Lucca
| Lucca | |
|---|---|
| File:Lucca.jpg Official artwork of Lucca by Akira Toriyama. | |
| Home Time | 1000 AD |
| Home Area | Truce |
| Age | Late teens / early 20s |
| Weapon Type | Gun |
| Magic Element | Fire |
| Family | Taban (father) Lara (mother) |
Lucca (ルッカ Rukka?) is a brilliant inventor and Crono's childhood friend. Using her intelligence and creativity, Lucca invented many devices, such as a battle-training robot named Gato ("Gonzales" in the Japanese version) and a short-range teleporter. This device caused Marle to go back in time, leading to the quest to save history. She blames herself for a freak accident that claimed her mother's legs in 990 A.D., an incident which motivated her to study science. Later, she is given the chance to revisit that moment and change the events. Lucca battles with a gun and hammer, and when spells become available she learns to cast "Fire" magic. She and Robo are the closest to each other; she receives a gift from him in a sidequest in 1000A.D.
In the ending FMV scene of the Playstation Chrono Trigger remake, it is seen that Lucca eventually created a mini-robot modeled after Robo. In the same scene, Lucca finds an infant with a pendant, and takes her in. In Chrono Cross, where she is referred to as Dr. Lucca Ashtear, it is discovered that Lucca eventually converted her house into an orphanage. The infant is revealed to be Kid, Schala's clone. 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. Lucca later makes an appearance alongside Crono and Marle as apparitions of themselves as children.
In Xenogears, another 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.
