Lucy

*Lucy takes the long way home*

*Meets me in a field of stone*

― Jeremy Messersmith - "A Girl, A Boy, And A Graveyard"

*Living like you're dying*

*Isn't living at all*

*Give me your cold hands*

*Put them on my heart*

*Raise a glass to everyone*

*Who thinks they'll never make it through*

*This life*

*To live a brand new start*

― Ingrid Michaelson - "Afterlife"

Orphan | Arete 2

Threading, Gelicide

Frost Touched. Natural Channel. Soultwinned.

Conduit. Oracle in the Making.

Previous Residences: New York, NY | Denver, CO (??)

Current Residence: ???

Occupation: Performer

History: Played on Denver for a bit where she did some pretty rad stuff.

Notes: If I were to play Lucy again I'd like to do it with a slight attitude adjustment. She'd still be as kind as ever because I like that juxtaposed with her corpse-cold touch, she would just be, I dunno, a little different. It'd be weird to play her without her twin soul, though, so unless Jess is down she'll be staying here In Memorium. If I ever get the itch to revisit the concept again I'll just rewrite her traits into someone else, possibly a dude for extra distance from the source? Who knows. I have no solid plans I'm just farting around with the wiki.

**Avatar**

*“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”*
*― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief*

Ever since the dawn of creation, humans have come up with the same stories to explain the turn of the seasons. The most popular one to survive the centuries is the story of Persephone. Variations of a theme, they center largely around a woman going into the Underworld, leaving winter in her wake, and eventually reemerging, bringing with her the spring. The part of these "myths" that has been forgotten is that the woman was not alone. She had two handmaidens, two women who stood guard over the gate into the Underworld kingdom. One welcomed her, and so welcomed the night and the winter. The other welcomed her in the other direction, and so welcomed the day and the summer months. Their names have been forgotten, but their purpose is the same.

Dusk watches over the gates to the dead. She guides them, and she speaks for them, and she asks that Lucy do the same in her stead on the mortal planes.

**Odds and Ends**

Equipment:

*Specialty Foci*

Corr: Silver bowl

Entropy: Silver sewing scissors (used in conjunction with thread, though the thread itself is not special)

Spirit: Silver lantern

Time: Hand carved rune stones

*General Foci*

Common items that could replace the above, needle & thread, silver incense burner

*General Equipment Things*

Sewing kit, box cutter, mp3 player, guitar, the most magnificent cat

*Specialties:*

Manipulation: Persuasive

Art: Ballet Dancing (specialty), also sings

**Paradigm**: Closed, can only co-cast with her soultwin.

Lucy doesn't think of herself as Awakened. The Mages and the Technocrats and the rest, they're one thing. She's something else. A conduit, a vessel, Lucy believes she is a tool for the use of a goddess guardian of the Afterlife. Her purpose is to act as guide to the lost, to be the Speaker for the Dead.

**Merits**:

Natural Channel: Lucy, as a guardian to the Underworld and Speaker for the Dead and the Oracle of the Dusk Handmaiden, touched by her Avatar who works through her, she's as close to a walking gateway through the Gauntlet as one can get.

Twin Soul: Delilah *[a Jess character]*

**Flaws**:

Touch of Frost: During her "Awakening" Lucy had a vision, or maybe it was reality, wherein she met her Avatar. The Dusk Handmaiden touched her, passing to her secrets she can't remember and which will (hopefully) be revealed to her in time as she becomes more worthy of the goddess. The Handmaiden's touch was the cold of the grave, and chilled her to her core. Ever since that night she's radiated that cold clammy chill.