Lucy the Slut

"I can make you feel special" ~ Lucy the Slut

Lucy the Slut is a puppet premiering in the Broadway Musical Avenue Q. Although she plays a minor role and has minimal lines, she is arguably the only real antagoinst in the entire show. She is not feautred for well over half the show, making her first appearance in her song Special where she attempts to seduce the main character, Princeton, despite knowing in advance that Princeton was already in a loving comitted relationship with Kate Monster. Despite her attempts, it is implied that Princeton rejected her in favor for Kate.

Lucy makes a later appearance at the end of the song There is Life Outside Your Apartment, where she again attempts to seduce Princeton, who is now recently broken-up with Kate. This time she secedes in doing so, persuading Princeton to have sexual relations in his apartment, where Kate lives just next door. Kate sees them together and gets even more infuriated, much to Lucy's satisfaction. Lucy taunts Kate for her failed relationship which then directly leads into the song "The More You Ruv Someone". Despite this, Lucy is not featured in the song at all.

After the aftermentioned song, Kate Monster realizes that her hatred for Princeton only made her love him stronger and she decides to reconcile her rocky relationship with him. She writes Princeton a letter instructing him to meet her at their special place (which was at the top of the Empire State Building) and slips it underneath Princceton's door while he was in the shower at the time, unbeknowst to her. Lucy the Slut sees the letter and shreds it before Princeton could see it. Because of this, Princeton obviously was not able to go to the meeting place, which infuriated Kate Monster. In her fury, she tossed Princeton's lucky penny given to her by him in a previous song Fantasies Come True. This same penny happens to struck Lucy far below and she had a complete personality change as a result. She was now angelic, virginal, and considers herself to be a "born-again Christian"

Personality
Lucy the Slut is very much tied to her title. She is very promiscuous, selfish, confident, and vixenish, while still not being completely down-right evil. She seems to have a hatred for women, particuarly Kate who is her love interest, which is strange given her promiscuous nature. In many ways, Lucy's song Special defines her overall view of those around her. It's very clear, for example, that she "doesn't care who you are or what you say" so long as you have the ability to sexually satisfy her. This is especially apparent when she admittingly holds no regard for Princeton's drive to find his Purpose, insisting that all that Princeton needed was for someone, ideally her, to let her violate his body. Despite her antagonistic actions, she was arguably redeemed in that she has turned into a self-proclaimed born-again Christian, although this new personality of hers was never shown.

Special
Despite being a minor character with minor appearances, Lucy the Slut has her very own song, which is coincidentally where she is first seen in the show.

LUCY: ''I can make you feel special When it sucks to be you. I can make you feel special For an hour or two.''

''Your life's a routine that repeats each day. No one cares who you are or what you say. And sometimes you feel like you're nobody, But you can feel like somebody with me. '' PRINCETON: Wow!

LUCY: Yeah, they're real.

''When we're together the earth will shake And the stars will fall into the sea. So come on, baby, let down your guard. When your date's in the bathroom, I'll slip you my card. I can tell just by looking that you've got it hard For me! For me! For me! For me! For me! For me! I can tell just by looking that you are especially hard for me!''

Trivia

 * Out of all the puppets, Lucy is by far the most antagonistic.
 * The character is likely named after Lucy Westenra, a character from the Dracula mythos who is also seductive and vivacious, and is visually based off of Jessica Rabbit, a character from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.
 * She might also be reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith.
 * Lucy the Slut's puppetter and actress is Stephanie D'Abruzzo. This is particuarly ironic because Stephanie also plays Kate Monster, who are mortal enemies with each other.