Lucien Dumare

(Loo-see-in Doo-mar)
* Pronoun: he/him
* Voice traits: Lucien has a fairly normal voice, leaning towards the higher pitch and has a decently verbose way of speaking. He very much talks as if he is thinking out loud and can get lost narrating his thought processes without realizing everyone else can hear him.
* Mannerisms that will help other DMs portray the character consistently: He has a tell for when he is scheming, which is leaning up against something and holding his right hand closed and resting against his chin. He generally stands very straight, and walks with a noble stride, and can easily be seen "people watching" and just observing everything around him when he isn't preoccupied. He certainly prefers to observe from a distance and intervene at the opportune moment.
* Influences: Imagine Dr. Strange with a tragic anime backstory combined with Dr. Doofenshmirtz, if he wasn't a "bad guy" and was a bit more successful
=== Appearance: ===
* D&D race: High Elf | Suggested non-copyright alternative: Just calling him an elf, elven, or any similar descriptor
* Age: 112 (He still looks young enough to be considered a young adult)
* Height: 5 feet 5 inches
* Weight: 140 lbs, closer to 200 with all his gear and tools
* Hair color: brown
* Skin color: pale olive
* Eye color: green
* Example clothing outfit worn: A loose shirt, normal trousers held by a loop belt that also holsters his tools and other gear. He wears a long black sleeveless duster, with a fairly high collar. A leather backpack and bandolier carry the rest of his equipment.
* Prosthesis: Lucien is completely missing his left arm, seemingly amputated at the shoulder. In its stead, is a finely crafted magical prosthetic, mainly made of elegantly carved wood, and polished bronze. The prosthetic is his own creation, and while it allows him the typical freedom of having both hands, as well as some ease of use with his tinkering tools, it handicaps his strength somewhat.
=== Personality: ===
* Traits: A bit introverted, but really opens up when there is a problem to be solved, worked to be done, or ideas to be had. He generally lives in the moment. He has his goals, but isn't in a rush to reach them. He isn't particularly invested in any laws or altruism, but has a good conscience, and it would not be too uncommon for him to go out of his way to perform simple acts of kindness if there are no more pressing matters at hand.
*After the events of Pan's Handlers, Lucien's behavior has significantly changed, and he can sometimes act a bit like a trickster on top of the above.
* Ideal: Magic and science are one and the same, and progress must always be made in learning more about them to better help the world.
* Bond: Lucien feels indebted to his father's legacy, and a duty to rebuild the name and power of House Dumare.
* Flaw: Lucien tends to think himself in circles, or get caught up devising elaborate plans and miss simpler ideas or flaws in his own thinking.
* Relations and House Dumare:
**
** Maxim Dumare (Father)
**House Dumare and the Dumare Manor (Legacy/Inheritance)
** Last known member of House Dumare.
*People they know: 
**Quentin Joffre, "Professor Q" who convinced Lucien to give a few lectures at the college.
* Occupation: New member of the Firebreathing Kittens, currently maintains magical equipment for the local college in exchange for room and board.
* Social class: Student, and mostly broke, as the sole heir of House Dumare, he does technically own Dumare manor.
* Where do they live? Niqamui, in a student's dorm at the Niqamui Community College.
=== Backstory: ===
Lucien Dumare is the only son of Maxim Dumare, the once great inventor. His early life was spent in Dumare Manor, mainly learning the family's age old trade from his father. In the process, he was also given an... embellished, tale of his family, and his own destiny. In his young mind, he grew up believing that House Dumare deserved to rule among the other nobles, and that with their inventions and clever tactics, they could build an empire that could expand over Drawes. 
The way this narrative was fed to him made it seem almost like a divine prophecy, one he would need to grow to fulfill. This put an immense amount of pressure on the young elf, just as much as it helped him to adopt many of his father's and his family's flaws. Lucien grew to be little more than a mimic and puppet of his father, and Maxim finally got tired of it. Once he turned of age, his father forcibly sent him away to the college in Pishka, in Shofaxton. He told Lucien not to return until he was his own person, and was capable of thinking critically and decisively on his own. Maxim wanted another visionary like him, who would carry the torch in a similar, but different enough direction. Perhaps, like all parents, he hoped Lucien would be able to achieve what they could not, maybe even making fewer mistakes along the way. Lucien's time in Pishka would certainly change him, and in truth, the person who returned was hardly recognizable, nor was the world they returned to.
This distance, the new cultures, people, and most importantly, the outside perspective, would greatly change the course of Lucien's life. Peering from the outside in, Lucien could now clearly see the flaws, lies, and manipulations he had been fed while sheltered by his family. He grew not only to despise his father, but his whole family, for blindly following him, for not seeing he had gone mad with power. Lucien cut off all relations with his family, and dedicated himself to the study of magic, and how to manipulate it to create. He developed a thirst for it, and everything else faded into the background. With the same tenacity that his father chased his dreams with, Lucien became completely enraptured with the pursuit of knowledge. Time would fly by, his father would vanish without a trace, House Dumare would be left leaderless, be devoured, and collapse into obscurity, and Lucien could not care less at the time.
Age, however, tempers a passionate mind. Eventually, after many many years, Lucien's head would start to fill with wisdom, humility, and compassion, tempered with many regrets. He could block it all out, and continue his research for himself, or he could try something new. He returned to the Dumare's old trade, invention, but all he really wanted to do was giving a helping hand, one person at a time. He would make a bit of a name for himself as an inventor, who could be encountered stumbling into a random town, asking if there was anything they might have use of him for. Sometimes he may have been tasked to repair a well, other times, he could be asked to improving their agricultural equipment. He would always work for free, aside from a decent meal, and a place to stay the night.
By the time Lucien returned to Guaso, nearly a century had passed, little of the boy who left remained, and he had even lost an arm while defending a town from a bandit raid. He has just arrived in the city of Niqamui, and established a temporary arrangement with the local college, exchanging room and board for work maintaining their magical equipment and the occasional lecture. His return, is driven by a new found goal. He would like to find and reclaim Dumare Manor, and then rebuild its factories into a force for good. Perhaps then, he can rewrite his father's legacy into something he can be proud of, and redeem himself for abandoning the one problem he might have been able to fix. But that all takes coin, quite a bit of it, so he has gone to the local adventurer's guild, and joined the Firebreathing Kittens, proudly displaying their mark on his mechanical arm.
== List of adventures: ==
* Pan's Handlers: Lucien's debut appearance. By the end of the episode, the other kittens have pealed some layers off the otherwise uptight elf, and set the more chaotic side of him loose on the world! In the Yosekai, Lucien assumed the form of an Ekenblim and for a few hours at the end of the party took the throne whilst all the inhabitants of the palace were under Pan's love perfume. 
*The Dubious Debacle of the Dastardly Dessert: After some research, Lucien is now troubled by just how many on Guaso might be infected with this Ekenblim dust, and just exactly how many undiscovered ways the dust can effect different creatures and objects.
*Legends Are Born
Category:Characters
Category:Firebreathing Kittens