Lucy Webster

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“	You're a coward who's nice for all the wrong reasons. You think everything will turn out fine as long as you just suffer quietly. I hate people like that.	„
	~ Lucy to Chise.

“	I'm the one who needs to apologize. I'm so stupid. All this time, I've been telling myself that I'm supposed to hate you. I thought since you hated the family, you hated me too, so I did it right back. I saw how cruel everyone was to you, but I never understood why they treated you that way. For so much I have to learn about family business. I didn't have time to think about you or anything else. Then you left, so I realized you're the only one who would ever see me for the person who I was, not the role that I filled. Then I learn to hate them too. But then, I saw the pride they took in what they were making and the way they took care of our spiders. They weren't just careless, arrogant monsters. They didn't deserve to be murdered or die the way they did. It's wrong that they were torn to shreds and left to rot like they were nothing! I'm going to find the people who did this to our family! I'm going to be powerful enough to hunt them down and make them pay! I'll do anything I have to, even use myself as bait!	„
	~ Lucy to her brother Seth, determined to hunt the people who slaughtered their family.

Lucy Webster (ルーシーウェブスター) is one of the main characters in the College arc of the anime/manga series The Ancient Magus' Bride.

She is a student at the College and Chise Hatori's roommate. She is the last surviving member of the Webster family with her brother being cast out prior after her family were slaughtered by werewolves eight years ago. In the present day, she enrolled in the College and is determined to find answers for these werewolves' crime.

She is voiced by Minami Tsuda in Japanese, and by Sarah Roach in English.

Appearance[]

She is a teenage girl with long, dark hair. In her dorm room, she wears a plain white shirt with blue short pants during her sleep. Just like Chise and the rest of the female students in College, she wears a red school uniform that extends over her knees with black skirts and legwears during classes.

Personality[]

She tends to be cynical when it comes to the notion of friendship, likely due to her past trauma. She was not outright hostile to Chise, even helping her and remaining observant of her. However, she tries to keep her distance and states that she finds her polite demeanor annoying. She also hates people who ignore others, like when Zoe ignored Chise and walked away from her when she asked him a question.

While she does not try to make friends, she also tries not to make enemies either while learning what's important to them. She is someone who has never smiled since she enrolled in the College.

Biography[]

History[]

Her father revealed to her that he was kicking her brother out of the family because he lacked the talent and was seen as a failure, with her father considering her to have been born solely to replace him. Upset at this revelation, she ended up locking herself in her room for two weeks.

It was only when she heard the spiders screaming that she emerged and bore witness to the slaughter of her family at the hands of the werewolves. They spared her because the female werewolf was especially opposed to killing a child, leaving Lucy as the sole survivor, while the spiders that were used in her family's craft to create copies of grimoire that were as good as the originals were stolen. She then ended up in the care of her brother, now going by the name of Seth Noel. When she got older, she enrolled in the College halfway through primary school. She notes that her clan was brought to ruin, which is later revealed to be the aforementioned incident known as the Tragedy of the Websters, an event that took place 8 years before the present tense.

Present[]

Chise and Lucy first meet when Chise accidentally slams the door into her forehead, unaware that she was on the other side. Lucy snaps at her for not knocking first, then introduces herself. She brusquely shows Chise where her bed, desk and uniform is, intimidating her. She also tells her that she doesn't like talking to people, so she should find someone else if she wants to chat. Lucy is visibly annoyed that Chise woke her up at ten in the morning, and tells her that she can go eat whenever she wants as the cafeteria is open all the time. She gets back in bed as she likes to sleep as much as she can before afternoon classes start at one, ordering her to keep quiet. Later when class starts, Chise notices Lucy sitting in front of her, still looking sleepy.

When Chise returns from home once the weekend is over, she finds Lucy speaking with someone over the phone before she tells Chise to get ready for her Pharmacy Class and then heads off. Later on, they meet on the stairs and she asks Chise about why she, as a mage, is attending a school for sorcerers, when they run across Zoe Ivy. When Chise tries to ask why he's avoiding her, Zoe refuses to answer and ignores her, which leads to Lucy taking his headphones away to get him to respond and inadvertently causes him to transform.

Upon Zoe fleeing, Rian convinces her to follow them to make amends as the loss of his earmuffs caused him to transform, specifically noting that she did not make enemies. Once they find him, she returns his earmuffs and asks him why he attends the College and learns of his backstory. She tries to go soft with questioning him and even assures him that his snakes are beautiful and that people who aren't fully human are nothing new to them, so they wouldn't make fun of him.

Once they catch Philomela spying upon them and sign a binding spell to not say anything, she notes that they could've just had the staff cast a spell of forgetfulness. She does, however, note that she doesn't trust Philomela as people who sneak around in the shadows were the kind of brought ruin to her clan.

She later joins up with the group on the camping trip, but has her life-force drained by something and is rendered unconscious as a result. She is saved by Chise and brought to the others back to the campsite. She awakens 10 days after the camping trip in the nurse's room later to meet her brother, Seth Noel, in her room and there to check on her before Chise arrives and it's revealed they know one another. However, on their way out, the two are attacked by creatures that Lucy identifies as being the ones responsible for the death of the rest of her family but are forced to flee with Chise as Elias buys them time.

While in the tunnels, she recognizes the creatures chasing them as the ones who killed her family and is unable to do anything as Chise allows them to flee, though she later mentions that Chise was careless putting herself at risk in sabotaging the trap that she herself set for them and nearly getting harmed for sympathizing with those who killed her family.