Editing Peanuts (section)

===Linus and Lucy===
{{Main|Linus van Pelt|Lucy van Pelt}}

Linus and Lucy are siblings; Linus is the younger brother, and Lucy is the older sister.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=70}}

Lucy is bossy, selfish and opinionated, and she often delivers commentary in an honest albeit offensive and sarcastic way.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=47}}{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=196}} Schulz described Lucy as full of misdirected confidence, but having the virtue of being capable of cutting right down to the truth.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=52}} He said that Lucy is mean because it is funny, particularly because she is a girl: he posited that a boy being mean to girls would not be funny at all, describing a pattern in comic strip writing where it is comical when supposedly weak characters dominate supposedly strong characters.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=45}} Lucy at times acts as a psychiatrist and charges five cents for psychiatric advice to other characters (usually Charlie Brown) from her "psychiatric booth", a booth parodying the setup of a [[lemonade stand]].{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=89}} Lucy's role as a psychiatrist has attracted attention from real-life individuals in the field of psychology; the psychiatrist Athar Yawar playfully identified various moments in the strip where her activities could be characterized as pursuing medical and scientific interests, commenting that "Lucy is very much the modern doctor".{{sfn|Yawar|2015}}

Linus is Charlie Brown's most loyal and uplifting friend and introduces intellectual, spiritual and reflective elements to the strip. He offers opinions on topics such as literature, art, science, politics and [[theology]]. He possesses a sense of morality and ethical judgment that enables him to navigate topics such as faith, intolerance, and depression. Schulz enjoyed the adaptability of his character, remarking he can be "very smart" as well as "dumb".{{sfn|Michaelis|2007|pp=252–253}} He has a tendency of expressing lofty or pompous ideas that are quickly rebuked.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=47}} He finds psychological security from [[thumb sucking]] and [[comfort object|holding a blanket for comfort]]. The idea of his "security blanket" originated from Schulz's own observation of his first three children, who carried around blankets. Schulz described Linus's blanket as "probably the single best thing that I ever thought of". He was proud of its versatility for visual humor in the strip, and with how the phrase "security blanket" entered the dictionary.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=7}}{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=91}}