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/Description

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> For unknown reasons, 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>

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> 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 and cloak.

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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