Lucy Halacre

[Lucy Halacre]

| ~ • ~ | Character Basics | ~ • ~ |

.:Name of Character:. Lucy Antoine Halacre
.:Nick Name:. Lucy, Luce, Lu
.:Age:. 19
.:Status:. Peasant/Citizen

| ~ • ~ | Appearance | ~ • ~ |

.:Physical Appearance:. Lucy has soft, sleek brown hair which falls down to her back. Her eyes are a light grey colour which isn't easy to forget. She wears the clothes of any other Camelot peasant, tatty dresses of neutral colours, but she has a prouder posture than the rest and somehow her clothes fall differently. She is healthy and fit, with a slim face and stature. Her skin is milky and usually has a healthy glow, because of the herb pastes she sometimes uses on it. Her facial features are defined, and she has prominent cheekbones. Overall, she is a pretty girl who some would say was 'wasted' working on the Market herb stall.
.:Height:. 5"4
.:Portrayed by:. Michelle Trachtenberg

| ~ • ~ | Personality | ~ • ~ |

.:Personality:. Lucy knows and uses magic, and so has various loyalties and various qualities that sometimes contradict one another. She can lose her temper and direction, but ultimately, she is a very good, kind person. Her loyalty is and always has been to Camelot, to her friends, but the royalty's hatred of people like her puts her in great conflict at times. She is also loyal to the druids, with whom she has good relations. Lucy believes herself and the druids to be more at one with the Earth in their magical ability, and she has helped and been helped by them many times in the past.

Nevertheless, she is happy in Camelot and would never think of permanently leaving, unless her life was at stake. She knows the people of the Lower Town, they are her family and her friends. She has a comforting pattern in her days, something Lucy knows will not last forever, but when the day comes when she is discovered or betrayed, she will take the consequences, knowing that she has brought them upon herself.

Above all, Lucy belongs in the woodland, a place which she makes her living from, but could and would easily call home. She gathers her herbs from there and sells them fresh from her market stall.

.:Strengths:.

[-] Herbs and Vegetation-----Lucy considers herself an expert on such matters.

[-] Healing-----Lucy can use a combination of her magic and her herbs to heal people better than most.

[-] Hearing-----Lucy is a better listener than a speaker. She will happily aid people, both physically and emotionally.


.:Weaknesses:.

[-] Relatives-----Lucy has locked memories and emotions of her family away deep within her mind and it is painful for her when somebody so much as mentions them.

[-] Rathorson, Maie-----Somebody who looked after her for a long period of her life, Lucy never quite settled her lot with her. She feels guilty about Maie.

[-] Recognition-----Lucy is a very humble person, and is embarrassed when somebody recognizes her.


.:Magic Abilities:. Lucy practices simple healing magic, which she cautiously and occasionally puts into herbs when the situation calls. She has a larger potential to expand her abilities, but is happy using it quietly for good deeds. Despite the 'natural' aspect of her magic in that she uses the Earth's materials to heal, she is very much limited to using it through words, like most who claim such abilities.
.:Special Skills:. Healing
.:Accents:. Lucy speaks in the usual manner of every good Camelot citizen.

| ~ • ~ | History | ~ • ~ |

.:Birthplace:. Lower Town, Camelot
.:Family:.

Mother-Amretta Halacre, deceased

Father-Diono Halacre, deceased

Brother-Mirao Halacre, missing, presumed dead

.:Occupation:. Herb Trader
.:Current Location of Residence:. Lower Town, Camelot
.:History:.

Lucy was born on the 25th of January, to blacksmith Diono Halacre and seamstress Amretta Halacre. The young couple were popular in the town and their young son and daughter no less so. Lucy grew up in an ordinary home, where both parents tried to make ends meet. Diono was a reliable blacksmith if the Court one was unavailable or busy. Amretta was a skilled seamstress that received commissions from almost every Lady in Camelot.
One day, when Amrettta received a commission from a Lady that was willing to pay extra for exotic fabrics, Diono decided that the whole family could use some exposure to culture. Lucy, at the tender age of one and a half, was far too young for the three consecutive days of travel it would take to reach Mercia. She was left behind with a close friend of the family.

Four days after their departure, a trio of Knights from a Camelot patrol returned bearing the bodies of Lucy's mother and father, along with a wandering trader sometimes sold his wares at the Camelot market.

Mirao's body was never found.

The woman she had been staying with who agreed to take her in permanently. To call the woman, Maie her name was, blunt or strict would be unfair. But Maie was at the age of attracting a husband and having an infant slowed her down considerably.

One day, when Lucy was ten, everything came to a head. Maie, sick of having to provide for two people without a man, and becoming penniless, she too it out on the only person she could. Lucy.

The young girl took the words to heart and ran away, believing that Maie no longer, or maybe had never, cared about her. She was attempting to find Mirao, her long lost brother. Instead, she found the druids.

Lucy had always known that she had links to magic through her mother's side. But that was all it was to her. She had to light fires manually and wash clothes without the use of pretty words. But as soon as she stumbled across the druids; it became a more important feature in her mind. The druids had recognised her; something about the eyes they said; and told her about her grandmother, who had been a renowned druid healer. Apparently, the more she grew the more she resembled her.

The druids didn't see Lucy as the lost, grieving young girl she was. They saw only what she would become. Seeing as she had nowhere else to go, they cared for her, and tutored her in magic. The druids took a much more educational and slow route to teach her, like with other druid youths. They taught her how to write and read both in the common language and the Old Tongue, how to distinguish a Weevil from a Wyvern, how to make full use of all of nature's gifts.

When she was fifteen, she made a decision, helped by her druid friends and the Elders. She knew a little magic, but nothing near her full potential, and she also knew that if she was going to go back and prove herself to Maie and Camelot, now would be the time. It was hard leaving the camp, where she had belonged for the last five years, but Lucy was confident that she would one day return to do for others what the druids had done for her. But first, she had to repay her ex-guardian.

When she returned to Camelot, she entered the old house only to find nobody living there. The first person she went to was a young niece of Maie's, maybe the only person left in Camelot who she really knew. The niece told her that after she had left, Maie had just wasted away, before eventually succumbing to disease. It was obvious that the niece blamed Lucy for her aunt's demise, and Lucy understood, even slightly shared her viewpoint. The girl had blood on her hands, however much people would tell her it wasn't her fault.

Lucy was completely penniless, with nowhere to stay except the house she had grown up in, but it wouldn't feel right living there. The niece, as Maie's only family, had the rights to the house she didn't know what to do with, and even if she blamed the fifteen-year-old, she gladly handed over the problem to Lucy. With the reluctant help of the niece, she sold it to a young couple and had enough money to keep her going for a while. She was faced with the problem of where to stay, but that was soon solved by a once close childhood friend who had just bought a small house in town. Lucy agreed to live with her and pay rent every month.

She didn't know why she stayed in Camelot, especially with Uther thirsting for magic-users, but her instincts, carefully honed in her time with the druids, told her it was the right thing to do. Lucy settled in Camelot, setting up a stall to sell herbs and medicine, taught to her by druids. She is happy there, and has established friendship, loyalty and familiarity there in the last four years. She now has a place of her own, and lives well under her own income.

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