Lucille Bertuccelli

Lucille Bertuccelli is the Camp Director at Camp Here & There. She isn't often seen around the camp, but she is Sydney's boss, and handles most of the administrative duties. She also provides Sydney with the announcements he makes each morning, and his nightly injury reports are delivered to her.

## Personality

Lucille is a stern woman who appears to care very little about the concerns of several camp counselors. She is seemingly very stubborn, as it takes several tries and enlisting the help of Jedidiah for Marisol, Salem, and Sydney to get her to take action about The Elephant Man.

She appears to be incredibly passive and apathetic, until something actively threatens the camp, in which case she is the complete opposite. Lucille is very protective of the campers and staff despite her harsh exterior, and takes her job very seriously.

She is relatively reclusive, and is hardly seen around Camp Here & There. The vast majority of her voice lines occur while she is talking to Sydney or Jedidiah.

## Relationships

#### Sydney

Lucille is Sydney O. Sargent's boss. He claims several times that she loves him, but the limited interactions so far make her attitude towards him appear somewhat indifferent. Lucille claims that she does love Sydney, and he clearly values this love and is very hurt when she does things that imply differently. They have known each other since Sydney's childhood, when he often went to her house when he didn't want to be around his mother. He can't remember if he slept there. He lives at camp with her year-round, and when he is too far away from her he becomes "too sick to walk," for reasons as of yet undisclosed. During the camp's off-season, they are the only people there, and he is responsible for all of the upkeep and chores.

#### Jedidiah

Lucille is Jedidiah A.A. Martin's boss, and he seems to work closely with her, sometimes taking on special projects for her, and even venting to her when he is upset at Sydney. Several times, he asks her to do something for him and she agrees, even when she has denied Sydney a similar request. However, despite the way she seems to favor him, she asks Sydney to rig the Counselor Olympics against him, which is a punishment he seems to believe he deserves. In FILE 18. "The Hive of Anxiety", she is revealed to be his mother.

## Character History

### Season One

In The Beginning of the End, Lucille provides Sydney with his announcements, and when he asks if she wrote the warning about The Elephant Man into them, she gives a noncommittal grunt that he takes as a no.

In The End of the Squall, Sydney informs her about the penguin invasion, and she requests that one counselor from each cabin go to the administration building to create a squad of penguin wranglers. After Sydney is kidnapped, she is infuriated at the penguins, and threatens to melt them with her flamethrower. During the nightly injury report, Sydney hypothesizes that she will never listen to it, and insults her in order to test that theory.

In The Squall of Prophecy, Lucille is unconcerned about Rowan's prophecy, accepting it as fate. She ignores him as he screams at her door.

In The Prophecy of Reversal, Lucille reluctantly goes along with Sydney to retrieve Soren from The Death Fields. When they find him, she grabs him by the shirt collar and scolds him, snapping him out of the trance that The Gravediggress has put him in.

In The Reversal of Norms, Jedidiah does *not* instruct the campers to take turns playing games on Lucille's phone in order to drain her data. As the day continues, Matthew does *not* talk to Lucille about a miniature black hole in his kitchen, and Lucille does *not* decide to officially cancel the observation of government-mandated Opposite Day at the camp, despite the possible consequences. Sydney then does *not* begin his nightly injury report by questioning whether or not Lucille is avoiding him, as well as whether or not the injury reports are simply busywork she's assigning to him.

In The Norms of the World, Sydney reports that Lucille is requiring the campers to set and clean the mess hall for all three meals for the entire week as punishment for their behavior on Opposite Day. Also, her fancy old mahogany grandfather clock is stolen, and when Sydney reports his encounter with The Elephant Man to her, she just does her usual grumbling. Jedidiah tells Sydney that he was busy all day with a project that Lucille assigned to him.

In The World of Goo, Lucille has her Friends-of-the-Oak attempt to use a vacuum to suck up the goo spreading across camp. Unfortunately, this leads to the vacuum and the Friends-of-the-Oak being sucked into the goo, angering Lucille.

In The Goo of Friendship, Jedidiah vents to Lucille about Sydney taking his package, and she tells him that Sydney has to give the package back.

In The Friendship of Enemies, Lucille decides that Juniper will stay in Cabin Silkworm with Joshua and Yvonne after the kids in Cabin Dungbeetle blackmail him into stepping down as their counselor.

In The Enemies of Labor, the campers of cabin Dungbeetle rise up against the cafeteria-cleaning duty that Lucille has assigned them as punishment for their treatment of Juniper. They barricade themselves into the Creativity Cabin and hot-glue the door shut, and Lucille sends waves of her Friends-of-the-Oak to try to break it down, to no avail. When the campers emerge from the cabin, she shoots a few spurts of flame out of her flame thrower above them, leading them to retaliate in a variety of ways. This causes her to threaten to revoke the night's dinner from the whole camp unless the Cabin Dungbeetle kids step down. Jedidiah then creates a peace treaty that includes the stipulation that Lucille will grant dinner to the camp that night, and never revoke it again. Surprisingly (at least to Sydney), Lucille agrees to this treaty when Jedidiah proposes it to her, and the conflict is resolved.

In The Labors of Love, Lucille signs off on making the tower building activity mandatory.

In The Love of Mother, Sydney recalls his childhood, during which he spent a lot of time at Lucille's house. He describes the taxidermy, most of which was entomological, that covered her walls, and the food she served, which was cold and bland. He also mentions her fancy but poorly upkept furniture and her peeling yellow wallpaper. He can't quite recall if he ever slept there, however, or the full layout of the house. During the Counselor Olympics, Lucille suggests to him that he should rig the games against Jedidiah, and he does so. However, he begins to feel bad, and tells Jedidiah what Lucille said. However, despite knowing that Lucille caused things to be rigged against him, Jedidiah still turns to only the mannequin she sends to him when he falls down, and leaves with her whispering to him and patting him on the back. Sydney then goes to speak to her during his nightly injury report, and expresses his discomfort with the way that she seems to be favoring Jedidiah above him lately. She reassures him that she loves and respects him, and tells him that she will do something about the Elephant Man if he just gives her time.

In The Mother of Stones, Lucille interrupts the afternoon announcements to request that Jedidiah
come talk to her in private. During this conversation, she tells him
that magical authorities have heard that there is unusual thaumaturgic
activity at the camp and are sending someone over to investigate. She
tells him that this means that the only option is to get rid of all
evidence of dubious magic on the campgrounds. Also, during the injury
report, Sydney mentions that if he goes without her care for too long he gets too sick to walk.

In The Stones in Toilets, it is revealed that Lucille cannot fire Soren over his recent antics, because he is actually paying her to let him work at the camp. It is also implied that Lucille is the one that yells at Sydney and requires him and Marisol to clean the goo-covered bathrooms as punishment for oversharing to the campers.

In The Hallucination of the Hive, several campers and counselors campaign to Lucille to cancel the afternoon's kayak races, but she brushes off the request, leaving the race to go on. Due to fear of the bees, the campers decide to march in a circle around the singing crystals until their words were amplified enough to make it through the three-foot thick, reinforced cedar walls of Lucille's office. This leads her to send a parade of her Friends-of-the-Oak to smash the crystals with sixteen ounce hammers.

In The Hive of Anxiety, Joshua begs Lucille to let him use her phone to call his mom and ask her to pick him up when the hive is hypnotizing all of the campers. During the camp-wide staff meeting, Lucille shuts down Marisol, Salem, and Jedidiah when they bring up The Elephant Man as a possible cause of the hypnotic hive. When Matthew interrupts the meeting and collapses, letting the hive's song in, she flips the meeting table and runs for her office. This leads everyone else to flee as well. That evening, Jedidiah shows up at her office to talk to her about Sydney. He tells her about The Elephant Man, and how concerned he is about Sydney's safety, and she counters by expressing doubt that he is any more of a threat than any of the other things they face regularly at camp. She also accuses Jedidiah of only doing things to help the camp when they specifically benefit him. Jedidiah argues that he truly does care about Sydney, and explains that he's especially worried now because The Elephant Man attempted to steal his journals, which could have put Sydney into actual danger. She finally agrees to help him.

In The Anxiety of the Trees, Lucille orders Sydney to go to the forest and dismantle Soren's altar of reanimation. She then fails to help when the trees attack the camp because she is occupied by being upset at campers that found her secret mysterious weed that could not be pulled from the ground. She flips out at these campers, threatening to take away their bunks and fire Matthew to keep everyone from having dinner, and even to send all of the campers home.

In The Boys of Secrets, Sydney mentions that when he was seventeen years old, Lucille allowed him to stay at her house when he ran away from his mother's. According to Sydney, she was kind then.

In The Wood of the Caskets, Lucille finally takes precautions against The Elephant Man by having her Friends-of-the-Oak patrol the outskirts of camp. After finding out that Soren has been spreading Death Fields-type magic across camp, she sends Soren away, although it is unclear if he has been fired.

In The Hatred of the Hunt, Lucille has Jedidiah run tests on the chemical content of the new river. She is unwilling to sign off on the building of a bridge over it just in case it disappears.

In The Hunt of the Clock, Lucille reports that halfway through the building of a bridge, the new river evaporated and the ground closed back up, leaving a half built bridge as a new camp landmark. She also uses her cellphone to order three tall, candy-colored rock walls from the nearest municipal center for the campers to climb for rock climbing day. These walls end up creating a time loop.

In The Meantime with Eggs, Lucille implements camp-wide astral projection training to help stand up to any kind of wide-scale psychic attack. It is mandatory, but Sydney speculates that it will not be strictly enforced. This training includes putting nightmare powder in the fumes of the bonfire to simulate a psychic attack. Sydney later says that this is one of his personal least favorite abuses of Lucille's executive power, and offers support and comfort to any campers negatively affected by the training.

In The Eggs of a Basket Case, Lucille refuses to give Jedidiah the paperwork allowing Sydney to be gone for the day, but assures him that he did fill it out.

In The Basket Case of the Nurse's Building, Jedidiah implies that if Sydney were no longer in his good graces, Lucille would kick him out of camp. Later, Jedidiah asks Lucille to do something about the chanting crowd and The Elephant Man, but she simply walks away.

In The Pyre of the Muse, Jedidiah borrows a gun from Lucille (this is implied to have happened without her permission). He leaves a voicemail for Lucille from the woods explaining the situation with the Elephant Man and his plan to try to defeat him, and ends the message with a short portion that he tells Lucille to play for Sydney if he comes back and Jedidiah doesn't.

In The Muse of the Elephant/The Elephant in the Room, Lucille detains The Elephant Man, but he ends up escaping. Later in the day, she plays a game of chess with Jedidiah. She is kinder than usual, and even tells him that she's proud of him. She also reveals that she did meet Elijah once, several years before and he had asked where Sydney was and threatened her with a knife. She also defends her choice not to do anything while Elijah was attacking the camp, saying that Sydney was the only one who could have stopped him, but Jedidiah explains that he was able to easily defeat him himself with just a mirror. The two tell each other they love each other, and say good night.

## Trivia

* Lucille has a flamethrower that she carries with her almost everywhere.
* Lucille is 59 years old.
* Lucille is allergic to wheat.
* Lucille disciplines deserters with "...immense prejudice," often saying "run away and pay."
* Lucille is the only person at the camp with any type of cellular communication technology.
* Lucille enchants wooden mannequins to do her bidding, referring to them as "Friends of the Oak.", in FILE 23. The Wood of the Caskets, it is revealed that these mannequins do in fact have souls, and that they are animated by the life-force of long dead creatures. Sydney Sargent states, "They’re still vaguely sentient, existing in a permanent state of dull agony and indignity at being forced to exist in vessels which move without their permission and which do not possess the mechanisms to feel, think, or cry out. It’s not technically necromancy, on account of the fact that that’s no kind of life. But it does make you feel for the poor things, so… try not to bother them more than necessary." It is unknown how Lucille trapped these souls, or where they come from.
* Lucille enjoys taxidermy, particularly entomological taxidermy, and her house's walls are covered with various bugs and animals.
* Lucille has an extensive library of magic.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Season 1 Episode 12 : The Love of Mother
2. ↑ Season 1 Episode 13: The Mother of Stones
3. ↑ Season 1 Episode 14: The Stones in Toilets
4. ↑ Season 1 Episode 6: The Norms of the World
5. ↑ Season 1 Episode 8: The Goo of Friendship
6. ↑ Season 1 Episode 10: The Enemies of Labor
7. ↑ Season 1 Episode 18: The Hive of Anxiety
8. ↑ Season 1 Episode 4: The Prophecy of Reversal
9. ↑ Season 1 Episode 5: The Reversal of Norms
10. ↑ Season 1 Episode 7: The World of Goo
11. ↑ Season 1 Episode 23: The Wood of the Caskets
12. ↑ Season 1 Episode 26: The Hunt of the Clock