Amity Blight is the tritagonist of the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
The youngest of the Blight Family, she is the daughter of Alador and Odalia Blight and the younger sister of Emira and Edric Blight. She is also the girlfriend of Luz Noceda after initially acting as her elitist rival in the past.
She is voiced by Mae Whitman, who also voiced Little Suzy from Johnny Bravo, Shanti from The Jungle Book 2, Rose Killdragonosa/Huntsgirl from American Dragon: Jake Long, Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender, April O'Neil from the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Tinker Bell from the Tinkerbell movies, Heather from Dreamworks Dragons series, and Plaxum from Voltron: Legendary Defender.
Appearance[]
Amity has two-toned, chin-length glass-green hair that is brown at the roots and has a ponytail pulling the front hair out of her face. Her eyes are golden colored and has pale skin. Like most witches, she has pointy ears. When attending school, Amity wears a gray tunic with a dark gray belt, cowl, and boots. As part of the Abomination track, her sleeves and leggings are grayish-pink. The rest of her attire includes wearing triangle-shaped black earrings and black nail polish. She has a star pin on her cowl, which shows that she is the Top Student. She wears dark grey, heeled boots, with a light grey top. At the end of "Through The Looking Glass Ruins", she dyes her hair lilac, with the strands above her ears retaining it's brown color.
In the epilogue, she wears a black shirt and violet pants with Abomination desgin. She's also taken to wearing a ponytail, held up by a scrunchie based on the grom queen crown; plus she now wears Luz's earrings (as part of the Boiling Isles symbol of commitment). Her bangs fall diagonal to her right eye, while the left side of her head is shaved and naturally colored. She has a tattoo of a red cardinal on her left arm, to honor Flapjack.
Personality[]
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I grew up thinking everything was an opportunity to justify existing, but there are people out there who won't make you feel worthless, you just... have to let yourself meet them. |
” | —Amity showing how far she's come since she met Luz. | ||
Amity is described as a bright and competitive girl. She attends magic school along with Willow, Gus, and later, Luz, and is a part of the Abomination track.
She is the top student at the school and likes to brag about it. She looks down on others and teases them, as expressed greatly in her treatment of Willow in "I Was a Teenage Abomination". She also doesn't like it when her spotlight is stolen, or anyone is better than her at anything and is quite the teacher's pet. She was also willing to go out of her way to bring others down a peg, when she obsessed with proving Willow cheated on her assignment, when it barely had anything to do with her and showed no concern with how much it would hurt Willow or anyone else.
This is likely due to the amount of pressure put on her by her parents and herself to be the best and loses her composure when she feels threatened and lashes out at others to maintain any sense of self-worth and resents having her pride damaged. Her status means so much to her she became unhealthily obsessed with proving Willow cheated, even going as far as to have Luz dissected by Principal Bump over her top student badge. This implies that Amity suffers from a superiority complex as she feels the need to pride herself and succeed to feel good about herself and demeans others who she sees as inferior, such as Willow and Luz.
It's also worth noting that she displayed moments of hypocrisy within her first few appearances. For instance, she was willing to make Luz give up her witch dream as well as enforce it with an everlasting oath, but it's considered a disaster when Lilith put her opportunity of joining the Emperor's Coven in peril. She also calls Luz a bully despite nearly getting her killed twice, Amity's hostile behavior toward her, King and Willow and the fact that Luz was trying to reconcile and be nice to her, and to add to the irony Amity claimed that she was trying to figure Luz out despite repeatedly lashing out and refusing to talk or even listen to her, instead she tries to find a stereotype to label her without putting in the effort to get to know her as a person.
It should also be noted that earlier in the series, she accuses others of getting her in trouble, when it was really her own hurtful behavior that got her into those scenarios and made the situations worse. It's believed that her need for need for superiority has made her self-absorbed, selfish and insensitive, showing a lack of sympathy or consideration for other's feelings or perspectives. Her own pride kept her from seeing that she got in trouble because of her own terrible attitude and poor treatment of others and blames Luz for embarrassing her and didn't seem to care about the fact that she nearly got Luz killed or severely hurt, dismissing and ignoring the majority of what Luz says, thinking that Luz trying to be nice or offer to help with the library kids is bothering her. Suggesting that Amity was more focused on her reputation and status falling apart rather than the physical or emotional well-being of others and refusing to listen to them.
She does, however, conceal a softer side which she keeps hidden so as to not demonstrate weakness and reads to children at the library in "Lost in Language". The episode also shows that she is constantly picked on by her older siblings. This also suggests that Amity's refusal to "show weakness" keeps her from admitting her own flaws and taking responsibility for her actions and how she treats others and deludes herself by blaming others for her issues or projecting her own insecurities and faults onto them in a desperate and somewhat pitiful attempt to make herself feel better.
The episode also suggested that due to her parent's abuse, her sibling's treatment, and her "friend's" influence has dimmed her view on real compassion and skewed her view on how she sees others as she couldn't understand why Luz was trying to be nice to her and refuses to listen or hear the latter out when she tries to apologize or explain herself or rebuffs Luz's clear and obvious attempts at reconciliation or even talk to Amity. While she does show some remorse in her diary for her actions, she didn't seem to fully comprehend how deeply they affect others. She apparently never thought about why Willow cheated on her abomination assignment to get ahead academically after years of constantly picking on her for constantly struggling to the point of having a possible desire to kill Amity and couldn't see the harm she's inflicting on Luz by putting her through near death experiences, forcing her to nearly give up her witch dream and dismissing her attempts at friendship (which is also completely ironic because Amity longed for true companionship, but her horrible attitude sabotages any chances of forming meaningful relationships). But she gradually starts to change her toxic way of thinking at the end of Lost in Language.
After the library incident, Amity finally realizes that Luz never meant to embarrass her and sees that her own behavior wasn't helping, leading her to becoming a kinder and happier person due to Luz's kindness and influence. Amity slowly starts connecting with Luz and is putting effort into being friends with her. She is also aware that Luz meant no harm after taking her wand and accidently angered a nearby slitherbeast, even sealing Luz in a magic barrier for her protection, proving that she now cares about Luz's well-being. She also started to form a crush on Luz in "The First Day" as she tries to assure herself that Luz attending Hexside doesn't change anything.
"Understanding Willow" further explores Amity's more irrational side and a possible fear of facing her own problems as she tried to erase Willow's memory of their former friendship together, only to accidentally destroy more of Willow's mind. Thanks to Luz's emotional support, Amity was able to show inner Willow how sorry she was for not standing up to her parents when they threatened to end their friendship, and while she couldn't undo all the harm she's done in the past, decides to stop bullying Willow and promises to not let Boscha or her group pick on her again, leading to her and Willow starting to rebuild their relationship.
By "Enchanting Grom Fright", Amity sees how much of an impact Luz has on her life as she wanted to ask Luz to grom, but couldn't out of fear of rejection and the chance of ruining her first real friendship in a long time. By "Wing It Like Witches", her crush on Luz has grown so much that she could barely function around her. However, she was willing to help Luz and Willow in a grudgby match against Boscha and defect from her "fake friends" to her real ones, showing that she would rather be with those who make her happy instead of those just to uphold her family's status.
In "Escaping Expulsion", she was still afraid to stand up to her parents when they expel Luz, Willow and Gus from school for being "a bad influence" on their daughter. She was able to assert herself to her mother when she threatened the life of her crush Luz at an abomitron presentation, saying that she, Willow and Gus make Amity want to be a better person and gets them back into Hexside.
After Luz accidentally gets her fired from the library in "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", Amity says that ever since Luz came to the Boiling Isles, it made Amity do stupid things around her and wished it didn't, only to see that she’s upset Luz as well. She tells her siblings how much things changed and how she's thinking and feeling things she never experienced before, with her sister reassuring her that she is happier when Luz came into her life. When Luz gets Amity's job back, and Amity gets a new hairdo, Amity confirms her feelings by kissing Luz on the cheek, only to get flustered and leave.
In "Knock, Knock, Knockin on Hooty's Door", Hooty kidnapped Amity in an attempt to get Luz to ask her out. At first, Amity wanted Luz to forget the kiss and for things to go back to normal, only for them to be pulled into a tunnel of love made by Hooty. Amity starts to like it, believing that Luz is reciprocating her feelings, only to feel dejected when Luz destroys everything in order to avoid the embarrassment of the tunnel's cheesiness. In the end, Luz finally asked her out, Amity ecstatically accepted and the two became a couple.
When Luz gets sick in "Eclipse Lake", Amity expresses uncertainty in their new relationship as she does everything she can to comfort Luz to prove that she is an awesome girlfriend. When she went with Eda and King to get titan's blood for Luz to get home, they run into Hunter, who inputs doubts in Amity's mind that if she doesn't return with results, Luz will dump her. But thanks to King, Amity remembered who Luz really is and learns that she doesn't have to prove anything to justify her existence. She also shows tremendous sacrifice as she gives Hunter the portal key when he threatens Luz's life, only for Luz to be happy that Amity is OK regardless of what happened, reinforcing what Amity learned.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Magic: Amity is highly skilled in magic and is recognized as being top of her class.
- Abomination Magic: Amity has demonstrated high-level skills in the creation and control of abominations, and can shape Abomination goo into anything she desires, from an Abomination golem, to a skateboard, fist gauntlet, or a rope.
- Pyrokinesis: Amity has also shown to generate pink fire after learning how to use the spell at the knee.
- Disintegration Spell: She can use this spell to disintegrate anything she chooses
- Barrier Cage: Amity can create a tall, circular cage that causes mild burn when somebody touches it.
- Mystical projection: As shown during Grom, Amity can use magic to display images and historic events. The events shown will be presented in a style similar to medieval artwork.
- Disguised Voice: Sometime before entering the Bonesborough Brawl, Amity is able to use her magic to disguise her voice to sound like anyone she thinks of.
- Earth Magic: During her time stranded in the Human Realm, Amity is shown utilizing earth—particularly mud—in place of Abomination goo.
- Dancing: While fighting Grom, Amity successfully performs a perfectly choreographed dance routine with Luz, additionally demonstrating a very strong capacity to improvise as this was not something that she had likely rehearsed before.
- Intelligence: Amity is regarded as a highly intelligent and well-performing student in Hexside, being one of the top students of the Abomination track due to her natural magic affinity and book-smarts. She's also rather good at deduction, being able to realise that the "kidnapping" of Kikimora and Raine was Luz's doing thanks to its resemblance to a scene in the Good Witch Azura series.
Relationships[]
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Quotes[]
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Oh, please! You know, I used to be like you, Boscha, obsessed with status, challenging my competition. But I grew up. When will you? |
” | —Amity betraying Boscha | ||
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Stay away from MY LUZ! |
” | —Amity before the Abomaton is about to beheading Luz | ||
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Trivia[]
- Amity is a lesbian, which is shown she started demonstrating a crush on Luz. She is the first openly Lesbian character in an Disney animated series. Though Amity didn't understand her sexuality until Luz came into her life.
- Her first name "Amity" means "friendship" in Latin, which shows her desire for friendship. On the other hand, her family name "Blight" is a word used to describe a sickness that damages plants, which emphasizes Amity's initial deteriorated friendship with Willow. The word "Blight" is also figuratively used as a synonym for something that causes destruction, an obvious metaphor for Amity's initial unfriendly demeanor.
- In an AMA, Dana Terrace revealed that Amity's mom wanted her hair dyed because she wanted her children "color-coded."
- In "I Was a Teenage Abomination" and "Covention", she was a target of adult's callous decisions, with her teacher giving her top-student badge to Willow after being easily impressed by her "abomination" and when her mentor Lilith made her unknowingly cheat due to her quarrel with her sister Eda respectively. Instead of realizing that the authority figure was being unfair, she takes her anger out on her peers, blaming Willow for stealing her title and accusing Luz of embarrassing her in front of the Emperor's Coven.
- It is possible that her parent's emotional and mental abuse may have directly or indirectly instilled a fear of speaking out and standing up to grown-ups and takes it out on kids her age because it's easier for her.
- Despite this, it’s shown that Amity’s perfectionism is genuinely a part of her character as shown from how during her stay in the Human Realm, she repeatedly tried to draw a perfect circle and was annoyed at Vee outclassing her in Spanish.
- Even though Amity blamed Luz for her embarrassment in her first two episodes, she could've avoided the conflict or decrease it by trying to talk to the teacher on how unfair it was for him to carelessly give her top student title to Willow over a single grade despite the different history and skillset between the two, it would've been easier for her if she did that instead of antagonizing her and Luz. She also could've tried to talk to Luz and see things from her viewpoint in covention or at least declined her dual challenge and spare her being humiliated by Lilith. It seems that Amity's obsessive pride and arrogance made her make terrible decisions that impacted not only others, but herself as well, though by refusing to acknowledge and admit it (at first) made Amity become her own worst enemy.
- In "Eclipse Lake", Amity carries around a jar of abomination goo on her belt for quick use and utilizes it during her battle with Hunter for the portal key, much like Katara's waterskin, and even controls it in much the same way, befitting their shared voice actress.
- Amity was originally going to meet Luz in Episode 1.
- Amity's bunny lunch bag in "Lost in Language" likely came from her holding a plush bunny in the storyboard version of "Understanding Willow".
- Thanks to the deep red color Amity blushes when angry or flustered, she has been jokingly called a "tomato" by many fans.
- She also likely inherited this trait from Alador, who blushes a similar red in anger after realising Odalia's been conspiring with Belos.
References[]
- ↑ The Chibi Couple Game