Chapter 3: I Get a Tutor/Here Comes the Tutor
Art by Crash X Fusion: Yup. Payback's a witch.
Luz gets a big surprise when she meets who's going to tutor her.Tropes that appear in this Chapter:
- Aborted Arc: The human spray Boscha gives to Amity to use on Luz if she needs to? Yeah, we're never seeing that again.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Edric and Emira make their debut between the events of "I Was a Teenage Abomination" and "The Intruder" instead of "Lost in Language".
- Babies Make Everything Better: Eda doesn't regret adopting or raising Luz, calling it one of the best choices she ever made.
- Bad Future: When Luz glimpses into Barcus' oracle-potion, she sees herself being subjected to a hate-crime."Know your place, human freak!"- "Human Diseases!"-"Why won't you die!?"Luz: "NOO!!!" (She kicks the cauldron pot, spilling its content all over. She is hyperventilating while holding her chest, the three detentionnaires looks at her in concern.)
- Blatant Lies: Boscha denies tagging Luz's locker until Amity points out the blue paint all over her and Skara.
- Brick Joke: The last chapter ended with King being swarmed by ants and getting bitten. When he comforts Luz, he ends up bringing in ants that end up in Luz's bed and go after her and Eda.
- Brutal Honesty: Luz feels Bump was using this when he says how impressive it'd be for Hexside's #1 student (Amity) to help improve the grades of their worst student (her).
- Catapult Nightmare: Luz shoots up in bed after dreaming about a past traumatic memory.
- Downer Beginning: The first scene is of Luz having a nightmare that she's being assaulted as a kid before she wakes up crying.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Emira is referred to as Elmira in this chapter. The rest of the story uses the correct name.
- Eye Twitch: Boscha has one when Amity threatens to bar her from attending her moonlight conjuring.
- Failed a Spot Check: Amity and Principal Bump don't see Luz wincing when the abomination track incident is mentioned. Subverted with Eda who sees it and played straight again as Luz fails to notice.
- Fantastic Racism: As per canon, witches and demons hold humans in low regards, considering them a hostile bunch of savages. Luz's behavior seems to indirectly support these claims to people at Hexside.
- Foreshadowing:
- The opening scene is of Luz as a kid lying on the ground being kicked and pelted with rocks.
- King notes that Eda considered leaving Luz to be raised by clowns, who was a Big "NO!".
- Everyone's predictions will be important later on: Viney's prediction she'll receive a love letter, Luz's prediction about being surrounded and beaten again also has some future prominence, and Jerbo's is about going on a ski trip bound to end badly.
- Amity mentions the first time she ever met Luz wasn't a pleasant memory. She also brings up the moonlight conjuring.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Amity believes Luz doesn't even remember the day they met.
- The Ghost: Lilith Clawthorne is brought up by Amity, her student.
- Humans Through Alien Eyes: Apparently the common consensus witches have of humans is that they're "a hostile bunch of savages with their clear skin, disgusting food, big ol' shiny eyes and their love of pumpkin spices."
- In Spite of a Nail: Eda still had to clean up all the messes she made during her time as a student just so Luz could attend Hexside.
- Internal Reveal: Luz learns that Eda's curse was the reason she didn't graduate from Hexside.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Willow and Jerbo see Luz being tutored by Amity as this for Luz causing the abomination track's ghost infestation.
- Malicious Misnaming: This is where Boscha begins refering to Luz as "Luzer", a parallel to Luz calling her "Bitcha".
- Mama Bear: While Luz shrugs off Boscha's racist tag on her locker, Eda goes ballistic when she finds out about it.
- Metaphorgotten:Jerbo: That has to be some weird karma for you to end up in that position. Especially that you're being tutored by your nemesis, your Newman to your Jerry, the snake of your mongoose, and whatever other metaphor you use.
- Mythology Gag: When Luz blows off Amity, she turns red-faced before she gets light-headed.Amity: Oof, I almost passed out.
- Noodle Incident: Rather disturbingly, Luz has gotten messages on Penstagram from people telling her to kill herself, which never fazed her.
- Obviously Not Fine: When King asks Eda, then Luz, if they're okay hours after their argument, they both say they're fine. King loudly declares they aren't.
- Opposites Attract: Bump thinks that if Amity, who he calls Hexside's best student, tutored Luz (who he calls their worst), it would reflect better on her resume.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Luz sarcastically tells Willow that she "had to go Jiminy Crickets on [her]", the reference goes over Willow's head.
- Private Tutor: To help Luz get her grades up in order to pass the semester's final exams, Principal Bump assigns Amity to tutor her which will also help the latter get a higher grade after her abomination project went haywire (which unbeknownst to either of them, was caused by Luz.)
- Pyromaniac: When Amity asks if she could teach another student, Draco, to tutor instead of Luz, Bump mentions that he was transferred after trying to burn the school down.
- The Real Spoofbusters: When Eda asks why Bump can't just hire professional ghost-hunters to clear out the abomination class, he mentions that they went out of business years ago and are now "just regular black-robe workers."
- The Reveal: All Abomination track students have been placed in other tracks until the ghosts are cleared out. Willow, by sheer chance, is in the Plant track now.
- Sarcasm-Blind: Luz draws out a long rant about how unimpressed she is that someone tagged her locker with a hate message, yet Gus doesn't pick up on it.
- Shout-Out:
- When Luz refers to Pinocchio's plot as "a wooden puppet boy who to become a real boy, he must eat the flesh of a real boy", she wonders if she was thinking of a cartoon series or the movie.
- Jerbo calls Luz "your Newman to your Jerry" to describe her as Amity's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis.
