Lucy Ford is a vampire that currently resides in Celestial Hills and has been a Lunar Cove resident for 106 years though her client list has been growing a lot more in the last year than ever before.
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Cis Woman, She/Her
AGE: 131
PLACE OF BIRTH: Marble Falls, Texas
OCCUPATION: Psychodynamic Therapist
FACECLAIM: Florence Pugh
SPECIES: Vampire
CLAN POSITION: Member
AGE AT TRANSFORMATION: 23
WELCOME TO LUNAR COVE, LUCY FORD
In the late 1800'sâyou know, when they were aliveâthe Ford family of Marble Falls, Texas, were well known and well respected among their small town community. Both from old money, Don and Patty were teenage sweethearts, popular among their peers and, thanks to Donâs private school education and Pattyâs natural charm, both voted most likely to succeedâand succeed they certainly did. Eventually going on to become a notable surgeon and a dedicated homemaker respectfully, Don and Patty were married barely out of their teen years and began expanding their family not long after. They were blessed with four children, all of whom were projected to live on the American Dream lifestyle exemplified by their parents. The boys would someday follow their fatherâs footsteps down the medical route, while the girls would eventually make fine housewives and loving mothers to children of their own.
The four were raised with love, wealth and discipline, and the youngest, Lucy, would do anything to prove her worth as a carrier of the Ford family name. Not that she necessarily needed to try, of course⌠Naturally sweet and graceful, and with the added advantage of her position as the family baby, it would be fair to say Lucy received something akin to special treatment. The children were all loved beyond measure, but Lucy just had a way of unintentionally stealing focus, and family friends would coo over the adorable way she would follow Patty around like her little clone or be the first to greet Don with a gigantic hug the second he walked through the door after a long day at work. There was more to Lucy than just âsweetâ, however, and with age came a fire of determination, and the clear message that she would not stand in the shadow of any of the boys in her class like girls back then were supposed to. At home, of course, she was still Daddyâs charming, respectful little girl.
Raised the perpetual baby, as Lucy matured she did everything she could to continue to please her parents. In her teenage years, she decided she liked the idea of potentially exploring a medical career like her father, and would even read the medical books in Donâs large office whenever she had a little time to herself, but in the interest of smiling and doing what she was supposed to, she kept those wishes largely to herself. There was the one time she brought up the prospect of becoming a surgeon and framed it as something of a joke, just to test the water. The result was a laugh from Don and a ruffle of her hair, before he told her fondly to âleave the gritty jobs to the menâ. Lucy forced a laugh and never brought it up again. Not in her mortal era, anyway⌠It was at the age of twenty-three that everything changed.
Plenty of male suitors came around, but nothing really stuck, so although unconventional for a woman to be unmarried and still living in her parentsâ home in her early twenties, the Fordâs didnât mind it so much since it meant keeping Lucy their baby that little bit longer, and truth be told, Lucy was happy where she was. She secretly liked that she didnât have a man to answer to, and when, for one reason or another, her older siblings (the ones who had moved out at all) all found their way back under their parentsâ roof, she liked that even more. The Fordâs really were family people, so much so that, when a break-in at his practice on an evening Don had chosen to stay late resulted in a vampire bite and the loss of his human life, he did the unthinkable and brought his family down with him, too.
For the first few nights, while he came to terms with his new immortal form, Don stayed in the shadows. The family were alerted to the break-in, and Don, whose body was gone by the time the police showed up, was reported missing. He grappled with his morality until, less than a week later, he crept into the family home, whispered apologies to each of his sleeping family members and, one by one, gave them the same fate as his. He knew it was cowardly, that he was literally killing his own family, but he couldnât imagine eternity without them. He couldnât stand the thought of them growing older and eventually dying, never for him to see them again. Newly a family of vampires, the Fordâs decided they needed to get out of town, to start afresh somewhere new in their vampire forms. They soon found their way to Lunar Cove, away from everybody else they had ever known, but among others just like them.
Each family member handled their fatherâs selfish decision to turn them into immortal beings in their own way. For Lucy, this meant feeling an emotion sheâd never felt towards her father before: rage. She didnât want this, she didnât want to live forever as a vampire, and heâd taken that choice away from her. It was the first time Lucy had ever raised her voice to Don, and while he likely wouldnât have stood for it in their past life, he only bowed his head and took it now, because he knew he deserved it as Lucy yelled about how selfish he was and how sheâd spent her life ignoring her own wants and desires and doing what her parents wanted, and how cruel it was of him to take this desire, the desire to live, from her, too.
It took a little while, but eventually Lucy came back around. She knew, deep down, that Don had only done what heâd done because he wanted to keep their family together, and she began to accept this new life of the undead for what it was. Soon enough, she began to slip back into her old ways, into being the apple of her daddyâs eye and her momâs best friend, only she refused to keep her fire of determination under wraps now. Fueled by strength and immortality, as well as the changing world around her, Lucy decided she would change with the times, too. Forever twenty-three, and with money that came with the Ford family name, she enrolled in college once female further education became more accepted, where she toyed with various aspects of the medical world, until eventually deciding on the path of therapy. The human mind had always intrigued Lucy, even more so since learning of the not-so-human species. With brains and ambition, she eventually opted for psychodynamic therapy, graduated, got her license and found a job at a local practice.
Someday, she thinks she might like to run her own therapy office, especially since the idea of her running anything in her mortal life was unthinkable and she has very much matured with and latched onto the strong, ever-growing feminist movement over the past hundred years, but for now she is content. A part of her will likely always be angry with her father, but she does her best not to let it show. No matter what he did, heâs still her dad, and she knows he acted out of love. Sure, if it was a selfish act, but it was a loving one, all the same.
