Lucy Kuo

Lucy Kuo is one the two tritagonist (also with Nix) in the 2011 video game Infamous 2, and a minor character in the inFamous comic. 
An agent of the NSA, Kuo works with Cole MacGrath in trying to stop the Beast before the conduit could potentially destroy the world. During the journey, Lucy's conduit gene is activated from Joseph Bertrand III's experiments, gifting her the ability to control and manipulate ice at will.
She is voiced by Dawn Olivieri.
== Biography ==
===Background===
Not much is known about Lucy Kuo's past, but she was born with the conduit and would become an agent for the National Security Agency when she became an adult. The organization would assign her and John White to infiltrate the First Sons, with Kuo being sent to New Marias as John was sent to Empire City. In New Marias, Kuo became acquainted with the First Sons scientist Sebastian Wolfe, and the two would remain with contact with John on Kessler and Joseph Bertrand III's activities. Following John's supposed demise upon the destruction of the Ray Sphere, Kuo decided to contact the conduit Cole MacGrath directly.
===inFamous Comic===
At the end of the comic, Kuo contacts Cole after he stopped the conduit Dave Warner, an experiment of Kessler's experiments with the Ray Sphere. Though shown in the opening of inFamous 2, Kuo managed to convince Cole and his friend Zeke Dunbar to meet with Wolfe in New Marias to stop the Beast.
===inFamous 2===
When preparing to leave Empire City on their ship, the Beast arrives, defeating Cole and annihilating the city. Kuo and Zeke rescue Cole and leave for New Marias, where they encounter a lockdown by the Militia in effect. After getting through the lockdown, the trio enter the city and reach Dr. Wolfe, whom explains that the Militia stole a blast core. Kuo works with Cole to find it, splitting up before learning that Wolfe was kidnapped by the Militia after MacGrath was rendered unconscious from gaining power. She then tasks Cole in find dead drops to find his location, but also assigns him to confront Bertrand to get information.
Failing to get information from him, Kuo instead has Cole follow a Bertrand's interrogator, which leads them to a secret location where Wolfe is being held. When escaping the area with the doctor, the group are ambushed by the Militia in their truck, resulting in Kuo being captured and Wolfe dying in the process. Taken to a secret facility, Lucy is experimented on by Bertrand, causing her conduit gene to activate. He also siphons her blood to create the Vermaak 88, a group of soldiers who are given Kuo's ice powers via a transfer device. Later on, Cole is able to find her location and rescue her, but also releases the Vermaak from their pods when Kuo is removed from the machine. 
Taken to a place to rest from her injuries, Kuo is left traumatized from the incident, having lost her job in the NSA as she has become a conduit herself. Meeting with MacGrath at a local cemetery, Lucy is assisted by the conduit in learning how to control his powers. When learning of the location of the transfer device, Kuo advises Cole to destroy it, but the conduit Nix wants to utilize to gain more power. Cole then takes Lucy's advice to get the help of the rebels to gain their support in assaulting the fort. Upon finding the device, MacGrath decides to use it, and it's left up to the player to either choose Kuo or Nix on whom he changes powers with.
Following the assault on the fort, Kuo and the group meet up to discuss Bertrand, and Nix reveals that Joseph has been making the Corrupted from humans. Seeing the opportunity to expose Bertrand's crimes and true nature to the public, Lucy advises Cole to gather evidence so that she can broadcast it. Once his reputation is tarnished, Kuo meets with Cole and Nix in fighting against Bertrand in his monstrous form, defeating New Marias' ruler. Following Bertrand's defeat, Kuo and the group have a final meeting where MacGrath reveals that John is the Beast, and they discover that the RFI will kill all conduits upon activation. Despite the RFI saving the world from the plague, Kuo is against it, fearing death and decides to side with John on his plan to save all conduits despite the results killing innocents.
===Endings===
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Good Ending = Cole decides to use the RFI to save the world, much to Lucy's anger, who attempts to steal the inhibitor before running away. Meeting with John, Kuo assists him in attacking New Marias and briefly battles Cole before she is subdued when Nix sacrifices herself to stop the Beast. Before MacGrath activates the RFI, Kuo approaches him, admitting that she was wrong to betray the group that she is afraid to die. Telling him to activate the inhibitor, Cole proceeds to do so, causing the death of anyone with the conduit gene, but saving mankind from the Beast's rampage.
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Evil Ending = Cole decides to join John in his plans, and Lucy follows suit as Zeke and Nix steal the RFI and leave the area. Kuo then witnessed MacGrath kill his former allies and destroy the RFI, and sees John transfer his power into Cole since he didn't want to live anymore. Cole then uses his power to activate all conduits at the cost of many in New Marias, and Kuo remains at his side as he goes across the world to do so.
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==Gallery==
Zeke41.png|Kuo in the opening of InFamous 2.
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Zeke11.png|Kuo with Zeke.
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Zeke23.png|Kuo with Cole, Zeke, and Nix.
==Trivia==
*Kuo and Nix's dislike of each other and clashing personalities are best represented by their powers over Ice and Fire respectfully.
*This further explains her personality, as she is cold and focused towards the goal (such as her mindset as an agent), but is also quite brittle (as she supports John's plan so she could survive).
*It is revealed in a Dead Drop that Kuo was originally planning to seduce Cole to come to New Marais, but dropped this idea once it was quite clear to her that Cole was still in mourning over Trish Dailey's death.
*Kuo and Nix's scenes with Cole is similar to the Wolverine-Cyclops-Jean Grey love triangle from the X-Men comics, however, unlike them, there are two females, and one male.
*In the InFamous DC Comics, Kuo tells Cole she worked with John White in the NSA, yet in InFamous 2, Cole asks who her contact was in Empire City, to which she tells him again, that it's John, and Cole reacts surprised to this.
*Kuo is available in UGC only in her non-conduit form.
*Early trailers featuring Kuo's rescue showed her escaping the plantation in her agent attire, while in-game she wears the outfit seen in the cutscene.
*Kuo's forearms appear as normal in the Evil Karma comic cutscene. This is probably an oversight by the developers.
*Despite her dislike of Nix, Kuo was the first to comfort Nix after Bertrand's death and her sudden outburst.
*Oddly, in gameplay, before being captured, she appears to have simple short black hair, but in cutscenes appears in a bun. During the "Breakout" cutscene when you save her, she has the bun, but as soon as the mission continues, her hair is parted as it is for the rest of the game.
*After her rescue, Zeke states she had taken three sleeping pills before finally falling asleep, with that estimation she should be in that state for at least 7 – 9 hours. However, she is awake and had enough time to figure out her powers to the point she could make it half way across the city and meet Cole in the cemetery in less than three hours. This could be contributed to, as a Conduit medicines effect her differently.
*When Cole fights her in the Good Final mission, she fights exactly like a Ice Heavy from the Vermaak 88.
*In addition, should she be knocked down, Cole may Pulse Heal her, restoring her to full health. She cannot be drained nor can she be restrained.
*Her first name, Lucy, is rarely used to address her.
*She appears as an unlockable icon in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
*Kuo although being a very well received by reviewers and critics, she has received disdain from some fans due to her uptight nature compared to Nix's personality, and due to her betrayal and selfishness at the end of the Good Karma route.
*During Storming The Fort, Kuo states if Cole takes Nix's powers, she would have to "hunt him down like a criminal." Yet in Conduit, Not Human, she states she isn't an NSA agent anymore. Either she stated she would arrest him to try and scare him, or she lied when she stated she wasn't an agent.
*Oddly, after becoming a Conduit, Lucy can be seen using her Agent animations by firing an invisible gun.
*Also, after being rescued, Lucy states she has read most, if not all of Wolfe's notes on Conduits, yet it's hinted all of his research was destroyed when his lab was blown up by the Militia. Either Wolfe had back ups hidden somewhere, or this is a simple writing error.
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