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As many as 28 years into Grand Theft Auto, the series is finally handing you a woman character to play with. And she arrives with a voice, a backstory, and leading dialogue in GTA 6 this November 19. Meet Lucia Caminos. She has a better life in her sights and zero intention of letting anything stand in the way. The dream may be mundane, but the latter part is what makes her an interesting character. Rupert Humphries, Senior Vice President of Narrative at Rockstar Games and a lead writer on the story for Grand Theft Auto VI, explains what makes Lucia tick.
Lucia wants out, and she means it. Ambition is Lucia's whole engine. "Lucia had to be someone who wanted a better life for herself, and wouldn't let the obstacles in the way of that life stop her from getting it," Humphries told LOVE magazine.
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That drive makes her the opposite of Jason Duval, her partner, a man whose circumstances keep making his decisions for him. Lucia doesn't wait for life to happen to her, which sets up a very different kind of a situation for both, one involving crime.
Humphries admits there is a certain charm in that. "There is something hopeful and naïve about going on the run and pushing a crime spree to its limit without worrying about the consequences," he says.
Is the dream Lucia chasing grounded? "Maybe the American dream is more modest now. It's a house for your family and your loans paid off instead of wild success…."
Lucia isn't meant to be a flawless hero, and neither is Jason. Game Writer Elizabeth Gauvey-Kern says the team wanted both leads to be "vulnerable, tough, flawed, right sometimes, wrong sometimes, able to learn from each other." That, she adds, "is what we felt made them authentic, and a great team."
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Fellow Game Writer Alexa D'Agostino says, "When you are focusing on writing a fully realised person with their own wants, you're going to get something perfectly imperfect...."