Editing Lucca

{{Infobox CT Character
|name     = Lucca
|image    = [[File:Lucca2.png|200px|Lucca]]
|caption  = Official artwork of Lucca by [[Akira Toriyama]].
|year     = [[Present]]
|hometown = [[Truce]]
|age      = 19
|weapon   = [[Gun]], hammer
|magic    = [[Fire]]
|theme    = [[Fanfare 1]]
|family   = [[Taban]] <small>(father)</small><br />[[Lara Ashtear]] <small>(mother)</small> <br />[[Kid]] <small>(adopted little sister) </small>
|gender   = Female
|friends  = [[Crono]] <br /> [[Marle]] <br /> [[Frog]] <br /> [[Robo]] <br /> [[Ayla]] <br /> [[Kino]] <br /> [[Doan]] <br /> [[Gato]] <br /> [[Queen Leene]] <br /> [[King Guardia XXI]] <br /> [[King Guardia XXXIII]] <br /> [[Schala]] <br /> [[Magus]] <br /> [[Crono's Mother]] <br /> [[Melchior]] <br /> [[Gaspar]] <br /> [[Belthasar]] <br /> [[Luccia]]
}}
{{quote|It appears to be a humanoid robot. Incredible...I think I can fix it.|Lucca}}
{{nihongo|'''Lucca Ashtear'''|ルッカ・アシュティア|Rukka Ashutia|ルッカ "Lucca" in Japanese media}} is a recurring character in the [[Chrono (Series)]]. She is a brilliant inventor and Crono's childhood friend. She is very witty and tends to make flippant comments during serious moments. Using her intelligence and creativity, Lucca invents many devices, such as a battle-training robot named [[Gato]] ("Gonzales" in the Japanese version) and a short-range teleporter called [[Telepod|The Telepod]]. Lucca battles with a gun and hammer, and when she gets to [[Spekkio]] she learns to cast [[Fire]] magic.


==Appearance==
Lucca has short plum purple hair underneath a helmet with an antenna on the left-hand side. She wears glasses, along with a long-sleeved dark teal-green shirt under an orange tunic. She wears a dark yellow scarf around her neck, and a pair of dark brown boots on her feet. At her belt line, she wears a small brown bag, and hanging from her shoulder she wears a large blue bag. In the initial character sketches, Lucca sported a bow tie and thicker glasses. Her personality was portrayed as being "wilder" as well.

==Biography==
===''Chrono Trigger''===
[[File:Taban_FMV.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Lucca and [[Taban]] in the [[FMV]].]]Lucca's Telepod is scheduled to be presented on the first day of the [[Millennial Fair]]. Her father, Taban, also an inventor, assists her. Crono and his new friend, Marle, are first to test the device. Crono successfully teleports. However, this device causes [[Marle]] to go back in time. Crono follows her immediately. Lucca eventually catches up after creating the [[Gate Key]] to ensure safe and speedy time-traveling. It is also Lucca who realizes Marle is a Princess and when the team attempts to save the [[Queen Leene|Princess' ancestor]] and restore history, she tries to talk Crono out of allowing a [[Frog]] knight to join the party. Later, when Frog is filled with shame for letting the Queen fall captive, Lucca tries to stop him and finally confesses that he was not a bad guy after all. 
When Crono is accused of abducting Marle, Lucca rescues him from the [[Prison Towers]] in [[Guardia Castle]] and singlehandly disarms several royal officials in the process. 
[[File:Lucca_FMV3.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Lucca in the [[FMV]].]]
Fleeing the [[Present]] to evade the [[Chancellor]] and his guards, Lucca and her friends enter a [[Gate]] that leads thirteen hundred years into the [[Future]]. In the [[Proto Dome]], a robotic-man is discovered. Lucca uses her skill with machines to repair the robot. He later joins the party and is quite partial to her, even to the point of calling her "Miss Lucca", a formality seen in the southern region of the United States which dovetails perfectly with his dated chivalrous manner. In one of the [[Full Motion Video]]s (FMV) from the [[PlayStation ]]and [[Chrono Trigger (DS)|Nintendo DS version]]s, Lucca is trapped by several hostile Robots. [[Robo]] rescues her shortly after. 

Later, when the party recovers [[Dreamstone]] to repair the [[Masamune]], Lucca aids [[Melchior]] in fixing the blade. Likely, she lends assistance because of her savviness with technology, but also, in the smelting of swords, fire is needed and Lucca's element is Fire.  

Lucca blames herself for the accident that claimed the legs of her mother, [[Lara]], in 990 A.D., an incident which motivates her to study science. During the course of her time-travels, an opportunity opens for her to revisit that moment and change the events. Saving [[Fiona's Forest]] opens the a Gate to that time period and it is believed by many that an [[Entity|unnamed deity]] opened the Gate to allow her a second chance. In 990 A.D. Lucca encounters a younger version of herself. 

In the ending [[FMV]] scene,  Lucca eventually creates a mini-robot modeled after [[Robo]]. In the same scene, Lucca finds an infant with a [[pendant]] that in ''Chrono Cross'' turns out to be [[Kid]], the clone of [[Schala]], and takes her in.

Lucca appears in several of the [[List of Chrono Trigger endings|alternate endings]] of the game. In one, she and Marle narrate the credits as they roll by. In another, she and Marle ogle [[Frog|Glenn]], who has recently transformed back into a man.

===''Radical Dreamers''===
Lucca opens an orphanage in Regiorra, where she eventually adopts [[Kid (Radical Dreamers)|Kid]]. At some point in her life, she recreates prototypes of the [[Chrono Trigger (Item)|Chrono Trigger]] given her by [[Gaspar]], [[Guru|Guru of Time]]. [[Lynx]] kidnaps and murders her while searching for a specimen of the device, eventually luring Kid to his [[Viper Manor (Radical Dreamers)|Manor]] to unite her sample with the [[Frozen Flame]] as a last resort. Strongly attached to Lucca, Kid seeks vengeance on Lynx but is unable to exact it when soldiers from [[Porre]] intervene. As a musician, [[Serge (Radical Dreamers)|Serge]] wrote a [[Music Box (Music)|song]] that Lucca was very fond of. Very early in the story, Kid remarks that Lucca liked the song because it reminded her of a "[[Crono|close friend who is now dead]]." This piece of dialogue suggests that Crono's resurrection atop [[Death Peak]] after the incident at the [[Ocean Palace (Location)|Ocean Palace]] was not originally intended as canonical. However, the [[PlayStation]] release of ''Chrono Trigger'' reveals he and [[Marle]] becoming husband and wife. 
[[File:Kid_FMV.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kid as a baby, wearing [[Schala]]'s [[Pendant]], in the [[FMV]] of {{CT}}.]]

===''Chrono Cross''===
In ''Chrono Cross'', where she is referred to as '''Dr. Ashtear''', it is discovered that Lucca eventually converted her house into an orphanage. [[Kid]] is revealed to have been found by Lucca and raised in the orphanage. Lucca is kidnapped prior to the beginning of ''Chrono Cross'' by [[Lynx]] and [[Harle]] in an effort to subdue the [[Prometheus Circuit]] that keeps the [[Frozen Flame]] sealed. She is presumably killed by [[Lynx]] later on. 

Alongside Crono and Marle, Lucca is one of the [[Ghost Children]] haunting [[Opassa Beach]] and [[Dead Sea]]. With the others, she criticizes [[Serge]] for undoing their efforts to thwart the destruction of [[Lavos]], although his influence on the timeline was accidental.

Kid's seventh-level tech, [[HotShot]], employs a lethal machine invented by Lucca to shoot molten projectiles at a single opponent.

==Xenogears==
In {{w|Xenogears}}, another [[Square Co.|Square]] game, Lucca has a brief cameo appearance in the village of Lahan. [[Masato Kato]] revealed in interviews that Lahan is one of the locations he designed for the game, which could explain why Lucca appears in it.

==Abilities==
Lucca is a "black mage" type character, relying on techs that deal damage (all of which are fire based) while being able to take very little damage herself. While she possesses a wide variety of dual and triple techs, most of them deal fire damage making her less useful against enemies with fire resistance.

As Lucca's element is fire, she takes extra damage from water.

===Techs===

{{Lucca Single Techs}}

==Name Origin==
Lucca is a city of northwest Italy west of Florence. On the site of an ancient Ligurian settlement and a Roman colony, it became a free commune in the 12th century and was later an independent republic. It's one of Italy's most conservative and richest cities. Lucca is also the root of many light-oriented words, such as luminescence. This is likely a reference to her "''bright''" personality.

Also, Lucca's name may be an adaptation of ''Lucia'', which was the name given to a Catholic Saint who is titled "''Healer of the Blind''". This is appropriate as Lucca saves her mother from becoming crippled and she opens an orphanage for misplaced children.

==Gallery==
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File:Lucca3.jpg|Lucca.
File:Lucca2.jpg|Lucca.
File:Lucca.gif|Lucca seen in-game.
File:Young_Girl.png|Lucca as a young girl.
File:Lucca_Xenogears.gif|Lucca in Xenogears.
File:Lucca_Chrono_Chross.png|Lucca as a [[Ghost Children|Ghost Child]] in ''Chrono Cross''.
File:Luccs.gif|Lucca's menu sprite.
File:Picture_lucca.png|Lucca drawn by one of the orphans.
File:Picture_kidnlucca.png|Lucca and [[Kid]] drawn by one of the orphans. 
File:Lucca_FMV2.jpg|Lucca in the [[FMV]].
File:Lucca_FMV1.jpg|Lucca without her [[List of Chrono Trigger headgear|helmet]].
</gallery></center>

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