User blog:Weavillain/Fanfiction Advice: I Need Help Writing Lucy Loud

It wouldn’t be foolish to assume that I’ve had to face several challenges over the year-plus I’ve been writing fanfictions for The Loud House. There’s still one, however, that I contend with, and I’ve yet to come close to making any real progress in sumounting it.

To put it plainly, I’m at a loss for how to write Lucy on an introspective level.

I think my grasp on the character voices for the other Louds is adequate, but Lucy’s, to my shame, continues to escape my understanding. I have no problem writing her for the obligatory “pops out of nowhere” gag or spouting lines about the futility of optimism/the embrace of death/etc., but that’s surface level writing that couldn’t do her character justice if I were to write a Lucy-centric story; that, by the way, is something I wish to do in the near future.

So, for anyone who believes that they’re in perfect sync with her whenever they write her, I’d like to hear any advice you could throw my way on how I can get inside her head better.