Sir Lucian Holmes

**Sir Lucian Holmes** *[phonetically: **sər lʊsiən həʊmz**]* is an important character from the **Record of Tavern** verse. He is known as the best, and possibly final, detective in humanity's history.

He takes part in the tournament between Aegis and Pagun, as a fighter for Pagun

## Appearance

Upon his introduction, Lucian appeared quite old and frail. His hair was gray, his skin wrinkled, and he walked with a limp. He wears an expensive looking black suit, white button-up undershirt, and black necktie, as if he were attending a funeral. He has dark green eyes, white skin, and speaks with a thick "royal" British accent.

When the fight begins proper, Lucian commences a "Volund" with his partner Lilian, which seems to rejuvenate him, transforming him back to his physical prime. In this Volund state, Lucian has dark hair with a handful of gray strands, reflecting the stress of detective work. He now stands at 188 cm (6 foot 2 inches) in height, and bares a muscular build. His eyes also seem to have lightened from the transformation, now being a lighter green shade. He also gains a pair of snow white angel wings in this form, which allows him to fly and travel very fast.

## Personality

Upon his introduction, Lucian seems kind, peaceful, disarming, and even pacifistic. He initially tries to reason with his opponent, Aaron Castellan, before resorting to a strategy of pacification. When both peaceful dialogue and minimum violence fail, Lucian resorts to plan C: lethal force, pushing Aaron to his breaking point, despite believing that doing so makes him just as much of a monster as the man he's trying to kill. However, throughout the first half of round 8, Lucian's moral compass remains his redeeming quality, making him far more heroic than the morally corrupt Castellan.

Halfway through the fight, however, Lucian's outlook changes, just as he has the upper hand. Right when Lucian is on the verge of victory, ready to kill Aaron, he hesitates, looking around to the arena full of humans and hears them demanding that Aaron be murdered in increasingly brutal and inhumane ways. Lucian, a victim of abuse and violence in the past, in incensed by these demands, seemingly no longer believing that Aegis's side is in the right, and instead reaching the conclusion that humanity really **should** be destroyed and start over. This causes him to make the shocking decision to abandon Aegis and form a contract with pagun mid battle, with the Korean god thus severing his contract with Aaron, leaving the mercenary unaligned. This is a turning point for Lucian's character, as he becomes more condescending, brutal, and aggressive, seemingly haven broken the gentleman facade that he was previously entertaining. This, effectively, reverses the heroic vs villainous roles that the fight began with, Aaron now being the under dog facing an uphill battle, and Lucian being the unstoppable force of destruction.

Perhaps Lucian's only redeeming quality following his betrayal is his relationship with his partner Lilian. Lilian brings out the best in Lucian, acting as his living moral compass. Lilian is an angel created by Ravenar Watson and Spade Lestrade specifically to protect Lucian from harm. Because of this, the two go everywhere together, and are rarely seen apart, having an intimate bond similar to that of a father and his daughter. Lucian would do anything to protect Lilian, and vice-versa, a trait that he maintains even after his heel turn.

## Powers and abilities

* **Extreme Intelligence:** Sir Lucian Holmes has formidable capacity for deduction and anticipation and can develop strategies of immense complexity.
* **Great mastery of martial arts:** he is able to defend himself very well physically in mid and close range fights, thanks to his mastery of kung fu and jiujitsu after following lessons at the Pak Mei school.
* **Volund - Lilian:** Sir Lucian Holmes fused with the Angel charged to protect him, Lilian. She gives him enhanced speed, strength, durability and the powers listed below.
* **Improvement Transfer:** Lucian can make some of Lilian's enhancement applies more on one physical aspect at the expense of others. For instance, he can focus Lilian's power into his arm for a more powerful punch, while leaving the rest of his body weakened, or focus her power into a shield to block an attack.
* **Conjuring:** Lucian can create any weapon, from a sword to a nuke. He can also adapt the effects and the nature of the weapon according to the target. The more the fight lasts, the more Lilian can modify the weapons to adapt them to the target. The conjured weapons' quality is similar to a divine artifact. The classification of "Weapon" is determined by Lucian's subconscious. Whatever he subconsciously thinks of as a "weapon" can be conjured by this ability.
	+ **Conjuring- Arclight Celestial:** Lucian and Lilian's ultimate trump card. Using this ability Lucian can conjure a literal star made from angelic fire. This star acts as the ultimate angelic weapon, being able to damage most individuals to the point of instant death, and is able to deal significant damage even to those immune to angelic weapons (it does so through the extreme amount of heat generated by the star itself, the heat not counting as an angelic weapon) as shown when Lucian used Arclight Celestial to stun and moderately injure Aaron.
* **Wings:** Lucian can uses Lilian's wings to take flight.

## Relationships

* **Lilian:** the Angel created to protect him during his mortal life and ended up being like a daughter to him. If there is someone in this world Lucian can see with love, It's Lilian.
* **Ravenar Watson:** a dear friend who helped in Lilian's creation. Lucian is deeply grateful to Ravenar for his sincere friendship.
* **Sir Spade Lestrade:** the god who created Lilian and watched over Lucian during his mortal life. On top of that, he helped Lucian becoming a fighter for Aegis. Sir Lucian Holmes and him are very close.

## Trivia

* Lucian is the only fighter to have won and lost his round at the same time, thanks to his final strategy.
* He is based on the famous fictional detective, "Sherlock Holmes." Conversely, this completes the naming scheme of Sherlock Holmes characters, following Ravenar **Watson,** and Spade **Lestrade,** being named after Dr. John Watson, and Inspector Lestrade, respectively.
* Near the end of "The Memoir Of Lucian Holmes," Lilian tells Lucian that he has 221 seconds before "Checkmate." The number 221 is a reference to 221-B Baker Street, the home address of Sherlock Holmes is the Sherlock Holmes novels.
* Lucian's real first name, William, is a reference to the first name of Sherlock Holmes in the BBC show "Sherlock" starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the main character, William Sherlock Scott Holmes, commonly known as "Sherlock Holmes."
* Lucian's real second name is a reference to Spade's real first name, "Connor."
* Lucian's real last name was originally "Adams," as a reference to "Adamson," the nordic last name that means "Son Of Adam," which was also a further reference to Spade's favorite Record Of Ragnarok character, Adam.
	+ However, in order not to be associated to a certain fictional rapist bearing the same name, Lucian's real last name was changed to "West" on April 24th, 2022.