The Owl House: The Truth Behind Luz's Dad Changes Everything

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Losing parents at a young age is never easy. When it comes up in conversation, you're always met with apologetic sympathy, asked if everything is okay, or how it happened, as awkward smiles and playful glances fill the unusual silence. Grief is a hard thing to dance around, so you laugh it off and bottle up feelings not yet ready to be explored.

People like this mean well, but so many of us grew up in a society where the family unit was so established. You had two parents, a couple of siblings, and maybe a dog to tie it all together. Anything outside that was considered an oddity, a problematic background where you didn't have access to all the faculties that help you grow into a healthy adult.

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Such preconceptions are nonsense, and I like to think my fruity ass is living proof of that alongside so many other people. Not having two supportive parents in your life sucks, but it isn't the end of the world and is something you are strong enough to persist through.

The Owl House's most recent episode was all about the role fathers play in our lives. Whether it's those who want the best for us, those who fail to understand who we are, or those we lost years ago and continue to mourn. All these perspectives are valid and are slowly unearthed across 'Reaching Out' as Luz and Amity tackle individual problems that are more alike than they first realise. Our protagonist is stuck in The Boiling Isles on the anniversary of her father's death, unable to lay flowers at his grave with her mother.

Amity on the other hand wants to grow closer to a father figure who is very much alive and supportive, but so wrapped up in his own vision of righteousness that he fails to