Joneleth wrote:(Approved. :])
Name of Player: Joseph
Name of your character: Lukas Morgenstern
Appearance: Lukas has an athletic body, with lightly toned muscles. He tends to wear dark or neutral clothes. Jackets, long sleeve shirts, and baggy pants are common attire for him. He also tends to wear skater shoes. When in a social setting, i.e. a club, mall, or similar place, he tends to wear pants that are a bit too long, and are baggy, so that all but the soles of his shoes are covered. They would be longer, but the excess cloth would get caught under his feet and cause him to fall. Along with the baggy pants, he tends to either wear a black zipper-up hoodie, usually open, with either nothing under it, or a black beater.
Due to an accident shortly before leaving his soccer team, Lukas generally walks with a limp. This is due to the fact that just before he was removed from the team, in fact, in his final game, he lost his temper and made a foolish move for the ball, resulting in his leg twisting and tearing a tendon in his left leg. The only other real distinguishing figures are the fact that he gets highlights in his hair, and the fact that he was born with heterochromatic eyes, both of which got him picked on in school in Germany.
Lukas's hair is generally worn short and spiked, around an inch to an inch and a half long, with the tips died blond. He never has facial hair, shaving it daily to prevent such things. Lukas likes his hair, and makes sure every morning that it looks perfect, and to make sure it's all standing up properly.
Storyline: Lukas grew up in München, Bavaria, Germany, living with his mother and father, his little sister Annaliese, and his identical twin brother Wolfram. Lukas was on his school's soccer team since age six, loving the sport more than anything else. Wolfram eventually joined as well, though he wasn't as good at it as Lukas. Both boys realized at a young age that they both liked boys. Wolfram was gay, and Lukas was bisexual.
Lukas discovered this while he was hanging out with a friend from the soccer team, having spent the night at his house. His friend, who that night became his boyfriend, was the first boy he ever kissed. This other boy was also a fan of the whole 'vampire' scene. Because of this, he had a tendency to bite, and on more than one occasion, he bit Lukas. He eventually started leaving marks, and drawing blood, which Lukas found out he enjoyed. Unfortunately, though, Lukas's mother took note of a bite mark on his neck after he came home from the other boy's house. She immediately confronted him about it, and he confessed that he was bisexual. Hearing his confession, Wolfram also confessed, though he confessed to being gay.
Their mother, a devout catholic, felt that their sexual orientations were an intolerable sin, and frequently abused both boys. She even went so far as to remove both boys from the soccer team, claiming they might corrupt the other boys, or that their soccer team was where they had been corrupted.
During the time while their mother was abusing them, both Wolfram and Lukas discovered sword fighting from some friends at school. They gathered what little money they could find, and got the rest from their father behind their mother's back. With the money he'd acquired, Lukas purchased a pair of swords for Wolfram, and Wolfram purchased a pair for Lukas. This was their main outlet of stress and anger during their early teen years. They both developed their own styles of sword fighting, as well. Wolfram's style was paced and even, while Lukas's style was faster paced, and more erratic. Both boys had a plan to run away at sixteen, and move to another country, in order to flee from their mother.
At one point, one of his friends showed Lukas a video of a swordfighter who dipped his blades in tar and ignored them before a fight. Lukas loved the idea, and decided to attempt to reach that level of fighting, using flaming swords. This pursuit led to a general love of flames, seeing flame as a chaotic force that did as it pleased, and envying it's freedom. His love of flames caused him to dislike their opposite, ice, and to eventually fear it, seeing ice as a force that is used to imprison, one that removed freedoms from other substances.
This continued until they were fifteen, when Wolfram finally snapped. At around 2 am on September 9th, 2004, Wolfram killed their mother, 34 year old Adala Abendstern, and their sister, 12 year old Annaliese Abendstern, while their father was on a buisness trip to Nuremberg. He did so to protect himself, and his brother Lukas, from further abuse. Wolfram was tried, and found to be insane, though before he was sent to an asylum, he had bought a ticket for the first available plane, which, in this case, ended up taking him to the USA, instead of Japan, as he'd hoped. The boys' father, 38 year old Carsten Abendstern, killed himself on his wife's grave on September 23rd, 2004, by slitting his own throat and dying of exsanguination shortly thereafter.
When his father died, and his brother fled, Lukas inherited the family home, which he immediately sold. He then used the money to purchase a plane ticket to Japan, expecting to find his brother there. He used the remaining money to rent a small one bedroom apartment, in which he lives alone. He didn't find out until later, upon receiving an email from Wolfram to an old email he'd had since he was twelve, that Wolfram was in the united states, and not Japan.
While in Japan, Lukas was met a man by the name of Rory MacLaren. The man was his science teacher at the highschool he went to in Japan. After the teacher made friends with him, Lukas opened up to him fairly quickly,
who was experimenting with technology he had developed to emulate magic. He personally incorporated a flame-emitting device, which synthesized it's own fuel from the air, into Lukas's swords, allowing them to ignite at the press of a button on the handle. Seeing that the devices he had built into the blades worked effeciently, he created a pair of gloves with similar effect, and gave them to Lukas.
After succeeding at that, the man, with Lukas's assistance, tried to create a teleporter, based on his own personal designs, which, if effective, would have transported Lukas to where his brother was, in New York City. Unfortunately, though, it went wrong, and sent Lukas to another planet entirely.
Before the accident that sent him where he is now, Lukas was trying to learn Japanese, and was taking a course for beginners at his school, in addition to various kendo and other related classes. His intentions were to teach Wolfram Japanese, once he got to Japan as well. Now at age sixteen, his only intentions are simply to return home, unless he finds someone or something worth staying for.
Attributes:
Flame Emitters: The only thing approaching a special ability Lukas has, comes from the equipment he was given. He has his swords, which generate flame, and gloves that do the same thing. Both of the two are based on tech, and not magic, and experimental tech at that.
Strengths: Lukas's main strength is adaptability. After being transported who knows how far across however many galaxies...he's learned pretty quick to adapt fairly rapidly to the majority of the situations he has encountered, and even turn most situations to his advantage, if need be.
Weaknesses: Cryophobia: Due to him seeing ice as a substance whose only purpose is to stop the freedom of other elements, Lukas has become afraid of ice, and the cold...it reminds him too much of his mother.
Personality: Lukas tends to be slow to trust new people, and tends to stay to himself, or with a few friends he's made. He tends to distrust women, because of his mother's actions before he left home. Lukas only really finds himself able to trust men, and is, as one might expect, gay. He hides this pretty well, though, not expressing interest in someone unless he knows they are of a like mind, can be trusted, and are fairly attractive, which means that usually he doesn't flirt, or check out guys, or anything of the sort.
If one can actually get close to Lukas, he is an excellent friend, with sort of a superman complex, willing to do anything short of sacrificing his own life for friends. He hasn't made many friends, though, so there aren't many he'd protect.
