Lucy's Tricks

As Lucy is a member of The Valkyrie Pirates and thus has had to fight challenging enemies throughout her journeys, and because of her timid demeanor and lack of superhuman qualities, she has had to improvise on more than one occasion. Thus, she tends to rely on her experience as a former stage magician in order to deceive her opponents within the midst of battle. This fighting style Lucy has developed over time has made her formidable enough, to where otherwise clueless onlookers have mistaken her for being a real witch or sorceress, thus explaining the origins of her alias. It makes clever use of illusions through stage magic to fool the senses, as well as relying on modified wands and rods to not only pummel foes, but to allow Lucy to pull off what should be impossible feats, such as releasing streams of fire, flying through the air, and appearing to disappear in an instant. She's even incorporated gadgets such as springs and her skill in ventriloquism to aid her when her magic tricks aren't enough. Apparently, she and her fellow crewmates refer to this form of fighting as "the Performance."

Below is a list of Lucy's various tricks and illusions, as well as a catalogue of her techniques, with details regarding each of them.

Wands
The most basic and often seen form of Lucy's arsenal are her collection of magic wands. As one wand alone cannot contain the vast amount of gadgets and tools she stores inside of them for her tricks, she has rectified this drawback by carrying any number of wands at one time. This also allows her to have backups in case one should be broken, stolen or lost. Lucy has shown she is quite capable in wielding one or two wands at once with little effort.

At its most basic, Lucy's wands are simple staffs she uses to bludgeon her opponents with. Having used her wands for a good number of years, Lucy is highly proficient in wielding them as weapons in their own right; shown by how she can fight while treating her wands as an extension of herself as opposed to merely swinging them around haphazardly, parrying and blocking blows from opponents, or even using her wands to vault over large distances when necessary. This makes Lucy a decent combatant at close range, should she ever need to fight in such a manner.

As noted above however, the most important feature of Lucy's wands are the devices she's stored within them. These are the genuine source of Lucy's "spells," as she likes to call them while in battle or when amusing her friends. As Lucy is a skilled stage magician, she rarely, if ever admits to this, especially to an enemy; rather, she likes to state that a proper magician never reveals their secrets. Given the vast assortment of spells Lucy has shown in battle, and the fact that she needs to carry extra wands to use more techniques, it's safe to assume Lucy has countless contraptions running throughout her wands. Various gadgets include flamethrowers, air cannons, smoke bomb ejectors and light emitting devices. And not only can Lucy use these spells single-handedly, but she can even combine them together to double their effectiveness, or to even create new techniques altogether.

Due to the wide variety of abilities her wands can grant her, a feat which even impressed Timber of The Jolly Pirates (if only because of the complexity involving the wands' technology,) and as part of this overall fighting style relies on deception and slight of hand, Lucy has been able to surprisingly make it out of even the most difficult of situations. Even going so far as being shown defeating enemies who are much more burly and skilled than she is. The following is a list of wand-related spells and techniques Lucy has unveiled throughout the course of One Dream. Sometimes, Lucy can be seen reciting a made-up chant in order to appear as if she's performing true wizardry.


 * Sylph Conjuring: Air Rifle: Lucy aims the tip of her wand at a designated target and activates one of the mechanisms hidden inside the wand; releasing a single column of pressurized air at high speed. As the name implies, the air hits with an impact equivalent to that of a high powered rifle. This spell has been seen to not only be used for offense, but defense as well, as it can deflect incoming projectiles.
 * Salamander Conjuring: Fire Stream: Mainly used for offensive purposes, Lucy will take aim with her wand and then unleash a steady stream of flame from its tip. With it, she can burn anything flammable within her line of sight for any period of time. She can also combine this with her Sylph Conjuring: Air Rifle to expand the width of the stream and increase her attack's overall range.

Ventriloquism
Despite not being an obvious trait, Lucy is highly skilled in throwing her voice and even masking it as someone else's. Therefore, whenever she's in a tight spot, or when her usual arsenal isn't working, Lucy can rely on her ventriloquism to fool those around her; giving her a momentary advantage over them. More commonly seen are tricks where Lucy will deceive others into believing her voice is coming from elsewhere, which can divert their attention long enough for her to perform a sneak attack or run away. Another ventriloquist maneuver has Lucy imitating the voices of her allies, to make her foes think reinforcements are arriving.

While not actually attacks, the following are ventriloquism based techniques Lucy has employed in her battles.

Other Equipment
Aside from trickery involving her wands and her voice, Lucy has shown that she secretly keeps around various tools on her person which she makes good use of in and out of battle. These gadgets, for the most part, are usually hidden within Lucy's clothing, such as under her boots, but can sometimes be shown being carried into battle by Lucy herself. Like the rest of Lucy's arsenal, her vast range of equipment rely on deception and optical illusions to give Lucy a psychological and practical edge over others, and as a result, are not so obviously seen at first glance.

Below are listed techniques involving Lucy's tools and equipment.