Lux Lisbon
From Milieux
| Virgin Suicides | |
| .livejournal.com | |
 Kirsten Dunst as Lux Lisbon | |
| Age: | 15 |
| Birthday: | November 16 (not canon) |
| Year of origin: | 1970s |
| Residence: | Servants Quarters |
| Room: | #10 |
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Character Information
Appearance
The "shining pinnacle" of the Lisbon sisters, Lux is most extraverted and mischievous. She is blonde and blue-eyed like her sisters, short in stature with round buttocks and cheeks that mimicked them. Her face gives the impression of being indecently revealed, as if one "were used to seeing women in veils." It is hard to take one's eyes off her however, as "the rest of her face-- the pulpy lips, the blond sideburn fuzz, the nose with its candy-pink translucent nostrils-- registered dimly as the two blue eyes lifted (one) on a sea wave and held (one) suspended." Quoting Eliot, she was the 'still point of the turning world.'
She was "the most naked person with clothes" with a certain disregard for tidiness, always "an untucked shirttail, a sock with a hole, a ripped seam showing underarm hair." Her clothes are tight-fitting, though her wardrobe consists mostly of oversized outfits because of her parents. She smells of either cigarettes or watermelon gum. She has extra canine teeth, giving her smile a crowded look, especially since she shows all her teeth when she smiles.
Personality
She is the most individual among her sisters; not joining the collective movements of her sisters but refusing to be embraced by the society that has more or less rejected the Lisbons. She moves on her own, her motives hidden even to those closest to her. Perhaps, it is the state of being in-between that defines her; Lisbon and outsiders, adulthood and adolescence, life and death, virginity and jadedness, belonging to neither even as she practices the extremes of each. It would be wrong to call her extravagant and a 'drama queen' however, as she certainly does not call much attention to herself unless actually appropriate. Her beauty certainly earns her enough attention as it is, and she makes use of this by playing coy, being "the stone fox." On one side, she is boy-crazy like most teenage girls, writing the name of her current crush on all her underwear, but on another side, she is painfully aloof and oblivious to those who might love her.
Lux is definitely mischievous, perhaps even to the point of cruelty at times, but it is hard to define whether it was mischief that drove her, or perhaps something else. There is always a strange sense of playacting with most of the things she does, as if all of her has always been just one long game of charade. She has the symptoms of one who is starved for love, substituting it with sex instead, but her aloofness makes it hard to ascertain whether she was truly the one in need, or was she simply using everyone as stepping stones for a greater design she has in mind. The former argument seems more likely, considering her rooftop escapades that suggests "derangement, desperation, self-destructiveness far in excess of any pleasure snatched beneath the dripping trees." Yet perhaps her tragedy is how hard it is to see her as weak, as her very existence demands adoration fit for a goddess.
One thing for sure, the emptiness of a human being willing to choke herself to death on carbon monoxide must be unbearable indeed. She complained of tiredness but refused to acknowledge it to any disease, brushing it off as a trivial problem. But she couldn't breathe in there, and she figured that maybe, all she had to do was learn to breathe deeper, inhale more of the poison, and then she'd be free again, to go to Florida, Canada, Calcutta, anywhere.
Where Canon and Character go separate ways
In canon, Lux died on June 15 from self-induced carbon monoxide poisoning. In Milieux however, she survived because the boys called the ambulance and she was rescued while all her sisters, except for Mary, died. After a few weeks in the hospital, the two of them returned home. Only a few days later however, Mary overdosed on sleeping pills, leaving Lux behind. Her parents, unable to maintain any semblance of normalcy, decided to move away from the town. They sent her to Milieux in hopes that she would have a better life away from them.
In Milieux
Living Arrangements
At Servants' Quarters #10, with Integra.
Relationships
People she has talked to: Sam, Nate, Elena, Claire. She is sort of with Rodney, yeah, they should make it official :)
Classes
TBA
- Mythology with Phoebe Halliwell
- The Opposite Sex and You with Nate Summers
- Activity - Band with El Mariachi
Other
Adventures
Handy links
Wikipedia page for the movie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_Suicides_%28film%29
Wikipedia page for the book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Suicides
In-depth character study - http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/virginsuicides/terms/charanal_2.html
Character info by me - http://il-luminance.livejournal.com/908.html
