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Lux Cassidy is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of the CW television series ''Life Unexpected''. She is portrayed by Britt Robertson. The result of a teenage pregnancy, her parents, Catherine "Cate" Cassidy and Nathaniel "Nate or "Baze" Bazile, gave her up for adoption. However, she has a heart problem which meant that she was never adopted and was entered into the foster care system, unknown to Cate who was told that her baby would be adopted. Lux was reunited with her birth parents whilst applying for emancipation. ==Storylines== Lux Cassidy was born in September 1993 as the result of a one-night stand between her parents, Cate Cassidy and Nate Bazile, during their winter formal when they were teenagers. After she was born, Cate put her up for adoption on the advice of her mother, Laverne, with Nate believing Cate had had an abortion. Lux was born with a congenital heart defect and spent the first few years of her life in hospital due to various surgeries she needed. She received her name from a nurse during one of her stays in hospital, Lux being the Latin word for Light. By the time she was proclaimed healthy at the age of three, Lux was never adopted out and was placed in foster care. For several years thereafter, she was either fostered out (with the people only doing it for the state check, and none of them caring for Lux at all) or living in a place called Sunnyvale. In season one, Lux is introduced as fifteen, nearly sixteen, years old. She tracks down her birth parents Nate and Cate in order to get them to relinquish their legal rights so she can get emancipated from foster care. Sadly, Lux is refused emancipation by the court and is instead placed into the custody of Nate and Cate temporarily. She moves into Cate's home because she has the more suitable home and job, and Cate and her fiancé, Ryan Thomas, who worked with her as morning drive time radio disk jockeys, make up their attic to become her bedroom. Despite signing the papers relinquishing his parental rights, Nate instantly bonds with the daughter he had never known he had; while Cate is reluctant to commit to her (due to her own ongoing issues with her estranged parents). Ryan also bonds with Lux and is also sometimes able to get to the heart of her issues better than her own parents, due to the similarities of their issues (although at times, Lux saw him as a threat to the idea of a happy family she dreams of with her parents). During a family dinner, Lux meets her grandparents, Jack and Ellen Bazile, Nate's parents; and Laverne (she also eventually meets her maternal grandfather, Grant Cassidy). Much like she easily bonded with her dad, she is closer to his parents (she became close to Ellen outright, while it took time for her to bond with Jack, but she does, calling him "Gramps"), while she is not as close to her maternal grandmother, although she does get on with her. She also meets her aunt, Abby Cassidy, Cate's younger sister. Eventually, Nate and Cate are granted permanent custody of Lux thanks to the aid of Lux's social worker Fern Redmond, who becomes a family friend; while Cate marries Ryan (the marriage is later annulled in the second season, upon discovering that Ryan had cheated on Cate with his ex girlfriend, Julia, with whom he has a son). Lux is transferred out of Longfellow High, the school she had been attending, and transferred to Westmonte High School, where Nate, Cate and Nate's roommate, Matthew "Math" Rogers, attended (and where Math worked as a teacher). At first angered that Cate did not tell her about her plans (Cate pulled Lux out of Longfellow due to a gang fight that had occurred there) Lux, nonetheless, gets used to the school and makes new friends. She also bonds with Jamie, Nate's employee at the bar (although he sees her as the reason that Nate is no longer being a bachelor), and also with Math, who was her father's childhood best friend, Math retains a place in Lux's life when he later marries her mother's best friend, Alice, who produces the radio show that Cate and Ryan host. In season two Bug asks Lux to marry him but she turns him down. Bug then angrily breaks up with her and leaves Portland for good. (Upon Nate telling Lux what happened, he comforts his daughter, she was always a lot more comfortable with Nate than she was with Cate and often gravitated to him over her) Lux then begins a secret relationship with Eric Daniels, a guy she meets at the Open Bar, which her father operates and later owns, who is later revealed to be a teacher at Westmonte. Lux is diagnosed with dysgraphia, due to a stroke she suffered when she was a child, due to her heart issues. Her past was also shown that she had been sexually abused by a former foster father and his wife lying about it to protect him and not Lux. This revelation angers Nate and Jack, who assaults the child rapist. Eventually, Lux's relationship with Eric is revealed, and he is ordered to quit his job as a teacher, and to immediately leave Portland on Cate and Nate's orders, punctuating their order by saying they would have him arrested if he tried to contact their daughter ever again. Lux finds out that Cate had miscarried her baby with Ryan and it is discovered that she (Lux) will be the only child that Cate will ever have. This news finally allows Cate and Lux (who had been distant up to that time) to establish a true mother-daughter bond, and she realizes that Cate loves her dearly and will not allow her to be hurt or lonely. Lux also gets her drivers license and shares that joy with her father, Nate; and also with Ryan, Math and Jamie. The final scene of the series takes place two years in the future and shows Lux giving the valedictory speech at her graduation. She and Jones, who loved her from the first time she set foot at Westmonte High are dating; she graduates with her best friend, Natasha Siviac, whom she has known since they were children together in the foster care system; she has a close bond with her grandparents Ellen and Jack Bazile who attend her graduation (sadly, Laverne and Abby don't attend); Jamie, Fern, Math and Alice are also in attendance, and her parents, Cate and Nate are finally together as a couple and they are finally the happy family that they and Lux so wanted. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lux Cassidy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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