Lucy Carrigan
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❝Maybe when bombs
start going off here,
people will listen.❞
look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, and she's gone
SOMEBODY CALLS YOU; YOU ANSWER QUITE SLOWLY
Lucy Carrigan is one of the main characters from the film Across the Universe. An activist with long blonde hair, blue eyes, and perfect teeth, she arrived on an island from a riot in April, 1968. Over the past four and a half years, she's lost nearly all the people she cared about; here, she's about to lose even more, but there's a lot to find, too.
→ Arrives from: Tabula Rasa, May 2012. Before that, New York, April 1968.
→ Dress style: Whatever's comfortable. Jeans and t-shirts, for the most part, and she has a tendency of collecting hippie-style peasant skirts and blouses, though they don't really suit her well. She also always wears her brother Max's dog tags under whatever she has on.
→ Daily routine: A lot of work.
→ Defining marks: A scar on her abdomen from surgery, and a slightly smaller, fainter one on her right leg, from a cut that needed stitches.
→ Manner of movement: Lucy always moves with a sense of restlessness. She runs her hands through her hair a lot, and usually gesticulates only when upset. Otherwise, she's very much constrained, if not necessarily settled.
→ God-modding rights: Stefanie.
these revisions and gaps in history
DON'T YOU FEED ME LIES ABOUT SOME IDEALISTIC FUTURE
For the first seventeen years of her life, Lucy Carrigan was a typical, all-American girl. She was the "good" one of the family, contrary to her older brother, Max, though she'd always loved him more than anyone - she did well in school, never got in trouble, and was seriously dating a soon-to-be soldier. A few months after Daniel went off to boot camp, Max came home for Thanksgiving, bringing with him a friend named Jude, who'd recently arrived in the States. They hit it off pretty well, but both had significant others, and Jude went with Max to New York that very night.
The news of Daniel's death was both shocking and heartbreaking; she'd never known anyone to die before, and in her Suburbia-sheltered life, the war had never seemed so real. She tried to move on, but in her grief, she convinced her mother to let her spend the summer with Max, the one person she thought could console her at all, claiming the "big, bad city" wouldn't get to her. As it would turn out, she was wrong.
Max's dropping out of Princeton made him newly eligible for the draft, and a letter sending him to report came the night before Lucy left for the city. Although hesitantly, given the way she'd still felt about Daniel, her relationship with Jude turned into something more, and they slept together. Max was informed, the next day, he would be shipping out for duty; this got them all to go to an anti-war march where a man named Paco, working for a group called the Students for Democratic Reform, was giving a speech against the war, putting into words what Lucy had only been able to think. She was influenced in other ways, too, further intriguing her into the activist lifestyle that was a far cry from her upbringing; soon, she began working to pay rent on her own place with Jude, as well as writing for SDR. The time apart began to drive a rift between the two - Paco was driving her to be more and more radical, and she wanted Jude to do more than artwork to help the cause to bring her brother home. But he didn't like what he saw SDR as standing for, nor did he like her siding with Paco over him, and the tension lead up to one big fight, bringing Lucy to feel like she had to choose between the two loves of her life - Jude, and Max, whose life she was still protesting the war to save, after already losing one person she cared for. She chose her brother, and that night, she packed her things and left.
A rally at Columbia University that Paco convinced her to attend turned into a riot, which called the cops in, and Lucy was being taken away when she saw Jude making his way through the crowd. He was beaten back by an officer, and Lucy exits canon from this scene.
looking for the missing piece, but it was never here
TRAPPED AT THE LOST AND FOUND, WE WATCH THINGS DISAPPEAR
INITIAL INVENTORY
→ One over-sized Army t-shirt
→ One pair pajama pants
→ One pair underwear
→ One set of dog tags with her brother's name, an item received on Tabula Rasa
→ One diamond ring, kept on the same chain
→ One ring on the middle finger of her right hand
ACQUIRED INVENTORY
→ One welcome packet and its contents
Let us stand resolute with our voices raised.
We have a right to insist to be free and brave.
If that should cease to exist, I'd throw my heart away.
