Jean-Luc Lafayette

Baguette Lover

Frenchie

Spine Crusher

Leonard Lafayette (deceased brother)

The Hub (formerly)

The Icarus Crew (currently)

*“Ils ne passeront pas.”* - Jean's final words

As calm and collected as the Pacific Ocean, Jean-Luc Lafayette is a former captain for the French Navy before the Ragon invasion of the Sol System. Owing to this, he was one of the New York underground’s foremost leaders. After being killed in Denver, he was resurrected by the Icarus along with Hannah Brown as part of its new crew. As one of the Icarus Crew, he now aids in protecting the second branch timeline from Davin Blackmore's alterations.

### Personality

Jean-Luc is a calm and collected individual, even in the direst of situations. This Frenchman is cold and calculating when standing in the back lines of battle, but he is loud and boisterous in privacy. He is known to be a little "playful" with subordinates and equals alike as demonstrated by his laid back attitude when talking with Pierre, Alain, and Adele, who all used to be crew members of the Aquitaine, as well as with Jay Kang, Marcus Lennox, and Hannah Brown. Jean-Luc is forgiving, though he will do so after giving several slaps to the face. He is sometimes described as "aggressively French", though this trait has toned down ever since his death and resurrection.

Jean-Luc makes an excellent negotiator as he has a cool head even when held at gunpoint. It also appears that he favors citrus flavoured drinks and vanilla ice cream above all else.

## Backstory

Jean-Luc Lafayette was born in Paris, France. He always carried himself with aristocratic bearing, and was always confident that he was destined for great things as an important official on the colony that the French had built on Enceladus, which was governed by one of the Lafayettes as well. However, despite his wealthy upbringing, his own nuclear family was a fractured one. He refuses to speak of it, but by the time he entered the officer corps at age 26 of the Marine Interstellaire, his father was already in Sweden for no specified reason.

He entered Greenwich University in Britain for his first bachelors degree at age 18, and he did well in his studies. However, during his senior year, he would find himself acquainted with one of the freshmen, a Filipino-German by the name of Andres Barbarossa, whom he regarded as a younger brother as if they were the same blood. Andres was quite peculiar; he was of half German and Filipino stock born in Dresden, but he had a Scottish accent that was brought about by living most of his life in Edinburgh. He was also very eccentric and babbled quite a lot, and as a result only had his lab partner Klaus Ward and Jean-Luc as friends.

Though they only had one year of company, they kept in touch until the Ragons attacked.

After he graduated, Jean-Luc entered into the naval academy. He would quickly rise in the ranks once he finished, eventually reaching the rank of captain after two years. Jean commanded the Aquitaine, which was one of the more advanced space warships of the Marine Interstellaire. He would participate in some of the skirmishes against Russian forces until the French ships Aquitaine and the Napoleon were all crippled beyond repair on the New Burgundian shipyards by Russian operatives led by a certain Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovsky. The British Royal Navy vessels called the Queen Elizabeth and the Britannia Eternal were not spared either.

With his ship destroyed and no replacements due soon, Jean-Luc was placed as commander of a squadron of atmospheric airships stationed on Enceladus. This would continue until the Ragon invasion, where he led the defense of Enceladus’ airspace for about two hours before being forced to retreat by 90% losses. With defeat certain, he took what remained of the people of New Burgundy and fled back to Earth. What remained were quite few, either way.

On Earth, the month long battle for the planet was participated on by whatever remnants of the Marine Interstellaire still remained. Jean-Luc never got to command another ship though, as before any more vessels could be produced, Earth had fallen completely. At that time, he was acting as a security detail officer of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and when Ragon warships began to land on the city, he instinctively fled to the subways along with the handful on Marine Interstellaire officers and personnel that he had with him. He would find himself as part of the underground... and side by side with the same man that blew up his ship several years back. In an ironic twist of fate brought on by circumstance, he would grow to have a deep friendship with Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovsky, showing none of their hostile background. In fact, it was as if there was never one to begin with.

It was after five years of alien occupation did a certain Tariq Al Zubi and Rebecca Cohen, who had come from across the Atlantic, came to the New York underground and offered a plan to save the world by travelling through time. Though initially skeptical, Jean and a group of others left the city to head for Denver. Once they had reached their destination, though, they would be betrayed by Davin Blackmore who had joined them in the middle of the journey, and the Ragons came and assaulted the facility, killing the majority of the group. Jean was one of those that were lost in the fighting.

He was, however, later resurrected within the Icarus along with Hannah Brown. Or was he?

## Skills and Abilities

Skills

* Battlefield Commander: As a former captain for the French Navy, Jean-Luc has the instinct of a Commander. He is able to strategize based on terrain and available data, and while he doesn't have the aura of inspiration, he sure gets the job done.
* Marksman: Jean-Luc is skilled with firearms of any type, though he prefers rifles.

Weaknesses

* Sensitive to noise: He is easily distracted by excessive noises as he has naturally more sensitive ears.
* Sickly: He has a weaker immune system than most people.

## Relationships

### Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovsky

Jean’s friendship with the same Russian agent that was ordered to kill him five years ago is indeed a great irony, perhaps one of the greatest there is. As the older one among them, Jean has demonstrated to be the more mature one, though when he finds life too stressful even for his calm demeanor, he’d find himself being comforted by Ivan as if he was ten years younger.

### Andres Barbarossa Merkel Dela Cruz

They were schoolmates for year in college, but they have kept contact with each other ever since until the Ragon attacked Earth. When the invasion was done, they both thought that the other was dead, which was their mindset for five years until they met again in the Hub, which was one very tearful reunion.

### Hannah Brown

Jean feels very indebted to Hannah for her service to the Hub, as even though he used to be a military commander, he was never one for peacetime operations like Hannah is. He sees her as the cog in the machine, and without her, the survivors of New York City would have a hole in their society.

### Jay Kang

Jay was the first person Jean-Luc really got along with after being reconstructed in the Icarus, other than Hannah. At first appearing to be highly impressed by Jay's cooking, they would quickly brew a special friendship in the making.

## Trivia

* His favorite food is vanilla ice cream.

## Quotes

* *"God has an odd sense of humour. It took some giant man eating lizards for us to forget our differences. How odd."*
* *"I'm French, of course I like wine."*
* *"You're staying, and that's an order."*
* *"Don't break his heart just yet..."*