Editing Lucy Ellingson (section)

==Appearance==
Lucy is black. Her hair is light brown with red-blonde highlights.<ref>" Lucy’s words were aggressive, and it was a stark contrast to how her hair bounced behind her head.  It was combed close to her scalp with only a few kinky hairs escaping near the forehead and ears, and was held back with an elastic, where it formed an almost perfectly round afro-poofball behind her.  Even though Lucy was black, her light brown hair had even lighter red-blonde highlights to it."
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/lost-for-words-1-1/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]
</ref> In [[Verona]]'s memories and to the [[Sight]] her highlights are pink,<ref>Whenever Verona didn’t see her best friend for a few days, she somehow imagined her as having pink in her hair.  No idea why, no rationale, but it was something that had been consistent since kindergarten. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09 excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref> even drawing an image of Lucy with it when they first met as kindergarteners.<ref>“I’ve had this since I was ten. Verona gave me this.” Lucy took out a creased piece of paper. It had a cartoon drawing of Lucy with pink hair and Verona, done up in the style of a cartoon Avery remembered seeing but couldn’t name. Cute. There was something that looked like alien language all over the rest of the page. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/22 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.10]]</ref> Her eyes are hazel.<ref name="1.8e1" />and tends to reflect her [[Self|personal power]].<ref name="4.6e1" /> She has full lips and her eyebrows have a perpetual frown. She's the tallest of the trio, slightly taller than [[Avery Kelly|Avery]]; with a long neck, slender shoulders, and a "ballerina's frame".<ref name="WB description">
Lucy is thirteen, with brown eyes, brown skin, and what is sometimes described as a ballerina's frame; she's a bit taller than Avery (only a bit), with a long neck, slender shoulders, and a fairly straight body line. Part of this idea is accentuated by her hairstyle, by how she holds herself a bit rigidly, and her clothes. Will get to each of those below. Hairwise, I would note that while Nocturne did a very good job with the banners, my art direction that I gave her and what's in the story differ from what ended up in the banner; Lucy keeps her hair pulled close to her scalp, where possible, and gathers it up into a ponytail that she keeps in a fair-sized afro puff. There are reddish-brown highlights and locks and it may have a hickory color when catching the light. If you're putting them in a practice-active situation where the Sight is active, the highlights may be pink instead, and post-arc 3, may be bigger in size, with more free strands along the sides of her hair or the puffball, all in tight curls.<br>
Her clothing style is covered in an Extra Materials, and tends to be wrinkle-free material, or tight enough it doesn't rumple. Baggy clothes annoy her. This plays into the straight/rigid impression of earlier. Many clothes are branded, carefully matched, and she likes to wear her sneakers.<br>
Lucy's face and expression includes full lips and eyebrows that are perpetually drawn together like she's frowning at whoever or whatever she's looking at. Posturewise, if Avery's default is movement, Lucy's is 'ready', or defensive. Standing straight, or arms folded, or holding something, even if it's a backpack strap. She wears the dog tags at her neck with house keys and sometimes the weapon ring strung on it, sitting at her collarbone, usually hidden by her shirt collar.<br>
Her Sight turns the whites of her eyes blood red or bubblegum pink, depending on the mood (angry vs. whimsical). The irises and pupils remain the same, but may be darker, in contrast. Her hat is fairly straightforward as witches hats go, black, and her mask is an orange-red fox's mask with hints of white here and there, to outline the eyes and mask's edges. In battle mode, her fox's mask has eyes that smoke and glow red and she may be smoking due to the backpack rune. Her cape is a mantle, charcoal black like the hat, and doesn't extend much further down than the elbow or small of the back. If it's not at her neck (usually when she's ready for a fight), she has the weapon ring on, a ring with an inch-long sword that extends so it either extends over the base knuckle and onto the back of the hand, or forward, along the finger.<br>
<br>-[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/izdkpo/_/g6ire33/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref><ref>At least like this, she could look at herself in the mirror and look at each part of her body in isolation.  Long neck, good chin, full lips, ears a little big but whatever.  Eyes a little glare-y by default but whatever.  Nose… whatever.  She liked it.  Hair… under control.  Skin… better than most girls in her class, if she was honest.<br>
Objectively… she could rate the angry ballerina in the mirror a seven out of ten.<br>
-[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/stolen-away-2-4/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.4]]</ref> 

When she uses the Sight, the whites of her eyes often seem to turn solid red<ref>Lucy looked over the town, her eyes turning red as she used the Sight. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/out-on-a-limb-3-4/ excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.4]]</ref><ref>“Provisional on Avery saying it’s okay,” Lucy spoke more seriously, meeting Verona’s eyes, her Sight active so the whites of her eyes were red.  Her hair took on a pink tint.  “I will swear to step in before you end up like that.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/back-away-5-5/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.5]]</ref> or pink<ref name="1.8e1">“Don’t distract,” Lucy said.  Her expression was stern, and in Verona’s Sight, her eyes were red where they should be white, pink where the irises would normally be a hazel color.  Loose strands of pink hair that had come free of the ponytail shifted in the light breeze. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/lost-for-words-1-8/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.8]]</ref> depending on her mood,<ref name="WB description" /> sometimes with white or pink irises.<ref>Snowdrop could see Lucy look around with her Sight, the whites of her eyes turning red, the irises turning white.  Seeing her do it, Verona and Avery did the same. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/12/leaving-a-mark-4-x/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.x]]</ref><ref>“Don’t distract,” Lucy said.  Her expression was stern, and in Verona’s Sight, her eyes were red where they should be white, pink where the irises would normally be a hazel color.  Loose strands of pink hair that had come free of the ponytail shifted in the light breeze. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/lost-for-words-1-8/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.8]]</ref> 

Her hair is usually worn pulled back tight to the scalp, with an afro-puff ponytail. Her body language tends to be defensive and at the ready, with a rigid, straight posture.<ref name="WB description" /> Her ears are pierced,<ref>Lucy’s hair was down to her shoulders, wavy and glossy.  She had hoop earrings in, which looked great against the dark hair.  Avery hadn’t even noticed the earrings when Lucy had worn her face. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/leaving-a-mark-4-1/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.1]]</ref> and once acquired she's usually wearing the [[Eavesdropper's Earring]].<ref>[[Cutting Class 6.7]]</ref> She chooses her clothes and applies makeup aiming to be 'bulletproof': beyond reproach from even silent bullies.<ref>She moved to her bedroom, and picked her clothes with a similar mindset.  She hadn’t said as much out loud to even Verona or her mom, but her mindset when it came to picking clothes was that she wanted her things to be bulletproof.  Not in the literal sense, but in the sense that it had no weak points, gave her critics nothing.  No fading, no rips, no tears, no stains.  The material was often from the higher-end athletic brands, because it was hardier and tended to hold up better over time.  Anyone who pointed and laughed at stuff branded with the Vikare swoop or the Dassler waves just looked like an idiot.<br>
Again, not that her classmates did or would, because any obvious bullies would get a harder time than any potential targets.  The thing was that the bullies were still out there, only they were silent.  They thought it.  This kind of stuff was protection against that thinking and those observations. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/stolen-away-2-4/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.4]]</ref> She tends to wear tight clothing that won't wrinkle, often branded and carefully matched, usually with trainers. She wears her keys on a chain around her neck, later joined by magical dog tags and sometimes the weapon ring.<ref name="WB description" /> Her outfits include a new-looking red sweatshirt-dress worn with white and red sneakers decorated with maple leafs on the tongues (worn to look "nice".)<ref>Lucy was wearing what might have been a red sweatshirt dress with a 
stripe down the side, and her legs were bare from the knee down, her 
feet in red and white sneakers with little maple leafs on the tongues.  
It looked new, even though Verona knew the shoes weren’t.<br>
“I wanted to dress nice.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/lost-for-words-1-1/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]
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In her practitioner garb, she wears a [[fox mask]] that was created for her by Avery, as well as a witch's hat made by Verona and cloak. The mask is painted orange<ref>Verona had put her bag down, and now she unzipped it.  She pulled out the mask.  A deer mask, carved out of wood and painted with tan at the nose and around the eyes, a speckled darker brown at the edges and ears.  She handed it to Avery.<br>
Avery handed Lucy a fox mask, painted orange.<br>
“Damn,” Lucy muttered.  “You’re ''way'' better at carving than I am, Ronnie.  That deer mask is great.  Sorry yours is…”<br>
Verona shook her head.  A black cat mask.  It was simple, but she liked it.  She hugged it to her chest with one hand while offering Lucy the hat she’d made herself.  Each of them had a gift for the other two. And for themselves, short cloaks.<br>
<br />- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/lost-for-words-1-1/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref> with white detailing around the eyes and edges.<ref name="WB description" /> The cloak is very short, more of a shawl, not reaching her elbows.<ref>They’d shared online videos about the mask carving and a website with tailoring templates for the making of the hats.  The differences in mask were intentional, any differences in the hats accidental.  Verona’s hat was just a bit floppier at the brim.<br>
When they’d done the search for the capes, they’d agreed to use the first blueprint on the list.  They’d been halfway when they had discovered the cape designs were all different.  Not that it mattered.  Verona’s was closer to a cloak, and Lucy’s closer to a shawl, it was so short.  Avery’s looked like more of a cape, with a wreath around the neck and shoulders.  She wore it ajar, so it covered most of one arm.<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/lost-for-words-1-2/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.2]]</ref> Both hat and cloak are charcoal black.<ref name="WB description" /> Her mask is later enchanted to have glowing red eyes she can activate to appear more intimidating.<ref name="WB description" /> In certain magical contexts, her mask appears real, as if she has the head of a fox.<ref name="1.ze1">Three figures were approaching.  They could almost be mistaken for the children that were scattered everywhere, but they were too animated, and too curious about their surroundings, looking around and looking up at the moon, where the children of this place were focused wholly on the ritual’s participants.  They couldn’t be Witnesses, because they had faces…<br><br>Animal faces, two of them wearing wide-brimmed hats, the other with a cord tying her hat to her neck.<br>[...]<br>The one with the fox’s face was literally smoking, the smoke flowing down her body and cloaking most of it, forming a whorl at her feet.  When traces of the smoke graced her orange-furred face, the glowing of her red eyes extended to the smoke.  Her hair did something similar, fox’s fur becoming long, tight curls with a faint red tint, the ends of the hair impossible to distinguish from the rising smoke. <br>[...]<br>He felt like he should recognize the voice, but every time he tried to put a face to the sound, he could only picture the fox’s face. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/06 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.z]]</ref><ref>She lifted up the dense, metal dollhouse, setting it in a metal box with about 20 segments.  There were a horrendous number of figures, pieces of furniture, accessories, animals, and little colored blocks inside, sliding around, rolling down stairs, and falling out.  The box itself had zipper-like creases at the edges of each segment, knitting them together.  She centered the dollhouse and then collected the fallen bits, pushing them in through windows.<br>
[...]<br>
She whispered, “Show me the three girls with animal faces,” and opened it up.<br>
Three simple figurines with rectangular blocks for bodies were topped with the heads of a fox, cat, and deer.  They were within a cabin with an open top.  Ribbons filled the space, tying to a center mass.  A circular bit of wood, shallow, sat in the center.<br>
There was no sign of the other figurines that had been within, or the diner, or the old house.<br>
“Why animal faces?” she asked.<br>
“If it’s this omnipresent, it may be the Sight equivalent of labeling something at the root level.  I could see changing or obfuscating your name, taking on a title as part of the implement or demesnes rituals, but faces… I don’t know.  If it was one individual, I could say it’s a Host with an exceptionally strong rider, or a practitioner with a familiar strong enough it was leaking through, but I’d expect to see that leak somewhere else.”<br>
<br>- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/stolen-away-2-z/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref><ref name="4.6e1">The room’s appearance shifted, to become something very much like the spirit world Lucy had visited together with Verona and Avery.  The floor was covered in an inch of water, littered with flower petals.  She could see the nose of the ‘mask’ she wore in spirit, and her hair was far longer, pale pink tendrils blowing across her shoulder.<br>
Other students changed as well.  Avery had the deer mask.<br>
[...]<br>
The lighting changed.  Everything became a slow-motion flow of smoke, but where transparent wisps overlapped, they painted silhouettes and details.<br>
She wore the fox mask here.  More smoke traced the outline of her cape.<br>
“This is what one might see with a particular variety of the Sight, ignoring connections.  [...] Lucy here makes a good example.  As we get stronger or weaker, we may be able to see that in the Sight.  Look at the color in her hair.  Like a blush-tinted ember, glowing from within.  From the roots, a bit darker.  I could interpret that she spent power recently.  Draining this power.  These gauges can be very useful, for judging where we stand, and if one does not naturally manifest, then they can be handmade and designated.  A practitioner of the practice of ''Law'', concerning themselves with the rules of the universe and of karma, may wish to keep a barometer for that type of karma, or even count the different kinds and origins of karma.  Another may wish to track the state of their body, or even the magical trinkets they have in their possession.  They can be overt, for status, power, and that ever-so-important presentation, like Ms. Ellingson’s wonderful hair here, or they can be hidden, a painted picture of a bouquet in a locket.  How many flowers does it have?  What color?”
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/leaving-a-mark-4-6/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref>

She hates having things on her wrists.<ref>I hate having stuff on my wrist.  Can’t even wear a watch without getting annoyed.— [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/05/29/dash-to-pieces-11-9/ excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.9]].</ref>