The Light of Abyss - TV Tropes

• Spider-Man finds Ford's voice familiar, a nod to how Ford's voice actor is J. K. Simmons, who famously played J. Johan Jameson in numerous adaptations of Spider-Man, most notably the Sam Reimi Spider-Man Trilogy.
• When watching Steven Universe in Chapter 62, Vee finds Amethyst's voice familiar, a nod to how they share Michaela Dietz as a voice actor.
• Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls and King share a voice actor, so when Luz meets the former in Chapter 79 she briefly mistakes his voice for the latter's.

• The period the Hexsquad spent in the Human Realm between Seasons 2 and 3 was largely restrained to a montage early in the Season 3 premiere "Thanks to Them" in canon. Here, the period where they're in the Human Realm is given greater focus via a fic original arc, focusing on their recovery from the trauma of the Day of Unity, visiting the Jean Grey Institute and bonding with the students and faculty there, interacting with the main characters of the other parts of their Shared Universe like the Pines Twins and the Calamity Trio, and Carnage being on the prowl in Gravesfield after taking an interest in Luz, all while Mephisto schemes in the background.
• Malphas was just a one-off character introduced as Amity's boss at the library, with only a couple of lines and no details about him. Here, he gets a whole backstory as one of the oldest demons on the Boiling Isles, who has plenty of experience with the Human Realm due to having been summoned there numerous times over the centuries.

• Thanks to traces of symbiote matter Luz inherited from Manny and Camila being awakened by the Background Magic Field in the Demon Realm, it ends up giving her multiple abilities she doesn't have in canon, like enhanced strength when her shadow aura is up and sensing emotions. She can also use them to turn her light glyphs into an actual offensive power. Later she gains a full symbiote form, at the cost of losing her "shadow aura", apparently an incomplete version of the form, and the glyph detonation power. And then she gains magic by absorbing Titan Blood from the portal key by mistake.
• After the petrification ceremony, Amity starts studying other kinds of magic, namely Bard magic, Potions, and Plant magic. She's still mainly an Abomination specialist, but she's got more options now.
• Masha, who is by all appearances a normal human in canon, is in this universe a Sorcerer.
• Clara, who was also by all appearances a normal human, is a mutant. Same for her friends Scott and Suzy.
• The Titan who is also King's father actually succeeded in killing all the Archivists except for the Collector whom he deliberately spared. He managed to imprison each of the other Archivists inside Spheres of magic which they can only look outside through mirrors which he then had broken that then reinforced the prison of the Collector.
• While the upper limits of his strength in his more monstrous form were unknown in canon, the Hexsquad were still able to hold their own against Belos for a decent amount of time, only really being beaten due to losing a battle of attrition against him. Here, he manages to hold his own against not just them, but both Masha, Ford, and several experienced heroes, including Magneto, Magik, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Loki too, all while they're being boosted by Amity using a bard spell to increase their stamina. It's noted that even when their attacks do land, his Healing Factor makes the damage negligible, and he ends up ignoring the pain in his fury. The fact that he's not affected by the Draining Spell in this AU certainly helps him too.
• Since the Hexsquad knows about the Titan's Blood prior to the Day of Unity, Luz is able to use the glyphs on Earth more freely than in canon, and even shares them with the Pines.

• The mirrors used to speak with The Collector were implied to not be the literal prison for them, but just a window to speak with them, with the Titan Trapper's ritual they put King through allowing him to speak with The Collector due to using his blood on their broken mirror. Here, the mirror is the literal prison and connected to the In-Between, each mirror having been used to trap a specific Archivist by The Titan before all but The Collector's were broken, killing the Archivists before their residual magic was used to reinforce The Collector's own prison.
• While Belos still possesses one of the Hexsquad here, rather than entering Hunter's body via an open cut and slowly taking over his body until Luz realizes Hunter is Not Himself, here Belos had already taken a host, Carnage, before using the powers of said host as well as his own to possess Luz.
• Luz still undergoes a Nightmare Sequence here where she is blamed for everything bad that happened in an attempt to break her. Whereas it was The Collector who subjected her to it in canon though, here it's from Belos after he took over Luz's body, with Carnage directly tormenting her in her mind.

• Pei actually took on the mantle of "Iron Fist" here, having mastered Shou-Li's chi that she possessed and Danny Rand passing his power to her. Lin Lie, the one to actually take the mantle from Danny in the Marvel 616 universe, is instead operating on his own presumably as "Sword Master" still, Rater202 admitting this was done partially to give Pei what they felt she was cheated out of in canon, and that while Lin Lie is cool, they wished to avoid the problematic aspect behind a Chinese man taking on the mantle of the Tibetan warrior monk "Iron Fist" given the historical issues between China and Tibet.^Explanation
• Malphas in canon was only an expy of the demon from The Lesser Key of Solomon rather than the actual demon. Here, the Librarian and the President of the Ars Goetia are one in the same, responsible for informing Doom about the true nature of Giraffes years ago, albeit with his depictions in demonology being a case of artistic liberties courtesy of the authors.

• Hunter appears at the Covention, long before his canonical first appearance.
• The BATTs make their debut before their canonical appearance by destroying the petrification machine.
• Stringbean appears much earlier in what would be "Hunting Palisman", awakened by Luz's deepest desire of being understood.
• The Titan appears, albeit as just The Voice, during the events of "Eclipse Lake" when he's able to speak to Luz in her common mold-induced delirium dreams, long before his canonical appearance in "Watching and Dreaming".

• Boscha is much more open about how seriously she takes her friendship with Amity, doing her best to stop anyone from reading the journal pages that Edric and Emira posted around the school, and being extremely relieved when Amity comes back after having run away. And she reluctantly agrees to stop being a bully (both in general and specifically towards Willow and Luz) just because Amity asks her to.
• Alador demonstrates a lot more emotional awareness as a result of Amity running away, leading him to more openly challenge Odalia and realize how unhealthy his relationship with her has become for him and their children. While he initially wanted to have faith that Odalia would change for the better, when she proves to him she isn't, he does what's right for his kids and officially files for divorce, and demonstrates how he's trying to be a better father for his family much earlier than he did in canon, even expressing fatherly pride when seeing Amity won the Bonesborough Brawl while reassuring her that she was already like him and didn't need to prove it, as well as inviting Luz to stay the night at the manor upon hearing from Amity the emotional turmoil she was going through.
• Very, very downplayed in regards to Belos and his treatment of Amity. While it is steeped in You Are a Credit to Your Race and assuming that Luz's influence as a human saved her soul, the mere fact that he is delibarately sparing even a single witch from his Day of Unity would be normally inconceivable to most other versions of Belos.
• Illyana Rasputina/Magik is infamous for being a very dark Anti-Hero, towing the line between Unscrupulous Hero and Nominal Hero due to different writers, with even her nicer depictions having her as the poster child for the Token Evil Teammate trope. Here, she's a lot more empathetic and personable, showing care for those younger than her like Vee and Masha when they insist on helping fight Belos despite the danger, and having started a support group for kids who were Trapped in Another World so they can get the help she wishes she could have gotten after her time in Limbo, even inviting Luz to join them. Luz actually idolizes Magik as a result of her nicer demeanor combined with her being a bisexual icon and master of magic, and Betsy Braddock seems to have a good relationship with her considering she didn't argue when Luz said Magik was her favorite X-person over her, only saying "Illyana's awesome". It's eventually revealed that she once was like in canon, but she got some professional help and managed to work through her issues better.
• Played with regarding April Parker/Mayhem. April on Earth-982 had a lot of issues that led her to go through a Heel–Face Revolving Door, namely due to suffering Clone Angst and having trouble being an Anti-Hero Substitute for Mayday, culminating in her losing it after seeing a Bad Future where she was responsible for May's death and pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to save her life. Here, April is still struggling with acting more heroic, but she's relatively more stable and able to recognize when her actions, even if she sees them as necessary, are morally wrong. This is justified as her having been adopted into the Parker family only relatively recently, the family only learning of her existence the year prior and her only starting to mellow out six months and two attempted murders after that, meaning she's still in the middle of her character arc and only undergone a single Heel–Face Turn so far, the hope being that the Parker's influence on her will let it stick this time.

• The Titans had their evolution guided by the Celestials so that they would become a natural race of Kings in Black, in the hopes that by doing so they could avoid the issues that Knull caused because he didn't have anyone to share the responsibility with.
• The Archivists and the Collector were born from the broken fragments of a Cosmic Cube that somehow ended up in the Demon Realm on a lifeless world and was affected by the ambient magic. Their desire to Archive things is because they instinctively understood that the Beyonders are meant to preserve life, and they took it a bit too literally.

• Different circumstances at the Covention mean that Luz and Amity become friends sooner than canon.
• The entire arc with Amity running away from home serves as a wakeup call to Alador about their relationship a whole season before he would have had a similar epiphany in canon.
• Vee and Masha end up getting together at the end of the Gravesfield arc, whereas in canon their relationship never moved past hints that the former has a crush on the latter.
• According to Stan, Dipper ended up marrying Pacifica, whom he had some minor Ship Tease with in canon but never had any serious romantic interactions with.
• Amity and King's relationship in canon was underplayed, with King at first disliking Amity after she crushed his cupcake, but quickly got over it once she changed for the better and started dating Luz, even clearing up her misconception that Luz's messages were "threats" and helping her realize what they really were. Here, King forgives Amity a lot quicker since she properly apologizes about the cupcake at the Covention, and pretty much accepts her as a pseudo-resident of the Owl House after she briefly stays there following her running away, all while supporting her relationship with Luz. By time of the Day of Unity, King has fully accepted that Amity will be his sister-in-law, hence why he has no issue telling her he's a Titan despite trying to not tell too many people.
• Runaways had Molly and Klara have a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship, but their relationship was viewed by themselves as more like sisters. Here, Molly and Klara are a happy couple and attending the Jean Grey Institute together, though their relationship was originally like in canon before they managed to work through their feelings.

• The events of One More Day never occurred here, due to one of the senators trying to pass the Superhero Registration Act being outed as being possessed by Mephisto, stopping him from trying to take Peter and Mary Jane's marriage. This in turn leads to a domino effect preventing the full events of Civil War (2006) from occurring.
• Due to the manner in which Grom was defeated being different here, namely Luz and Amity performing a Shout-Out to the Sekiha Love-Love Tenkyoken with fire glyphs rather than implanting Grom with plant glyphs, the Grom Tree isn't created here. Rater202 admits this was largely because they knew nothing they wrote could compare to the actual "Enchanting Grom Fight", so they decided to go for an original spin rather than be a pale imitation.

  Rater202: I knew going in that there was no way I was going to compare to the orignal Grom episode, so I decided to just go whole hog on what I had. No Grom tree in this version, unfortunately, but nothing I could do could compare to that symbolism.

• Aside from the parade itself and Terra passing along Belos' message to Luz, none of the events of "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" happen, as Luz has no reason to learn of Kikimora's situation much less feel sympathy for her, and Raine doesn't have to be pretending to be brainwashed.
• While Willow still founds the Emerald Entrails, nothing else from "Any Sport in a Storm" happens, as Hunter is already rogue from the Emperor's Coven and has no reason to go undercover at Hexside, while Tiny Nose had several chapters previously outed Tibbles' book scam, preventing Luz and Amity from investigating it.
• The Blights sans Amity's involvement in the Bonesborough Brawl is omitted, as Amity joins the Brawl to distract herself from Alador deciding to officially divorce Odalia, Luz refraining from entering the Brawl as "Spellraiser" in favor of being Amity's healer renders no need for Emira to take the role, and Edric being absent means Wrath never mutates and Amity is able to beat him in a proper bout, Wrath taking his loss and swearing he'll beat Amity next year before leaving. The twins absence likewise results in Amity's "Mighty Mittens" outfit being put together from Eda's human clothes rather than the concealment stones her siblings used.
• Thanks to Amity being The Empath, Luz isn't given the opportunity to repress her issues as much since Amity can easily pick up on how she's really feeling. The fics equivalent of "Reaching Out" in particular demonstrates this, as while Luz tries to downplay her pain over Manny's death, Amity is fully aware just how much she's really hurting, prompting her, Ghost, and Stringbean to put Luz in a cuddle pile while Amity prompts Luz to talk about Manny, letting her actually air her feelings and gain In-Universe Catharsis from crying in Amity's arms.
• When Halloween rolls around, none of the Hexsquad are wearing their canon costumes, due to instead assisting Masha in telling the Tale of The Brothers Wittebane, Luz, Willow, and Hunter all wearing cloaks to conceal their identities until the proper point in the story to reveal them, and Amity providing musical accompaniment.

• A key part of the backstory is a symbiote invasion in the 90s, which Camilla and Manny both ended up possessed during, leaving them with symbiote DNA that was passed down to Luz. Later, it's revealed that Knull led another such invasion during the summer of Luz's initial time in the Demon Realm.
• In Chapter 91, the Phalanx (now controlled by the Core) invade Massachusetts, with it being mentioned that they also previously invaded in the 90s.

• At the climax of her time on the Road, Luz sees a trio of versions of her themed after The Hecate Sisters, consisting of her canon version after defeating Belos in "Watching and Dreaming", an adult version of herself pregnant with her and Amity's first child from a timeline that diverged from "our" Luz's relatively recently, and an older version of herself that became a Queen in Black ruling over the Isles in a timeline where the Collector, the Hexsquad's Palismen, and several of her loved ones died on the Day of Unity.

• After Willow singlehandedly knocks him out to keep him from trying to steal the portal, Hunter notes that his face is suddenly uncomfortably warm.
• Luz is very appreciative of the increased abs that Amity gets after becoming a Valkyrie.

• In Chapter 32, Amity and Eda are both furious at Luz for agreeing to challenge Mephisto for the Blight family's souls due to concern about the fact that if she loses, he takes her in the family's place.
• In Chapter 40, Eda is extremely angry at Luz for going to break the BATTs out of prison after explicitly telling her to leave it to her and Raine, and nearly calls up Camilla to report her before a remorseful Luz talks her out of it.

• In Chapter 9, when Alador is starting to go Papa Wolf on Eda regarding Amity's safety, Eda snaps back by asking when's the last time he actually talked to her, which completely undercuts Alador's anger.
• When Odalia tries to pressure Luz into agreeing to a wedding contract with Amity while presenting it as looking out for their best interests, Amity asks if she even remembers Luz's name. After an Accidental Misnaming makes it clear that she doesn't, Amity snaps that this just proves that Odalia doesn't actually care about them beyond how she can use them for her own gain.
• Two instances of this occur in Chapter 35. First, Luz asks Hunter a few, by asking if the scouts know what the Emperor does with the Palismen he collects, and then, when Hunter tries to justify things by using a line about making sacrifices for the "greater good", Luz asks him when the last time that the Emperor made a sacrifice was. On Amity's side of things, when she's trying to come up with a goal to bring a freshly-carved Ghost to life, and she tries protecting Luz and her other loved ones, Lilith asks her if she's scared and desperate for some form of control.

• Downplayed regarding Amity. While she was always one of the most important characters in canon, she never reached the level of "main character", at best being a pseudo-main character during Season 2B and the first two episodes of Season 3 where she acted as deuteragonist, with the only "main characters" being the trio of Luz, Eda, and King. Here, she's effectively taken Eda's position as deuteragonist from the start thanks to a lot of Eda's narrative roles occurring offscreen due to being nigh identical to canon, her perspective being shown just as much as Luz's, and being more intrinsically tied to the Myth Arc of the story thanks to Odalia and Mephisto's machinations to make Luz a "Queen in Black" and Amity her consort. By the fics equivalent to the events of Season 2, Amity becomes a flat out Supporting Protagonist, her perspective shown just as much if not more than Luz's, even if Luz is still the primary lead of the story between the two.
• Tiny Nose gets a more regular supporting role thanks to her being one of Hooty's friends being given more focus, and due to acting as Luz's doctor.
• Masha gets some more focus than in canon, Camila having given them a ride back from camp, which causes them to be present for the reveal of Vee's true identity.

• Bill was a tyrannical cult leader who wanted to sacrifice King in service to a supposed "god" that's long dead, all while knowing that Titans aren't evil and that he's lying to maintain his power, so his being eaten by Luz after he's Too Dumb to Live by going after King after she threatens him with exactly that isn't something to mourn. Even Spider-Man, who believes that heroes shouldn't kill if they can help it, says that Luz shouldn't feel too bad about his fate.
• The Archivists save the Collector died when The Titan broke the mirrors connected to their seals, causing them to suffer in agony as the power of their seal flowed to reinforce the remaining seal(s). Considering their sadistic ways of "preserving" life, their genocide of the Titans, and manipulation of the Collector in said plan, it's clear that no tears are to shed over them.
• Odalia was a textbook example of Abusive Parents who manipulated Amity and Luz's relationship for her own gain, willingly worked with Mephisto, and showed no empathy towards the witches who would die from the Draining Spell, albeit because she thought that it was to make the Coven Heads and select others a new order of being instead of it actually being a Final Solution plot. As a result, when Belos petrifies her and shatters the statue after she hijacks Amity's body and brings her to him, and he sees that her sigil is fake, the only thing sad about it is that Amity was there to witness it.

• Chapter 15 has Luz, while telling Lilith more about the Human Realm, go into a brief tangent about the Electoral College and how impractical its become in the modern era, doubling as a Mythology Gag to how in Gravity Falls a Freeze-Frame Bonus suggested Mabel managed to get rid of the Electoral College as one of her "good deeds" to prove she was "pure of heart".
• Chapter 41 briefly has Luz go on a tangent regarding Harry Potter and the actions of its creator J. K. Rowling, particularly the hypocrisy in her behavior when compared to the message the books were trying to make, a response to a comment on the fic making clear Luz's feelings were Rater202's own feelings on the matter.
• Chapter 79 has Luz and Marcy briefly go on a tangent about the ending to "Monster Slayer Academia", acting as an obvious reference to the controversial ending of My Hero Academia. The two agree they liked the ending well enough and defend the decision to have Deku need to gain Powered Armor to return to being a Hero, but do feel like it didn't do enough to explore the societal issues it raised, and are more critical about the more toxic side of the fandom's reaction, as well as those fans' general misunderstanding about the trope Hardwork Hardly Works and self-inflicted dichotomy of "hard work vs genius" dating as far back as the early days of Naruto.
• Chapter 86 has Luz go on a tangent with Anne about how the fifth Harry Potter book has Harry dealing with what is clearly PTSD over the events of the fourth book, then brushes over it in the next book, noting that there should be more books that depict the fantasy elements as a net positive while still making it clear that mental care is important, as Luz's experiences show that a lot of what protagonists undergo in such young adult literature can be easily traumatizing. She also criticizes the fandom of the series for treating Harry's behavior as wangst when it's very easy in retrospect to see Harry was going through a lot to justify his behavior.
• Chapter 89 has a couple:
  • Luz reveals that she stopped reading the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books because she wasn't a fan of how it handed Percy's ADHD and dyslexia.^Context
  • While viewing alternate realities, one of the realities she sees is the Fandom-Specific Plot, the "Beta AU". Seeing the versions of herself and Amity there as well as their Slap-Slap-Kiss relationship only disturbs Luz, and makes her think to herself that they need couples counseling more than anything.
  • The last reality Luz witnesses is the Chibiverse reality, specifically the events of the "Chibi Couple Game". While Luz finds the overall reality adorable, she is very much not a fan of how the entire game was essentially rigged to pressure Hailey into confessing to Scott when she clearly wasn't ready, with the versions of herself, Amity, Star, and Marco not helping matters, to the point she says they're lucky she can't go into that reality otherwise she'd tear into all of them. Bill likewise states he isn't a fan of the joke regarding Star not knowing Marco's favorite color since it makes her look more like a bastard girlfriend when they had an entire episode focused around Marco getting something he truly wanted and it being his favorite color, Prussian Blue, yet Star instead says its Plum and just drops an actual plum on his head, making it look like her love for Marco was superficial.

• Bill Cipher tries to invoke this by forcing one of the heroes to let him use their body to get back to his own in Gravity Falls by dangling the method to open the portal from Earth's side in front of them, but luckily Belos opens it himself before they agree to anything.
• Mephisto revives Odalia after Belos kills her because their deal to put Luz on the throne is still ongoing, Mephisto making it clear that she would still be burning if it weren't.

• Chapter 21 has a set-up for a epic battle between Amity, Vee, Masha, and Luz against Luz's former crushes who bullied her. However, the next chapter shows Luz and Amity realizing just how pathetic those bullies are that they aren't even worth the effort of fighting at this point.
• Chapter 74 initially makes it seem like the one after Luz is Carnage, the "power" they mention being in Luz's possession being in reference to her being a fledgling King in Black. The end of the chapter sees them react just as negatively to Amity as they had been to Luz, revealing they're actually Belos, possessing Carnage's body, the "power" they were referencing being that Luz was blessed by The Titan.

• Odalia emotionally manipulates Luz into considering breaking up with Amity, in order to provoke the latter into standing up to her, helping to secure a possible future Odalia's had a vision of, wherein Luz and Amity are apparently ruling the Boiling Isles together. A later chapter implies that the manipulation was also meant to get Amity worried about being unable to protect Luz and cause her to try feeding her symbiote form thing like Titan Humours and Palistrom wood to give her magic.
• After the musical duel is over, it turns out that rather than Odalia being cheated in a Deal with the Devil like Mephisto claimed, the whole setup was part of their plan to bring Luz and Amity closer together by having Luz demonstrate that she'd risk her immortal soul for Amity's family, and getting Belos to respect Amity the most out of any witch on the Isles.

• Amity has a strong reaction to cheating to get ahead.
• Magneto shows up to help the heroes assembling to stop the Day of Unity when he learns that Belos is a fanatical madman about to enact genocide, something that a Holocaust survivor would obviously take exception to.

• When Willow, Gus, and Amity manage to get the crowd at Eda's petrifaction ceremony on her side, the BATTs show up and destroy the machine before Hunter can intervene.
• Just as Belos is about to escape through the portal on the Day of Unity, the Avengers come pouring through the other side, punching him in the face and driving him back.
• Several Avengers arrive to help when the Belos-possessed Carnage attacks the Dance-Off.
• Right as Doom is set to fight Luz and Amity so as to force Luz into being his apprentice, a battle the two have no doubt they'll lose outside of running, Magneto shows up at the embassy, making good on his declaration of aid to the Hexsquad.
• The X-Men and some government support show up just in time to save Marcy from the Core's corrupted Phalanx forces.

• As in canon, as Amity realizes after the failed petrification, especially after he claims that Luz was blessed by the Titan with her new abilities, pretty much everything that Belos says is this.
• Odalia claims that everything she does is for Amity, but even if the narration didn't explicitly confirm that she's lying through her teeth, she just used her Oracle spirit to take control of Amity's body to use as a hostage against Luz and threatened to use it to stop Amity's heart if Luz interferes with her taking Amity to Belos in order for Odalia to fulfill her plans to put Luz and Amity on the throne of the Isles.

• Chapter 34, after Luz and Amity's musical duel for the souls of the Blights right on the tail of Hunter grabbing the portal key and right before this AU's version of "Keeping up A-fear-ances", is a more laid-back episode, opening with Luz and Amity cuddling in bed, and some conversations going on.
• Chapter 41 has Luz and Amity go on a date, a welcome break from the drama and action of the previous few chapters.
• Similarly, Chapter 48 has Amity giving Luz cooking lessons, another break from the drama after the past several chapters had Luz's trip to the past, Boscha deciding to end her and Amity's friendship, and Amity learning of her parents' divorce at the same time that Luz has to deal with her canon angst from "Reaching Out", and before this AU's version of "Hollow Mind".
• Chapter 56 has Luz and Amity catching each other up on what's happened since they last saw each other, with it being the final breather until after "King's Tide".
• While Chapter 78 has a flare-up of Luz's depression once the adrenaline fades from the chaotic events of the last several chapters, it's still much more low-key, with Luz and Amity getting new medical scans and Luz visiting her father's grave with Stringbean and cleaning it and the neighboring graves up a bit, and what is implied to be Manny's spirit comforting her at the end.
• Chapter 79 is similarly low-key, with Luz mostly spending it talking with Sasha, Anne, and Marcy in the group, along with Amity and Strange briefly dealing with the ghost convenience store owners in Gravity Falls, but ends with a surprise visit from Bill Cipher.
• Chapter 81 focuses on Masha with Vee and the Hexsquad, and while it has some serious moments, mainly Hunter bringing up the full story of Caleb and Belos to Masha, it's more light-hearted, providing a break in-between the prep for Luz and Amity's meeting with Doom and the actual meeting itself.
• Chapter 95 follows up from the Core's Phalanx invasion and another talk between Luz and Bill, and is just a brief bit of fluff about Luz and the Hexsquad having a nice breakfast together.

• When the subject of Luz's Klatchian Coffee first comes up, it's mentioned how she jokingly prays to Loki when making it. Several chapters later, Vee reveals that when she was impersonating Luz at camp and Loki came to visit Masha, he told her that no prayers to him could ever help that "abomination".
• After the Covention duel, which Luz wins fair and square despite Lilith making Amity unknowingly cheat, Eda says that she's going to teach Luz to pick locks. After Luz picks the lock to the cage Jacob put her in and Camila asks where she learned that, Luz pleads the fifth while Eda gets a bit nervous.
• After Luz and Amity beat Grom, Eda offers to teach them about moonshining, which Amity thinks about when trying to unlock Eda's cage. In chapter 16, Luz mentions to Willow that Eda wants to know if she'll help grow a Human Realm plant called agave. In Chapter 44, it's revealed that Eda's been selling moonshine to supplement her income, much to Hunter's ire since he couldn't find the source, and that Willow is in on the operation.
• In Chapter 47 Hunter claims that Luz isn't very good at Oracle magic because her palm reading prediction for him was seemingly impossible. In Chapter 49, after the revelations in this AU's version of "Hollow Mind" come to light, Hunter takes back what he said in an attempt to lighten the mood as they're fleeing the Inner Belos.
• Loki is mentioned as having mistaken Vee for Luz when he met her, and in Chapter 55 Loki says that the main reason he's helping get the portal working so they can stop Belos is because Masha has threatened to tell people he got fooled by a shapeshifter if he doesn't.
• At one point Odalia's attempted manipulations of Lumity fall flat when it becomes clear that she can't remember Luz's name when Amity asks. When trying to capture Amity for Belos in Chapter 54, she puts particular emphasis on Luz's name, apparently trying to drive in the fact that this time she managed to remember.
• When Amity learns that King is a Titan, she immediately tries to remember if she apologized for crushing his cupcake back during the Covention.
• Luz's ex-crushes think that witches float, which they use to justify leaving Amity in the water when they kidnap Luz. Despite Jacob having explained the misconception, Suzy still thinks that witches float when they meet again at the Jean Grey Institute.
• At one point Amity makes a joke about dancing on Odalia's grave. When Luz meets Molly, she makes a similar comment about her and Klara dancing on the grave of the latter's old husband, and Luz seems to see the similarity.
• At one point Anne mentions that her father apparently thought that she was legitimately going to kill the FBI agents opposing her with the toy lightsaber she had. When she shows up at a government bunker in Chapter 92 because the Core, free from the Theraprism, is after Marcy again, some of the agents from that incident are clearly there, and are still terrified of her, calling her "the destroyer" and being even more worried because she has a real sword this time.

• When Luz hears that there was an Alien Invasion while she was in the Isles, she barely bats an eye besides asking which alien faction was behind it this time.
• While Stan still fondly remembers his brief marriage to Eda, she doesn't recognize him at first when they reunite during the Gravesfield arc. Which is telling, considering that she does recall stealing his car and driving it off a cliff. She does remember that he lived in Oregon, so part of it may just have been her being distracted by the situation and not expecting to see him.
• When discussing the possibility of the X-Men coming to the Demon Realm to help stop Belos, it's noted that fighting genocidal maniacs is basically Tuesday for them.
• When April shows her symbiote form to the Hexsquad, she's implicitly trying to startle/impress them, but experience with Luz's own form, and all the dangerous creatures of the Isles, means that their reaction is a lot more understated then she expected.
• When the Avengers are dealing with Belos in Luz's body, Iron Man notes that they've deal with so many homicidal megalomaniacs and self-righteous people that claim moral superiority, or enlightenment, or faithfulness while going around hurting or killing people to glorify themselves like Belos that he's started counting how many times they hear certain cliche villain lines. The Scarlet Witch even notes that he's the third witch hunter she's fought that week.

• Luz's symbiote powers give her the ability to assume the traits and powers of anything her symbiote happens to absorb, such as her witch's cloak, some meat from King's golem guard Jean-Luc, and even Titan Blood from the portal key after she and Hunter broke it.
• Amity somehow is under the impression that being the Sorcerer Supreme requires hunting down and eating dozens of witches and sorcerers to build up their power. It's later explained that she got her information on Sorcerers from a book on Kulan Gath, who had a Cannibalism Superpower power.

• The Emperor's Coven sigil that a Coven Scout branded Luz with in Chapter 6 gets some importance when Amity notices it. Especially when Lilith activates the trap in the Sigil to stop Luz from stealing the Healing Hat. Amity subsequently uses the memory of that incident to start a riot in Bonesborough to stop Eda's petrification ceremony.
• During the arc of Amity running away, Eda is mentioned to have looted some textbooks that the high school in Gravesfield threw out and sold them to the library. Later, Amity starts studying them as part of her plan to prove that she's an awesome girlfriend, and it's mentioned again during the narration covering the time skip between the failed petrification and Luz's return to school. This pays off when Amity introduces herself to Camila and explains that she's Luz's girlfriend and that she loves her in Spanish, and reveals to Luz that there were Spanish books in that collection and that she's been trying to learn.
• After visiting Earth, Amity starts making a new instrument for her Bard magic, which comes in handy when she and Luz get into a musical duel with Mephisto.
• During the fight with Odalia, Amity tears her sleeve, revealing that her sigil is fake. Later, Belos seeing that himself due to Odalia's still-damaged sleeves is what apparently inspires him to petrify and shatter her on the spot.
• As they're preparing to rescue Eda from being petrified, Hooty mentions to Luz the Calamity Box in the basement, and how its ultimately not charged and therefore of little help to them, seeming like a simple Mythology Gag to the fact said box appeared in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" as an easter egg. When Luz actually meets the Calamity Trio later though and learns of their adventures, she recalls the box and shares its existence to the trio, leading them to believe it either ended up in the Demon Realm after their own adventures somehow, that it's a spare Newtopia had made in case something were to happen to the original but ultimately was lost, or is from an alternate version of Amphibia. Regardless, it gives the trio hope that they can use it to visit Amphibia again, and Luz more of a reason to return to the Demon Realm so as to help her new friends.
• At one point Strange mentions obtaining for safekeeping a magical oil lamp that has three charges every thousand years, and if one blows out the flame it uses a charge to permanently restore a power or ability that the user has lost, even if the source of the power flat out doesn't exist anymore. When Belos possesses Luz, Strange brings it to the Calamity Trio, who use it to reclaim their lost Calamity powers in order to help, which also frees Strange from having to contain it, as it wants to be used.
• At one point, when Luz is worrying about her lifespan being extended from her new Titan genetics and how that means that she will likely outlive her loved ones, peaches of immortality are mentioned, and later after Amity becomes a Valkyrie the Golden Apples of Idunn are mentioned. Later, after an adventure that involved making enemies of Svartalfheim, Willow managed to get one of the latter, and wishes that she could have gotten one of the former too.
• At one point it's noted that the heroes got some sweaters from Mabel. It's later revealed that they were made with unicorn hair, which is useful when Bill possesses Luz.
• When summoning Malphas, Luz and Amity set up a protective circle, which Luz reinforces with a drop of her blood, just in case it was a trick. When summoning and making a deal with Bill, Luz does it inside said circle, so when he possesses her Bill is unable to leave.

• When telling Amity things about the Human Realm, Luz mentions symbiotes and sketches Carnage as an example, which ends up giving Amity nightmares, which in turn provides Grom with fuel when she's fighting it, taking on Carnage's form to allow it to get the upper hand on her when she'd previously been dominating it. After the Hexsquad are left stuck in the Human Realm, Carnage appears himself, hiding out in Gravesfield and beginning another slaughter, announcing his return by killing Jacob Hopkins. He later makes his appearance at the Dance-Off Luz and Amity were participating in, albeit revealing he's now been possessed by Belos.
• Mephisto was once mentioned by Luz in Chapter 9 as some petty demon who tried to force Peter Parker to sell his marriage. In Chapter 23, it is revealed that he was the one behind the imposter Emperor's Coven Scout who branded her with a sigil. This was all part of some nefarious scheme to turn Luz into the Queen in Black.
• In Chapter 20, Luz's group hears how three students from her school ended up presenting as mutants while she was in the Demon Realm. In Chapter 21, it turns out that Luz's ex-crushes are those students.
• Illyana Rasputina/Magik was occasionally mentioned as being Luz's favorite X-person and personal hero. She later shows up in person as part of the team sent to save the Hexsquad and stop Belos's Day of Unity, with Illyana joining the supporting cast soon after.
• When dealing with the portal, Strange mentions Bloodstorm One stealing a copy of the Darkhold, and Elsa Bloodstone dealing with someone who's injected himself with all the major strains of lycanthropy. When the Hexsquad are visiting the Jean Grey Institute, Magik is called away because the former was found staked in a graveyard after having used the book and the blood of different major vampire strains to make a super-vampire serum that is now missing, someone also having made a number of the corpses there into Raimis only to have immediately dismember them and steal their teeth, and the super-werewolf was also murdered and had their teeth and salivary glands go missing. They all turn up again melded into a single bullet used by Bullseye to shoot Luz, it being implied Bullseye was working for Mephisto in trying to accelerate Luz's transformation into a true Queen in Black.
• At one point Malphas says that the culprit in a murder mystery party they ended up in once was "Agatha all along. In Chapter 86, Agatha Harkness contacts Strange as an intermediary to try and set up a meeting with Luz.

• While Belos and Carnage ostensibly align themselves to go after Luz, Belos clearly thinks of himself as the dominant party and shows no guilt about seemingly abandoning him to his demise when Luz blasts them, and Carnage is only playing along so that Belos will give him the chance to consume Luz's power.
• Mephisto busted Bill and the Core out of the Theraprism for his plans, but the former of the two almost immediately starts working against his plans, including letting Luz know that he'd escaped and making a deal with Doom... who he tricks into helping for information on how to best Reed Richards without ever intending to give it to him.

• All three of the Gravesfield students discovered to be mutants turn out to be Luz's ex-crushes turned bullies.
• Titan Bile, the one humor that Luz had yet to obtain and was considerably hard to find, is what Philip throws at her while confronting him in the past, giving her the fifth and final humor she needed.
• Carnage decided that Gravesfield, of all places, would be a great place for him to lay low.

• In order to get Amity to unlock Abomination Metamorphosis which requires anger to trigger, Darius spends the majority of their training sessions poking at whatever insecurities of hers he can find in the hopes of pissing her off. This just results in what little self-esteem Amity had to be completely destroyed, to the point she ends up crying herself to sleep several nights. He then tries making threats against Luz to get a reaction, and while this manages to get a reaction, the fact he gave Amity no reason not to think he was being serious and had already acted like a cruel jerk to her for so long results in said anger becoming murderous rage, Darius not realizing he crossed the line until it dawns on him that Amity was genuinely trying to kill him. While he does apologize and makes clear all he said was just empty threats or hollow words, the damage was done, and any possible relationship he could have with Amity was severely damaged, Amity wanting nothing further to do with him if she can help it, to the point the only reason she objects to Luz killing him is because she's getting him to supply them with Titan Bone, saying Luz is free to do so once he does so.
• April Parker/Mayhem was asked to help Luz train and better understand her Symbiote side, but her way of doing so was to take a page from someone who trained her, Stick, and put Luz through several one sided beatings at the hands of her clubmates, whom she lied to and claimed Luz was more of a Blood Knight than she actually was, just to build up Luz's stress levels so she could temporarily blind her and help her work on her Symbiote's ESP, all with the idea of getting Luz to actually hate her. Molly, Gabby, and Pei are understandably angry with April for tricking them into beating the crap out of Luz, Amity briefly enters Abomination Metamorphosis and accidentally bites Wolverine, the Hexsquad and Camila want to beat the crap out of her for what she did, and Wolverine makes clear he's gonna be having a long talk with Peter over what April pulled. Luz herself meanwhile just ends up feeling like she had been bullied again, especially since she made clear she wanted to stop after Pei sent her into a wall and April didn't respect her decision saying it was "for her own good", and while she's willing to forgive April this time, she makes clear this is a one time deal and she won't be as forgiving if she pulls a stunt like this again.

• Luz explicitly refers to the Emperor's Coven as one when she first hears details about Belos' reign, though she doesn't openly state this, for fear of how people might react to it.
• The Titan Trappers count as one, having been made up by Bill (who’s apparently started Believing His Own Lies in his old age) for power.

• Luz inflicts one on Belos after fully unlocking her powers at the petrification ceremony fight, and proceeds to bash him around the room so badly that not only is it wrecked, he actually blacks out for a moment.
• When at the Brawl, Amity is about to forfeit when she senses Luz's angst over not being able to be at her father's grave, but Wrath attacks her first, so she transforms, sending him out of the ring in a single punch.
• Within the span of ten minutes, Gus and Sprite show off their Master of Illusion chops and utterly destroy Mysterio to the point that he's begging Spider-Man to take him away from the two. Sadly it's an Offscreen Moment of Awesome.
• With their Calamity powers allowing them to trump Belos's stolen magic, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy spend ten minutes just dominating him in Luz's body.

• Amity's Abomination form is noted to have a "cute" look to it by Lilith.
• Masha lampshades how Vee looks incredibly huggable in her true form.
• Once Luz becomes a Titan, she ends up inducing Cuteness Proximity in Amity, who quickly tackles and starts nuzzling her while gushing about how Luz keeps getting more adorable.

• Desperate to find a way to get herself and her friends back to the Isles, Luz summons Bill and makes a deal with him for knowledge on how portal doors work, which gets her possessed.

• Canonically, there's no explanation for whatever happened to Principal Faust. Here, he was apparently killed by a dangerous animal after ignoring the Beastkeeping Track professor's warnings about going near its pen.
• After he ignores Luz's warnings not to go after King and she gives into her Symbiote side out of pure anger and protective instinct, Luz eats Bill's brain, Luz letting his death serve as a warning to the Titan Trappers about what will happen if they go after King any further.
• The Titan set up the prisons of the Archivists so that if any of their mirrors were broken they'd die in agony, the power of the slain one's prison then flowing to and strengthening the others, then broke the mirrors of all the Archivists save the Collector, who he hated the most before realizing that they were an innocent Unwitting Pawn.
• Odalia is petrified and then shattered by Belos after she brings Amity to him on the Day of Unity to use as bait for Luz. Mephisto proceeds to subvert this by reviving her, forcing her soul into the pile of rubble that used to be her body before reforming her with hellfire, not willing to let her die until she has completed her end of their agreement.
• Jacob Hopkins turns up dead on Masha's desk at the historical society, the message left in the museum in his blood making clear he was killed by Carnage.
• Bullseye is killed by a Belos-possessed Carnage for nearly spoiling his plans for Luz.
• Carnage was already a zombie when Belos possessed, but Luz defeating him inside her mind allows her own symbiote to completely consume the Carnage symbiote, killing him for good.

• Bill manages to possess Luz in Chapter 98.

• Luz describes Mephisto as a complete loser who was ranting about how Spider-Man "was more relatable as a single guy" when he was exorcised.
• When Mephisto tells Odalia about Knull and his motivations, the witch calls him a "warlock", the Demon Realm equivalent of an "edge lord", with Mephisto bringing up the term himself and completely agreeing.

• Odalia plots to put Luz on the throne of the Boiling Isles, with Amity as her 'consort', because she hopes that she, and by extension the Blight family as a whole, will be able to benefit from it. But while her actions technically succeed in pushing them together and get Luz closer to becoming the new "Queen in Black" for the Demon Realm, in the process she repeatedly demonstrates that she doesn't actually care about them beyond this goal, like not being able to remember Luz's name when Amity asks, and continuously alienates them as they grow more powerful and Amity gets out from under her thumb, not considering that if they indeed get as powerful as she hopes, she'd want to be on their good sides. And while her initial alliance with Mephisto could be excused by the lack of information she has on what Earth calls devils, continuing to trust him and work with him after the Deal with the Devil incident gave her some context about him, even after Alador divorces her because he mistook her continued plotting with the infernal being as cheating, cannot. This culminates in her hijacking Amity's body with her Oracle spirit, after Amity had just stopped Luz from lethally attacking her, threatening to stop her heart if Luz doesn't come to the Head and submit herself to Belos. The witch hunter then kills Odalia when he sees that she faked her sigil, which she didn't think to cover up after Amity tore her sleeve and saw it was a fake once she got a good look at it.
• Luz's old crushes challenge her and Amity to a fight at the old Gravesfield graveyard, which is flooded. Masha thinks that they were just spitting out the first location that they could think of. Then, after Clara attacks them with her sonic powers in a rage once Amity realizes that they were jealous of Luz dancing with Amity in the park, they leave Amity in the water, simply assuming that she can float because she's a witch, and think handing over an unconscious Luz over to Scott's uncle Jacob is a good idea despite it technically being kidnapping, and double-down despite how insane Jacob is acting. If Luz hadn't been so forgiving, they could easily have been arrested.
• After getting shot in the chest, Luz uses a healing glyph to stop the bleeding and make it easier for her to fight. This just results in the bullet getting embedded in her chest and making it harder to remove later.
• Luz, desperate to help get travel between Earth and the Boiling Isles up again, makes a deal with Bill and gets possessed.

• Rather than be extinguished by Belos through an elaborate ritual to trap and erase them, the collective spirits of the Palismen he absorbed are accidentally absorbed by Luz when she tries to protect them, giving her their knowledge and what little power they had left, before passing on properly once Luz returns to the physical plain.
• Instead of being stomped to death by Eda, Raine, and King, Belos is caught by Johnny Blaze as Ghost Rider and damned to Hell.

• Neurological variant, Amity has undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder in this fic. She gets a formal diagnosis of the demon realm equivalent between chapters after the story's version of the season 1 finale.
• Downplayed, as its more just making official what was already all but directly said in canon. Luz is officially diagnosed with depression following her session with Professor X, tying into her depressive behavior and at times suicidal ideation she possessed in Season 3 of canon.

• Belos thinks that Luz is a witchbreed/mutant, when Luz knows that she tested negative for the mutant gene, and in fact has never even heard of the witchbreed term before, and is baffled by what Belos means when he refers to her as one in this AU's version of "Hollow Mind".
• When she notices that Amity is upset by learning of Gravesfield's witch-hunting past, Luz reassures her that that was a long time ago and they'll never have to deal with witch hunters, still ignorant to the true nature of Emperor Belos at the time.
• Luz mentions off hand that nobody would want her to be in charge of the Boiling Isles and that if she ever is it's proof that something has gone wrong, completely ignorant to the fact that Odalia is trying to engineer such a situation because she believes she can profit off of Amity being her 'consort.'
• After Luz meets Philip and remembers what the Titan told her about the Archivists and Collector, she assumes that since the Titan said that the last Archivist was no threat to anyone, and the incident was centuries ago anyway, it should be fine, not knowing that Belos and Philip are one and the same and that he got the Draining Spell from the Collector until "Hollow Mind".
• While practicing Oracle magic, Luz gives Hunter a palm reading and tells him he'll learn a horrible family secret in the next fortnight, Hunter brushing her off as bad at Oracle magic since his only living family, Belos, is nowhere near him. Hunter doesn't realize though that he's not only a Grimwalker and can still learn so from Belos's mind like he did in "Hollow Mind", but he does have more family in the form of the Clawthorne's, as his being a Grimwalker of Caleb makes him a clone of their many-greats grandfather. When they get sucked into Belos's mind, he recalls this and apologizes in an attempt to lighten the mood.
• When Belos is ranting about Flapjack in this AU's version of "Hollow Mind", he clearly has no idea that Hunter has met him. He's also unaware that Mephisto is only pretending to be the real devil, or that it was The Power of Love that hurt him during his musical duel with Luz and Amity instead of divine intervention (he even thinks that their song was a hymn).
• Odalia discovers that the Day of Unity involves a Draining Spell, but doesn't realize that Belos wants to kill everyone with it, believing it to be about ascending the Coven Heads and some others into a new order of being instead.
• One of the suggestions Professor X gives to Amity for coping with her conflicting feelings over Odalia's death is for her to write a letter to them, since even if she can't get closure from them directly, writing the letter should allow her to vent her frustrations and emotions in a way that gives her some form of closure. What Amity remains unaware of though is that Mephisto brought Odalia Back from the Dead, intent on making sure she fulfills their end of their agreement.

• Unlike canon, Eda eventually works up the motivation to interrogate Owlbert about the events of "Escape of the Palisman" (which occurred offscreen), but because Owlbert forgave Luz, Eda only made Luz take him out for ice cream in order to earn her trust back.
• Luz decides to give her ex-crushes a second chance because she recognizes their poor choices that day as such and doesn't want their lives ruined as a result. Wolverine decides to go with it, but makes it very clear to the three that they dodged a bullet, tells them firmly that they'll need to take Professor Parker's ethics course (and that there'll be hell to pay if they don't pass), and get counseling.
• April purposefully misled her friends on how much of a Blood Knight Luz was so she could stress Luz out in order to properly unlock her symbiote ESP, but after Luz hears about her Dark and Troubled Past she realizes that it's reasonable that April would have made a poor decision like that and declares that they're good. This ends up being humorously lampshaded when April doubts her sincerity and thinks she's just being pitied, the Hexsquad pointing out how Luz is really just that forgiving and an All-Loving Hero, listing the various ways they all hurt her at one point and how they're still extremely close to her now.
• When Luz finally comes clean about being tricked by Belos, she's not forgiven by her friends... because they don't think that she'd really done anything that needs forgiveness, given that she's far from the only person Belos had tricked over the centuries.

• After Amity is fatally wounded by Belos while trying to free Luz from his possession, Thor invokes his rights as a God and transforms Amity into one of the Valkyrior — a Valkyrie.
• Luz is left in a near death state after Belos possessed her and burnt up her lifeforce, her symbiote incapable of both saving her life and absorbing the various magics in the bullet still lodged in her chest. To protect the girl who became his son's older sister and is practically a surrogate daughter to him though, Papa Titan gives up his power and possibly life to revive Luz as the new Titan.

• Luz assumes that Belos is lying about having been to Earth and is just basing his claims off of some human history book that he found, since his talk about slavery and race relations is extremely out of date to the point that he shouldn't have been able to see what he claims to have seen within a witch's lifespan. While Belos is lying about pretty much everything, both to Hunter and the Isles in general, he's actually being relatively truthful in that case, barring his typical Self-Serving Memory, but Luz's conclusion makes more sense than him having used Palismen to extend his life by centuries.
• When Masha reveals to Luz that Philip Wittebane was a famous witch hunter, Luz concludes based on his journal entries that he eventually moved past his prejudices and came to love the Demon Realm. That description would be more apt for his brother Caleb, who fell in love with the witch Evelyn, whereas Philip is still a witch hunter through and through, with his journal entries being nothing but embellishments at best, flat out lies to feed his own ego at worst.
• Boscha saw Willow leave at Amity's birthday party when they were little after a few minutes in Amity's room, then Amity was miserable for the entire party. Not knowing that Odalia forced Amity to break up their friendship, this made Boscha assume that Willow was the one to do something that caused the friendship to fall apart, which is a big part of why she was so enthusiastic about treating Willow badly, and it's not until Chapter 46 that Amity finds out about the misunderstanding and tells Boscha what actually happened.

• While most of Mephisto's behavior towards Belos is from Evil Is Petty due to Caleb having redeemed himself because Belos didn't kill him fast enough and thus leaving the collection of Gravesfield witch hunters in Hell forever incomplete, it's implied that even he is rather disgusted by the sheer number of sins Belos has committed.
• Subverted, Bill isn't a fan of Star's actions in destroying magic and committing genocide as a result, but that's mainly for making her section of the multiverse more boring instead of any moral failings.

• More than one character notices and comments on Amity's crush on Luz.
• Apparently, Anne's parents assumed that she was already dating Sasha and Marcy when she tells them that the three of them became a throuple. Sasha's mother apparently noticed the same.

• Tiny Nose may be a Conspiracy Theorist who think that the world is a triangle, but even she thinks that the Demon Realm equivalent of anti-vaxxers are crazy.
• Eda may be a self-admitted scoundrel, but she won't let a kid Amity's age live on the streets/in the woods, and gives her genuine advice about what she should do.
• Lilith and Steve are dedicated members of the Emperor's Coven and enforce Belos' harsh rule, but are furious when a coven scout ends up branding Luz with a sigil against her will.
• Vee and the other Basilisks left the Greater Basilisk behind when they escaped because they didn't like her constant talk about getting revenge on the witches, Vee even outright calling her crazy when she hears that she somehow escaped on her own.
• Although Clara, Scott, and Suzy are jerks, they don’t seem very comfortable with Jacob putting Luz in a cage.
• Hooty ships Lumity to an extreme degree but is quick to point out that they're just kids and should be allowed to be kids and figure out their relationship on their own when King cracks a joke about the two getting married.
• It's pretty telling that Spider-Man, despite saying that he doesn't believe that heroes should kill if they can help it, considers Bill an Asshole Victim and says that Luz shouldn't feel too bad about her her symbiote side eating him in hangry mode.
• Magik invokes this regarding Taskmaster when explaining how they learned he had a hand in the theft of various supernatural organs. Magik states that Taskmaster is first and foremost a mercenary, an amoral one at that, but he's not evil, so the moment Magik and her team explain to him how someone was using those organs to create some kind of deadly super plague, he immediately starts telling them what he knows, not wanting any part in The End of the World as We Know It.

• Belos possessed Carnage in order recover and to get to Luz, but Cletus was playing up how much control Belos really had over their shared form so he could attack Luz's mind while Belos possessed her body and steal her power for himself.
• Mephisto released Bill and the Core from the Theraprism as part of a plot, but Bill immediately goes and tells Luz about the breakout so there's a chance that their plans will fail.

• After Luz manages to give Belos a good thrashing with her fully awakened symbiote powers and escape without needing to give up the portal door, Belos decides to put greater scrutiny on her by claiming that it's a blessing from the Titan. He even lampshades it, wondering if it's too petty, but decides to indulge his own vices after ignoring Luz's supposed "vice" in her relationship with Amity and do it anyway.
• When he possesses Luz, he tries to break Stringbean apparently just to hurt her, and then stabs Amity while stating that he wished that Luz was aware of what he was doing with her body. Meanwhile, Carnage stalks and torments her in her mental realm for kicks.
• Mephisto wanted the full set of Gravesfield witch hunters in Hell, and it's implied that part of why he personally rubs it into Belos's face that his own sins have damned him is the fact that if he had been one day earlier in his murder of his brother Caleb wouldn't have redeemed himself enough to make it to Purgatory, and eventually make it to Heaven, making Mephisto's collection forever incomplete.
• As per usual with Doctor Doom, he will do anything, no matter how petty, if it means he can upstage Reed Richards. April recounts how he once crashed a celebrity poker game being hosted by Reed and Peter Parker for charity and doubled the pot as his entry fee... just so he could say he beat Reed at a hand of Texas Hold'em. When Luz and Amity answer his summons to the Latverian Embassy, the staff member gives them a tour with numerous paintings, some of which make Reed look particularly stupid. He even agreed to help Bill foil Mephisto's plans in exchange for information on how to one-up Reed once and for all... which Bill didn't give.
• The Core intends to purge the axolotls after regaining control of Amphibia, for no other reason than anger at the Axolotl following its time in the Theraprism.

• Clara and her friends may not be evil so much as rather petty jerks. But they seem to have a hard time understanding that Amity genuinely loves Luz for who she is, quirks and all, even expressing the opinion that their relationship is the result of some deal between Luz and the witches at one point.
• Jacob seems to think that Ford will be eager to see him dissect obviously sapient beings simply because they're "demons".
• The Titan explicitly tells Luz that Belos couldn't understand love, especially romantic love, if it was spelled out to him in giant flaming letters.
• Odalia, who buys the party line on the Day of Unity being for ascending the Coven Heads and select others into higher beings instead of it being a Final Solution plot, can't understand why Amity would oppose witches potentially dying from the Draining Spell for that, since she doesn't, even saying that it's not like anyone that matters will die. Especially since her fake sigil means that she doesn't have to worry herself.
• Doom assumes that Luz's desire to learn magic was driven from a thirst for power instead of her wanting to be like her idol Azura, not to mention loved and appreciated, though part of it is clearly due to him projecting his own circumstances onto her.
• It later turns out that Doom's actions were partially a ploy as part of an agreement with Bill to foil Mephisto's plans, but Bill himself assumes that Luz will become Empress of the Isles once the Collector is stopped, despite saying that she doesn't want power. When he offers it to her directly, she immediately turns him down, mentally noting that even if he wasn't a walking red flag she wouldn't or need any more power right then.

• Camilla is shown to be a much more attentive and caring parent like later in the series, as opposed to how out of touch she seemed in the pilot.
• Eda is fairly familiar with human culture from her repeated trips to Earth, which the author notes makes more sense than her having no real understanding of things. Also, the Running Gag of her not knowing what hugs are is removed due to not making sense, since Demon Realm inhabitants are shown hugging plenty of times.
• Tiny Nose is established as being a friend of Hooty's from her first appearance, rather than that being thrown in as a random gag later on.
• Katya indirectly references being Raine's apprentice in her first appearance, instead of randomly brought back as part of the BATTs later on.
• Hunter's Adaptational Early Appearance is justified by the fact that as Belos' right hand, he really should have shown up a lot sooner than he did in canon.
• The story expands on Lilith and Amity's mentor-apprentice relationship, something that seemed to be the case in "Covention" but was never touched upon after that episode, with even Dana Terrace saying the two of them were never close.
• Masha learning about Vee's true identity and general presence in the Gravesfield arc is explicitly an indulgence on the part of the author, due to disliking the fact that Cabin 7 never learns the full story in canon.
• Similarly, Masha gets a lot more focus than in canon, and they and Vee eventually start dating.
• Luz's mental problems are made more apparent early on and addressed such as her guilt complex, fears of rejection, and desire to be understood.
• Camilla learns about Luz's time in the Demon Realm under better circumstances, so she supports Luz wanting to be there, thereby cutting out the angst that Luz suffered from the halfway mark of Season 2 until "For the Future".
• Instead of sneaking into the Forbidden Stacks to get Phillip's journal, Amity just asks Malphas for it.
• While stuck on Earth, Luz and the Hexsquad get some therapy.

• Vee's reaction to first hearing about Luz's taxidermy project from the pilot.
• And Amity's reaction when Masha points out that humans can breed with anything.

• While thinking back to herself the events of "Once Upon a Swap", Luz makes what initially seems like a random aside about her wrist itching and having bandages over it, with the narration continuing on recounting other episodes that were skipped over due to following The Stations of the Canon, making it seem like things happened nigh-identical to canon there too. Later, when making a splint for Amity's leg, Luz uses the bandages to bind it, causing Amity to see Luz's wrist and learn why it itches: Luz was branded with an Emperor's Coven sigil during the events of "Once Upon a Swap" here, a Coven Scout or rather someone in service of Mephisto pretending to be one branding Luz during the brawl in Bonesborough Market. Since Coven sigils aren't supposed to be used on humans though, it's constantly itching for Luz, and the bandages were applied to stop her from scratching it.
• Eda mentions to Alador that the necklace Odalia forced Amity to wear is not only illegal because the kinds of spells imbued into it were previously used on slaves in the savage ages, but because it's made with a mix of Oracle and Illusion magic. While at first it only seems to show how far Odalia is willing to go to further her Abusive Parents behavior by breaking some of the biggest laws on the Isles, it's later revealed that Odalia's Oracle sigil is fake and that she's also skilled at Illusion magic.
• Although Odalia is under the false assumption that the Draining Spell has an actual purpose (ascending the Coven Heads and a few others into a new tier of being) instead of it just being for killing everyone with a sigil by draining their magic with no goal, she seems oddly unconcerned at the possibility that she will be one of the witches who die to fuel the process (thinking that it'll only affect the weaker witches), even considering her visions and plans for Luz and Amity. This is later revealed to be because her sigil is just a tattoo, meaning it wouldn't affect her regardless.
• The Reveal in Chapter 74 that Belos is actually possessing Carnage gets a fare bit of build up. In addition to their speaking a lot more eloquently compared to how they normally would talk, Luz has to stop herself from letting her depression replace Belos in her mind with Carnage and her sigil is mentioned annoying her with how itchy it is, they noticeably favor bladed appendages and controlled attacks while fighting compared to Carnage's more chaotic and animalistic behavior, and they demonstrate immense vitriol towards Amity compared to everyone else despite Carnage having no reason to despise her, not to mention having a similar expression of sheer hatred towards Hunter and Flapjack that baffles Luz.
• In Chapter 77, Mephisto declares he's going to use Belos' soul as a Trojan Horse for a jailbreak. While not fully explained yet, dialogue in Chapter 80 suggests that this was in reference to breaking Bill Cipher and a being implied to be the Core out of the Theraprism.

• Once Belos finally dies Mephisto gets the Core and Bill involved by breaking them out of the Theraprism, but Bill immediately starts working against Mephisto.

• Two cases happen in Chapter 60:
  • The Avengers get so desperate to reach the Demon Realm on the Day of Unity, they summon Bill Cipher from the Theraprism to ask for his help opening the portal. Ultimately subverted though, as Belos opens the portal himself, so the heroes just banish him.
  • With the combined might of the Hexsquad and the Avengers failing to do more than keep Belos at bay, King is forced to release the Collector, who turns Belos into a puddle of goop and stops the Day of Unity, but proceeds to play "Owl House" with King using the Boiling Isles as his toybox like in canon.
• With Belos possessing Carnage and now both taking over Luz and the concern the Avengers won't be enough to save their new friend, the Calamity Trio meet with Doctor Strange so he can give them access to a lamp that will permanently restore their Calamity powers.

• In order to force Luz to follow her to the Titan's Skull, Odalia has her Oracle Spirit possess Amity and uses her as a hostage.
• Belos, in the body of Carnage already, possesses Luz after she tries killing him the minute she realizes "Carnage" was actually him, immediately attempting to break Stringbean upon doing so but failing thanks to the power noodle managing to get away.

• Luz has symbiote essence that was passed down from her parent's time as hosts and awakened by the background magic of the Isles, but she lacks an actual secondary symbiote consciousness, even after awakening her full symbiote form, making her more of a human/symbiote hybrid than a human host of a symbiote. Author notes even compare her directly to April Parker, and when Mephisto is explaining the nature of her powers, he explicitly describes it as her having four parents (Camilla, Manny, and their symbiotes). Later, she adds Titan to the mix when her absorption of Titan Humours allows her symbiote side to reconstruct the Titan's DNA and integrate it into her physiology.
• Discussed in Chapter 25. When Amity expresses doubt in the theory that witches are a Human Subspecies that resulted from interbreeding with biped demons due to it being implausible that creatures with different evolutionary histories would be compatible (as she's having a minor existential crisis and is trying to poke holes in the idea that she could be a witch and a mutant), Masha interrupts with the tidbit that humans can breed with anything sapient and carbon-based, albeit with the caveat that sometimes outside help is needed to make it work mechanically. Supposedly it has something to do with the experiments of the Celestials. Amity has to force herself to think about how crazy that sounds and not on how she and Luz could have a child together when they grow up if they really wanted to.

• Luz's bullies exclude Luz for being weird and not fitting in with anyone else. This is even after they find out they are actually mutants which, only several years ago, were a marginalized group that was heavily discriminated for being different from everyone else. They also act like Luz is being disruptive at the rock show in the park when they are the ones making a scene, since Luz and Amity are just dancing like several other couples there.
• Odalia constantly hounded her family whenever they wanted to eat "poor people food", saying it was beneath them. When Edric and Emira are cleaning out her office following Alador's decision to divorce her, they find a hidden compartment filled with nothing but "poor people food", a lot of it being the very same stuff she'd yell at her family for eating. Amity outright calls her a hypocrite upon finding out. Rater202 elaborates in an author's note that it's another aspect of her need to flaunt her status, that she will deliberately partake in things that are "fancy" or "wealthy" even if it tastes awful just to show everyone how rich she is, whereas behind closed doors she'll enjoy the very things she derides the "poor people" for enjoying since it genuinely tastes better.
• As revealed in this AU's version of "Hollow Mind", Philip used the diary of the human witch who got her powers from Bill Cipher to call him up in the hopes that he could help build a portal to Earth, despite Gravesfield witch hunters having executed her for doing exactly what he's doing. Luz outright refers to him as a hypocrite immediately after she learns that he's Belos, even implying that all witch hunters are hypocrites.
• Marcy points out to Belos that for all his hatred of the people of the Isles, by the definition of "witch" the puritans used, "a human who made deals with malevolent beings and sacrificed the innocent, especially children and small animals, for power used to harm others, often becoming something inhuman in the process of meddling with unnatural powers beyond mortal understanding," he's the only witch there. Anne also notes that that for someone that claims to be a faithful Christian, while she's not one, she's still pretty sure that he's going against the Bible's decrees on no false prophets.

• Shortly after they reconcile, Willow point blank asks Amity about her crush on Luz, and when Amity confirms Willow first acknowledges that they'd be cute together but then threatens to "throw hands" if Amity hurts the human girl, which Amity agrees is fair.
• Boscha evidently gives Luz a speech like this after she and Amity get together at Grom, saying that she'll feed Luz her own squeedlyspooch if she hurts Amity.

• In Chapter 33, after his musical duel with Luz and Amity, Mephisto tells Belos that he'll see him very soon, clearly implying that Belos will die and finally go to Hell soon enough.
• In chapter 54 Mephisto replies to Odalia confirmin her willingness to let people die to further her own goals by saying he imagines their business relationship will be a long one

• Before Masha informs Luz that they're non-binary, Luz uses she/her pronouns for the other teen a few times. Luckily, they take it in stride, admitting that they still present pretty feminine.
• Masha does this a couple of times after meeting Amity and Luz, assuming that the former being a witch is a learned skill like their own magic rather than her species, and jokingly commenting on the latter's cheesy choices in romantic music. To their credit, they immediately apologize when they realize that Amity is taking offense and that Luz is being reminded of past experiences with bullying.
• Luz and Masha also do this unintentionally to Amity as they talk about the numerous supervillains and alien races in the Marvel Universe like it is no big deal. They do not realize that Amity, having nothing in her realm remotely comparable to what they deal with on a day-to-day basis, is absolutely horrified of what she is hearing and that she won't be able to protect Luz and herself from all the threats in Luz's world.
• When Camila hears about what Odalia tried to do with the marriage contract, she reflexively calls the other woman a "bruja", which is a Spanish term for witch sometimes used as an insult, and apologizes when Amity comments in confusion at her word choice.
• During the events of this AU's take on "Hunting Palismen" Hunter repeats what Belos had told him about the human realm and slavery, and that Luz was likely a second-class citizen or a "savage", not realizing just how insensitive that is until Luz tells him, upon which he immediately apologizes.
• April's club goes harder on Luz than they would have normally because April lied to them that Luz was more of a Blood Knight than she is in order to up her stress levels and get her to unlock her symbiote ESP. They're rather mad at April for making them come across as bullies once the truth comes out.

• Despite Ed and Emira's successful prank causing her to run away, Amity still goes to the Knee, just with Luz and Eda instead of them, and she still works on her fire spell.
• Luz and Amity still face Grom together even if the details are a bit different.
• Jacob Hopkins still holds one of Camila's children prisoner threatening dissection with Camila beating him up for it.
• Since Eda still lost her magic and a lot of her business even though she kept the portal, the events of "Separate Tides" still happened with only minor changes.
• Luz still makes a video for Camila despite still having access to the portal door.
• Despite still having the portal door, Luz still ends up being trapped in the Demon Realm away from her mother after the Golden Guard steals the key from her.
• Even though Luz is on bed rest at the time, Gwen is still able to carry out her plot to "cure" Eda, since Edric and Emira think that helping her is the only way to get Luz the information she wants about the last human to come to the Demon Realm.
• Eda and King's arcs in "Knock Knock Knocking on Hooty's Door" apparently happened more or less as they did in canon while Luz and Amity were on their date.
• Luz and Hunter still end up in Belos's mind and learn his true identity and nature.
• Belos still gets the portal door once he fixes the key.
• Despite Hunter not hiding out at Hexside due to fleeing there in a panic after learning he's a Grimwalker, the Hexoleos still manage to fight off and defeat Adrian Graye and the Illusion Coven, namely thanks to Hunter having the foresight to warn the Emerald Entrails about what the Coven sigils are meant for once he calmed down.
• Belos still gets splattered by the Collector, and Luz, Amity, Hunter, Willow, and Gus all still get stranded on Earth, with Luz getting blasted through the portal by King.

• Stan and Ford Pines appear during the Gravesfield Arc acting as paranormal investigators, Stan reuniting with Eda and the two becoming Amicable Exes. From Stan it's also noted that Mabel is attending Julliard, while Dipper and Pacifica have gotten married. Luz also mentions how Mabel managed to abolish the electoral college during the events of "The Last Mabelcorn", and Doctor Strange regularly assists the town of Gravity Falls, Mayor Tyler even giving Doctor Strange his endorsement. One of the "witches" executed in Gravesfield during the witch trials was also a follower of Bill Cipher's, her dying words being a Caesar Cipher that, when Masha managed to decrypt it, served as a dying prayer to Bill that pledged her soul to him, and Philip used her diary to contact Bill while he was in the Isles in an attempt to gain knowledge on making a portal, Doctor Strange later using it to briefly summon Bill from the Theraprism so as to locate the Demon Realm, banishing him back there when Belos ends up opening a portal himself. Dipper and Mabel later come to Gravesfield to help Stan and Ford with rebuilding the portal, Luz forming a Commonality Connection with Mabel over their similar personalities and shared grief in nearly causing the apocalypse, the two also revealing they've seen Blendin Blandin again since Weirdmageddon and have become genuine friends with him.
• Anne is mentioned to have been visited by Doctor Strange at some point following the invasion of the Newtopian Army, his observations of her reassuring her that she still has her original soul despite her new body, and making sure to frequently check in on her due to her revival by the Guardian of the Calamity Stones making her a potential cosmic level variable. Hooty briefly mentions the Calamity Box being one of the many things in the basement of the Owl House but noting it's lack of charge as well, and Ford mentions having been stuck in Amphibia for about a month during his 30 year long trip through the multiverse. The other prospective candidate for Magik's Trapped in Another World support group is Marcy, Doctor Strange learning its her causing him to pass along the information for the group to Anne and Sasha.
• After Hooty owl pellets her in Chapter 41, Luz mentions that she saw the Axolotl.

• In Chapter 32, everyone learns about Odalia's working arrangement with Mephisto.
• In Chapter 44, Luz learns how the "scout" who gave her a sigil was an imposter, and she tells everyone about her conversation with the Titan.
• In Chapter 46, Amity finally finds out that Boscha has a crush on her.
• In Chapter 49, besides the canonical reveals that Philip is Belos and that he has the Collector and is planning on killing everyone in the Isles via the Draining Spell the latter taught him, Luz and Hunter learn that Eda is descended from Caleb, and that Amity is the one witch Belos is willing to consider sparing.
• In Chapter 56, Luz tells Amity that King is a Titan.
• Downplayed with Chapter 69, as while Hunter doesn't reveal the specifics like how he's a Grimwalker of Caleb Wittebane, he does admit to everyone that he's a clone of sorts after April and Gabby reveal that they're clones and that they firmly believe Clones Are People, Too, deciding to join them at their meeting in Clones Anonymous.
• Chapter 81 has Hunter tell Masha the full story of Caleb and Belos.

• Odalia Blight only cares about herself and how she can stand to benefit from things, any "love" for her family being her lying through her teeth and thinking of them as only extensions of herself, abusing them if they get out line. She knows that the Draining Spell will kill some of the people with sigils, if not that it's part of a Final Solution plot, but since she doesn't have a real sigil, she doesn't care, even saying that it's not like anyone that "matters" will die, and seems baffled that Amity would care at all. When Amity all but disowns her on the Day of Unity, Odalia's response is to put the necklace back on her and blast her with an Emotion Bomb, nearly ranting into Amity's head how she belongs to her, only stopping due to Luz hitting her Rage Breaking Point and nearly doing to Odalia what she did to Bill had Amity not intervened, and even then Odalia's only response is to force her Oracle Spirit into Amity and use her as a hostage to ensure Luz follows her to the Titan's Skull.
• Belos has an innate desire to see himself as the hero of his own story, perpetually deluding himself and rationalizing anything that goes against his view of being the "brave witch hunter" doing God's work and cleansing the world of "sinners" and "demons", and that it will all be worth it when he returns to the Human Realm where he will be lauded as a hero. This is put on full display when facing the Hexsquad and the Avengers as he goes into a Motive Rant, going on about how he sacrificed everything to cause the Day of Unity, how he's being attacked by monsters that are getting in the way of four hundred years of his work, and how he will have to "save" the Human Realm from itself once he's done with the Boiling Isles.

• Darius Deamonne may be leading a rebellion to stop Belos, has great care for Hunter, and ultimately wants to protect the Boiling Isles, but years of pain, lost friendships, and working from inside a corrupt system has left him rather callous and an Unscrupulous Hero, and a frequent practitioner of being Cruel to Be Kind. His training with Amity perfectly encapsulates this, as while training her to control Abomination Metamorphosis requires getting her angry, he does so by belittling her at every turn for several days hoping for a reaction from her, which only results in her crying herself to sleep after he's practically destroyed her self-esteem. Once he finally gets a reaction by threatening Luz, it takes him a minute to realize that he actually crossed the line with Amity by doing so, especially after admitting it was just a bluff and that he'd never go through with it since he knows the pain of losing a loved one. As a result, Amity now wants nothing to do with him, only agreeing to associate with him in any capacity in the future if he can get her some Titan Bone. Raine lampshades this after recounting how he let them and Eda go and hearing about what he put Amity through, stating that while Darius is a jerk, he has his principles.
• April Parker/Mayhem may be more stable compared to her usual futures, but its clear she has baggage still from being a clone and the more brutal ways she was trained, fully willing to consider herself the "evil twin" and others hating her if she can help people. This becomes heavily apparent when she tricks Luz into what she says is an invitation to join her club for training in the Danger Room, but had tricked her clubmates into thinking Luz was a Blood Knight who wouldn't mind a beating, resulting in them beating the shit out of Luz so her negative emotions would flare up and she could train Luz on how to use her Symbiote's ESP, and she won't take Luz wanting to stop for an answer, blinding her briefly and making clear she fully intended on Luz hating her if it meant training her properly. All this does though is gain her the enmity of the Hexsquad and Camila, the anger of her clubmates for using them to beat up Luz and possibly damaging any future friendship they could have had with Luz, the frustration of Wolverine who plans to have a talk with Peter over her behavior, and being on thin ice with Luz over her stunt even if she's willing to forgive April for now.

• The Titan dragged the Archivists into the In-Between, sealed them away, and then broke the mirrors for all of them save the Collector, with the power of the other seals flowing to the Collector's as their siblings died in agony due to their mirrors being broken. Given their sadistic tendencies in hunting down creatures that had no ability to resist, and their genocide of the Titans, they deserved every moment of the agony and helplessness they typically inflicted on their victims.
• Odalia was willing to sell everyone else out for her own benefit, as well as having horribly abused her family, Amity in particular, and treated her more as a bargaining chip for her own benefit than her daughter, to the point of threatening her life to force her and Luz into becoming Belos's heirs. It's only fitting then that, once she delivers Amity to Belos and he sees for himself that she faked having a Coven sigil, that he decides she is no longer of use to him, petrifying her before turning the now statue into dust.
• The Core, after being reduced to its Darcy headset form once its main body is destroyed, is killed by Marcy, its main victim and former unwilling host.

• Luz mentions using coffee to help manage her ADHD, having an official diagnosis in this fic. She describes it as "black as night, with lots of sugar." A later chapter clarifies that it's dark and vicious, is still very bitter despite having enough sugar that the crystals don't fully dissolve, and Eda claims that you could stain a coffin with it and that King tried some and spent ten minutes on the floor twitching. Luz jokingly prays to Loki while brewing it, with Loki himself stating nothing he can do could ever fix that abomination Luz calls coffee, telling her to just put Mountain Dew in the coffee maker at that point. Amity tries two cups worth to keep warm at the Knee and she's jittery, says she can't feel her legs, and notes that Luz's eyes are pretty and is starting to ask her out before Luz tells her that she's had enough.
• Lilith's coffee is apparently just as bad as Luz's, having first made the stuff when she first joined the Emperor's Coven, and managing to be just as powerful if only slightly better tasting. Luz starts using it when she can't find a demon realm soda with a caffeine level and flavor profile to that of Mountain Dew.
• Luz tries the "Blam Berry Blitz" drink when Anne mentions it, and despite being an energy drink and not coffee it otherwise fits this trope, having more caffeine than the coffee Luz normally drinks, causing her to switch between moments of intense productivity and feeling hyper-focused on random thoughts with her heart racing and feeling warm. It certainly doesn't help that she drank the entire bottle at once, which counts as five servings, but Camila has her drink some water and take some activated charcoal pills for poisoning, with the others noting that with her having the highest caffeine tolerance out of all of them except maybe Hunter and being part Titan, that high a dose would probably have killed any of the others.

• Edric and Emira posted pages of Amity's private diary across the school as a prank. This leads to Amity running away from home for days, Edric and Emira getting chased and beaten up by Warden Wrath and his Guards before being tossed into the Conformitorium (due to his son Braxas being fond of Amity), and then they are unable to find anyone willing to be their date for Grom because they're viewed as jerks.
• When summoned by the heroes to get information on how to open the portal from the Earth side, Bill spends most of the time he's on Earth mocking and insulting the heroes, before trying to force them to give him a new body in exchange for the information. But his need to insult them costs him so much time that before they can make a deal, Belos opens the portal himself, so Strange banishes Bill back to the Theraprism
• Bill makes a deal with Doom to help with the former's plans in exchange for giving the Latverian king knowledge on how to best Reed Richards once and for all, but reneges on his side because they never shook on it. Later, when Bill makes a deal with Luz, she traps him when he possesses her and forces him to give him the knowledge of how to get the portal door working again, only to deny helping him get his body back because as a minor any contract she makes without a parent or legal guardian present isn't legally binding.

• When Amity compares herself to Hecate, Luz starts to draw positive comparisons between her girlfriend and the character, but gets sidetracked into how Azura's relationship with Hecate is one of the most well-written and healthy romances in fiction, which is an opinion the author has expressed in a number of places in regards to Lumity.
• Eda and Lilith's offscreen grudgby game is stated to last "the length of an average children's cartoon episode, give or take a few commercial breaks".
• A good portion of Luz and Anne's talk in Chapter 86 is spent on them discussing and deconstructing the various tropes found in adventure-fantasy style works and relating them to their own experiences, such as The Hero's Journey not really accounting for things that can't be changed by some grand adventure and how easy it can be to screw the journey up, or how more often than not a lot of stories like theirs inherently carry traumatizing elements that would reasonably screw up the protagonist's mental health only for most works to just handwave such details. Fitting since the two of them are the leads of series that are known for both deconstructing and reconstructing the very tropes they discussed.
• During the Core-led Phalanx invasion, when all the heroes from around the world are organizing a defense, it's noted that an attempt to follow on Japan's offer to help has revealed that no one's seen the Big Hero 6 since 2014. As noted by Word of God, this is a nod towards how the team got quietly retired from the comics when the movie came out in order to avoid brand confusion.

• It's lampshaded by Luz when Willow and Lilith react in surprise when they hear how they found the fire glyph when stranded on the Knee.
• Luz doesn't initially tell anyone that the Titan spoke to her. While that's explainable due to how she believed it to be a fever dream from the common mold, even after Strange confirms what the Titan said about magic was accurate, she doesn't mention it until Hunter gets riled up at the idea of Luz absorbing the Titan humors to burn out her sigil.
• Until he meets Carnage, Belos is under the mistaken impression that Luz is a "witchbreed", AKA a mutant.
• In Chapter 92, Anne realizes that she's also terrible at keeping people in the loop when she realizes that she forgot to tell X that the Calamity Trio got their powers back.

• Luz reneges on her side of the deal with her and Bill because as a minor, any contracts involving her aren't legal without a parent or guardian present.

• Eda quickly takes Amity under her wing during her time as a runaway, and later makes it clear to Alador that if Odalia drives her away again, Eda's outright keeping her. She also threatened to run Principal Bump through a woodchipper if Luz was named Grom Queen.
• Camila beats the snot out of Jacob Hopkins with La Chancla for kidnapping Luz and also tasering her while keeping her prisoner.
• When the heroes come through the portal on the Day of Unity, Camila is the first one through, punching Belos hard in the face.

• Invoked regarding the future Odalia's Oracle spirit foretells as likely to happen, as the second stanza of the fortune reads "Where famished friend shall meet the unyielding light". The name "Amity" is derived from the latin amicus, meaning "friend"; the word "Blight" refers to a deadly disease that causes famines; the name "Luz" in Spanish means "light"; the name "Noceda" in Spanish means "never give up" or "unyielding". So the stanza is quite literally referring the meaningful names of Amity and Luz and referring to when the two meet. "Where famished friend (Amity Blight) shall meet the unyielding light (Luz Noceda)".
• Future Luz (the Mother from The Hecate Sisters) mentions that hers and Amity's child is called Sabrina, as a Shout-Out to Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996). The author says they dislike the Fandom-Specific Plot of Luz and Amity naming their child Azura because Luz's narrative is about choosing her own destiny, while part of Amity's is about asserting her own identity and deciding what kind of person she wants to be and it doesn't seem right that they'd name their kid something with that much baggage in that light.

• When Hunter is giving a big speech to set up Luz and Amity's duel, Luz ends up interrupting to exclaim in shock when he mentions Eda and Lilith being related. This throws Hunter off, causing him to forget what he was going to say and decide to just start the duel.
• Clara and her cronies arrive in Chapter 21 to ruin a perfectly tender moment between Luz and Amity for them to make fun of her. It seems they were put off about how a weirdo like her was having a good time while they weren't.

• Mephisto, when talking to his co-conspirator Odalia, explains several things to them, like Luz's heritage, Knull, and how magic is classified.
• Later, the Titan contacts Luz and explains to her about Knull, the categories of magic, the history of the Titans, and the origins of the Archivists.
• Doctor Strange later repeats this explanation of magic for Camila, Masha, Vee, and Amity, and gives a history lesson on Kulan Gath.

• Amity's initially comparing Clara to herself is one to the fact that, early in the shows production, Clara's design was meant to be Amity, before being repurposed as a Recurring Extra that would become Clara.
• When Bill Cipher is summoned, he makes reference to numerous events in Marvel comics that happened in canon but not here, in particular trying to get a rise out of Peter by referencing One More Day, remarking to himself when Peter doesn't react that it must not have happened in this timeline. This of course being a reference to how Bill canonically can see "a kaleidoscope of temporal probability with fluctuating range", i.e. see multiple timelines and realities all at once.

• When the Golden Guard's absence was noted, Belos said that he was on an undercover mission, apparently assuming that he'd come crawling back or die without his artificial magic staff, and when he found out that Hunter was with the heroes he couldn't admit the truth. This lets Hunter just bluff his way into Blight Industries to see Alador about the master remote they need.
• The Coven sigil that was plaguing Luz for so long only gets burnt out after Belos possesses her, his using the sigil while burning her lifeforce burning it out.

• During Knull's invasion of Earth, President Fiddleford McGucket fought off the attack on DC using a mecha made out of the White House, with the city only suffering minor damage as a result.
• Sadly, Gus defeating Adrian, and Hexside defending against the Illusion Coven members trying to force them to get sigils, doesn't get shown at all, just the aftermath.
• Gus and Sprite's defeat of Mysterio is also sadly offscreen, but within ten minutes they reduce the villain to a sobbing wreck, outright begging Spider-Man to get him away from them.
• While Luz is journeying on the Witch's Road, Clea imprisons her uncle Dormammu in the Theraprism once more.

• Lampshaded by Mayhem regarding Miles, who she calls "Kid Arachnid" instead of "Spider-Man", finding it weird to call him the latter.

• Luz, who never swears, refers to Wakanda as "bastards" for not sharing the cure for cancer (implicitly because of her father's death from it). Amity even notes that it sounds wrong for her to say something like that.
• Invoked by Amity, who specifically calls her empathic ability a mutant power despite her issues coming to terms with the fact that the accepted theory of her race's origins is a lie in order to drive in how serious she's being regarding what she's sensing from Luz in Chapter 47.
• It says a lot that Luz immediately uses Stringbean to blast the Belos-Carnage with a massive magical attack when he reveals himself, and shows no guilt over doing so, even saying that he had it coming when April lampshades how oddly calm she is for someone who apparently just killed a man. To drive it in further, she shows more hesitation when facing off against Carnage in her mind, if mainly due to the mental torment he was inflicting on her, while she blasts the essence of Belos that was inside of her as soon as it comes out.

• The Golden Guard sincerely congratulates Luz and Amity on their relationship when Luz told him they are dating. He also feels some pity for Luz when she fell unconscious after absorbing too much power from Titan Blood from the portal key, and chooses to take her back home. And he even tracks down Piniet and forces him to give Luz the money she earned from that book she and King wrote together.
• Back then when he was principal, Faust saves Bump from being killed by Grom as it paralyzed him with illusions of all his dead students. Bump mentions it was one of the few good things the insufferable disciplinarian did with his life.
• After Luz makes his maid Helga serve Doom first to prove that the tea isn't drugged or poisoned, clearly frightening the woman, Doom gives her the rest of the day off once everyone is served.

• Downplayed. While Philip's hatred of witches, fueled by the witch-hunting attitude of Gravesfield when he grew up there, means that he is far less racist towards those of African-American descent than you'd expect of someone from that era, according to the chapter notes his speech to Hunter on the subject is full of his usual Self-Serving Memory on how he viewed such things back then, and that with no witches or demons around he'd probably devolve into White Man's Burden-type racism, trying to educate the "savages" and getting mad if they reject his beliefs, because he's the kind of person that needs someone to hate, which shows in his rant when the Avengers and other heroes attack him during the Day of Unity. Luz herself dislikes Belos's perspective on her and what she would have been like in the 1600s when Hunter mentioned it to her. She bluntly says slavery has been abandoned for hundreds of years and that it is highly offensive to boil down people's identity to their racial backgrounds. In "Hollow Mind", she's also enraged by him calling her relationship with Amity a "vice".
• When Strange summons Bill's spirit, he quickly clarifies to Masha that he uses "he"/"him" pronouns in the latter's dimension, and shows no issue with Masha using "they"/"them" pronouns.
• Doom offhandedly mentions that same-sex marriages have been legal in Latveria for decades now, and that while there aren't any laws forbidding child marriages he personally disapproves of them. While it's clear he's saying this to entice Luz and Amity into willingly joining him after he can no longer strongarm them once Magnus shows up, the fact that Doom more often than not canonically does truly care for the people of his nation and is in turn beloved by them lends credence to his feelings on those matters being genuine.

• Gus creates an Old Man Henderson illusion to distract the coven scouts and keep them away from Eda's petrification ceremony, but doesn't tell Amity this, so when she hears that they've dealt with "the insane human", she thinks that Luz is captured or dead. The only reason that he avoids being thrashed by her is that witch puberty hit him like a truck and she figured that the after-effects of his growth spurt were painful enough.
• The Titan didn't tell Luz about the Stable Time Loop to avoid a time paradox, which is understandable, but he also failed to mention that King was his son because he wasn't sure how much Luz would remember through her common mold delirium (assuming that she didn't think it was just a dream) and knew that King likely wouldn't believe it if she did tell him. He admits later that if he knew that Strange would give her confirmation that it was real by giving a similar explanation of magic to what the Titan told Luz in the dream he might have tried it.
• Luz, not wanting to risk getting someone else involved and desperate to get the portal open again, makes a deal with Bill without talking to the Pines siblings first about him.

• When Luz fully unlocks her symbiote powers, Belos assumes that she's a "witchbreed" (an archaic term for "mutants"), not knowing that she lacks the mutant gene or that there are multiple kinds of superhumans on Earth. He also initially assumes that Luz's shadow aura is a result of some kind of unusual glyph combo, when in reality she hasn't figured out that combos exist by that point in time.
• Later, Lilith speculates that Belos might have a symbiote or be a hybrid like Luz himself, when in actuality he's a human Witch Hunter that became what he is from eating Palismen to extend his life.

• Doom, during his meeting with Luz, is notably projecting some of his circumstances and motivations onto her, like assuming that her desire to become a witch and learn magic was for power instead of Luz wanting to be loved and appreciated (and cool).

• Luz hits hers during the fight with Belos when he takes Owlbert from her, leading to her symbiote powers fully unlocking, at which point she delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle on him.
• Darius explains that a moment like this is key to Abomination witches mastering their monster forms, pure anger unlocking the transformation, and calling on the memory of that feeling allowing you to master it. For him, it was rage over his mentor's death, while for Amity it's any threat against Luz.
• While Luz had been trying to keep her calm while being faced by the Inner Belos, she loses it once he calls her and Amity's love a "shared vice", blasting him with a massive fireball out of sheer rage.
• Thanks in part from hormone inbalances from her symbiote side, Luz devours Bill after he tries to go after King despite her having just threatened to do just that to him if he did that.

• Principal Bump as in canon, even outright praising Luz for the positive impact that she's had on Hexside.
• Principal Hall tries to be this, as even if he clearly doesn't really understand Luz he still tries and wants to help her, even being genuinely glad that she's happy at Hexside and saying that it'll be fine if she takes an equivalency test.
• Wolverine proves to be rather fair as Headmaster of the Jean Grey Institute, not wanting to see Clara, Scott, and Suzy get arrested for being dumb teenagers, but also wanting to do right by their victims, expressing leniency with them while still giving them a fair punishment after hearing from Luz and Amity. He likewise offers Luz and Amity a place at the school and respects their decision not to go, offers Camila and Vee his support when Camila makes known how Vee needs legal aid, and is nothing but supportive while trying to ease Amity into the idea she's a mutant.

• Chapter 23 explains what the deal was with the imposter Coven scout who branded Luz: he was doing so on behalf of Mephisto, who is working with Odalia to manipulate events to make Luz become the Queen in Black.
• Chapter 84 reveals that Doctor Doom's entire effort to force Luz into his apprenticeship was because he'd cut a deal with Bill Cipher, who is trying to undermine Mephisto's plan, for his own amusement.

Luz: They are all wonderful people who I am lucky to call my friends and there's no Titan taken way they'd hold it against me! (Beat) Oh, you're good.

Sasha: Yeah, I've always been the manipulative one. I saw a chance to use it for good and I took it.

• Odalia postulates that Luz's mother would have no objections to her relationship with Amity because the Blights are old money and a commoner should feel honored that someone of wealth noticed their child. Camila doesn't actually learn that Amity comes from money until well after they meet, she supports the relationship unconditionally, but because Luz and Amity clearly care for each other and seem to be good for each other instead of for financial reasons.
• Luz states that Belos is lying to Hunter about having been to the Human Realm, because his knowledge regarding slavery and race relations is outdated by centuries, and since witches have the same average lifespan as humans (80 to 100 years), he'd be long dead if he'd been to the Human Realm back when that information was up to date. Unknown to Luz, while Belos is lying to Hunter about a lot, in this case he thinks he's telling the truth because he's been prolonging his life artificially with palismen for centuries, so he's simply ignorant of how things have changed on Earth in his absence.
• Belos attributes Amity's good nature solely to Luz's influence, in that she "saved" Amity from her inherently "sinful nature", due to his inherent bias' for humans and against witches. He is correct in that Luz did influence Amity to change for the better, but Luz more accurately aided Amity in breaking free from the abuse Odalia put her through, with Amity being inherently good natured but forced to deny it for so long, only able to embrace her truest self thanks to meeting and falling in love with Luz.

• Luz undergoing some kind of change and finding out that she's still lactose-intolerant afterwards.
• Luz and company lampshading that they're terrible at sharing information with each other.

• As part of her I Want My Beloved to Be Happy stance, Boscha immediately makes herself Amity's wingman in regards to hooking up with Luz.
• Hooty is also revealed to be a Lumity shipper even more than the rest of the Owl House crew, even trying to come up with a ship name for them. He's later revealed to have done the same with Raeda back in the day.
• Amity and Luz both briefly wonder if they should help Vee with Masha after realizing the basilisk's crush, but Vee ends up asking Masha out on her own.
• Camila makes it clear that, after seeing how much Luz and Amity care for one another, that she supports their relationship unconditionally.

• Chapter 7 opens with Luz, Amity, and King piled up in Luz's sleeping bag, and when Amity manages to wiggle her way out without waking them up, the other two start cuddling as well.
• To keep Luz calm and make her get some much-needed rest after Odalia kidnaps Amity, the Hexaquad has their Palismen climb onto her.

• While Belos killing the previous Golden Guard, aka his friend and mentor, was more than enough reason for Darius to turn rebel, it was the sudden appearance of Hunter as a toddler that clued Darius onto the idea something was going on, since not only did Hunter call Belos his uncle just like the previous Golden Guard, he had the same name as him too, and conveniently showed up right after Belos killed the previous one.
• When meeting the Titan Trappers and initially thinking that they're King's tribe, Hunter immediately notes that their body language is wrong for their physical appearances. Hooty also picks up on how odd it is that they're wearing clothes, since King always complains about clothes feel on his fur, and Luz admits that their views on the Titans don't match what she heard when speaking to the Titan himself.

• Amity never learned to swim, as she was always sneaking away with Willow during her lessons, so she might have drowned in the graveyard if Vee hadn't rescued her.
• Witches in general have muscles and bones that are more dense than normal humans, so they sink more easily.

• Even a Demon Realm Conspiracy Theorist like Tiny Nose thinks that anti-vaxxers, or their Demon Realm equivalents, are nuts.
• When Luz is telling Amity about the Superhero Civil War, she explains how it was all engineered by Mephisto as part of his plan to manipulate Spider-Man into giving up his marriage. She writes it off as a petty act by a "complete loser", with Luz speaking dismissively of his ranting about "Spider-Man being more relatable when he was single", which was the official explanation given for One More Day by Marvel.
• According to Luz, shipping real people is "cringe." This gets subverted later on when Hooty calls her and Amity's ship "Amluitzy", and she immediately says their name is "Lumity", before backtracking and trying to reiterate the idea, Hooty clearly not buying it while making clear she's not above doing it.
• Disney briefly used "Luzity" as a ship name for Luz and Amity instead of "Lumity", which Hooty uses as as suggestion when trying to come up with a ship name himself, Eda saying that it sounds like an herbal supplement from a 3 am infomercial.
• When Luz and Masha are telling Amity and Vee about the various power players of the Marvel Universe, the fact that Wakanda is withholding all its advanced technology because the rest of the world doesn't "deserve" it is presented in a fairly negative life.
• Luz refers to fanfiction involving marriage contracts, an epidemic in some fandoms, as "cringy."
• Ford is not a fan of Rick Sanchez, considering him a Composite Character of his own and Stan's traits without any depth, who could change the world for the better but is too busy being The Hedonist rather than accept help for his problems.
• The author clearly isn't a fan of how the Harry Potter books handle Harry's PTSD in book five, and how it's brushed off entirely in book six.
• Luz stopped reading the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books because she wasn't a fan of how the author handled Percy's ADHD and dyslexia.

Doctor Strange: You aren't there for one borderline apocalypse and you never hear the end of it...

• When Squirrel Girl shows up to the Latverian Embassy, you can tell that Doom is resigned to her handing him another beatdown.

• Principal Faust apparently died because he ignored the Beast Keeping Professor's instructions when a dangerous Beast Demon predator was in the pen.
• Despite being told exactly what she'll do to him if he doesn't stay away from King, Bill still tries to have him sacrificed so he can achieve his "eternal glory". Luz makes sure to slaughter the Titan Trappers as a result by giving into her Symbiote side.
• Odalia. Even disregarding her trusting Mephisto and taking the Day of Unity at face value, she keeps trying to set things up so that Luz and Amity will ascend to the throne of the Boiling Isles, so the Blight family (namely her), can benefit from their association with them, but she keeps alienating them in the process as it becomes clear that she doesn't actually care about them beyond this, even after she keeps seeing how powerful and dangerous the two of them (especially Luz) are becoming, like when Amity barely stops Luz from killing Odalia and the older witch thinks that it's a good idea to then use her Oracle spirit to take control of Amity as a hostage and threaten to stop her heart if Luz doesn't give herself up to Belos, clearly not considering how the two hating her so much from these actions will backfire on her even if her plans succeed. Her blindly trusting Belos despite knowing about the Draining Spell, if not the true purpose of it, because her sigil being fake means that she's safe from it, ultimately gets her killed when Belos sees said sigil is fake because Odalia couldn't be bothered to fix her sleeves even though Amity could clearly tell that the sigil was fake after tearing them, and he petrifies her on the spot.

• Luz fully unlocks her symbiote form out of panic and anger towards Belos taking Owlbert from her.
• Crossing over with Rage Breaking Point, the Abomination transformation is fueled by anger, though it only requires the memory of the emotion after the first couple times. Darius unlocked the ability fully when the previous Golden Guard, his mentor, was killed, and Amity unlocks it when Darius threatens Luz to get her mad enough to do it deliberately.

• Eda insists that human magic users like Doctor Strange, or even Wanda Maximoff despite her hero name, are Sorcerers, not real witches like herself, and that they can't just learn what they do when Luz expresses her desire to stay and be a witch. After their duel, Amity assumes that Luz had to have bargained with some spirit for her powers. Amity in particular has a dim view of Sorcerers, comparing their bargaining for power to cheating, which Luz agrees with when she thinks about it from a witch's perspective. Because of this, Amity is initially uncomfortable with Masha when the latter reveals that they're a Sorcerer, but tries to not let her prejudices taint their interactions. It's also shown that at least some of this is based on faulty information, like Amity assuming that a Sorcerer Supreme must eat other magic users and beings to gain power, because she got it from a book in the library that described all Sorcerers as if they were Kulan Gath or from that same era.
• Then there's "abnormal talents", which Luz theorizes are the equivalent of mutant powers in witches (which is confirmed when Cerebro registers Amity as a mutant). They can fall roughly into one of the nine main types of magic or align with the basic spells anyone can use, but aren't sealed by sigils and don't require spell circles or use bile, though a user can still tire themselves out with them. Despite this, for some reason most witches who have them only really use them much if they're aligned with the type of magic they specifically use, with Amity keeping her own abilities as The Empath secret so Odalia won't try to force her into the Oracle track just so she'll be more like her mother, since she likes Abomination magic.
• This comes up again when several of Earth's magic users take offense to some things said during the charity dance competition regarding Luz having earned being called a witch by Boiling Isles standards.

• Despite Amity quite literally stopping Luz from tearing her apart, Odalia doesn't hesitate to force her Oracle Spirit into Amity and use her as a hostage to protect herself and force Luz to go the Titan's Skull.
• Played with. Despite Luz advocating for leniency despite what they did to her, Clara and Suzy remain hostile towards her when they run into each other at the Jean Grey Institute, having the gall to blame her for Carnage killing Jacob Hopkins, even attempting to antagonize the rest of the Hexsquad despite Camila being right there. Scott at the very least seems to have changed for the better, not blaming Luz for his uncle's death, appreciating her coming to offer her condolences to him, and being the only one of her former bullies to seem remorseful for what they did to her and Amity.

• In Chapter 23, it's revealed that Odalia is working with Mephisto to manipulate events to make Luz become the Queen in Black. For the former, it's to gain power for her family (through Amity being Luz's consort), while the latter initially appears to only be doing it For the Evulz, though it's later made clear that he's working towards an unknown bigger plan.
• During the post-Day of Unity part of the story, Mephisto breaks Bill Cipher and the Core out of the Theraprism and allies with them for the furtherance of his master plan.

• Amity turns Abomination form and threatens to strangle her mother for trying to make Luz feel bad about herself and manipulate her into breaking off their relationship.
• When Amity hears about just how much bullying Luz suffered at her Human Realm school, she starts making plans to burn the building down.
• Amity tells off the bullies who were mean to Luz for being creepy and cheesy, defending her and talking about what a great person she is who deserves all the love and appreciation she has been denied before.
• In Chapter 23, we learn that in some of Odalia's visions Luz or Amity have gone on a rampage if something happened to the other, with one showing Amity standing over a razed castle and another showing Luz in the same position with an army of monsters, presumably symbiotes.
• In Chapter 38, Darius gets Amity mad enough to successfully unlock her Abomination form by threatening Luz, prompting Amity to try and kill him to protect her.
• In Chapter 39, upon hearing about the emotional turmoil Darius put Amity through as training, Luz bluntly states that she's going to kill him.

• Chapter 23 reveals that Odalia is working with Mephisto to manipulate events into Luz becoming the Demon Realm's Queen in Black, replacing the Titans (who are explained to have been the Demon Realm's Elder Gods).
• Chapter 25 confirms Luz's earlier speculation that Amity has the mutant gene when Amity gets picked up on Cerebro, thus proving that witches are a Human Subspecies like Eda said.
• Chapter 29 has Hunter steal the portal key, and has Luz gain magic due to her symbiote side absorbing some of the Titan's blood in it when it spills during their struggle over it.
• Chapter 42 has Luz talk with the Titan while sick with the common mold after absorbing Titan Bone, and Eda and King end up bringing Hunter back to the Owl House with them from Eclipse Lake.
• Chapter 45 has Eda officially adopt Luz due to Camila wanting her to have an actual legal guardian while on the Isles, Luz signing the papers as "Luz Noceda-Clawthorne", and thanks to Philip throwing a jar of Titan Bile at Luz when she and Lilith were in the past, Luz has become part-Titan now, gaining a bile sack and other trace elements of Titan physiology, expanding her magic ability.
• Chapter 49 has Luz and Hunter learn that Eda is descended from Evelyn and Caleb in addition to learning that Philip is Belos, and Luz accidentally absorbs the Palisman souls, who pass on their magical knowledge and remaining power before they pass on after being freed from Belos's mind.
• Chapter 60 has, in addition to Bill being summoned briefly from the Theraprism, the revelation that Carnage is hiding out in Gravesfield.
• Chapter 74 reveals that the one who shot Luz was Bullseye, who is immediately killed by who everyone initially believes is Carnage, but is actually Belos possessing Cletus.
• Chapter 77 reveals that the distilled curse essences were in the bullet that Luz was shot with, and the Titan gifts Luz the remainder of his power and lifeforce to save her, after catching her up on what is happening in the Isles with the Collector. Meanwhile Belos is tracked down by the Ghost Rider and is finally sent to Hell, where Mephisto reveals that Caleb managed to get to Heaven and reunite with Evelyn before possessing Belos for a plan of his.
• Chapter 80 not only has Bill confirm to Luz that someone busted him out of the Theraprism, along with what is heavily implied (and later confirmed) to be the Core, but Doom invites Luz for a meeting.
• Chapter 91. Despite starting as a lighthearted chapter, it takes a twist by the end as the Core, now controlling a fleet of Phalanx robots and ships, starts to invade Earth, and soon Luz, Anne and Sasha realize the Hive Mind is going after Marcy.
• Chapter 98. Luz's depression flares up and she makes a deal with Bill for knowledge on the portal door and gets possessed.

Amity: The point is, you don't need to worry about the future that much We have plenty of time and if I have anything to say about it we'll have plenty more.

• Mephisto explicitly states that while the transcendent slaying properties of Luz's symbiote side might let her stand a chance against Mephisto under normal circumstances, especially since he's also weaker than normal due to the Isles being outside of his normal area of operations, her weakness due to the sigil's reaction to absorbing Titan's blood means that she lacks the stamina for a proper fight.
• Part of the reason the Avengers have such a hard time with Belos in Luz's body is that they're holding back to not hurt the girl whose body he's hijacking, or to reassure Amity, which Belos mocks them for.

• A mutual example during the Gravesfield Arc: Luz starts self-deprecating and calling herself "not a real witch" after realizing that the glyphs don't work in the human realm when she tries to show Camila what she's learned, prompting Amity to start hyping up her accomplishments in regard to magic and in general, finishing with how Luz has made a lot of lives better. At the end of the arc, when Camila asks Amity about herself, the witch reflexively downplays her talents and emphasizes her flaws, prompting Luz to note how she's too humble and hype her up in turn.
• When Luz gets sick with the Common Mold, the Titan manages to contact her and gives her a speech to this effect.
• A minor example, but when Doctor Strange is revealing to the Nocedas, Masha, and Amity the requirements needed to take up the role of a dimension's Sorcerer Supreme, and mentions that they need to have the "widest breadth of knowledge of magic in that dimension", Amity suggests that Luz could fit that point, or could soon enough, bringing up her being in every magic track at Hexside, the first student to officially do so even before Belos came into power, and soaking up the knowledge like a sponge, that she's memorized most of Eda's salvaged books on wild magic, and her skill with the glyphs and glyph combos in response to Luz's self-deprecatory comment that she's still got miles to go, finishing off by saying that if she's not already there, that Luz has two years tops to go before she reaches that point.
• After this AU's version of "Hollow Mind", when Luz is beating herself up over helping Philip/Belos in the past, feeling like it's her responsibility to stop him now as a result, Lilith, Eda, Hunter and King all reassure her, pointing out that a manipulative witch hunter like Belos would have found someone to help him even if Luz hadn't been there, and that Luz has done so much good in the present.
• After Luz loses control of her Symbiote side in a rage and eats Bill for threatening King, the Titan reassures her that she isn't a monster, and that Bill absolutely deserved his fate. Spider-Man further reassures her when she gets back to Earth.
• While explaining her situation to Agatha Harkness, Luz tries to brush off any notion that she's special and it just being the result of the circumstances. Her mom, Vee, and the Hexsquad immediately remind her of all the things she's done for them, making it clear that she is special.

• Despite the Earth heroes doing everything that they can, they and the resistance are unable to stop Belos from starting the Draining Spell.
• While he is forced to reveal himself early due to Bullseye shooting Luz, and is seemingly obliterated by Luz blasting him with Stringbean, Belos survived and managed to possess her.

• As part of his plan with Odalia, Mephisto acts like he plans to take the souls of the Blights save Amity for Odalia failing her contract, and possibly Luz's when she offers hers up as collateral.
• When the one Gravesfield witch that was actually supernatural was hung, her dying words when written phonetically formed a Caesar Cipher praising Bill Cipher and committing her soul to him, though whether or not he actually got it is unclear.