Luz Noceda

According to Terrace, Luz is named after her Dominican-American roommate, Luz Batista, a story artist and consultant for the show.[4][5] Terrace also said that Luz's character evolved from conversations she had with Luz Batista, who later became her best friend.[6] Later, Nancy Kanter, EVP, Content and Creative Strategy of Disney Channels Worldwide explained that while they loved the "combination of magic and mystery in this other world" of The Owl House, they really "fell in love with the main character Luz," leading them to green-light the show itself.[7] This connected with Terrace's hope that audiences are "entertained by Luz’s world and her off-the-wall adventures."[6]

On July 7, 2020, series creator Dana Terrace, when responding to a fan who posted a still of Amity putting her hands on Luz's shoulder,[8] from a promotion for the upcoming episode "Enchanting Grom Fright" on Twitter, said that there is no heterosexual explanation for the moment.[9] Later, on August 10, Terrace confirmed on Twitter that the episode features a bisexual character,[10] but didn't confirm whether this was Amity, Luz, or both, but many fans assumed this referred to Luz.[11][12] On September 2, during a Reddit AMA, Dana Terrace confirmed that Amity is intended to be a lesbian and that Luz is bisexual.[13] She also stated that the relationship between Amity and Luz will be explored in Season 2 and that Luz is "oblivious to some things in front of her," including Amity's crush on her.[14] In the same AMA, Terrace stated that Luz was Amity's first crush[15] and that she was thrilled to see people connect to the show's characters, like Luz and Amity.[16]

Luz Noceda is a 14-year-old Dominican-American girl[17][18] who wears a cat-ear hooded indigo-and-white T-shirt, denim shorts, black leggings, white shoes, and she has short dark brown hair and brown eyes.

Luz is very quirky, outgoing, and unpredictable. She is a fan of the novel series The Good Witch Azura. She loves fantasy to the point of being detached from reality and has a hard time making friends.[19] However she still does have a heart and good intentions. In the first episode of the series her mother sends her to a reality-check camp located in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, but she accidentally ends up going to the Boiling Isles instead through the portal in a nearby house instead.[20][21] Due to her love of all things fantasy and magical, she wants to become a witch.[22] She soon becomes a friend of a small wolf-like demon with a skull-like head named King, and Eda's apprentice.[23] Later, Luz enters Hexside Academy as a new exchange student.

Luz Noceda is a young girl who has a strong love for fantasy. So strong, in fact, that it gets her into trouble. After failing her book report at school due to her outlandish presentation, her mother decides to send her to "Reality Check Summer Camp" to help her "think inside the box". To show confirmation towards her mother's wishes, she throws her copy of The Good Witch Azura book in the trash. As soon as her mother leaves however, she fishes for it, only to see it being carried away, along with other garbage, by a diminutive owl and follows it into a dilapidated house. Luz suddenly gets transported to the magical world of the Boiling Islands, specifically a town called Bonesborough. Luz is immediately taken in by a notorious witch named Eda Clawthorne and her small "roommate" King and begins to live with them at the Owl House, the series' namesake. Realizing that her life back home would be unfulfilling, she decides to stay in Bonesborough to train under Eda and become a witch, despite the fact that she herself is incapable of performing magic.[24] Shortly afterwards, she befriends two young witches named Willow Park and Gus Porter who attend Hexside, a school that Luz begins vying to attend. She also meets Amity Blight, a snooty student who looks down on Luz and her friends.[25]

During her time in Bonesborough, Luz slowly learns that she can perform magic through drawing symbols. She also discovers that Eda had been cursed as a child and wants to help her try to remove it.[26] Her relationship with Amity begins to improve when she realizes that she genuinely cares for her well-being and end up having a shared love for The Good Witch Azura series.[27] Through the actions of Eda, and a little from Gus, Luz finally gets accepted into Hexside and,[28] contrary to the initial rules, is allowed to learn from every track after she saves the school from a Greater Basilisk.[29]

Luz attends a field trip to the Emperor's Coven and plans to steal an item to cure Eda. She ends up getting discovered by Lilith, Eda's sister who has been trying to capture her, and kidnaps Luz to lure Eda out. They collectively learn that she had been the one who cursed Eda and has been trying to capture her, not just to cure Eda's curse, but to also have her join the coven, something Eda had long detested. Luz ends up getting sent back home after Eda gives herself up willingly to save her.[30] Luz and King head back to rescue her from the Emperor's Coven and reluctantly teams up with Lilith after she admits that Emperor Belos plans to kill Eda, rather than cure her. Luz faces off against the Emperor who will only let Eda go if she gives him the key to the real world, which Eda used when Luz first came to the Boiling Isles. However, Luz uses her magic to destroy it and she rescues her friends before fleeing. Lilith uses her magic to share the curse between herself and Eda and Luz decides to help them reclaim their magic, after their's diminish.[31]

Luz's character was received positively. She was described by some as a teen who "aligns herself with a witch and a demon" to fulfill her dream to become a witch,[32] and praised her character, with some calling her a "fantasy-loving human."[33][34] Others praised the plotlines of episodes where Luz explored the magic school and met other witches of the same age,[35] and the growing romantic relationship between Luz and Amity.[36]

In the season 1 episode "Enchanting Grom Fright," Luz and Amity dance together for the first time.[37] Spencer Wan says that he's "never been prouder of any board."[38] Alex Hirsch (voice of King, creator of Gravity Falls, and Terrace's partner) was very proud of Disney for including this scene in an episode.[39] After it was confirmed that Luz was bisexual, actress Lili Reinhart, who plays Grace in Chemical Hearts, welcomed the development, saying that often people have told her that being bisexual is "a phase," and felt validated by Luz's character.[40]