Camila Noceda

Personality Camila is protective, compassionate, brave, and very empathetic. She cries watching animal documentaries, hates cruelty, accepts everyone regardless of their species (witches, basilisks, grimwalkers...), and has a fierce temper when protecting her loved ones. She's a bad liar, like Luz. In the epilogue, she appears more relaxed, with more gray hair, and continues to be the "mom" of the group.

appearance

Camila is a Dominican-American woman with tan skin, a medium/curvy build, brown eyes, and brown eyebrows. She closely resembles Luz in facial features.

Hair: Initially, she wears it in a bun with two outward-swept bangs. Later, she cuts it shorter and jagged (similar to Luz's), and over time it grows out, becomes curlier, and a gray streak appears (due to stress). In the epilogue, it has more gray.

Usual work attire (veterinary): Light blue/cyan uniform with darker sleeves, white shoes, glasses with red and black frames (later yellow/gold), and blue or gray earrings.

Casual attire: Green overshirt, dark blue capri jeans, pink sneakers, or orange/red sweater with a collar, jeans, boots, and a rainbow pride pin in the shape of a heart. In the Demon Realm, he uses his flannel shirt as a sash to carry a bat.

In the epilogue: lavender jacket, white shirt, khakis and heels.

Development in the series At first, she knows nothing about the Boiling Kingdom because Vee (a basilisk) takes the form of Luz and lives with her for months.

In "Yesterday's Lie" he discovers the truth, is scared at first, but accepts Vee as a daughter and rescues the basilisk from Jacob Hopkins.

When Luz returns temporarily, Camila makes her promise to stay in the human world, but then she understands that Luz has grown and flourished in the Boiling Isles.

In season 3, she takes in the entire group (the "Hexsquad": Gus, Willow, Amity, Hunter, and Vee) at her home for months. She gives them motherly affection, emotional support, and even organizes a belated quinceañera for Luz.

She unconditionally supports Luz's bisexuality and her relationship with Amity (she wears a rainbow pride pin). She travels to the Boiling Kingdom to help in the final battle against Belos and the Collector.

Background story Camila grew up being bullied in high school for being a "nerdy" science fiction fanatic, especially of Cosmic Frontier. This caused her to suppress her interests to fit in better with others and generated a great fear that Luz would suffer the same, since her daughter is very similar to her when she was young: creative, eccentric, and passionate about fantasy.

She married Manny Noceda and they had a daughter, Luz. Manny passed away when Luz was very young (from an unspecified illness). Since then, Camila has raised her daughter alone in Gravesfield, Connecticut. As a single mother and veterinarian, she has had to deal with Luz's antics at school (such as the incident with the snakes and firecrackers), criticism from other parents, and her own guilt for not being able to better protect her.

Out of fear of bullying, and pressured by the school principal, she sent Luz to the "Reality Check" camp (a camp to "normalize" "problem" children).

In reality, Camila never intended to change Luz's essence; she was only trying to protect her from what she herself had experienced. Later, she admits that her biggest mistake was trying to transform her "beautiful good witch" into something she wasn't.