Lance Biggerstaff

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> ### Full name
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> Lance Henry Arthur Layne Biggerstaff
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> ### Alias
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> * Uncle Butler (used by Antonia in her youth)
> * Gay Wizard
> * Lancelot (used by Fried and El)
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> ### Birth
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> December 10th, X888MC in
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> ### Age
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> * 87 (as of X975MC)
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> ### Species
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> Human
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> * White (currently)
> * Light brown (in youth)
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> Brown
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> ### Height
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> 5'10" ft
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> ### Status
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> Alive
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> ### Family member(s)
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> * Victor Biggerstaff (father) †
> * Polly Layne (mother) †
> * Beatrix Morgenstern (surrogate daughter)
> * Hunter Morgenstern (surrogate daughter)
> * Pierce Biggerstaff (younger brother)
> * Chrétien Biggerstaff (nephew)
> * Gawain Biggerstaff (nephew)
> * Sybil Biggerstaff (niece)
> * Tristan Biggerstaff (nephew)
> * Guinevere Biggerstaff (youngest sister) †
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> * Friedrich Morgenstern (boyfriend, love of his life) †
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> “Everyone thinks I do heroin. It's not even true, I do crystal meth.”
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> ― Josh Henderson
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**Lance Henry Arthur Layne Biggerstaff** is the butler of the Morgenstern family and has been with the family ever since his retirement from the Union and was the former lover of Friedrich Morgenstern.

## Personality

His relationship with the Morgenstern children varies, he admitted that Beatrix and Hunter are his favorites while with the rest of the children having various degrees of dislikes throughout; Hunter and Beatrix are first, followed by Dagmar, Gunther, the twins, Noah, Antonia, Corvinus, Bastian, Artur and Camilla.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant** -
* **Master Marksman** -
* **Master Chief** -

## Etymology

* Lance is from the Germanic name *Lanzo*, originally a short form of names that began with the Old Frankish or Old Saxon element *land*, Old High German *lant* meaning "land" (Proto-Germanic \**landą*). During the Middle Ages it became associated with Old French *lance* meaning "spear, lance".
* Henry which is from the Germanic name *Heimirich* meaning "home ruler", composed of the elements *heim* "home" and *rih* "ruler". It was later commonly spelled *Heinrich*, with the spelling altered due to the influence of other Germanic names like *Haganrich*, in which the first element is *hag* "enclosure".
* Arthur's meaning is unknown. It could be derived from the Celtic elements \**artos* "bear" (Old Welsh *arth*) combined with \**wiros* "man" (Old Welsh *gur*) or \**rīxs* "king" (Old Welsh *ri*). Alternatively, it could be related to an obscure Roman family name *Artorius*.
* Layne is the variant of Lane, which is from an English surname, meaning "lane, path", which originally belonged to a person who lived near a lane.

## Trivia

* He is a known lover of drugs and a huge partyer; in fact, *The Party-lover* from Kadmia by Eleonora is about him, and the parties Eleonora used to attend when they were younger.
* He was gay.
* According to the Databook(s).
	+ Lance's hobbies are fishing, reading new books, doing drugs and going to raves.
	+ His favorite meal is chicken liver and onion pasty with a cup of vinegar water.
		- His second favorite meal is catfish stew with cheesy biscuits.
	+ Lance dislikes it when people other himself or other trained cooks use his kitchen; he doesn't dislike food.
	+ He is a fan of electronic, dubstep and club music.
	+ Lance's most precious possession is his mementoes of Fried and his drugs.
* Before he died, Eleonora named her's and Bastian youngest child *Niklaus Arthur Layne* in honor of him as the two had always had a good relationship with one another.
* He was also very fond of Eleonora Astrug-Marchenko and the two have very good history with one another:
> *"Sharp as a whip, can down a whole bottle of tequila blanco in under thirty seconds know how to make her own LSD, can calm a whole room down with the soft billows of an Angel, mortals simply describe as singing. Honestly, she's out of Master Bastian's league."*
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* He always though the name *Marianne* was a beautiful name for a girl and admits that if he had a daughter that would have been her name.