonable. A disguised King, put on lookout duty much to his dismay, follows a trail of snack wrappers and juice boxes to where Alador is complaining about the unfair work conditions, how Odalia fired his team and made him work while sick. King lies that he's on snack break, and hears out Alador's frustrations. Alador tells "Mr. Scout" that when the Day of Unity is over, he will be a better father. He changes his tune when King tells him what the Day of Unity really involves, storming to the factory to confront his wife, free his daughter and her friends.
 * When Kikimora gloats about the Emperor breaking Hunter in two, Luz shouts You Leave Him Alone. Then Kikimora reveals that Belos knows about the CATTs' plan to stop the Draining Spell. Thinking fast, Luz whispers a plan to Gus. Turns out she planned to have him disguise her as Hunter, to spare him from being captured.
 * As Hunter puts it at the end of the episode, he never would have agreed to have Luz take his place as Kikimora's captive. He knows that Belos also wants her dead.
 * "King's Tide"
 * The CATTs kids, plus Alador, are driving the airship as fast as they can to rescue Luz from Kikimora and Belos. Amity and Willow are trying not to panic about what the Emperor will do to Luz after hunting for her head all week.
 * Hunter is frantic with guilt that Luz pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to rescue him from Kikimora, knowing how much Belos traumatized him. As he argues with Alador while backseat-driving him and fiddling with the controls to make the ship fly faster, he's no longer the Golden Guard. Actually, the thought of going back to confront Belos terrifies him. But he has to, because he owes Luz his life.
 * In an early scene, the good guys (minus Luz) are on an airship, their Palismans are cuddling together to keep warm. Aww... A minute later, they realize their masters are arguing, so they bring out a crate of bread and fruit - Cuteness Overload here.
 * Same scene, Amity is shivering; her father makes her mittens out of abomination slime. Aww... This actually prompts Amity to ask if that's why they call her "Mittens".
 * Round two of Luz versus Belos goes a little better than round one, as Belos compliments her for combining glyphs. Unfortunately, this time he has less patience to play with her: Belos grabs her when her ambush fails to faze him, orders her to stand down, and she should call him by his real name. He says that she's the only other human on the Boiling Isles, and he doesn't want to destroy her. Luz at first doesn't believe him obviously because he tried murdering her in "Hollow Mind", but some part of Philip was kicking himself for callously attempting to murder another human all those years ago thinking she was a disposable witch.
 * Luz has to point out the obvious to Belos: four hundred years have passed on Earth. No one believes in witches anymore, and if Belos went back he'd be committed for claiming he slaughtered demons. Belos considers that Luz wouldn't lie about that, and prepares to spare her if she would be his "guide". He also knows that there is no way she would agree to that, so he offers to spare her friends. To their shock, Luz seems to agree...only to use it to brand Belos with his own Emperor's Coven sigil. It takes one deceptive human to know another deceptive human.
 * The Draining Spell starts, and the witches start dying. Raine uses the last of their strength to save Eda by pulling off the hand with the sigil, weaponizing how the curse allows Eda to remove her limbs harmlessly.
 * In her only semi-decent moment, a fired and exiled Kikimora leads King to the Collector's chambers. She says she's doing it to get back at Belos for firing her. To her credit, it's the only time she doesn't betray or backstab someone on her side, and that little action allows King to enact his plan.
 * When he takes his One-Winged Angel form, Belos attempts to manipulate Hunter back to his side by reforming a part of his face. Though Hunter is scared and confused, he responds, "You're lying!" Such growth from the kid who denied to Luz that a man they witnessed faking wild magic attacks and killing witches with coven experiments could be evil.
 * In a twisted sense, we find out who Caleb was: Philip's brother. Belos snarls out the name on seeing Flapjack. So it confirmed that another human did have a Palisman, not just Luz.
 * Despite everything Belos has done to him, Hunter is horrified when the Collector smashes the Emperor into goop. He has a hand pressed to his mouth as he watches the Collector cheerfully finish the game of tag.
 * Credit to the Collector, they keep their word. When King says if all the Boiling Isle residents are killed by the Draining Spell then there will be fewer playmates, the Collector moves the moon and stops the spell. Not a moment too soon!
 * The season 2 premiere started with a TearJerker moment when King clung to Luz's leg and begged her never to leave him during the videocall to her mother. King knows that because of the promise Luz made to Dr. Noceda, that she will have to honor it once given the opportunity. Then Luz prepares to stay behind on the Boiling Isles to protect the residents from the Collector, and buy time for her friends -- Gus, Willow, Hunter and their Palisman-- to escape to Earth. If she goes through the portal, it will be destroyed and her friends will be stranded. Realizing that it has to be him, the Lost Son, and not Luz who has to stay behind and fight, King uses his sonic scream to push Luz through to safety, letting her go so she can get her friends to her mother's house and he can honor his deal to the Collector to be a "playmate". So much for claiming to be evil and selfish, King.
 * This episode ultimately proves that everything about King and the Titans was wrong, including what King said back in the first season. Belos says the Titan wants order through covens; turns out that Titan sealed the Collector to protect the witches on the Boiling Isles and give them freedom from a chaotic god. The Titan Trappers say that Titans are evil and need to be sacrificed before they hurt others; King pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to rescue his friends and bunches of witches who have either blackballed his mother Eda, tried to kill him, or didn't respect him. King himself claimed that he once led an army and made subjects shake in terror; instead, he reassures Luz that he'll be fine, that it was great to have her as a big sister, and sends her away to safety, while preparing to protect the residents of the Boiling Isles.
 * While the kids are too traumatized to enjoy the wonders of Earth, with how Gus and Hunter expressed a desire to learn more about the world of humans, Luz does the only thing they can do: go home, and bring her friends along for the ride. She knows if her mother took in Vee, a basilisk that impersonated her daughters, several witches and an awesome girlfriend will be more than welcome.

Season Three

 * "Thanks to Them"
 * Hunter starts sobbing when Luz calls him "family".
 * Camilla's horror when Belos leaves for the Boiling Isles. She realizes that Luz wasn't pursuing a "witch fantasy" but was trying to stop a murderous megalomaniac. They have a world to save, so Dr. Noceda says that she wants Luz to take her to the Boiling Isles.
 * "For the Future"
 * Upon returning to Boiling Isles, Willow sees a patch of red grass, one of her favorite plants; she hugs them, saying how much she missed them and vows to protect them. In order to please her, Gus uses his magic to give them smiling faces and say, "Willow's back, yay!"
 * For most of the episode, Hunter is hellbent on hunting down Belos and taking him down in revenge for Flapjack. He snaps out of it when Willow has a panic attack after Boscha ambushes them, enveloping them and Gus in vines. Hunter then tackles her in a Cooldown Hug and apologizes for how he's been acting.
 * Doubling as a moment of awesome, Camilla remembers how to do an ice glyph from memory and whacks Kikimora with a bat to protect her daughter.