Villain!Luz

"For the AU itself, see Villain!Luz AU"

Villain!Luz is the villain AU version of Luz Noceda, She became a "villain" after falling to save Eda and King, where later on, she is banished from the Boiling Isles by Warden Wrath. Over the next years, now traumatized, Luz starts to grow insane idolizing the one 'thing' she had left in life, learning new spell glyphs completely alone in the wilderness, as her grasp on reality begins to crumble away quickly.

Appearance
Villain!Luz almost resembles the same as canon Luz, but with some key differences, such as her hair being a little more grown out and messy, having her left eye being ripped out, thus choosing to use a sphere of light generated by a light glyph to act as replacement for the same eye. Her body is said to be covered head to toe with an unknown amount of strange glyphs, who are carved in her skin.

She wears a witch's outfit similiar to that of Azura, the protagonist from The Good Witch Azura series. The outfit consists of a grayish blue mozzetta buttoned over by a yellow star shaped button. Under the mozzetta, she wears long loose-sleeved white shirt followed by a pair of dark desaturated blue bracelets. She uses a dark gray belt attached to a grayish blue skirt, with independence blue leggings and dark grayish-blue high-top fur boots.

This outfit is seemingly on a poor state, as it shows signs of sewing, cut fabric and stains, it's not known what kind of stains these are, but are most likely to be blood stains.

Personality
Through the years, Villain!Luz has became extremely cruel and violent, suffering from a severe mental illness, up to a point that her now broken sanity cannot differ from being a guilty sociopath to a ruthless psychopath with no remorse for who she tortures.

She has fallen victim to many diverse psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, to which distorts and warps her thinking, where she began suffering from cases of delusion and hallucinations, like the idea of Azura appearing to her, who despite being known as a fictional character, was still accepted as the real one by Villain!Luz without her being doubtful about it, to an extent of finding contentment when "Azura" asked her if she would want to be her apprentice. Another trait that hints to her schizophrenia is her self-destructive behavior, to which is clearly seen from the glyphs she carves in her body from time to time.

Much likely how an insane person would behave, Villain!Luz denies all attempts from those to uncover truth and instead keeps projecting her fantasies onto reality, to which is unlikely for her to understand anything about what it takes to be sane. A good example is her relationship with her Amity, to which she believes to be "the good witch" and that Amity is, from her view, Hecate, an enemy and the true villain of her story.

This dark and twisted personality makes Villain!Luz find humor and sport in the suffering and fear of her enemies, to which she uses sadistic provocations with the purpose of disturbing them, simply to her enjoyment. Even so to be disposed of often using all the different glyphs she learned and their effects to inflict violence and pain brutally.

However, due to past traumas, Villain!Luz sometimes drifts between insanity and depression. As when she found out that Eda had died, where devasted, she fell into a deep sorrow, but soon after recovered her senses through a wild rampage. Another time this happened was when she had once found a photo of her alongside her past friends, and seeing it made her began to cry despite being unaware of it, which can be seen as a sense of guilt. While after she seems to suffer from headaches other unexplained pains, to which she founds being confused about it and at the same time, stressed.

Asura
Asura is Villain!Luz's new mentor, who's been "summoned" by the power of an strange and unknown glyph.

Villain!Luz idolizes Asura, much likely the one from the book, to the point of accepting being her apprentice without thinking twice. Asura has demonstrated to be a cruel, manipulative and sadistic entity or idea that influences Villain!Luz into commiting anything she says as a sick way of "turning her into the next Good Witch". Asura's mentor relationship with Villain!Luz is very diverse, where at a point she seems to care about Villain!Luz, stating that everything she does is for her to be as good as her as a witch, even willing to help her with her training if things go off track.

But in the other way, Asura sometimes is also extremely violent and short-tempered with Villain!Luz, to where most of her training riseded into surpressing her feelings and her innocence, however, whenever she exposed these feelings (such as whenever she would cry), Asura would go on to scold her, telling her how these emotions are a weak spot, even mocking her she by saying that if she where to continue acting like this she wouldn't be fit to be her succesor. Even at a certain point, Asura psychologically forced Villain!Luz's mind into supressing her pain to become stronger by manipulating her ego, making her think that if she were to die it would all be her fault, and that everyone else wouldn't care about her death.

After the conclusion of Villain!Luz's training, Asura hasn't been seen ever since after Villain!Luz left the island exile, despite this, she believes that Asura is still somewhere nearby, watching, seeing how much her apprentice has developed, and whenever she needed assistance, her mentor would be there for her once again.

V!Luz Amity (Hecate)
After joining the Emperor's Coven, Amity was tasked with capturing Villain!Luz who had now escaped from "exile" and had been accused of killing members from each coven, with the highest kill count coming from the Emperor's Coven itself. Despite being doubtful about the accusations and feeling happy and excited about being able to finally see Luz once again, but ever since they met eachother again, Villain!Luz from now on had became Amity's worst nightmare.

Villain!Luz and her Amity have a very complicated relationship. Villain!Luz is said, like years ago, to love her Amity, although at the same time, she also enjoys torturing and abusing the other witch both physically and mentally - A twisted sense of love she seems to idealize from her now broken mind.

Due to all said torture she has to handle, Amity suffers from a case of depression, as shown when she has crying thinking about what Luz became, be it because of guilt or fear. She also shows a certain level of self-loathing, with her complaining to herself how this pain wouldn't end and she wasn't strong enough to change or do anything against. However, Amity still seems to have the hope that Luz will eventualy come back to her senses one day. Because of the said torture, she also seems to have developed an irrational fear of Luz herself, to which gives her aggresive anxiety do to not knowning when Luz is going to show up and/or cause trouble, and even when she would be ready for what is incoming.

The way each interact varies from the spectrum of Villain!Luz's "mad love", as it can be said. To which sometimes she takes sadistic pleasure whenever Amity is shown having a hard time trying to capture her and/or having to deal with her, such as can be seen as Villain!Luz has the habit of playing with Amity's ego in a spiteful way to simply torment her life even more, much to her misery.

Despite nothing confirmed, Amity seems to also suffer from insomnia, to which could be proven by the dark circles under her eyes and due to it being one of the base symptoms caused of depression.

Villain!Amity
Although most of their story together is surrounded in mystery, it is believed that their universes begin intersecting with eachother. Villain!Luz "accidently" stumbled upon an world similiar to hers, where there, she crossed paths with Villain!Amity, who proved to her that this Amity definitely wasn't the Amity she knew.

At a certain point, they begin to work together to achieve their own goals, how the two "villains" being working together or why, is still a mystery.

Bill!Luz
A friend of Villain!Luz. Despite much of their story together being unknown, they seem to be on good terms to a point of even provoking chaos together when around others.

Villain!Luz has no idea from where Bill!Luz came from, either way, she took a liking to her.

Powers and Abilities
Villain!Luz is possibly one of the strongest characters of the Villainverse, to which she was able to easily defeat and even kill extraordinarily skilled witches, including those from the Emperor's Coven. Such as when she was able to obliterate Warden Wrath and his men in a matter of seconds and even fight her Amity without breaking a sweat, this Amity who is by far, at the point of the story, skilled enough to be at the same level as that of Lilith Clawthorne, if not higher. Villain!Luz also possess a Palistrom wood staff that instead of a Palisman has her ripped out eye attached to it. In a way, this staff rivalizes that of common staffs and the power of it's Palisman. She also was able to fight toe to toe with Villain!Amity.

Compared to the other AU characters of the Villainverse, Villain!Luz is probably the one who most engaged into confrontations then any other character of the same verse, and between them she is compared to be the "unstable point" between physical strength and magical strength, to which adds to her incredible battle proficiency and ability to surpress pain, all which are through her insanity.

Although, Villain!Luz is said to not be strong enough to threat neighbor AUs down to their destruction.

Advanced Glyph Enchantment
Much like as before, Villain!Luz lacks the same magical anatomy that witches have, she can't perform magic with her bare hands, to which instead, she casts spells by drawing glyphs found within the spell circles witches tend to use. However, Villain!Luz has managed to dominate skills she has never seen before or heard of, which could indicate she has the ability to create her own glyphs, although nothing has been confirmed on this statement.

While in the past, Luz had to use an object and proceed to tap or strike the glyph for use it's effect. However, during her training with Asura, Villain!Luz tried to search for a more "efficient" way to use her glyphs during combat and she then discovered that she could carve glyphs into her skin, releasing their spell through the same way as before and now being capable of redirecting it through body movement, making it much more easy to control and use then normal Glyph Enchantment.

However as an consequence, the glyph must use object material to create an spell, where in this case, it's Villain!Luz's skin. Such act is portraited by other witches to be "unimaginably painful", as she has to literally "burn through her skin to use it as fuel". Meanwhile, the abuse of this can lead to her suffering of severe internal bleeding (hemorrhage) and cause damage to tendons (sprain). Despite the consequences, Villain!Luz's developed insanity allowed her to handle the pain through the years, sustaining the damage caused by the glyphs, to an extent where some of the glyphs became permantly carved into her skin.

During the training, Villain!Luz has potentially mastered all types of basic spells and including some advanced and some new through the usage of her glyphs:


 * "Insanity" Spell Glyph: This mysterious and horrific glyph is one of the reasons why Villain!Luz became who she is today. Whatever the effect of this glyph actually is it can leave a strain on someone's mind, where in case of Villain!Luz, caused her to have strong and painful bursts of delirium. The effect of the glyph also seems to give it's user an compulsive physiological dependence on it, as shown when Villain!Luz has the need of using this glyph one or more times a day, to a point of even calling it "her favorite glyph. It is unknown if this glyph is either Forbidden or Forgotten to the witches, or if Luz, being insane, fantasized it as a way of escaping the reality she was facing.
 * Forbidden Glyphs: Villain!Luz mastered certain spells through her glyphs that were soo wicked and obscure to the witches, that a long time ago were forbidden to be used by common witches, and should never be teached by anyone in any form ever again, where all information about these spells/glyphs were to be destroyed and wipped out from history.
 * Forgotten Glyphs: Villain!Luz also has mastered certain spells through her glyphs that are soo ancient and primeval that most witches of the current era have forgotten such spells/glyphs even existed. Most of these glyphs date all the way back, and before, the time of the Savage Ages of Witches, and as such, the Emperor's Coven restricted the search of these spells/glyphs, and that any knowledge and information about such was "strictly illegal".

Insanity Empowerment
Despite being a theorical ability, Villain!Luz's insanity seems to have drastically developed to affect even her body. As a result, her physical capabilities, such as movement and endurance, become enhanced due to the procreation of her mental instability, to which even her magical affinity through the usage of glyphs becomes gradually stronger than the strongest of witches, including those whose power are comparable to leaders of the covens.

This is efficient in such a way that some say Villain!Luz becomes "indifferent to pain", which means that she can still perceive the stimuli caused by physical trauma, but lacks an appropriate response. as it can be seen whenever she apparently does flinch or withdraw whenever exposed to pain.

Trivia/Facts

 * According to Villain!Luz's creator, Twixstari, her outfit "basically reflects the fact that she is just as powerful as Azura."
 * Villain!Luz and her AU is, possibly, the most famous AU of Luz and The Owl House in general, having more fan-work (fanart, fan-fiction stories, etc.) than any other AU created by the fandom.