Fanfic / Learning How to Be a Witch

Learning How to Be a Witch is a The Owl House fanfic written by Angelxoxo8.

Luz and her older sister Lucila Noceda get trapped into the Boiling Isles. However, Lucila has a passion for music and reading, and wants nothing to do with the Boiling Isles as well as magic. However, over time, some things (or rather some people) start to change her mind.

This is a retelling of The Owl House, but with an added OC sister for Luz. Like the OC from Sisters' Tangled Adventure, Harmony, Lucila is more responsible and level-headed than her sister Luz.

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Tropes present in this fanfic:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Morton becomes this to Lucila. Her childhood friend, Will, also fits this category.
• Accidental Kiss: After telling him that she loves him the way he is in Edge of the World, Hunter and Lucila were about to share a romantic kiss...until Hooty unknowingly ruined the moment by coming in between them, making Hunter kiss the house demon instead.
• Actor Allusion: When Gus auditions for Lucila's band, he sings the song B Rock which was sung by his voice actor Issac Ryan Brown. A drawing of the scene by Deviant artist Jebens1 also has him in the same pose.
• Adaptational Comic Relief: Although he was already a Butt-Monkey in canon, Hunter's constantly set up to be mocked every time he tries to impress Lucila in the fanfic. This is mostly due to having a crush for the first time in his life and trying to become a good guy for her.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Again, Hunter falls into this; he debuts as the Golden Guard in Covention instead of Agony of a Witch.
• Adaptational Karma:
  • One of the photos on Luz's wall in Watching and Dreaming part 2, is of Odalia getting beat up by Camila for everything she did to her daughters.
  • Kikimora is confirmed to be serving a prison sentence in the Time Skip, and it's mentioned that Hunter got a few years added to it as payback for Kikimora sabotaging his relationship with Lucila.
• Adaptation Species Change: Waffle, Hunter's palisman in the Distant Finale, is changed from a blue jay to a violet hummingbird due to being Flapjack and Melody's daughter.
• Affectionate Nickname: Lucila is called "Luci" by Luz and anyone of their friends.
  • After getting together, Lucila calls Hunter "cariño" and in turn, he calls her "esplendida", which means "gorgeous" in Spanish.
  • He even calls her "goofy Luci" and "my sweet princess."
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: It's averted regarding Lucila's feelings for Hunter: she develops a thing for him because despite his mistakes and actions, she sees a good guy deep inside.
• Alternate Universe Fic: Just like many of Angelxoxo8's fanfics, this is a retelling of a show and/or movie, but with an added oc in it: in this case, an older sister for Luz.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: In Thanks to Them part 2, Camila brought up a time when Lucila stripped off a costume of her least favorite character when she was five, running around naked. Luci is horrified and embarrassed by this, especially since her mother mentioned it in front of her friends and boyfriend.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Although they usually get along very well, Luz’s antics and behavior tend to get on Lucila's nerves every once in a while.
• Ascended Extra: Hunter has a slightly larger role than in canon, starting as an Early-Bird Cameo in Covention, he makes appearances in every following episode of Season 1 afterwards. He also somewhat stalks Lucila in First Day and Enchanting Grom Fight. Following the events of Hollow Mind, he decides to stay at the Owl House at Lucila's suggestion.
  • Edric Blight has one too, as he appears in Really Small Problem, Echoes of the Past, and in Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Lucila is able to learn the teleportation glyph in a week, as well as learn some of Hunter's moves from Hunting Palismen, both of these done just by observation. Violetta apparently also learned the teleportation glyph, which she used to escape petrification.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Played With during Hunter and Lucila's relationship at the start of the story.
• Babies Ever After:
  • Melody lays three eggs in Thanks to Them: Part 2 with Flapjack as the father. Before the Hexsquad returns to the Demon Realm, she gives an egg to Hunter. They hatch in Watching and Dreaming part 2, and are named Lyra, Cherry, and Waffle.
  • In the epilogue, Lucila and Hunter now have three children, Matteo, Harper, and an unborn daughter.
• Bait-and-Switch: At the end of Eda's Requiem, Mattholomule pulls one on Boscha during Gus' audition for Luclia's band, telling her that he's terrible only for her, and everyone present, to find out how amazing he is.
  • Earlier in the chapter, Lucila tricked Eda into admitting that she and Raine were a thing.
  • In For The Future part 2, when Lucila is captured by Boscha, she pretends to be unconscious only to grab her and pin her with an ice glyph.
  • Lucila pulls a double one on Luz later in the chapter, after she nearly obliterates her and their friends with her palisman, Lucila looks like she's going to scold her only to gush that her palisman hatched, then she proceeds to scream at her to never do that again unsupervised.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: One of the main reasons why Hunter fell in love with Lucila is because she was the first person to show him genuine kindness, despite their rocky start.
• Befriending the Enemy: Basically how Hunter and Lucila's relationship starts.
• Berserk Button: Triggered by Belos and Odalia.
  • In Hollow Mind, when inner Belos drags Hunter into his subconscious, Lucila lashes out at him and has to be held back by Luz.
  • In Clouds On The Horizon, when Odalia suggests that she can arrange Emira to marry Hunter, stating she'd be a better fit than a "plain human", Lucila furiously breaks her abomination restrains and joins Amity in trying to break the barrier.
• Beta Couple: Lucila and Hunter are this next to Luz and Amity. Their palismen Flapjack and Melody are this to them.
• Betty and Veronica: Edric is the sweet and sincere, yet sometimes mischievous "Betty", while Hunter is the mysterious and aloof "Veronica" to Lucila's "Archie".
• Beware the Nice Ones: While Lucila is friendly, if you mess with her, Luz, or any of their friends, then you're asking for trouble.
  • Piniet learns this the hard way as she beats him up after what he put her, Luz, and King through in Sense and Insensitivity.
  • In Adventures in the Elements, she flashes a light glyph in the Blight Twins' eyes, as she is still mad at them for what they attempted to do in Lost in Language.
  • In Understanding Willow, after Boscha mocks Willow, she sticks a plant glyph on her, which then traps her in a vine.
  • In Escaping Expulsion, after Odalia denies Lucila's enrollment back into Hexside, even coning it from her, she uses an ice glyph to launch abomination goo on her.
  • In Through the Looking Glass Ruins, she's the one illusioned as a statue to scare Bria away.
  • Philip Wittebane takes a worse hit from her after Lilith hit him for trying to sacrifice them to the stonesleeper in Elsewhere and Elsewhen.
  • In Labyrinth Runners, she punches Adrian Graye when she and Hunter rescue Gus.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Hunter and Lucila have a lot of this throughout season one and the first half of season two.
• The Big Damn Kiss: In O Titan, Where Art Thou, Lucila and Hunter share their first actual kiss before the former goes off to find Luz and the rest of the Owl House residents, much to the shock and delight of their friends and allies.
• Big Damn Reunion: After the battle against Belos, Violetta shares a brief reunion with Melody in Thanks to Them: Part 2.
  • When the gang arrives at New Hexside in For The Future part 1, Violetta slips away and secretly contacts Eda and Lilith, having a reunion with them.
  • After Belos' defeat in Watching and Dreaming part 2, Violetta has a proper reunion with Eda and Lilith and actually cries.
• Big Sister Instinct: Lucila has always been looking out for Luz since they were younger. She's also this way towards Gus and King.
  • Luz herself is a little protective of Lucila. Stating that if Hunter ever hurts her, she'd punch him. She even teams up with their friends to give her a protection squad.
  • In For The Future: Part 2, after getting out of Willow's vines, both she and Gus say that Lucila is their big sister now too after all that she's done for them.
• Blind Without Them: Lucila can't see without her glasses. In Enchanting Grom Fight, Eda casts a spell so she can see without them.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: After Lilith tells Hunter that Kikimora planned out her party's route to the Owl House, she ends their call with his usual phrase, "Byeeee!"
• Brain Bleach: Played for Laughs. In Clouds on the Horizon, after unexpectedly seeing Hunter's latest romantic gesture for Lucila over Pentsagram, a disgusted and unamused Darius responds with this:
  Darius: Remind me to wash my brain later.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Violetta title drops the story's name in For the Future: Part 1 and winks at the reader when Amity lampshades how she's taking focus away from Luz and Lucila.
• Brutal Honesty: Lucila's signature trait is that she's not afraid to tell it like is and call out jerkasses over their behavior. However, this just rubs all of her enemies (Emperor Belos, Boscha, Odalia, Hunter while they were on the rocks) the wrong way and makes them hate her more.
• Can't Believe I Said That: Lucila has this reaction in For The Future: Part 2, after she said "oh, golly", after Hunter kissed her as an apology for how he has treated her during the whole chapter and the previous one.
• Cock Fight: Hunter and Edric briefly fought over Lucila's affections when they meet for the first time in Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door.
• Contrived Coincidence: At Gus' band audition in "Eda's Requiem", Lucila admits to Luz that she had no idea Edric and Emira would bring Amity to it, leaving both girls feeling awkward since they're still embarrassed about Amity's kiss.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Downplayed with the crazy part, but Hunter dislikes it when other guys show interest in Lucila.
• Crush Filter: In For The Future: Part 1, Hunter imagines Lucila with her hair flying to the side while being surrounded by sparkles as she walked towards him.
• Dance of Romance: Lucila shares one with Edric in Enchanting Grom Fright, and she has one with Hunter at the end of Wing it Like Witches.
• Dating What Daddy Hates:
  • Odalia Blight hates Lucila and disapproves of her relationship with her son Edric and her friendship with her other children, Emira and Amity. Even though Lucila and Edric were a little rocky, with the two of them still working out their relationship issues, Odalia was petty enough to use a loophole to keep Lucila expelled from Hexside, even after she promised to unexpel Luci, Luz and their friends in Escaping Expulsion. Lucila returns the hatred to Odalia for going back on her promise, expelling her friends, and endangering her sister Luz, and uses an ice glyph to launch an abomination goo on her. Lucila's also not a big fan of Alador; as in Reaching Out, she tells him that if he weren't her sister's girlfriend's father, she'd punch him all the way to Latissa. Although presumably, she has forgiven Alador somewhat given their interactions in Clouds on the Horizon.
  • Played for Horror. While it was hinted beforehand that Emperor Belos disapproved of Hunter getting together with Lucila, Hollow Mind shows how much Belos hates Lucila and wants her dead, which is horrifying. While Lucila, Luz, and Hunter explore Belos mind, they discover a picture of Lucila…but melted to the bone, and they know it was her because her glasses were on the ground nearby, with Luz crying over her. While Hunter tries to deny that Belos initially hates Lucila, he is forced to confront this truth in a memory where Belos said he planned to keep Hunter separated from Lucila. Later, when they meet Belos, in his mind, he confirms the truth and tries to kill both Hunter and Lucila.
• Disproportionate Retribution: After Luz gets in trouble for using a crystal ball, Principal Bump puts Lucila in the detention track with her for "not stopping Luz from breaking the rules".
• Dude Magnet: Despite her initial reluctance at pursuing romance, Lucila attracted four potential suitors: Hunter, Edric, Morton and Will. She ends up choosing Hunter.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Lucila definitely earns hers at the end of the story: becoming a witch allows her to become a famous musician in both realms, serving as the bard teacher at the University of Wild Magic, becoming good friends with Edric and Morton after they all moved on from her having to reject them, and Hunter plans on proposing to her. A few years later, they're Happily Married with two children and a third on the way.
  • Cori becomes a drummer for a professional band, Will, who's still together with Ivy and living with her, now makes instruments, and Ivy, having been inspired by Lucila, decides to become a music producer and is accepted into Gravesfield University.
  • The last Time Skip in Watching and Dreaming, Part 2 shows that Luz has graduated from college and is now an up-and-coming writer currently planning out a book based on her life experiences.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Subverted. Unlike Luz, Lucila is slow to forgive someone who's done wrong to them.
    • One example is the Blight Twins. After they tried to steal Amity's diary, and left them to deal with the monster, she is not too pleased to see them again in Adventures in the Elements and even yells at them not to call her Luci. She also doesn't want to be anywhere near them. It isn't until the two save her from the slither beast does she finally forgive them. And they reconcile during the time their held captive.
    • The second and most notable example is Hunter. After he goes to meet with her, Kikimora follows and spies on them. Then through manipulation, she frames Hunter for the Owl House raid in Agony of a Witch, and Lucila cuts all ties with him. But even after she learns the truth and forgives him for the misunderstanding, all the bad things he's deliberately done in season 2 doesn't really put him back in her good graces. After seeing him so depressed in Eclipse Lake she offers a second chance, only for him to ruin it by stealing the portal key. But he makes up for by apologizing to her in Yesterday's Lie and admitting he's messed things up between them and they seem to reconcile...enough to the point where they end up becoming a couple later on.
    • Another example is Lilith, who Lucila doesn't treat as accepting at first because of Lilith cursing Eda once Lilith starts living at the Owl House.
    • A downplayed example is Amity; while she didn't like her at first, she warmed up to her after seeing her caring side and learned the real reason about her fallout friendship with Willow. Come Enchanting Grom Fight, she accepts Amity as a friend... as well as her crush on her sister Luz.
  • In Thanks to Them: Part 2, Melody forgives Hunter for Flapjack's death by giving him one of her eggs, knowing that it was beyond his control.
• Everybody Knew Already: Watching and Dreaming: Part 2 reveals that Lucila had always known about Luz's plan to stay in the Human Realm since Luz accidentally sent her the video in her sleep.
• Expressive Hair: In For The Future: Part 1, Hunter's forelock shaped into a heart when he saw Lucila in a Crush Filter. This happens again in Watching and Dreaming: Part 2 when he sees a picture of her in her Titan form.
• Familiar/Magic Staff: Unlike Luz, Lucila gets her witch's staff and palisman, a blue hummingbird named Melody, at Palisman Adoption Day.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Lucila is the more responsible and rational sister in contrast to Luz. However, in three cases, they switched their roles.
  • In Adventures in the Elements, she tells Lucila more than once to be nice and give the Blight Twins another chance so she can befriend Amity. She even lampshades this trope.
  • And in Yesterday's Lies, she reminds Lucila, who's furious after discovering that Ivy has been dating her best friend Will while impersonating her, that they're still on a mission to help Ivy and Vee.
  • In Hollow Mind, she holds Lucila back from attacking inner Belos after he drags Hunter into his subconscious.
• Foreshadowing: In Hooty's Moving Hassle, when Morton sees Lucila for the first time, he gains a crush on her. Eda then stands in front of the girl and tells him he doesn't have a chance, alluding to the fact that Lucila would get into a love triangle later on.
  • Once Belos stops the petrification of Luci, she still has a red mark over her right eye. And not too long after, Belos scratches at the same eye to leave a nasty scar.
  • Lucila tends to protest about her glasses being off, since she doesn't like not having them on. This is shown and expressed by her multiple times. But it turns out in the final chapter that the reason she never likes having them off is because they were a connection to her hidden bile sac, and having the glasses kept it stabilized.
• For Want Of A Nail: There's two occasions where characters from the main cast appear in episodes that they didn't show up in in canon; Eda appears in the story's extended ending of Any Sport in a Storm while Luz, King, and Hooty appear via flashback in Labyrinth Runners.
  • Willow, Gus and Amity have lines in the bonus ending of Eda's Requiem, contrasting their non-speaking cameos in canon.
  • The entirety of Hexside also appears alongside Hunter in Oh Titan, Where Art Thou, where they see Luci off before she teleports back to Luz and appear again when she's taking to Hunter and he shows Luz the BAT's aren't their only allies against Belos.
  • Gus and Willow give reassuring comments to Luz at the end of "Thanks to Them".
• Friendly Tickle Torture: Hunter does this to Lucila in Thanks to Them part 2 with kisses.
• Furry Reminder: In Thanks to Them: Part 2, Melody lays three eggs, which is a normal range for hummingbirds in real life.
• The Gadfly: Everyone tends to make jabs at how complicated things get between Lucila and Hunter, especially Luz who's very invested in their relationship. Lucila returns the favor to Eda by ribbing her about her past with Raine Whispers and she starts paying Luz back after she falls for Amity, her best bit of teasing being when she learned they kissed in Clouds on the Horizon after Luz suggests her first date with Amity be a double date with Lucila and Hunter.
  Lucila: [sees Amity blushing and smirks at Luz] Wait, what happened up there [in Amity's room]?
  Luz: [flinches] N-nothing!
  Lucila: That means something happened. [examines them closer and gasps] Did you two kiss?
  Luz: [blushes and looks away] M-maybe...
  Lucila: [with a knowing smirk] Aww! My hermana's First Kiss. [King, Willow, Gus and Hunter smile knowingly]
  Luz: [quietly] ...Okay, we're even now.
• Garage Band: Lucila is in a band with Will and Cori on Earth.
  • In Through the Looking Glass Ruins, she decides to start one with the Blight twins and they accept Gus into it after he auditions. Luz dubs them "Owl Rocks" and they have the first performance in the Coven Day Parade.
  • During the Time-Passes Montage in Thanks to Them: Part 1, Lucila, Gus, Hunter, Will and Cori form a new band called Owl Rocks 2.0. By the first epilogue of Watching and Dreaming part 2, Owl Rocks as a whole has disbanded.
• Go Through Me: Over time, Hunter has grown to be very protective of Lucila.
• Groin Attack: It's implied that Lucila does this to Philip Wittebane, as he was described to be "clutching his lower area" to which Luz and Lilith winced and looked away only hearing her hit him.
• Healing Hands: One of Lucila's two tracks is Healing, meant to be a nod to her mother being a veterinarian and having her study to be a doctor.
• Hero Secret Service: Revealed by Lucila to Hunter in Any Sport In A Storm, Luz and her friends teamed up to give her a protection squad.
  • Violetta reveals in For The Future part 1 that she's currently the leader of one that has watched over the Golden Guards and their respective love interests, which started with Caleb and Evelyn.
• High-Pressure Emotion: Lucila's face turned beet red with smoke coming out of her ears when she hears Hunter's love poem for her in O Titan, Where Art Thou.
  • Hunter himself has this when he sees Lucila in her Halloween costume and when she kisses him after reciting his finished love poem for her in Thanks to Them part 1.
• Holding Hands: In Hunting Palismen, once Hunter sees some residents of Latissa staring at Lucila, he grabs her hand and drags her further away from them, to her surprise.
• Homosexual Reproduction: Violetta mentions to Raine in Them's the Breaks Kid that she has two mothers, who would be furious if she got expelled.
• Hopeless Suitor: Lucila's friend, Will, was rejected by her sometime before the start of the fanfic.
  • Morton fell for Luci that moment he saw her. However, like with Will, she doesn't feel the same way.
• Humiliation Conga: Poor Hunter gets through with this whenever his romantic gestures for Lucila backfires, resulting him getting teased and embarrassed.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Along with calling out Luz for trying to get him to confess that he's a Grimwalker to their friends when she can't bring herself to tell them about accidentally helping Philip, Hunter also brings up Lucila's tendencies to be a Secret-Keeper in Clouds on the Horizon when she chews him out. He does understand she'll tell him what she knows when he's ready, but he prefers if they do so at their own pace.
• I Lied: Mattholomule brings Boscha to Gus' audition for Owl Rocks telling her he'd be terrible. When Gus turns out to be amazing, Boscha realizes Matt duped her.
• In Spite of a Nail: Lucila's presence doesn't mean the present events of the series don't occur as they did in canon.
• Irrational Hatred: Emperor Belos despises Lucila to a horrifying extent. While it was hinted that Belos disapproved of Hunter being with Lucila before in Hollow Mind, it is revealed that he believes that Lucila is distracting Hunter from being the Golden Guard. Once the truth is revealed and they confront Belos in his mind, it's confirmed that Belos truly hates Lucila and blames her for turning Hunter against him, willing to murder the both of them. The ending of Edge of the World shows that Kikimora is hunting Hunter and Lucila for Emperor Belos, and in Labyrinth Runners, it's revealed that Belos plans on petrifying her. It's hinted that Belos' hatred is deeper than just distracting Hunter; this was implied and confirmed by the author that Belos is projecting his hatred of the witch his brother fell in love with onto Lucila, who he sees as an obstacle because of her relationship with Hunter. Belos hating Lucila is lampshaded by Luz in Hollow Mind and by Raine in O Titan Where Art Thou.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: After Lucila reveals that she chose Hunter in Follies at the Coven Day Parade, later on, Edric comes to accept her decision. He states and shows in Reaching Out that he's happy as long as she's happy, even if it's not with him.
  • In Elsewhere and Elsewhen, Morton also gracefully accepts Lucila's rejection of him, even wishing her the best with Hunter.
• Kick the Dog: When Belos begins to petrify the Noceda sisters in King's Tide, he makes Lucila's much more painful, making the pain more excruciating the more she gets petrified. This is a low bow for Belos.
  • In For The Future: Part 2, Boscha mocks Lucila for her current relationship troubles with Hunter.
• Killed Off for Real: Hollow Mind reveals that Violetta was petrified at a young age for refusing to give up Melody before joining the Emperor's Coven, Belos callously deeming her a wild witch. This is ultimately subverted, as it's revealed Violetta escaped her petrification via teleportation glyph.
• Lap Pillow: After Hunter faints once he saw Luci in her Halloween costume, he wakes up to her tending to him while having him on her lap.
• Let Me at Him!: When Boscha insults Amity's new hairstyle, Luz tries to attack her only for Lucila to hold her back. Luz does this to an enraged Lucila in Hollow Mind after Belos seemingly kills Hunter.
• Letting Her Hair Down: Played with. For all of season 1 and most of season 2, Lucila keeps her hair in a low ponytail, with only a few times her hair was down. After the events of Reaching Out, she decides to keep her hair loose. Then in the last 4 chapters of season 2, she has it in a braid. By the events of the Thanks to Them two-parter, she fully embraces this trope.
• Literally Falling in Love: Played with. When Hunter first bumps into her in Covention, they do share a brief moment of silence while looking at each other. However, neither of them acknowledge any sort of feelings until much later.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Luci originally keeps her student-teacher relationship with Hunter secret from everybody in the Owl House including Luz until she tells them near the end of Season 1. She later keeps everything about it secret from their friends until she tells all of them everything at some point during their time in the Human Realm. However, she keeps Cori out of the loop as she'd kill Hunter if she learned the truth about how they eventually got together.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Hunter tends to make a fool out of himself around Lucila before and after they became a couple.
  • Edric and Morton also had their moments regarding their feelings to Lucila before she turned them down.
• Love Triangle: Lucila falls into one with Hunter the Golden Guard and Edric Blight. She cares for both of them and has had some romantic moments with each one. As a result, she can't decide who she likes. This is her problem that Hooty tries to fix in Knock, Knock, Knockin on Hooty's Door, where he kidnaps both boys to help her decide, only for her to have a brief panic attack. She finally does decide near the end of Yesterday's Lies. In Follies at the Coven Day Parade, it's revealed she chose Hunter.
• Magic Music: Lucila becomes a bard track student at Hexside, her guitar is enchanted by Lilith to drop flower petals based on her mood and her staff is enchanted to turn into a flute.
• Meaningful Name: Melody's name is related to music and her owners have always been Bards.
  • Just like Luz, Lucila’s name also means “light”, given that the light glyph was her first spell as well.
• The Mentor: Hunter becomes Lucila's magic teacher in season 1 and she becomes Gus' human teacher, until the end of Labyrinth Runners.
• Mistaken Age: When Lucila first meets Hunter, he wrongfully assumes that she's much older than she looks. Only for her to retort back that she's the same age as him.
• Mistaken Message: In O Titan Where Art Thou, when Hunter shows the flyer for Lucila's petrification through Penstagram for Raine to read, he accidentally shows a love poem he secretly wrote for Lucila instead. This leaves him embarrassed and Lucila stunned.
• Moment Killer: Hooty ruined what could have been Hunter and Luci's first actual kiss by coming in between the two lovebirds and making Hunter kiss Hooty instead, much to the former's disgust/displeasure and Lucila's chargin.
• Morph Weapon: Thanks to a spell cast by Melody's former owner Violetta, Lucila can transform her staff into a flute which she uses to heal her friends.
• Multi-Part Episode: All of the Season 3 specials are each split into two parts due to the additional content of the story.
• Naked People Are Funny: When Lucila was 5, Camila got the wrong costume from her favorite franchise and she stripped it off, running to her room naked. Luci is mortified when her mom brings it up in front of her friends along with her boyfriend and refuses to confirm it.
• Named by the Adaptation: The blonde cheerleader from the first episode is named June, and she's Cori's little sister.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Twice Lucila has punished Luz for her carelessness and not listening to her.
  • In The First Day she pinches her ear with the promise of punishment for getting them sent to detention.
  • In Understanding Willow, when she finds out Luz disobeyed her and caused the whole mess, she grounds her for a week. Both Luz and Willow are upset at this.
  • Luci also threatens to enforce this in Elsewhere and Elsewhen, telling Luz she'll keep her from seeing Amity for 2 weeks if she continues spying on her after overhearing her talk with Morton.
• Noodle Incident: It's read in Yesterday's Lies that Lucila first met Cori when she tried to stop her from painting a unflattering picture of their teacher on the playground wall and ended up taking the blame. Cori then apologized the next day thus beginning their friendship.
  • In King's Tide, Eda recalled a time when Raine said Violetta's flute playing was off and she retaliated by making them dance for an hour with a music spell she used with her instrument.
  • In Thanks to Them part 2, Cori tells the witchlings about when Will got lost in a corn maze and peed himself when he got spooked by her in a scarecrow costume, which he argues that she scared him on purpose.
  • Violetta mentioned to the Hexsquad that she dumped griffin saliva all over Darius as a prank when they were kids in For The Future: Part 1.
• Not Quite Dead: Violetta Fortiharpe was believed to be petrified in Hollow Mind. However, in King's Tide, Lucila takes an unexpected detour to the petrification chamber and finds Violetta's platform empty with a small teleportation glyph drawn on it, revealing that Violetta escaped her petrification. At the very end, Violetta appears in the human realm, determined to find Melody.
• Official Couple: Aside from Luz/Amity, Lucila and Hunter become this after Any Sport in a Storm. Will and Ivy are shown to be this and remain as such when Will learns Ivy's a basilisk.
• Original Character: Aside from Lucila, the fic also has other oc characters; Melody, a blue Hummingbird who becomes Lucila’s palisman; Luci's friends Will Ferrien and Cori Matthews; Ivy, the basilisk who pretends to be Luci; and Violetta Fortiharpe, who was Eda and Raine's childhood friend and Melody's original owner.
• Parental Substitute: Lucila acts as Luz's guardian for the most part, but sometimes acts as the secondary guardian with Eda.
• Pet the Dog: The Collector tells Lucila that he won't hurt her, stating any friend of King's is a friend of theirs. Considering he seemingly killed Belos with just a flick, Lucila got off very easy.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: Once Hunter finished reciting his completed love poem for her, Lucila gives him a heartfelt kiss, leaving him with a completely smitten smile with illusions of hearts coming from his head, thanks to Gus.
  • After growing somewhat distant for a majority of the two-parter chapters of For The Future, Hunter and Lucila reconcile after the former finally explained his actions. He then gives her a kiss to make up for what he put her through, resulting in a lovestruck Luci muttering, "Oh Golly", similar to Luz in Clouds on the Horizon.
• The Red Mage: Like her sister and the troublemakers, Lucila also becomes a multi-track student; specializing in Bard and Healing, she uses music from enchanted intruments to heal serious injuries.
• Reincarnation Romance: Lucila wonders if she and Hunter are this in Clouds On The Horizon when he tells her that the "friend" he's based off fell in love with a witch, and Belos sees her as that witch, which is why he hates her so much. It's confirmed in Thanks to Them: Part 2 that Luci's the reincarnation of Evelyn and with Hunter being a grimwalker of Caleb, it seems that Belos wants to kill Luci because he couldn't finish off Evelyn after murdering Caleb.
• Recessive Super Genes: In Watching and Dreaming part 2, the Titan reveals that Lucila, being a reincarnation of Evelyn, means she has a bile sac and thus can do magic.
• Scars Are Forever:
  • Lucila gained a burn scar on her left shoulder during a fight against Kikimora in Hunting Palismen.
  • Like Luz, she also received a nasty scar over her right eye in King's Tide. The scar got bigger in Watching & Dreaming.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • Lucila has kept quite a few secrets from Luz, Eda, and her friends.
    • Her secret meetings with the Golden Guard, which she comes clean to them about in Agony of a Witch.
    • In Enchanting Grom Fight, after Luz and Amity defeat Grom and are made Grom Queens, Lucila discovers Amity's note and finds out she's in love with her sister. After silently revealing that she knows, she promises not to tell Luz, stating that their love has to happen naturally.
    • In Eda's Requiem, she helps Eda and the BATTS, while not telling Luz. Eda reveals it to Luz and King in Follies at the Coven Day Parade.
    • In Any Sport in a Storm, she doesn't tell Willow and Gus that she and Hunter know each other or that she agreed to help him find new recruits for the Emperor's Coven.
    • She also keeps her encounter with Philip Wittebane and her adventure in Yesterday's Lie a secret from Hunter for a while.
    • In Them's the Breaks Kid, she is secretly recruited by Raine to join their rebellion against Belos, and reluctantly agrees to not tell Eda or Luz, for now.
    • Heck, Gus and Hunter point this out in Labyrinth Runners and Clouds on the Horizon respectively, the latter admitting he knows there's some things she keeps hidden even from him.
  • Both Noceda sisters end up falling into this to each other in Thanks to Them: the Hexsquad asks Lucila to keep the rebus puzzle secret from Luz until they solve it while Luz keeps her decision to stay in the Human Realm for good hidden from Lucila, even after the group and Camila return to the Demon Realm.
• Secret Relationship: Played With as Lucila and Hunter at the start are hiding their secret meetings from their groups for a while. Afterwards, Lucila tells her sister and friends on the Boiling Isles about it. Then after some complicated events in their relationship, they both hide the fact that Hunter is only a student in disguise in Any Sport in a Storm, although they do share some romantic moments in the chapter.
• Shipper on Deck: Luz is for Lucila to find love in general, but she does come around for Hunter and Lucila to be together in Hunting Palismen. Lucila on the other hand is clearly on board for Luz and Amity to be together after noticing Amity warm up to Luz. Darius also accepts Hunter and Lucila's relationship.
  • Willow and Vee become this regarding Lucila and Hunter in Thanks to Them: Part 1.
  • Apparently, most of Hexside also ships them, as seen in For the Future: Part 1.
• Ship Sinking: In regards to the previous trope, Hunter finding a love interest in early Season 1 means any chances he'd show interest in Willow are canned before he even met her. Though, to be fair, the story had already presented Hunter and Lucila's relationship/romantic tension before Any Sport in a Storm had even aired.
• Ship Tease:
  • Lucila and Hunter build up interest in each other over the course of Season 1, slowly bonding with each other during their magic lessons together.
  • The final chapter teases Darius, Alador, and Violetta as a polyamorous relationship.
• Shout-Out:
  • The song Owl Rocks performs at the Coven Day parade, the song Lucila and Hunter sing to Salty about what happened to them in Hollow Mind, and the song Owl Rocks 2.0 performs on the Haunted Hayride in Thanks to Them: Part 2 are respectively based of "The Family Madrigal", "We Don't Talk About Bruno" and "Dos Oruguitas" from Encanto.
  • In Lost in Language, when the twins show the sisters Amity's secret room at the library, Lucila mentions that it's like her old tree house full of books.
  • The ramen lesson Lucila used for her lesson with the Human Appreciation Society in Something Ventured, Someone Framed is the same method Lisa used in Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. Mattholomule even burned his tongue after eating a slice of ham and Luz shouted Ponyo's quote, "It's HAM!"
  • MoringMark comics are referenced twice;
    • In Hunting Palisman, Hunter warns Kikimora to never go after Lucila the same way he tells her not to frame Amity for failing her mission in this alternate extended ending to "Eclipse Lake".
    • Odalia’s plan to arrange Emira to marry Hunter is based off this comic.
    • Hunter telling Lucila that to him, she'll always be amazing whether or not she wears glasses is similar to how he tells Willow with hers here.
  • Hunter accidentally shows the CATTs his love poem for Lucila instead of the petrification flyer, with Raine even reading the poem out loud and asking, "You wanted us to read a love poem?"
  • When the CATTs answer Lucila's scroll, they see a lovesick Hunter wearing sugesstive clothing and posing seductively in a love nest of roses and light glyphs, obviously missing and pining for his girlfriend. Unfortunately for him, he realized she wasn't the one who saw his call.
    • King even says, "At least his pants stayed on".
  • Lucila's Halloween costume is based on Zelda's traveling outfit.
  • In Thanks to Them: Part 2, Lucila says that the franchise she's into is Teenage Monster Samurai Reptiles.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: In addition to Emperor Belos, Lucila makes personal enemies out of Boscha and Odalia for constantly challenging them due to their horrible actions towards her, her sister and her friends.
• Spotting the Thread: In Watching and Dreaming part 1, when Luz figures out that she's in a nightmare, aside from Amity misquoting a line from the Goodwitch Azura (something that the real Amity would never do), she notices that everyone called Lucila, Evelyn, even after they learned she is the reincarnation of her, the real versions of their friends still only call her Luci. Especially after all the drama she went through in the last chapter because of it.
• Technical Pacifist: Lucila never uses any physical moves in a fight, instead relying on her glyphs. There have been a few times she got physical; the first instance was in Sense and Insensitivity where she beat up Piniet. Another time is in Elsewhere and Elsewhen where she punches Philip Wittebane. A third time was when she punched Adrian Graye in Labyrinth Runners.
• Themed Tattoos: Like the rest of the Hexsquad, Lucila has a cardinal tattoo in tribute to Hunter's late palisman Flapjack. It is located on the back of her left hand.
• Tongue-Tied: After she accidentally hears Hunter's love poem, Lucila becomes too stunned to speak properly.
  Lucila: Poem...Hunter...love...
  Eda: Ha! Luci can't even process anymore.
• Tragic Heroine: Hollow Mind reveals that Violetta joined the Emperor's Coven, but refused to give up Melody and even tried to attack Belos when he tried to force her. As a result, she was dragged off to be petrified which explains why Melody ended up with the Bat Queen and later Lucila.
• Troll:
  • Willow and Gus were the ones who gave Hunter the idea of the romantic gesture he used in Clouds on the Horizon, just for the sake of messing with him.
  • In Thanks to Them: Part 1, Gus made an illusion to make it look like hearts were coming from Hunter's head after being kissed by Lucila.
  • In For the Future: Part 1, both Violetta and Emira announce Luci and Hunter's couple status to the Hexside student body.
  • In Watching and Dreaming part 1, Violetta pulls a prank on Luci when she cleans her glasses with a magic snap, only for Luci to find that she also enchanted them with illusions of skulls just to scare her and Hunter.
• Twirl of Love: Just like Luz and Amity in canon, Hunter and Lucila did this once they reunited in Clouds on the Horizon.
• Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend: Zigzagged. While Hunter is one of the most popular characters in the franchise, with fans even falling in love with his design, he was also considered as scrawny and sickly in-universe. Meanwhile, Lucila is shown to be quite attractive and cute, the drawings and fanart by Deviant artist, Jebens1, definitely shows this.
• Understanding Boyfriend:
  • In Yesterday's Lie, Ivy, posing as Lucila at the time, expresses concern and doubt that Will will want nothing to do with her once he sees her true basilisk form. While Will was shocked at first, he realizes that he likes Ivy just the way she is and the two started dating for real.
  • Hunter was this even before he and Lucila became a couple.
    • In Reaching Out, Hunter comforted Luci about her father's death and expressed concern about her strange behavior.
    • In Clouds on the Horizons, he reveals that he overheard the Noceda sisters' accidental involvement with Philip/Belos' encounter with the Collector back in Elsewhere and Elsewhen.
• Video Call Fail: Poor Hunter suffers from this twice. In O Titan, Where Art Thou, he tries to show everyone at the CAT's base the poster advertising Lucila's petrification over a scroll call only to show them a love poem he wrote for her by accident. In the next episode, Darius picks up Luci's scroll when he calls her and everyone in the base catches him displaying a very suggestive gesture that they burst out laughing over.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Over time, like how Hunter has grown to be protective of Lucila, she returns the sentiment at times, such as her anger at Belos in Hollow Mind.
• We Used to Be Friends: After forming a bond with each other, after Kikimora causes them to split apart, Lucila and Hunter aren't on friendly terms for a while.
• What Does She See in Him?: Eda and Amity lampshade this towards Lucila about Hunter in Eclipse Lake.
  • Emperor Belos questions this in Clouds On The Horizon as well, but in reverse as he asks what Hunter sees in Lucila, mirroring his hatred of the witch from his past.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In an even more jarring case than canon, Edric and Emira still disappear and don't show up in King's Tide despite Alador freeing them from their capture by the abomatons and they prepare to journey to the Head with the others.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Lucila has told off quite a few people for their actions, including Luz and Eda.
    • Eda, for calling Luz fragile in Enchanting Grom Fright and Luz, for causing the whole mess in Understanding Willow, which she grounds her for.
    • The Blight Twins for wanting to steal Amity's diary, and Edric for changing the potion in Reaching Out.
    • Amity for accusing her and Luz of being bullies and her attitude towards them in Lost In Language and later for burning Willow's memories in Understanding Willow.
    • Hunter for his actions in Any Sport In A Storm.
    • Odalia when they learn she knew about the draining spell and doesn't care.
  • Luci is nearly put on the receiving end herself when Luz is about to call her out for hiding the rebus from her in Thanks to Them: Part 2 until Hunter defends her.
    • Luci later yells at Luz to never use her new staff without supervision again after she almost incinerates her, Willow, Gus, and Hunter in For The Future: Part 2.
    • In Watching and Dreaming part 1, Luci scolds Violetta for pranking her and almost making her break her glasses.

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