DIGGING DEEPER.

TW: violence tw; attempted murder tw

chapter 1 ( voices die to be heard ) : growing up on a mexican border town to a rather hostile nation does things to you as a child. since a young girl, lucy has always been moved by the heart of justice in the face of so many injustices, and rather than cow her into submission, it turned her into a fighter, stubborn with an intolerance for bad people dodging consequences their ‘lesser’ couldn’t. her sister shared her opinions, but always a little bit quieter, always the more timid of the two. any deserving shin lucy could kick against, she absolutely would kick against.

chapter 2 ( to its blade we're condemned ) : she’d been a week past sixteen when her volume of her voice and the places she directed it at becomes her doom. in an attempt to silence her, people tired of her dissent and her ability to rally anyone with ears with her eloquence and passion, her throat is slit in the middle of a rallying speech; by all accounts she should have died there in the streets, amongst the screams of a frightened, dispersing crowd. by some miracle, she didn’t, though for the longest time, she wishes she had. her memories of the weeks—perhaps months?—in recovery are flashes. flashes of her sister sleeping at her bedside, her mother crying, the faces of cousins so far from home.

chapter 3 ( broken but still breathing ) : the road to recovery was a long one, and no less painful. while they’d failed to fully cut her vocal chords, they hadn’t gone unscathed, and when even swallowing was a torturous affair, speaking was entirely out of the question. the surgeons had done what they could, but whether she’d ever be able to speak would be up to the fates. perhaps the enemies in the shadows hadn’t been successful in killing her, but they’d at least eliminated her dissenting voice. that could’ve been that. it should’ve been, if you’d asked her family. but the flames of justice that burned inside her wouldn’t let her give up that easily. maybe she couldn’t speak, but she still had a voice.

chapter 4 ( wounded but healing ) : throughout her recovery, moving with her cousins to the east atlantic region—safer, her mother told her, where they wouldn’t be able to find you—lucy took up writing. first for herself, the angry scribbling of a voiceless woman with a seething pit of anger at all the things wrong with the world, and eventually taking her writing and fire to a place where maybe it would do something good. at the daily burn, lucy found a voice again; maybe not a physical one, but a voice nonetheless. the first time she managed to speak again, albeit no more than a whisper, was the most painful and empowering affair of her life.

chapter 5 ( may these coals become fire ) : lucy decided then that no one would ever be allowed to take her voice from her again. today, at twenty-nine years old, no one who doesn’t know her story would know that she’d been rendered mute so long ago. although she still struggles with stamina, talking for a long time is an exhausting affair due to the injury sustained, she’s taken up a position as radio host at wder, though still diversifying in the written word; she’s the one who you send to ask very bad people very tough questions, staring devils in the eyes without so much as flinching. she’s already been through hell, and even that couldn’t keep her quiet.

EXTRAS.

( CONNECTIONS. )

santiago diaz muñoz ( cousin )

benedicto diaz muñoz ( cousin )

constanza diaz muñoz ( cousin )

javier diaz muñoz ( cousin )

serafina diaz muñoz ( cousin )

ximena meseta muñoz ( twin sister )

daria rhodes ( best friend )

ares graves ( boss )

apollo graves ( boss )

( MEDIA. )

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( QUICK STATS. )

mbti : entp

enneagram : 8w7

moral alignment : chaotic good

temperament : choleric-sanguine

greek god : nemesis adrasteia

zodiac : aquarius sun ; scorpio moon ; aries rising

( CHARACTER INSPIRATION. )

kristin ortega ( altered carbon )

ekko ( arcane )