Lucy (Beast Under The Bed)

**Parents**

* Tom (father)
* Maria (mother) †

**Siblings**

* Dana (younger sister)

**Lucy** is the protagonist of the 2020 short horror film *Beast Under The Bed.* She is the daughter of Maria and Tom, and the older sister of Dana. Lucy initially believed that her father was responsible for her mother's death, only learning months later that The Nix was responsible.

She is portrayed by Angeleck Richardson.

## Physical Appearance

Lucy is a teenage girl with brown skin, dark-brown eyes, and curly black hair. She predominantly wears a blue hoodie, a gray v-neck shirt, jeans, and brown lace-up boots.

## Characteristics

Lucy was initially very distrustful of her father, believing that he murdered her mother for having an affair. She did not believe in monsters, as she dismissed her sister Dana's protests that she saw The Nix and repeatedly heard it coming after them. However, despite her shortcomings, Lucy truly cares for her family, and upon finding out that The Nix was real, reconciled with them to defeat the monster.

## Background

Lucy was born to Tom and Maria some years ago. Some time after, her younger sister Dana was born.

Some time before the beginning of the short film, Lucy's mother Maria began having an affair with an unnamed man.

## Crypt Monster Universe

### Beast Under The Bed

One night, Lucy's father Tom found out about Maria's affair, and kicked her out of the house. They fought as Maria tried to get a ride somewhere else, but unknown to them, Lucy and Dana were awake upstairs and heard everything. Lucy, unable to listen to her family coming apart, put her pillow over her head and tried to go to sleep. However, she and her sister were woken up by The Nix trying to get into the house, and Maria ran upstairs to get them and leave. Lucy didn't follow immediately, going to get her coat, and the explosion caused by The Nix breaking down the doors of the house scared her into staying upstairs. She came downstairs after her father called for her, and she saw her mother dead on the living room floor. Since she did not see The Nix come in and her father attack it, she assumed that her father murdered her mother.

Six months later, Lucy and her family have been living life on the lam, trying to elude the monster. Over time, Lucy became very distrustful of her father and did not believe Dana whenever she told her she heard The Nix outside, as she had not seen the monster. One day, while she is out getting firewood, she tells Dana that she's afraid of what their father is becoming and asks if Dana would come with her if she tried to run away. Dana doesn't answer, and Lucy tells her to not tell their father what she heard. At the dinner table that night, Dana tells her father what she heard and he freaks out. Lucy doesn't listen to him when he tells them to get ready to leave, and she eventually yells at him that there was no monster, and that he killed their mother.

However, Lucy's claims are proven wrong when The Nix attacks the trailer, having caught up with them. She and Dana flee into the forest, but Lucy convinces Dana to go back and fight. She attacks the monster with an axe, and goes to deliver the killing blow after her family joins the fight. The Nix runs back into the forest, and Lucy reconciles with her family. As The Nix's roar echoes through the woods, she says that the next time it comes for them, they'll be ready.

## Powers and Abilities

### Skillset

* **Axe Proficiency:** Lucy has proficiency with an axe and can use it to attack monsters with presumably little effort.

## Relationships

### Dana

Dana is Lucy's younger sister. Lucy cared for Dana very much, but repeatedly disregarded her claims of seeing The Nix because she believed that Tom was trying to manipulate them. She tried to keep Dana from aggravating their father by telling her to keep quiet about the things she heard, as she feared for their father's declining mental state. After finding out that The Nix was, in fact, real, Lucy reconciled with her sister and apologized for not believing her in the first place. She then banded together with her sister and her father to fight The Nix.

### Tom

Tom is Lucy's father. It is unknown what their relationship was like before Maria's death, but Lucy believed that he was responsible for Maria's death as she only saw the aftermath of The Nix's attack. Over the months they were on the lam, Lucy grew more and more distrustful of her father, and even plotted to run away from him. Her anger with him came to a head at dinner one night when she made several disobedient comments about how they were not running from a monster, but from the police, and eventually yelling that Tom had made up the monster to try and avoid getting arrested. However, Lucy learned that The Nix was responsible for her mother's death, and she banded together with her father to kill it. They reconcile after driving the monster into the woods.

### Maria

Maria was Lucy's mother. They seem to have had a positive relationship before her death, as Lucy kept a picture of her with her even after she died. It is unknown if Lucy knew about Maria's affair before the night of The Nix's attack, but her opinion of her doesn't seem to have changed.

## Trivia

* The name "Lucy" is derived from the Latin given name "Lucius", meaning "as of light".

## References

1. ↑  *Beast Under The Bed* (dir. Keola Racela; January 31st, 2020)