be still my heart

i miss lucy knight.

as of early season 5 of ER, Lucy Knight is a genuinely fascinating character. I understand why she’s usually perceived as annoying - however, this is near-universally due to her relationship with Carter. Lucy’s written to parallel early-season Carter. When they come in, both of them are naïve med students with little understanding of the workings of the ER. Both of them display incompetence early on - Lucy spends episodes trying to evade doing a single IV, while Carter’s first act in a trauma is to grow violently nauseated and leave. Carter’s apparent incompetence subsides quicker than Lucy’s, but he still continues to make mistakes throughout his early med student years; he also faces antagonism from Benton, whose harshness as a mentor serves to break down Carter’s naïveté, even if Carter’s optimism and mental health end up as collateral damage. Carter and Lucy’s relationship is set up to parallel Benton and Carter - however, the problem is that Carter is naturally very different from Benton. As such, when Carter is forced into a Benton-esque role, he largely seems to be acting out of character. Instead of being like Benton, who is fair by his own obscenely high standards, he instead oscillates between blaming Lucy for his own irresponsibility, shutting her down when she’s trying to be responsible, and trying to be her friend.

I say this with the utmost affection for her but Lucy Knight has the energy of a straight-A apple-polishing honours student who is still trying to get everyone to vote for her as class president and might spontaneously combust if she can't constantly prove she's the smartest kid in the class.

hello!!! oomf put a post on a community that your drawing requests were open. I was wondering if you could draw John Carter & Lucy Knight from ER (1994-2009) as this reference picture from Jerry Maguire? I don’t know anything about drawing so I have no clue if this is a good reference nor do I know if you have interest in er or carcy BUT!! oomf said you were open to anything so I hope that’s okay with you :-) (bottom picture is both carter and lucy if you aren’t familiar).