#shed get along with lilia over their mystery food X's XD

[chibi-celesti]

Random rant ahoy ft. Spoilers for AT 2 up ahead!

Been watching Luca's Cosmosphere on loop this past month, and, while I initially thought she was ok, I've warmed up to her alot and didn't expect for her to be almost relatable to me(especially in Cosmosphere 2 and 3).

Poor girl had a rough childhood. She lost her birth mother(she was an infant/ toddler at the time), had lost her little sister due to an Outbreak she(the sister) had at three, lost her foster father, Batz, who tried to save said sister, and has a strained relationship with her foster Mother, Reisha.

To make matters even more depressing, Luca finds out later on she's a Maiden chosen by the Goddess that protects the Continent(and died to become one briefly). Combined with feelings of self loathing and inadequacy born from her family falling apart, and you have someone who should hold resentment to the world. And she has her moments when engaging with Cloche at the beginning, and Croix during her route(especially if you try to romance her) where her anger shows.

You'd think enduring all of that she'd snap and let the world fall apart.

She doesn't. Despite all the Hell thrown at her and the rest of the cast, Luca still stands alongside her rival and team to do one thing they all want so much: to create an expansive form of land for a populace that yearns to live freely without fear of their land collaping at an moment.

I kinda relate to her with two things about her character: Her willingness to help people out, and not wanting anyone to hate her, and the desire to runaway when things get scary and I can't handle the stress.

Luca works as a [Dive Therapist]: something like, which is considered taboo, is technically a way to help people convey and destress the woes on their shoulders. She's a regular therapist but utilizes Diving as a means of being a safe space for people to vent out their problems and free at ease without judgment. You know, stuff that most therapists and school counselors do for a living. Yet one of the biggest hurdles she fears doing this line of work is people hating her. Luca wants others to be happy and enjoy her help as much as she can, and, should someone hate her, it hurts her already broken self-confidence and self-esteem she has from losing her sister.

I can feel her in this regard not in the therapist department cause my irl job is not that lol , but I can sympathize because I want to do all that I can to help people, and I don't want anyone to hate me or think of me as a bother. My stress levels go haywire should anything like that happen because I love wanting to help others in anyway I can.l, and if I can't I feel helpless and they probably get upset with me over it no matter how minor or major the problem may be.

Her panicking and wanting to rynaway when things get tough is another aspect of Luca I can sympathize with. Luca has done this in cases where she's in pain of losing Croix over him helping Cloche since he's said girl's sworn knight, her falling out with Reisha even more, and even joining another faction that claimed to help stop the madness of the current government. She feels so torn and wants to make a difference and purpose to herself she pretty much died at one point she's revived later in the story feeling like this is all she can do(even though doesn't want to). But she perseveres and even saves her rival and countless other from going through Ascension(basically death towards a utopia since the Continent project failed intially), and defended her from being executed.

Again, those aren't things I have gone through irl, but I've had moments where I want to runaway regardless of whatever the problem that bothered me was. I'm a bad liar, so even if I did try to runaway, I always have someone asking what's wrong and talking to them usually helps alleviate the problem. Granted, that's never truly a fixer upper at times.

I know I may have missed other parts of her character I the main story that are just as compelling or I overlooked in AT 2, but I really wanted to gush about how knowing more of her past struggles made my opinion of Luca change just from knowing how she was a girl who I'd argue dealt with a lot of Internal Self Loathing.

She'd make a sweet addition to the NRC Student body or Staff. Even Marmalade would appreciate her Therapy Skills!