Lucia

**Lucia** is the daughter of **Cabesang Tales** (Telesforo Juan de Dios or Matanglawin), the sister of Juli and Tano.

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## Biological Information

### Relatives

Cabesang Tales (father)Juli (sister)Tano (brother)

## Appearance

Lucia has shoulder length black hair, brown skin, black eyes, and she wore the same Filipiniana clothes that Indias wear.

She wears a necklace, symbolizing her poor life.

## Personality

Lucia is a kind Filipina, who is willing to help Klay (Maria Clara Infantes).

Upon hearing she was a prostitute by Padre Damaso, she immediately publicly humiliated by having her hair cut off, and later on, was beaten by the Guardia Civil and taken off to the barracks.

After Klay helped Lucia by freeing her from prison, Lucia exchanged the gratitude by helping Klay, Crisostomo Ibarra, and Fidel de los Reyes from some Indio bandits along the way towards San Diego.

She soon became an ally to Elias.

## History

Born in a poor state, as the daughter of Telesforo Juan from the De Dios family, Lucia struggled in life, and was called an "India".

Soon after, Lucia decided to become a prostitute to help get money, but Padre Damaso, upon hearing this, decided to look for her and humiliate her in front of the people in the town.

Lucia was beaten by the Guardia Civil and was arrested, being taken to the barracks.

After a few days, when Klay was leaving to go to San Diego, Klay gave her earrings to free Lucia from jail. Crisostomo Ibarra, upon seeing this, decided to exchange the earrings for money (eight pecetas).

Lucia then left to go back to her home, where Klay, Ibarra, and Fidel were being confronted by some of the Indios, Lucia upon seeing the commotion, stopped them and she gave Klay a hug.

## Relationships

### Maria Clara Infantes - Klay

Lucia was one of the first people Klay met when she entered the novel, "Noli Me Tangere", the first being Maria Clara. Klay asked Lucia for the newspaper that she was holding and was shocked upon seeing the date, 1884, Klay soon fainted.

When Klay saw that Lucia was being humiliated in public, Klay began to step forward, until she was stopped by her college professor, Mr, Torres.

Klay, hearing where Lucia was, went to the barracks, she asked how much it would take to bail Lucia out, and upon hearing the price, eight pecetas or her golden earrings, Klay promised Lucia she would return one day with the bail fee.

Klay soon went back after a few hours and gave the Guardia Civil her earrings, which were given by her mother, and the Guardia Civil had Lucia taken out of the barracks getting the bail fee.

### Crisostomo Ibarra

**Crisostomo Ibarra**, upon seeing that Klay had given away her beloved earrings given by her mother, Narcissa Infantes, took the earrings back and exchanged them for the price of money. The Guardia Civil, complied and set Lucia free.

On their way to San Diego, Ibarra along with Klay and Fidel, got stopped by some Indio bandits, but Lucia stopped them before the bandits could do any harm to the trio.

### Elias

**Elias** was one of the native Indios who Lucia wanted to join in their group, along with Salome, the lover of Elias. Elias asked Lucia to give him some time to think about the decision, Lucia and her brother Tano, agreed on one condition: Elias must tell them what his next move is.

Soon after, Elias makes the decision to join their group.

### Tano

**Tano** is Lucia and Juli's brother. Tano was one of the bandits who wanted to attack Ibarra, Fidel, and Klay on their way to San Diego, but Lucia, upon recognizing Klay, then asked her brother to stop and let them go.

Tano is the only son of Cabesang Tales (Telesforo Juan de Dios or Matanglawin).

### Juli

Juli is the younger sister of Lucia, who would one day serve as a maid to Hermana Penchang.

Juli is in love with Basilio, son of Sisa and Pedro, brother of Crispin.