Lucy felt the weight of the recently purloined purse as the coach rolled through the streets. It was nice and heavy, even after splitting the contents with her two temporary assistants. Thankfully, the most chivalrous men were the ones with wealth to spare. She placed the purse in her pocket and relaxed. She glanced at the sleeve where she concealed her revolver and wondered whether she should have killed the victim instead of knocking him out cold. She was certain she wasn’t recognised, as he didn’t see her, and he probably thought she was still bawling on the footpath. She couldn’t say the same for her accomplices, however, with them being directly in front of him the whole time. She didn’t let it bother her, though. With any luck, the mugee would have sustained a serious enough concussion for his memory to be unreliable. The coach drew to a stop, indicating she had arrived at her destination. Lucy got out, paid her driver only as much as she needed to, and bid him farewell as he drove off, leaving her to enter her home.
Even though I've only written just shy of a page about her, Lucy is a character that has probably been one of the hardest to figure out that I've ever done (Considering how little I've written, though, that's not saying much). I liked the idea of a thief who mainly relies on conning and relaxes and sips tea while knowing that the police will be barking up the wrong tree and I decided to see if I could make a character like that without making her a femme fatale. With that in mind, I had to give her a name. I decided a symbolic name wouldn't work too well in this case, as anyone who knew what it meant would look at it and wonder why no one has caught on to her already. As such, I decided to give her a name that sounded innocent, to make it slightly more understandable why no one suspects her. That's how I got the name Lucy, with my logic being that you wouldn't imagine Lucy from the Chronicles of Narnia holding a man at gunpoint and demanding his money. Speaking of holding someone at gunpoint, I had to figure out where to conceal a gun, as she has one on her a lot and having that be in plain view would kinda go against this character's MO. I went with her sleeve thanks to some constructive criticism pointing out that leg holstered guns aren't very easy to access considering the design of the dresses in the time period, and that dresses that gave you better access to the gun weren't considered socially acceptable . So as it turns out, there are a lot of things that go into a character that make up who they are.
