#lucia is a historical badass and i love her

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NPC Headcanon; buckle up boys and girls, it’s time for fun facts about Lucia Devine - Hero of Ideals, princess of Unova, and queen of my heart & soul. Focusing mostly on her life and influence after the twins vanished, with a bit of detail regarding her childhood and life while her father wasn’t presumed dead and such for context’s sake.

For an overview, Lucia was Adair’s second child, three years younger than her brother Edgar. She was practically the spitting image of Adair growing up, a born troublemaker who, despite (or maybe because of) her enthusiasm, tended to pick fights and get herself in over her head quite a bit. Lucia was 14 when the twins were presumed dead.

 The best place to start with Lucia is immediately after the first War of Truth and Ideals; her father had undergone some pretty traumatic events near the end of the war with, you know, nearly burning to death, and (understandably) wasn’t acting anything like his usual self after he was well enough to be up and about again. To Clara’s credit, she tried her best to look after Lucia and Edgar during the immediate aftermath, but there was a lot that ended up falling on her--trying to help Adair adjust, helping to bridging the gap between the twins while they settled everything with their truce, and so on--which meant Lucia’s... shenanigans could go under the radar for a while. It was during this time that she first really started approaching Zekrom, quickly finding the dragon to be a good companion and playing with them fairly often. (And its no secret that Zekrom absolutely ADORES her; she is, hands down, probably the most important person in the world to them, even today, now that she's long gone.) Within the next few years, Zekrom came to realize that Lucia had the right traits to become the Hero of Ideals - this information was shared with Adair so he could begin teaching her what she'd need to know. At about twelve, Adair first began to teach her combat, and soon after she began to accompany him while he worked on restoring Unova with Zekrom's help.

Now, her story really begins with the second war. After her brother & cousin finished, you know, destroying everything and Adair pinned it all on the dragons, Lucia was extremely distressed over what would happen to Zekrom. So much so that she went to eavesdrop on her father while he and Shinri (and Ephreith) decided what to do about the dragons. And then confronted her father on it shortly before he went to apply the dragon stone seal to the Dark Stone, saying it was unfair to seal Zekrom away and trying to stop him. Both of them said a lot of things that they ended up regretting; basically, Lucia's last conversation with her father did not end on a good note, and she ultimately failed to prevent Zekrom from being sealed in the Dark Stone. Shortly thereafter, the twins' families would find out of their (presumed) deaths, the twins' sons would refuse inheritance of the crown because of the general dislike (if that isn't putting it likely) towards them after the second war, and ultimately Ephreith would step up and take over ruling Unova with no one else suitable for the job.

In the following years, Lucia would soon come to realize that Ephreith was not to be trusted. It began when she first saw how manipulative of her family he truly was; she certainly had her suspicions before then, however - something about the fact that he created the seal that apparently resulted in the twins' deaths never sat right with her as 'an accident' - but she truly began to catch on when she finally got her brother and cousin to open up about what happened, noticing how strange it seemed that Ephreith had essentially encouraged Allen to begin the war, but still warned Edgar of what was about to happen. In the following months, his more manipulative nature would become clear as Lucia began to pay closer attention.

As her distrust for Ephreith grew, she felt more and more convinced of a need to take action against him. This began with her mission to break the seal on the Dragon Stones and release Zekrom - however, she was well aware Ephreith, and the rest of Unova, for that matter, wanted the Dragons out of the way and would never allow her to go through with something like that. Meaning - Lucia had to do this in secret, sneaking the Seal Book from the castle (often with help from Elias, Ephreith's son) and spending evenings studying it in secret to find a solution. Ephreith quickly caught on, however; he would do everything he could to prevent her from succeeding in breaking the seals, while Lucia would find ways around that to continue working at it. When Ephreith discovered Kyurem's existence and attempted to create the DNA splicers to recreate the original dragon, Lucia caught on (through, you guessed it, eavesdropping and finding out from Elias that his father had gone over the deep end) and did everything in her power to hinder his success in turn.

The reason Ephreith couldn't really do anything to Lucia to get her to stop was that he was still trying to preserve some semblance of trust - namely, from some of the important people the twins had known like Nymphadora, Magni and the Shadow Walkers in general, and so forth. Retaliating against Lucia would likely cause suspicion, as there was no apparent reason for it; in turn, Lucia was extremely hesitant to share the truth about Ephreith after being dismissed by her brother on the subject, fearing her mother and the others who had been friends with the both twins and Ephreith wouldn't want to believe her. (Around this time, a series of other Awful Things seemed to go down around Lucia - Elle falling ill, Allen's death, and her brother running away. With all the other things her mother had going on at the time, Lucia couldn't bring herself to tell Clara that Ephreith may or may not have been the one responsible for Adair's death.)

Anyway - around the age of 18, Lucia and Elias were engaged, much to the dismay of Ephreith, who was still in the process of trying to create a working DNA splicer. He had to devise a way to get Lucia out of his hair without any cause for suspicion - and fortunately for him, there was one, and it would be to Unova's benefit as well. Lucia, unlike her father, had been very much in support of briding the gap between Unova and Kalos and forming an alliance. After all, Unova was still struggling recover from the aftermath of the second war, had little external trade going, and was generally probably going to collapse if they couldn't find help from another region. Ephreith became aware of this - likely through Elias - and decided to use that to his advantage by making contact with Kalos and proposing Lucia go off as an ambassador of sorts. (Who was, of course, fairly suited for the job, being fluent in Kalosian/French thanks to her mother and... you know, a former-slash-future princess / essentially a noblewoman, which would make for some very good appearances while in Kalos.)

So, both Lucia and Ephreith knew the real reason he wanted her to go to Kalos; she was understandably hesitant about agreeing, but knew, with Unova's position and all, she couldn't really refuse. As it turned out, this was one of the biggest decisions she would make in her life. She left for Kalos several months later and would stay for about a year. Anyone who's familiar with her character would probably assume this was recipe for disaster, but fortunately for everyone involved, Lucia isn’t the tactless doofus her father was. While away, she was quite successful in winning over the Kalosian nobility (although initially she wasn’t received very well due to being half-Isshu and... yeah that was fun) and managed to convince them that the two regions should reconcile. (Meanwhile, Ephreith was trying his damnedest to get Elias to call off his engagement with Lucia without much success. And also trying to combine the dragons, which... due to Kyurem being P.O.’d, was also not succeeding.) Even after returning to Unova, however, Lucia would remain as something of an ambassador to Kalos for the rest of her life, often visiting every few years or so. Those fancy Reshiram and Zekrom statues in Kalos? Yep, they were constructed as a show of friendship between Unova and Kalos very late in Lucia’s life, unveiled during one of her last visits.

On top of that, Lucia and Elias were married shortly after her return, meaning when Elias inherited his father’s crown, Lucia was Queen Regent of Unova. And, boy, did she use the power (and freedom from Shitmonia getting in the way). Beyond re-establishing external trade via alliance with Kalos, she also worked tirelessly to preserve whatever remained of Isshu culture, to the point that even thought what remained was very, very little - after all, Kalos had practically tried to stamp it out entirely - almost all of its survival can be attributed to Lucia. In a somewhat similar vein, re-assumed the Devine family’s role of managing the royal guard as well, at least when she wasn’t in Kalos. Though she was never directly involved in it, she held responsibility for making sure the guard was overseen and acting justly. Additionally, of course, she also helped Elias in ruling Unova, giving him advice and opinions on matters - allegedly, everything he did as king, he ran by Lucia first. 

Lucia's historical significance is hard to overstate; she's recognized both in Unova and Kalos for her contribution in bringing the two regions together in friendship after many, many years of animosity between them, as well as for the work she did in re-stablizing Unova in her time as Queen Regent. However, almost completely forgotten to history was her relationship to the Twin Heroes, as they largely faded into mythological figures, and connection to Zekrom; furthermore, history tends to remember her best by her married name, Lucia Harmonia, rather than by her maiden name, Devine, with the latter being recorded only very, very rarely.

[forever-with-youu]

Korean Webtoon Recommendations

Hi everyone,

I thought I would share some korean webtoons that that I’ve been reading lately. 

The webtoons I’m listing, the storylines will commonaly revolve around the following genre, settings or character such as Romance, Comedy, Reincartion, Isekai, Otome Games, Historical, Fantasy, Consorts, Maids, Dukes, Empress and Villainess. 

Recommendations:

1. Living as the Tyrant’s Older Sister - Absoluetly my favourite, it’s funny and the FL is strong who does not give af 

2. The Twin Siblings’ New Life - I cried reading this and I’m very interested to see the development of the Twin’s trust towards their father and siblings. It was actully soo heart breaking seeing how hard the twin’s family is trying to win the twins over

3. I don’t want to be Empress - the ML is trying to win the FL love and omg I love the reaction of the ML everytime the FL reminds him how he said he will never love her in the beginning and that she never expects his love and tells him she will never love him back too. ALSO the FL is trying to set the ML with someone else HAHAHA

4.The Omniscient POV of An Unrequited  

5. Seduce the Villain’s Father

6. Lucia

7. The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke’s Mansion

8. The Duchess’ 50 Tea Recipes

9. I’m Stanning the Prince - THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS OMG THE WAY ITS SOO ACCURATE TO STAN CULTURE 

10. Revenge Wedding

11. The Library Needs A Witch

12. Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp

13. Beware of the Villainess! - The FL in this is such a badass and funny I love it

14. I Became the Villain’s Mother

15. The Maid and the Vampire

16. Daughter of the Emperor - I really enjoy reading the relationship development between the FL and her father. Her father is really protective and I love how they tease each other. 

17. Lady Baby

18. Beatrice 

19. Villainous Princess

20. Who MadE me a Princess

21. Priscilla’s Marriage Request

22. Lady Beast

23. Why Are You Doing This, Duke? - The split personality change of the ML omg

24. Wendy the Florist

25. Charlotte Has Five Disciples

26. La Dolce Vita di Adelaide

27. The Duchess with an Empty Soul

28. This Girl is a Little Wild - it’s sooo cute how clueless the ML and FL are towards their feelings to each other 

29.  Survive as the Hero’s Wife

30. Beast with Flowers

31. The Flower of Francia 

32. Light and Shadow

33. the Justice of Villainous Woman - One of my favourite moments is reading about the ML’s POV when he started to fall for the FL 

34. The Abandoned Empress

35. Sincerely: I became a Duke’s Maid

36. The Vaillainess Lives Twice - The FL is the most scheming FL I have ever came across and omg I love it!

37. Who Made me a Princess 

That’s all I can list atm, let me know if you guys enjoy any of the webtoons on this list! 

Till next time everyone❣️

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23 January 2017

Today marks the 17th anniversary of my mom, Lucia Romano Preziotti’s death. For those who knew her personally–sadly only a handful of people left in my life–she was the kindest soul with the strongest heart, a believer in the underdog, and a supportive if quietly reserved #feminist. Born in the late 20s, a working woman in the late 40s, a wife and mother in the 60s and then again in the 70s, a working mom and student in the 80s, a retiree and traveler in the 90s, gone too early in the millennium. She was my champion and my best friend.

This weekend I honored her memory by participating in the historic Women’s March on Washington with some of my closest friends. And although we were not all walking side-by-side I could feel their spirit and positive energy in DC, San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Providence, and everywhere else around the world. These women who give me strength, who offer emotional love and support, women who make me laugh out loud and who challenge me to be my best self, women I am honored to call #sisters. These badass women who I am certain my mother would be excited and proud to hear are a part of my life. “This is what feminism looks like.”

modern day warriors: this is what feminism looks like 23 January 2017 Today marks the 17th anniversary of my mom, Lucia Romano Preziotti's death. For those who knew her personally--sadly only a handful of people left in my life--she was the kindest soul with the strongest heart, a believer in the underdog, and a supportive if quietly reserved…