Let me add onto my theory real quick on parts that might break it:
The images i'm going to show you can be interpreted in two or more ways:
Theory 1: Lucy is Robert's half brother.
"They can't be related if Lucy lived in Whitechapel a pickpocketed people in the start"
1a. We have no idea where Robert's dad originally lived and Whitechapel is basically "The Slums" in which Jack the Ripper did his... well not respecting women. (Slums are areas where people squatted on crown land and now a days done illegally which causes a whole heap of problems for everyone because f*** the rich and living by the sewers or densely packed housing in self made buildings with little proper housing- sorry, rambling about Geography. Anyways, the place is culturally diverse so it's likely many immigrants and poor locals did their fair share of it).
A phrase, 'slumming in the city' is said to refer to people who 'fed off' of other people's resources which is very not gucci because the people are trying their best to live in a corrupt power system which disrespects the poor.
He could have been poor before, a hard worker and met Robert's mom one fateful evening and escaped the grasps of poverty. But in doing so he might have left behind another woman who had a child (Lucy). The man is crisp on his money and forced his own child to marry for it, we don't know how far this man will go for the bitter lard of capitalism.
(who knows, maybe he even took care of her before Robert was born).
1b. Just as Lucy says here, rich kids do this all the time.
Robert's dad might been one of those rich kids (cause people be wilding in their youth) and ended up finding love in Whitechapel. But just like Robert had to enter a forced marriage inevitably leaving his love and other child behind.
That's how she got her start so obviously she grew up in Whitechapel, but to what extent?
Theory 2: Lucy is Robert's full sister who ran away for love.
A child's age is obviously before 18 and with Lucy maybe having been of upper class status, she wouldn't be married off until 18. But, and as I said again, rich kids visited Whitechapel all the time. So as a rich kid herself, she engaged in those rich kid antics and grew her own seperate bank from her dad (in a sexist economy that didn't allow women to control their own money) (-oof, i got alot of opinion in this today, lmao)
She's clearly a badass chick who doesn't want to be stuck in a house all day, married to some moneybags man she didn't like. She wants to get her own coin (albeit illegally but y'know f*** the rich), be her own woman!
And in doing so, she found her loml (love of my life but refering to her saying this and not me because i'm... well you get the gist, real) Rachel's brother.
And that made her realize that "y'know what, f all of dat" and:
Before she was of marrying age.
Her eye colour is lighter than Robert's and her hair texture is different (but not by much, especially if we compared it to Mr. Pennebrygg) than his when we finally meet Lucy. But that could fit into the first part of my theory where Lucy is the bastard child of Lanyon's dad.
She also doesn't have freckles but that's a genetic thing and that stuff which I will NOT pull out the Punett sqaure for because I am lazy-
Okay, no i'm not, this takes two seconds to look up.
And as you can see, she'd then have a 50% chance of getting freckles. (Lanyon has freckles mostly because he is based off of his father anyways. His hair is visibly a different curl pattern because he's half white/and idk if ary changed that/so his is looser than Lucy's. If her mom was the same as robert, well mixed children can having varying results, the African physical traits gene is very strong.
She might have gotten her father's hair and skin tone but got her mother's eyes. Or it lightened due to the mother's eye colour.
(chart showing basic eye colours because there are many other eye colours but y'know, i'm not going to factor in purple eyes).
Like, genetics is basically a gambling game, and it sucks when people just get together so that they will have "pretty babies" and do that designer baby crap.
But we aren't here for my opinion, we are here for theory based on what we know and are assuming. (lmao)
So yeah, there is also this:
She messes up his name on purpose here clearly. And that could be seen as classical sibiling teasing because it would take more of an effort to say 'Langdon' than 'Lanyon' and-
She clearly wasn't paying much attention when Rachel introduced him but she managed to save that name quick after hearing it once. Even i'd have to hear a name more than that. This is either from Lucy being able to remember a hit list (for money) quick from her robbery job or she already knew Lanyon.
She also might have messed the name up on purpose out of disrespect to the family.
She might also be upset at Robert for maybe having done her wrong when they were younger and now the petty is strong? Thet may be trying to keep a facade of not knowing each other to prevent Lucy's dangerous life hurting her fam (because bad people like to go for the weakest links in other bad people to cut them down) or because Robert told her off (being brain washed by his parents that Lucy is very bad) for being a bad person and that she is a bad stain on the family's name and to not be associated with with them.
I don't know, it be like that sometimes.
Everything i'm saying is absolute bollocks.
The theory could be snapped like an outstrectched rubber band just by word of the creator and honestly that's the fun thing about theories.
I am either right or not and that's okay. They might not even know each other. I just thought it was a cool theory!
Anyways, thanks for reading.
