Lacie

Lacie was a character from Jun Mochizuki's Pandora Hearts. Made a human sacrifice prior to the Tragedy of Sablier, she was a figure shrouded in mystery. Oz Vessalius discovered her grave in the first chapter, though her name had eroded from the headstone. From it he picked up a golden stopwatch which would play a tune when opened. This melody was called "Lacie," composed by Glen Baskerville. His best friend, Jack Vessalius, helped make the stopwatch with him after her death. She was somehow close to Glen, and her death had some connection to the Tragedy of Sablier. Lacie was a thin, pale skinned woman of average height (165cm/5'5") and build. She had a round, somewhat angular face with a well defined chin, thin eyebrows, and narrow red eyes. Straight, black hair fell to about the length of her hips, unstyled and somewhat messy. Long bangs fell onto her face, but did not cover her eyes. Jun Mochizuki noted that Lacie's countenance was a point of fixation as she drew her, and that she would end up making Lacie's face rather handsome while meaning to give her a more feminine beauty. In most of her adult appearances, Lacie wore an ankle length black dress with numerous petticoats, a frilly, purple outer layer adorning her outfit. Though her sleeves would extend past her elbow, the top of her dress exposed her neck, shoulders, and some cleavage. A purple ribbon served as a neck piece, and black flats protected her feet. Lacie seemed to own a fair amount of jewelry, but did not wear much in her canonical appearance, restricting herself to a pair of teardrop earrings. Her most prominent childhood appearance was in her adolescence, during which she wore a simple, white summer dress. She was never shown attempting to hide her eyes, though she may have early in life. In her teens, she bore a strong resemblance to her twin daughters Alice and the Intention of the Abyss. Little can be discerned about Lacie's personality from her early appearances, in which she had a total of about two lines. From the single scene in which she was depicted, it could be discerned that she was open and daring, standing in the snow wearing nothing but a summer dress. She appeared extroverted and lacking in superficiality, approaching a cloaked, impoverished boy on the streets without any apparent concern. However, this single scene provided little direct information about her, and most of what could be discerned was apparent only in symbolism. In actuality, Lacie was a fickle, rebellious person who had no qualms in acting out of spite. Her meeting with Jack was truly on a whim, and when the two met, she had no problem outright insulting and even physically harming him. However, she did save him from starvation and seemed genuinely concerned with his circumstances and will to live. At the end of their encounter, Lacie was attacked for being an Ill Omen- yet her anger was not at her own assault, but at harm which came to Jack. Her mood was capricious, switching from anger to glee within moments in spite of the scene around her. She had no concern for propriety, reveling in the death and dismemberment of her attackers. As an adult, Lacie seemed marginally more stable, if still rather distant and nonconformist, though Jack stated she "hadn't changed a bit." Upon Jack's arrival, she would have no memory of him, and seemed confused but otherwise indifferent to his assault on her. After she was reminded of their encounter, she grew somewhat more warm, comforting Jack prior to his departure. She did not reject Jack once he began to return to the Baskerville Estate, though she, like her brother, remained distrustful of him. Jack understood her feelings, refusing to touch or approach her following their first encounter, though Lacie was frequently intimate with him. Openly, she regarded Jack as nothing more than a pet, telling Levi he was a means of killing time. Despite her apparent spitefulness, disregard, and occasional sadism, Lacie held a deep empathy for those around her. She was the first person to correctly identify the Core of Abyss as a person with will and feelings, and sought to see her in the Core's loneliness, despite being forbidden by Glen. From the moment of her induction into the Baskerville Clan, Lacie held no artificial reverie for Glen. Instead, she was critical and philosophical, believing that the world must be viewed through the lens of "why," going directly against Glen's own philosophical advice to her. While she claimed to not care for Jack, she in fact greatly treasured their meetings, not realizing her own loneliness until shortly before her death. The last fragment of Lacie's soul to escape the darkness of Abyss was her declaration of love for the world.