Lucia

**Lucia** is one of the main protagonists of the *Tales from the Pizzaplex* Epilogues.

## Physical Appearance

Lucia believes her face is too thin and angular to consider herself pretty and attractive. One of Lucia’s eyes is much bigger than the other, her nose is slightly crooked, and her mouth is too wide for her face. She also believes her head is too big for her petite five-foot-two frame, something made more noticeable by her wild, kinky black curls that she can never fully contain but doesn’t have the heart to cut off due to her late grandmother having loved her afro-like hair. Lucia’s clothes are also a tribute to her nana, having a closet full of woven vests in a variety of colors and patterns all handcrafted by Nana. Lucia pairs her vests with men’s black shirts, ankle-length skirts, and hiking boots.

## Personality

Lucia is smart, being a straight-A student as well as a science and tech geek, with an incongruous obsession with the supernatural. She's shown to be insecure about her looks and somewhat shy. She's also shown to have a somewhat dark and strange imagination. Lucia also appears to have sensory overload, as shown when she was blocking her ears from all the noise in the carnival.

## History

### *HAPPS' Epilogue*

While at a carnival with her friends, Joel proposes looking around Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex's construction site, having checked it out a few times and heard they've already started bringing in animatronics. Lucia and her friends agree to investigate, at The Pizzaplex's construction site where Lucia accidentally cuts the back of her wrist on the fence. Once inside the building they come across the old pizzeria's flat red roof, which is surrounded by the concrete floor.

They find a ramp that would lead to the pizzeria's entrance, but a couple feet down they find hardened concrete blocking the path. Wade finds a vent opening in the roof and discovers a chute leading down. Wade is the first to slide down, with Joel following behind him. Once hearing it's safe, Kelly joins them and encourages the others to follow along. Adrian goes down next, and with four of the eight already in the pizzeria everyone else follows.

Lucia is the last of the group to slide down and she immediately picks up on an odor. They find themselves in the storage room, and Kelly points out to a hallway which she believes leads to the dining room. When they reach the dining room, they find broken endoskeleton parts scattered and the stench gets stronger. Lucia finds a head and throws up when she realizes that it's human and points out the head to Jayce, and he believes it to be a prop, but quickly falls to the floor upon touching it and discovering it to be real. Kelly then lets out a loud scream and the group joins her to find a tangle of human limbs, torsos, and heads rotting next to ragged metal endoskeleton parts. Lucia does inventory of the parts and concludes there's at least eleven bodies. She then looks around and notices dried blood sprayed all over the room.

Terrified, the group runs back to the storage room only to discover that the bottom of the chute has been crushed. Adrian leads the group back into the hallway and finds an exit door engulfed in cement blocks and more robotic parts. They try moving the cement blocks, but they won't budge. Every other door and the windows are blocked off, with some actually cemented close. The group makes their way back to the storage room and Adrian proposes waiting for the construction crew to return in the morning and banging on the metal to get their attention. Suddenly, the group hears the sound of a metallic creak entwined with a long hiss and a rasp. Adrian believes it could be a ventilation system and begins leading them towards the dining room but stops when they realize the sound is footsteps. They quickly run into the storage room and lock the door, now knowing that they aren't alone.

### Somniphia's Epilogue

The group listen to the footsteps, with Adrian and Nick pressing their backs against the door. When the footsteps reach the door, they stop and the light in the storage room blinks out. After three seconds, the dim light returns but flickers. The footsteps start up again and after twenty-seven seconds the dim light returns to normal. After some disagreements over the layout of the pizzeria, Jayce manages to create a detailed map with a tablet and pen that he brought. Jayce and Adrian take the main dining room, arcade, lobby, and party rooms. Hope and Nick take the stage, backstage area, and kitchen area. Joel and Wade take the employee's lounge, other storage rooms, and furnace room. Lucia and Kelly take the main restrooms, maintenance room, a room with robotic parts, and the office at the end of the front hall.

Lucia and Kelly make their way to the restrooms first, ignoring the flickering lights and noticing posters of the original Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy as they make their way down the main hall, they hear Hope scream and she rushes past them, telling them to run. The rest of the group quickly joins and catch up with Hope, who stops outside of the men's restroom. When she spots Adrian, she hugs him and cries. Lucia notices that Nick isn't present, and Hope reveals that he's dead, and a long grinding noise sends the group fleeing into the Parts and Service Room in hopes of finding something to use as a weapon. Wade locks the door and Lucia notices the light is now flickering. The room is full of animatronic suits, which Lucia and Kelly had checked prior. Hope explains that a metal endoskeleton covered in dry blood grab Nick's neck and ripped his head off. As the group processes the information, Lucia and Hope question if the suits were still empty and if the endoskeleton could have got into one on. Suddenly, a dog with a lolling tongue and spiked color moves and the lightbulb goes out. The lights flicker back on as the floppy-eared dog grabs Hope's arms and rips them off before flipping her upside down and tearing her legs off. Hope's screams stop when the dog rips her head off. Drenched in Hope's blood, everyone else scatters to escape.

### Submechanophobia's Epilogue

The group make their way back into the dining room traumatized by Hope's death. Kelly explains that she and Lucia had found an old radio in the office that might be able to get working and call for help. Joel and Lucia pick up on Kelly's sudden boost in confidence. Jayce points out that the office is right next to Parts and Service, and Joel proposes investigating the systems room at the end of the hall. They hear a thud in the dining room and the group makes their way down the hall. Adrian leads Lucia, Kelly, and Jayce into the employee's lounge and locker room. Wade tries joining them, but Joel quickly grabs him and drags him to the systems room.

In the employee's lounge, Kelly makes her way to the door on the far side of the room which leads to the front hallway. The footsteps move down the hall, causing the light in the room to go out. When the lights flicker back on, Kelly leads the group to the office. While Lucia and Kelly work on the radio at a dusty wood credenza, Adrian and Jayce block the door with a metal desk and a metal filing cabinet. Before Adrian notices a vent cover near the floor under the credenza and considers opening it as a potential escape. Although Kelly is worried the endoskeleton will crawl through it, she lets Adrian open the cover with his pocketknife.

Lucia and Kelly keep trying to get the radio to work. As they worked, Kelly admitted that she always felt "less than" and overshadowed when around Hope. This confession makes Lucia feels guilty because Hope's death also benefits her since Adrian is now single. Lucia searches the filing cabinet in hopes of finding a manual for the radio, and instead finds an old, yellowed operator's manual that describes different kinds of robotic endoskeletons. The last page reveals the endoskeleton chasing them is either a Mimic Model 1 or 2. They have retractable and expandable limbs and a contracting torso, allowing it to fit into any mascot costume. It then says that the tech in the Mimics was pretty clunky and if one is ever encountered, it should be immediately disconnected from its power source and disassembled. This causes Lucia to panic, but Kelly manages to calm everyone down by asking what their favorite color is.

### The Bobbiedots Conclusion's Epilogue

Lucia and Kelly manage to get the radio working and a garbled voice says that they are trapped in the old pizzeria in a room behind the stage. The group speculates about who is on the radio, where they were, and what to do. Eventually, Adrian convinces to group to find the room and get answers there. They make their way backstage without encountering the Mimic and find a hidden door in the wall that was obscured by a stack of boxes. Adrian knocks on the door, and someone knocks back but doesn't talk. They open the door only to find a very small room filled with costumes. Suddenly, one of the costumes on the right side of the room begins to rustle and Lucia manages to pull Adrian away right as a monkey costume gets up and attempts to grab him. The Mimic manages to slash Adrian's bicep and the group retreat back to the office.

They rebuild their barricade and find a first aid kit in the filing cabinet for Adrian. Adrian is worried for Joel and Wade, and he decides to crawl through the vent to avoid the Mimic. He has Jayce join him while Lucia and Kelly stay behind with the radio.

As Lucia and Kelly continue trying to contact people on the radio, but the signal isn't making it past the building. As Kelly continues tinkering with the radio, Lucia looks through the user's manual again but only learns that its deactivation switch is at the back of its neck. As Lucia and Kelly bond over how nerdy they are, Lucia goes through the drawers to the desk/barricade and finds a key on a key ring with "STORAGE" labeled on it. She remembers seeing a dead bolt on the door of a small room at the end of the hall on the opposite side of the systems room. Lucia wonders if the key is to that room and pockets it.

### Nexie's Epilogue

Lucia manages to find a shoebox with radio parts and an old notebook inside. Kelly works on the radio but only manages to clear up the local signal. The Mimic attempts to trick them again, but they ignore it as Lucia explains that the notebook belonged to one of the engineers on the original Fazbear Entertainment animatronic creation team. Parts of the journal are unreadable, but Lucia can make out that a Mimic was designed to observe show routines and mimic them. The original Mimic mimicked humans as well in unintended ways, and Lucia can make out the words *misconstrue, scared, potential disaster,* and *deactivate remaining Mimic endos.*

Lucia proposes that the Mimic must have seen something similar to a hide-and-seek game and can't reason his trick won't work more than once. Kelly decides to ask the Mimic where it is in order to avoid it, learning it's in the janitor's supply room.

After learning from Jayce that Adrian was dead, Lucia is furious and demands to know what happened. Jayce yells that there was nothing he could do and that the Mimic had got to Adrian before he could, and if he stepped in, he would have died too. He asks if Lucia wanted that, and she says yes. When Jayce says they're the only three left, Kelly asks if he found Wade and Joel and Jayce confirms they're dead. The Mimic calls for help and Lucia tell the Mimic they're on the way and Kelly tries getting Lucia to apologize to Jayce. She does, but Kelly can tell it's insincere.

Lucia comes up with a plan and tells Kelly and Jayce about the key that she thinks goes to the deadbolt on the door to the storage room at the end of the back hall, Jayce explains that the vent in that room is behind some boxes, creating a good escape plan. In case the Mimic is able to snap the deadbolt, Lucia explains that they'll need to find a table bigger than the room's door and break off its legs, as well as a smaller table about the width of the hallway. Lucia thinks they can find both in the employee's lounge, and when they go to tell the Mimic that they're heading to the janitor's supply room they get no answer. Lucia worries that the Mimic's caught on.

As the three enter the employee's lounge, Jayce thinks back to how much he wanted Lucia to love him. He now knows their relationship isn't going to last, and also doesn't think his life will either, which is the real reason he chose to be bait. Lucia makes her way through the room with Jayce and Kelly behind her, but Jayce notices a locker that's slightly ajar and dark inside. The door suddenly twitches and the lights flicker, but before Lucia can respond the door shoots open and the lights go out. Jayce desperately tries to aid Lucia, but Kelly pulls him away and slams all the doors shut as they run into the dining room. Lucia manages to catch up with a chunk of her hair torn off her scalp where the Mimic, dressed in a gray mouse costume, attempted to twist her head off. The group hide behind a pile of rubble outside the door of one of the party rooms as the lights in the dining room go out.

The Mimic begins walking towards the office and the dining room lights turn back on. Lucia finds a long table with two legs and a two-seater table with all four legs intact. Lucia instructs Kelly to carry the smaller table while she and Jayce break the legs off the long table, warning Jayce that they'll need to be quick since it'll make a lot of noise. Before they do, Kelly tears off a strip of fabric from Lucia's long skirt and wraps it around Lucia's wound to stop the bleeding. They place the tabletop against the wall next to the storeroom door while Kelly puts the little table in the systems room doorway. Lucia offers to be bait instead, but Jayce insists. Lucia and Kelly decide to hide in the arcade in order to view down the hall, and before they go Jayce pulls Lucia in for a kiss to let her know how he feels in case he didn't make it.

Lucia and Kelly exchange a hug after finishing the barricade. Kelly believes Jayce is making his way back to the office, but as they start to head over, they hear Jayce's screams echo throughout the pizzeria. When his screams stop, Lucia and Kelly hold each other in despair.

### Tiger Rock's Epilogue

Still reeling from Jayce's death, Lucia and Kelly try to find a way out. Kelly tries burrowing through the concrete blocking the door to no avail. Their search is interrupted when they hear noises nearby, indicating the Mimic was trying to escape. The Mimic recalls Jayce's attempts to crawl in the tunnel and is able to shift its body to accommodate the small space.

Elsewhere, Lucia and Kelly return to the backstage area and grab some costumes. Lucia believes that if they're wearing outfits, the Mimic won't detect them. She is about to put on a jester costume but realizes it's a springlock suit. After putting on regular outfits with no springlocks, Lucia and Kelly plan on going back to the door. Lucia noticed that the slabs on the door were crumbling due to being in smaller chunks and hopes that if they continue chunking away with the endoskeleton arms, they can break free.

Before they can do anything, the backstage lights above flicker, go out, and turn back on again. The Mimic had been hiding in a mushroom costume and had changed it form from a humanoid figure to one of a nine-legged spider, with one eye on its leg and another on its back. Kelly tries to run away, but Lucia stops her. The movement is enough to attract the Mimic, and it goes over to inspect Kelly, who is in a blue dog costume. After a few seconds, the Mimic crawls away and Lucia believes they're in the clear, only for the Mimic to try wearing the costume while Kelly was still inside. Kelly screams as she is crushed by the Mimic's mass.