Lumi

* A Light In The Shadows
* A Better Place

## Overview

Primarily referred to as 'the cat' within the games, Lumi is the player character and main protagonist of the Cats are Liquid games. She is a white cat with a blue face. In *A Better Place*, Lumi's facial expression changes based on how many lives she has. In *A Light in the Shadows*, she is shown to glow rather brightly. She is normally depicted as smiling, though she rarely seems to be truly happy.

She has various powers granted to her across the series. These include becoming liquid, becoming gas, summoning the companion cube, destroying thin walls, becoming ice, and exploding thin or weak walls.

## Role

Lumi is the main protagonist in all current Cats Are Liquid games. In both games, her actions and thoughts are narrated and she does not speak until the final room.

### A Light In The Shadows

*This section of the article contains spoilers for **Cats are Liquid: A Light in the Shadows**.*

At the beginning of this game, Lumi is said to have already been stuck in the labyrinth for a long time. She is shown to be mistrustful, and sometimes downright frightened by anything that is the color orange, though this lessens over time. She also seems to suffer from claustrophobia (fear of small spaces), often complaining when the rooms are too small, restrictive, or cluttered.

* **World 1:** The narration explains that Lumi was locked in her confinement by her owner who said she reminded him of someone. Lumi does not remember who. She is also introduced to several recurring obstacles such as orange spikes and orange squares. It is notable that despite being trapped inside the worlds for a long time, she finds many parts of the environment strange or alien.
* **World 2:** Lumi notices the colors have changed, and soon encounters an Ability Ring, which gives her the ability to turn into a gas. This initially causes her to panic, but she soon calms down after realizing it was a useful ability. Throughout the world she repeatedly thinks of escaping, and hopes the end is near. Towards the end of the world, she is shown to be less scared of the environment and begins to get used to it.
* **World 3:** Lumi continues to travel through the rooms. Notably she does not think about escaping in this world but is rather more distracted by the new features of the environment.
* **World 4:** Lumi thinks this is the exit, as the colors changed. Suddenly... another ability ring appears, and a gray square comes along, which is the Companion. Lumi doesn't know why it's here, but begins to notice it's useful as it isn't harmed by orange and can press buttons for her so she can finish the level.
* **World 5:**

### A Better Place

*This section of the article contains spoilers for **Cats are Liquid: A Better Place**.*

In A Better Place, it is revealed that Lumi has friends; the green, blue, and red cat. She seems to be more happy than she is in ALITS, which is implied to being less lonely. The game also revealed why Lumi turns blue when she turns into liquid and red when she gets hurt.

* **World 1:** Lumi arrives to the place. At the start of the first room, their face is not present and it remains like so until Lumi has encountered a few minor obstacles. Then her blurred face appears and stays until she reaches the corridor with the first door, where her face becomes clear. Lumi creates and encounters spikes and the checkpoint line for the first time in the second room. In the third room, she adds curves. In the fourth room, she encounters the jumping diamonds. In the fifth room, she seems to add wind and music. In the sixth room, she encounters the Green Cat. In the seventh room, she encounters the Red Cat. In the eighth room, she encounters the Blue Cat. The cat goes through the rooms 8 and 9 together with her friends, and remains happy until just before the checkpoint in room 10 where a glitch occurs. The cat's face disappears and she wonders why her friends left her.
* **World 2:** Lumi is confused as to why her friends are gone. After getting the gas ability from the Ability Ring, she feels numb and turns into a cloud. As you progress throughout the world, she gets more brave and independent.
* **World 3:** Lumi had found her friends again, but they were confused. Lumi decided to be alone for a bit.
* **World 4:** Once again, Lumi had found her friends. After some discussion, her friends decided that Lumi needed a distraction. Lumi played through the red cat's world.
* **World 5:** Lumi wants to be alone. She notices there is something wrong with her friends. Lumi can pick up hexagons to progress now.
* **World 6:** Lumi ventured too far away. She needs to find her friends and apologize. Lumi can go in pipes now.
* **World 7:** Lumi and her friends get back together. They can venture together now, and as you progress, the gang will get back together again, and introduce new gimmicks. Then, in the last level of the world, the green cat was fixed.
* **World 8:** Once again, her friends are gone. She can now spawn a "box" called a Companion. Then in level 9 she refuses to go the path laid out for her by the Companion and chooses to take a different exit.
* **World 9:** Lumi can now form an explosion of light to destroy crates. The way back was difficult.
* **World 10:** Lumi can turn into a block of ice. In the last level of the world, the blue cat was fixed, and gave Lumi a gift to turn blue every time she turned into liquid.
* **World 11:** Lumi can now use her tail as a grappling hook. Then, in the last level of the world, she was too late, because the red cat was the last cat to be fixed. The red cat gave Lumi a gift to turn red every time she took damage.
* **World 12:** Lumi lost all of her abilities. Her friends are really gone now. This is the final world of this game.

## Trivia

* In *A Better Place*, Lumi says "just keep smiling" in the final room, shortly before she leaves. This is most likely why she does not change her expression change in *A Light in the Shadows* when she gets hurt or only has 1hp.
* In ALitS there is a Pacifist achievement, obtained by completion the game without killing anything, and a God Mode, which is completing the game without taking damage.
* Lumi isn't shown to be claustrophobic in A Better Place so she could be claustrophobic because of how long she's been in the loop.
* In the storyline, her name, Lumi hasn't been said and was revealed in the discord.

## Gallery

### A Light In The Shadows

Lumi in solid state.Lumi in liquid state.
### A Better Place

Lumi in Solid State.Lumi hurting (pre world 11).Lumi in Solid State (1 hit point).Lumi in Liquid State.Lumi in gaseous state.Lumi carrying a hexagon.Lumi moving through a pipe.Lumi spawning the Companion.Lumi charging an explosion of light.Lumi in ice block state.(level 9)Lumi tail dashing.Lumi as a liquid (post world 10).Lumi hurts (post world 11).Lumi in a Ring.Lumi with no face.Lumi with a blurred face.