Basic trope: A girl who almost never shows any kind of emotion.
- Straight: Lucy never smiles, laughs, or cries.
- Exaggerated: Lucy's face is frozen solid, and she always talks in monotone.
- Downplayed: Lucy shows noticeably less emotion than other characters, but on a few occasions she's shown to be Not So Stoic.note
- Justified:
- It's the only way Lucy can control herself. If she emotes, bad things happen.
- She has a tragic traumatic past, and she suppresses her emotions so that she will not be hurt again.
- Lucy has a mission to complete and can't afford to let her emotions get in the way.
- Lucy has been trained to act this way and is afraid to drop the charade for fear of consequence.
- She suppresses her emotions because she thinks that showing emotion is a sign of weakness.
- She comes from a culture where both males and females are expected to refrain from showing emotion.
- Lucy is a robot of the non-ridiculous kind.
- Or she has brain damage that has erased her ability to feel emotions.
- Or she is a Sociopath.
- Or she's soulless.
- Or she simply has Droopy Syndrome.
- Or her face is paralyzed, preventing her from making any expressions.
- Lucy is autistic and has trouble expressing her emotions.
- Inverted:
- Hysterical Woman
- Lucy is a Hot-Blooded Genki Girl whose fiery passion and strength of conviction cannot, will not be denied!
- Fred is an incredibly excitable and loud guy who overreacts to everything.
- Gender Inverted:
- Lars never shows any sort of emotion.
- The Stoic
- Subverted:
- The emotionless girl bit is all a front. When she meets a new friend and gets to know them well enough, Alice opens up.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality
- Defrosting Ice Queen
- Double Subverted:
- ...then they die, and Lucy goes back to the way she was.
- She was consciously trying to be expressive, but eventually decided that it didn't work for her and settled back into her comfortable patterns.
- It turns out she is actually a Stepford Smiler.
- Parodied:
- Lucy's friends all try to get her smile or laugh at something.
- Lucy's friends challenge her to a Staring Contest.
- One of Lucy's friends tries to get her to laugh by tickling her.
And to add to that, she's extremely ticklish but would probably be averse to anyone trying it on her, leading to Amusing Injuries for the ticklers.
- Zig Zagged:
- She goes through this trope, Yandere, Sugar-and-Ice Personality, and Tsundere all in a matter of minutes.
- Lucy is a Mood-Swinger who fluctuates between cold and emotionless and boundlessly energetic.
- Averted: Lucy smiles and laughs at stuff.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Lucy, did you just... make a facial expression?"
- Invoked:Lucy: "Getting all emotional only gets in the way. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a job that needs to be done."
- Exploited: Lars asks Lucy to serve as an announcer for his news channel (the only one remaining) during the apocalypse. Because she's so emotionless, she's able to report mass death and destruction and deliver instructions to survivors without batting an eyelid. Her lack of panic calms viewers, but also unnerves them.
- Defied: Lucy fakes a smile.
- Discussed:Lars: "You know, Lucy, you seem very cold and unfriendly. What's up with that?"
- Conversed: "I'm in a staring contest with Yuki Nagato!"
- Implied: Lucy, though known as very professional, isn't shown emoting outside work. If that's how she naturally is or just how she's behaving at the time is uncertain.
- Deconstructed:
- Lucy is viewed as creepy. Therefore she has no friends and people avoid her, unnerved by her deadpan attitude in the most inappropriate moments.
- An "origins" episode of a TV show or superhero comic shows that a ton of nasty stuff happened to Lucy in her life, and that she's very angsty about it. She suffers from depression and has attempted suicide in the past.
- She has emotions, deep down, but she cannot process them well around others, and forcibly closes off her heart and mind to even her closest friends, fearing what they'll think if she shows her true self.
- Lucy deliberately suppresses her emotions (by magical or medical means) because she's Ax-Crazy when she allows herself to feel them.
- Lucy was born without any emotional capacity, and it alienates the hell out of her (both in-story and the viewers) due to the fact that she doesn't have ''any'' emotional reactions to scenes that generally invoke intense feelings, such as the violent murder of her grandmother, or her heartwarming reunion with her long-overseas father. When others call her out on her apathy after her mother dies, she responds by innocently asking in her perpetual Creepy Monotone "Why should I feel anything?"
- Reconstructed: She decides to seek some therapy, and while she doesn't turn into a ball of smiles, she gets better, and is now more able to relate to others and have other relate to her.
- Played For Laughs:
- Lucy is unfazed by the bizarre goings-on around her or causes embarrassing situations for other characters. She walks in on her friends changing to ask what they want to eat, walks across the rickety Rope Bridge without a second thought, and asks the giant monster where the nearest grocery store is.
- Lucy is The Comically Serious.
- Played For Drama: Lucy really wants to experience emotions, but because she's a Barrier Maiden, she can't risk showing them without potentially causing massive destruction. Characters around her aren't necessarily aware of this fact, and constantly try to cheer her up or otherwise make her emotional.
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