Ivy

Nicknames Hotsy-Totsy Personal Gender Female Age 18 (1927) Height approx. 5'1" Nationality American; English descent Birth May 20, 1909 Birthplace Kansas City, Missouri Hair color Black Eye color Brown Relationships & Career Love interest(s)

1. Chad (former)
2. Claude (former)
3. Cecil (former) Crush Freckle

Relatives Reuben Pepper (father) Effie Pepper (mother) Atlas May (godfather) Unnamed younger brother and sister Affiliation(s) Lackadaisy crew Lackadaisy Little Daisy Café Occupation(s) College student Cashier Rumrunner Ivy Pepper is the daughter of Ruby Pepper and goddaughter of Atlas. She is first depicted in a photograph in and first appears with dialogue in "Formaldehyde". She usually works as the cashier at Little Daisy Café, but she commonly helps with rum runs along with Rocky and Freckle. Physical description Ivy is a petite and slim, teenage cat with beige-brown fur and honey-yellow irises in the comic, however like other characters her eyes are pure yellow in the animated series, she also has thin black eyebrows. She has short and straight, chin-length dark brown hair in a 1920s-style Lulu bob cut and the inside of her ears are pink, with a darker colored tip. Her tail is long, but slim and small, differently from Rocky and Freckle's. Clothing For her attire, Ivy wears a grey newsboy cap, a button-up light yellow cardigan with a dark orange collar and a long-sleeve high-collared white undershirt, grey knicker pants and low-heeled brown Oxford shoes with knee-high dark grey argyle socks. Young In Lackadaisy Ingenue, as a 11-year-old kitten, Ivy had long and curly shoulder-length hair with a light yellow hair bow on the back, she wore a long-sleeve yellow and orange dress with a small orange bowtie and decorative buttons, she also wore dark grey stockings with calf-length black spat boots. Biography Lackadaisy Ingenue In Lackadaisy Ingenue an 11 year old Ivy rides with her father from her home town of Kansas City to the Little Daisy Café to deliver a state of the arc Packard Twin Six car to Atlas to be used for the Speakeasy's, there Ivy meets Mordecai who isn't fond of children. She is told Mordecai is the Cafés bookkeeper but she's confused by that since he's carrying a gun on his waist, when she questions Mordecai about this he vaguely responds with "I subtract numbers too". Before Ivy can ask what that means Mitzi interrupts to ask her if she'd like a soda pop, she declines because she's busy talking to Mordecai but when she turns back to face him he's ran away.

She then walks up to Viktor who appears to be installing bulletproof metal platting on the doors of a car. Ivy mentions that she finds it suspicious that nobody around here talks and that Mordecai the "bookkeeper" has a broken arm, Viktor comes up with a fake excuse for Mordecai's injury, saying that due to his stupidity he clumsily broke his arm roller skating in the house. Ivy asks him how he lost his eye assuming he lost it in the war, but Viktor responds with another silly lie saying he lost his eye because of a malfunctioning ice cream scooper. Ivy laughs at these answers but she clearly knows their not true, since he's such a bad liar she offers to teach him how to properly lie, and maybe even get better at telling jokes.

She tries to tell a joke but Viktor harshly interrupts and says she has to go since it's dangerous there, lying again saying it's because of sharp heavy dangerous tools, Ivy doesn't buy it but Viktor slams the car door he's working on shut and yells for her to go, so she angrily walks away. Looking in another corner of the garage she finds a discarded car door with bullet holes and broken glass, this helps her piece together the true nature of Atlas's business. Before she can investigate the door more Mitzi calls everyone over to take a photo. As everyone lines up for the photo she whispers to Viktor and Mordecai, "ya robbers or gangsters or something?", both of them are a bit shocked by her figuring it out, but she promises not to snitch as long as they give her a single quarter. Mitzi snaps the picture and Lackadaisy Ingenue ends. Personality and traits Ivy is perky, confident, hotheaded, temperamental, tomboyish, romantic and often saucy to those who get the better of her, especially Viktor (though the two actually have a friendship of sorts) and Rocky. She is prone to rash outbursts and is moody: once she discovered Rocky was indirectly responsible for the pig farmers' attack on Lackadaisy, she furiously attacked him with her school notes, though moments later she joyfully agreed to help Rocky scour a field for hidden alcohol. Even though she tends to be violent, she is also very sweet and affectionate towards her dear Freckle who she uniquely refers to by his first name Calvin, freely expressing her infatuation with him and kissing him on the lips more than once. While Rocky's impudence and incautiousness are something of a thorn in her side, she nevertheless cares about him as a friend and became very concerned for him once he shared how his unfortunate childhood influenced his closeness to the McMurray home and how poorly he thinks of himself. Relationships Rocky Rickaby Ivy and Rocky have a close relationship that predates the start of the comic. They banter and Ivy has expressed frustration with Rocky but none of that stops them from trusting the other. Ivy seems to be Rocky's best friend. This is shown on multiple occasions like in "Jellybeans" when Ivy risks her life confronting Abelard and Bobby to get Rocky medical treatment. After leaving Elsa she's the first one to learn Rocky lives in a car, and immediately lets him sleep in her bed at her collage dorm. In "Begorra", she tried getting information about Freckle from Rocky but Rocky was pretty closed off about this.

Calvin "Freckle" McMurray In the chapter "Surreption", Ivy is introduced to Freckle by Rocky while the latter treated Freckle to getting a sandwich at the café after they burned down the Pig farmers' barn. Upon first interaction with the socially awkward young man, Ivy instantly develops a crush on Freckle, with her playfully closing in on him as he tries to cover his face with newspaper while she states "...you must be the cutest thing this side of the river!". She manages to succeed in courting and asking him out on a date to the Lackadaisy club by gifting him a pin after she distracts Rocky by tipping syrup on him.

However, it isn't until "Academia" where they see each other again. Later in the chapter when the trio heads to Viktor's apartment, Ivy introduces him to Freckle, saying she has decided that he is her boyfriend much to Viktor's skepticism.

In "Handyman", Ivy accompanies Freckle upstairs to assist him in helping Mrs. Bapka fix her sink faucet. As she lovingly gazes at him, she then asks Freckle if he was really the one who took out one of the Pig farmers and finds herself finding it difficult to believe as Freckle continues to behave clumsily. She then questions why he joined Lackadaisy to which Freckle responds with the fact that he needs a job. Ivy disagrees and states that he just wanted the "dark life". They then proceed to joke about Freckle's desire of being paid with sandwiches to which Ivy playfully calls out as an evasion.

After angrily leaving Viktor's apartment, Ivy kisses Freckle out of the blue in "Gallivant", leaving him stunned. She then asks if she will get to meet his mom to which he and Rocky hastily say no to. Ivy then reminds Freckle that she owes him a date but is interrupted by Rocky attempting to hide her from Ms. McMurray as he gives Freckle a letter, warning him to not tell his mother of Lackadaisy business before he and Ivy ride off for "location scouting", to which Ivy wholeheartedly agrees to.

In "Liaison", Ivy and Freckle finally have a genuine kiss before the latter goes off to help Rocky transport the embalming fluid they acquired from the Arbogast Funeral Home.

Viktor Vasko Ivy appears to have a well-established relationship with Viktor. She is willing to confront him physically without fear of retribution, considering him a "big teddy bear"; it's unclear whether Viktor enjoys or merely tolerates these confrontations. Ivy is one of the few people whom Viktor appears to let his guard down around, as she has actually seen him in a vulnerable state.

In "Rhubarb", Ivy realizes that Viktor has been sabotaging her social life and that he does not want her to be involved with Lackadaisy. She rebuffs his concerns, calling him a "monster" and storming out. In "Gallivant", Ivy yells to Viktor from outside his apartment that she is giving up on him.

Sedgewick "Wick" Sable Ivy and Wick are familiar with each other as of "Wherewithal", likely because Wick is a long-standing patron of Lackadaisy. Ivy knows Wick well enough to play on his sense of chivalry when it suits her purposes. Their relationship appears to be somewhat formal, with Wick referring to Ivy as, "Miss Pepper".

Dorian "Zib" Zibowski Zib appears to show some degree of deference to Ivy, similarly referring to her "Miss Pepper" like Wick.