Luca

*Name: Luca Sparda (Click here for full sheet)
*Age: 24
*Sex: Male
*Birthday: May 19th 2007
*Parents: Dante and Trish
**Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California.
**Nationality: American.
**Specialty: Cracking wise.
**Hobbies: Gunsmithing, Military stuff, Football.
**Likes: Military, money, football.
**Dislikes: Working with father, devils.
**Favorite Food: Hot Dogs.
**Least Favorite Food: Sushi.
**Favorite Music: Death Metal.
**Favorite Sport: Football.
**Most Valuable Possessions: Nothing.
**Level of Education: Lifelong Military Training.
***Camp Pendelton CA; 2nd Battalion 4th Marines Division; 'Magnificent Bastards'; Rank Private.
***Camp Coronado SEAL BUD/S; Rank SEAL;
***Ranger Camp; 75th Ranger Regiment; Rank Cadet.
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor: Nolan North.
*Physical Stats
**Height: 6'3"
**Weight: 220lbs
**Eyes: Blue.
**Hair: Platinum Blond.
**Special: Eyes are a very unique blue.
== Appearance ==
Luca carries himself like a military man at all times, actually walking in step and following beats in his head. He wears trendy but useful clothes like Tactical 5.11 wear pretty much all the time. He usually wears either camo pattern pants (usually fitting his location, such as Urban MARPAT in the city, or Flectarn in rural areas) along with a tactical shirt, with variations for the seasons. He is incredibly well built but not musclebound, has short hair (decided to cut it when he moved), and always carries around his guns and knife. 
== Personality ==
Generally cheerful, quick witted and snarky. Is forward, brash and comfortable in all social situations, not registering awkwardness, or defusing it (he thinks) with a clever oneliner or other well or ill timed joke. EXTREMELY confident and prone to discussing at length on any military topic, as well as the value of tactical combat and CQB. On the job, Luca is mostly professional, only throwing out his witticisms to distract and irritate his enemies so they'll focus on him and less on his squishy partners, since unlike many of them, he CAN take it.
== Background ==
After the events of Mallet Island, Dante and Trish went back to LA together and Devil May Cry became 
Devil Never Cry. Obviously, after a short time, Dante's mother complex kicked in and he got together 
with Trish.. permanently. After a while, the two had a son out of wedlock, not that that's such a big 
deal for two devils, but.. Anyways, Luca was born.
	Obviously, simply having a son wasn't going to stop them from working at Devil Never Cry. The 
problem though was that as Luca grew up, the devils became more cunning and vicious, and one of them 
actually managed to get a lucky shot in. Trish's head was severed straight from her body by a powerful Dark 
Knight.. this made Dante excessively pissed off and made him wipe out that entire cabal, but the fact didn't 
change that Trish was dead and Dante was now a single parent. After coming to terms with this fact, he 
tried to be there for his son, who was turning 4 without a mother, but he'd never really had any experiences 
either with a father or BEING a father, so he had to make due with what he knew.. which wasn't the best 
fatherhood techniques, but it did get them closer together. He tried to be his son's friend.
	As anyone here with any idea of parenting, you know this isn't the best thing to do. At first things 
were going great. Luca didn't actually harbor as much resentment as Dante had been worried he would. He 
didn't understand everything, just that mommy was gone and daddy was here with him now. So the two bonded 
with that, but after a while.. a few years passed, and Luca was more and more like his old man.. which is to say, 
irreverant, a troublemaker, and a severe pain in the butt to handle on a day to day basis, even for Dante. He 
usually enjoyed the spunk and vitality in his son, but there were problems at school, on the street.. so basically 
his son was groing up to be a terror, and there were a few too many questions being unanswered by constantly 
talking to PTA meetings and the like.. let alone it's not like the devils would take a day off to let Dante have a long, 
serious talk with his son. So he did the only thing he figured he could do. He sent Luca to a private boarding school. 
A military academy.
	At first Luca didn't like it there. It was way way way stricter than he was used to and that he liked.. 
but then he saw the guns. All the wonderful guns the older kids could play with and train in, and that started to 
set him straight. He decided he'd get to do that in a very short time.. and the thing is he was right. Luca was 
exceptional in athletics and when focussed, no puzzle could go unsolved, including math and other such problems. 
So Luca was shooting through the ranks.. a little fast, actually, he got notice from the right Govt. agencies. After 
talking to Dante, who couldn't think of a better way for his son to get prepared for the 'carreer' laid out for him 
later, Luca was chosen at age 13 to undergo special forces training. Dante knew his son could handle the rigors 
of doing that.. and Luca just wanted to show off how much better than any other classmate he was. So he went for it, 
and was trained at first like a real soldier.. then fast enough moved on to Marines, then SEALS training. The latter 
didn't work too well, since after all he was still just a child, even with his abilities, but he'd shown some promise in it, 
they decided another option. He wasn't very good at working with others, but this lack of discipline and teamwork 
just wasn't enough to stop training a prodigy, so they decided to train him in the ways of an agent instead of a soldier,
aiming for him to be a special operative of the US Govt. when he grew up.
	Agent training was even better for him. Using what he'd learned in the military training and applying 
it to stealth and espionage worked out even better than they had hoped. After getting this kind of training for the 
next year and a half, were he not underage, Luca could be ready for field work. He requested to get another 
type of regimen, this time back to military work, but the kind expected to work alone, like Delta Force. It took 
a while to deliberate, but after a few months, Luca had a private trainer from Delta Force, showing him the ropes and 
making him go through extreme physical training. Even for Luca, this was incredibly difficult, because Delta Force 
was the second hardest ecehlon in the US Military's arsenal... but his goal, at least at the time, was that top echelon. 
FOXHOUND. However.. that just wasn't to be. One night, as they were training how to survive navigating a minefield, 
devils attacked. They came down from the night sky and started attacking. Luca and his trainer did their 
best to take down the monsters but.. well. That simply was not meant to be. These were DEVILS. The things 
Dante fought, and for the most part, human weapons weren't quite so good to use against them as devil arms. 
The two used everything they had to deal with these, and many devils ended up dead from the mines, proper 
CQC applications and brutal displays of gunmanship.. but then the ammo ran out, and stranded in a minefield 
with empty handguns and a combat shotgun, Luca and his trainer were pretty much done for.. until one of the 
devils impaled Luca through the chest. He fell.. it hurt... but that was it. A flash went through his eyes. He had 
no idea this kind of power was available to him. Now he knew how Dante could pull it off. He brought his gun 
to the devil's face, smirked up at him, and said to them 'Let's Rock'.
	After the devils lay defeated from Devil Power bullets and insane gunplay, Luca looked at his trainer, 
picked up his cigar, and said 'This was a Hell of a night', and then started to walk. His resignation papers were 
all done the next morning, though they didn't want to let him go right away, Luca had more than enough offenses 
to be dishonorably discharged that they had ignored, and his trainer urged them to let him go, as there wasn't 
really any place for him in the US Army, and he didn't actually know any secrets per se. This did NOT go over well... 
but then Dante greased the right palms after talking to his son and his trainer. After all, Devil Never Cry needed a 
new partner. ....boy did that not work well. The military and agent trained boy simply did NOT work well with Dante's 
devil may care (pun!) attitude. There was no clearing, there was no order, there was no discipline.. and as stated before, 
even when it was time to cut loose, Luca did not work well with others. So father and son constantly fought over 
how to handle these cases, how to get the job done better, how Dante was too sloppy and left too many things up to 
chance and how Luca should go back to the academy and sue them to have the operation to remove that stick up his ass. 
After a more serious version of this talk, Luca decided he'd take his business elsewhere, and fight the good fight away 
from home. He decided to become a mercenary.. in Europe, where a lot of old monsters were supposed to dwell, 
even if they weren't quite FROM Hell. Despite everything, Dante did not mind this. After all, two Devil Never Cry 
operatives in different parts of the world could only be bad news for things that go bump in the night. Before Luca left, Dante 
handed him something that came from his personal collection, the Devil Arm Alastor, the Sword representing 
Luca's Power. So then Luca set out, to the darkest lands of Olde Europe..
While there, he met up with the Hellsing Organization in Britain and joined them being assigned to Japan, where through an incredible twist of fate, Luca ended up meeting quite a few more members of the Sons of Sparda, not all of them from his father.
Luca, while in Japan, dealt with a variety of problems, including a cult devoted to Mundus and his revival, a horde of demons named after the Divine Comedy, and obviously, the inevitable zombie outbreaks. He also met new allies and made himself a ranked position within the Japanese branch of the Hellsing Organization.
== Skills ==
Physical Skills:
*Alertness: Very Good
*Athletics: Incredible
*Stealth: Incredible
Social Skills:
*Subterfuge: Good
*Streetwise: Good
*Intimidation: Incredible
*Leadership: Good
*Expression: Good
*Etiquette: Very Good
Mental Skills:
*Computers: Novice
*Investigation: Good
*Occult: Very Good
*Politics: Good
Other Skills:
*Driving: Incredible
*Survival: Incredible
*Empathy: Good
*Languages: English, Italian, French, Russian, German, Mandarin, can read and understand Farsi and Spanish.
== Special Abilities ==
Style Techniques:
Swordmaster Style: Luca's least developped ability. Every melee weapon has it's own sets of skills Luca could eventually unlock with practice.
Trickster Style: Motions and reactions available to Luca via reflexes and speed. This is Luca's secondary area of expertise.
Gunslinger Style: Luca's best technique set, and he uses this all the time, since he loves guns so much.
== Powers & Merits ==
Lightning Devil: Luca is actually three quarters devil, making him incredibly resilient and viciously strong, but mostly, amazingly quick and sharp. his strength, reflexes and endurance are superhuman, and he can take immense amounts of punishment without slowing down. While he still takes 'damage', per se, he cannot suffer wounds, and can hold his breath for almost an hour under water, as the case may be.
Devil Power: Luca's most often used power is that he can never run out of ammo. He can fire from any weapon, even broken ones, as often as he wants, as the bullets and other ammo are created by his own inner power. This lets him forgo reloading or the dead man's click, but does cause wear and tear on weapons as usual, which is why he maintains them so much.
Devil Trigger: This form moves at the speed of lighting, can fire endless bolts of pure electrical and demonic power, and can take any kind of electrical damage without flinching. Also in this form, Luca regenerates damage for as long as he's in the form, all damage is dulled down to half if not neutralised outright, and weapons with less attack power than an assault shotgun will have no effect on him at all.
Desperate Devil Trigger: This carries the same advantages as his Devil Trigger except its stats are simply much higher, moving faster, hitting harder, taking almost no damage, and regenerating health at a much higher rate. This can ONLY be used when Luca is on the verge of death already and activates Devil Trigger.
== Unique Items ==
Alastor: A greatsword found impaled through the heart of the Judge of Death, Alastor is a blade of speed and power. Useable as both a two handed sword and single handedly, Alastor is razor-sharp and lightning fast, leaving a blur of speed where it slashes. It is intelligent, and will only accept to be	wielded by a master who's proven his strength to it, by surviving its attacks. It's true form is that of the blade. As a lightning and dark blade, this bastard sword is the incarnation of Luca's power.
Christine Mark-II: A set of Gauntlets and Greaves made from the remains of the Devil Car, Christine, using powerful demon-powered engines to increase the speed and strength of it's user, as well as having thick, heavy armour over the user's arms and legs. This is a very versatile Devil Arm for a hand to	hand combat based one.
Nacht and Tag: Night and Day, Luca's personalised twin semi automatic magnums. Both guns are made to handle the use of a blade on their frame and every last piece of it has been reworked to the point where their tactical efficiency is well over 3 times the best military standards. Nacht can be equipped with a supressor to dampen noise, and it's matte black finish make it imperceptible even in deep cover situations where a gun would be a problem. The muzzleflash is also down from the supressor. Naturally.. Devil Power bullets cannot 
be fired silently, so if he's going to go full out, it's time to make some noise. Both guns are custom adjusted Desert Eagles, with aligned barrel and loader specialy fit for rapid fire, and a slightly enlarged shell launching area, to prevent stovepiping.
NOTE: A normal person cannot dual weild these guns. They're not equipped with compensators or recoil reduction, and trying to fire both would cause massive wrist strain AND loss of accuracy. Luca compensates with devil strength to hold them steady when firing.
Nacht: .50 Caliber Magnum, also known as a 'Handcannon', with the kind of recoil that would break a lesser man's wrist. Specially made suppressor can be used, but will still make noise in close up encounters, it's primary use of a suppressor is to keep people outside the area from hearing it. This gun is not meant to wound, it's meant to kill, or maim horribly at that. Nacht is matte black reinforced and devil empowered gunsteel, and can take direct hits from even axes without breaking. Nacht's handle has been whittled down to incorporate a 
knife handle on it, in the case of upclose and personal fighting and the use of CQC being required. The grip is custom to Luca's fingers, and this is including the knife ridge. Nacht's barrel bottom has a railing mechanism for equipping a Laser Aiming Module or gun light, and has Bo-Mar rear sights for better target shooting.
Tag: .50 Caliber Magnum, also known as a 'Handcannon', with the same general specifications as Nacht. It cannot be equipped with a supressor, and is a brighter 'white' gunsteel, so is far less useful in infiltration or close encounter situations. However, Tag's true power comes from when Luca drops the military attitude. When that happens, even devils may cry. Twin Handcannon firing with unlimited ammo from devil power will cause even supernatural entities to regret the day they were made. Tag is also made from the same devil empowerment as Nacht, so it can be used even in melee situations. The grip is also customised, but this one does not have the knife ridge of Nacht. Tag's frame is reinforced on the inside, so it's even better at upclose and personal shooting than at long range, since it's meant to be used to block blades. It's main purpose though is to dual-wield with it's sister, Nacht.
== Items Of Note ==
Shotgun: Close Quarters Combat Shotgun: Mossberg 590 Cruiser, sawed-off barrel and stock.
Sniper Rifle: Semi-Automatic Rifle: HK SL8 Combat Rifle, HEAVILY customized for rapid fire sniping.
Sub Machine Gun: MP5: HK MP5KA2 Submachinegun. Barely customized, but with a stock for higher accuracy.
Assault Rifle: M4 SOPMOD: Colt M4 Carbine, with under-barrel Masterkey or Grenade Launcher as required.
== Weaknesses & Flaws ==
Devil: Luca is part devil. As such, Holy attacks and barriers wreak fair amounts of havoc on him. He can use special 'Holy Water' and other such weapons, but on his own he is very vulnerable to them if they're turned on him. Healing or not, Holy attacks will cause MASSIVE damage and the wounds will not heal easily, if at all, without help.
Compulsive Speech: Luca has a very hard time not voicing his opinions.
Otherworldly Taint: Luca has the eyes of Sparda. Anyone with even cursory knowledge of the Legend of Sparda (which is fairly well known) can tell.
Airhead: Luca's tendency to keep things light-hearted and add levity to any situation tends to make people think he doesn't take things seriously in planning or stressful situations, though his actions on the field USUALLY show otherwise. (this isn't REALLY a flaw so no points for it, but that IS how he acts)
Group Emnity - Devils: Other devils assume the Son of Sparda is out to get them. Whenever he has to deal with a being from Hell, Luca elicits general scorn, distrust, and often outright fear. For example, he's not welcome at Rodin's bar.
== NPC(s) to go with char ==
Dante
Category:Characters
Category:Hellsing
Category:Sons of Sparda