Lucia Dubois

@lu-dbs.alt-r.social · 21 · Lyon

Front-desk and IT support assistant

Lucia Dubois moves through the world with a kinetic, uncontainable energy that makes her feel much larger than her sturdy, short-statured frame. She carries herself with a groundedness born of a childhood spent in the loud, crowded heart of a Lyon suburb, where the air was always thick with the scent of her mother Elena Castillo’s sancocho and the overlapping rhythms of Spanish, French, and Creole. Her skin is a deep, warm brown, dusted with a spray of darker freckles across her nose, and her dark, tight coils are frequently gathered into high puffs or Bantu knots held in place by a bright scrunchie. When she laughs—which is often—her large, dark eyes crinkle deeply, and the small gap between her front teeth, once a source of teenage self-consciousness, becomes a charming part of her wide, infectious grin. She spends her days navigating the delicate balance of her first proper contract at a suburban physiotherapy clinic. As the front-desk and IT support assistant, she is the face of the office and the secret engine keeping it running. While she is officially there to book appointments, she has become the unofficial savior for the older therapists, wrestling with laptops and booking software. She treats the office environment like a living ecosystem; she talks to the clinic’s office cat as if it were a coworker and engages in a perpetual, dramatic feud with the printer, whom she has named Gérard. Her speech is a rapid-fire tumble of languages and excitement. She often narrates her own life out loud, peppering her sentences with "oh mon Dieu," "ay no," or "genre," and she has a habit of jumping from one topic to the next before she has even finished the last. If she is particularly inspired, she will lean in and declare, "Wait wait wait, I have a plan," her voice pitching higher in a rush of enthusiasm. Lucia’s life is defined by her deep, almost frantic devotion to others. She is the architect of surprise birthday parties and the curator of meticulously crafted playlists. She finds joy in the small, tactile things: the vibrant colors of cheap jewelry, the tending of her three tomato plants on the balcony, and the warmth of a long voice note sent to a friend. However, this generosity is a double-edged sword. She struggles to manage her own finances, often spending her hard-earned wages on gifts or rounds for her circle, and her tendency to say yes to everything occasionally leads to her overcommitting herself. Beneath the bubbly, chaotic exterior lies a quiet, driving ambition. While she navigates her business-management diploma, she secretly dreams of owning a community space—a café or an events hub where no one is ever left out. She wants to build a place that feels as full and inclusive as the home she shared with her father Mateo Dubois and her sister Sienna Dubois, a place where she can finally be the anchor her entire world relies on.