Luz De Garra (Character)

Luz De Garra is one of the main characters of the Incal saga, and John DiFool's main love interest. She's introduced as a spoiled and bratty aristo, and the daugher of Prime Minister De Garra. While she initially taunted and manipulated John, she eventually fell for him, and helped to uncover the secret behind the aristos' halos.

After John's memory was erased she became a space pirate, along her partner Kaimann. Years later, she was rescued by John from the Goungas, and returned to Terra 2014 to defeat the Bethacodon.

She made her first appearance the second issue of Before the Incal, Class "R" Detective.

Early life
Luz de Garra lived with his father Mr. De Garra in the aristo area 993865, in the multi-conapt 3612.

Meeting John DiFool
At one point Luz, wearing holo-makeup that made her seem uglier, hired the pre-detective John DiFool to act as a chaperone for her in her visit to the St. Prez hospital. John accepted, knowing that serving aristos would allow him to officially apply for detective. At the hospital, Luz forced John and Deepo to urinate in the medication of the people who were sick with the meropa virus, just for her amusement, and under the threat of making John lose his pre-detective license. Later Luz made another demand: he wanted a kiss from John. However, upon kissing her Luz's holo-make up wore off revealing her true beauty, which dazzled John.

On their way to Luz’s conapt, just when they were about to enter the airtube, Luz and John got harassed by a bunch of kids and a muscular criminal, but Luz managed to kill him by throwing her the aristo's secret weapon, the halo.

Attempt to trap John
Since John's investigation signified a threat to the Supra-divinoid's power, he tried to use John's relationship with Luz to control the young pre-detective. Thus, following his father's orders, Luz called John, asking him to come over to her house claiming that his father would pardon him.

When John arrived to Luz's conapt, she gave him a tour, showing him her home. When they entered her anti-g bedchamber, Luz tried to use her charms to manipulate John into becoming her mandog (men who had their humanity removed, leaving them with only their animal self, humanimals). She wanted him to sign a contract with his handprints, saying that he relinquished his human will and intelligence over a span of ten years. John signed it, falling into the Prime Minister's trap, since now they could erase his memory. However, just when they were about to extract John's pineal gland, Koblos-5 burst through the wall and rescued John, which angered Luz.

Switching sides
Due to the continuous blunders in trying to stop John DiFool Prime Minister De Garra was demoted to warden of a correction center. One day, a mutiny broke out in the correction center, and the center's addicts took the ex-Prime Minister and Luz as hostage, demaning kublars and more cocaloco in exchange, but they both used their halos as a weapon to kill some addicts, and survived. Luz, fed up with the fact that after his father's demotion her living standards had worsened went to cry in her room. John used the chaos created by the mutiny to get into Luz’s room, where they reconciled having sex. Whoever, Luz was still seems incapable of true love since she had never been exposed to amorine.

DiFool convinced Luz to help him in the mystery of the Red Ring babies, getting into the aristo-maternity ward by pretending that Luz was pregnant and that John was an aristo. Inside the ward John and Luz uncovered what the big secret was about: The Technos opened the skull of the prostitutes' frozen babies, extracting their pineal gland which has been injected with the Top -33, which was then inserted into the pineal gland of the “aristo” baby, making the halo appears. The fact that the aristo class had been built on the spawn of low-level prostitutes angered Luz. Shortly after, they were discovered, and had to escape from the ward on board of a stretcher, eventually being saved by a group of psycho-anarchists.

With the psycho-anarchists
John and Luz were taken to the Psycho-anarchists' leader, who wanted to interrogate them about the secret they have uncovered, and was willing to threaten them with murder and torture. Initially Luz refused to talk, but when they threatened to castrate John Luz giave in, proving that love is stronger than pride. The leader took them to his private lair, revealing that he was actually Snailhead. After learning the big secret Snailhead thought that all the galaxy should know about the secret, so they decided to use Diavaloo and the imperial broadcast to reveal the truth at the cancer-freak championship, which Diavaloo was attending.

John and Luz managed to get inside the stadium and reach Diavaloo, but when Luz was about to reveal the secret, Diavaloo took her and John to an underground room using an elevator platform, leaving the audience hanging with a musical interlude. John and Luz found themselves surrounded by all the conspirators, and the Supra-divinoid revealed they had Mr. De Garra, Kolbo-5 and Deepo as prisoners. The Supra-divinoid threatened John and Luz with killing their friends if they told the truth. John and Luz, realizing that in this case love might be more important than truth, decided to not tell the truth. Thus, instead of revealing the truth to the audience Luz read from a prepared script proffesing her love for Diavaloo.

Captive in Diavaloo's satellite
As part of the cover up John's memory was erased and Luz was taken to Diavaloo’s harem satellite, where she would serve as a “servant” prostitutes. Luz killed Diavaloo after he attempted to rape her, but it was revealed to only be one of his many clones. From then on Diavaloo kept Luz chained.

After some time the Flying Star, a pirate craft commanded by Kaimann, took over Diavaloo’s satellite, and liberated Luz from her chains. Luz killed two of Kaimman’s men by using her halo, but Kaimann stopped her with his reptilian tail and left her unconscious, taking Luz back to his pirate spaceship.

Rescued by Kaimann
Kaimann took Luz to Tortuga Island, the legendary pirate stronghold. The pirate Olaf explains to Luz that Kaimann was stripped of his legitimate right due to his reptilian tail, and that he was eventually adopted by a band of apemen, and grew up in the asteroid. Although Kaimann wanted to marry Luz, she was still in love with John. However, Kaimann told her that according to his spies DiFool had already moved on with his life. Luz decided to go back to Shaft City with Kaimann to verify his claim. Luz, unaware that John's memory had been erased, tried to make John remember her but he didn’t recognize her. Disappointed, Luz left Terra and went back to Tortuga.

Attack on Tortuga Island
Luz entered into a sacred union with Kaimann, and lived at Torguta Island for several years. At one point, due to fighting between Black Vampires and Archangels in space, the pirates were forced to stop their lucrative activities and tried to live in isolation, but then three Gounas -gigantic spatial spiders- arrived and attacked the asteroid. Kaimann thought he might be able to negotiate with the Goungas, but Luz got ahead of him and came out of the ship first. The Goungas, seeing Luz's halo, thought she was a goddess and they took her to their planet, in exchange, they left the rest of the pirates alone.

Meanwhile, Terra was being attacked by the Bethacodon and his biophage virus, although DiFool managed to escape City Shaft. John had an encounter with Elohim and the Incal, and had a vision of Luz, which made him remember everything that happened before his memory was erased. Following his vision, he found the coordinates to the Gounas' planet, where Luz was being held.

Facing the Bethacodon
When John and Luz went back to Tortuga Island, Luz, who was still in love with Kaimann, found he had been completely transformed to his reptilian form. After the Techno-technos distanced themselves from the Bethacodon, DiFool and Luz arrived to the Techno-mushroom, asking for an audience with the Techno-highness, to see if they could restore Kaimann to his former self. Luz and the Technopope reached a deal: The Techo-surgeons would reverse Kaimann’s mutation if Luz and John went back to Terra 2014 to convince the aristos to unite with the Technos against the Meca-prez and the Benthacodon. John and Luz agreed to the deal.

John and Luz reached Center Earth, where they were attacked by Psychorats, however, Luz managed to mentally communicate with them and become friendly. They soon encountered Gorgo the Foul, who considered Luz to be a paleo-goddess fulfilling a prophecy. Gorgo took John and Luz to the Dumping Ground, a rebel stronghold, where they met General Kill Wolfhead of the First Rebel Division of the Bio-army, along with the other chiefs: Lieutenant General Hipo-san, Commander Avicene and Colonel Don Poilpo. Luz convinced the rebel leaders to enlist Gorgo’s help. The rebels proceeded to use the waste passage to arrive to the surface and launch their attack, eventually reaching the Floating Palace.

After Kaimann and John sacrificed themselves to save their friends and detonate the Floating Palace, Luz and Gorgo escaped through the bridges of Shaft City, while the Meca-Prezident is killed by Wolfhead.

Aftermath
After the Bethacodon was defeated Elohim connected his arms to the ground and started healing the planet from its center outwards. The Archnagels started singing, which stirred up a flood of emotion, creating vibrations that affect the senses. Gorgo self-appointed himself king, choosing Luz as his queen. Gorgo tried to rape Luz but Deepo stopped him with the power of the Incal, after which he spat out the Incal.

The Incal spoke to Luz, explaining her that the war still wasn’t over because Black Vampires still possessed the metallic virus and could threaten the bio-universe, and that her love for DiFool was the only universal antidote. Luz, with the help of Elohim, reconstituted John through the power of true love, allowing her feelings for him to fuse his cells once again.

John and Luz had sex, a showcase of love that refilled the Mother Tree with life and re-engaged the surface’s life cycle. At that moment Elohim absorbed John and Luz, flooding them with light and turning them into the united Incal, forever destined to melt into the universe like a star.

Symbolism
Luz is a key character in the Incal saga, being one of the few characters to appear in all three installments. Throughout the series she becomes more politically conscious and learns to love despite never consuming amorine. In fact, her romance with John is the main force of good in the saga, working as the "universal antidote" against the metallic-virus.

Etymology
Luz means "light" in spanish.