Week 59! (Patreon)

So this pair here, Bruce and Lucina, is the most recent "couple" to have sprouted in the comic, having established itself in Arc 12 during the field trip to the museum and cemented itself, sort of, during Arc 15 in the VRC thing.

There's not much history to go through with these two, and not much I can remember honestly. Reading back through the archive, apparently I had conceived of Bruce having a crush on Lucy only a few weeks prior to Lucy's introduction, which seems about right. 

Lucy as a character I haven't really gone into much, which I should do in the future for one of these updates, but having these two pair up... if I could infer what my past self was thinking, it was about having their be the one person who could not only stand Bruce, but completely brush off and even enjoy his weird antics and personality. I was probably thinking about Lucy's personality and realized that it sort of fit with Bruce's pretty well, to the point that actually getting them to "date" would work both character-wise and story-wise.

As with the other "couples", Bruce and Lucy's is different from the rest. Currently, they aren't even officially "dating", since Bruce has only asked Lucy on one date (and missed it), but they're hanging out and Lucy holds no ill will towards Bruce and they both want to keep trying. It's a far more casual relationship, where romance is clearly something at least one of them values, but thus far it's more of a friendship budding that will maybe one day bloom into full-blown love. Additionally, the manner in which the two interact is unique to their pairing, as it's one where the guy fawns over the lady, but the lady is actually reciprocating in a very accepting and open way.