Lucinda "Lulu" Evangelista is an exotic dancer based in New York City who is a member of the House of Abundance. She develops a strong sibling relationship with Candy Johnson while in the house, the two bringing in their talents in the categories they walked. When financial conflicts arise for Abundance, Lulu left the house, taking her siblings with her, and starting her own, the House of Ferocity, that was co-parented with Candy.
Lulu continued to serve as house Mother, despite the passing of her sister, and the struggles that came with maintaining it. After taking part in an ACT UP protest with Damon Richards and Ricky, she sought to restart her college education, seeking to attend the Bronx Community College.
Biography[]
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Early Life[]
Lulu enrolled in community college, studying accounting, but dropped out.[1]
She joined the House of Abundance and was quickly befriended by her House sister Candy Abundance and shared a space with another sister named Blanca Abundance. Though they lived in a cramped space, the women made the most of it, even when three new more members, Angel, Lemar, and Cubby, came into the picture.
During one night, Lulu assisted Mother Elektra in reclaiming her trunk of fineries that provided a bigger apartment, much to her and Candy's elation.[2]
House Abundance[]
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Establishing New House[]
Lulu practiced a ball routine alongside her siblings, the four taking a break after Lemar critiqued Candy's moves. While everyone chuckled, they were startled by the abrupt entrance of an angry Elektra Abundance. With Candy asking about Elektra's man and why she has returned to the apartment earlier than usual, Lulu questioned why she and Candy have to leave their room for her. She also listened as Elektra listed various different rules for the house.
Days later, Lulu and the children confronted Elektra on the eviction notice, informing them that rent was late. Eventually, Lulu proclaimed that she was leaving the House of Abundance, seeking to establish her own house like Blanca Evangelista, taking Candy with her.
The two women conversed in a bar, figuring out a proper name for their house and who to bring under their guide. She settles on the name "Ferocity" after rejecting Candy's first suggestion "Fabulosity" for being "too gay." Taking in Cubby and Lemar, the women's choice picks included shopkeeper Veronica, fellow voguer Florida, and former member of House Xtravaganza Aphrodite to challenge Elektra in femme realness categories.
Lulu and Candy came across Lil Papi on the street, deciding to take him under their wings as revenge against Blanca.[4]
Missing Candy[]
Days after the ballroom incident between Candy Ferocity and Pray Tell, Lulu loses contact with her co-House Mother. Unsure what to do, she turned to Blanca Evangelista, informing her that Candy had began a side-profession of servicing johns at a sleazy hotel. With Blanca, the two women visited the establishment to locate their missing sister, being repeatedly shoed by the manager who expressed disinterest in their search. Though Lulu weepingly pleaded, she and Blanca gave him a number and a photo of Candy and left.
Lulu came to Apartment 306, pushing Blanca to tell her immediately where Candy was. Learning of her death, she embraced her sister and wept. She gathered at the table with Elektra Wintour and Angel Evangelista, planning out what to do moving forward, the group deciding to start preparations for Candy's funeral.
She became distant; while everyone sat inside the funeral home and paid their respects to Candy, Lulu avoided the casket, calling out Angel as she walked out of the room. She cryingly told her that she did not want to see her sister's body and that she was unable to remember anything positive the two shared in life, her mind dwelling on the bad moments they had together. Eventually, by Angel's hand, she walked slowly to the casket. Glancing at Candy's attire, she gradually became enraged, stripping the body of couple articles of clothing and jewelry before Damon, Ricky, and Papi pulled her off and away from the casket. Lulu stormed outside the funeral home, lighting a cigarette and sobbing quietly.[5]
A New Light[]
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Weeks after the passing of Candy, Lulu continued to feel grief-stricken, under performing at her workplace before her intervention with Blanca.[1] Once she makes peace and grows closer to Blanca and the others, sheds most of her mean girl ways, and Lulu gets nominated for Mother of the Year of 1991.
Addiction[]
Though she attempted to re-enroll into college for her accounting degree, Lulu, still grief-striken by her lost sister and unyielding to handle the environment, sought drugs to relieve her pain. She stayed close to Angel Evangelista with her emotions and laced marijuana and has a recurring fling with a man named Jerome. Throughout 1994, she repeatedly became distant from Elektra and the others, leaving voice mail to alleviate worry but requesting not to be found.[6][2] With support from her friends Lulu gets help and starts breaking her addiction. In 1998 it is shown that Lulu has really turned her life around and is now working as an accountant.
Personality[]
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Unlike her vocal and ambitious sister Candy, Lulu tends to keep to her side and her shadow, reluctant to strive indepedently.
After Candy's death, Lulu struggles on how she'll keep the house of ferocity going. However, she eventually moves forward by building a stronger role as sole mother of her family, becomes nicer and more kindhearted by making amends with her former frenemies Blanca, Angel, and Elektra and become best friends, building a stronger sisterhood.
Relationships[]
Romances[]
- Darius: Lulu makes mention that she had previously had sexual relations with Darius.
- Jerome: While dealing with her drug addiction, Lulu found a romantic partner with whom she smoked alongside. When she puts forth an effort to appease Elektra of her habit, she breaks things with Jerome, who was unwilling to quit and grew displeasured by Elektra's gestures of kindness.
Friends[]
- Candy Ferocity: Both Candy and Lulu have shared a strong friendship with one another. Between the two, Candy is outspoken and vibrant.
- Blanca Rodriguez: There was some shallow animosity between the two when Blanca left House of Abundance. However there were moments where they really had each other's back on various occasions throughout the series, including protesting outside Blanca's boarded up nail salon and helping to inflate a giant condom around Frederica Norman's house.
- Elektra Abundance: Though she nurtured and supported all her children to the best of her efforts under House Abundance, Elektra harbors some amounts of tough love for Lulu and Candy among them all. While the two children often held love for their House Mother, there are moments where the three women become vicious towards one another. Elektra repeatedly attacks Candy in her attempts to walk a body category while under her house, including the choice to make poor advances to "alter" her physical appearance. After both women leave House Abundance upon receiving an eviction notice and form their own house, Elektra is taken into House Evangelista, plucking Lil Papi, Cubby, and Lemar from them while not holding back insults and attacks on them. Their relationship continues to sit complicated in the future, Elektra moving into their house temporarily, providing them with clothing for the ball categories but ultimately leaving when she complains about the limited storage of her belongings and the lackluster meals. She, nevertheless, mourns the death of Candy as her daughter and holds a more mutually friendly relationship with Lulu.
- Lil Papi: While under their roof, Lulu and Candy were repeatedly harass and assault Lil Papi whenever he underperformed as a subject. Eventually, he left their house after the co-House Mothers were read by Elektra Evangelista.
Gallery[]
Behind the Scenes[]
- Evelyn Osorio Vaccaro is the stunt double for Hailie Sahar in the role of Lulu Abundance.
Appearances[]
| Pose: Season One | |||
| "Pilot": | "Access": | "Giving and Receiving": | "The Fever": |
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| "Mother's Day": | "Love Is the Message": | "Pink Slip": | "Mother of The Year": |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears |
| Pose: Season Two | ||||
| "Acting Up": | "Worth It": | "Butterfly-Cocoon": | "Never Knew Love Like This Before": | "What Would Candy Do?": |
| Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent |
| "Love's in Need of Love Today": | "Blow": | "Revelations": | "Life's a Beach": | "In My Heels": |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears |
| Pose: Season Three | |||
| "On The Run": | "Intervention": | "The Trunk": | "Take Me To Church": |
| Appears | Appears | Voice | Absent |
| "Something Borrowed, Something Blue": | "Something Old, Something New": | "Series Finale": | |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | |