Lucy

From Candypedia
Lucy
GenderFemale
Age16
BirthdayNovember 7, 1992 (Scorpio)
GradeJunior as of Table for One
SpeciesCat
BreedKhao Manee
Family
OccupationStudent
AffiliationJunior friend group
ResidenceLucy’s house
DebutSimple Pleasures, page 1
November 2, 2009 (2009-11-02)

Blunt, competitive and quick with a kick, Lucy is the white cat at the centre of the Roseville gang and Mike’s oldest friend. She has spent most of her life measuring herself against him, first at fighting games and later in matters of the heart. She often hides affection behind an insult, and partway through sophomore year Mike ends their friendship. She comes back to Roseville High School a semester later with a new houseguest, a lot fewer illusions, and a middle finger saved specially for Mike.

Personality

Lucy wins, and Mike takes it exactly as well as expected.

Lucy’s friends lose to her at fighting games, hear exactly what she thinks of them, and occasionally get kicked. She starts petty contests for the fun of it, sings when she thinks nobody is listening, and treats a compliment on her looks as an act of war. She is superb in a fight and rather worse at being comforted, and the sharp tongue has softened only a little since she came back to Roseville. These days, though, she will occasionally admit that the meanness was hers.

Lucy is depicted early on as an archetypal “tsundere”; she is rude, condescending and often violent to those around her, and Mike gets the worst of it. She fakes a sugary apology in Gaming Rivalry, hugs him, and then thumps him for enjoying it.[1][2]

Sometimes she can explain it herself. In Pick Me Up she tells Paulo that she picks fights with Mike so he won’t notice how nervous she is around him, and that all she ever amounts to is a “burden”.[3] Later, under the tree in Eternal Flame, she is harsher still about it, calling herself “bossy and violent and selfish” and telling Mike he is right to hate her.[4] Knowing all this does not stop the reflex. She still slaps Augustus over his refusal to escape Alejandro in Love Again, and in Line in the Sand she kicks Mike in the stomach in the middle of an argument, then looks rather guilty about it.[5][6][7]

Lucy trusts very few people, and she clings hard to the ones she does. Mike’s account of her childhood in Left Behind has her spending kindergarten alone after the girls and the boys both turned her away, and by third grade deciding she needed nobody at all.[8][9] Mike’s summary is that she lacks trust and that building it takes a long time.[10] Once someone has it, she panics at the thought of losing them. She asks Zachary what she could possibly do to make Mike stay,[11] begs Paulo not to leave her after Mike turns her down,[12] and grabs Mike by the scarf in December even while he is telling her he hates her.[13] She despises this in herself, which is a large part of why Mike’s accusation that she clings to him as the only person who could ever care about her lands so hard.

Even so, she hates being managed. On the Silvershore Islands she snaps “I don’t need a babysitter!” at friends who confront Zachary, insisting he wasn’t going to hurt her,[14] and on the New Year’s rooftop in Ten Seconds to Midnight she demands to know why everyone gets to decide what is best for her.[15] After she comes back to Roseville she says it more angrily. In Double Down she screams at Paulo that none of her friends have ever known what was good for her, while he shouts back that she never talks to any of them.[16][17] Even her mother’s offer to step in on her behalf gets a flat refusal in Tickets Please.[18] She doesn’t refuse every overture, though. She lets Jordan hug her in Double Down and ends up laughing through tears,[19] and she takes her mother up on a girls’ night without a fight.[20]

Lucy makes herself the only target left standing in Confrontation.

For someone so difficult to help, Lucy is startlingly quick to throw herself in front of other people. In Confrontation she takes on Alejandro and Toby with her feet and claws. She tells Daisy to run while she is being choked, and she stands over an unconscious Mike daring the bigger cat to do what he likes to her as long as he leaves Mike alone.[21][22] As a child she jumped into a river after Mike knowing full well she couldn’t swim.[23] In High Expectations she puts herself between Augustus and a furious Paulo.[24] When Alejandro gropes and chokes her at Cinder Station, she cannot fight him off, and her thoughts go straight to Mike.[25]

She dislikes the attention she gets for her looks, and she has since the first day of middle school, when catcalls from older boys left her vowing to be ready for “those creeps” next time.[26] She becomes aggressive when boys hit on her, as Left Behind shows.[27] Mike’s parting shot in December is that she pushes everyone away because she assumes they only want her for her appearance.[13] Her anger at being wanted comes out most clearly in It’s All in the Mind. Daisy accuses her of getting whatever she wants without trying, and Lucy answers that she doesn’t want Augustus, doesn’t want to be with anyone, and “I don’t WANT choice.” When Daisy pushes on about desperate boys, Lucy shouts “I NEVER FUCKING WANTED IT!!” and then stares at her own hands, shocked at herself.[28][29][30] She is deeply suspicious of other people’s motives. It hasn’t killed her vanity, mind you. She happily takes a hundred dollars off Zachary for a song she never sings,[31] and she is genuinely put out when Augustus says she isn’t his type.[32]

Lucy’s bluntness becomes especially harsh when she turns it on herself. At the carnival in After You she could let Paulo keep his happy memory of their encounter before the play; instead she tells him “I USED you!!” and that he never had a chance.[33] She calls herself “not a good person” in the same conversation,[34] a bad person in Burnt Bridges,[35] and claims in Double Down that she only got close to Paulo before the play out of pity.[36] Admitting what she wants is harder. She spent years denying she liked Mike, and even after kissing him the day after Cinder Station she warned him not to get any ideas.[37]

Lucy’s answer to heartbreak is less therapy than tree maintenance.

Funnily enough, she can be a very good comforter, even when the problem is hers too. When Mike is grieving Sandy under the tree, Lucy pats him and tells him he’ll find someone who treats him right. Her practical suggestion is “So kick the tree!”, and she admits she has kicked it a few times herself.[38][39][40] She does mocking impressions of Daisy and Paulo to cheer him up.[41] In Rain Check she sets about fixing Daisy’s Paulo problem with the air of someone defusing a bomb she finds rather stupid.[42]

Lucy cheerfully describes herself as being all about “petty little contests” while refereeing one between Sue and Paulo,[43] and Gaming Rivalry opens with her beating Mike with a move he calls cheap. Once he learns it himself, he wins fifteen times in a row.[44][1]

Anything that gets through to her gets called “corny” first. That is what she calls the ribbon her mother gave her, even while admitting it comforts her,[45] and it is the word she uses on Jordan while crying into his shoulder.[19] She holds Paulo’s candy note to her chest,[46] and she sings well but hides it.[47]

Appearance

Lucy introduces herself as a Khao Manee, though Yashy hears something rather less regal.

Lucy is a Khao Manee, as she announces herself in Show and Tell.[48] Her fur is short, smooth and white, and both of her eyes are blue. She has a large, fluffy tail. Veronica admits real Khao Manee “don’t have the poofy tails”, but the design was locked in long before the breed was chosen.[49] She happens to be deaf in one ear, which she puts down to the genetics of blue-eyed white cats, and she counts herself lucky it is only the one.[48] She and her mother are the only two in their family with two blue eyes. Veronica has explained that the pair of them are the solid-blue-eyed members of an otherwise odd-eyed family, and that the heterochromia was added to Jordan, Sam and their father after the breed was settled.[50][51] Within the world of the comic, Lucy is generally considered very attractive by those around her, despite her often apathetic or even grouchy-looking expression. Her beauty gets her a lot of unwanted attention and she is often hit on by boys, which she doesn’t like, while some girls (such as Daisy) envy her for it.

In earlier parts of the comic Lucy is often drawn angry, grumpy or pouting, while in later parts she is more muted and apathetic. Early on she had short “hair”; in later chapters her hair has grown slightly longer.

Eternal Flame’s winter outfit.

Lucy is largely seen wearing little or no clothing, the exceptions being accessories like backpacks and a pink ribbon around her neck. Her mother tied the ribbon on for her first day of preschool, when Lucy was four, and it has been her trademark throughout the majority of the comic.[45] Lucy’s association with pink extends to her other clothes in the few instances she wears them, including a pink nightshirt at Daisy’s sleepover[52] and a pink shirt under a lavender coat and jeans in one intermission page. She also reuses the blue ballgown from Sue’s play as her Halloween costume in Witch Hunt.[53]

When Lucy comes back to Roseville High School in Love Again, she is wearing the uniform from her other school: a navy-blue sweater over a white shirt, a dark pleated skirt, stockings and shoes.[54] In the latter half of Eternal Flame she wears her winter clothes. These are a red double-breasted coat with a flared, knee-length skirt and dark red lace hem, a ribbon-like red belt at her waist, dark red leggings, and red boots that match the coat. A yellow scarf finishes off the outfit.[55]

Significant events

Childhood

Playtime offers Lucy a particularly lonely kind of freedom.

Most of the comic’s account of Lucy’s early years comes from Mike, who tells Tess the story in Left Behind. Lucy grew up alongside her older brothers in Roseville. Her first friendship outside the family began in preschool, when Mike noticed that she only wanted to play with his toys and told her that was weird for a girl. Lucy didn’t find this amusing at all, and spent the year competing with him at everything to prove she was better.[8] They were split up for kindergarten. Without Mike, Lucy tried the other children and got nowhere; the girls wanted to play princess dolls, which she thought were stupid, and the boys didn’t allow girls. She spent that year alone.[8][56]

First grade reunited them, and though Mike wanted nothing further to do with her, Lucy insisted. She had worked out that he was the closest thing to a friend she had, and in time she began showing him a sincere side he had never seen.[9] Third grade brought Sandy, and Mike’s attention went with her. Rather than relive kindergarten, Lucy resolved to need nobody at all, turned down Sandy’s invitations to play, and had a thoroughly miserable year. It was during this stretch that she found an egg, which hatched into Yashy.[9][26] Sandy moved away at the end of the year and Lucy drifted back to Mike, her plan for independence quietly abandoned.

Middle school began with older boys catcalling her in the hallway, and the sudden attention frightened Lucy. She resolved to be ready for them next time, and fell back on the abrasive, competitive attitude of her preschool days, which is more or less the Lucy of the comic’s early chapters.[26] Along the way she picked up friends anyway: Daisy through Mike, and Paulo, who arrived in fifth grade and who she promptly developed a crush on.[57] When she and Mike were about twelve, a snowball fight ended in her bedroom, where he told her he really liked her and kissed her.[58][59] Lucy shoved him away and told him to go.[60] He never brought it up again. She thinks the afternoon through years later at Daisy’s sleepover in Pillow Talk, and calls herself stupid for it.[61]

Middle school

Lucy settles the argument with a kick.

Gaming Rivalry sets the pattern for the eighth-grade chapters. Lucy trounces Mike at a fighting game and beats him up for suggesting she could pass for a boy.[44][45] Show and Tell has her explaining her deaf ear and her breed to Chirpy.[48]

The year’s big event is Confrontation. After the group takes the wrong train to Cinder Station, Lucy fights Alejandro and Toby off an unconscious Mike until Alejandro overpowers her.[62][22] He drags her by the tail, gropes her and chokes her, and she can neither hear nor call out for help.[25] A drunk Mike eventually fights back, and Lucy helps him beat Alejandro down.[63] After school the next day, she kisses Mike and immediately explains it away.[37]

Freshman year

At Roseville High School Lucy’s history starts coming out in pieces. Mike gives Tess the childhood account in Left Behind, and a game of Truth or Dare in Flirting with Disaster forces her to admit that her first crush was Paulo.[57] Troubled Waters explains her terror of water through a flashback to the day she dove into a river after Mike, unable to swim, and nearly drowned. Paulo rescued them both,[64] and afterwards Mike promised never to let her risk herself like that again.[65][23] Sue joins their lunch table through Lucy during the year.[66] The summer trip to the Silvershore Islands brings a stranger, Zachary, who Lucy cons out of a hundred dollars. He later gets her to admit out loud that she loves Mike.[31][11]

Sophomore year

Lucy works up to honesty. She explains her nerves to Paulo in Pick Me Up,[3] and in A Distance Apart she tells Mike she loves him and is turned down, because he has Sandy now.[67] She spends the night at Paulo’s in Another Shoulder, and Sue drafts her into the lead role of her play. Her birthday in Pillow Talk brings a locker full of Paulo’s candy,[46] and at the family dinner in Dinner Time her mother’s praise of Mike gets a glass slammed on the table.[68]

Mike’s cruelty leaves Lucy with nowhere to hide from what she already believes about herself.

Mike ends the friendship in December, the moment Lucy tells him she is happy that Sandy is coming to visit, and what he says to her leaves her physically sick.[69][70] On New Year’s Eve in Ten Seconds to Midnight, Augustus pulls her back from the edge of a rooftop, and she insists she wasn’t going to jump; back at home, her family is deciding to move her to another school.[71] The play goes ahead in January in Curtain Call. Mike apologises afterwards and offers to start over, and Lucy agrees, having already arranged to leave town the next day.[72][73] A music agent tells her she could be the next big thing, and she answers “No.”[74]

After the play, Lucy jumped from the roof of the Old furniture place along Northern Highway. Augustus found her bleeding in the snow and called an ambulance.[75][76] She survived and spent time in a psychiatric ward,[77] then finished the year at a different school, where she nearly failed and had to attend summer school.[78] Her friends learned she was gone from a teacher’s announcement in Breaking Up. During her absence she briefly visits Paulo in hospital in Total Recall.[79]

Junior year

Lucy returns to Roseville High in Love Again planning to keep to herself. Instead she finds Augustus still at the school, tells her family that he was the one who saved her life, and sees her father offer him the guest room.[80][81] Unpacking Day, exclusive to Volume Six, follows with a fight between Lucy and her mother over the transfer. In Unspoken Rule Mike follows her home, and she tells him she no longer likes him.[82] She agrees to the carnival with Paulo in the same chapter, then spends After You giving him a harsh account of their encounter before she left. By High Expectations she has cut him off entirely.[83]

In Double Down, Lucy shouts back at Paulo about why she disappeared.

The autumn of junior year is a rough one. Daisy’s jealousy over Augustus boils over in It’s All in the Mind,[29] and on her birthday in Unwanted Gift David hands her a “surrogate Mike present” that she throws across the room into the bin, grinning that it was “pretty sick”, then retrieves. Mike calls her immature, and she reminds him they aren’t friends.[84][85] In Eternal Flame, that winter, a freshly dumped Mike finds Lucy under their old tree, and the evening culminates in a kiss; the next day he is back with Sandy.[86][87] She falls apart on Augustus in Burnt Bridges,[88] and in Double Down a fight with Paulo ends with her shouting that she disappeared because she tried to kill herself.[89]

At the arcade in Link Play, before New Year’s, Lucy reminds Mike of his promise to stop speaking to her.[90] The new year does not make everything easier. Recurring nightmares put her friends alongside Alejandro as pursuers, even while she busies herself pushing Daisy and Paulo together in Rain Check.[91][92][93] Line in the Sand has her say her side of the Mike business to his face, and it ends with her back at the old lunch table. When Sue asks whether she’ll be returning to the oval tomorrow, Lucy watches Augustus laughing with the seniors and decides she is “here to stay”.[94] Tickets Please finds her refereeing Sue and Paulo’s petty contests by day and agreeing to a girls’ night with her mother by evening. It closes, less comfortably, with Lucy staring at Augustus’s unanswered phone.[43][20][95][96]

Major relationships

Mike

At twelve, Lucy pushes Mike away mid-kiss.

Lucy and Mike have been each other’s yardstick since they were four, and for most of that time neither of them could admit it was anything more. By Mike’s own telling in Left Behind, she spent preschool competing with him out of spite. When she finally told him that everyone was dumb but they were friends anyway, it was “the first time I really saw her smile”.[9] The friendship that grew from there ran on games and insults, and when she kisses him after school the day after Confrontation she frames it as a debt paid: “Now we’re even.”[37]

Honesty came late, but it did not save the friendship. In A Distance Apart she tells him the names she calls him aren’t really what she thinks, and then that she loves him. His answer is that he has Sandy now, and Lucy, crying and smiling, says she just wanted to be honest for once.[97][98] His resentment bursts in December. He tells her he has never been her friend, that Paulo is her rebound, and that she is a parasite nobody could love for who she is.[99][100][70][13]

Lucy draws the line, but Sandy is still standing between them.

After her return the roles flip, and Lucy is the one setting the terms. As he follows her home in Unspoken Rule she tells him that where Sandy is concerned it is only ever about Sandy, friend or not, then signs off with a smile, a raised middle finger and “I don’t fucking like you anymore, okay?”[101][102][82] The line holds until Eternal Flame, when he finds her under the tree after being dumped. She tells him he is right to hate her, then comforts him anyway. He admits he chose his first blue scarf thinking of her eyes. She kisses him, shoves him away, and orders him to take a cold shower and sleep on it, and as she walks off she tells him she always thought the scarf was about Sandy’s ribbon.[4][103][104][55] He is back with Sandy the next day.[86]

Since then, Lucy has insisted that he keep his distance.[105] He promises Augustus he will never speak to her again, and at the arcade in Link Play Lucy holds him to it.[90] Line in the Sand is where she lays out her side in front of everyone. Lucy has tried to stop Augustus provoking Mike; Mike pushes him to the ground, then claims Lucy strung him along.[106][107] She kicks Mike in the stomach. She argues that his letters to Sandy never stopped, recalls his childhood kiss, and sobs that he knew he was all she had.[6][7][108][109]

As of Tickets Please he is staying away as he said he would, and she tells her mother she can handle it.[18] Veronica’s Art Fight sheet has Lucy put it more briefly: against her better judgement, she still loves him.[110]

Paulo

Paulo is the boy Lucy runs to when Mike fails her, and for years he was happy to be exactly that. She had her first crush on him, as she admits under Truth or Dare in Flirting with Disaster: the new kid in fifth grade was, not to massage his ego, pretty cute.[57] His pickup lines mostly earned him a punch,[27] but he kept at it and slowly became the friend she could be honest with about Mike.[3][111]

Paulo holds back even as Lucy begs him to stay in Another Shoulder.

After Mike turns her down she spends the night at his house in Another Shoulder, begging him to stay because she can’t lose him too. He holds back rather than do something she will regret, and she wakes up beside him the next morning.[12][112] On the way to school she thanks him for looking out for her; he reminds her she is talking to him, not Mike, and he doesn’t “DO awkward”.[113] The candy note in her locker that birthday reads “You still got me”.[46]

Once she is back for junior year, Lucy gives him a much harsher account of their encounter before the play, and it nearly finishes them. At the carnival in After You she says she had agreed to transfer weeks before the play and chosen to leave the day after. She was only tiding him over, she says, and when he keeps reaching for her she screams that she used him and he never had a chance.[73][34][33] In High Expectations she tells him to take a hint, and he says he loves her. His parting shot, asking why she didn’t just stay gone, leaves her shocked and then sorry.[83][114] In Double Down Paulo presses on after she asks him not to discuss it, needling her about sleeping next to Daisy’s stalker and vanishing for months. She screams back that she vanished because she tried to kill herself.[89][17] She leaves him with a slap and the claim that their encounter before the play was only out of pity.[115][36]

They do find their way back to friendship. In Rain Check, Paulo apologises at Burger-Tron while Lucy is trying to steer Daisy toward him.[116][42] She later congratulates the couple, though Veronica notes that Lucy still finds him attractive.[117] At lunch in Line in the Sand she tells him to go and console Mike; when he starts to leave, she reminds him of the time he said “Say the word”. He sits back down and announces that Lucy is what’s important right now.[118][119] By Tickets Please she is refereeing his squabbles with Sue and calling him a nerd.[43][120]

Augustus

After saving her life, Augustus gets a tearful reunion before Lucy remembers to be angry.

Lucy and Augustus start as two people who dislike each other on principle, and end up sharing a house after he saves her life. In Pillow Talk she demands to know whether he was hitting on her. She is relieved to hear she isn’t his type, and then wants to know what’s wrong with her. The sparring ends with her sizing him up as “either Abbey or a rapist” and the two of them agreeing in unison that they don’t like each other.[32][121][122] She keeps drifting into his company regardless. On New Year’s Eve in Ten Seconds to Midnight he yanks her back from the edge of a rooftop; she insists she wasn’t going to jump and asks why he cares, and he says he doesn’t, but knows people who would.[71][15]

Weeks later he is the one who finds her, and she spends junior year paying him back in her own fashion. After the play Lucy jumped from the old furniture store on Northern Highway, and Augustus found her bleeding in the snow, calling an ambulance while she begged him not to call “him”.[75][123][76] On her return in Love Again she embraces him in tears and then slaps him. She rounds on him for letting that manchild control him and promises to fight for him this year.[5][124] That evening she tells her family he saved her life. Her father offers him the guest room;[80] Lucy adds conditions: no more skipping until graduation, and “Daisy’s STILL off-limits.”[81] She frames it to Sue as a debt she can’t yet repay in full,[125] and her Art Fight blurb says the same thing in one breath: he saved her life, so she owes him.[110]

In Burnt Bridges, Lucy tries to kiss him after Mike goes back to Sandy. He refuses and tells her to have some respect for herself. She spirals into calling herself a bad person who is easy to forget, and he answers “Shut up. I love you. And I mean it.” before kissing her forehead and adding that he doesn’t love her like that.[35][126] She does not want his life to revolve around her. She tells him in Double Down not to let her stand in the way of making friends,[127] snaps in Seeing Stars that he’s boring now and she misses when he was a creep,[128] and is glad in Line in the Sand to see him laughing with the seniors.[94] In Made Fresh she encourages him to take his college offer seriously.[129] By Tickets Please her mother is calling him “Auggie” and trusting him with the house.[20]

Carol

Carol tied the pink ribbon on Lucy’s neck for her first day of preschool, with a promise that it would remind her how much she was loved whenever she felt lonely, and Lucy has worn it ever since.[45] The two of them rub along in bickering fashion for most of the comic, and Carol’s taste in boys is a recurring source of friction. Over dinner in Dinner Time she pronounces Mike a nice boy who respects Lucy and Paulo a doubtful prospect, and reminds Lucy not to take someone like Mike for granted, at almost exactly the moment Mike is freezing her out.[130][68] Carol later decided with Sam and Jordan to move her to another school, a decision that came together on the New Year’s Eve Lucy spent on a rooftop.

Carol’s concern is genuine, but Lucy hears another question she cannot bear.

The fight over that decision comes in Unpacking Day, a Volume Six exclusive set shortly after her return to Roseville High. Carrying boxes together, Carol asks about Lucy’s friends and gets “Friends are the problem.”[131] Lucy says she doesn’t care about Michael anymore and wants everyone to leave her alone, and Carol tells her that isn’t normal. Lucy shoots back that she’s sorry she can’t be Jordan and that Sam never had friends either, and Carol answers that Sam didn’t end up in a “PSYCH WARD”.[132][77] Lucy says that maybe she should have died if she’s going to be treated like a patient forever, and Carol calls her selfish.[133]

The two of them only make peace once they have both shouted themselves out. Lucy accuses her mother of shipping her own daughter away because she couldn’t deal with the problem, and Carol breaks down, apologises, and assures Lucy she isn’t a problem. She says it was the hardest decision she ever made.[133][134] Lucy says she is sorry, and Carol asks whether she can at least be her friend, baiting the offer with embarrassing stories about Michael that her old friend Ellen has shared. Lucy finds she can’t refuse.[135] Carol is still walking on eggshells in Tickets Please, where she proposes a girls’ night “If you don’t still hate me”, gets a weary “Mom.” for her trouble, and apologises. Lucy says it sounds great.[20]

Minor relationships

Jordan and Sam

Lucy’s two brothers, Jordan and Sam, are especially protective of her when it comes to the boys in her life. Sam punched Mike during a childhood snowball fight,[136] and Jordan threw Paulo out of the house in Piece of Cake.[137] Jordan still insists on a Halloween chaperone in junior year, though Augustus goes in his place.[138] Concerned for Lucy’s safety, her family decided to transfer her to another school. They eventually allowed her return to Roseville High, albeit still very concerned about her well-being. Lucy gives back as good as she gets, mocking Jordan’s dating and squabbling with him at dinner. The softer side comes out in Double Down, when Jordan overhears her telling Augustus not to let her get in his way and tells her “You’re NEVER in the way, sis”, inviting her to be as needy as she likes. She laughs, cries, and tells him she’d forgotten how corny he can be.[127][19] Later on she is the one consoling him over his college rejection letters.[139]

Daisy

Lucy and Daisy have been rivals for Mike since middle school, and Daisy has envied Lucy’s looks for about as long. Lucy’s way of caring for her is to issue warnings: about using Abbey as a fallback,[140] and about Augustus during the sleepover in Pillow Talk. The grievance finally comes out in It’s All in the Mind, when Daisy, jealous over Augustus, accuses Lucy of always getting what she wants. Lucy replies that she doesn’t want Augustus, doesn’t want anyone and doesn’t want the choice, and the argument ends in a scream that frightens them both. She also admits she still can’t forgive Augustus for what he did to Daisy, even while housing him.[28][29][125]

Even so, Lucy comes back from her semester away with a birthday present for Daisy, and in Rain Check she takes charge of Daisy’s love life. She tells Daisy she expected her to go all gushy and make a fool of herself, “like you used to do with Mike”, and explains that she is trying to solve the stupid problem where Daisy thinks Paulo hates her while Paulo worries the reverse.[93][42] Daisy blurts out that she loves him, and Lucy agrees to keep the resulting couple’s secret afterwards.[117]

Sue

Sue’s familiar nickname comes with a pointed question.

Sue joined the lunch table through Lucy in freshman year and later cast her as the lead in her play. Lucy teases her by wearing the play’s ballgown for their Halloween outing in Witch Hunt; Sue is horrified, until they both start laughing.[141] When Lucy admits she misses her pets, Sue assures her she isn’t alone.[142] Sue calls her “Elle”, and in Line in the Sand asks whether she’ll be back at the oval tomorrow. Lucy says she is staying put.[94]

Zachary

Zachary’s attempt to help is somewhat appreciated.

A stranger on the Silvershore Islands who can’t swim and wants to hear Lucy sing, Zachary gets the full Lucy treatment in a single week. She accepts a hundred dollars for a song in Arrival and strolls off with the money, remarking “I can’t believe you fell for that.”[31] In Return he tells her that Mike treats her like a chore and calls their friendship a one-way obsession. She calls him nosy, then crumbles, asking whether he really thinks Mike will leave her and what she could do to make him stay, before finishing with “Dammit, Zach, I love him..”[11] She later admits he was right.[143]

Yashy, Chirpy and Lily

Lucy has three pets, Lily, Yashy, and Chirpy, and she is deeply affectionate with them; Mike’s view is that all her trust went to the egg she found in third grade.[26] Lily is a hedgehog who assumes a very motherly role toward Lucy and the other pets, offering life advice throughout Lucy’s different experiences. Yashy is more excitable and often accompanies Lucy, including to school.[66] She would be incredibly defensive and protective of Lucy, who she sees as a mother; she calls her “Mommy”, rides on her head using the ribbon as reins, and needles her about how boyish she is.[44][2] Chirpy is Lucy’s bird, and the one Lucy explains her deaf ear to in Show and Tell.[48] Yashy stays with Lucy’s aunt when Lucy comes home, still too upset to see Mike again; Blur stays with her, and Lily looks after them.[142] Chirpy has found her mother, and Lucy reports that Chirpy has a twin brother and was apparently named Amber.[144]

Sandy

Lucy and Sandy have never been friends, though not for want of Sandy trying; Lucy turned down her invitations in third grade and has resented her ever since.[26] Lucy resents her mostly on Mike’s account. She tells him in Unspoken Rule that where Sandy is involved “it’s only ever about her”,[102] calls Sandy the bitch whose number he should block after the breakup,[41] and, when he goes straight back to her, sobs to Augustus that Sandy will never go away.[88] Her Art Fight blurb wishes, politely, that Sandy had never existed.[110]

Quotes

It’s kinda corny, I know, but it IS comforting. Lucy, on her mother’s ribbon in Gaming Rivalry

Oh, you think I’m SCARED? I don’t care what you do with me! Just leave him ALONE! Lucy, standing over Mike in Confrontation

Dammit, Zach, I love him.. Lucy, to Zachary in Return

You’re either Abbey or a rapist. Lucy, sizing up Augustus in Pillow Talk

I don’t fucking like you anymore, okay? Lucy, to Mike, with a smile and a finger, in Unspoken Rule

Trivia

  • Veronica has said Lucy’s breed was decided long after the character was created, and that real Khao Manee lack her poofy tail. She also notes that Lucy’s and Mike’s breeds, Khao Manee and Korat, both come from Thailand, which she calls “lmao meant to be”.[49]
  • Lucy has had a figurine since the 2012 Starting Over Kickstarter.[145] Her plush was already available by the 2017 Volume Five campaign, which also offered a Lucy acrylic charm.[146]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 2: Gaming Rivalry, page 3
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 2: Gaming Rivalry, page 4
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 47: Pick Me Up, page 7
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 46
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 22
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 23
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 24
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chapter 26: Left Behind, page 2
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Chapter 26: Left Behind, page 4
  10. ↑ Chapter 26: Left Behind, page 6
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Chapter 45: Return, page 7
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 52: Another Shoulder, page 11
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Chapter 68: December, page 31
  14. ↑ Chapter 42: Arrival, page 26
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 73: Ten Seconds to Midnight, page 17
  16. ↑ Chapter 114: Double Down, page 46
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Chapter 114: Double Down, page 48
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 33
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Chapter 114: Double Down, page 17
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 34
  21. ↑ Chapter 14: Confrontation, page 18
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Chapter 14: Confrontation, page 19
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Chapter 30: Troubled Waters, page 11
  24. ↑ Chapter 100: High Expectations, page 23
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Chapter 14: Confrontation, page 21
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 Chapter 26: Left Behind, page 5
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Chapter 26: Left Behind, page 1
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Chapter 103: It’s All in the Mind, page 16
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Chapter 103: It’s All in the Mind, page 17
  30. ↑ Chapter 103: It’s All in the Mind, page 18
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Chapter 42: Arrival, page 30
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 58
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Chapter 97: After You, page 23
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Chapter 97: After You, page 22
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Chapter 111: Burnt Bridges, page 25
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Chapter 114: Double Down, page 50
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 Chapter 14: Confrontation, page 30
  38. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 47
  39. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 48
  40. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 49
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 52
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 Chapter 122: Rain Check, page 12
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 18
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 Chapter 2: Gaming Rivalry, page 1
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 Chapter 2: Gaming Rivalry, page 2
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 1
  47. ↑ Chapter 42: Arrival, page 8
  48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 Chapter 9: Show and Tell, page 2
  49. ↑ 49.0 49.1 “Ask response on whether Lucy is a Turkish Angora”. 2017-01-20.
  50. ↑ “Ask response on Lucy’s family and deafness”. 2017-06-01.
  51. ↑ “Ask response on eye colours in Lucy’s family”. 2017-11-21.
  52. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 12
  53. ↑ Chapter 105: Witch Hunt, page 4
  54. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 6
  55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 59
  56. ↑ Chapter 26: Left Behind, page 3
  57. ↑ 57.0 57.1 57.2 Chapter 27: Flirting with Disaster, page 2
  58. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 47
  59. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 48
  60. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 49
  61. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 51
  62. ↑ Chapter 14: Confrontation, page 14
  63. ↑ Chapter 14: Confrontation, page 25
  64. ↑ Chapter 30: Troubled Waters, page 8
  65. ↑ Chapter 30: Troubled Waters, page 10
  66. ↑ 66.0 66.1 Out of the Frame, page 4
  67. ↑ Chapter 50: A Distance Apart, page 12
  68. ↑ 68.0 68.1 Chapter 65: Dinner Time, page 14
  69. ↑ Chapter 68: December, page 22
  70. ↑ 70.0 70.1 Chapter 68: December, page 30
  71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 Chapter 73: Ten Seconds to Midnight, page 16
  72. ↑ Chapter 74: Curtain Call, page 36
  73. ↑ 73.0 73.1 Chapter 97: After You, page 20
  74. ↑ Chapter 75: Breaking Up, page 2
  75. ↑ 75.0 75.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 39
  76. ↑ 76.0 76.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 41
  77. ↑ 77.0 77.1 Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six, “Unpacking Day”, page 5
  78. ↑ Chapter 103: It’s All in the Mind, page 9
  79. ↑ Chapter 85: Total Recall, page 29
  80. ↑ 80.0 80.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 45
  81. ↑ 81.0 81.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 48
  82. ↑ 82.0 82.1 Chapter 96: Unspoken Rule, page 26
  83. ↑ 83.0 83.1 Chapter 100: High Expectations, page 24
  84. ↑ Chapter 107: Unwanted Gift, page 5
  85. ↑ Chapter 107: Unwanted Gift, page 6
  86. ↑ 86.0 86.1 Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 64
  87. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 56
  88. ↑ 88.0 88.1 Chapter 111: Burnt Bridges, page 26
  89. ↑ 89.0 89.1 Chapter 114: Double Down, page 47
  90. ↑ 90.0 90.1 Chapter 116: Link Play, page 24
  91. ↑ Chapter 120: Seeing Stars, page 12
  92. ↑ Chapter 125: First-Degree Burn, page 4
  93. ↑ 93.0 93.1 Chapter 122: Rain Check, page 11
  94. ↑ 94.0 94.1 94.2 Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 44
  95. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 35
  96. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 36
  97. ↑ Chapter 50: A Distance Apart, page 11
  98. ↑ Chapter 50: A Distance Apart, page 13
  99. ↑ Chapter 68: December, page 23
  100. ↑ Chapter 68: December, page 25
  101. ↑ Chapter 96: Unspoken Rule, page 24
  102. ↑ 102.0 102.1 Chapter 96: Unspoken Rule, page 25
  103. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 54
  104. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 57
  105. ↑ Chapter 110: Eternal Flame, page 67
  106. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 15
  107. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 21
  108. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 25
  109. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 26
  110. ↑ 110.0 110.1 110.2 Veronica. “Lucy’s Art Fight connection blurbs”. Art Fight. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
  111. ↑ Chapter 47: Pick Me Up, page 8
  112. ↑ Chapter 52: Another Shoulder, page 13
  113. ↑ Chapter 52: Another Shoulder, page 15
  114. ↑ Chapter 100: High Expectations, page 26
  115. ↑ Chapter 114: Double Down, page 49
  116. ↑ Chapter 122: Rain Check, page 10
  117. ↑ 117.0 117.1 Chapter 123: Third Wheel, page 4
  118. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 42
  119. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 43
  120. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 26
  121. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 59
  122. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 60
  123. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 40
  124. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 23
  125. ↑ 125.0 125.1 Chapter 103: It’s All in the Mind, page 19
  126. ↑ Chapter 111: Burnt Bridges, page 27
  127. ↑ 127.0 127.1 Chapter 114: Double Down, page 16
  128. ↑ Chapter 120: Seeing Stars, page 16
  129. ↑ Chapter 128: Made Fresh, page 41
  130. ↑ Chapter 65: Dinner Time, page 13
  131. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six, “Unpacking Day”, page 3
  132. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six, “Unpacking Day”, page 4
  133. ↑ 133.0 133.1 Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six, “Unpacking Day”, page 6
  134. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six, “Unpacking Day”, page 7
  135. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six, “Unpacking Day”, page 8
  136. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 43
  137. ↑ Chapter 70: Piece of Cake, page 7
  138. ↑ Chapter 105: Witch Hunt, page 3
  139. ↑ Chapter 128: Made Fresh, page 40
  140. ↑ Chapter 46: New Beginnings, page 13
  141. ↑ Chapter 105: Witch Hunt, page 5
  142. ↑ 142.0 142.1 Chapter 105: Witch Hunt, page 8
  143. ↑ Chapter 51: Unrequited, page 12
  144. ↑ Chapter 105: Witch Hunt, page 7
  145. ↑ “Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Starting Over”. Kickstarter. 2012-08-23.
  146. ↑ “Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Five”. Kickstarter. 2017-02-06.
Retrieved from “https://wiki.bittersweetcandybowl.com/index.php?title=Lucy&oldid=8033”