Lucca (Chrono Trigger)

Lucca
'Chrono series character
File:Lucca new art.jpg Official artwork from PlayStation re-release
First game	Chrono Trigger

Lucca is a playable character in Squaresoft's Chrono Trigger.

Characteristics

Template:Spoiler Although one of the first people mentioned in the game, the player does not actually see Lucca until after meeting Marle, another important character. In fact, after the opening scene of the game, where main character Crono's mother wakes him up to go to the Millennial Fair, players are asked to enter a name for Lucca as she says: "That inventor friend of yours, I can never remember her name..." The reason Crono attends the Millennial Fair is to see Lucca's new invention, the Telepod. But before he can even see the Telepod, he runs into Marle, and they eventually go together. Marle's pendant, which is a relic of the ancient Kingdom of Zeal, interacts strangely with Lucca's Telepod, and Marle is sent back in time 400 years.

Lucca is often made fun of behind her back by townspeople, who claim she could "see the back of the moon with her glasses." She is also accused of lacking in mechanical skill, as many of her inventions malfunction. This is increasingly disproved throughout the course of the game.

Lucca lives on a small island off the coast of Truce Village, where Crono lives, and which is also presumably the capital of the Kingdom of Guardia, of which Marle is princess. Lucca lives on the island in a house with her parents. Her mother Lara remains in the house, having been crippled by an accident ten years before the game takes place. Her father works outside the house constantly, and this causes tension in Lucca's family. Later in the game, it is possible for Lucca to travel back in time to the specific date, July 10th, 990, to save her mother. To do so, Lucca must enter a fail-safe password to deactivate the machine that crippled her mother. The password, "Lara" (the mother's name), is inputted as is in the SNES version (L, A, R, A), and as L1, Triangle, R1, Triangle in the Playstation remake. It is revealed, through diary entries found in her room in 990, that Lucca's interest in science came about following her mother's accident, and prior to this she held no interest in the subject. When the accident occurred, Lucca was helping her mother clean the house; leaning over one of her husband's machines to dust it, Lara accidentally switches the machine on, and snags her skirt on the machine's conveyor belt. As she is pulled closer to the wheels that would crush her legs, she cries out to young Lucca to enter the deactivation password. Young Lucca, however, does not know the password and can only look on helplessly as her mother is injured by the machine. In this case, her love of science is born from wanting to become a doctor to help her mother. If, however, the Lucca from the future deactivates the machine, her young self vows to prevent any more accidents, and takes up science so she can help her father build safer machines.

Lucca uses a gun for her physical attacks. They are somewhat weak in the beginning of the game, but as the player progresses, Lucca uses her skill to produce some truly awesome weapons, not only for herself, but also for her friends. In addition, she uses a mallet for close combat, though seeing it is fairly rare - it is most visible when Lucca is in the "Protect" status. When Crono and friends learn to use magic, Lucca's will and determination manifests itself in her mastery of fire.

In the ending FMV scene in the Playstation Chrono Trigger remake, it is seen that Lucca creates Prometheus, a mini-robot named and modeled after Robo. In the same scene, Lucca finds an infant with a glowing pendant, and takes her in. In Chrono Cross, it is discovered that Lucca converted her house into an orphanage shortly after finding the infant. The infant is revealed to be Kid, Schala's clone (hinted by the glowing pendant). Lucca was pressured by Lynx to help release the defense lock on FATE. However, by refusing, Lynx burned down her orphanage/house. She still appears as a cameo in Chrono Cross, and can be conversed with, but she isn't a playable character (neither are Crono and Marle). Her final message to Kid is left with a former compatriot and friend, Luccia. The message is received after Serge saves Kid by being transported back in time and rescuing her from the burning orphanage. Lucca's fate is largely up in the air at this point with the events in the game, assuming she dies. However, there is some evidence located in the Lucca entry of the Chrono Compendium to indicate that she may have survived.

Lucca has a brief cameo appearance in the beginning of another Squaresoft game, Xenogears.