[Name] Luz de la Cruz
[Nickname] Lulu, Alien Girl
[Age] 16
[Gender] Female
[Height] 5'7
[Nationality] Mexican/American
//About//
[Personality]
Excitable, outgoing, and endlessly curious, Luz enjoys nothing more than meeting new people and discovering new things. She’s also pretty clumsy, so the overeager teen is usually sporting some sort of bruise or a new scrape covered with a bandage.
To Luz the Digital World is a wondrous, alien environment to be explored, an opportunity to learn about an infinity of new things she’d never have seen otherwise. She loves the HQ, and she loves everyone in it, truly believing she has finally found “her people.” A people pleaser at heart, Luz tries to befriend everyone she can, and she aims to make her fellow Digidestined happy. She’s always the first to volunteer for a mission, partly because every Digimon is friend-shaped to her. Luz wants to be a journalist one day, and she’s kind of an alien fanatic…
[Likes]
Aliens / Urban Legends / Cryptids
Photography / Journalism
Sci-Fi (Especially Star Trek)
Making people laugh
Being useful
New experiences and new people
Horror flicks
Slow-burn romance stories
Fruit. Fruit. FRUIT
Mexican food / Cuban food / Ramen / Ice-cream / Oatmeal
Rock music / Video game music / Lo-Fi / ΔURΔ
Playing guitar (even if she's bad at it)
Old school video games (and speedruns of them)
Soccer and Volleyball
Rainy days (spent with a good book)
Horses (she just doesn't know it yet)
Digital meat plants (they're cruelty free!)
[Dislikes]
Canines
Snakes
Cacti (except when eaten)
Pens (she always gets inlk on her somehow)
High heels
Lying to her parents
Lying in general actually
Schedules
Falling into the same old routine
Baseball (it has bad memories for her)
Hospitals
Reckless drivers
Silence
Being alone
[Other / Miscellaneous info / Talents]
Luz has been telling her parents that she’s at “boarding school” since she can’t tell them she’s living in a different world. She managed to whip up an illusion of this with Kilobyte’s help, and she’s been taking online classes so she can study while living in the HQ.
While she’s a fanatical science fiction nerd, Luz doesn’t actually have a good grasp of science. She’s great at writing, at photography, and at being in front of a camera, but math and science are especially weak subjects of hers.
Luz loves playing the electric guitar. She wants to become good at it because her twin always loved to play the guitar when they were little. She, however, doesn’t have her twin’s talent, so right now she just plays for fun (much to the chagrin of everyone living in the same hallway as her).
If everything goes according to plan, Luz hopes to become a journalist one day. She’s especially interested in investigative journalism. Traveling for work seems like a dream to her.
Since Luz was raised in California, she’s not entirely fluent in Spanish, but she knows more than enough to survive. She’s actually quite talented at picking up new languages and knows smatterings of several others.
[Songs]
[Digivice] Digivice-V
[Digimon Attribute] Virus
[Crest] Crest of Curiosity
[Digi-Mentals] N/A
//Digivolution Line//
Choromon - Espimon - HoverEspimon - Oblivimon - Invisimon
...ERROR...404...DATA NOT FOUND...
Luz and her twin Lucia were born to doting parents Marcos and Maria de la Cruz, a construction worker and a nurse living in California. The twins were thick as thieves as little kids, always getting into some kind of trouble. The inseparable pair did everything together, including going to Camp Little Hollow together when they were four, five, and six years old, and they probably would’ve been friends forever… until a game of catch in their front yard led to Lucia running into the street to catch a ball and getting struck by a speeding car.
Losing her sister was incredibly hard on six year old Luz. It took her several months before she was back to her normal self, or at least something like her old self. Without her sister there to be her constant companion, Luz became more of an extrovert, constantly seeking the attention of her peers. She was getting better. Her parents were glad for that.
But when Luz went on her yearly summer trip to Camp Little Hollow, the girl encountered a Digimon. She didn’t know what it was at the time, but the encounter made Luz certain that aliens existed. It was the inciting incident that turned her passions for science fiction and photography into obsessions.
Luz grew up to be one of the “weird kids” at school. Sure, she was happy, cheerful, and go-lucky, but she also was on a constant quest to find alien life on Earth. This obsession persisted well past the years where it would’ve been a charming childhood trait. She never told anyone about the beautiful “Butterfly Alien” she met in the woods as a kid, but Luz always felt a strange sort of yearning for the alien she’d only met for a few moments. It was almost like something was… missing.
By the time she got into high school Luz had become something between the class clown and the social pariah. People liked her humorous antics, but she was considered “social cancer” to be friends with. Nevertheless, Luz was a dutiful member of the Journalism club and the Student Council, though her grades were usually slipping because she never remembered to do her homework.
After a particularly awful day at school, Luz went for a walk through the local park on her way home. She was sucked into the Digital World where she met Espimon, her newfound bestie, and was rescued by the older Digidestined. She’s been a loyal member ever since.