Lucy Ashworth

Lucy Ashworth is an exceptional scientist who specialized in the numerous adjacent fields concerning biology.

Born in Yorkshire, England, Lucy Ashworth had a rather uninteresting childhood. She was often aloof, which would result in her being distanced from her family. Prodigious, she had herself a mighty, albeit somewhat justified, ego. At seventeen, she would go on to be accepted into the historic Harvard University. During her time away, her relationship with her family became even more strained, and eventually came to a breaking point when she reached the age of twenty when she became completely estranged from them.

During her final year of study, she would receive a rather substantial head injury. The effects of such would not be evident until much later, as the injury appeared superficial to even deep brain scans. She would complete her studies, having become a doctor of biology and numerous related fields, such as microbiology, and biochemistry, in addition to specializing in genetics. Not content with just that, she would find herself a medical doctor as well, particularly in applications of biochemistry and genetics. She would do all this in record time, being just one of few individuals to achieve so many accolades in such a short period of time.

On Pluto, the Republic Defense Force was conducting a new regiment of studies and experimentation with the aether pool located on the planetoid. Sometime in the year 3077, she was brought on as a consultant given her impressive achievements despite her age, she was tasked with analyzing the newly discovered cell cultures that had found themselves immersed in the aether pool. Prior to her consultation, the possibility of it being mundane microorganisms that had contaminated the aether pool was eliminated. Even if it were such an instance, the effects of the aether pool upon it would be highly sought-after research.

It was upon one of the sample extraction excursions that the head injury she had received during her final year of schooling would make its effects known. Between the time she had received her last medical screening and now, a brain aneurysm would develop. It chose that inopportune moment in which she was on the gangway above the aether pool to rupture. Her vision blurred, and shortly after, a seizure would cause her to collapse. Falling through the railing, she’d drop into the aether pool below.

Over the course of eons, she would be warped slowly by the immaterial void, though memory relapsing repeatedly, as her brain failed to comprehend the sheer nothingness that surrounded her. First, it was seconds, then minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia, eons. Every lapse- though becoming fewer and far between, would result in the further fracturing of her psyche, of her soul. This fracturing would result in the birth of Lucifer, who came about as a coping mechanism, taking the brunt of the deterioration. Lucifer would take the fore, and unwittingly end up in control of their shared body. It would be her who would have to conduct the ethically dubious research into souls to find a way to safely separate them, to have control returned to Lucy, and a separate form for Lucifer.

One other occupant of the void space was an eldritch entity, one that feeds upon the nothingness, turning immaterial into the material. This void Kraken companion was given the name Hafgufa.