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Amity didn’t change only for Luz , she changed because of Luz.

it's kinda believable that Amity could worry about this because of her upbringing, but I don't think the show supports the idea that she only changed for Luz.

There's an important distinction between changing for someone and changing because of someone.

Changing for someone suggests you're reshaping yourself mainly to please them or earn their approval. Changing because of someone means they become a positive catalyst , they inspire you, give you the courage to grow, or help you become the person you already wanted to be.

That's what happened with Amity.

If she only changed for Luz , she wouldn't redeem herself to Willow and save her mind by showing Inner Willow the truth and trying to protect her in labyrinth runners so she wouldn't lose her again or reconnect with her father in reaching out and clouds on the horizon or confronting Boscha and rejecting her offer to join her band again and convincing her to help fighting Kikimora in for the future.

Anyway , Amity spent most of her life molding herself to fit Odalia's expectations , Because of that, it's understandable if she ever questioned whether she was simply replacing one person to please with another , That could be a believable insecurity.

But the series consistently shows that Luz wasn't another person controlling Amity's identity , Luz accepted Amity as she was and encouraged her to make her own choices , She became the positive catalyst that helped Amity find the courage to become the person she genuinely wanted to be.

We also see evidence that Amity's growth goes beyond simply wanting Luz's approval. In Eclipse Lake , after learning the key contains Titan's Blood, she chooses to help Hunter , That decision doesn't help her "win points" with Luz , it comes from Amity recognizing what's right in that moment , I don't think early season Amity would have made that choice.

The same applies to Willow , Luz may have been the catalyst that started Amity's self reflection, but repairing her friendship with Willow was something Amity genuinely wanted , Even before Luz, it's clear Amity wasn't happy with the person her parents were forcing her to become.

Emira even point out that Amity is happier with Luz, but I don't think that's because she's pretending to be someone else , It's because Luz gave her a safe environment where she no longer had to pretend.

This idea does not applie only to Amity, one of the recurring themes of the series is that Luz doesn't change people for her , she changes people because of her.

You can see it with Amity, but also with Eda, King, Lilith, Hunter, Willow and even several other recurring characters, Luz doesn't force them to become different people or expect them to become who she wants them to be, Instead, her kindness, empathy, optimism, and willingness to believe in others become the spark that encourages them to grow into better versions of themselves. Her presence consistently initiates positive growth.

That's also why it's so poetic that Luz's name literally means "light" , When she arrives in the Demon Realm, she brings light into the lives of the people around her. She becomes the spark that helps others find hope, heal old wounds, challenge unhealthy beliefs, reconnect with loved ones, and discover who they truly want to be , She isn't changing their identities she's illuminating the path for them to change themselves.

That's one of the greatest themes in The owl house, Luz isn't powerful because she "fixes" people, She's powerful because she inspires them to believe they can become the people they already had the potential to be.

Unlike Anne whose arrival in amphibia didn’t really change anyone’s life in a meaningful way , most amphibia characters were already fine before she landed there , stable, comfortable, unbroken , her presence didn’t fundamentally alter their paths , they would’ve kept going as they always had.

So yes, I could see Amity briefly worrying that she only changed for Luz, because that's a believable insecurity for someone raised like she was, but I don't think that fear would be true.

Amity didn't become a better person only for Luz.

She became a better person because of Luz, who was a positive catalyst for the growth Amity already wanted but never felt free enough to pursue.

And that's true not just for Amity, but for almost everyone whose life Luz touched throughout the series.

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There’s nothing abusive about Lumity

I learned that some viewers interpret Lumity in The Owl House as an emotionally abusive relationship, with Luz supposedly acting as the abuser and Amity as the victim. However, this reading doesn’t align with what the show actually depicts. When Luz and Amity first encounter each other, they’re on opposite sides largely because Amity behaves like a bully at Hexside, and because her harsh demeanor is shaped by the unhealthy expectations which was a part of the manufactured facaed that was placed on her by her mother.

The facade was " Be at the top to uphold the blight family name or face the consequences ".

The real Amity never actually cared about being the top student in of itself on a personal level, her being the best in school was entirely because of the pressure that her mom put on her to be the best and uphold Blight’s family name and to succeed at all costs, but amity never actually cared about that.

In " Escaping Expulsion " , We can see Amity facing the consequences of getting off the facade , Odalia was punishing her for so called " recent lack of performance in school " and using the necklace thing to make her afraid.

Imagine what she did when Amity returned home without that " Top student badge " .

Makes sense why Amity started drama about it in " I was a teenage abomination " .

Over time, Luz’s consistent kindness has a profound impact on Amity. This gradual influence helps the two become friends, eventually leading Amity to develop romantic feelings for Luz and the two of them forming a relationship. Throughout this entire progression, Luz is never portrayed as emotionally harmful toward Amity. On the contrary, she continually supports her , emotionally, socially, and personally. She comforts Amity in moments of distress, encourages her growth, helps her repair her relationship with her father, and stands by her as she confronts Odalia and fix her friendship with Willow. By the third season, Luz even takes on the weight of Amity’s and their friends’ problems while they’re stuck in the Human Realm.

Luz placed the burden of Amity and others in season 3 after she helped Belos to meet the Collector thing and blaming herself for a mistake that really wasn't her fault because people got hurt and Amity and others might never see their families again.

One trending myth is that Luz was emotional withdrawal Amity in " Thanks to them " because she lost interest in Amity, that's not even close to what actually happened in the show , the emotional withdrawal wasn't about losing interest , It was about Luz drowning herself in guilt for helping Belos meet the Collector and help him destroy the world and causing Amity and others being trapped in the human realm and the possibility that they might never see their families again.

Their relationship isn’t flawless, of course. Luz does hide things from Amity on a few occasions, but these moments shouldn’t be confused with abuse. The series clearly shows that Luz struggles with her mental health and often finds it difficult to open up, especially when something is painful or traumatic for her , such as the subject of her father’s death , her secrecy isn’t meant to hurt Amity , it comes from fear of being a burden and from her own unresolved grief.

This dynamic actually strengthens their relationship. Amity understands Luz’s emotional challenges and responds with patience and compassion , her willingness to give Luz space, while still offering support, becomes something Luz deeply appreciates. It helps build trust between them and reinforces their bond, with Amity providing the emotional reassurance Luz needs just as Luz has done for her.

Everytime Luz lied to Amity , she apologized and explained herself.

Talking to Amity helped create a safe space for Luz to open herself up.

Amity is the first person she trusted to share her inner problems with.

In " Follies at the Coven Day Parade " , Amity realized that Luz was hiding something and she could have figure it out by watching the video on her cellphone but she didn’t want to invade her privacy.

" Reaching Out " Is a really important episode for both of them , the fact that Luz even says while she's apologizing that yes she's upset over her dad, but that's also NOT an excuse for what she did. she's explaining herself without making excuses or undermining Amity's feelings. it's so , so healthy and I was so glad they included that.

Not only that Luz and Amity have amazing chemistry and conversations, but they understand each other and understand that they mean a lot to each other.

Amity made some mistakes but she didn’t get away with her mistakes, nor did she live a carefree life. Long before Luz entered her life, Amity spent years trapped in a situation she didn’t want. She endured emotional abuse from her mother, constant social pressure, Boscha and Skara’s mean nature , and even bullying from her own siblings. None of this gave her real confidence, it made her afraid. She wasn’t happy, and she didn’t have genuine friends.

It’s also true that Amity didn’t have to be mean to Willow in season 1, episode 3 or Luz after that , and people who point that out aren’t wrong ,  However, there’s important context behind her behavior. After years of playing the role of a false personality , that being mean had become a habit rather than a conscious choice.

Amity spent years surrounded by people she didn’t want to be with , her bully siblings, her controlling mother, and peers who rewarded meanness. In that kind of environment, negative traits can become learned and normalized. Traits can become contagious.

It led her to end up becoming what she didn’t want to be.

She was consumed by the facade.

Besides , She was forced to be friends with bullies so she had to become like them to fit it.

She tried to have Luz dissected ? Yes , But then she saved her at least 3 times.

The first time was in Grom episode , The second time was in " Escaping Expulsion " at the abomination presentation , the third time was in " Follies at the Coven Day Parade " when Luz was running from Terra.

Luz showed Amity kindness and honesty when no one else did, she helped her not to afraid of what she really wants to be , Luz inspired the character she always wanted to be , Luz always finds a way to sneaking into people's hearts.

Amity was abused her entire life , Her mother made her to bury her inner self , Her redemption was started with big things like humiliation after the witches duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings , Those things did speed up her redemption , She was never actually a mean bully at all , She just had to act like one due her abusive mother , Luz inspired her to fight for what she actually wants to be.

Before meeting Luz , Amity used to be boring , cliché , predictable , scared , lonely , perfectionist academic bully with no actual personality of her own since it was a manufactured facade by someone.

Some bully who wouldn't add anything to you by talking to her.

People who embrace her bully nature must be kinda abusive since her early behavior came from being emotionally abused.

Luz helped her to earn her personality.

Now she's a brave , kind , rebellious individual with passion who doesn't afraid of being the person she really wants to be and protect the people she loves ( especially Willow in Labyrinth Runners and Luz) against anyone who tries to hurt them.

The warrior who broke the chains of fear.

Luz helped Amity to earn her braveness and kindness and independence and break the chains of fear.

All those being a perfectionist bully was a mask covered as confidence to survive in a world she didn’t want.

The humiliation she faced after the witches duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings marked the first cracks on her mask.

After those events , Luz was the only one who comforted her and showed her kindness and honesty without judging her or asking anything in return.

Luz challenged Amity's feelings after showing her kindness and honesty after humiliation after the witches duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings when no one else cared , She was willing to take down the grom on her own when no one else was willing to.

Amity's challenged Luz’s feelings for multiple times , In through looking glass ruins when she was devastated after getting fired from library which led Luz to go through some trials and get Amity’s membership back , In follies at the coven parade and Reaching out when asking Luz honesty , Luz apologized to her for not being honest without making excuses , she said it herself that it's not an excuse , and in clouds of the horizon when Luz was willing to risk her life and save Amity , she wanted to go with Eda at the same time and chose Amity.

The rescue mission on " Clouds on the horizon " and Luz going through trials to get Amity’s library membership back on " Looking through glass ruins " also works for the " Lumity is not mutual enough from Luz " false argument.

You can say they both understand each other better than anyone else , Like Azura books and the complicated relationships with parents.

They’re the actual definition of soul mates.

And they fact they both lived a life with no friends.

Luz had no friends in human realm because others treated her like a freak because she was different.

In Amity's case , It was a life filled with no genuine friends , Mean people Amity never wanted to be friends with but she was forced to do to meat Odalia's expectations .

Odalia forced her to be friends with rich kids of her rich colleagues to earn Prestige for the Blight family name.

the cold, short tempered, narcissistic exterior Amity was always just a Defense mechanism, a mask Amity put up to survive in the world her parents want for her, losing that shows how she stops being her mother's perfect puppet and finally starts being her own person again.

I've seen some people calling Amity a gay disaster but that's just being homophobic .

We saw her panic around Luz ? Sure , But we only saw her obsessed with Luz or saying I'm Luz gf for only one or two episodes.

The whole “I’m Luz’s girlfriend” thing she did for one episode, and the number of times she did it was highly exaggerated.

Besides , It's a normal teenager thing to blush about their crush , It's a crush trait , Not gay trait.

It's a realistic thing to blush or being anxious about someone you have a crush on , not something lgbt.

Besides , she was still new to expressing feelings , She wasn't an expert at it since she used to hide her feelings due to the facade she was playing , And that's okay , it's how people usually do about their crush.

Every teenager is obsessed with their significant other when they first get in a relationship. It’s not a writing issue; it’s a very realistic depiction of what someone would do in her situation, especially given Luz is someone who gives her unconditional love and actively enjoys who she really is, something she hasn’t had since being friends with Willow.

Romance helped her personality growth :

Her softness ,

Her kindness,

Her bravery ,

Her anxiety ,

Her friendship ,

Her awkwardness ,

Her protective instincs .

Those traits were already there , Just buried , It's expanding her character and improving her mental state.

Being soft around Luz adds depth to :

Her intelligence,

Her determination ,

Her bravery ,

Her moral growth ,

Her strength ,

Her friendships.

Both of Luz and Amity have been supportive and protective of each other , I can't imagine them being with someone else , You can say they're definitely the best animated couple ever.

Luz also placed the burden of Amity and others in season 3 after she helped Belos to meet the Collector thing and blaming herself for a mistake that really wasn't her fault because people got hurt and Amity and others might never see their families again.

In " O titan , Where art thou " , she was glad that she was getting messages from Amity.

She was worried about Amity and said : I hope she's doing okay.

There’s also the possibility of conflict between them , not because their bond is weak, but because it’s real. Luz has difficulty opening up, often choosing to carry her problems alone rather than sharing them. That emotional tendency adds depth to their relationship, showing that Lumity isn’t some simple, flawless fantasy; it’s a connection with genuine hurdles, growth, and vulnerability.

You can say Lumity is the best animated couple ever , Mutual , Supportive , Touching , emotional , powerful.

Lumity helped Amity to get off the facade and get out of her mother's control , Fix her friendship with Willow and reconnect with her father and it helped Luz to open herself up and share her inner pains ( Episodes " Follies at the coven parade " & " Reaching out " ) when she needed emotional support the most.

That's what happens when a relationship actually matters for the characters involved.

Same goes about Kataang and disney romances.

Unlike stagnant couples such as Sprig and ivy from amphibia , That thing is stagnant , It goes nowhere and doesn't advance either of the involved characters.

Seems that thing only exists to give a character like Ivy an excuse to just exist in the show.

People who claiming Luz should’ve ended up with Hunter make zero sense. That argument is the same level as saying Katara should’ve ended up with Zuko , ships with less than zero chemistry that only exist in misquoting things , not in the story.

Let’s be honest: both Lunter and Zutara exist because some people see a tall, attractive boy and immediately decide the girl belongs with him. Meanwhile, Lumity and Kataang are built on trust, growth, and actual on‑screen connection. Lunter and Zutara? They’re built on nothing but “I want the girl with the pretty tall boy,” not anything the narrative gives them.

Just wanting the girl as a trophy for the pretty boy.

The prettiest boy in the show with the prettiest girl , well , Isn’t that poetic ?

Both zutara and lunter are nothing more than siblings dynamics at best.

I’ve also seen people claim that Luz was “going to betray her friends ” by secretly planning for months to permanently leave the Demon Realm before defeating the Collector.

That’s not even close to what actually happened in the show.

It wasn’t betrayal.

It was Luz confronting her guilt in the wrong way.

At that point in the story, she genuinely believed her presence brought suffering to the people she loved. After everything with Belos and helping him to meet the Collector and the Day of Unity, she internalized the idea that she was the common denominator in the chaos. Choosing not to return wasn’t about abandoning her friends , it was about accepting what she believed was responsibility.

She thought removing herself would protect them.

That’s self sacrificial guilt, not betrayal.

And even in the video she recorded, she never said she planned to leave before saving the Isles. She only said she had decided not to go back to the Demon Realm. There’s a huge difference.

She wasn’t planning to disappear before defeating the Collector, and she didn’t even say that she was going to do such thing.

Even if she did , It wasn't betrayal , It was confronting her guilt and accepting consequences in a wrong way.

She chose not to return right before Halloween night , not “months in advance.”

The timeline matters.

Framing it as a long term secret betrayal completely misrepresents what the show actually depicts. Luz wasn’t trying to hurt her friends. She was trying , in a misguided way , to protect them by taking responsibility for something she blamed herself for.

It is not a months long secret plan. It is a guilt spiral climax after multiple traumas: Belos, Day of Unity, hurting people unintentionally and destroying a world and causing that her friends might never see their families again.

That interpretation aligns with her established flaw: taking too much responsibility and trying to carry everything alone.

Calling that betrayal strips the emotional nuance from the situation and reduces a complex guilt-driven decision into something much simpler than it actually was.

The video she recorded is not a betrayal letter. It’s a self punishment confession. It’s the moment she thinks, “Maybe the best thing I can do for the people I love is remove myself from their lives.”

That’s tragic, not treacherous.

She didn't really want to leave them.

She just felt that she had to , in order to accept the responsibility for what happened.

The thing also works for the false emotional withdrawal argument , Luz's emotional withdrawal wasn't about losing interest in Amity , It was about Luz punishing herself mentally for helping Belos and helping him destroy a world and hurt its people and because of that , Luz wasn’t allow herself to receive love from the people who love her.

Luz is the positive catalyst for the demon realm , she's literally the best thing that happened to the isles.

Luz arrival shifted everything. She changed people’s lives , not just Amity, Willow, and Gus, but practically everyone she touched. Luz became a catalyst for actual growth, healing, and transformation across an entire world. It’s so poetic when you realize her name literally means “light,” because that’s exactly what she brought: illumination, hope, and a way forward through the darkness that had been hanging over those characters long before she arrived.

That’s what it looks like when a protagonist actually matters to the world and the characters within it.

Unlike Anne whose arrival in Amphibia didn’t really change anyone’s life in a meaningful way 🙄. Most Amphibia characters were already fine before she landed there , stable, comfortable, unbroken. Her presence didn’t fundamentally alter their paths; they would’ve kept going as they always had.

If anything , Lumity’s relationship is the exact opposite of abusive.

Lumity is mutual , genuine and supportive , Not forced , rushed or abusive.

Lumity is not zutara.

Or Nolan and Debbie from invincible after he literally called her a pet.

Or The boy from gravity falls and wendy where he used a song to control her mind.

Or Ben Tennyson when he literally ditched her girlfriend's tennis game to watch the new movie.

Don't let me mention Rick Sanchez who slept with few women including a living planet.

The scenario where Lumity’s beautiful romance can be possibly considered as abusive is the one where Luz still kept lying everytime Amity asked for honesty.

It would be awful if Luz never said the truth after Amity asking honesty from her.

Every single hate on Luz , Amity and their relationship and calling it abusive is based on the foundation of headcanons , There's really nothing in canon to hate about them once you know them.

If all these explanations is still not enough for people who keep pushing it to call it abusive , There's nothing I can do to help them even If I wanted to , Their lack of narrative comprenension is not my problem or Luz and Amity’s.

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virgin anne versus Chad Luz

Let's start with character development :

Luz’s growth from escapism to self-acceptance :

Some people say Luz just kept making the same mistakes and had no growth .

First, Luz makes reckless and impulsive mistakes. Later, her mistake becomes sacrificing too much at the cost of harming herself. And finally, her mistake becomes hiding the truth because she’s afraid of hurting others.

That’s not repetition. That’s progression.

She goes from simple mistakes to complex moral errors. That’s growth.

If a character never makes mistakes again, there’s no room for growth at all. Some people think growth means a character never repeats a flaw. But in storytelling, growth means the flaw is still there, what changes is the reaction, the reasoning, and the conclusions drawn from it.

That’s exactly what happens to Luz.

People often confuse “repeating a core flaw” with “not learning anything,” but those are two very different things. Luz absolutely learns from her mistakes. Her arc is built around a persistent insecurity that shows up in new forms as she matures.

At first, she makes reckless, impulsive choices because she believes enthusiasm and good intentions are enough. But after the consequences hit , putting Eda in danger, putting pressure on her friends Willow and Gus in grudby , causing Amity to be fired from the library (which she later makes up for) , she adjusts. She trains seriously. She listens more. She stops assuming optimism alone fixes everything.

That’s learning.

In Season 2, her mistakes change. She’s no longer careless , she becomes over responsible , She starts blaming herself for everything: Belos and helping him meet the Collector , Hunter, the Day of Unity and even facing Belos alone.

That’s a much more complex flaw. It’s not “the same mistake.” It’s the evolution of the same insecurity.

By “Thanks to Them” and the finale, she confronts that guilt directly. She learns she can’t fix everything alone. She learns other people need to be part of the solution. She learns vulnerability and asking for help are strengths, not failures. She learns to think more before acting and to include others in decisions.

That is growth.

She isn’t “not learning.” She’s dealing with a consistent character flaw , wanting to save everyone, even at her own expense , and each season shows her understanding it better, responding to it differently, and slowly outgrowing the unhealthy parts of it.

A character who never struggles with the same flaw again would feel unrealistic and flat. Luz’s development is gradual, emotional, and intentional. It’s human, not static.

The mistake isn’t repeating , the context, awareness, and response are evolving.

Now beyond that core flaw, there’s also the broader thematic growth.

At the beginning of the series, Luz enters the Demon Realm largely as an escape. She’s running away from the real world and its difficulties, hoping to live in a fantasy where happiness is simple and permanent ( That is why she was bringing snakes to school , She was struggling to separate reality and fantasy) . She idealizes the Demon Realm as a place where everything can be fixed with optimism, kindness, and imagination.

But as she makes real friends, falls in love, and starts helping others, she realizes emotions and relationships there are just as complex, painful, and layered as they are in the Human Realm. The world she saw as a perfect fantasy reveals trauma, loss, moral ambiguity, and irreversible consequences.

She stops seeing the world as “happy fantasy vs. cruel reality” and understands that every world contains both joy and difficulty. That realization alone is massive growth.

After defeating Belos , She even stayed actively in human realm to finish her high school.

In the final season, her development becomes even more explicit. By blaming herself for a mistake she never intended to make, she shows a deep understanding of responsibility and consequences. Her arc isn’t about avoiding guilt , it’s about learning not to let guilt consume her. She understands that making mistakes is part of being human, and growth comes from facing them honestly instead of punishing herself endlessly.

In season 2 she literally said " I'd kill to see my mom right now " and she was trying to find a way to go back to the human realm , It’s called maturity and responsibility.

Her final confrontation with Belos shows clear maturity. She understands evil not as something that can always be redeemed, but as something that sometimes can only be stopped. She accepts that some people do not deserve a second chance, and that protecting what she loves may require morally heavy decisions. She lets Belos die , something Season 1 Luz likely would have struggled to do out of pure optimism.

By the end, Luz becomes someone who no longer fears being her true self. She learns she doesn’t have to face everything alone and that relying on others isn’t weakness. She keeps her energy, creativity, optimism, and kindness , but she becomes wiser, more grounded, and more realistic.

She doesn’t lose her light. She learns how to carry it responsibly and maturity.

She even improves the lives of everyone around her simply by being there.

It's also poetic that her name means "light " and that she made everyone lives in boiling isles much better by simply being there.

Calling her a character with “zero development,” claiming she keeps making the same mistakes without growth, or saying she “lost her energy” is a very superficial reading of her arc. Her development is emotional, ethical, and psychological , not a personality reset.

People who claim those things are not making a point , They only expost how little they actually understand and how they never really watched the show in a proper way.

Her evolution from escapism, to responsibility, to self-acceptance and moral clarity is her character development.

That’s why she’s one of the most incredible protagonists in media.

A unique multi-layered character development.

Luz went through more than almost any Disney protagonist ( maybe more than all of them ) when you actually look at her arc. She’s dragged through grief, escapism, guilt, identity crises, and ultimately self‑acceptance. She’s a kid who genuinely feels like she carries the weight of an entire world on her shoulders , and in her case, she actually does. Luz is one of the only Disney heroes whose personal mistakes nearly led to the destruction of an entire dimension. She indirectly helped a centuries‑old dictator regain power, nearly got her loved ones killed, and repeatedly escaped death by a thread. She lost her father at a young age, she was most likely bullied her entire life for being different because people who are different usually get bullied , As Adegast in " Witches before wizards " said : Everyone at human realm were laughing at Luz for the person she is , she deals constantly with shame over her choices, and she literally dies in the finale. Yet she still finds the strength to keep going. That level of personal struggle, consequence, and emotional depth is something no other Disney protagonist has ever carried to this extent.

Luz’s arc is one of the most emotionally rich, thematically layered, and narratively consistent in modern animation.

Unlike Anne from Amphibia, whose entire arc plays out like the bargain‑bin version of the “goofy kid learning responsibility” trope a template dozens of characters handled with ten times the charm before her. Aang mastered it. Adora mastered it. Even Hercules and Mulan handled the concept with actual depth. Even avatar Korra did it , Anne’s version feels less like a character journey and more like a rough draft someone forgot to revise.

It might look deep at first, mostly to people who take everything the show says at face value. But that’s only because Anne keeps reminding everyone how “important” her growth is supposed to be. The show spends more time talking about her development than actually showing it , it tells you she’s grown instead of proving it.

Anne as a protagonist is extremely overrated. Some fans act like she’s Aragorn and Frodo from lord of the rings trilogy or Tony Stark and Steve Rogers from Marvel Cinematic universe or Jon Snow from game of thrones or Luke Skywalker from star wars rolled together ، but she’s really just a typical “responsibility arc” character already done way better by Aang , Adora, Hercules, Korra, and many others before her.

The only reason Anne ended up popular is because she had a tragic separation ending which was already done better in Lord of the Rings return of the king 2003 movie.

Even In their final episode power-ups , Anne and Luz embody two opposite kinds of heroism.

Anne gains her cosmic power because she was chosen by fate , selected as the prophecy’s vessel for balance and transformation.

Luz, by contrast, receives her Titan’s gift not because she was destined, but because she understood and cared.

She got powers because she has a good heart.

Where Anne’s power marks her as the perfect chosen hero, Luz’s marks her as the awesome unchosen one , the girl whose worth was proven by choice and kindness, not by destiny.

Her victory thus reframes heroism itself: it’s not being chosen that makes a hero, but choosing to act with compassion.

Luz was chosen because of her kindness and her noble soul , a power granted in response to who she is, not to any prophecy.

Anne, by contrast, was chosen by fate; her role was written into a prophecy long before she ever stepped into it.

I’ve seen some people claim that Luz was “going to betray her friends ” by secretly planning for months to permanently leave the Demon Realm before defeating the Collector.

That’s not even close to what actually happened in the show.

It wasn’t betrayal.

It was Luz confronting her guilt in the wrong way.

At that point in the story, she genuinely believed her presence brought suffering to the people she loved. After everything with Belos and helping him to meet the Collector and the Day of Unity, she internalized the idea that she was the common denominator in the chaos. Choosing not to return wasn’t about abandoning her friends , it was about accepting what she believed was responsibility.

She thought removing herself would protect them.

That’s self sacrificial guilt, not betrayal.

And even in the video she recorded, she never said she planned to leave before saving the Isles. She only said she had decided not to go back to the Demon Realm. There’s a huge difference.

She wasn’t planning to disappear before defeating the Collector, and she didn’t even say that she was going to do such thing.

Even if she did , It wasn't betrayal , It was confronting her guilt and accepting consequences in a wrong way.

The guilt deepened in months.

She chose not to return right before Halloween night , not “months in advance.”

The timeline matters.

Framing it as a long term secret betrayal completely misrepresents what the show actually depicts. Luz wasn’t trying to hurt her friends. She was trying , in a misguided way , to protect them by taking responsibility for something she blamed herself for.

It is not a months long secret plan. It is a guilt spiral climax after multiple traumas: Belos, Day of Unity, hurting people unintentionally and destroying a world she loves and causing that her friends might never see their families again.

That interpretation aligns with her established flaw: taking too much responsibility and trying to carry everything alone.

Calling that betrayal strips the emotional nuance from the situation and reduces a complex guilt-driven decision into something much simpler than it actually was.

The video she recorded is not a betrayal letter. It’s a self punishment confession. It’s the moment she thinks, “Maybe the best thing I can do for the people I love is remove myself from their lives.”

That’s tragic, not treacherous.

She didn't really want to leave them.

She just felt that she had to , in order to accept the responsibility for what happened.

The ones who keep reducing it to a secret betrayal myth , their lack of narrative comprenension is not Luz's problem.

Everytime they misinterpret it and reduce it to a " long secret betrayal " , They’re not making a point , They’re exposing how little they actually understand. They throw out cheap hate without following the story, without knowing the characters, sometimes without watching anything beyond out‑of‑context clips. For them, it’s never about the narrative. It’s about stretching a comment for attention and hoping someone , will agree.

while we’re at it, there’s this other comparison people conveniently ignore: the impact the protagonist has on the world and the characters around them.

Anne’s arrival in Amphibia didn’t really change anyone’s life in a meaningful way. Most Amphibia characters were already fine before she landed there , stable, comfortable, unbroken. Her presence didn’t fundamentally alter their paths; they would’ve kept going as they always had.

But Luz? Luz happened to the Boiling Isles in the best possible way.

For example , Before her , Amity was trapped in a manufactured facade , hiding her real personality and a lonely life with no one to care about her , life filled with fear which was harmful for her mental health , she was even getting bullied by her own siblings , she used to be a vulnerable bully with no personality since it was a manufactured facade , Willow was getting bullied and she had no confidence and she was in the wrong track and she was so unpopular and got called " Half a witch " , Eda was wasting her life selling human stuff she didn't know how to work with and she was in a fight with her sister all the time and the curse was keep putting her at risk and King was living in a fantasy built on a misunderstanding , Lilith was wasting her life being a tyrant's lab dog , assuming she's making a the better place and has a part in a bright future , same goes about Hunter.

But Luz arrival shifted everything. She changed people’s lives , not just Amity, Willow, and Gus, but practically everyone she touched. Luz became a catalyst for actual growth, healing, and transformation across an entire world. It’s so poetic when you realize her name literally means “light,” because that’s exactly what she brought: illumination, hope, and a way forward through the darkness that had been hanging over those characters long before she arrived.

Luz isn’t a “positive catalyst” in name only; the Isles literally change because of her. She even spends her fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth birthdays helping the people of the Boiling Isles rebuild their homes and their lives. So when her eighteenth birthday finally arrives, they don’t celebrate her out of obligation, but out of genuine gratitude , not just for the roofs she helped put back over their heads, but for the light she brought into their lives simply by being in them.

It’s the same narrative power you see with Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Aang breaking out of the ice was the single best thing that could’ve happened to Katara, Sokka, Toph, and ultimately the entire world.

Before Aang, Katara was a lonely village girl convinced she’d never become the waterbender she wanted to be and she lost hope for life , constantly arguing with Sokka out of frustration and hopelessness and Sokka used to be a sad , weak and lonely Anti-women kid.

Toph was a fiercely angry girl with no friends and no freedom, trapped by her parents’ expectations.

Aang stepped into their lives and everything changed , for the better. He opened their worlds, showed them possibilities they never imagined, and helped them grow into who they were meant to be.

That’s what it looks like when a protagonist actually matters to the world and the characters within it.

And this pattern shows up in other strong narratives too , take Adora from She‑Ra and the Princesses of Power. Before she arrived, the Rebellion was barely holding itself together. The princesses were scattered, demoralized, and the Alliance was essentially dead. Etheria was losing hope.

Then Adora stepped into their lives, and everything shifted. She didn’t just fight , she inspired. She brought the princesses back together, rebuilt trust where it had fallen apart, and reignited the Alliance that eventually saved their entire world. Her presence changed the trajectory of Etheria in a direct, meaningful way.

That’s what a protagonist with real narrative impact looks like.

Another strong example is Kipo from Netflix’s Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Her choices reshape her world in a lasting way: through compassion and diplomacy, she brings humans and mutants together and helps them build a shared society that’s better than what existed before.

Another example is Korra from The Legend of Korra. Her actions lead to several major, lasting changes in her world. After she stops the Equalists, Republic City starts an election leading to an elected president, giving non benders real representation for the first time. She’s also directly responsible for the re‑emergence of airbenders, which allows the air nomad culture to be rebuilt. And by reopening the spirit portal , she creates a world where humans and spirits live alongside each other and making a shared world better than what it used to be.

Even Luz's death carries a greater emotional weight than Anne's

I want to compare Anne’s and Luz’s deaths from a few different angles: the setup, the moment itself, the reactions and consequences, how the resurrection was handled, and what impact it actually had on the story.

With Anne, the narrative clearly signaled what was coming. Mother Olm’s warning about the full power of the stones, Sasha and Marcy running out of energy, Sasha telling Anne to come back alive, and Sprig begging her not to go , all of that prepared the audience. We could see it building from a distance. It was still emotional, but the anticipation softened the shock.

Luz’s death felt very different. Even if some viewers theorized it might happen, the scene itself arrived abruptly. There wasn’t an extended warning sequence. She simply rushed in to protect the Collector, and within moments, she was gone. The suddenness made it hit harder.

Another key difference is awareness. Anne understood the risk and had already come to terms with it. She was able to speak clearly and give proper final words. Luz, in contrast, was stunned. She struggled to process what was happening. The fact that she only found her voice when it was already too late made the scene even more painful.

The scale of witnessing also matters. Anne’s death happened in front of almost everyone in Amphibia, which allowed for a shared moment of grief. Luz’s death was far more isolated. Only a handful of characters saw it, including the one responsible. Her closest friends weren’t even present, meaning she never got the chance to say goodbye to them at all.

When it comes to reactions, Anne’s death had the expected emotional weight, but Luz’s scene carried a different kind of devastation. The Collector’s shift from confusion to dawning fear and despair was especially powerful. Camila sensing Luz fading, even before fully understanding what was happening, added another layer of emotional impact.

The resurrection aspect also differs. The Guardian’s appearance in Amphibia felt sudden and primarily functional , almost as if it existed solely to reverse Anne’s death. Luz’s return, however, was built on elements the series had already established: the in between realm, Papa Titan’s lingering presence, and Luz’s unresolved guilt over Belos. Her revival wasn’t random; it tied directly into her emotional arc. She didn’t demand power , she was entrusted with it.

In terms of narrative impact, Anne’s death happened at the very end of the story, so it didn’t significantly alter events. Whether she died permanently or not, the main conflict was already resolved. Luz’s death, however, occurred while the threat still existed. Her return came at a cost , Papa Titan was gone, and Luz lost her only source of magic. There were tangible consequences.

When comparing how the deaths were written and integrated into the story, I think The Owl House handled it in a more emotionally layered and narratively meaningful way.

Anne’s death was more like cheap , forced way to get an emotional reaction from the audience which was also ruined by some pointless resurrection.

Anne’s final sacrifice using the power of some colorful magical stones to defeat the villain is what already done by Tony Stark on Avengers Endgame but with actual emotional weight that was also not ruined by a pointless resurrection.

Final note :

I would be really grateful if someone share this post on the show's fandom on reddit and sends me the link.

I really like to do it myself but my account was disabled and I don't know why.

[soltavir]

Amity never lost her personality

Amity is one of the show's most amazing and layered characters in the show.

The Amity who's just a girlfriend is just a fan made version of her that doesn't exist.

Canon Amity never lost her personality , she earned it.

People who worship her bully nature behavior like she used to be goddess back then , before meeting Luz , must be kinda abusive since that was a manufactured facade that came from being emotionally abused.

No need to mention that she used to be so cliché and boring and predictable when she was an perfectionist academic bully along being sad and lonely with a toxic awful tension with her own family , Her own siblings bullied and hurted her and her father was barely talking to her.

More like a bully with no personality , no relationships and no friends.

Calling Amity a girlfriend with no personality is the same energy as swearing the Earth is flat , a bold stance built entirely on not understanding anything.

impressively certain, impressively incorrect.

She didn't lose her personality because her season 1 character was manufactured , not self chosen.

Her development and redemption makes sense when you see what she's been through , The Amity we saw on the beginning wasn't the real her, She was never a bully on the inside , She was forced to be due to her mother’s abusive and social pressure , Her arrogance and confidence was a mask , Before Luz , Everyone just saw her on the outside and judged her based on what she was doing , Even Willow , No one accepted the real her , Although she still had some soft points such as reading book to kids and leaving Grugby after hurting her friends , But things like humiliation after witch's duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings were the first cracks on her mask , Luz was the first person who showed her kindness and honesty and saw the real her inside her and accepted her without wanting anything in return on judging her , She showed her that it's okay to be imperfect , She inspired her and encouraged her to not be afraid of her real self and fight for the person she really wants to be , So it's normal if Amity falls in love with Luz , Because she's the first one who made her feel safe. Luz brought hope and happiness back to her life.

Saying things like she suddenly change after 3 episodes or just became a girlfriend with no character or just a gay disaster or saying Luz is her sole motivation to do anything or changed just so she could get with Luz is just surface level takes.

She didn't lose her personality , She earned it. She was finally happy , a brave , kind, and rebellious individual who fights for the person she wants to be and protect the people she loves against anyone who tries to hurt them.

Calling her a gay disaster is just haters being homophobic .

We saw her panic around Luz ? Sure , But we only saw her obsessed with Luz or saying I'm Luz' gf for only one or two episodes.

The whole “I’m Luz’s girlfriend” thing she did for one episode, and the number of times she did it was highly exaggerated.

Besides , It's a normal teenager thing to blush about their crush , It's a crush trait , Not gay trait.

It's a realistic thing to blush or being anxious about someone you have a crush on , not something lgbt.

Besides , she was still new to expressing feelings , She wasn't an expert at it , And that's okay , it's how people usually do about their crush.

Every teenager is obsessed with their significant other when they first get in a relationship. It’s not a writing issue; it’s a very realistic depiction of what someone would do in her situation, especially given Luz is someone who gives her unconditional love and actively enjoys who she really is, something she hasn’t had since being friends with Willow.

Romance doesn't erase her personality , It helped it growth :

Her softness ,

Her kindness,

Her bravery ,

Her anxiety ,

Her friendship ,

Her awkwardness ,

Her protective instincs .

Those traits were already there , Just buried , A character showing vulnerability is not losing their personality , It's expanding it.

Being soft around Luz doesn't erase or replace her personality , It adds depth :

Her intelligence,

Her determination ,

Her bravery ,

Her moral growth ,

Her strength ,

Her friendships.

She still has her own agency outside being just a part of romance with Luz :

Fixing her relationship with Willow and protecting her in labyrinth runners so she wouldn't lose her again and learning to see her real strength.

Convincing Willow to help in the grudgby episode , Facing her fear of playing grudby to protect her real friends and stand up to the unreal Friends and making her social life better as she said it herself.

Luz and Willow needed a third player and Amity chose to step in and help even though she didn't really have to.

It was one of her steps to reject the facade she was stuck at for years.

She was friends with Boscha just because Odalia forced her to , Being friends with people like Boshca was a part of the facade thing.

Standing up to Odalia and threatening their business to protect her friends from being expelled and speaking out her mind loud and clear.

In " Escaping Expulsion " , it was also obvious that Amity didn't want to live under someone's control , Amity had to stand up to her mother at some point , Luz was the spark that encouraged her braveness to do it.

She was helping Luz and standing up for herself and protecting her friends from being spelled at the same time.

She could have just save Luz and leave it at that but she went her way and spoke her mind loud and clear.

Breaking the necklace Odalia was using to control her.

Getting devastated after getting fired from library and opening herself up to her siblings that she's feeling things she didn't use to feel.

As Emira said : She wasn't happy before.

Turning her hair into purple in order to reject Odalia's influence.

Bonding with Hunter and learning not to define herself to what she can provide for the others ( which was an old habit from years of having to play the facade of a false personality ) in Eclipse Lake.

Reconnecting with her siblings.

Attending the brawl without her father's permission and then reconnectingng with him.

She even defeated some of the greatest fighters in boiling isles in the brawl.

She almost even defeated The golden guard , in Eclipse lake.

In follies at the coven parade , She wanted someone to talk to and ask advice from and she went to Willow and remembered that it's been a while she didn't go to her house , Willow even asked her to braid her hair and she accepted , Amity said that she is happy they are the way the used to be again.

She could have gone to anyone to ask for advice and she chose to go to Willow.

I think she just needed an excuse to talk to Willow.

In both grom and Knock Hooty's door episodes , We can see her having the fear of being rejected.

Helping the rebellion and fighting Belos.

Confronting Boscha and rejecting her offer to join her band again in" for the future " and convincing her to help fighting Kikimora.

Reuniting with her siblings and her father in season 3 after worrying about them for months.

Final confrontation of Odalia after she tried to warn her about the day of unity and trying to take the control of her life again by trying to remove Luz from her life only because she wasn't a rich girl or something and then cutting ties with her permanently after it turned out that she knew what the day of unity really is and was okay with it.

Before that she wasn’t angry at Odalia for years of abuse because she thought that she's just a mother who wanted the best for her family but in a wrong way or something , but after she realized that Odalia knew about the day of unity and was okay with it , she saw her true colors and cut her ties with her permanently.

Odalia didn't do all the bad things to benefit her family , she did it all to benefit herself , Her family was a tool to uphold her own name.

Her final confrontation with Odalia wasn't about getting mad at her , It was about cutting her ties permanently with her after it turned out she knew about the day of unity all the time.

Anyway , Amity’s Final reconnecting with her father in clouds on the horizon and king's tide.

Taking the leadership role in Thanks to Them.

In thanks to them , She found the rebus that led the team to the titan blood .

And she led the group to explore the human realm and solve it while having fun with them.

Taking the leadership role and organizing people in Eclipse lake.

Helping to rebuild the isles.

Trying to find a way to go home.

Becoming so awesome at using abomination.

Challenging Collector's illusion in watching and dreaming.

In watching and dreaming , She even was able to drew a glyph on the ground when she was a puppet , I mean how awesome and powerful is that.

Restored her relationship with her former mentor.

Giving Luz the light glyph to wake her up from the illusion in watching and dreaming.

In the epilogue , We can see her becoming an Explorer who travels all around the world and also an abomination engineer and likely the future CEO of Blight industry.

Some actually say even Moringmarkugh didn't give her moments of her own which is not correct.

Moments like : How she met Ghost in the first place , Falling in love with playing video games , Reviewing the memories with Willow and learning in the hard way , telling her storylife to Camila and when it was revealed that she's an expert in engine repairing and reviewing her memories with her father teaching her about engine and even comforting Hunter after he found out about the death of Belos and etc.

So yeah , Her storyline exists out of romance , both in the show and moringmarkugh comics.

If she was only a gay disaster , she wouldn't have any of that.

Luz having a part in most of those things is because she's the main character of the show and she's always going to be there supporting Amity if she needs it , It’s not a bad thing , It’s called having a great GF.

On " Any sport in the storm " , it was so touching both Luz and Amity were going to start Azura book club and breaking theories about Azura and searching for the writer together.

They were both doing activities about their mutual interest.

She's a prodigy at abomination for sure , but she never really wanted to become a prodigy or join a coven or something.

She wanted to be a kid having fun with her friends.

Amity wants to be a basic teen. All of her happiest moments are in the silly, quiet things. Volunteering at the library, reading to kids, doing cheesy tunnel of love rides…these things are what make her most joyful.

In " Thanks to them " she was more happier and more free that she ever was , We can see that she's totally happy , Spending time with her actual friends , Trying fashion with them , cooking weird foods with them , going zoo with them , Watching silly movies with them , going to beach with her girlfriend , Wearing Halloween customes. She was finally happy. She was being the real herself and embracing her real character.

So it makes zero sense to say she only became a girlfriend with no character or just a gay disaster.

She never lost her personality , She earned it.

Do you wanna know what's unique about her and what's her personality now ?

A brave , kind , strong , rebellious and reliable individual with passion who doesn't afraid of being the real herself and protect the people she loves ( especially Willow and Luz ) against anyone who tries to hurt them.

She's the warrior who breaks the chains of fear and replaces perfection with happiness.

The one who chooses herself.

She still has her interests : Library and books, especially Azura , Abomination, and friendship.

She still has some competitive spirits, but she is mentally healthy.

She has pride , but it's real now.

You can see all of it if you are able to look outside the box or just simply watch the show with actually your eyeballs.

Anyway , Lumity might just be a kinda booster for her development , but not the only reason or the entire reason.

Lumity is one of the important parts of Amity's development , but it doesn't define her entire existence.

Before becoming the real herself , she lived a life hiding her true self , without happiness and with no real friends , Things like Odalia's abuse , social pressure , Boscha's mean nature and even getting bullied by her own siblings consumed and polluted her , It was all harmful for her mental health.

It doesn't make sense to say she lost her personality when that season 1 bully chatacter was manufactured ( by someone else ) , not self chosen.

She changed because she realized she doesn't have to be perfect to be accepted as a living being to justify her existence , she changed because she got the courage to not be afraid of being the person she really is.

Although we can't say she changed because that bully nature wasn't her real character , it was a manufactured facade to uphold the Blight’s family name out of fear.

No need to mention She used to be so cliché and boring and predictable before meeting Luz when she was nothing more than a lonely and sad perfectionist academic bully.

There's nothing rushed about her development at all.

That bully nature is season 1 was not the real her , It was manufactured facade , Not self chosen.

She dropped her mask covered as ego after lost in language immediately because that wasn't her real nature.

And she didn’t just immediately get off the facade , That took more than one season, after lost in Language , Between that episode and understanding Willow , she was in an internal contradiction , Soft on the inside and cold on the outside but she was getting softer and expressing more feelings in every episode after lost in Language , Season 2 Escaping Expulsion was the moment she started getting out of Odalia's control.

Humiliation after witch's duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings marked the first cracks on her mask covered as ego.

It took her more than one season to fully get off the facade.

Because the good was already there, like reading books for children or allowing Luz to keep studying magic or leaving Grugby after hurting her teammates , her development feels natural rather than rushed. The show takes time to show her struggling, hesitating, and slowly improving, which makes her redemption believable instead of sudden.

Her redemption and development are not about timing , It’s about the right pressure. Having Luz as the first person who showed her kindness and honesty after years and Facing Willow in " Understanding Willow " episode are the right pressures she needed.

I’ve also seen people say they relate to Amity, which is part of what makes her feel realistic. She may not be written as an extremely complex or tragic character, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Her strength comes from being emotionally relatable, which matters more than having an overly complicated arc. Not every character needs to be written like Catra from She-Ra to be well written, and Amity succeeds at what her story is trying to do. And I understand why people say they relate to her, because I can relate to Amity myself. I share some aspects of her life experiences , Especially drama with parent and consequences of disobeying them or sometimes define myself with what I can bring to the table , which is part of why her character feels genuine to me.

She still had some of her academic traits :

Having leadership skills from her being grudgby captain days and Taking leadership role in thanks to them , Criticized Hunter’s Halloween custome , Said she wanted to make a student council once but Bump told her that she was obsessed, Bragging out that she used to be top student once.

She didn’t become perfect either :

Being so overprotective to Willow , having drama with her father , letting Odalia get to her with words , In " For the future " she was obsessed with making the school council thing.

In Understanding Willow episode , We can see her showing her backstory of why she was mean at the beginning of the show in the first place , she told Willow : " You were never weak to be my friend , I was weak to be yours "

Characters without depth:

don't reflect on their past.

don't name their own failures.

don't take responsibility.

Amity does all three here.

This line proves:

her kindness existed before.

her guilt never left.

her growth is internal, not just behavioral.

Long before Luz entered her life, Amity spent years trapped in a situation she didn’t want. She endured emotional abuse from her mother, constant social pressure, Boscha and Skara’s mean nature , and even bullying from her own siblings. None of this gave her real confidence, it made her afraid. She wasn’t happy, and she didn’t have genuine friends.

A life with no happiness and no actual friends , no relationship , Toxic tension with her own family , just hanging with people she never wanted to be with.

An isolated life with no actual friends and hiding her true self.

A life filled with fear.

She was getting hurt mentally.

A fate worse than death.

But then , she found love , happiness and actual friendship , People who actually cared about her and not just her family name or social status .

She found courage to be her real self.

It doesn't take away her personality , it reveals it , It improves her mental state.

She didn't suddenly become a nice girl or change her personality because that bully nature was never who she really is.

The pink haired Amity is the real her.

Not some green haired boring , cliché , predictable , perfectionist academic bully with no personality.

Pink haired version of her is a total upgrade filled with braveness and happiness.

the cold, short-tempered, narcissistic exterior was always just a Defense mechanism, a mask Amity put up to survive in the world her mother wants for her. Losing that shows how she stops being her mother's perfect puppet and finally starts being her own person again.

Amity never actually cared about being the top student in of itself on a personal level, her being the best in school was entirely , because of the pressure that her mom put on her to be the best and to succeed at all costs to uphold the Blight's family name , but amity never , actually cared about , the whole top student or getting perfect grades in school thing.

She was mad because of the top student badge because she was afraid of consequences of not being the best at school.

In season 2 Escaping Expulsion , Odalia was punishing Amity for so-called " recent lack of performance in school " and making her afraid using the necklace thing to keep her in control.

Imagine what she did when Amity returned home without " The top student badge " 😔.

In reaching out , She revealed that joining the Emperor's coven was actually her mother's dream , Not herself.

As we know , Witches get their Palismen by revealing their true wish.

In for the future , while explaining how she got Ghost , She said her wish was to choose her own path.

In Escaping Expulsion , Amity herself was saying Luz , Willow and Gus make her think of what kind of person she really wants to be.

We also have to remember that Luz is the main protagonist of the show, and therefore, has a big part of the show's focus on her. That means that it's more likely for characters to show up with Luz than alone.

Amity also had a really important part in season 3 : Taking the leadership role in " Thanks to them " when the protagonist was at her lowest point , Finding the rebus that led the team to the titan blood , Confronting Boscha and rejecting her offer to join her band and convincing her to help fighting Kikimora , Giving the light glyph to Luz to wake up from Collector's illusion , She draw the light glyph that led to waking her and others when they were pupets.

She tried to have the protagonist of the show dissected one time but then she saved her at least 3 times :

First time was in Grom , Second time was in Escaping Expulsion when she was in the abomination presentation and the third time was in Follies at the Coven Day Parade when Luz was running from Terra.

Some people actually claim Amity lost her ability to challenge Luz’s feelings , That take works only if you don't watch the show.

Amity's challenged Luz’s feelings for multiple times , In through looking glass ruins when she was devastated after getting fired from library which led Luz to go through some trials and get Amity’s membership back , In follies at the coven parade and Reaching out when asking Luz honesty , Luz apologized to her for not being honest without making excuses , In both of those episodes , Talking to Amity created a space that made Luz feel safe to open herself up ,she said it herself that it's not an excuse , Amity was the first person she trusted to share her pain with , and in " clouds of the horizon " when Luz was willing to risk her life and save Amity , she wanted to go with Eda at the same time and chose Amity.

Even in " Labyrinth Runners " , Luz was texting messages to Amity so fast , Amity was the first person she chose to talk to after learning a lot of bad things.

In " O titan , Where art thou " , she was glad that she was getting messages from Amity.

She was worried about Amity and said : I hope she's doing okay.

Amity was challenging Luz indirectly.

Some people like to say Amity and Zuko are basically the same character from different shows but Hunter became Amity’s narrative replacement , but that comparison doesn’t really make sense once you look at their motivations.

Zuko chose a dark path because he wanted to prove himself to his father and regain his “honor.” A lot of the harm he caused came from his decisions to gain approval. He actively hunted the Avatar, betrayed people who cared about him, and doubled down on the villain’s side even when he had chances to stop. His arc is about unlearning values he genuinely believed in.

Amity’s situation is very different. She wasn’t chasing approval or power, she was surviving. Her mean behavior wasn’t a belief system she chose, it was a facade she put on out of fear. She was controlled by her mother, trapped by social pressure, and scared of the consequences of stepping out of line. The moment that pressure eased, the facade started cracking almost immediately.

If anything, Amity didn’t need to be redeemed from evil beliefs, she needed the safety and courage to be herself.

If there is a Zuko parallel in The Owl House, it’s Hunter. Hunter was openly loyal to the main villain of the show, believed in the system he was raised in, and committed serious wrongdoing in the name of approval. His arc is about realizing that the person he trusted was evil and wrong and then actively turning against that ideology.

So yeah, saying Amity and Zuko are the same character really misses the point of both arcs. They’re telling very different stories. Lumping them together just flattens Amity into something she was never meant to be.

People who claiming Amity “lost her intelligence” completely miss what her intelligence actually was.

What we saw in season one wasn’t “genius top‑student intelligence” , it was survival intelligence. It was the kind of sharpness you develop when you’re growing up under emotional abuse, social pressure, and constant fear of disappointing a controlling parent.

Amity wasn’t excelling because she felt free to learn.

She was excelling because she had to.

Failure was not an option.

She had to do everything she could to uphold the Blight’s family name at any cost and earn Prestige for the name in exchange for safety.

She built strategies, routines, and masks to navigate a world where failure meant punishment and vulnerability wasn’t safe. And honestly? She did an impressively good job surviving all of that while hiding behind a confidence facade she never chose.

When she finally began breaking out of that system, she didn’t “get dumber.”

She earned a different kind of intelligence:

the intelligence to stand up for herself, challenge her abusers, break cycles, choose her own future, and be brave enough to become the person she actually wants to be and be free to express feelings.

Her development didn’t remove her intelligence .

it deepened it, expanded it, and evolved it into something far more human and far more powerful.

The whole perfectionist and elitist crap was just Odalia talking out of her and manipulationg her with it.

There’s nothing wrong with being a basic teen , It's what Amity always wanted , in fact, it’s what most of us actually want deep down: a life free of crushing expectations, free of the endless pressure to be perfect, flawless, impressive.

And that’s all Amity ever wanted too. She never wished to be a prodigy or someone everyone stared at. She wanted to be a kid having fun with actual friends. In “Thanks to Them,” she finally gets to live the life she was denied for so long.

People who say “Amity became boring” or “her character was reduced” are speaking from a mindset shaped by a society obsessed with looking cold, edgy, and effortlessly badass , a culture that glorifies perfection and punishes vulnerability. It’s the same mindset that idolizes cynical antihero stereotypes ( Like the popularity of beta lumity which I never really understood ) and “coolness” at all costs.

But being imperfect is what makes us human. Living free from other people’s expectations is what gives us room to breathe, to grow, to become ourselves. That’s exactly what Amity did: she replaced perfection with happiness.

What those people call her “coolest, perfect badass popular prodigy era ” came with a devastating price they never acknowledge. Before meeting Luz, Amity’s entire life was shaped by fear, the fear of disappointing her mother, the fear of losing the only thing she was valued for, the fear of never being good enough.

She endured emotional abuse from her mother , she lived with toxic, awful tension in her own home and with her own family , she was bullied and hurt by her own siblings, her father barely spoke to her at all , and socially, she was surrounded by people she didn’t even want to be friends with, a hollow environment built on status instead of connection.

When she lets go of all that , when she becomes softer, freer, and more open , that isn’t “character regression.” That is healing. That is recovery. That is Amity finally choosing herself.

Amity inspired us to break the chains of fear.

And even when it comes to being better, or striving for perfection, it should be our own choice , something we pursue because we want to, not because someone else’s expectations have twisted us into thinking we have to earn our worth.

And the worst part? That forced perfection didn’t even always protect Amity , it made her a target. Her own siblings tried to expose her private diary to the entire school and when she cheated on witches duel , she faced public humiliation from the very people who claimed to admire her.

That was the reality behind her so‑called “perfect” life: isolation, pressure, and constant fear of being torn down the moment she slipped.

This kind and brave teenager , the Amity with soul, warmth, and courage, who mended her friendship with Willow and learned to open her heart , is an absolute upgrade compared to the cold‑hearted, soulless bully she once was, trapped by fear and loneliness.

The pink‑haired Amity is not a downgrade. It’s the clearest indication that she’s grown , that she’s healed past the flimsy “bully” label and finally stepped out of the role of her mother’s perfect puppet. The change isn’t aesthetic; it’s a deliberate mark of someone who has stopped performing a script written for her and started asserting her own identity.

And the green hair wasn’t even her choice , it existed purely because her mother liked green. It was another manufactured detail in a personality she never chose, one more reminder that even her appearance was curated for her.

Probably the only thing to celebrate about green haired Amity is the hairstyle she used to have , the ponytail actually worked. It might have been interesting to see her dye her hair purple while keeping the ponytail.

When Amity was the “perfect” student at Hexside , popular, intimidating, and aiming for the Emperor’s Coven , it might have looked like she was thriving. But she wasn’t really excelling in the way people imagine. She was surviving.

Her perfectionism, her reputation, and even her behavior as a bully were part of maintaining the image expected from her. Falling short wasn’t just disappointing , it risked punishment, humiliation, or losing approval. In that sense, being the “perfect Blight prodigy” wasn’t about glory or status. It was something she maintained in exchange for safety.

Even if Amity believed these goals were her own for a while, long‑term pressure can cause expectations to become internalized. When someone grows up under constant demands, those demands often stop feeling external and start feeling like personal standards. After years of that pressure, the person may enforce those expectations on themselves automatically, even if the original reason was fear. In other words, Amity could genuinely think perfection and status were what she wanted, because she had spent so long living inside that role.

Because of this, her change later in the story isn’t a loss of personality , it’s the result of finally being able to step out of survival mode.

Some people say Amity became “boring” after she started healing and becoming happier. But characters who are constantly under pressure often appear more dramatic because they are always struggling. When that pressure disappears, the character may seem calmer or less tense. That doesn’t mean the character became worse or lost depth; it means they are no longer trapped in the same stressful situation.

Amity doesn’t owe it to the audience to keep suffering just to remain “interesting.” Her growth is about gaining freedom from the expectations that controlled her for years and finally being able to choose who she wants to be.

A lot of the traits that make early Amity seem “more interesting” to some people are traits tied to conflict and emotional repression: pride, arrogance, violence , aggression, emotional coldness, bullying behavior, constantly hiding vulnerability, and acting like emotions are weaknesses. Some people are also more drawn to the image of a cold, intimidating “perfect” prodigy , someone who appears flawless, emotionally untouchable, and always in control.

Those traits create tension and drama, which naturally makes a character feel more intense on screen. But the story also makes it clear that many of these behaviors were unhealthy coping mechanisms shaped by pressure, fear, and the need to survive under expectations.

As Amity heals, she becomes softer and more emotionally open. That may feel less dramatic compared to her earlier behavior, but it does not mean she lost depth or personality.

Some people talk as if early Amity was a vicious, nonstop bully who tried to hurt Willow every second of the day. The show itself doesn’t support that at all. At worst, she was a D‑tier bully , sarcastic, dismissive, and pressured into maintaining a cold image. What she did to Willow wasn’t right, but calling it “relentless bullying 24/7” is a big exaggeration of what we actually saw on screen.

And it’s not like Amity ever “got away” with her mistakes or lived a carefree life. Long before Luz entered the picture, Amity was already trapped in a situation she didn’t want. She was dealing with emotional abuse from her mother, constant pressure to be perfect, Boscha and Skara’s toxic behavior, and even bullying from her own siblings. None of this gave her real confidence , it made her afraid. She wasn’t happy, and she didn’t have genuine friends. She was surrounded by people who cared more about her family name than who she actually was.

She also faced public humiliation multiple times, like the witch’s duel disaster and getting embarrassed in front of her siblings. Her life wasn’t comfortable, privileged, or carefree; it was controlled, isolating, and filled with pressure she never asked for.

Amity also wasn’t anywhere close to the kind of “horrible bully” some people compare her to. She was nothing like someone such as Angela from Stranger Things or Trevor from the movie Central Intelligence. Those characters are truly cruel, aggressive, and intentionally hurtful. Amity wasn’t even a fraction of that. Her behavior was mostly cold, sarcastic, and dismissive , still wrong, but far from the extreme, violent bully stereotype some people try to apply to her.

And the truth is, early Amity wasn’t actually “cool” or genuinely interesting as a character. She was predictable, stiff, and built around a very familiar bully cliché. She got angry easily, repeated the same cold behavior, and didn’t show much depth because she wasn’t allowed to have any. That version of her didn’t have a real personality of her own; it was a persona crafted and forced onto her by her mother and the expectations around her.

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Child power house stereotype

Toph from Avatar the last airbender is what you order online.

Frosta from She ra and the princesses of power is what they promise you to get.

Polly from amphibia is what you actually get.

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Southern raiders just proves that Aang understands Katara better than zuko.

While Zuko was encouraging her to let rage consume her and embrace her to turn to dark side just so she could forgive him , Aang was asking her to not revenge consume her and ruin the good inside her because he knew that's not who she is.

Aang lost his entire people and culture but since he knew things such as desire for revenge eat people alive on the inside.

Aang understood so he didn't stop her from leaving and allowed her to take appa , after he was lost on season 2 , but asked her to not to choose revenge right away , But he knew she has to face the monster at some point.

And in the end , Katara listened , she could have kill the man who killed her mother but chose a higher path than revenge and didn't become a murder.

In the end of that episode , Zuko told Aang : You were right about Katara.

In that episode , Zuko led her to the monster , Aang led her to herself.

While Aang was telling her that revenge is like a 2 headed snake and when one head takes down the other , it would fall as well , while zuko was encouraging katara to embrace her dark side by making fun of what Aang said and then he said that forgiving is the same as doing nothing

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Bryke never actually said Kataang is forced.

One of the most debated statements in the Avatar fandom comes from a tumblr post by Bryan Konietzko in which he wrote:

"We obviously did it in Avatar, but even that felt a bit forced to me."

For years, fans have disagreed on what exactly Bryan meant by this comment , some interpret it as an admission that the relationship between Aang and Katara felt forced, while others argue that he was referring to a broader storytelling trope rather than the pairing itself.

An important detail that is often left out is the context of the post , Bryan was not discussing Kataang or the Kataang vs. Zutara debate , he was primarily talking about the confirmation of the relationship between Korra and Asami Sato and reflecting on how he approaches romance in storytelling.

In that discussion, Bryan mentioned being influenced by comments from Hayao Miyazaki, who has spoken about how stories do not always need to pair characters romantically simply because they spend time together , Bryan expressed a similar sentiment, explaining that he is not particularly fond of the expectation that a story's protagonist must end up in a romantic relationship by the final scene.

This idea is especially common in adventure and fantasy stories. , audiences are often conditioned to expect a romantic resolution, even when the main plot is not centered on romance , classic examples include:

Rapunzel and Eugene in tangled.

Aladdin and princess Jasmine in aladdin.

Ariel and prince Eric in the little mermaid.

In each case, the story concludes with the protagonists becoming a couple, reinforcing the familiar "happily ever after" formula , Bryan's comments suggest that he has become increasingly interested in stories that are not obligated to follow that pattern.

Because of this context, many fans believe that when Bryan said "even that felt a bit forced to me," he was referring to the convention of ending a story with a romantic pairing, rather than specifically criticizing Aang and Katara's relationship.

It is also worth noting that Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino have repeatedly stated that Aang and Katara were intended to be the endgame couple from early in the development of Avatar the last airbender , there is no known evidence that Zuko and Katara were ever planned as the canon ending.

As a result, the quote remains open to interpretation. What is clear, however, is that Bryan never explicitly stated that Kataang was a mistake, that it should not have happened, or that Zutara was intended to replace it.

Ultimately, the debate continues because the phrase "felt a bit forced" is somewhat ambiguous, depending on how it is read, it can be interpreted either as a comment on a specific romance or as a critique of the broader expectation that every story must conclude with a romantic pairing , given the full context of the tumblr post, many readers find the latter interpretation more consistent with what Bryan was discussing at the time.

Nearly two decades after avatar the last airbender ended, the discussion remains one of the fandom's most enduring topics.

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Luz's Growth from escapism to self acceptance

I’ve seen some people say that Luz has “zero development,” that she keeps making the same mistakes, that her flaws were never addressed, or that she became a completely different character who “lost her energy” by the end.

Those takes are objectively wrong takes of a fan made version of Luz that doesn’t exist.

The Luz who made mistakes and got away with it is a fan made version of her .

First, Canon Luz makes reckless and impulsive mistakes. Later, her mistake becomes sacrificing too much at the cost of harming herself. And finally, her mistake becomes hiding the truth because she’s afraid of hurting others.

That’s not repetition. That’s progression.

She goes from simple mistakes to complex moral errors. That’s growth.

If a character never makes mistakes again, there’s no room for growth at all. Some people think growth means a character never repeats a flaw. But in storytelling, growth means the flaw is still there, what changes is the reaction, the reasoning, and the conclusions drawn from it.

That’s exactly what happens to Luz.

People often confuse “repeating a core flaw” with “not learning anything,” but those are two very different things. Luz absolutely learns from her mistakes. Her arc is built around a persistent insecurity that shows up in new forms as she matures.

At first, she makes reckless, impulsive choices because she believes enthusiasm and good intentions are enough. But after the consequences hit , putting Eda in danger, putting pressure on her friends Willow and Gus in grudby , causing Amity to be fired from the library (which she later makes up for) , she adjusts. She trains seriously. She listens more. She stops assuming optimism alone fixes everything.

That’s learning.

In Season 2, her mistakes change. She’s no longer careless , she becomes over responsible , She starts blaming herself for everything: Belos, Hunter, the Day of Unity. That’s a much more complex flaw. It’s not “the same mistake.” It’s the evolution of the same insecurity.

By “Thanks to Them” and the finale, she confronts that guilt directly. She learns she can’t fix everything alone. She learns other people need to be part of the solution. She learns vulnerability and asking for help are strengths, not failures. She learns to think more before acting and to include others in decisions.

That is growth.

She isn’t “not learning.” She’s dealing with a consistent character flaw , wanting to save everyone, even at her own expense , and each season shows her understanding it better, responding to it differently, and slowly outgrowing the unhealthy parts of it.

A character who never struggles with the same flaw again would feel unrealistic and flat. Luz’s development is gradual, emotional, and intentional. It’s human, not static.

The mistake isn’t repeating , the context, awareness, and response are evolving.

Now beyond that core flaw, there’s also the broader thematic growth.

At the beginning of the series, Luz enters the Demon Realm largely as an escape. She’s running away from the real world and its difficulties, hoping to live in a fantasy where happiness is simple and permanent. She idealizes the Demon Realm as a place where everything can be fixed with optimism, kindness, and imagination.

But as she makes real friends, falls in love, and starts helping others, she realizes emotions and relationships there are just as complex, painful, and layered as they are in the Human Realm. The world she saw as a perfect fantasy reveals trauma, loss, moral ambiguity, and irreversible consequences.

She stops seeing the world as “happy fantasy vs. cruel reality” and understands that every world contains both joy and difficulty. That realization alone is massive growth.

In the final season, her development becomes even more explicit. By blaming herself for a mistake she never intended to make, she shows a deep understanding of responsibility and consequences. Her arc isn’t about avoiding guilt , it’s about learning not to let guilt consume her. She understands that making mistakes is part of being human, and growth comes from facing them honestly instead of punishing herself endlessly.

In season 2 she literally said " I'd kill to see my mom right now " and she was trying to find a way to go back to the human realm , It’s called maturity and responsibility.

Her confrontation with Belos shows clear maturity. She understands evil not as something that can always be redeemed, but as something that sometimes can only be stopped. She accepts that some people do not deserve a second chance, and that protecting what she loves may require morally heavy decisions. She lets Belos die , something Season 1 Luz likely would have struggled to do out of pure optimism.

By the end, Luz becomes someone who no longer fears being her true self. She learns she doesn’t have to face everything alone and that relying on others isn’t weakness. She keeps her energy, creativity, optimism, and kindness , but she becomes wiser, more grounded, and more realistic.

She doesn’t lose her light. She learns how to carry it responsibly.

She even improves the lives of everyone around her simply by being there.

Calling her a character with “zero development,” claiming she keeps making the same mistakes without growth, or saying she “lost her energy” is a very superficial reading of her arc. Her development is emotional, ethical, and psychological , not a personality reset.

For anyone who feels her growth lacked screen time, “Thanks to Them” and additional fan works have expanded and reinforced those themes beautifully within the fandom.

Her evolution from escapism, to responsibility, to self-acceptance and moral clarity is her character development.

That’s why she’s one of the most incredible protagonists in modern media.

Saying she has zero development or became a different person is just a shallow, ridiculous , surface level interpretation that ignores the depth of what the story actually shows.

I’ve also seen people claim that Luz was “going to betray her friends ” by secretly planning for months to permanently leave the Demon Realm before defeating the Collector.

That’s not even close to what actually happened in the show.

It wasn’t betrayal.

It was Luz confronting her guilt in the wrong way.

At that point in the story, she genuinely believed her presence brought suffering to the people she loved. After everything with Belos and the Day of Unity, she internalized the idea that she was the common denominator in the chaos. Choosing not to return wasn’t about abandoning her friends , it was about accepting what she believed was responsibility.

She thought removing herself would protect them.

That’s self sacrificial guilt, not betrayal.

And even in the video she recorded, she never said she planned to leave before saving the Isles. She only said she had decided not to go back to the Demon Realm. There’s a huge difference.

She wasn’t planning to disappear before defeating the Collector and she didn’t even that she was going to do such thing.

She chose not to return right before Halloween night , not “months in advance.”

The timeline matters.

Framing it as a long term secret betrayal completely misrepresents what the show actually depicts. Luz wasn’t trying to hurt her friends. She was trying , in a misguided way , to protect them by taking responsibility for something she blamed herself for.

That interpretation aligns with her established flaw: taking too much responsibility and trying to carry everything alone.

Calling that betrayal strips the emotional nuance from the situation and reduces a complex guilt-driven decision into something much simpler than it actually was.

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Moringmarkugh is canon until proven otherwise.

The awesome show The Owl House was Sabotaged by Disney, But Narratively Completed by MoringMark

The show was clearly cut short by Disney, and it shows. Fortunately, we have MoringMark (from Instagram), whose comics have been expanding the story since 2021 and helping repair the narrative damage left behind.

Some people argue that these comics aren’t official, aren’t network-approved, or aren’t confirmed by the creators, so they shouldn’t count as canon. So what?

That argument assumes that “official” is the only valid definition of canon , when in reality, it’s simply the only definition some people choose to accept. History shows that meanings evolve over time.

Words change.

The word “canon” originally referred to religious texts recognized as authoritative within a tradition. Over time, the term was adopted into literature and media to describe works considered foundational or authoritative within a fictional universe.

Its usage expanded as storytelling moved from single authors to corporate franchises and then to participatory fandom culture.

Franchises like Star Wars once used the term “Expanded Universe” for material that was widely accepted by fans but existed in tiers of canon. When Disney restructured the continuity, the definition of what counted as canon changed overnight.

That shift itself proves that “canon” is not a fixed natural law , it is a framework shaped by institutions and audiences over time.

Meanings evolve in language , and in storytelling.

There’s a difference between official canon and narrative canon and cultural canon.

Official canon usually means a work carries a studio or network stamp. But if that stamp is the only requirement, then canon becomes a legal label rather than a narrative one , offering no guarantee of quality, consistency, or faithfulness to the spirit of the story.

Narrative canon, on the other hand, is about coherence. It’s about whether something fits the established characters, themes, tone, and internal logic without breaking them.

Cultural canon is about audience acceptance , how a community collectively continues, interprets, and emotionally validates a story.

Most fan-made works diverge from the original in writing, characterization, tone, or art style , and that’s completely normal. What makes MoringMark different is how consistently his comics align with the show’s narrative logic, character voices, emotional arcs, and visual language in ways most fan works simply do not.

It’s also worth asking where the rigid idea of “official canon only” comes from. Not from audiences , but from industry structures that centralize narrative authority in corporations.

It’s not a universal law of storytelling. It’s a production model that centralizes narrative authority within corporate structures.

Scholars in literary theory have long recognized that once a story is released, its meaning isn’t controlled solely by its creator. Roland Barthes, in The Death of the Author, argued that the author’s intent does not exclusively define a work; instead, meaning is produced through interpretation. Similarly, Stanley Fish’s Reader-Response theory emphasizes that communities of readers shape the significance of a text through collective engagement.

Applied to MoringMark’s comics, this demonstrates that while Disney defines official canon, fans can create a form of narrative authority through consistent, coherent storytelling that preserves character integrity, thematic consistency, and emotional arcs. In other words, narrative legitimacy and cultural recognition are observable phenomena, not arbitrary inventions.

So when fans recognize MoringMark’s work as a faithful continuation of The Owl House, it isn’t “headcanon” in the personal sense , it’s a shared, community-validated interpretation that carries weight in practice, even without an official stamp.

For many viewers, canon is ultimately what fits the world and the characters without breaking them , canon until proven otherwise. Unless a comic directly contradicts on-screen events or fundamentally damages established characterization, it functions as a continuation.

And MoringMark’s work does not contradict the show , it expands it.

Moments like Hunter’s reaction to Belos’ defeat, Vee’s confrontation with Hunter after what the Emperor’s Coven did to her kind, Willow and Gus finally receiving the attention they didn’t get in Season 2, and the Hexsquad’s Gravesfield adventures , all repair emotional gaps and deepen characters in ways the shortened final season couldn’t.

MoringMark doesn’t overwrite canon.

He completes it.

He restores emotional weight and gives fans closure.

This debate isn’t unique to The Owl House.

Entire online communities have spent years challenging the canonical legitimacy of officially endorsed sequels such as the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Toy Story 4, Frozen 2, or Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

The persistence of those debates demonstrates something important:

“Canon” operates not only as a legal classification but as a matter of narrative trust and audience acceptance.

Some reject the Star Wars sequel trilogy, claiming it contradicts the earlier films, while others feel Toy Story 4 undermined the emotional closure of the third movie. Even the Legend of Korra sparks debate , some fans love it, while others feel it “ruined” ATLA’s legacy. In all these cases, the “official” stamp exists, but audience acceptance depends on narrative coherence and emotional satisfaction , exactly the same principle that makes MoringMark’s comics feel like canon to so many people. I agree about Toy story 4.

Frozen 2 is another perfect example of why "official" doesn't always mean right. Many people refuse to see it as canon because it fundamentally contradicts the core themes established in the first movie.

While the original film was a masterpiece about the power of sisterly bond and "being together," the sequel forces a separation that feels narratively hollow. It turns Elsa’s unique magic into a convoluted superhero like Fifth Element origin, stripping away the mystery and the personal growth she achieved. Just like Toy Story 4, it takes a journey that feels complete and reopens it for corporate expansion, sacrificing character consistency for the sake of world-building.

The same logic applies to gaming, with Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League being a prime example , Despite being officially set in the beloved Arkham verse, the majority of fans refuse to accept it as canon. It’s seen as a direct insult to the legacy of the Arkham Batman, undoing years of character development for the sake of a live service cash grab. For the community, the Arkham story ended with Arkham Knight, anything that fundamentally disrespects the established journey of its hero is official on paper, but non canon in the hearts of the players.

In all these cases, the official stamp exists.

But audience acceptance depends on coherence, emotional continuity, and respect for the story’s established foundation.

That same principle is why MoringMark’s comics resonate so strongly. They do not fracture the world , they reinforce it.

And this isn’t about erasing official canon. It’s about recognizing that storytelling authority does not exist solely in corporate paperwork. Stories live in communities.

Canon isn’t just what a company says it is.

It’s what preserves the soul of a story.

It’s what maintains internal truth.

It’s what audiences collectively recognize as a natural extension of what came before.

MoringMark achieves that.

So for those who care about narrative integrity and emotional continuity, his work already functions as canon , whether officially stamped or not.

MoringMark is canon until proven otherwise.

And Unless it can be shown that his work contradicts the established narrative, it continues to function as canon for many viewers.

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There's nothing rushed or forced about Amity's redemption and development

Calling it rushed ignores the fact that Amity was never truly a bad person on the inside. Even early on, she showed signs of kindness and regret, reading books for children and letting Luz to study Magic and even leaving grudgby after her teammates got hurt , and it was clear she didn’t actually want to be cruel. Her growth doesn’t come from a sudden personality change, but from finally having the courage and support to stop pretending and make better choices.

Public humiliation after witch's duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings were the first things that started breaking her.

And she didn’t just immediately get off the facade , That took more than one season, after lost in Language , Between that episode and understanding Willow , she was in an internal contradiction , Soft on the inside and cold on the outside but she was getting softer and expressing more feelings in every episode after lost in Language , Season 2 Escaping Expulsion was the moment she started getting out of Odalia's control.

It took her more than one season to fully get off the facade.

Because the good was already there, her development feels natural rather than rushed. The show takes time to show her struggling, hesitating, and slowly improving, which makes her redemption believable instead of sudden.

It's not about timing , It’s about the right pressure.

Having Luz as the first person who showed her kindness and honesty after years and Facing Willow in " Understanding Willow " episode are the right pressures she needed.

I’ve also seen people say they relate to Amity, which is part of what makes her feel realistic. She may not be written as an extremely complex or tragic character, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Her strength comes from being emotionally relatable, which matters more than having an overly complicated arc. Not every character needs to be written like Catra from She-Ra to be well written, and Amity succeeds at what her story is trying to do.

And I understand why people say they relate to her, because I can relate to Amity myself. I share some aspects of her life experiences, which is part of why her character feels genuine to me.

It’s also true that Amity didn’t have to be mean to Willow in season 1, episode 3 or Luz after that , and people who point that out aren’t wrong , However, there’s important context behind her behavior. After years of playing the role of a false personality , that being mean had become a habit rather than a conscious choice.

Amity spent years surrounded by people she didn’t want to be with , her bully siblings, her controlling mother, and peers who rewarded meanness. In that kind of environment, negative traits can become learned and normalized. Traits can become contagious.

And before meeting Luz, no one had ever really challenged Amity to question her feelings or behavior in a meaningful way.

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Canon Amity versus fanon Amity

Amity is one of the show's most amazing and layered characters in the show.

The Amity who lost her personality and became just a girlfriend with no personality is just a fan made version of her that doesn't exist.

Amity losing her personality is just a headcanon.

Canon Amity never lost her personality , she earned it.

Her development and redemption makes sense when you see what she's been through , The Amity we saw on the beginning wasn't the real her, She was never a bully on the inside , She was forced to be due to her mother’s abusive and social pressure , Her arrogance and confidence was a mask , Before Luz , Everyone just saw her on the outside and judged her based on what she was doing , Even Willow , No one accepted the real her , Although she still had some soft points such as reading book to kids and leaving Grugby after hurting her friends , But things like humiliation after witch's duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings were the first cracks on her mask , Luz was the first person who showed her kindness and honesty and saw the real her inside her and accepted her without wanting anything in return on judging her , She showed her that it's okay to be imperfect , She inspired her and encouraged her to not be ashamed of her real self and fight for the person she really wants to be , So it's normal if Amity falls in love with Luz , Because she's the first one who made her feel safe. Luz brought hope and happiness back to her life.

Saying things like she suddenly change after 3 episodes or just became a girlfriend with no character or just a gay disaster or saying Luz is her sole motivation to do anything or changed just so she could get with Luz is just surface level takes.

She didn't lose her personality , She earned it. She was finally happy , an brave , kind and rebellious individual who fights for the person she wants to be and protect the people she loves against anyone who tries to hurt them.

Calling her a gay disaster is just haters being homophobic .

We saw her panic around Luz ? Sure , But we only saw her obsessed with Luz or saying I'm Luz gf for only one or two episodes , Some people really just exaggerate about that, Besides , It's a normal teenager thing to blush about their crush , It's a crush trait , Not gay trait.

It's a realistic thing to blush or being anxious about someone you have a crush on , not something lgbt.

Besides , she was still new to expressing feelings , She wasn't an expert at it , And that's okay , it's how people usually do about their crush.

Romance doesn't erase her personality , It helped it growth :

Her softness ,Her anxiety ,Her friendship ,Her awkwardness , Her protective instincs .

Those traits were already there , Just buried , A character showing vulnerability is not losing their personality , It's expanding it.

Being soft around Luz doesn't erase or replace her personality , It adds depth :

Her intelligence, Her determination , Her bravery , Her moral growth ,Her friendships.

She still has her own agency outside her romance with Luz :

Fixing her relationship with Willow and protecting her in labyrinth runners so she wouldn't lose her again and learning to see her real strength.

Convincing Willow to help in the grudgby episode , Facing her fear of playing grudby to protect her real friends and stand up to the unreal Friends and making her social life better .

Luz and Willow needed a third player and Amity chose to step in and help even though she didn't really have to.

It was one of her steps to reject the facade she was stuck at for years.

Standing up to Odalia and threatening their business to protect her friends from being expelled .

Breaking the necklace Odalia was using to control her.

Turning her hair into purple in order to fight Odalia's influence.

Bonding with Hunter and learning to not to define herself to what she can provide for the others in Eclipse lake .

Reconnecting with her siblings.

Attending the brawl without her father's permission and then econnectingng with him.

She even defeated some of the greatest fighters in boiling isles in the brawl.

She almost defeated The golden guard even , in Eclipse lake.

In s2 e11 , She wanted someone to talk to and ask advice from and she went to Willow and remembered that it's been a while she didn't go to her house , Willow even asked her to braid her hair and she accepted , Willow was happy they were the way the used to be again.

In both grom and Knock Hooty's door , We can see her having the fear of being rejected.

Helping the rebellion and fighting Belos.

Confronting Boscha and rejecting her offer to join her band again in for the future .

Reuniting with her siblings and her father in season 3 after worrying about them for months.

Final confrontation of Odalia after she tried to warn her about the day of unity and trying to take the control of her life again by trying to remove Luz from her life only because she wasn't a rich girl or something and cutting ties with her permanently after it turned out that she knew what the day of unity really is.

Before that she wasn’t angry at Odalia for years of abuse or something because she thought that she's just a mother who wanted the best for her family but in a wrong way or something , but after she realized that Odalia knew about the day of unity and was okay with it , she saw her true colors and cut her ties with her permanently.

Final reconnecting with her father in clouds on the horizon.

Taking the leadership role in Thanks to Them.

Taking the leadership role and organizing people in Eclipse lake.

Helping to rebuild the isles.

Trying to find a way to go home.

Becoming so awesome at using abomination.

Challenging Collector's illusion in watching and dreaming.

In watching and dreaming , She even was able to drew a glyph on the ground when she was a puppet , I mean how awesome and powerful is that.

Restored her relationship with her former mentor.

In the epilogue , We can see her becoming an Explorer who travels all around the world and also an abomination engineer and likely the future CEO of Blight industry.

And more moments of her from moringmarkugh , mark is canon until proven otherwise.

Moments like : How she met Ghost in the first place , Falling in love with playing video games , Reviewing the memories with Willow and learning in the hard way , telling her storylife to Camila and when it was revealed that she's an expert in engine repairing and even comforting Hunter after he found out about the death of Belos and etc.

So yeah , Her storyline exists out of romance .

If she was only a gay disaster , she wouldn't have any of that.

Luz having a part in most of those things is because she's the main character of the show and she's always going to be there supporting Amity if she needs it , It’s not a bad thing , It’s called having a great GF.

She's a prodigy at abomination for sure , But she never really wanted to become a prodigy or join a coven or something.

She wanted to be a kid having fun with her friends.

In s3 e1 , We can see that she's totally happy , Spending time with her friends , Trying fashion with them , Watching silly movies with them , going to beach with her girlfriend , Wearing Halloween customes. She was finally happy. She was being the real herself and embracing her real character.

So it makes zero sense to say she only became a girlfriend with no character or just a gay disaster.

She never lost her personality , She earned it.

You wanna know what's unique about her ? A brave , kind individual with passion who doesn't afraid of being the real herself and protect the people she loves against anyone who tries to hurt them.

She still has her interests : Library and books especially Azura , Abomination and friendship.

She still has some competitive spirit but she was mentally healthy.

She has the pride , but it's real now.

You can see all of it if you be able to look outside the box.

Even moringmarkugh from instagram who's been continuing and expanding the show's story and fixing the damage disney caused for years , gave us Lots of Amity and her moments for us.

Moringmarkugh is canon until proven otherwise .

Anyway , Lumity might just be a kinda booster for her development , Not the only reason or the entire reason.

Lumity is one the important parts of Amity's development , but it doesn't define her entire existence.

Before becoming the real herself , she lived a life hiding her true self , without happiness and with no real friends , Things like Odalia's abuse , social pressure , Boscha's mean nature and even getting bullied by her own siblings consumed and polluted her , It was all harmful for her mental health.

It doesn't make sense to say she lost her personality when that season 1 bully chatacter was manufactured ( by someone else ) , not self chosen.

She changed because she realized , she doesn't have to be perfect to be accepted as a living being.

There's nothing rushed about her development at all.

She dropped her mask covered as ego after lost in language immediately because that wasn't her real nature.

And she didn’t just immediately get off the facade , That took more than one season, after lost in Language , Between that episode and understanding Willow , she was in an internal contradiction , Soft on the inside and cold on the outside but she was getting softer and expressing more feelings in every episode after lost in Language , Season 2 Escaping Expulsion was the moment she started getting out of Odalia's control.

It took her more than one season to fully get off the facade.

Because the good was already there, her development feels natural rather than rushed. The show takes time to show her struggling, hesitating, and slowly improving, which makes her redemption believable instead of sudden.

It's not about timing , It’s about the right pressure.

Having Luz as the first person who showed her kindness and honesty after years and Facing Willow in " Understanding Willow " episode are the right pressures she needed.

I’ve also seen people say they relate to Amity, which is part of what makes her feel realistic. She may not be written as an extremely complex or tragic character, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Her strength comes from being emotionally relatable, which matters more than having an overly complicated arc. Not every character needs to be written like Catra from She-Ra to be well written, and Amity succeeds at what her story is trying to do. And I understand why people say they relate to her, because I can relate to Amity myself. I share some aspects of her life experiences, which is part of why her character feels genuine to me.

Her adventures is not just about Luz or Willow or anyone else she cares about , it's about herself and what she really wants , In for the future she said that her wish is to make her own path for life.

And Amity’s simple but yet perfect redemption needs recognition :

Haters keep saying Amity bullied Willow constantly for nine years, like it was nonstop cruelty 24/7 , That isn’t really supported by what we actually see in the show. We don’t see years of active torment , we see distance, coldness, and occasional sarcasm tied to the facade she was maintaining.

That doesn’t mean her behavior was okay. It hurt Willow, and Amity later takes responsibility for that. But framing it as relentless abuse for nearly a decade exaggerates what’s shown on screen.

Boscha is consistently portrayed as the one who actively mocks and targets Willow. Amity’s role was more about maintaining social status and emotional distance than actively seeking to hurt her.

Amity acted like a bully. That doesn’t mean cruelty was who she truly was.

Amity’s simple but yet perfect redemption deserves recognition.

Amity made mistakes, there’s no denying that. But people often make mistakes before they become better. Redemption is a common theme in storytelling, and Amity’s journey fits that pattern.

Zuko betrayed Katara and Iroh and played a role in Aang’s apparent death in crossroads of destiny. He burned Kyoshi Island nearly to ashes and even hired an assassin to kill the Avatar.

Catra betrayed her friends, nearly destroyed Etheria, and caused Angella’s possible death by opening the portal.

Nebula and Gamora helped Ronan and Thanos carry out mass slaughter and killed countless people across multiple planets.

Loki nearly wiped out an entire race and led an alien invasion that killed thousands in New York.

Yet in the end, all of them chose a higher path.

Amity is no different.

She knows she made serious mistakes, bullying Willow or even letting Boscha bulling her and even putting Luz in danger. But instead of denying responsibility or making excuses, she acknowledged her faults and worked to make things right. She helped Willow and Luz defeat Boscha in grudgby, saved Luz’s life, stood up to Odalia to protect her friends from being expelled, and tried to protect Willow in Labyrinth Runners so she wouldn’t lose her again.

After Wing it like Witches , Boscha never Bullied Willow again.

She didn't do those things sooner because she wasn't still brave enough to face the consequences of getting off the facade.

You can see her facing the consequences of her recent bravery from Odalia in Escaping Expulsion episode , She was afraid in that episode.

She was facing the consequences of her bravery.

In Escaping Expulsion , Odalia was punishing her daughter for so called " recent lack of performance in school " .

Imagine what Odalia did when Amity came back home without that " top student badge " 😔.

In Wing it like Witches , If she didn’t interfere sooner , It must be because she wasn’t still brave enough to get off the facade and turn against the rich kid of her mother's rich colleague.

Amity didn’t get away with her mistakes, nor did she live a carefree life. Long before Luz entered her life, Amity spent years trapped in a situation she didn’t want. She endured emotional abuse from her mother, constant social pressure, Boscha and Skara’s mean nature , and even bullying from her own siblings. None of this gave her real confidence, it made her afraid. She wasn’t happy, and she didn’t have genuine friends.

None of that is good for mental health .

She lived a lonely , isolated life filled with fear.

She was getting hurt mentally.

Hiding her real self behind a mask of fake confidence and arrogance.

The humiliation she faced after the witch’s duel and in front of her siblings marked the first cracks in the mask she had been forced to wear.

In Understanding Willow , Amity was terrified to confront the painful birthday memory. But when she finally did, she didn’t excuse her actions. She didn’t say, "My parents were awful, so I had the right to bully you.” If she had, Willow would have been hurt even more, and Amity’s redemption would have meant nothing.

Instead, Amity said:

"You were never weak to be my friend. I was weak to be yours.”

That line matters. It shows that she fully accepts responsibility. She understands that, regardless of outside pressure, she still hurt Willow , and that she deserves the blame. She didn’t ask for instant forgiveness; she promised to do better.

Yes, others share some responsibility for how Amity turned out. But that doesn’t erase her accountability. What it does mean is that she deserves a second chance.

Understanding Willow , didn’t just give a her a free jail card , It gave a backstory.

Making mistakes doesn’t mean someone should be punished for the rest of their life.

People change.

At the end of Understanding Willow, Willow doesn’t immediately forgive Amity. She may forgive her eventually, but she doesn’t forget, and that’s realistic. Healing takes time, and the show allows that process to feel real instead of rushed.

That’s what makes Amity’s redemption meaningful.

She kinda burned Willow's memory ( although it was an accident ) but she fixed her mistake even though it was an accident.

Even though she knew Willow might not want her in there because of their complicated past.

Amity said " I can't believe i almost erased all this " , This line means she cares and never wanted to end her friendship with Willow.

I remember Aang burned Katara by accident , But he made up for it.

She tried to have Luz dissected ? Yeah , But after that , She saved her life 3 times , First time was in Grom , Second time was in Abomination presentation in s2 Escaping Expulsion , Third time was s2 e11 when Luz was running from Terra.

In understanding Willow , She could just apologize to Willow and leave it at that , but she went out her way and promised to make it up for her.

She could have just save Luz without Confronting her parents , but she spoke her mind , loud and clear , deep down , she always wanted to be a better person , She just needed a spark or courage which happend to be Luz , that's it , she did the rest on her own.

In the Understanding Willow flashback, Amity didn’t just quietly drift away from Willow. She ended their friendship harshly and with yelling. That wasn’t random cruelty. Odalia forced her to end the friendship, but Amity chose to make it look real so Willow would believe it.

If Willow would have known Amity didn’t mean it, she might have tried to reconnect. And if Odalia noticed that, Willow could have become a direct target. By making herself look cruel, Amity ensured Willow would not trying and stay safe.

But here’s the important part: even if her intention was to protect Willow, she still hurt her. And she knows that. She doesn’t excuse it. She doesn’t blame Odalia when she apologizes. She says, “I was weak.” She takes full responsibility for the damage she caused, even though the situation was complicated.

That’s what makes her redemption meaningful. She doesn’t deny the pain she caused. She owns it.

It’s also true that Amity didn’t have to be mean to Willow in season 1, episode 3 or Luz after that , and people who point that out aren’t wrong , However, there’s important context behind her behavior. After years of playing the role of a false personality , that being mean had become a habit rather than a conscious choice.

Amity spent years surrounded by people she didn’t want to be with , her bully siblings, her controlling mother, and peers who rewarded meanness. In that kind of environment, negative traits can become learned and normalized. Traits can become contagious.

And before meeting Luz, no one had ever really challenged Amity to question her feelings or behavior in a meaningful way.

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Luz is an incredible protagonist with an awesome development.

Luz is nothing like Mary sue at all.

I saw some people saying that Luz is a character with zero development who keeps making the same mistakes or that she became a different character who lost all her energy at the end or that her flaws was never addressed.

Those people are objectively wrong.

First , She makes reckless and impulsive mistakes.

Later , Her mistake becomes " to sacrifice too much at the cost of harming herself."

And finally , " to hide the truth because she is afraid of harming others."

From simple mistakes to complex moral errors.

That's growth , not repetition.

If a character doesn't make mistakes , There's no room for growth at all.

Some people think growth just means :The person never makes mistakes again.

But in storytelling , Growth means :

The mistakes is still there.

But the person's reaction , reasons and conclusions change.

Which is exactly what happens to Luz.

People often confuse " repeating a core flaw " with "not learning anything " but those are two very different things. Luz absolutely does learn from her mistakes , Her arc is just built around a persistent flaw that shows up in new forms as she grows.

Here's how it actually works :

At first , Luz makes reckless , impulsive choices because she thinks enthusiasm and good intentions are enough.

But after the consequences hit ( Putting Eda in danger , putting pressure on her friends , Casuing Amity to be fired from library which she made up for it of course) , she does adjust :

She trains seriously.

She listens more.

She stops assuming optimism fixes everything.

That's learning.

In season 2 , Her mistakes change , she's no longer careless , she's over responsible.

She starts blaming herself for everything ( Belos , Hunter , Day of unity ) which is much more complex flaw.

It's not " the same mistake " ; It's the evolution of the same insecurity.

By " Thanks to Them " and the finale , she confronts the guilt directly.

She learns that :

She can't fix everything alone.

Other people need to be part of the solution.

Vulnerability and asking for help are strengths , not failures.

She learns responsibly , Thinks more before acting and includes others in decisions. That is growth.

So Luz isn't " not learning ".

She's dealing with a consistent character flaw , Wanting to save everyone , even at her own expense , and each season shows her understanding it better , Responding to it differently , and slowly outgrowing the unhealthy parts.

A character who never struggles with the same flaw again would feel unrealistic and flat. Luz's development is gradual , Emotional and intentional , not static.

The mistake isn't repeating , The context , awareness and response are evolving.

Her development is human , not static.

Now the other aspects of her growth :

At the beginning of the series, Luz enters the Demon Realm largely as a form of escape. She is running away from the real world and its difficulties, hoping to live in a fantasy where happiness is simple and permanent. Early Luz idealizes the Demon Realm as a place where everything can be fixed with optimism, kindness, and imagination.

However, as she makes real friends, falls in love, and starts helping others, she slowly realizes that emotions and relationships in the Demon Realm are just as complex, painful, and layered as they are in the Human Realm. The world she once saw as a perfect fantasy reveals its darker sides: trauma, loss, moral ambiguity, and irreversible consequences. This realization is a major step in her growth , she stops seeing the world as “happy fantasy vs. cruel reality” and begins to understand that every world contains both joy and difficulty.

In the final season, Luz’s development becomes even more explicit. By blaming herself for a mistake she never intended to make, she shows a deep understanding of responsibility and consequences. Importantly, her arc is not about avoiding guilt, but about learning not to let guilt consume her. She understands that making mistakes is part of being human, and that growth comes from facing them honestly rather than punishing herself endlessly.

Her confrontation with Belos is one of the clearest examples of her maturity. Luz demonstrates that she truly understands evil , not as something that can always be redeemed, but as something that can sometimes only be stopped. She accepts that some people do not deserve a second chance, and that protecting what she loves may require difficult, morally heavy decisions. She lets Belos die, This is a huge contrast to Season 1 Luz, who almost certainly would have tried to save Belos out of pure optimism and kindness.

By the end of the series, Luz becomes someone who no longer fears being her true self. She learns that she does not have to face everything alone and that relying on others is not weakness. While she keeps her energy, creativity, and optimism and kindness , she becomes wiser, more grounded, and more realistic. She doesn’t lose her light , she learns how to carry it responsibly.

And she even made everyone's lives much better by just being there.

Calling Luz a character with “zero development,” or claiming she keeps making the same mistakes without growth, or that she simply “lost her energy,” is a very superficial reading of her arc. Her development is emotional, ethical, and psychological , not a personality reset. And for those who feel her growth lacked screen time, Thanks to Them and the work done by MoringMark expanded and reinforced these stories beautifully for the fandom.

That evolution from escapism, to responsibility, to self acceptance and moral clarity is Luz Noceda’s character development.

Her development is what makes Luz one the of the most incredible protagonists in media.

saying things like that Luz is a character with zero development who keeps making the same mistakes or that she became a different character who lost all her energy at the end or that she's a character whose flaws was never addressed, is just some stupid and superfacial level point of view.

[soltavir]

Amity Blight's simple but yet perfect redemption needs recognition

Haters keep saying Amity bullied Willow constantly for nine years, like it was nonstop cruelty 24/7 , That isn’t really supported by what we actually see in the show. We don’t see years of active torment ,  we see distance, coldness, and occasional sarcasm tied to the facade she was maintaining.

That doesn’t mean her behavior was okay. It hurt Willow, and Amity later takes responsibility for that. But framing it as relentless abuse for nearly a decade exaggerates what’s shown on screen.

Boscha is consistently portrayed as the one who actively mocks and targets Willow. Amity’s role was more about maintaining social status and emotional distance than actively seeking to hurt her.

Amity acted like a bully. That doesn’t mean cruelty was who she truly was.

Amity’s simple but yet perfect redemption deserves recognition.

Amity made mistakes, there’s no denying that. But people often make mistakes before they become better. Redemption is a common theme in storytelling, and Amity’s journey fits that pattern.

Zuko betrayed Katara and Iroh and played a role in Aang’s apparent death in crossroads of destiny. He burned Kyoshi Island nearly to ashes and even hired an assassin to kill the Avatar.

Catra betrayed her friends, nearly destroyed Etheria, and caused Angella’s possible death by opening the portal.

Nebula and Gamora helped Ronan and Thanos carry out mass slaughter and killed countless people across multiple planets.

Loki nearly wiped out an entire race and led an alien invasion that killed thousands in New York.

Yet in the end, all of them chose a higher path.

Amity is no different.

She knows she made serious mistakes, bullying Willow or even letting Boscha bulling her and even putting Luz in danger. But instead of denying responsibility or making excuses, she acknowledged her faults and worked to make things right. She helped Willow and Luz defeat Boscha in grudgby, saved Luz’s life, stood up to Odalia to protect her friends from being expelled, and tried to protect Willow in Labyrinth Runners so she wouldn’t lose her again.

After Wing it like Witches , Boscha never Bullied Willow again.

She didn't do those things sooner because she wasn't still brave enough to face the consequences of getting off the facade.

You can see her facing the consequences of her recent bravery from Odalia in Escaping Expulsion episode , She was afraid in that episode.

She was facing the consequences of her bravery.

In Escaping Expulsion , Odalia was punishing her daughter for so called " recent lack of performance in school " .

Imagine what Odalia did when Amity came back home without that " top student badge " 😔.

In Wing it like Witches , If she didn’t interfere sooner , It must be because she wasn’t still brave enough to get off the facade and turn against the rich kid of her mother's rich colleague.

Amity didn’t get away with her mistakes, nor did she live a carefree life. Long before Luz entered her life, Amity spent years trapped in a situation she didn’t want. She endured emotional abuse from her mother, constant social pressure, Boscha and Skara’s mean nature , and even bullying from her own siblings. None of this gave her real confidence, it made her afraid. She wasn’t happy, and she didn’t have genuine friends.

None of that is good for mental health .

She lived a lonely , isolated life filled with fear.

She was getting hurt mentally.

Hiding her real self behind a mask of fake confidence and arrogance.

The humiliation she faced after the witch’s duel and in front of her siblings marked the first cracks in the mask she had been forced to wear.

In Understanding Willow , Amity was terrified to confront the painful birthday memory. But when she finally did, she didn’t excuse her actions. She didn’t say, "My parents were awful, so I had the right to bully you.” If she had, Willow would have been hurt even more, and Amity’s redemption would have meant nothing.

Instead, Amity said:

"You were never weak to be my friend. I was weak to be yours.”

That line matters. It shows that she fully accepts responsibility. She understands that, regardless of outside pressure, she still hurt Willow , and that she deserves the blame. She didn’t ask for instant forgiveness; she promised to do better.

Yes, others share some responsibility for how Amity turned out. But that doesn’t erase her accountability. What it does mean is that she deserves a second chance.

Understanding Willow , didn’t just give a her a free jail card , It gave a backstory.

Making mistakes doesn’t mean someone should be punished for the rest of their life.

People change.

At the end of Understanding Willow, Willow doesn’t immediately forgive Amity. She may forgive her eventually, but she doesn’t forget, and that’s realistic. Healing takes time, and the show allows that process to feel real instead of rushed.

That’s what makes Amity’s redemption meaningful.

She kinda burned Willow's memory ( although it was an accident ) but she fixed her mistake even though it was an accident.

Even though she knew Willow might not want her in there because of their complicated past.

Amity said " I can't believe i almost erased all this " , This line means she cares and never wanted to end her friendship with Willow.

I remember Aang burned Katara by accident , But he made up for it.

She tried to have Luz dissected ? Yeah , But after that , She saved her life 3 times , First time was in Grom , Second time was in Abomination presentation in s2 Escaping Expulsion , Third time was s2 e11 when Luz was running from Terra.

In understanding Willow , She could just apologize to Willow and leave it at that , but she went out her way and promised to make it up for her.

She could have just save Luz without Confronting her parents , but she spoke her mind , loud and clear , deep down , she always wanted to be a better person , She just needed a spark or courage which happend to be Luz , that's it , she did the rest on her own.

In the Understanding Willow flashback, Amity didn’t just quietly drift away from Willow. She ended their friendship harshly and with yelling. That wasn’t random cruelty. Odalia forced her to end the friendship, but Amity chose to make it look real so Willow would believe it.

If Willow would have known Amity didn’t mean it, she might have tried to reconnect. And if Odalia noticed that, Willow could have become a direct target. By making herself look cruel, Amity ensured Willow would not trying and stay safe.

But here’s the important part: even if her intention was to protect Willow, she still hurt her. And she knows that. She doesn’t excuse it. She doesn’t blame Odalia when she apologizes. She says, “I was weak.” She takes full responsibility for the damage she caused, even though the situation was complicated.

That’s what makes her redemption meaningful. She doesn’t deny the pain she caused. She owns it.

It’s also true that Amity didn’t have to be mean to Willow in season 1, episode 3 or Luz after that , and people who point that out aren’t wrong ,  However, there’s important context behind her behavior. After years of playing the role of a false personality , that being mean had become a habit rather than a conscious choice.

Amity spent years surrounded by people she didn’t want to be with , her bully siblings, her controlling mother, and peers who rewarded meanness. In that kind of environment, negative traits can become learned and normalized. Traits can become contagious.

And before meeting Luz, no one had ever really challenged Amity to question her feelings or behavior in a meaningful way.

[soltavir]

Amity never lost her personality , She earned it.

Amity is one of the show's most amazing and layered characters in the show.

The Amity who's just a girlfriend is just a fan made version of her that doesn't exist.

Canon Amity never lost her personality , she earned it.

Her development and redemption makes sense when you see what she's been through , The Amity we saw on the beginning wasn't the real her, She was never a bully on the inside , She was forced to be due to her mother’s abusive and social pressure , Her arrogance and confidence was a mask , Before Luz , Everyone just saw her on the outside and judged her based on what she was doing , Even Willow , No one accepted the real her , Although she still had some soft points such as reading book to kids and leaving Grugby after hurting her friends , But things like humiliation after witch's duel and her humiliation in front of her siblings were the first cracks on her mask , Luz was the first person who showed her kindness and honesty and saw the real her inside her and accepted her without wanting anything in return on judging her , She showed her that it's okay to be imperfect , She inspired her and encouraged her to not be ashamed of her real self and fight for the person she really wants to be , So it's normal if Amity falls in love with Luz , Because she's the first one who made her feel safe. Luz brought hope and happiness back to her life.

Saying things like she suddenly change after 3 episodes or just became a girlfriend with no character or just a gay disaster or saying Luz is her sole motivation to do anything or changed just so she could get with Luz is just surface level takes.

She didn't lose her personality , She earned it. She was finally happy , an brave , kind and rebellious individual who fights for the person she wants to be and protect the people she loves against anyone who tries to hurt them.

Calling her a gay disaster is just haters being homophobic .

We saw her panic around Luz ? Sure , But we only saw her obsessed with Luz or saying I'm Luz gf for only one or two episodes , Some people really just exaggerate about that, Besides , It's a normal teenager thing to blush about their crush , It's a crush trait , Not gay trait.

It's a realistic thing to blush or being anxious about someone you have a crush on , not something lgbt.

Besides , she was still new to expressing feelings , She wasn't an expert at it , And that's okay , it's how people usually do about their crush.

Romance doesn't erase her personality , It helped it growth :

Her softness ,Her anxiety ,Her friendship ,Her awkwardness , Her protective instincs .

Those traits were already there , Just buried , A character showing vulnerability is not losing their personality , It's expanding it.

Being soft around Luz doesn't erase or replace her personality , It adds depth :

Her intelligence, Her determination , Her bravery , Her moral growth ,Her friendships.

She still has her own agency outside her romance with Luz :

Fixing her relationship with Willow and protecting her in labyrinth runners so she wouldn't lose her again and learning to see her real strength.

Convincing Willow to help in the grudgby episode ,  Facing her fear of playing grudby to protect her real friends and stand up to the unreal Friends and making her social life better .

Luz and Willow needed a third player and Amity chose to step in and help even though she didn't really have to.

It was one of her steps to reject the facade she was stuck at for years.

Standing up to Odalia and threatening their business to protect her friends from being expelled .

Breaking the necklace Odalia was using to control her.

Turning her hair into purple in order to fight Odalia's influence.

Bonding with Hunter and learning to not to define herself to what she can provide for the others in Eclipse lake .

Reconnecting with her siblings.

Attending the brawl without her father's permission and then econnectingng with him.

She even defeated some of the greatest fighters in boiling isles in the brawl.

She almost defeated The golden guard even , in Eclipse lake.

In s2 e11 , She wanted someone to talk to and ask advice from and she went to Willow and remembered that it's been a while she didn't go to her house , Willow even asked her to braid her hair and she accepted , Willow was happy they were the way the used to be again.

In both grom and Knock Hooty's door , We can see her having the fear of being rejected.

Helping the rebellion and fighting Belos.

Confronting Boscha and rejecting her offer to join her band again in for the future .

Reuniting with her siblings and her father in season 3 after worrying about them for months.

Final confrontation of Odalia after she tried to warn her about the day of unity and trying to take the control of her life again by trying to remove Luz from her life only because she wasn't a rich girl or something and cutting ties with her permanently after it turned out that she knew what the day of unity really is.

Before that she wasn’t angry at Odalia for years of abuse or something because she thought that she's just a mother who wanted the best for her family but in a wrong way or something , but after she realized that Odalia knew about the day of unity and was okay with it , she saw her true colors and cut her ties with her permanently.

Final reconnecting with her father in clouds on the horizon.

Taking the leadership role in Thanks to Them.

Taking the leadership role and organizing people in Eclipse lake.

Helping to rebuild the isles.

Trying to find a way to go home.

Becoming so awesome at using abomination.

Challenging Collector's illusion in watching and dreaming.

In watching and dreaming , She even was able to drew a glyph on the ground when she was a puppet , I mean how awesome and powerful is that.

Restored her relationship with her former mentor.

In the epilogue , We can see her becoming an Explorer who travels all around the world and also an abomination engineer and likely the future CEO of Blight industry.

And more moments of her from moringmarkugh , mark is canon until proven otherwise.

Moments like : How she met Ghost in the first place , Falling in love with playing video games , Reviewing the memories with Willow and learning in the hard way , telling her storylife to Camila and when it was revealed that she's an expert in engine repairing and even comforting Hunter after he found out about the death of Belos and etc.

So yeah , Her storyline exists out of romance .

If she was only a gay disaster , she wouldn't have any of that.

Luz having a part in most of those things is because she's the main character of the show and she's always going to be there supporting Amity if she needs it , It’s not a bad thing , It’s called having a great GF.

She's a prodigy at abomination for sure , But she never really wanted to become a prodigy or join a coven or something.

She wanted to be a kid having fun with her friends.

In s3 e1 , We can see that she's totally happy , Spending time with her friends , Trying fashion with them , Watching silly movies with them , going to beach with her girlfriend , Wearing Halloween customes. She was finally happy. She was being the real herself and embracing her real character.

So it makes zero sense to say she only became a girlfriend with no character or just a gay disaster.

She never lost her personality , She earned it.

You wanna know what's unique about her ? A brave , kind individual with passion who doesn't afraid of being the real herself and protect the people she loves against anyone who tries to hurt them.

She still has her interests : Library and books especially Azura , Abomination and friendship.

She still has some competitive spirit but she was mentally healthy.

She has the pride , but it's real now.

You can see all of it if you be able to look outside the box.

Even moringmarkugh from instagram who's been continuing and expanding the show's story and fixing the damage disney caused for years , gave us Lots of Amity and her moments for us.

Moringmarkugh is canon until proven otherwise .

Anyway , Lumity might just be a kinda booster for her development , Not the only reason or the entire reason.

Lumity is one the important parts of Amity's development , but it doesn't define her entire existence.

Before becoming the real herself , she lived a life hiding her true self , without happiness and with no real friends , Things like Odalia's abuse , social pressure , Boscha's mean nature and even getting bullied by her own siblings consumed and polluted her , It was all harmful for her mental health.

It doesn't make sense to say she lost her personality when that season 1 bully chatacter was manufactured ( by someone else ) , not self chosen.

She changed because she realized , she doesn't have to be perfect to be accepted as a living being.

There's nothing rushed about her development at all.

She dropped her mask covered as ego after lost in language immediately because that wasn't her real nature.

And she didn’t just immediately get off the facade , That took more than one season,  after lost in Language , Between that episode and understanding Willow , she was in an internal contradiction , Soft on the inside and cold on the outside but she was getting softer and expressing more feelings in every episode after lost in Language , Season 2 Escaping Expulsion was the moment she started getting out of Odalia's control.

It took her more than one season to fully get off the facade.

Because the good was already there, her development feels natural rather than rushed. The show takes time to show her struggling, hesitating, and slowly improving, which makes her redemption believable instead of sudden.

It's not about timing , It’s about the right pressure.

Having Luz as the first person who showed her kindness and honesty after years and Facing Willow in " Understanding Willow " episode are the right pressures she needed.

I’ve also seen people say they relate to Amity, which is part of what makes her feel realistic. She may not be written as an extremely complex or tragic character, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Her strength comes from being emotionally relatable, which matters more than having an overly complicated arc. Not every character needs to be written like Catra from She-Ra to be well written, and Amity succeeds at what her story is trying to do. And I understand why people say they relate to her, because I can relate to Amity myself. I share some aspects of her life experiences, which is part of why her character feels genuine to me.

Her adventures is not just about Luz or Willow or anyone else she cares about , it's about herself and what she really wants , In for the future she said that her wish is to make her own path for life.

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Moringmarkugh is canon until proven otherwise.

The awesome show The Owl House was Sabotaged by Disney, But Narratively Completed by MoringMark

The show was clearly cut short by Disney, and it shows. Fortunately, we have MoringMark (from Instagram), whose comics have been expanding the story since 2021 and helping repair the narrative damage left behind.

Some people argue that these comics aren’t official, aren’t network-approved, or aren’t confirmed by the creators, so they shouldn’t count as canon. So what?

That argument assumes that “official” is the only valid definition of canon , when in reality, it’s simply the only definition some people choose to accept. History shows that meanings evolve over time.

Words change.

The word “canon” originally referred to religious texts recognized as authoritative within a tradition. Over time, the term was adopted into literature and media to describe works considered foundational or authoritative within a fictional universe.

Its usage expanded as storytelling moved from single authors to corporate franchises and then to participatory fandom culture.

Franchises like Star Wars once used the term “Expanded Universe” for material that was widely accepted by fans but existed in tiers of canon. When Disney restructured the continuity, the definition of what counted as canon changed overnight.

That shift itself proves that “canon” is not a fixed natural law , it is a framework shaped by institutions and audiences over time.

Meanings evolve in language , and in storytelling.

There’s a difference between official canon and narrative canon and cultural canon.

Official canon usually means a work carries a studio or network stamp. But if that stamp is the only requirement, then canon becomes a legal label rather than a narrative one , offering no guarantee of quality, consistency, or faithfulness to the spirit of the story.

Narrative canon, on the other hand, is about coherence. It’s about whether something fits the established characters, themes, tone, and internal logic without breaking them.

Cultural canon is about audience acceptance , how a community collectively continues, interprets, and emotionally validates a story.

Most fan-made works diverge from the original in writing, characterization, tone, or art style , and that’s completely normal. What makes MoringMark different is how consistently his comics align with the show’s narrative logic, character voices, emotional arcs, and visual language in ways most fan works simply do not.

It’s also worth asking where the rigid idea of “official canon only” comes from. Not from audiences , but from industry structures that centralize narrative authority in corporations.

It’s not a universal law of storytelling. It’s a production model that centralizes narrative authority within corporate structures.

Scholars in literary theory have long recognized that once a story is released, its meaning isn’t controlled solely by its creator. Roland Barthes, in The Death of the Author, argued that the author’s intent does not exclusively define a work; instead, meaning is produced through interpretation. Similarly, Stanley Fish’s Reader-Response theory emphasizes that communities of readers shape the significance of a text through collective engagement.

Applied to MoringMark’s comics, this demonstrates that while Disney defines official canon, fans can create a form of narrative authority through consistent, coherent storytelling that preserves character integrity, thematic consistency, and emotional arcs. In other words, narrative legitimacy and cultural recognition are observable phenomena, not arbitrary inventions.

So when fans recognize MoringMark’s work as a faithful continuation of The Owl House, it isn’t “headcanon” in the personal sense , it’s a shared, community-validated interpretation that carries weight in practice, even without an official stamp.

For many viewers, canon is ultimately what fits the world and the characters without breaking them , canon until proven otherwise. Unless a comic directly contradicts on-screen events or fundamentally damages established characterization, it functions as a continuation.

And MoringMark’s work does not contradict the show , it expands it.

Moments like Hunter’s reaction to Belos’ defeat, Vee’s confrontation with Hunter after what the Emperor’s Coven did to her kind, Willow and Gus finally receiving the attention they didn’t get in Season 2, and the Hexsquad’s Gravesfield adventures , all repair emotional gaps and deepen characters in ways the shortened final season couldn’t.

MoringMark doesn’t overwrite canon.

He completes it.

He restores emotional weight and gives fans closure.

This debate isn’t unique to The Owl House.

Entire online communities have spent years challenging the canonical legitimacy of officially endorsed sequels such as the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Toy Story 4, Frozen 2, or Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

The persistence of those debates demonstrates something important:

“Canon” operates not only as a legal classification but as a matter of narrative trust and audience acceptance.

Some reject the Star Wars sequel trilogy, claiming it contradicts the earlier films, while others feel Toy Story 4 undermined the emotional closure of the third movie. Even the Legend of Korra sparks debate , some fans love it, while others feel it “ruined” ATLA’s legacy. In all these cases, the “official” stamp exists, but audience acceptance depends on narrative coherence and emotional satisfaction , exactly the same principle that makes MoringMark’s comics feel like canon to so many people. I agree about Toy story 4.

Frozen 2 is another perfect example of why "official" doesn't always mean right. Many people refuse to see it as canon because it fundamentally contradicts the core themes established in the first movie.

While the original film was a masterpiece about the power of sisterly bond and "being together," the sequel forces a separation that feels narratively hollow. It turns Elsa’s unique magic into a convoluted superhero like Fifth Element origin, stripping away the mystery and the personal growth she achieved. Just like Toy Story 4, it takes a journey that feels complete and reopens it for corporate expansion, sacrificing character consistency for the sake of world-building.

The same logic applies to gaming, with Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League being a prime example , Despite being officially set in the beloved Arkham verse, the majority of fans refuse to accept it as canon. It’s seen as a direct insult to the legacy of the Arkham Batman, undoing years of character development for the sake of a live service cash grab. For the community, the Arkham story ended with Arkham Knight, anything that fundamentally disrespects the established journey of its hero is official on paper, but non canon in the hearts of the players.

In all these cases, the official stamp exists.

But audience acceptance depends on coherence, emotional continuity, and respect for the story’s established foundation.

That same principle is why MoringMark’s comics resonate so strongly. They do not fracture the world , they reinforce it.

And this isn’t about erasing official canon. It’s about recognizing that storytelling authority does not exist solely in corporate paperwork. Stories live in communities.

Canon isn’t just what a company says it is.

It’s what preserves the soul of a story.

It’s what maintains internal truth.

It’s what audiences collectively recognize as a natural extension of what came before.

MoringMark achieves that.

So for those who care about narrative integrity and emotional continuity, his work already functions as canon , whether officially stamped or not.

MoringMark is canon until proven otherwise.

And Unless it can be shown that his work contradicts the established narrative, it continues to function as canon for many viewers.

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Amity Blight's simple but yet perfect redemption needs recognition

Haters keep saying Amity bullied Willow constantly for nine years, like it was nonstop cruelty 24/7 , That isn’t really supported by what we actually see in the show. We don’t see years of active torment ,  we see distance, coldness, and occasional sarcasm tied to the facade she was maintaining.

That doesn’t mean her behavior was okay. It hurt Willow, and Amity later takes responsibility for that. But framing it as relentless abuse for nearly a decade exaggerates what’s shown on screen.

Boscha is consistently portrayed as the one who actively mocks and targets Willow. Amity’s role was more about maintaining social status and emotional distance than actively seeking to hurt her.

Amity acted like a bully. That doesn’t mean cruelty was who she truly was.

Amity’s simple but yet perfect redemption deserves recognition.

Amity made mistakes, there’s no denying that. But people often make mistakes before they become better. Redemption is a common theme in storytelling, and Amity’s journey fits that pattern.

Zuko betrayed Katara and Iroh and played a role in Aang’s apparent death in crossroads of destiny. He burned Kyoshi Island nearly to ashes and even hired an assassin to kill the Avatar.

Catra betrayed her friends, nearly destroyed Etheria, and caused Angella’s possible death by opening the portal.

Nebula and Gamora helped Ronan and Thanos carry out mass slaughter and killed countless people across multiple planets.

Loki nearly wiped out an entire race and led an alien invasion that killed thousands in New York.

Yet in the end, all of them chose a higher path.

Amity is no different.

She knows she made serious mistakes, bullying Willow or even letting Boscha bulling her and even putting Luz in danger. But instead of denying responsibility or making excuses, she acknowledged her faults and worked to make things right. She helped Willow and Luz defeat Boscha in grudgby, saved Luz’s life, stood up to Odalia to protect her friends from being expelled, and tried to protect Willow in Labyrinth Runners so she wouldn’t lose her again.

After Wing it like Witches , Boscha never Bullied Willow again.

She didn't do those things sooner because she wasn't still brave enough to face the consequences of getting off the facade.

You can see her facing the consequences of her recent bravery from Odalia in Escaping Expulsion episode , She was afraid in that episode.

She was facing the consequences of her bravery.

In Escaping Expulsion , Odalia was punishing her daughter for so called " recent lack of performance in school " .

Imagine what Odalia did when Amity came back home without that " top student badge " 😔.

In Wing it like Witches , If she didn’t interfere sooner , It must be because she wasn’t still brave enough to get off the facade and turn against the rich kid of her mother's rich colleague.

Amity didn’t get away with her mistakes, nor did she live a carefree life. Long before Luz entered her life, Amity spent years trapped in a situation she didn’t want. She endured emotional abuse from her mother, constant social pressure, Boscha and Skara’s mean nature , and even bullying from her own siblings. None of this gave her real confidence, it made her afraid. She wasn’t happy, and she didn’t have genuine friends.

None of that is good for mental health .

She lived a lonely , isolated life filled with fear.

She was getting hurt mentally.

Hiding her real self behind a mask of fake confidence and arrogance.

The humiliation she faced after the witch’s duel and in front of her siblings marked the first cracks in the mask she had been forced to wear.

In Understanding Willow , Amity was terrified to confront the painful birthday memory. But when she finally did, she didn’t excuse her actions. She didn’t say, "My parents were awful, so I had the right to bully you.” If she had, Willow would have been hurt even more, and Amity’s redemption would have meant nothing.

Instead, Amity said:

"You were never weak to be my friend. I was weak to be yours.”

That line matters. It shows that she fully accepts responsibility. She understands that, regardless of outside pressure, she still hurt Willow , and that she deserves the blame. She didn’t ask for instant forgiveness; she promised to do better.

Yes, others share some responsibility for how Amity turned out. But that doesn’t erase her accountability. What it does mean is that she deserves a second chance.

Understanding Willow , didn’t just give a her a free jail card , It gave a backstory.

Making mistakes doesn’t mean someone should be punished for the rest of their life.

People change.

At the end of Understanding Willow, Willow doesn’t immediately forgive Amity. She may forgive her eventually, but she doesn’t forget, and that’s realistic. Healing takes time, and the show allows that process to feel real instead of rushed.

That’s what makes Amity’s redemption meaningful.

She kinda burned Willow's memory ( although it was an accident ) but she fixed her mistake even though it was an accident.

Even though she knew Willow might not want her in there because of their complicated past.

Amity said " I can't believe i almost erased all this " , This line means she cares and never wanted to end her friendship with Willow.

I remember Aang burned Katara by accident , But he made up for it.

She tried to have Luz dissected ? Yeah , But after that , She saved her life 3 times , First time was in Grom , Second time was in Abomination presentation in s2 Escaping Expulsion , Third time was s2 e11 when Luz was running from Terra.

In understanding Willow , She could just apologize to Willow and leave it at that , but she went out her way and promised to make it up for her.

She could have just save Luz without Confronting her parents , but she spoke her mind , loud and clear , deep down , she always wanted to be a better person , She just needed a spark or courage which happend to be Luz , that's it , she did the rest on her own.

In the Understanding Willow flashback, Amity didn’t just quietly drift away from Willow. She ended their friendship harshly and with yelling. That wasn’t random cruelty. Odalia forced her to end the friendship, but Amity chose to make it look real so Willow would believe it.

If Willow would have known Amity didn’t mean it, she might have tried to reconnect. And if Odalia noticed that, Willow could have become a direct target. By making herself look cruel, Amity ensured Willow would not trying and stay safe.

But here’s the important part: even if her intention was to protect Willow, she still hurt her. And she knows that. She doesn’t excuse it. She doesn’t blame Odalia when she apologizes. She says, “I was weak.” She takes full responsibility for the damage she caused, even though the situation was complicated.

That’s what makes her redemption meaningful. She doesn’t deny the pain she caused. She owns it.

It’s also true that Amity didn’t have to be mean to Willow in season 1, episode 3 or Luz after that , and people who point that out aren’t wrong ,  However, there’s important context behind her behavior. After years of playing the role of a false personality , that being mean had become a habit rather than a conscious choice.

Amity spent years surrounded by people she didn’t want to be with , her bully siblings, her controlling mother, and peers who rewarded meanness. In that kind of environment, negative traits can become learned and normalized. Traits can become contagious.

And before meeting Luz, no one had ever really challenged Amity to question her feelings or behavior in a meaningful way.

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There's nothing forced or rushed about Lumity

Lumity is mutual and genuine , Not forced or rushed

There's nothing rushed about Lumity.

Their relationship grows naturally out of mutual love, respect, and understanding. It feels like planting a seed and nurturing it with care until it finally blooms.

Luz showed Amity kindness and honesty when no one else did. She was the first person who truly saw Amity on the inside and showed her that being imperfect and vulnerable is okay. Luz helped her stop being afraid of who she truly wanted to become. She inspired the version of herself Amity always wished she could be. Luz simply finds her way into people’s hearts.

Amity spent her entire life under the control of an abusive mother who forced her to bury her true self. Her redemption began with major turning points such as the humiliation after the witches duel and the embarrassment in front of her siblings. These moments pushed her to grow. She was never truly a bully. She was shaped into one. Luz inspired her to fight for the identity she truly wanted and deserved.

Amity’s courage in finally standing up to her mother was a huge step in her redemption and it saved Luz in the process.

That moment changed things for Luz as well. She thought about it deeply and felt many mixed emotions for the first time in her life beyond simple happiness such as confusion wonder and even a little shame. It marked a turning point in her maturity. She also began realizing how much she shared with Amity from Azura books to struggles with identity.

Luz also started having some feelings for her since the first time she saw her reading books for children and even the Grom dance had a significant impact.

This is not rushed at all.

They also had their own bonding and emotional moments before officially becoming canon :

In these episodes :

Convention

Lost in Language

Adventures in the Elements

Understanding Willow

Enchanting grom night

Wing It like Witches

Escaping Expulsion

Through the Looking glass ruins ( which Shows Amity challenging Luz emotionally after getting fired from library which led to Luz get her membership back )

Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door

Also , In Labyrinth runners we can see Luz is texting things quickly to Amity when she needed someone to talk to.

In clouds of the horizon , She wanted to stay with Eda but she chose to go and save Amity which shows Amity challenges Luz indirectly and how much she's important to her.

So yeah , Calling their love forced is just moronic.

A fantastic enemies to friends trope which led to a fantastic friends to lovers trope.

That's what I call , An amazing enemies to lovers trope.

So yeah , saying things like Lumity is forced or rushed or that Luz x hunter is better is so moronic.

So good we have Moringmarkugh from Instagram to continue their story for us. He has been expanding the shows story since January 2021 and fixing the damage Disney caused.

He's likely to be either Dana Terrace or Alex Hirsch , Makes perfect sense since those comics fit so great with show's storytelling and character writing and even art style.