Lance Basileus

**Lance** is one of the potential love interests in Gilded Shadows.

## Appearance

Lance is a medium-built man with pale silver eyes. His wavy hair is two toned, being mostly silver on the top portion and black on the lower portion due to fade.

In an old holographic photo, he is shown with black-brown eyes and fully black hair.

He usually wears a flowing green shirt with a long gold vest over it. He also wears gold and green beaded earrings, a black choker with green beads, and black arm bands.

Lance's back is heavily scarred and he has a damaged tattoo that spans the top of his shoulders.

Because Lance's limbs are artificial, there are faint lines around the joins of his fingers, knees, toes, elbows, and shoulders.

## Personality

Lance is a gentle, caring and wise man with endless patience and curiosity. A natural care-taker, he is very in tune with the needs of the people and organisms around him.

A staunch pacifist, Lance tends to solve problems through talking over fighting and is prone to being self sacrificing for the sake of peaceful solutions to problems. That said, he can be quite determined to fight when it is for something he cares for. And, in some cases, may show a slightly ruthless streak when it's necessary.

He loves people and spending with them when he can but is perfectly content to be alone.

## Abilities

* **Clairvoyance** - Like all Espers, Lance possesses clairvoyant awareness. Given his knowledge of Morgan, he appears to have a pretty wide and pervasive sphere.
	+ "Sphere"
	+ "Cage"
	+ "Reverse Cage"
* **Telekinesis** - Lance also possesses the baseline of telekinesis. It's unclear how strong it is but he does use it occasionally when doing odd jobs around his house.

**This section contains \*\*\*MAJOR\*\*\* spoilers for Lance's Route and Magnus' Route**

 **Technokinesis** - as a king rank Esper who also possesses the abilities of the Planetary A.I., Lance's technokinetic abilities are vast. It's unclear exactly what he's capable of but Magnus describes him as essentially a 'god' which may be accurate.

## Relationships

**This section contains \*\*\*MAJOR\*\*\* spoilers for Lance's Route and Magnus' Route**

#### Caissa Fianchetto

Caissa is Lance's beloved younger brother. Lance spent a few years essentially acting as a father figure to Caissa due to Keres' reluctance to show his youngest son even the slightest favour. Lance absolutely adored Caissa with all his heart and still does, having named the lake near his home after his younger brother. After absorbing King, however, he fears he's no longer the Deimos Caissa loved, and is afraid to reach out and let Caissa know he is still alive.

#### Keres Fianchetto

Lance has always had a good relationship with Keres. When he was still living as Deimos, he didn't always approve of the actions of Crimson, but it was his life. He accepted it. As Lance, he is still well aware of the impossibility of walking away from that life. He loves his father greatly and always feared Keres would be unable to accept what he had become.

#### Magnus Ulrich

As Deimos, he considered Magnus a strange rival and friend. As King, he considered Magnus the same. And that strange friend continued after Deimos and King became one. Lance considers Magnus his one, true friend and has always wanted to help him find peace but was unsure how to do it without upsetting the delicate balance the world exists in.