My AB OCs: Lucille
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a_sporking_ratI AM GETTING A BABY HAMSTER FROM THE SHELTER! HER NAME IS OATMEAL AND I AM BRINGING HER HOME TOMORROW!
In other news I haven't been able to make a new spork this week, I'm busy and not feeling well, but since I've had this character-post ready to go for a few days, please enjoy it until I get a new spork up, which should be by Friday or the weekend. Presenting...the star of Sue vs Sue herself, Lucille van Pelt!
To begin with, yes, Lucille van Pelt, same name as the little girl with the football in Peanuts. I thought this was a terribly clever reference-joke when I was fifteen, but now I plan to change her surname to something else, I just have to figure out what. Of course, this means changing the surname of the entire van Pelt family who, while you don't meet them in my AB stuff, are pretty major in my extended original work. Luckily I'm not all that attached to the surname at all and so changing it won't be a big deal, just something I'll have to adjust my memory to. Anyone who knows something that an old-money upper-class American family of Dutch descent would likely have as their last name, feel free to chip in! Bonus points if it's easy to say and spell!
My Lucille is a very cruel, sadistic person. She really, really enjoys violence and hurting others. It's just something she enjoys, and there's nothing else she really loves doing quite so much. She has a strong, strong preference for physical violence, but since gory torture isn't an option most of the time in the real world, she's willing to settle for things like mere verbal cruelty, which is aided by her quick wit and lack of empathy. She also loves power (and by extension money) and can never get enough of it. She has a constant need to seek higher positions of power, and to assert it over others in the worst ways possible. Considering that she's a CEO as an adult, she has plenty of opportunity to do so. Specifically, she's CEO of Vorstel, a highly successful luxury and commercial real estate company that has been in the van Pelt family for generations.
Since she's an AB character, I feel it must be pointed out emphatically that her sex drive is not related to this at all, and there's nothing of this in the bedroom besides light use of toys like handcuffs, riding crops, and blindfolds, but no major bondage or sexual sadism or anything. While she does get great pleasure and satisfaction out of hurting others, it's not sexual in the slightest.
Besides not caring about other people, Lucille strong distrusts them. She borders on being something of a functionally-paranoid, believing that people are generally, well, a lot like her, constantly seeking a higher position on the totem pole and willing to use, abuse, exploit, and destroy others to get it. She doesn't believe ALL people are like that---for instance, plenty are also mindless drones, or simpering cowards who don't have the guts to 'improve' things for themselves (which is how she sees said ladder-climbing), or idiots who don't even realize it's a good thing to do. Ultimately, the world is divided into predators and prey for her, enemies or minions, no friends or equals. For most people, this would be a lonely existence, but Lucille doesn't feel the need for human companionship, trust, etc at all. She doesn't even need validation or loyalty like Anita does. To be honest, she doesn't trust loyalty on it's own---it's weird, why would this person do things for her and be on her side if they're not getting something from it? It's weird. Naturally, the exception is made in SvS where the 'loyalty' is the result of her influence on reality and people as a Sue and she knows it. Outside SvS though, she prefers to have allies and lackeys who are tied to her by things she understands like money, mutual gain, blackmail, or fear.
There are two versions of Lucille age-wise. There's the young (teens to twenties) version, who is more like Glory from BtVS, and the older/adult (thirties to forties) version, who is more like Emma Frost from the X-Men comics. The one featured in SvS is the younger version, so she more volatile, more openly sociopathic, much less cool and charismatic, more bitchy than witty, etc., but also loads of self-centered super-sadistic 'self-obsessed shallow mean girl with a twist' type fun. Besides Glory, she's also got a lot of every stereotypical 'alpha bitch' character--Cordelia Chase, Regina Georgie, Madison Montgomery--mixed with the nastier elements of a typical UF heroine and/or female badass video game character (all about guns and leather and whatnot) and then a core of really dark sadistic paranoia and just wanting to lash out at everything and never trusting anyone ever and still living in the specter of her father and his influence. She's kind of a mess, but she's swiftly recovering, not in terms of becoming a better or more healthy person but in terms of becoming a predator herself in her strange new environment with all its different rules, and without her father to help her. She's not CEO at this stage in her life yet, and is instead, depending on if she's in her teens or twenties, either in school or in an early position in the company.
Adult Lucille has her shit much more together. She's realized that the behaviors that she learned to survive prior to the death of her father do not work in the world she has found herself in with her new 'family' and has fully adjusted. This doesn't mean her predatory and hostile nature has at all actually changed, she's just adapted how she manifests it so that it benefits her. She's a successful and sophisticated businesswoman, and while she's hardly THE most well-liked socialite in the New York upper crust circles, she does keep her reputation sharp and her connections well-intact. Still has no friends to speak of, but friends aren't what she wants at all, she wants allies and bridges and pawns and victims, just like always. She's very glamorous, very intimidating, very fabulous, very dangerous. She's good at what she does, she's making lots of money, she's at the top of the game, she knows it. Other inspirations for Adult!Lucille besides Emma Frost include Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada (book and movie), Glenn Close as Cruella DeVille in the live-action 101 Dalmatians movie, Fiona Goode from American Horror Story: Coven, and David Xanatos from Disney's Gargoyles. She's paranoid still, but rather than it having a detrimental effect on her, she's instead got a plan for every scenario for her to come out the victor or, at the very least, absolutely unscathed by defeat. She's learned enough about 'normal' and 'good' people to not only fit in society as one of them, but to jerk them around and predict their responses and reactions, which she uses in her gambits, schemes, threats, punishments, etc.
Regardless of which age group/version she is, she loves, besides violence and power, high femme glamor (especially shoes/heels and her ever-present perfect red lipstick), guns and other weapons, hurting others, animals, and children/babies. She's really insanely maternal and is genuinely kind, loving, and caring towards certain animals (cats, dogs, horses, big predators with lots of teeth like sharks and crocs, and any baby animals) and children who are twelve and under. And even the animals she's not especially doting towards, she's still not interested in hurting like she likes to do to people. As for kids, it's like some little switch in her brain gets flicked once they start puberty, and even if they were a child she just absolutely adored up until then, suddenly she feels as horrible and sneering and cold towards them as if they were just any other adult. The only exception to this is her own son, Thomas, whom she loves and spoils unconditionally regardless of age.
Being a Sue, even a Villain Sue, means that Lucille of course gets the Tragic Past full of rape and abuse and extraordinary Dickensian coincidences. Lucille's mother was a high society lady named Etoile Dubois, while her father was an impoverished thug named Alain who had run away to NYC from somewhere in the Midwest during his teens. I actually do not have his last name picked out, since I made these guys when I was in my teens and the "French" surname I used then is something I made up and I would like a real one instead; I'm thinking Leclair. Anyway, Etoile went slumming, had Lucille, and when Etoile died of an overdose, the three-year old Lucille went to Al and then they both vanished entirely out of sight, out of mind for everyone.
He physically and sexually abused her, and conditioned her entirely to see it as normal and necessary, while also encouraging her to be just as much of a vicious mean monster as himself. As odd as it seems for an abuser to teach his victim to fight, he didn't want to see her hurt by anyone else (since she belonged to HIM, and only HE was to be allowed to do that) and he sincerely believed that people would try to, since he thought that everyone else was like him and either covering up what they secretly did like he was or just too scared to do it themselves for fear of getting caught. But because he'd also broken her down mentally to accept his abuse as necessary and right, he didn't ever think she'd see him hurting her as reason to fight back like he trained her to do with anyone else, and he was right, she never did. She doesn't even see anything bad about what he did in retrospect, honestly.
When he died under nasty circumstances, she was sixteen, and her closest living relative was Annette, Etoile's cousin, who had married into the very rich van Pelt family, which Lucille was promptly adopted into. While she was almost catatonic for awhile with grief over her father and absolutely lost without him, the will to survive and succeed and conquer and dominate that he'd implanted with her ended up saving her, and she boomeranged back from it with vicious vigor, adapting her violent street-child ways into a brand of bullying and sadism more suited for the upper-crust prep school they put her into, and went from there to succeed fantastically in the family business (Vorstel, a luxury and commercial real estate corporation that she now CEO of) as well as a socialite in high society. She never lost her own sadism though, and it's meant to be pretty ambiguous whether this is due to her father or if she really is just a nasty horrible person on her own and he merely helped her justify/embrace it.
She's a lesbian, though she prefers to keep that private, but somewhere along the way she had a son when she was twenty-four. His paternity is entirely unknown, making him the sole scandal on her otherwise spotless public reputation, and she dotes on him entirely. She'd never harm a hair on his head either, and she reconciles how she can view the way her father treated her as just fine while also seeing it as anathema to do to her own son by rationalizing that "He was a man raising a girl in a lower-class world, I'm a woman raising a boy in an upper-class one, it's entirely different situations with entirely different needs." Besides that, her family is just the van Pelts who adopted her, and their extended family. The only one really important in the AB verse is Hieronymus "Hiero" van Pelt, who appears as a witch in SvS, and is five years older than she is, but he also has a younger brother, Phineas, who is one year older than Lucille. Their parents are Alberich and Annette, Phineas grows up to get married and have four kids, while Hiero stays single but adopts two. Phineas is rightfully terrified of her, but only Hiero knows just how terrible she really is.
In my original stories, Lucille is the Big Bad and the main problem is that she is trying to break down the walls between worlds for her own purposes, which...actually is not a bad purpose in itself, it's just how desperate she is to accomplish it that she'll do this and accept that destroy everything else if she succeeds. Basically she wants to make her son immortal so nothing can ever hurt him, not even old age, and not just vampire-immortal but truly immortal, and herself too she she can protect and watch over him forever. Oh yeah, and if in the process she can exploit magical creatures and people for money and power, that's just great too. It's up to the Meddling Kid heroes to stop her as well as just general Buffy-type monster-of-the-week shenanigans of dealing with the numerous monsters that pop up in their town. Hiero plays a really big part in this too, and ideally there will be a prequel detailing not-dissimilar adventures of him and Lucille together when they were younger.
In the Anitaverse, Lucille has lots of versions of what she can be (at both ages) besides what she is in SvS. With just a tweak or two to her backstory, she's a born golden weretiger, an infected orange weretiger, a werehyena, a 400something Padma-line vampire (in which case the van Pelt family are her modern-day descendents), or a panwere (tiger, lion, wolf, snake, hyena, and swan). And she's a queen/MotC in each version. BECAUSE SHE IS THE SUE QUEEN, FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY! And Thomas is also usually whatever she is too.
Because she is a perfect Villain Sue, she is perfectly beautiful, and it is of course all-natural, even when she's in her forties. She's 5'10, big perky perfect boobs, tiny waist, nice hips/thighs/ass, long lovely legs, and a heart-shaped face with a pointy chin and great cheekbones. She has blue eyes, skin about a shade lighter than the average American white woman, and blonde hair that curls naturally into beautiful sausage ringlets like an antique doll. As a teen, she dressed pretty tomboyishly when she was living with her father, often in old oversized clothing of his, but after being adopted by the van Pelts she split her look between one that her new world would approve of and one she ran around in on her own time, the latter being a sort of "80s bad girl" look (since, in the timeline of my original story, this was actually during the 1980s) that was built almost entirely in black and red. As an adult, she wears super-chic designer business-wear in office-appropriate colors. And always, always, at both ages, perfect red lipstick and amazing high heels that she never seems to suffer from. Any scars from her abuse are conveniently got rid-of by the story so as not to impair her beauty (in my original story, she uses magic to heal them, and as a wereanimal/vampire in the Anitaverse she can do the trick of cutting off the scar tissue so it heals over with fresh new perfect skin) As a note on her looks, I don't see her as being vain (at least not like Anita or Thomas is) but instead being very aware that she fits a certain ideal and aware she can use it to her advantage. She knows she's beautiful and wants to stay beautiful (healing the scars, etc.) but only because of what beauty helps her get, not because she's attached to beauty itself, if that makes any sense.
And since I've mentioned him so much, I suppose I should talk about Thomas. He's a little boy in SvS, maybe even still a toddler, but he's 18 during my original story. He was spoiled insanely by her and grew up to be a pampered, vain, sadistic little shit. Absolutely manipulative and narcissistic sociopath, but too much of an egotist and coward to want to actually use his talents for anything but his own personal amusement. His mother has absolutely no idea just how like her that he is, and thinks he's a little angel. He's got an Oedipus Complex going for her, so he's happy to keep this illusion in place. Enjoys seducing emotionally-vulnerable girls (or emotionally-impenetrable, if he's in the mood for a challenge) and then breaking their hearts in the worst way. Just such small-scale petty evil that I wouldn't even really call him a proper villain if not for the fact he has reason to be helping his mom out with her much more widespread agenda, and puts his psychological warfare to use against those Meddling Kids protagonists. He'd be violent for fun if he could like his mother, but he's physically wimpy and, as mentioned, a coward. Given his extraordinarily slim frame and bodily frailness, he has reason to be. He looks like an androgynous girl, with long ginger hair and amber eyes. Very stylish and sophisticated fashion sense, though I really couldn't describe it beyond that since I frankly don't know what stylish sophisticated modern-day boy-fashion looks like or what type would look best for him.
Naturally I do NOT normally use Lucille in roleplay, because a Mary Sue is not usually any fun for other players, but when we needed a Big Bad, she was just the ticket, so we used her AB vampire version for a plot in which alpha therians, many of them leaders, are repeatedly vanishing in the city of New York. The reason for this is a little vampire girl named Sorcha, and her Therian Servant, a weretiger named John who is her father. Recently, on a long journey which brought them to New York, Sorcha was driven to having to feed on animals, and, like Sabin in canon, began to rot to death as a result. Since drinking the blood of therians is more potent in canon too, John thought that he could save her by feeding various Alpha therians to her. Lucille is the MotC of NYC, and John exploited her weakness for children in order to get her in on it. She helps him, covers it up, and uses her Stalking Horse to deliberately make a red herring of himself by acting in increasingly suspicious and creepy manners towards the therianthropes of NYC. And who is this poor Stalking Horse? Armel Daube, who is the actual MotC of NYC in my SvS fic, but has been downgraded to Stalking Horse in this particular RPG. Oh well, real MotC or stalking horse, he's still gonna be a lackey to Lucille, whether she's a vampire or a were-smilodon super-sue! I'll probably make him be her lackey in my original stories too, haha.
I also played a male version of her, a werelion named Lucian, as a villain in an RPG run by a friend, because they wanted an m/m romance plot with him and their character. I'm not really into m/m or romance in general at all (especially not with extreme yaoi-type "uke/seme" dynamics like the other player wanted) but she was running the game and was a friend so I gave it a try just for her. She really liked it, but it definitely wasn't her cup of tea, and I found that I far preferred Lucille in her original female incarnation as well; Lucian wasn't a high-femme glamor-bomb at all like her, and where's the fun without that?
A much more enjoyable pairing for me is Lucille and Maureen. Maureen belongs to writtenelision, and was created without writtenelision knowing anything about Lucille and yet is so much like her that we couldn't help shoving them together. They're just SUCH a pair of fabulous villains together, whether it's an AB story or an X-Men one or something completely original, and they're terrific lovers too because they're just so alike that each is probably the only person on the planet that the other could enjoy the company of and not be abusive to and it's just PERFECT and they have MONEY and DRESSES and SHOES and VILLAINY and FABULOUS EVIL and it's just SO MUCH FUN and it was writtenelision's brilliant idea to have Maureen and Lucille be what they are, be connected the way they are, in SvS. The fic isn't there yet so you don't know what I'm talking about, but you will, and then you will agree, it is BRILLIANT and so is Maureen and so is writtenelision and I COULD JUST GUSH ALL DAY ABOUT THEM AND THEIR FABULOUS EVIL LESBIAN SIMPATICO GIRLFRIEND AWESOMENESS!
Doing SvS has been a really good exercise for me in writing her, because Lucille is the type of character I love but am not any good at writing. I am bad at writing charm, confidence, and glamor, I am bad at writing incredible wit and witty meanness, and I am really bad at writing super-competent villains who are ahead every step of the way. All of these are essential to who Lucille is, and I feel like this has been great practice, though the end result is still far from perfect! And Lucille *has* to be perfect, after all ;D
In other news I haven't been able to make a new spork this week, I'm busy and not feeling well, but since I've had this character-post ready to go for a few days, please enjoy it until I get a new spork up, which should be by Friday or the weekend. Presenting...the star of Sue vs Sue herself, Lucille van Pelt!
To begin with, yes, Lucille van Pelt, same name as the little girl with the football in Peanuts. I thought this was a terribly clever reference-joke when I was fifteen, but now I plan to change her surname to something else, I just have to figure out what. Of course, this means changing the surname of the entire van Pelt family who, while you don't meet them in my AB stuff, are pretty major in my extended original work. Luckily I'm not all that attached to the surname at all and so changing it won't be a big deal, just something I'll have to adjust my memory to. Anyone who knows something that an old-money upper-class American family of Dutch descent would likely have as their last name, feel free to chip in! Bonus points if it's easy to say and spell!
My Lucille is a very cruel, sadistic person. She really, really enjoys violence and hurting others. It's just something she enjoys, and there's nothing else she really loves doing quite so much. She has a strong, strong preference for physical violence, but since gory torture isn't an option most of the time in the real world, she's willing to settle for things like mere verbal cruelty, which is aided by her quick wit and lack of empathy. She also loves power (and by extension money) and can never get enough of it. She has a constant need to seek higher positions of power, and to assert it over others in the worst ways possible. Considering that she's a CEO as an adult, she has plenty of opportunity to do so. Specifically, she's CEO of Vorstel, a highly successful luxury and commercial real estate company that has been in the van Pelt family for generations.
Since she's an AB character, I feel it must be pointed out emphatically that her sex drive is not related to this at all, and there's nothing of this in the bedroom besides light use of toys like handcuffs, riding crops, and blindfolds, but no major bondage or sexual sadism or anything. While she does get great pleasure and satisfaction out of hurting others, it's not sexual in the slightest.
Besides not caring about other people, Lucille strong distrusts them. She borders on being something of a functionally-paranoid, believing that people are generally, well, a lot like her, constantly seeking a higher position on the totem pole and willing to use, abuse, exploit, and destroy others to get it. She doesn't believe ALL people are like that---for instance, plenty are also mindless drones, or simpering cowards who don't have the guts to 'improve' things for themselves (which is how she sees said ladder-climbing), or idiots who don't even realize it's a good thing to do. Ultimately, the world is divided into predators and prey for her, enemies or minions, no friends or equals. For most people, this would be a lonely existence, but Lucille doesn't feel the need for human companionship, trust, etc at all. She doesn't even need validation or loyalty like Anita does. To be honest, she doesn't trust loyalty on it's own---it's weird, why would this person do things for her and be on her side if they're not getting something from it? It's weird. Naturally, the exception is made in SvS where the 'loyalty' is the result of her influence on reality and people as a Sue and she knows it. Outside SvS though, she prefers to have allies and lackeys who are tied to her by things she understands like money, mutual gain, blackmail, or fear.
There are two versions of Lucille age-wise. There's the young (teens to twenties) version, who is more like Glory from BtVS, and the older/adult (thirties to forties) version, who is more like Emma Frost from the X-Men comics. The one featured in SvS is the younger version, so she more volatile, more openly sociopathic, much less cool and charismatic, more bitchy than witty, etc., but also loads of self-centered super-sadistic 'self-obsessed shallow mean girl with a twist' type fun. Besides Glory, she's also got a lot of every stereotypical 'alpha bitch' character--Cordelia Chase, Regina Georgie, Madison Montgomery--mixed with the nastier elements of a typical UF heroine and/or female badass video game character (all about guns and leather and whatnot) and then a core of really dark sadistic paranoia and just wanting to lash out at everything and never trusting anyone ever and still living in the specter of her father and his influence. She's kind of a mess, but she's swiftly recovering, not in terms of becoming a better or more healthy person but in terms of becoming a predator herself in her strange new environment with all its different rules, and without her father to help her. She's not CEO at this stage in her life yet, and is instead, depending on if she's in her teens or twenties, either in school or in an early position in the company.
Adult Lucille has her shit much more together. She's realized that the behaviors that she learned to survive prior to the death of her father do not work in the world she has found herself in with her new 'family' and has fully adjusted. This doesn't mean her predatory and hostile nature has at all actually changed, she's just adapted how she manifests it so that it benefits her. She's a successful and sophisticated businesswoman, and while she's hardly THE most well-liked socialite in the New York upper crust circles, she does keep her reputation sharp and her connections well-intact. Still has no friends to speak of, but friends aren't what she wants at all, she wants allies and bridges and pawns and victims, just like always. She's very glamorous, very intimidating, very fabulous, very dangerous. She's good at what she does, she's making lots of money, she's at the top of the game, she knows it. Other inspirations for Adult!Lucille besides Emma Frost include Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada (book and movie), Glenn Close as Cruella DeVille in the live-action 101 Dalmatians movie, Fiona Goode from American Horror Story: Coven, and David Xanatos from Disney's Gargoyles. She's paranoid still, but rather than it having a detrimental effect on her, she's instead got a plan for every scenario for her to come out the victor or, at the very least, absolutely unscathed by defeat. She's learned enough about 'normal' and 'good' people to not only fit in society as one of them, but to jerk them around and predict their responses and reactions, which she uses in her gambits, schemes, threats, punishments, etc.
Regardless of which age group/version she is, she loves, besides violence and power, high femme glamor (especially shoes/heels and her ever-present perfect red lipstick), guns and other weapons, hurting others, animals, and children/babies. She's really insanely maternal and is genuinely kind, loving, and caring towards certain animals (cats, dogs, horses, big predators with lots of teeth like sharks and crocs, and any baby animals) and children who are twelve and under. And even the animals she's not especially doting towards, she's still not interested in hurting like she likes to do to people. As for kids, it's like some little switch in her brain gets flicked once they start puberty, and even if they were a child she just absolutely adored up until then, suddenly she feels as horrible and sneering and cold towards them as if they were just any other adult. The only exception to this is her own son, Thomas, whom she loves and spoils unconditionally regardless of age.
Being a Sue, even a Villain Sue, means that Lucille of course gets the Tragic Past full of rape and abuse and extraordinary Dickensian coincidences. Lucille's mother was a high society lady named Etoile Dubois, while her father was an impoverished thug named Alain who had run away to NYC from somewhere in the Midwest during his teens. I actually do not have his last name picked out, since I made these guys when I was in my teens and the "French" surname I used then is something I made up and I would like a real one instead; I'm thinking Leclair. Anyway, Etoile went slumming, had Lucille, and when Etoile died of an overdose, the three-year old Lucille went to Al and then they both vanished entirely out of sight, out of mind for everyone.
He physically and sexually abused her, and conditioned her entirely to see it as normal and necessary, while also encouraging her to be just as much of a vicious mean monster as himself. As odd as it seems for an abuser to teach his victim to fight, he didn't want to see her hurt by anyone else (since she belonged to HIM, and only HE was to be allowed to do that) and he sincerely believed that people would try to, since he thought that everyone else was like him and either covering up what they secretly did like he was or just too scared to do it themselves for fear of getting caught. But because he'd also broken her down mentally to accept his abuse as necessary and right, he didn't ever think she'd see him hurting her as reason to fight back like he trained her to do with anyone else, and he was right, she never did. She doesn't even see anything bad about what he did in retrospect, honestly.
When he died under nasty circumstances, she was sixteen, and her closest living relative was Annette, Etoile's cousin, who had married into the very rich van Pelt family, which Lucille was promptly adopted into. While she was almost catatonic for awhile with grief over her father and absolutely lost without him, the will to survive and succeed and conquer and dominate that he'd implanted with her ended up saving her, and she boomeranged back from it with vicious vigor, adapting her violent street-child ways into a brand of bullying and sadism more suited for the upper-crust prep school they put her into, and went from there to succeed fantastically in the family business (Vorstel, a luxury and commercial real estate corporation that she now CEO of) as well as a socialite in high society. She never lost her own sadism though, and it's meant to be pretty ambiguous whether this is due to her father or if she really is just a nasty horrible person on her own and he merely helped her justify/embrace it.
She's a lesbian, though she prefers to keep that private, but somewhere along the way she had a son when she was twenty-four. His paternity is entirely unknown, making him the sole scandal on her otherwise spotless public reputation, and she dotes on him entirely. She'd never harm a hair on his head either, and she reconciles how she can view the way her father treated her as just fine while also seeing it as anathema to do to her own son by rationalizing that "He was a man raising a girl in a lower-class world, I'm a woman raising a boy in an upper-class one, it's entirely different situations with entirely different needs." Besides that, her family is just the van Pelts who adopted her, and their extended family. The only one really important in the AB verse is Hieronymus "Hiero" van Pelt, who appears as a witch in SvS, and is five years older than she is, but he also has a younger brother, Phineas, who is one year older than Lucille. Their parents are Alberich and Annette, Phineas grows up to get married and have four kids, while Hiero stays single but adopts two. Phineas is rightfully terrified of her, but only Hiero knows just how terrible she really is.
In my original stories, Lucille is the Big Bad and the main problem is that she is trying to break down the walls between worlds for her own purposes, which...actually is not a bad purpose in itself, it's just how desperate she is to accomplish it that she'll do this and accept that destroy everything else if she succeeds. Basically she wants to make her son immortal so nothing can ever hurt him, not even old age, and not just vampire-immortal but truly immortal, and herself too she she can protect and watch over him forever. Oh yeah, and if in the process she can exploit magical creatures and people for money and power, that's just great too. It's up to the Meddling Kid heroes to stop her as well as just general Buffy-type monster-of-the-week shenanigans of dealing with the numerous monsters that pop up in their town. Hiero plays a really big part in this too, and ideally there will be a prequel detailing not-dissimilar adventures of him and Lucille together when they were younger.
In the Anitaverse, Lucille has lots of versions of what she can be (at both ages) besides what she is in SvS. With just a tweak or two to her backstory, she's a born golden weretiger, an infected orange weretiger, a werehyena, a 400something Padma-line vampire (in which case the van Pelt family are her modern-day descendents), or a panwere (tiger, lion, wolf, snake, hyena, and swan). And she's a queen/MotC in each version. BECAUSE SHE IS THE SUE QUEEN, FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY! And Thomas is also usually whatever she is too.
Because she is a perfect Villain Sue, she is perfectly beautiful, and it is of course all-natural, even when she's in her forties. She's 5'10, big perky perfect boobs, tiny waist, nice hips/thighs/ass, long lovely legs, and a heart-shaped face with a pointy chin and great cheekbones. She has blue eyes, skin about a shade lighter than the average American white woman, and blonde hair that curls naturally into beautiful sausage ringlets like an antique doll. As a teen, she dressed pretty tomboyishly when she was living with her father, often in old oversized clothing of his, but after being adopted by the van Pelts she split her look between one that her new world would approve of and one she ran around in on her own time, the latter being a sort of "80s bad girl" look (since, in the timeline of my original story, this was actually during the 1980s) that was built almost entirely in black and red. As an adult, she wears super-chic designer business-wear in office-appropriate colors. And always, always, at both ages, perfect red lipstick and amazing high heels that she never seems to suffer from. Any scars from her abuse are conveniently got rid-of by the story so as not to impair her beauty (in my original story, she uses magic to heal them, and as a wereanimal/vampire in the Anitaverse she can do the trick of cutting off the scar tissue so it heals over with fresh new perfect skin) As a note on her looks, I don't see her as being vain (at least not like Anita or Thomas is) but instead being very aware that she fits a certain ideal and aware she can use it to her advantage. She knows she's beautiful and wants to stay beautiful (healing the scars, etc.) but only because of what beauty helps her get, not because she's attached to beauty itself, if that makes any sense.
And since I've mentioned him so much, I suppose I should talk about Thomas. He's a little boy in SvS, maybe even still a toddler, but he's 18 during my original story. He was spoiled insanely by her and grew up to be a pampered, vain, sadistic little shit. Absolutely manipulative and narcissistic sociopath, but too much of an egotist and coward to want to actually use his talents for anything but his own personal amusement. His mother has absolutely no idea just how like her that he is, and thinks he's a little angel. He's got an Oedipus Complex going for her, so he's happy to keep this illusion in place. Enjoys seducing emotionally-vulnerable girls (or emotionally-impenetrable, if he's in the mood for a challenge) and then breaking their hearts in the worst way. Just such small-scale petty evil that I wouldn't even really call him a proper villain if not for the fact he has reason to be helping his mom out with her much more widespread agenda, and puts his psychological warfare to use against those Meddling Kids protagonists. He'd be violent for fun if he could like his mother, but he's physically wimpy and, as mentioned, a coward. Given his extraordinarily slim frame and bodily frailness, he has reason to be. He looks like an androgynous girl, with long ginger hair and amber eyes. Very stylish and sophisticated fashion sense, though I really couldn't describe it beyond that since I frankly don't know what stylish sophisticated modern-day boy-fashion looks like or what type would look best for him.
Naturally I do NOT normally use Lucille in roleplay, because a Mary Sue is not usually any fun for other players, but when we needed a Big Bad, she was just the ticket, so we used her AB vampire version for a plot in which alpha therians, many of them leaders, are repeatedly vanishing in the city of New York. The reason for this is a little vampire girl named Sorcha, and her Therian Servant, a weretiger named John who is her father. Recently, on a long journey which brought them to New York, Sorcha was driven to having to feed on animals, and, like Sabin in canon, began to rot to death as a result. Since drinking the blood of therians is more potent in canon too, John thought that he could save her by feeding various Alpha therians to her. Lucille is the MotC of NYC, and John exploited her weakness for children in order to get her in on it. She helps him, covers it up, and uses her Stalking Horse to deliberately make a red herring of himself by acting in increasingly suspicious and creepy manners towards the therianthropes of NYC. And who is this poor Stalking Horse? Armel Daube, who is the actual MotC of NYC in my SvS fic, but has been downgraded to Stalking Horse in this particular RPG. Oh well, real MotC or stalking horse, he's still gonna be a lackey to Lucille, whether she's a vampire or a were-smilodon super-sue! I'll probably make him be her lackey in my original stories too, haha.
I also played a male version of her, a werelion named Lucian, as a villain in an RPG run by a friend, because they wanted an m/m romance plot with him and their character. I'm not really into m/m or romance in general at all (especially not with extreme yaoi-type "uke/seme" dynamics like the other player wanted) but she was running the game and was a friend so I gave it a try just for her. She really liked it, but it definitely wasn't her cup of tea, and I found that I far preferred Lucille in her original female incarnation as well; Lucian wasn't a high-femme glamor-bomb at all like her, and where's the fun without that?
A much more enjoyable pairing for me is Lucille and Maureen. Maureen belongs to writtenelision, and was created without writtenelision knowing anything about Lucille and yet is so much like her that we couldn't help shoving them together. They're just SUCH a pair of fabulous villains together, whether it's an AB story or an X-Men one or something completely original, and they're terrific lovers too because they're just so alike that each is probably the only person on the planet that the other could enjoy the company of and not be abusive to and it's just PERFECT and they have MONEY and DRESSES and SHOES and VILLAINY and FABULOUS EVIL and it's just SO MUCH FUN and it was writtenelision's brilliant idea to have Maureen and Lucille be what they are, be connected the way they are, in SvS. The fic isn't there yet so you don't know what I'm talking about, but you will, and then you will agree, it is BRILLIANT and so is Maureen and so is writtenelision and I COULD JUST GUSH ALL DAY ABOUT THEM AND THEIR FABULOUS EVIL LESBIAN SIMPATICO GIRLFRIEND AWESOMENESS!
Doing SvS has been a really good exercise for me in writing her, because Lucille is the type of character I love but am not any good at writing. I am bad at writing charm, confidence, and glamor, I am bad at writing incredible wit and witty meanness, and I am really bad at writing super-competent villains who are ahead every step of the way. All of these are essential to who Lucille is, and I feel like this has been great practice, though the end result is still far from perfect! And Lucille *has* to be perfect, after all ;D
