Echo Mice are a species of mouse-like beast demons present on the Boiling Isles. They have the ability to consume and store written knowledge, and they are able to project the contents of this consumed information at random. According to Amity, Echo Mice are commonly found at the Bonesborough Library, and usually eat away the pages of old books.
Appearance[]
Echo mice are small mammalian demons that resemble real mice and are roughly the size of Luz's hand. They are primarily beige in color with long tails that end in a quill-like tip and skeletal heads with two large buck teeth.
Background[]
In "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", Luz and Amity discover an Echo Mouse eating the pages of Philip Wittebane's diary when they are looking for it. This frustrates Luz, until Amity explains its abilities and the mouse projects information from the diary to Luz.
In "Hunting Palismen", Luz wishes for the mouse to project more pages of the diary before she goes to Hexside. When she returns home, she rants in front of it about how she wants her future in the Boiling Isles to go.
In "Eda's Requiem", Luz manages to lure the Echo Mouse out from under her bed with a carrot, but before she can get information out of it, the echo mouse is eaten alive by Hooty.
In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", a diagram of the echo mouse can be found in the "beast demon" section of Hooty's bulletin board. By this point, the Echo Mouse is out of Hooty's stomach and back in its enclosure, but it fails to give information to Luz. Later, the Echo Mouse is finally willing to project new information about Philip to Luz and Amity.
In "Eclipse Lake", the echo mouse projects more information from the diary to Luz, Amity, Eda, King, Willow, and Gus, revealing that an ingredient needed for the portal door is Titan's Blood. When a sick Luz accidentally triggers the mouse by bumping its head, it projects a moment where Philip Wittebane describes his failure to obtain Titan's Blood, making her worry about Amity's safety.
In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", Luz keeps the echo mouse near her in its cage while she's going over her notes to figure out what went wrong with her prototype portal. When Luz goes downstairs, she takes the mouse with her, keeping it hidden under her party hat. After Lilith's party, the mouse shows her an entry about Philip trying to track down the Collector to find out how to complete his portal but cuts off its playback and goes to sleep without informing Luz about the Stonesleeper.
Sightings[]
| Season 2 | ||||||||||||
| The Owl House Main Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| The Owl House Credits Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "Separate Tides": | Absent | 11. "Follies at the Coven Day Parade": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "Escaping Expulsion": | Absent | 12. "Elsewhere and Elsewhen": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "Echoes of the Past": | Absent | 13. "Any Sport in a Storm": | Absent | |||||||||
| 4. "Keeping up A-fear-ances": | Absent | 14. "Reaching Out": | Absent | |||||||||
| 5. "Through the Looking Glass Ruins": | Debut | 15. "Them's the Breaks, Kid": | Appears | |||||||||
| 6. "Hunting Palismen": | Appears | 16. "Hollow Mind": | Absent | |||||||||
| 7. "Eda's Requiem": | Flashback | 17. "Edge of the World": | Imagined | |||||||||
| 8. "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door": | Appears | 18. "Labyrinth Runners": | Absent | |||||||||
| 9. "Eclipse Lake": | Appears | 19. "O Titan, Where Art Thou": | Absent | |||||||||
| 10. "Yesterday's Lie": | Absent | 20. "Clouds on the Horizon": | Absent | |||||||||
| 21. "King's Tide": | Absent | |||||||||||
| Season 3 | ||||||||||||
| The Owl House Main Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| The Owl House Credits Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "Thanks to Them": | Absent | 2. "For the Future": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "Watching and Dreaming": | Appears | |||||||||||
Trivia[]
- The echo mouse is most likely inspired by the works of surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, who is famous for his live-action/stop-motion hybrid films which tended to include very off-putting creatures that were made from real carcasses and taxidermy.
- In "The Intruder", King explains that demons with black eyes are normally vulnerable to light. It is not known whether echo mice also have this weakness, but it seems likely due to the species' predilection for living in dark places, such as the Bonesborough Library's Forbidden Stacks.
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