History Recap / TheOwlHouseS2E9EclipseLake

* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: From when she was [[ComingOutStory genuinely confused]] over what she was feeling, to her happily asking Luz to go out with her, Amity is now obsessed with identifying and proving herself an "Awesome Girlfriend" to Luz.

** Hunter manages to reach this throughout the episode. Even when he has been fired upon and captured by two separate opposing forces, he still manages to find a way to get to Eclipse Lake first. Even when he falters from finding the lake dry, realizing that Amity has the portal key reawakens this trope and ''then some''. Even when he's outnumbered in the fight against Amity and King, armed with only a palisman he barely knows how to use when they have far more familiar powers at their disposal, he ''still'' manages to give them an incredible fight. Even when ''that'' fails to get him results, he manages to eek out a victory with a threat that nets him the portal key.

* AesopAmnesia: It takes King pointing out that she should try [[MundaneSolution talking]] to the Owl Beast for it to even cross Eda's mind. Not one episode ago, she managed to gain a new harpy form ''because'' she tried talking to it rather than treat it like a monster or a mere embodiment of the curse.

* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, once King helps Amity realize the true meaning of Luz's emoji messages, she lightly berates herself for worrying that Luz was threatening to dump her if she didn't succeed, given that it's ''[[NiceGirl Luz]]'' they're talking about.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender}} Sometimes, life is like this dark tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel. But if you just keep moving... you will come to a better place.]]'']]

* CombatPragmatist: The duel between Hunter and Amity isn't exactly fair for several reasons. Hunter is alone, while Amity is being helped by King. He has never used a palisman before, which works differently than his usual staff. And he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown that has been keeping him sleep-deprived for a while. Too bad: Amity is fighting for Luz's sake, so she's not pulling her punches.

* {{Determinator}}: Amity has become this to a fault. Amity ''will'' do whatever it takes to get the Titan's Blood, and she's insistent on taking care of everything and having the situation under control. Thing is, Luz doesn't want Amity to bite off more than she can chew, and only asks that Amity return alive.

* PresentAbsense: Alador and Odalia's abuse of Amity and how it influenced her view of healthy relationships is the driving force for almost all of her actions. Despite this, neither of them are seen or even directly mentioned at any point.

* ActionGirlfriend: Amity shows this throughout the episode: she volunteers to join Eda and King in finding Titan's Blood, captures and later fights with Hunter, and [[GuileHero manages to keep some of the Titan's Blood from the key when she's forced to give it to him]].

** Amity has been misreading Luz's emoji messages the whole time, and she misinterpreted the first one (which was supposed to read "U R PRETTY") as a command, and the second (which was supposed to read "U R RAD") as some kind of threat.

* IgnoredExpert: Twice, Eda and King ignore Hunter's warnings about dangers in the mines. Both times, they almost die because of it. Justified in that Hunter is [[TheDragon Emperor Belos' right-hand man]], so they're naturally skeptical of everything he saus.

* InsecureLoveInterest: PlayedForDrama. Amity still isn't confident in her and Luz's relationship, despite their RelationshipUpgrade in the previous episode, and is determined to prove to everyone that she is "an awesome girlfriend". Amity constantly refers to herself as Luz's girlfriend in the Owl House, to the point that Eda tells her to knock it off. However, because Amity can't properly read Luz's emoji messages, Hunter says that Luz is going to break up with Amity if she fails to get Titan's Blood due to his PsychologicalProjection of his relationship with Belos, which reveals a lot of Amity's insecurities and how they stem from her abusive parents. At the end of the episode, Luz shows that Amity has nothing to prove; Luz already thinks she's awesome. In any case, Amity knows just how important it was to help Luz be able to return home.

* PresentAbsense: Odalia's abuse of Amity and how it influenced her view of healthy relationships is the driving force for almost all of Amity's actions. Despite this, Odalia herself is never seen or even directly mentioned at any point.

* PinballProjectile: The AntiMagic properties of the Titan's veins cause spells to simply bounce right off of it. Hunter takes advantage of this during his fight with Amity by ricocheting a MagicMissleStorm off the ground to restrict her movement.

* AnimationBump: Amity and Hunter's fight has a very noticeable uptick in quality being much smoother and fluid than the rest of the episode.

* BeleagueredAssistant: As in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E6HuntingPalismen Hunting Palismen]]", Kikimora is followed by the Coven Captain, a high-ranking coven member with a unique helmet who is constantly exasperated at her increasing paranoia and increasing thirst for revenge against the Golden Guard.

* CallBack: Luz managed to settle a truce with Hunter in "Hunting Palismen" and convinced him to spare the Palismen with her kindness. Amity tries the same thing here...and Hunter doesn't bite. She complains that being nice usually worked out for Luz.

* CharacterDevelopment: This episode demonstrates Amity's. When she was introduced, she was a stickler for the rules, too afraid of her parents to put a toe out of line, and was quickly established as a promising future member of the Emperor's Coven. Here, she willingly commits treason against the Emperor by working with Eda against the coven's interests. She even goes so far as to hold Hunter, Belos's right-hand man and the Coven's new leader, captive and even taking him on in a fight over the Portal Key -- all because she has decided that Luz is more deserving of her loyalty then the Emperor's Coven ever was.
* CombatPragmatist: The duel between Hunter and Amity isn't exactly fair for several reasons. Hunter is alone, while Amity is being helped by King. He has never used a palisman before, which works differently than his usual staff. And he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown that has been keeping him sleep deprived for a while. Too bad: Amity is fighting for Luz's sake, so she's not pulling her punches.

* DealWithTheDevil: PlayedForLaughs. When Eda is negotiating with the Owl Beast for access to her harpy form, it asks her to do something implied to be very serious which she "isn't sure she can even do". When King asks what it wanted, Eda deflects the question as if it'll be something that will be plot-relevant in the future. At the end of the episode, it turns out the Owl Beast just wanted Eda to eat a bunch of voles which she did offscreen on the way home.
* DeathGlare: After Hunter attacks her to take the portal key, Amity spends the entirety of their fight with a scowl of extreme annoyance on her face.

* DigYourOwnGrave: Hunter finds Eclipse Lake empty, but keeps digging anyway. Amity questions why, and Hunter expects Belos will punish him so he might as well cut out the middle man.

** Amity has been misreading Luz's emoji messages the whole time, and she misinterpreted the first one, which was supposed to read "U R PRETTY" as a command, and the second as some kind of threat.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: It's implied that Hunter is so screwed up by his abusive treatment by Belos that he can't imagine Luz's message to Amity as anything ''but'' a threat to bring back results or else, since he's likely never been shown unconditional love or kindness.

* IgnoredExpert: Twice Eda and King ignore Hunter's warnings about dangers in the mines, both times they almost die because of it.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Hooty declares the perimeter to be secure when asked—just after he carelessly broke a window.

* InsecureLoveInterest: PlayedForDrama. Amity still isn't confident in her and Luz's relationship, despite their RelationshipUpgrade in the previous episode, and is determined to prove to everyone that she is "an awesome girlfriend". Amity constantly refers to herself as Luz's girlfriend in the Owl House, to the point that Eda tells Amity to knock it off. However, because Amity can't properly read Luz's emoji messages, Hunter says that Luz is going to break up with Amity if she fails to get Titan's Blood due to his PsychologicalProjection of his relationship with Belos, which reveals a lot of Amity's insecurities and how they stem from her abusive parents. At the end of the episode, Luz shows that Amity has nothing to prove; Luz already thinks she's awesome. In any case, Amity knows just how important it was to help Luz be able to return home.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Obviously, the character on the Dragon Claw Z cover is without a doubt Goku, but under a different title.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Even weakened by disease and rather delirious, the skinny Luz immediately tries to ''leap'' out the door of her room to get to Eclipse Lake after the Echo Mouse tells her about it. It takes the rest of the group working together to force her back inside and tie her up so she can't run off, Gus even calling her "shockingly strong".
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amity takes the Portal Key away from Luz so that she doesn't do anything stupid like swallow it, then takes it with her on the mission, unaware that Emperor Belos needs it to complete the rebuilt portal. Even when Hunter indicates how important it is, she doesn't think to hide it, causing the two to come to blows when he sees it peeking out from her coat. Even if Amity was unaware of those facts, it still went against common sense for her to take it with her. Heck Eda, King, and Amity didn't even ''need'' to go on this mission because the key already ''had'' the Titan's Blood they were looking for, not that they knew that at the time.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Amity starts to believe that Luz's Tamagotchi messages are more sinister than they are because she can't understand what Luz is saying with the emojis. Hunter, drawing on his own experience with Belos, assumes these messages to be a threat. It turns out she was just spelling things with the emojis that looked closest to the letter she wanted, which King reveals by turning the Tamagotchi so the message can be read vertically instead of horizontally. Instead of some sort of strange code or hidden meaning, the messages just said things like "U R RAD" to Amity. Clearly, things would've gone a lot smoother if Luz had shown Amity beforehand how to properly read them. Or if Amity had simply asked what they meant instead of pretending she understood. (Given that Luz was pretty out of it at the time...though explaining a compliment would’ve cheapened its value)
* PortalPool: The titular lake is Titan's Blood mixed in water. Its surface reflects a view into the human world of trees and the sky and said Lake is apparently how Philip Wittebane first came to the Demon Realm.

* PyrrhicVictory: As detailed in Philip's journal, though he was able to retrieve Titan's Blood, his companions unfortunately lost their lives in the process, rendering his journey to Eclipse Lake "a success, and yet a tragic failure."

* RedemptionRejection: After seeing him having a breakdown over finding the lake empty Amity tells Hunter that she understands what it's like to feel like you have to justify your existence to other people and tells him that there are people out there who wont make him feel worthless while offering him a hand. Unfortunately, once Hunter sees the key around her neck he attacks Amity and decides to go back to Belos.

** After having let Luz escape with the palismen in "Hunting Palismen", Hunter is desperate to prove his worth to Belos. Finding Eclipse Lake empty causes him to crack, and Amity finds him sitting in the empty lakebed, manically cheerful as he digs his own grave with his bare hands. Seeing Amity has the portal key causes him to snap out of it.

'''Hunter:''' ''(smiling brightly)'' O-ho-ho, it's simple, really. Belos needs Titan Blood to make a new portal key. Can't get to the Human Realm without it! [...] Since I ''failed my'' last mission, I thought "hey, a chance to make up for it". But I can't go back empty-handed! ''([[LaughingMad unhinged laugh]]; suddenly serious)'' Not again... ''(cheerful again)'' Long story short, this is m' grave! Want me to make you one too?\\

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once Kikimora hears him, Hunter decides to run and find another way into the mines, and then he encounters Eda’s party, and gets taken prisoner by Amity.
* SelfDisposingVillain: Non-fatal version. Kikimora and her guards end up knocking themselves out when they tried to take a high-speed minecart ride through a mineshaft that hasn't been maintained for many years, saving Eda and King the trouble. Though the [[MookLieutenant Captain of the Guard]] was able to recover, Eda's fight with her lasted no more than a few minutes.

** Belos' notes about how to make a grimwalker ressemble Mary Shaw's notes about puppet building in the opening of ''Film/DeadSilence''. Pretty ironic, since [[spoiler: Hunter and all the grimwalkers before him were nothing but puppets for Belos.]]

** The CD Gus reads called "Twenty-Four Hours of Whale Noises"? [[Music/SongsOfTheHumpbackWhale It's real]] (although it's actually only about half an hour long).

** Luz and Amity use ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'' pets as communication devices.

* ShaggyDogStory: Amity, Eda, and King head to a location at the Knee of the Titan to acquire some of its mystical blood at a spot known as Eclipse Lake. Unfortunately, when they get there, nearly killing themselves in the process, they find it's bone-dry. And as it turns out the Portal Key ''already'' had Titan's Blood in it making the entire trip pointless. Worse, Amity ends up being forced to give the portal key to Hunter. The only consolation is that Amity was able to crack the key before she handed it over, managing to catch some of the blood on her glove while depriving Hunter of about half from the key, so the mission wasn't a total loss.

* SincerityMode: After Hunter forces Amity to give him the portal key he thanks her for her service in his usual sarcastic tone of voice. However before he leaves he tells Amity that he genuinely means it in a more sincere tone of voice.