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Character Inspiration Template by Hellion92

Laverne Hooks (Police Academy): Laverne is the primary visual inspiration for Lucy as she's a black woman who works as a law officer in a piece of media from the mid 80s. I would also add that Laverne's character resembles the one that Owen intended for Lucy to have on Mortimer's Handeemen - a soft-spoken, dedicated woman who can sometimes get aggressive and is able to get business taken care of when needed, but, as I've mentioned in my description of Lucy, she turned out a bit different once she was brought to life, just like her fellow puppets did.

Sheriff Woody (Toy Story 1): Like Woody, Lucy is a sheriff doll character based on an old children's TV series, whose personality is somewhat different from the source material and who, while loyal and smart, is very possessive and territorial of "her humans". However, Lucy is far from pursuing a leadership role and not at all as responsible and attentive as Woody.

Marceline (Adventure Time): Similar to Marceline, Lucy has a laid-back and a bit immature personality and can be mischievous and sarcastic but also somewhat sinister and passive-aggressive. Marceline's emotional attachment to her teddy bear, Hambo, and a strong reaction to him being taken away is a good point of reference for how Lucy feels about her hosts after they end up being used as sources of life energy for the puppets, resulting in them permanently losing their consciousness, and how much she dislikes someone trying to interact with them without her permission.

Maxine "Max" Gibson (Batman Beyond): A lot like Max, Lucy is a street-smart tomboyish black girl with a sharp mind but a rather lax, reckless and straightforward attitude, despite underlying issues related to emotional attachments, who is very helpful to her friends but, despite her ability to follow the rules, can also be a bit stubborn and find workarounds to be able to do what she wants while still acting within the instructions she has been given.

The Famethyst (Steven Universe): A big inspiration for Lucy as this team of gems (in particular the Amethysts of the group) are shown be humorous and easy-going, therefore, somewhat unprofessional, guards who are stationed at the place where the superiors of their kind keep abducted humans and who have developed a sort of Lima Syndrome towards their human captives, shown by how they don't just prevent humans from escaping and making a mess but comfort them by giving them very sincere-sounding consolations and asking them to talk about their problems.

While her and them both listen to their superiors they find overbearing and perform their duties, Lucy gets along better with her leader - Mortimer, despite his physically and mentally abusive tendencies towards the other puppets, than the Famethyst do with theirs, Holly Blue Agate, and she wouldn't allow prisoners to escape the way the gems let Steven and Greg leave, but that can be attributed to the fact that Holly is more hursh and always serious and demanding towards the subordinate gems while Mortimer, despite occasional toxicity, is able to present himself in a more gentlemanly, caring and benevolent light to his team and let some of their behaviours slide as long as it can benefit his ability to get them to do what he wants.

Breakdown (Transformers: Prime): Just like Breakdown, Lucy is the muscle in a team of antagonists who try to overtake humans, who expresses her loyalty to the group through her willingness to follow orders without much questioning, shows capacity for friendship and camaraderie that is rare among her kind and, despite her strength and nonchalant attitude, can display genuine care towards her friends, even within the harsh hierarchy. Both characters' intelligence is often underestimated, eventhough they can be rather quick-witted and adaptable. Additionally, both have a notable trait of being more humane to the group that's perceived as mostly just resources by their colleagues and superiors.

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1. Color

Khaki is a light brown color with a hint of yellow, often associated with military uniforms, like one worn by Lucy. This unique shade is often seen in casual attire and one that provides a warm and grounded aesthetic and is commonly associated with resilience, practicality, neutrality, versatility, durability, ruggedness, simplicity and adaptability - all the traits characteristic of Lucy.

2. Flora

In my opinion, Hoya Pubicalyx Black Dragon fits Lucy in many ways: in terms of associations, the Hoya family as a whole has both positive meanings, such as tenderness and care (which fits Lucy's tendency to act in a caring way towards both the hostages and her friends), and negative ones, such as attracting misfortune and leading to death (which fits the fact that Lucy is a part of her team's plan that evolves killing people); in terms of real-life aspects of the plant, its with flexible vine stems can be a good representative of Lucy's flexible character and its star-shaped flowers can be a cute nod to her role as a sheriff. As for the choice of this specific variety of Hoya, not only the dark flowers growing in this soft spheric form reminds me of Lucy's afro, but the name "Black Dragon" is amusingly fitting because she's black and, like a dragon, she hoards her valuables.

2. Fauna

From what I found, Sloth Bear are generally solitary animals, but can form connections with their kind. They walk in slow, shambling motion and may appear clumsy but are capable of galloping faster than running humans and are excellent climbers. They are generally not very aggressive, but are very territorial.

4. Object

Given Lucy's interactions with humans, Handcuffs fit her as they symbolize both control and withhold of autonomy but also security and intimacy.

5. Song

It was a bit hard to find a fitting song for Lucy's mix of traits but I Ain't Worried by One Republic grew on me very fast. Given Lucy's relaxed, laid-back attitude, the song with the core theme of living in the present and pushing aside worries through the repetition of the the line “But I ain’t worried ’bout it right now” is a great choice. A lot of the other lyrics in the song line up well with Lucy's situation (like “I’m stepping to you toe-to-toe”, which potentially refers to sticking by close people, or “Got no regrets, even when I’m broke, yeah", which expresses satisfaction with one's life, regardless of material circumstances), while others can be reframed to fit the context of "Hello Puppets": the reference to "1999, heroes” could be changed to 1985 and, coupled with the earlier "Keeping dreams alive", can be tied to the puppets' origin as the protagonists of a nostalgic children's programm, and "I’m at my best when I got something I’m wanting to steal” and “No stressing, just obsessin’ with sealin’ the deal” - to the puppets' road towards their goal through abducting humans and stealing their souls to stay alive.

6. Feeling

Character Information

Age: Unknown (adult)

Gender: Female

Species: Humanoid Puppet

Occupation: Sheriff

Status: Alive

Puppeteer: Carla Teller

Creator: Owen Gubberson

Character Details

Puppet Type: Wooden hand puppet

Eye Color: Amber

Wood Color: Dark

Hair Color: Black

Bio

Lucy Lock was one of the characters of the hit children's show Mortimer's Handeemen.

Owen described her as "a lawful good sheriff, always ready to help those in need". So, in the show, she was a selfless person that stands for justice. This characteristic didn't exactly carry over well when she was brought to life and, instead of displaying determination to be a serious, by-the-book officer, she has a more flexible, lax attitude with her sense of keeping people safe twisted into a possessive streak.

Appearance

Lucy is a humanoid wooden ventriloquist dummy designed after a young black woman with an afro.

In the prequel, Hello Puppets: Midnight Show, she wears a light khaki button-up shirt with long sleeves, a dark brown tie and a gold color sheriff star badge.

In the first game, Hello Puppets! her shirt has paled with time and the gold paint of her plastic badge has peeled off, leaving the item grey. Also, some changes happened in her design that better match her casual demeanor: she's no longer wearing a tie, leaving her collar open, which makes the upper hem of her white tank top peak out, her sleeves are now short and her eyes are now half-lidded most of the time, giving her a relaxed look.

Personality

Lucy is rather laid-back and performs actions based on mutual help and benefits, personal favor to the individual or just based on her own mood. While she doesn't shy from speaking her mind and giving her unfiltered thoughts, she tends to keep her interactions with her fellow puppets steady. However, similar to some of the other puppets, Lucy has a trigger that can make her more civil presentation waver and her calmness can be replaced with annoyance in case her attachment to hosts is judged or her boundaries in the form of personal hosts are invaded.

While the spell didn't fully break her friendly, caring nature, it did transform the desire to protect the people who need help Owen intended her to have into an involuntary feeling of comfort in humans' helplessness and delight in her vulnerable hostages' emotional dependence on her. That's why, despite developing attachments to humans and getting invested in them as individuals by learning names and any possible information about them, she still goes along with their capture and holding them captive (in addition to the fact the puppets need hosts to stay active).

Despite not being the picture perfect sheriff in terms of attitude, she possesses some abilities a good one would have such as good deductive skills and memory.

Relationships

Owen Gubberson

Just like Mortimer, Nick and Daisy, Lucy looks up to Owen highly as a father figure and shares Mortimer's desire for Owen to love them and see their point of view. Though Lucy is the only one who won't kill Owen due to her fondness for humans, she does everything in her power to stop him from trying to undo the spell. The fact that the puppets have to chase Owen around and can't make him see things their way seems to also be one of the reasons Lucy likes the company of her human prisoners who are always near and can't escape.

Mortimer Handee

Lucy considers Mortimer a friend of hers and sees him as a decent leader. While she does understand he can often be a control freak to other puppets, including her, and sometimes finds his overbearing attitude and proneness to threats and punishments an overkill, she respects and appreciates his skills, intelligence and presentation. Meanwhile, Mortimer, due to his controlling and power-hungry nature, initially saw Lucy as a potential threat or hindrance to his post because he feared her sheriff role would make her feel entitled to the position of leadership and her occasional blunt expression of her opinions made him believe she wouldn't follow his orders. But when Mortimer realized how her easy-going attitude is sincere and sensed her relatively positive attitude towards him and how any possible need for control she might have is already satisfied by the presence of the humans they capture, he used her fondness of hosts to his advantage and found her to be one of the easiest subordinates to deal with to the point he even entertains her more meaningful interactions with the hosts and her overly casual at times attitude.

Riley Ruckus

Lucy can find Riley's experiments on hosts and puppets rather gruesome and hard to stomach while Riley views Lucy's attachment to humans with skepticism, seeing it as a weakness and a waste of time on her part to get emotionally attached to something that is essentially a tool for them to use, even worrying that Lucy, despite being as unconcerned with hosts' autonomy as the rest of the group, can put the puppets in danger with her relatively more sentimental connection to them. Despite their differing views on human hosts, Lucy knows that Riley is intelligent and skilled and respects her as much as Mortimer. And Riley, while finding Lucy's attachment to humans troublesome, can see the value in working with someone reliable and competent. Not to mention her mind was somewhat put at ease when she took into consideration all the possible reasons for Lucy's behavior.

Nick Nack

Lucy and Nick have mutual love-hate for each other. Lucy can be irritated by Nick's desire for spotlight and considers his desperate attempts to get on Mortimer's good side by any means, including backstabbing others, both pathetic and amusing. She also grows to get feel bad for him when he gets abused by Mortimer and, while she doesn't interfere to not ruffle Mortimer's feathers, she does try to do something to ease his pain after he has endured the punishment, although she still lets him know he brought it on himself. Along with all of that, she can't help but find him attractive and have genuine interest in his artistic work. Lucy is initially seen by Nick as a rival for Mortimer's praise and her laid-back attitude can be a bit frustrating to him at times because he feels she lacks a sense of urgency or excitement compared to his own showy nature. But, with time, Nick's reaction shifts as he becomes aware of her opinion of him and witnesses the aftercare she provides when Mortimer gets violent with him – he starts viewing her actions as a form of appreciation and respect, so his one-sided rivalry is complimented by grudging admiration.

Daisy Danger

Lucy finds Daisy's cheerful and motherly nature quite endearing and charming. She sees Daisy as someone who always tries to keep positivity around them, which she really appreciates. She can sometimes be concerned by Daisy's lack of awareness of the awful things happening around her but doesn't mind it too much since it's this rose-tinted glasses outlook that allows Daisy to be the only puppet who doesn't question Lucy's behavior towards the humans she guards. In fact, Daisy sees Lucy's attachment to human hosts as sweet and endearing and views it as Lucy's "maternity instincts" kicking in, though Lucy's laid-back attitude can sometimes be a bit too relaxed for Daisy's taste and her straightforwardness a bit tactless.

Scout

Lucy finds Scout's genuine care for humans to be a refreshing change from the other puppets and is impressed by Scout's connection to her host. But, as much as Lucy might sympathize with Scout's intentions, she is loyal to her puppet friends and wouldn't want Scout to jeopardize their plans. On the other end, Scout, who didn't have as much interactions with Lucy as with some other Handeemen but knew she was relatively chill, was just as shocked by Lucy's talks with restrained conscious hosts as she was by the very fact humans are forced by puppets to be their hosts, instead of begging for it themselves, as Riley led her to believe.

Trivia

• Similar to how Mortimer was originally made to be a father figure toward the other puppets, but the spell twisted that behavior into a vicious personality, reminiscent of Owen's own abusive father, Lucy was originally supposed to be a dedicated officer of the law who does her best to help those around her, but, due to the corrupting nature of the spell, she started to resemble Owen's hometown sheriff who was friends with his father and was rather laid-back regarding law-protecting duties

• Lucy represents Owen's possessiveness as, just like how he was very meticulous about his beloved creations and opposed to his colleagues' input regarding them, she is more than reluctant to let other puppets perform any actions on her hosts without her permission.

• Lucy talks to hosts both in the storage when they are still conscious and when they have been linked to the puppets and rendered a mindless husk, which is somewhat similar to how Owen talked to his puppets before he brought them to life since, in both situations, the characters have conversations with those who are physically unable to speak back to them.