User blog:FirstDrellSpectre/Lucy Loud - My thoughts about her

Lucy Loud, 8-year-old gothic girl. To me she is one of the most interesting characters of the show.

It surprises me that despite such young age she is already such gloomy and grim pessimist or that she has interests in occultism and gothic fiction. If she was a preteen or an early teen, I wouldn't be so surprised. Most children at her age are cheerful and fun-loving, she is an antithesis of this image.She's supposed to show goth stereotypes like dark poetry and nightmare fetishism. However she's not one-dimensional gothic girl.

Her unorthodox hobbys make scary but interesting is same time. She believes in black magic, because she thinks it's cool, but that's only a non-existent illusive force that never truly works in real life. She claims she has spirits as friends. I find them as her imaginary friends she speaks with because she's simply lonely, misunderstood and doesn't have many friends.

She's mostly seen as emotionless and stoic and she prefers to be alone but it all is a cover to hide her insecurities. In Back in Black it was revealed she's a lonely girl who wants to hang out with someone who shares her unorthodox interests. She's not really emotionless, she only acts this way to hide her emotional side.

In Sleuth or Consequences its revealed she's not totally radical nightmare fetishism as she in secret reads totally girly books, parody of My Little Pony. That only shows she also wants to taste some joy. Because in her house this fiction is inpopular she's afraid of being mocked by her intolerant sisters. I saw in real world people bullied just for being fans of My Little Pony, poor people living in cruel world.

Why she's so fascinated in gothic stuff is a mystery which I hope will be resolved in upcoming episode Spell It Out. I have a theory that she found this hobby thanks to her great grandmother Harriet as it's said she gave Lucy a spell book. They must have been close as Lucy kept her photo and believes she can speak to her spirit.

From her siblings I find Lincoln as her closest friend in the family because he's the most tolerant for her interests, no matter how weird they are as shown in "Sleuth or Consequences" and he took her blame on himself just to protect her from mocking. She also wanted to prove he is innocent of cloging toilet by framing other sister because they all were intolerant jerks who learned nothing about acceptance after Undie Pressure. Still a horror comic wasn't a nice reward for covering her, but good intentions are also important. In "Back in Black" Lincoln successfuly helped Lucy to get her boyfriend and never tried to change her unlike the sisters. They later realised they shall love her as she truly is. However I dislike that coincidentally in all episodes focused on Lucy Lincoln always ends in troubles - Sleuth or Consequences, Raw Deal, Back in Black.

Lucy shares room with Lynn but they are totally different and as roommates have the biggest age gap, 5 years, they often criticize each other, only superstitions and room is what they have in common. Lincoln doesn't criticize Lucy, so that's why I consider Lincoln is closer to Lucy than Lynn. Lucy comes to Lincoln to ask him for rhymes instead to Lynn because she finds him smarter and far more poetic. In Project Loud House Lucy told Lincoln she thinks he has better poetic skills than her, what explains why she often comes to him for rhymes. In Baby Steps she also asks him for rhymes so she could finish her homework. In Sound of Silence Lucy must be very close to Lincoln if she tells him about her weird dreams. The best time they had in Suite and Sour when they both were hunting for a ghost. However I didn't forget Lucy was a jerk to Lincoln in It's a 4xLoud House, Brawl in the Family and No Such Luck, nor that he was a jerk to her in Making the Case. Lucy likes Lincoln but doesn't want him to take happiness from other sisters, that's why Lucy acted against Lincoln by giving Lori advices in A Fair to Remember.

Lincoln and Lucy have lot in common but don't realise this.


 * both are the closest to outcasts in family, Lincoln for being a boy and Lucy for being a pessimistic nightmare fetishist


 * both need to struggle mockings from other sisters


 * both are the quietest siblings in the Loud family


 * both are interested in horror stories, Lincoln in zombie films and Lucy in Lovecraftian books


 * both love reading fantasy novels but Lincoln's interests are more like Tolkien and Lucy's more like Lovecraft


 * both don't have many friends


 * both date someone who share their interests


 * both have genetic defects, Lincoln's hair lack pigment so Lucy's skin


 * both consider inanimate objects as their friends, Lincoln's Bun Bun and Lucy's Edwin


 * both prefer to be alone to read their books and comics in peace


 * both have story writing as hobby

Many viewers still wonder why Lucy is pale and why she covers her eyes. I want to know this as well. I have simple theories. I think she covers her eyes because either they are oversensitive to light or they are bloodshot. I think she's pale because she was born prematurely and her origanism didn't develop everything properly, blood not transporting oxygen properly causes skin getting pale. Preterm children can also have problems with emotional growing up, what would explain why Lucy is so emotionless. But that's just theories.

So far for those reasons I find Lucy as one of the most interesting characters of the show and I hope for better character development of her in new episodes.