Lucienne is NOT subservient
There are some Sandman viewers who think Lucienne in the Netflix series was somehow subservient. Were we watching the same show?
1. Lucienne kept The Dreaming running while Morpheus was gone. That means she RULED the place for over a century.
2. Lucienne is the first raven. This was confirmed in the comics in The Sandman: The Kindly Ones and Neil confirmed on Twitter that yes, Lucienne is still the first raven. That means outside of Morpheus she has been in The Dreaming longer than anyone. She was likely human once as all of Morpheus’s ravens were former humans who choose to become ravens but chances are her current form is not her original human form. She chose another form after retiring from being a raven.
3. Lucienne is not a valet or house keeper. She is the librarian for all the stories in The Dreaming. That’s every story ever dreamed of. That’s quite a title. That’s bigger than if she ran The Library of Alexandria. Hell, that’s probably IN there!
4. Lucienne is the only one with the courage to tell Morpheus off when he’s wrong (besides his sister, Death). And one of the only ones he’ll listen to.
5. Even when Morpheus is there, Lucienne is clearly the second in command and is well respected by Morpheus.
6. Lucienne clearly has magical power of her own. In the comics Lucien (male version) could turn into a raven at will (see the story called The Hunt) but it’s clear she has more power in the show. Observe that she took a recently deceased human soul and was able to turn him into a raven. This was something that only Morpheus could do in the comics. She also had enough power to enable Morpheus to form a psychic link with Matthew as he does with the dream entities he creates in the comics.
7. Mervyn Pumpkinhead views Lucienne as the one who is really in charge.
8. Lucienne is extremely observant and intelligent. Just because she respects her king does not mean she’s subservient to him. She’s the closest thing he has to an equal in that castle and he knows it.
9. Lucienne acts a bit like a mother figure, something I think Morpheus actually needs. I’m not saying that she mothers him but she gives the impression of being a figure of authority that knows when to scold the man-child king.
10. Lucienne walks beside Morpheus, not behind him. If you know royal customs this is a big deal. This means he views her as an equal, not a subordinate, even if he only realizes it subconsciously. You will notice it when they walk to The House of Secrets and The House of Mystery in episode 2 of The Sandman, the episode Imperfect Hosts.
11. Before The Sandman comics, Lucien (original male version) was a horror host who told scary stories in Tales of Ghost Castle (retroactively now Morpheus’s castle) and he kept a pet werewolf named Rover. Lucien’s fondness for werewolves carried over into The Sandman for the issue called The Hunt. You have to be pretty tough to casually take a werewolf as a pet. Though Rover may not be canon to The Sandman, Lucien still seemed to have a fondness and lack of fear of werewolves in The Hunt. Again, you have to have some toughness about you to be casual about werewolves that can change form at will. (Animal trivia: Wolves and ravens are natural companions).
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