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Crono! It’s about time!! You dummy! You wouldn’t believe what we had to go through for you! You mess up again… and we won’t save you! While you were gone we had a terrible time! Marle had to…, and… So then we… and I had to… Hey! You listening, Crono? You can be so irritating sometimes!
~ Lucca to Crono after reviving him

Background

Lucca is a recurring character in the Chrono Series. First introduced in Chrono Trigger, she is a brilliant inventor and Crono's childhood friend. Using her genius intellect and creativity, Lucca invents many devices, such as a battle-training robot named Gato, a short-range teleporter called The Telepod, and a Gate Key which allows for Time Gate manipulation.

She is the second playable character to be named, despite not being physically introduced until later. She joins Crono as a temporary party member during the adventure in 600 AD, and then permanently joins the party during the escape from Guardia's dungeon - making her the first officially recruited party member.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Lucca’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Chrono Trigger

At some point prior to 990 AD, Lucca was born to her parents, Taban and Lara Ashtear. During her childhood, she met and befriended a young boy named Crono. Lucca was raised in an environment where her father's inventions were ever-present. Though always an intelligent girl, initially she expresses frustration with them due to her father sometimes neglecting her for his pursuits. In approximately 990 AD, Lucca would witness her mother endure a horrible accident which left her crippled and unable to walk. This event would spur Lucca to pursue science and inventing - though her exact motivation depends on the timeline and Lara's fate.

In the years between 990 AD and 1000 AD, Lucca would create many inventions alongside her father. The townspeople purport that more often than not, these inventions had a tendency to backfire or go wrong - earning Lucca a reputation as a social pariah, as well as making her a common target for condescension and doubt from the citizens of Truce. Despite this, Lucca continued to create new inventions, always displaying them in the hopes that she would find success.

In the year 1000 AD, Lucca's Telepod is scheduled to be presented on the first day of the Millennial Fair. Her father, Taban, assists her in the demonstration. The crowd expresses doubt about her chances of success and refuses to test it until Crono and his new friend, Marle, arrive. Crono then demonstrates the invention successfully. However, when Marle is inspired to try as well, the device reacts to her pendant, causing Marle to be sent back in time. Crono follows her immediately.

While Crono is searching for Marle in the past, Lucca quickly creates the Gate Key to allow her to follow Crono safely and manipulate Time Gates at her will. During this time, Lucca also realizes Marle is none other than Princess Nadia. Armed with her new invention and this revelation, Lucca encounters Crono in Guardia Palace in 600 AD and explains her findings to him. She is shocked when Crono reveals that Marle has been erased from existence, and Lucca comes to the conclusion that they must rescue the real Queen Leene to ensure her descendants will continue to exist.

Together, Lucca and Crono journey to Manoria Cathedral in search of the queen. After discovering a hairpin bearing the royal crest, the duo is attacked by nuns who reveal themselves to be Mystics in disguise. After defeating them, Lucca expresses her relief before another ambushes her from behind. Lucca is then rescued by a mysterious frog-like creature, who leaps down to slay the beast and then proposes they join forces. Lucca is immediately shocked by his appearance, stating to Crono that she hates frogs. Taking this as a rejection, Frog goes to leave, but Lucca asks him to stay, remarking that he doesn't seem like a bad "person... frog... thing." She asks Crono whether they should accept his offer, and regardless of his answer, Lucca will overcome her fear of frogs to work alongside him. The trio ventures deeper into the Cathedral and successfully rescues the queen. After returning to Guardia Palace, Lucca witnesses Frog express his shame for letting the Queen fall captive. Once he leaves, Lucca tries to stop him and finally confesses that "froggy" wasn't a bad guy, after all, showing her newfound fondness for him.

When Crono is accused of abducting Marle, Lucca rescues him from the Prison Towers in Guardia Castle and single-handedly disarms several royal officials in the process. Despite not being charged for her involvement in the disappearance, Lucca seems to have little regard for becoming an enemy of the state when it comes to her friend.

Fleeing the Present to evade the Chancellor and his guards, Marle urges Lucca to open a Gate that leads thirteen hundred years into the Future. In the Proto Dome, an abandoned robot is discovered by the party. Lucca is immediately fascinated and attempts to repair the robot. She is successful, and thus awakens Robo. He later joins the party in their quest to discover what has become of humanity and is extremely grateful to Lucca for repairing him. In one of the full-motion videos from the PlayStation and Nintendo DS versions, Lucca is trapped by several hostile robots. Robo comes to her aid by bursting through a wall.

Later on, when the party recovers Dreamstone to repair the Masamune, Lucca aids Melchior in fixing the sword. Lucca has the highest priority for fixing the Masamune, and will always assist Melchior as long as she is in the party. The exact reason for this is unknown, though it is implied that Lucca's ancestor was Banta, the blacksmith who forged Leene's Bell. It is also possible that she feels guilty for her initial treatment of Frog and wishes to help him overcome his self-loathing.

Lucca continues to blame herself for the brutal accident which took the legs of her mother, Lara Ashtear, in the year 990 AD. During the course of her time-travels, an opportunity opens for her to revisit that moment and change the events. After saving Fiona's Forest, the party camps out and speaks about their adventures, prompting Marle to ask Lucca if there are any moments in time she would like to go back to. Lucca dodges the question, hesitant to open up about her traumatic experience, and the party eventually goes to sleep. Later, Lucca wakes up in the night to discover the existence of a strange Red Gate. Lucca investigates and realizes that the Red Gate returns her to the year 990 AD, more specifically just before the accident occurred. Lucca relives the events of that day, but this time has the opportunity to find her father's password to the machine and disable it before her mother can be maimed. If the player successfully saves Lara in this sequence, she can be seen walking around the Ashtear residence.

In the ending FMV scene, Lucca goes on to create a mini-robot modeled after Robo. In the same scene, Lucca finds an infant with a pendant that is later revealed to be Chrono Cross protagonist Kid, the clone daughter of Schala. She smiles briefly in recognition of the pendant before picking up the infant and returning home with her.

Lucca appears in several of the alternate endings of the game. In one, she and Marle narrate the credits as they roll by. In another, she seems to harbor intense attraction to Frog's handsome human form.

Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki

Lucca opens an orphanage in Regiorra, where she eventually adopts Kid. At some point in her life, she gave the Chrono Trigger to Kid. Lynx kidnaps and murders her while searching for a specimen of the device, luring Kid to his Manor to unite her sample with the Frozen Flame. Strongly attached to Lucca, as Kid seeks vengeance on Lynx but is unable to exact it when soldiers from Porre intervene. As a musician, Serge also wrote a song that Lucca was quite fond of.

Chrono Cross

In Chrono Cross, where she is referred to as Dr. Lucca Ashtear it is discovered that Lucca eventually converted her house into a form of an orphanage. Kid is revealed to have been found by Lucca and raised in the orphanage. Lucca is later 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 off by Lynx later on. Later on, she appears as an illusion alongside with Crono and Marle as one of the Ghost Children haunting Opassa Beach and Dead Sea. With the others, she chastises Serge for undoing their efforts to thwart the destruction of Lavos, although his bad influence on the timeline which was accidental.

Statistics

Key: Early Game | Pre-Vortex | Post-Vortex

Tier: 8-B | High 6-B, likely 6-A. Higher with Epoch, Low 1-B with the Chrono Trigger | At least 2-C, likely Low 1-B

Name: Lucca

Origin: Chrono Trigger

Sex: Female

Age: 19

Classification: Time Traveler, Mechanic, Human

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City Block level (Can fight and defeat Yakra who can cause massive earthquakes just from screaming and moving. Can easily knock out guards, has a sword that "strikes like lightning", can harm Fiendlords whose army laid waste to an entire village) | Large Country level+ (Can harm Fiendlords whose army laid waste to an entire village, defeated Lavos whose power was used to lift Zeal into the air), likely Continent level (Could harm and defeat Lavos who caused Zeal to fall). Higher with Epoch (One-shotted Lavos' shell, though it destroyed itself in the process), Low Complex Hierarchal Multiverse level (The Chrono Trigger has a condensed universe within it, which transcends the space-time of the multiverse) | At least Universe level (After becoming one with the Crimson Shade in the vortex she fought Dream Devourer Lavos and was capable of harming it. Dream Devourer Lavos was capable of devouring dreams from an alternate dimension. Dreams are alternate universes in Chrono), likely Low Complex Hierarchal Multiverse level (Schala stated that all of existence would be ended, the cosmology of Chrono is this huge)

Durability: City Block level | Large Country level+, likely Continent level (Took a hit from one of the Serpents. Took hits from Lavos, including his rains of destruction) | At least Universe level, likely Low Complex Hierarchal Multiverse level+ (Could withstand an attack that devours alternate universes)

Striking Strength: City Block Class | Large Country Class+, likely Continent Class | At least Universe Class, likely Low Complex Hierarchal Multiverse Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Peak Human | Superhuman (Covered large distances in a short period of time around each time period), Extra-Temporal with the Epoch (The Epoch uses it's speed to travel through time, being described to "transcend time") | At least Superhuman, Extra-Temporal with the Epoch

Combat Speed: Peak Human | Extra-Temporal (Can tag Lavos who flew to Earth from a distant star system in around 20 seconds. Can tag Queen Zeal who exists in the black omen which flows across all temporal dimensions and transcends space-time, existing outside of the flow of time itself. Along with the black omen being stated to “straddle time”) | Extra-Temporal (Could tag Dream Devourer Lavos, who exists in a plane beyond the borders of time)

Reaction Speed: Peak Human | Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal

Stamina: Very High (Was able to keep fighting through continuous battle sequences without tiring. Even at 1 HP they can still attack at full strength), higher with various equipment (Various equipment increase stamina)

Range: Extended Melee, Kilometers with Omnidirectional Magic Attacks (Should be comparable to Crono's magic), High Multiversal with Epoch (Can travel across alternate timelines which there are infinite of), Low Complex Hierarchal Multiversal with the Chrono Trigger

Intelligence: Supergenius (Created a teleportation device that could also open up gates to different periods in time accidentally, after a short period of time created a gate key that allows them to open up time gates to any place in time after just learning about their existence could fix and repair Robo, a futuristic robot even when he seemed to be damaged beyond repair, was able to figure out Lavos’ entire reason for existence after a single glance of his “true” form)


Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence (Was capable of making a teleportation device that also acted as a machine that opened the gates of time, and could immediately create a key that could control the time gates. Repaired Robo, a futuristic robot from after just seeing him), Weapon Mastery (Is skilled with her guns), Magic (Is a user of one of the four basic elements of universe, that being fire), Time Paradox Immunity (Types 0, 1, 2, & 4. Remembered Marle even after she was erased from time due to her ancestor being killed resulting in her never existing. Was aware that the Black Omen was not always there, unlike everyone else who assumed the Black Omen always existed there. Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts. Changing a future in the Chrono Verse causes said future to be erased from existence though characters like Robo still exist even after defeating Lavos and causing the erasure of the future timeline from ever happening. Is unbound by the causality loop of fate that attempts to force a cycle to continue), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm spectors & shadows, who can’t be harmed by guns or blades), Immortality Negation (Type 7. Can kill skeletons), Summoning (Can call upon friends from different time periods to come to their time period), Attack Reflection (Should scale to the other party members who reflected Dalton's magic), Acausality Negation (Type 5. Can fight and harm the denizens of the black omen, which transcends time and space and exists outside of it’s flow making it exist simultaneously in all time periods at once, Gaspar, the Guru of time describes the black omen as "straddling time"), Subjective Reality (In the world of Chrono Cross the world is stabilized by the observations of the one who views it with each world having it's own observer, along with this in one's dream exists truth, the observation of many made supercomputer's such as FATE once they sealed away the dragon gods become literal gods of fate in the world), Energy Projection (Shoots out energy beams from her guns), Fire Manipulation (With Flamethrower, burns enemies along a direct line. Fire, attacks an enemy with the element of fire. Fire II, is an omni-directional attack that attacks all enemies with fire. Flare is an omni-directional attack that attacks all enemies with intense fire), Sleep Manipulation (With Hypnowave, an omnidirectional attack that puts all enemies to sleep), Explosion Manipulation (With Napalm, bombs enemies within a circle. Megaton Bomb, blast enemies within a circle), Forcefield Creation & Statistics Amplification (With Protect, boosts herself or an ally's Defense, creating a mini forcefield around them) Resistance to Extreme Heats (Can move around in a volcano just fine), Temporal BFR (If Lucca is sent through time he is sent to the End of Time where she can access points in time to return due to possessing a gate key), Fire Manipulation (Has a natural resistance to fire due to it being her element), Pain (Even at 1 HP the party can proceed to attack at full strength), Space-Time Manipulation (Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts), Time Manipulation (Can enter the End of Time)

Standard Equipment

*Airgun: Airgun is Lucca's starting weapon in Chrono Trigger. The Air Gun alludes to air rifles or BB guns, thus placing it at the bottom of Lucca's weapon ladder. It is referenced as the Zonker-38 in Guardia Castle. In the original Japanese, it was a Disposable Explosion Blast Pistol. It has an attack power of 5.

  • Pea Shooter: Pea Shooter is the second weapon for Lucca. It has an attack power of 7.
  • Pocket Blaster: Pocket Blaster is the third weapon for Lucca. It has an attack power of 15.
  • Plasma Blaster: Plasma Gun is the fourth weapon for Lucca. It has an attack power of 25 and inflicts stop on robots.
  • Ruby Gun: Ruby Gun is the fifth weapon for Lucca. It’s a pistol that focuses light through a ruby and has an attack power of 40.
  • Dreamstone Gun: Dreamstone Gun is the sixth weapon for Lucca. It’s a pistol that fires light beams. It has an attack power of 60.
  • Megablaster: Megablaster is the seventh weapon for Lucca. It’s a devastatingly powerful laser gun with an attack power of 80.
  • Shockwave: Shockwave is the eighth weapon for Lucca. It is a handheld electric wave blaster. It has an attack power of 110 and inflicts confuse.
  • Turboshot: Turboshot is the ninth weapon for Lucca. It is a gun designed to fire rounds at rapid speed. It has an attack power of 140 and +3 Speed.
  • Wondershot: Wondershot is the tenth weapon for Lucca. Its damage is determined by the seconds spent playing the game (which in-universe translates to how long Lucca’s been on her journey). Its base power is around the same as Crono's Rainbow, a weapon forged through a sister questline (The Rainbow Shell), but it has a chance to do 1/10, 1/2, normal, 2x, or 3x the damage. The percentage of insanely powerful shots is extremely low. Sunglasses or PrismSpecs seems to increase this. This gun has a base critical hit ratio of 40%, and increases the wielder's attack power by 167. It contains the sunstone’s strength.
  • Spellslinger: Spellslinger is a weapon in Chrono Trigger (DS) and Lucca’s eleventh weapon. Its damage is determined by the last digit of her MP. It contains spectral energy.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

*Hammer Hit: If an enemy is right next to Lucca instead of shooting them, she will hit them with her hammer.

  • Blaster Shot: Lucca shoots an enemy with her energy blaster from long range.
  • Critical Hit: Lucca shoots a far more powerful blast dealing massive damage to the enemy.
  • Counter-Attack: When equipped with certain accessories Lucca will counter when an enemy attacks her without taking up a turn.


Other

Standard Tactics: Lucca’s style of fighting is gadgets and magic, with equipment she uses to defend from various physical attacks and magical spells. Lucca is naturally better at fighting with a team given her class so she normally will summon her friends across time to help her in combat and do various team attacks. If the enemy proves very powerful she might use the Epoch to ram it.

Weaknesses: As Lucca’s magic element is fire she is weak to the Water/Ice element. Though this is mitigated by various armors and headgears.

Note: The 50% of damage absorption does not mean they absorb 50% of the damage and take the other 50% of damage, it means that they convert 50% of the damage into health, while the other 50% is neglected.

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