Lucy Ellingson

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Lucy is one of the protagonists of Pale.

Personality

Rarely shows fear or weakness.<ref>Her friend was quiet, alert, and tense.  Lucy’s whole thing was showing no fear, no weakness. - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref>

She likes horror movies,<ref>“I love horror films,” the Fox told him. “But I wouldn’t want to live in one.” - https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/back-away-5-c/</ref> and misses sarcasm as a practitioner.<ref>“I’ve really missed sarcasm,” the Fox said. “Hearing this really drives that home.” - https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/back-away-5-c/</ref>

Lucy feels a strong sense of responsibility and protectiveness. Of the three Pale protagonists, she's the one who is most driven to solve the Carmine Beast mystery,<ref>“It’s a starting point, if we’re looking for sets of suspects,” Lucy murmured. “Even if we don’t know what it means.”

“Edith but not Matthew?” Verona asked.

“There’d be a lot of questions. The how. How it came together. What roles they had. If anyone outside was involved,” Lucy said. “Choir ritual is tonight.”

“Let’s hope it goes okay,” Avery said.

“For the participants, yeah,” Lucy agreed. “And that we get our chance to ask some questions.” - excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.9</ref> and takes the lead in organizing the investigation.<ref>“I thought you wanted more chances to be a cat and stuff.”

“Duhh!” Verona retorted. “No freaking duhh, yeah, that’s great, but also I wanted to not make you have to be the one who takes charge and manages us two. I’ve been trying to be more focused on the investigation, and keeping tabs on things, and keeping track. I’m not good at the direct stuff, so like… the thing where we don’t tell Alexander our personal info, and stuff.”

“It’s good, Ronnie.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.3</ref> She is often concerned for the safety of her friends, and has appointed herself as their de facto guardian.

Relationships

Verona

Friends since kindergarten.

Avery

Recent friends.

Lucy's Mom

Lucy lives with her widowed mother, Jasmine, who works as a nurse.

Booker

Lucy's older brother Booker is attending university. Lucy looks up to him as a mentor, particularly with advice for socializing.

Paul

Lucy's mother's ex-boyfriend, a white man. He left the Ellingsons after being pressured by his family to discontinue the mixed race relationship. Lucy feels resentment and pain from this abandonment.

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." - 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. - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref> Her eyes are hazel.<ref name="1.8e1"/> She has full lips and her eyebrows have a perpetual frown. She's slightly taller than Avery, with a long neck, slender shoulders, and a "ballerina's frame".<ref "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.
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.
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.
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.

-Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

When she uses the Sight, the whites of her eyes often seem to turn solid red 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. - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.8</ref><ref>Lucy looked over the town, her eyes turning red as she used the Sight. - 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.” - excerpt from Back Away 5.5</ref> 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. - 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. - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.8</ref> depending on her mood.<ref "WB description"/>

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 "WB description"/> 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.
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.
- 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.<ref "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.
“I wanted to dress nice.” - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1 </ref>

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.
Avery handed Lucy a fox mask, painted orange.
“Damn,” Lucy muttered.  “You’re way better at carving than I am, Ronnie.  That deer mask is great.  Sorry yours is…”
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.

- excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref> with white detailing around the eyes and edges.<ref "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.
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.
- excerpt from Lost for Words 1.2</ref> Both hat and cloak are charcoal black.<ref "WB description"/> Her mask is later enchanted to have glowing red eyes she can activate to appear more intimidating.<ref "WB description"/>

Abilities and Art

In addition to the shared abilities and gear of the Kennet Trio, Lucy has her own distinctive Second Sight. She can see watercolour-esque "stains" and blades piercing things which seem to indicate danger, pain, negative emotions, or harm. It can also help her see stained outlines through smoke, darkenss etc.<ref>With the Sight on, she could see the drama, the watercolor stain spreading out into the air and sometimes turning fluorescent, glowing brightly or reflecting the flames.  The darkness was deeper, and faces white.  She could see the blades impaling people.
Two guys and three girls were sitting on the side of the hill, barely

any illumination around them, and the stain that spread around them was
colorful, taking on vague shapes like faces.  The blades that had been 

digging into them before were now pulling away, drifting like they were underwater and swords could float.  They looked up at the night sky, and

because they were on the hillside that wasn’t directly facing Kennet, 

there wasn’t a lot of light pollution to block off the view of the stars.  Even the milky way was visible high above.  Lucy had to turn off

her Sight to see it, before she turned it back on.

[...]
Lucy’s eyes stung with the smoke from the cabin.  She used the Sight, and saw silhouettes like black stains against the smoke, throwing water on the couch that was over the couch.
[...]
Her Sight helped identify stains where the tree branches could scratch and the especially brambly bushes and weeds were.
[...]
To Lucy’s sight, the black cat mask was white, the white rim around the eye sockets like smudged blood.  The stain at Melissa’s foot was black in a way that made the gloom around it seem pale, threads reaching up and into her body, where the threads of stain transfixed her heart, the slashes that extended out like blades unto themselves.
[...]
As the light faded, she used her Sight to scan the surroundings, judging the slopes-
And saw Guilherme, stained a deep green-blue, approaching from the shadows.  He was in his boy form, shirtless, his only real clothing like

a kilt worn over leather pants, and he had a weapon.  A long spear.

- excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.3

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Official art from 1.8 Bonus Material: Inventories.

She's also been recieving one-on-one lessons in combat from Guilherme as his gift to her.

Tools

She generally keeps the ring which turns objects into weapons which Miss gave the trio, and often the elementally-charged lead John Stiles gave them to power it.

She has taken to using the trio's training in glamour to shrink down her magical gear into images which she can store in a locket.

Lucy accepts the Eavesdropper's Earring, constructed from materials given by Verona and Avery, as her Implement.<ref>As Lucy had signed the far side of the line, this other her had signed her side.

Eavesdropper’s Earring, Implement of Lucille Desiree Ellingson. - excerpt from Cutting Class 6.7</ref>

History

Arc 1 - Lost for Words

Lucy and her two friends were brought into the world of practice, in order to uncover the mystery of the death of the Carmine Beast. Her Personal Item was a set of two knives, handmade by her cousin.

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