Lucy (Remake)

## Appearances

**Lucy** is a character born after the outbreak in *Strain Zero*. She is a mysterious girl who arrives in Montana under strange circumstances.

## Overview

### Personality & Traits

Lucy is a quiet, reserved, deeply traumatised young woman who speaks little and reveals even less. While deeply afraid of being alone, she is more afraid of the people around her getting hurt, especially if they have helped her and shown kindness. While not mute, she speaks only to certain people and refuses to answer certain questions, including where she is from and who her parents are.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season 7: Remake

Very little is known about Lucy's early life. She was born in 2011-2012 as a citizen of the Republic of Greater California, which she fled at aged 11-12 sometime in late 2023. On her tail was the creature known as Nines that tracked her over hundreds of miles of wilderness towards the Commonwealth.

#### "A New Beginning"

Lucy runs wildly through the forest, constantly looking around for her unseen pursuer. She trips and falls but manages to get back to her feet before her assailant can grab her. She takes shelter in a ditch and scans the trees; thinking it is clear, she sprints onwards. She screams when she runs right into a cluster of walkers, drawing her chaser's attention. She avoids the shambling corpses and makes it into a clearing, where the walkers have gathered into a small herd. She is soon trapped, walkers all around her, and has nothing to defend herself with.

A walker manages to grab her; in her struggle, they are both sent to the ground. She shruggles to push it off her before its head suddenly, and violently, explodes. Gunshots ring out across the clearing, followed by the galloping of horses. A small group arrives, using rifles, pistols, axes and swords to kill the walkers from horseback.

Once the herd is thinned, the survivors dismount and deal with the remaining walkers; the girl is almost tackled again, but the walker is suddenly decapitated by a tall man carrying a huge battleaxe. He lifts the girl onto his horse and orders the survivors to regroup; he introduces himself as Henry. As the group gallops away, the girl's pursuer watches from the treeline before sprinting into the forest.

Henry, the rangers and the girl follow the route of the old interstate, long retaken by nature. Henry asks for the girl's name; she reluctantly gives it as "Lucy". Henry explains that the group are "rangers", a special division that explores the wilderness for supplies, communities and walker herds; he introduces the others, including his son Kyle, veteran ranger Jane, survivalist Mike and new recruits Troy and Lucas. Henry further explains that they are going home to the Commonwealth, a vast nation built through cooperation and unity, and tries to uncover where Lucy is from; she avoids all questions about her home, and says she has nobody looking for her when Henry asks who her family is. Henry lightens her mood by quizzing her about the road they are travelling, revealing that it used to be an "interstate" that criss-crossed the entire country.

The rangers eventually reach the borders of Montana, where they split up: Henry and Kyle head home to Graystone, while Jane and the others take Lucy to Bastion for processing.

#### "Act of God"

Sleeping at the processing centre, Lucy suffers nightmares about Nines and an operation in a stark-white room. Believing that nobody is safe while she's around, Lucy flees into the countryside, preferring to hand herself over to Nines rather than see more people die.

## Relationships

### Nines

"*Come...home...*"
—Nines tries to capture Lucy[src]

*To be added...*