#justice for Lucy

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

It’s 2:30 am I have not stopped thinking about Lucy Frostblade.

Was she scared? Was she angry? Was she cold?

Did she just get wrapped up in something bigger than her, or did that sweet girl spend her last moments suffering in fear and pain at the hands of the people who were supposed to be her friends?

How long did that suffering go on in whatever realm Kristin finally saved her from?

Lucy was good she had people who loved her even just her teacher cared about her enough to go searching for her and got herself killed for it.

Did she see it happen? Did she think Yolanda would finally take her home? Only to have that hope crushed too?

Her family never knew where their baby had gone.

I’m not okay about this.

[cfr749]

Poor Lucy… (spoilers for 6x09 below)

1. They told us it’s her birthday, only to show no one (other than Kojo 😂) cares it’s her birthday.

2. She rambled to Nolan about how “good” she was obviously not doing and he was like, “Great 🙂” / gave zero f*cks

3. She brought up her failure to make detective (again) with no acknowledgment from Harper or Lopez, which makes it appear she is acting like a child about it and the adults in the room do not care.

4. She is not v stealthy for an undercover operative 😂

5. We got to see everyone come together and rally around Tim in his time of need (as they should have), while seeing Lucy be isolated as she’s struggled all season for apparently no reason at all…

What else did I miss?

[brideofedwardhyde]

Reading Mina’s letter to Lucy is both heartwarming and soul-crushing at the same time. Their closeness is apparent in just a few short lines, and it’s evident that they share a lot of memories, daydreams, and stories with each other. They’re as different as the sun and the moon, but that only makes the friendship stronger.

This is why I hate when adaptions gloss over their friendship or have Mina fall in love with Dracula. Here we have a healthy, meaningful female friendship in gothic literature that often gets put aside for a “dark romance.” Ugh.

[meow-bucket]

rewatching fairy tail rn bc im too sick to watch anything new and oh my god pls treat my girl lucy better. started at the edolas arc and lucy fr could've bodied the whole army if hiro mashima just treated her character better instead using her for torture porn

[nyra-42]

Just me . . . reopening tumblr for the third time in the last 30 minutes checking to see if anyone posted anything new since I checked 5 minutes ago.

[cfr749]

Say it louder 🙌🏽

The crazy thing is they put Lucy through SO much and do so little with it (DOD, Jackson, deciding to do UC work and all the implications of that FOR HER (not Tim), the bio dad SL, Rosalind’s return, the detective exam / her generally stalled career, dating her superior in a male-dominated job, being [brutally] dumped, Tamara moving out, a near fatal shooting resulting from a high risk decision she made, etc etc).

I’m going to be BEYOND disappointed if she’s just a supporting character to Tim’s arc and Chenford the rest of the season.

I am on the fence about Lucy and TO thing. She really deserves a career that she can choose and not kind of a rebound career. I really want the writers to explore her mind about what she will do after failing detective's exam and I really really don't want her to be handed solutions from anyone.

And on top of that I don't want her reduced to be 1/2 of Chenford. With that in mind I NEED A HELL LOT OF MORE LUCY'S OWN PLOTS.

The thing that made me fall for Rookie, Lucy and Chenford was her very kick ass undercover story, where she, well, kicked ass. I want her back being good at her job and not only reduced to anxious (which she for sure falls into every now and then).

[new-fandom-scene]

Lucy “Freak in the Sheets” Chen

[jupiterlandings]

“It's a love song,

It's a tale of a love from long again.

It's a sad song;

We keep singing even so”

Dracula Aesthetics:

Lucy Westenra, Cataclysm/Justice

[antigonesghosts]

What I loved about Cinderella's Castle is it is so entirely about Ella. We know starkid can handle a show with tons and tons of characters but I found it quite refreshing for it to be so wholly her story? I think it was a lovely choice for this show and man Bryce did such a perfect job of it, she is truly such a star

[mourningmaybells]

i hate how people try to push the “dracula is dateable” agenda, but the most abysmal thing is that, while pushing this agenda, they don’t bring up the stoker book fact that he’s willing to cook a good meal and clean an entire house like a one-man resort. men don’t know what women want.

[doctorsiren]

sketched this back in September but never finished it

[cfr749]

More thoughts on Lucy not making detective…

I think what bugs me most about this detective storyline is the idea that Lucy brought it on herself with the five player trade thing. Nyla warned her, and yes it was sweet that she was willing to risk it for Tim, but I really can’t see Lucy, who knew back in S1 just how much the deck was stacked again her, just choosing to torpedo her career like that. It makes her look incredibly short-sighted, which is frustrating.

There were so many ways they could have shown Lucy being willing to sacrifice for Tim and Lucy hitting obstacles as a woman of color trying to progress in her career without making it seem like it’s her own fault with the trade and now with the clown / sprinkler stuff.

We saw Tim sacrifice for Lucy without doing anything that painted him in a less than favorable light. With Lucy, she’s taken multiple hits, orchestrating the trade despite being explicitly warned against it, not being honest with Tim about it (and we saw him annoyed with her instead of grateful for her sacrifice), and now we’ve got the sprinklers being painted as entirely her fault.

As a fandom, I think most of us will defend Lucy to the death, but it frustrates me that, to the general audience, it just seems like she is reaping what she sowed.

Lucy deserves so much better, and I really hope they turn the storytelling around in a way that allows the audience and other characters to properly empathize with her and be on her side.

[brideofedwardhyde]

Good morning everyone, justice for the character of Lucy Westenra. I’m sorry almost all adaptions make you a one-note shell.

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

That son of a fucking bitch.

He was a TEACHER.

He was supposed to help those kids. He was supposed to guide them. Keep them safe.

Lucy Frostblade, only 16 years old, was brutally murdered by people she’d trusted. She was left cold and alone under that tree to rot and be forgotten forever. And it was her fucking teacher that did it.

[theflyindutchwoman]

It's the fact that Lucy was the one fighting for their relationship no matter what, despite never being able to commit to any of her ex-boyfriends, while Tim was the one who walked away from her, when he used to stay in relationships despite them not working, that makes this so incredibly painful for me. Lucy was all-in. She took the risk of losing the most important relationship in her life. She gambled her career for him. When she found out he had problems with her doing undercover work, she simply told him they were going to get through it. Even after being kept in the dark and spending days without knowing if he was alive, her first instinct in the parking lot was still trying to help him and comfort him.

There's only so many times you can watch your partner walk away before there's no coming back. Before it completely shatters your trust in them. Because that's the issue here : it's not the first time he does that to her. Don't get me wrong, he definitely had his reasons each time and they were noble. Misguided, but noble. And he is without a doubt not in the right mindset at the present. He's punishing himself, feeling worthless of her love. But the pain inflicted to her is the same. It's no wonder that Lucy is crushed and believes it was easy for him to give up. We know it wasn't like that at all. But why would she think any different at this point? It's easy to say that your relationship is worth the risk but if you keep walking away when it gets tough, then those words become meaningless. And I really hope that this is going to be addressed during Tim's journey so that he can break that pattern. Lucy deserves that much. And so does he.