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Character: Lucy M. Montgomery
Canon: Bungo Stray Dogs
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Character age: 19

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What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:

Lucy resents her unfair lot in life.

She is an orphan who grew up in an abusive orphanage, where she was mocked and ridiculed for having a special ability that was gross and freakish. Lucy never had anyone who wanted her and any attempt to express herself was punished. She has lived an unlucky, lonely, and unfair life... and Lucy absolutely hates the world for doing that to her, of all people, while it gives other people lucky treatment that they don't deserve that! It's equally unfair! Life is so unfair.

How aware are they of this negative emotion, and how do they act on it in canon?:

She is very aware of how much she hates her lot in life. When she first meets Atsushi, Lucy bluntly tells him that she hates him for having the things that she should have. She is not shy about expressing how unhappy she is, whether she does that by waxing poetically about her depths of despair or by bringing others down.

At the beginning of her character arc especially, Lucy dealt with how unfair the world was by leveling the playing field. When she saw someone who had what she didn't, Lucy would bully them. We see this especially in how she initially treats Atsushi: She invents an unfair game that he cannot win, because it is so unfair that Atsushi is beloved for his ability while Lucy was hated for hers. It isn't fair that he has people who loved him, so Lucy takes them away and dangles them in front of him, then threatens to lock him away forever. She later comes back around to taunt him with his failures, making sure to rub in just how miserable and hopeless he should feel. She wants to bring him down to her level of misery, because Lucy is jealous of how strong his spirit is compared to hers. All of this was motivated by how Lucy thought life was unfair and that she should torment the 'lucky ones' in life's place.

But as her story progresses, that strong spirit of Atsushi's begins to rub off on her. He helps her realize just how childish her attitude was. Instead of leveling the playing field by bringing others down to her level, Lucy realizes that she should have been lifting the weak up to the level she wishes she was at. Atsushi teaches her to protect those who were like her as a way of dealing with how angry she was about her lot in life.

Nowadays, Lucy is trying to correct the way that she address her #1 hatred. She still has some bite left from nineteen years of a bad attitude. but it manifests more as a tsundere attitude used to defend herself. Lucy has offered her power to ATsushi the Agency on numerous occasions now. She is becoming more selfless and driven to help others instead of hurting them. In the current story arc, Lucy is even risking her life and happiness in order to help save the Agency from their unfair lot in life. And she isn't even asking for anything in return.

What is their greatest virtue?:

Lucy is a compassionate person with strong empathy.

Lucy is able to imagine and understand emotions outside of her own. This is largely due to her active imagination, which Lucy has used to comfort herself through her suffering. As someone who read a lot of fiction, Lucy has accidentally trained herself to imagine the emotions of other people (even fictional) and to imagine their motivations.

How aware are they of their virtue, and how do they act on it in canon?:

At the beginning of her character arc, we see this is a negative way: Lucy is able to observe the Tanizaki siblings and know to target Naomi, for example, to maximize suffering. She later says that she read Atsushi's profile, then proceeds to perfectly predict every mental weakness that he has and needle him into despair. Lucy only needed to read his basic background information to imagine how lonely he was and how best to torture him emotionally.

Later on, once Lucy is learning to be NICE, we see her using her empathy for kinder purposes. She is the one to imagine Kyouka's pain at learning the truth of Demon snow and she understands Kyouka wants to be left alone, even though she's only known the girl for a few hours. Lucy understand Fukuzawa needs to leave her protection and doesn't press him as to why, because she can imagine the emotional burden without all of the reasons. Lucy is also shown to be friendly and well liked by her cafe customers, because she is genuinely sensitive to others and easy to like.

Lucy is aware of her empathy, too. Particularly, its capacity to hurt her when others don't have empathy. When people do not understand Lucy, they are going to hurt and disappoint her. This is why she is such a tsundere and why she was so harsh at the start of her character arc: Lucy did not expect anyone else in the world to have the same sensitive empathy and compassion as she did. She doesn't even let herself expect it, for fear of being misunderstood and disappointed.

We see this strongly in how she reacts to Atsushi not saving her from the airship: Lucy was vulnerable in asking to be rescued and wanted him to catch her signal that she wanted him to rescue her. Afraid of being disappointed when he didn't come, Lucy took the chance away and saved herself. She was shocked to later learn that Atsushi had read her signals and come to save her. He never reads any of her other signals but she does deeply code them in Tsundere.

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