#red lucy

I am chronically thirsting over strong women form videogames

If anyone's curious-- Lucy Keough is a distant ancestor of Wanda and Pietro, who was introduced in a short story called Separate Lives, which was published in Marvel Presents #60-63. She lived during the 16th century and was a pirate known as Red Lucy. In Separate Lives, Lucy acts as a host for Wanda's spirit, which has been sent back in time.

In Separate Lives, Lucy is a neither a mutant, nor a witch, so she wouldn't necessarily be directly impacted by the changes to Wanda and Pietro's origin story. She is, however, related to them through Magneto, which can no longer be true in the current canon. Lucy being an ancestor of Natalya and, potentially, a part of the Scarlet Witch lineage could make sense-- she has an affinity for the color red, and while she doesn't seem to possess powers of her own, her ability to act as a spiritual host and mystical conduit for Wanda might speak to a latent sensitivity to magic. She also has twin children of her own, which clearly runs in the family, and could be a cool magical quirk for the Scarlet Witch line.

That said, I am a little hesitant to make make every single person in Wanda's extended family a witch-- the majority of Romani characters in Marvel comics are magical, and that can be a stereotype, so I'm protective of the ones who aren't, like Andrei and Sofia. We don't actually know if Lucy was Romani or Jewish-- Separate Lives was published in the 90s, so it overlaps with the period where Magneto was Sinti-- but her surname is Irish, and her children live in Normandy. Anything can happen in four hundred years, but I doubt that Lucy belonged to the same Romani vitsa as the Maximoffs. It's just as likely that these are white people who married or had children with Roma somewhere down the line-- but I don't think there should ever be a non-Roma Scarlet Witch, so I'm once again reluctant to give Lucy magic.

Can I at least have a forehead kiss before you send me off to my death Lucy

I've been thinking a lot about New Vegas again. Some more character doodles for the soul