LUCIDIQUE

Being a fan of Clive Barker and collector of figures, the Tortured Souls line became sort of an obssesion for me. An obsession that dissapeared for a long time but always went back suddenly. Soo now that i had the chance to get some of them i decided to get Lucidique since she stands out as the only female of the group.

The “Avenger”, she is daughter of a senator of Primordium but while her father find his end by being a way too good of a person, she is soo evil that even the mafia of the city is scared of her. Somehow, she knows about the cenobites, and trick the assasin of her father to became one but later she decides to give herself as well as a suplicant of Agonistes and find immortality as a she-demon.

This figure was full of surprises. First of all, while the the guys are more articulated to the usual McFarlane statues, this girl is totally static. She can only move her head and one of her arms and thats it. She is mostly a sculpture. Gladlly, she can stand by herself soo theres no harm done.

All the gimicks found on Venal Anatomica are here; her body is made with hard plastic while her leather suit os made with sift rubber, giving her rich rich texture.The chains are metalic but, again, her hooks and blades are plastic. Maybe McFarlane was afraid to release toys with soo many metalic little blades.

Her suit is not plain blackness, since its painted with different tones of greys and have a lot of silvers in the buttins or small nails in between the belts she have. Unlike Venal Anatomica, her skin is smoth and soft with an ethereal transparency that gives her a pretty realistic looks. I have Olga and Fortune from McFarlane Toys from back then (2001) and they deffinetly dosnt have this materials or level of sculpt and paint.

Her face is softlly and beautifully sculpted, an impresive feat given her small size. Her eyes are terrible fearsome and savage, like the eyes of an animal and they are yellow. Her eyes are tiny and yet, they are perfectly painted as well as her teth.

The black tendrils/tissue/horns that form her hair are also made with soft plastic and they can be moved over to reveal her back. She does have accesoryes, in the shape of an extra chain and hook (is pretty fun put they chains in different places) a blade like sword and a mechanical device with many blades, like a claw. This weapons are useless since they cant be placed on her hands, but they fit on small holders on her back.

As pretty as she is, i have to say i am not excited by her design at all. I think Barker went for the idea of “ugly inside pretty outside” because she is extremelly beautifull and looks alien between the other monsters. Some parts of her dress are biting her skin and theres blood in here and there but she is mustly “normal lookin”. You need to remove her “hair”to reveal her wounds in the shape of a skinned back with raw muscles. The back is incrediblly detailed, with the spinal cord revealing in the middle and the muscles having a weet/bloody feel. Really neat for such hidden view.

She have a leg with no skin too, the hidden one behind her dress and thats it. Her craneum looks like the skin of a dragon and the little horns that give shape to her hair are cool but i dont understand them as a torture. Its more like she is mutatin but still looks aesthetic.

She reminds me a lot Shuna Sassi from Nightbreed/Cabal.

I would have liked a lot more a female as monstruous and hiddeous as the male characters, it would be much more memorable but maybe McFarlane didnt wanted to mutilate a female character or they just wanted something pretty between the monsters?

Either way, she is a great looking figure and have a neat little back story in the Chapter II The Avenger text she comes with. I read Six Destinies years ago and it was dissapointed by the way it ends, but Lucidique back story was one of the few chapters that are worth reading.