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<div class="maintitlesmall" style="margin: -1px -2px;">introducing <i>Lucy</i></div>
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<h1>Lucy Haushinka</h1>
<h1>Twenty one</h1>
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<h1>Survivor</h1>
<h1>Evan Rachel Wood</h1>
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<h1>At A Glance</h2>
<p> Lucy Haushinka appears to be an average woman. She stands at about 5'3", has long fiery red hair, green eyes, and a pale completion. Lucy has a warm smile, when it's there, and kind eyes. She wears warm clothes, carries a rifle and a hunting knife, and a black backpack with her supplies in it. She often has the top half of her hair pulled back in a bun to keep it out of her face. She normally has a hooded sweater, coat, or sweatshirt on, and the hood up, to hide her bright hair. She also has three tattoos: a sparrow on her right shoulder, the word "love" in cursive on her left wrist, and the word "peace" on her right wrist in a typewriter type font. Finally, Lucy has some scars diagonally on her abdomen from a zombie scratch.

<h1>Looking Closer</h1>
<p> Upon meeting Lucy, one would quickly get the cold shoulder from the young woman. She's suspicious of others and has major trust issues. Lucy remains distant with any and all people she meets at first. However distant and suspicious she acts, she's also careful not to make any enemies on accident. She's sure to remain cool and cordial with others until she knows them better. Lucy's trust in people is rare, and never earned quickly or easily.

<h1>Beyond Seeing</h1>
<p> Once someone gets close to her and gains her trust, Lucy is practically loyal to a fault. Lucy was once very family oriented. She will put family first, and if she ever reunites with hers, she would do anything and screw over anyone to protect her family. Her problems with trust come from her father abandoning her, her mother, and her brothers, when she was young. He had cheated on her mother many times, and thus Lucy has a hate for cheating and cheaters. Of course, since the world went to s**t, that didn't seem to matter very much anymore.

<p>Before the zombies, Lucy was a very healthy eater, she worked out, and enjoyed being outdoors. Lucy had been a peace activist. She had been a sort of modern day hippie. Lucy believed anything could be achieved through peace and love. She enjoyed gardening, going to gay rights movements, and enjoying life. She also supported legalizing marijuana. When all that was thrown away, and she had to fight to survive, she experienced horrible guilt over the things she had to do. Killing was something she never thought she would be able to do, or would want to do.

<p>Now, she's colder than she was before. She no longer cared about fun, peace, or love. Just survival and family. She's terrified she'll never see either of her brothers again. Knowing that her mom was lost to her, and that the rest of her family most likely perished absolutely killed her. She was, on the other hand, grateful that she hadn't had any children or a husband. Neither of which she will ever have now that the risks were so high. Lucy feels that it would be wrong to bring a child into this world, especially when it's chances of survival were so low.

<p>She never imagined one of her major strengths to be killing zombies. She found that she was an excellent shot and could defend herself with a knife very well. While she had taken defense classes and carried a small pocket knife back in the day, she hadn't thought she would be any good at it. Her hunting knife and rifle were her best assets. She was also good at finding things. In Lucy's eyes, there was some sick cosmic joke that she could be so good at doing things she had previously considered morally wrong.

<p>Try as hard as she might, in enclosed spaces Lucy panics. As long as she's outside, she can protect herself perfectly, but put her in a building? That's a no go. While she had been a little claustrophobic before all hell broke loose, she had never had the problems she had now. Now, the minute she started thinking about entering a building, an anxiety attack would begin to build. Naturally, this made things rather difficult. It restricted her shelter and capabilities to protect herself when the days and nights came that she had to find a building to stay in. And, considering her environment, this happened often. Sometimes she could find a place that was secure enough to be somewhat comfortable for her, but not very often. Most of the time Lucy tried to stick to the edges of the forests, limiting her travel options.

<h1>How it All Began</h1>
<p> The Haushinka family was once very happy. The Mr. and Mrs. were happily married, started with one son, then added a daughter on March 3rd, 1995, and topped it off with another son. Lucy, the middle child, grew up in a loving home. What was going on in the background, she had been unaware of until she was eight. Her dad came home, drunk, making a scene, and her older brother had to take Lucy and William outside to play. The impact seemed to be minimal on the two young children, but their mom and brother didn't escape as they did. She found out her husband had been cheating on her, with multiple women, for multiple years. That was the year that the divorce started.

<p>Mr. Haushinka wasn't quite as kind once he lost his perfect little family. His treatment of his kids was unkind, and led to them spending little time with their dad. Lucy grew up with a strong female in her life, and she always believed that that was all that mattered. The three kids were incredible close with their mom, all of them being the apple of her eye. They moved from Los Angeles to a beach town in southern California and were happy.

<p>Her teenage years were fun, as far as Lucy was concerned. She read comics, gardened, played video games, and spent time at the beach. Lucy was generally ignored in school, being the quiet type, but she didn't really care. The students had been rude to her when she had been new to the school, so she wasn't really interested in them. She did, however, make a few friends, one that would last for some time.

<p>Lucy's best friend, Sally Pond, was a loyal and good friend... and a bad influence. Sally taught Lucy how to smoke cigarettes and pot, drink alcohol, and ditch class. Lucy's mom never found out, and her behavior soon changed. She was only nineteen at the time of her high school graduation (having been held back in kindergarten), and was quickly accepted to Humboldt State University along with Sally. When the girls moved there, they rented an apartment together and committed to their classes. They gave up drinking and smoking pot and attended every class.

<p>When Lucy was twenty one, her world fell apart. First her mom had just been sick. Lucy had planned on driving back home over the weekend when the illness started getting worse. The morning she was leaving, she got a call from her moms doctor telling her that her mom had passed away. The next morning, the news was booming with panic and gore. Sally and Lucy sat, transfixed, as the news showed the world unraveling. Lucy's first call was to her older brother, trying to find out what was going on. He was in Washington, working and going to school. He simply told her to stay in her town while the authorities sorted things out and that things would sort themselves out. Her younger brother was with their father, for some odd reason, but Lucy couldn't get a hold of him.

<p>As things got worse and worse, and the news informed them about less and less, Lucy finally decided to take things into her own hands. It had been about a month since Lucy's mom died. Lucy and Sally had fled their town when they heard on the radio that it wasn't safe to stay in large groups of people. Sally was frightened, and so was Lucy, but she took charge. Lucy had been camping numerous times, and was prepared to take her friend deep into the forest. She loaded up her Jeep and they went into the Redwood Forest.

<p>The worst part, at least for Lucy, was hunting. They had little to no food, because neither girl could bring themselves to kill innocent animals. Finally, after they had run out of food they stole from a convenience store, they came across an old guy who was camping too. He shared his food with them, and taught them how to set traps. Lucy couldn't seem to pick up on trapping, but Sally was excellent at it. He gave them a hunting rifle and a hunting knife, and taught them how to use both, which Lucy picked up on quickly, and they went their separate ways. They were heading to Washington, in search of Lucy's brother. She knew that her dad and William had planned on visiting him at college before everything fell apart.

<p>It was hard for Lucy, skinning the few rabbits and squirrels Sally trapped, but she did it anyway. They had to survive. They bathed in the streams they found, and began perfecting their fire-making skills. When they encountered their first zombie, Lucy almost died. It had her pinned and it took all her strength to keep it's snapping mouth away from her. Sally shot it, saving her friend. That began the downward spiral that later kept Lucy from inhabiting any buildings. They found themselves attacked often enough, and Lucy finally killed one. The guilt she felt overwhelmed her, but not for long.

<p>They found themselves a map and a compass, the latter Lucy couldn't stand. Her navigational skills were thoroughly lacking, as were Sally's, but they figured it out. They made their way through Oregon, killing zombies and trapping small game whenever they could. About halfway to Washington, while looting inside a store, they were attacked. Lucy suffered from a scratch across her abdomen, but Sally wasn't so lucky. When she found out she was bitten, she took her on life swiftly, leaving Lucy alone for the rest of her journey.

<p>Lucy spent the next day digging a grave for her once best friend. She was numb, but she got the job done. Lucy left, continuing. The only thing driving her was that she might be able to find her brothers. The fact that she had been scratched slipped her mind with all that had happened, until she was on the move again. After a month of waiting for the illness to set in, and experiencing no symptoms, she decided she was either immune, or insane for imagining it. After traveling all the way to Washington State University, and finding it deserted, she was left feeling more alone than ever. Lucy met a young couple a few days later who intended to go to Storm Bay. They told her about it, and she realized her brothers could have easily gone there. With that in mind, she set out, once again, only now for Storm Bay, beginning her second month, utterly alone in the world, and feeling every bit of it.


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<h3>Played by: <b>Kelci/Kelso</b> - Age: <b>Nineteen</b> - Chatbox: <b>Kelsooo</b></h3>
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