Lucas Maye

**Lucas Maye** is the titular protagonist and narrator of the *Bellow Street Boggart* storyline. He returns from prison and to his old job as a thief-for-hire operating out of Bellow Street, immediately lining up a deal with a very wealthy client.

## Personality

> Mark my words, I was going to get that damn watch.
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Lucas is a sharp speaker, verbally sparring with people he's comfortable around. He makes and remembers judgements on a continuous basis, often keeping "score" with somebody as a way to egg them on. He has an elevated sense of self-confidence, some of which is supported by his achievements and resources.

Lucas has a pickpocket's eye, often taking note of anything that fits the two key criteria of small and valuable. He seems to form and hold grudges, but he's often more inclined to play nice with his enemies if they let him get away with it.

## Abilities

Boggart is described as capable of creating rodents (but not lagomorphs) out of shadows, which he can then control and use as the exit point for a teleportation power.

Lucas also has a solid grasp of manipulation tactics and social engineering, allowing him to take the upper hand in conversations if he starts on equal footing.

## Appearance

### Business Costume

Boggart conducts his meetings in a more extravagant outfit than befits an infiltration role. His costume includes a "goblin green" suit jacket and full-face mask. A horseshoe shape cut from the mask allows him to see and breathe easily while his identity remains concealed. Much of the rest of the costume, from the undershirt to the gloves and pocket square to the entire lower half of the outfit, is black.

Davor Kolyich compared Boggart's business suit to the Once-Ler's outfit, presumably from the 2012 film adaptation of The Lorax. Boggart resents the comment.

## Biography

### Early Life

Lucas is a Nevada native, having spent most of his childhood in Red Straight.

### Background

At some point after establishing Boggart's criminal organization, Lucas was caught and sentenced to eight months of incarceration. His secret identity was erased from the ground-level investigators' minds by Blind Justice, and Anecdote provided Lucas with memories of skiing to support his cover story for the absence.

### Post-Prison Arc

Shortly after returning to Red Straight, Boggart was contacted by Ranger for a job opportunity necessitating the supervillain-level skills he brought to the table. Lucas took the price estimate to his accomplice, Olivia Jackson, to talk her into reprising the supervillain role of Mister Spot for the sake of one more heist. She reluctantly signed on.

Ranger brought Boggart to a meeting in a public park, where Davor Kolyich grilled the thief for information on his qualifications for the job. After giving away much more information than he intended, Lucas made a mental note to steal Davor Kolyich's expensive Chopard L.U.C. XPS 1860 Officer watch. Davor Kolyich simply said the job was to take a hard drive from Pishon Industries, boiling a very difficult job down to an infuriatingly sparse description.

Upon returning to Bellow Street, Lucas entered a confrontation with Rolando Herrera, whose loitering had been reported to Lucas by the business-owners. Rolo warned Lucas that he'd deduced Boggart's secret identity, and suggested that the villain retire to avoid the wrath of a new hero. Lucas lectured Rolo on the importance of a boundary between civilian life and costumed struggles, pickpocketing Rolo to get the man's name off the license in his wallet. With the pair on even footing, Lucas invoked the principle of mutually assured destruction to make the hero drop his threats against Boggart. Once the direct threat was managed, Lucas determined that the best way to address the indirect threat of a mutual enemy torturing his secret identity out of Rolo would be to give the new hero as many tools for success as possible. To that end, a tour of Bellow Street was the first order of business.

## Relationships

### Olivia Jackson

Liv is one of Lucas's most valued accomplices, as her capabilities are irreplaceable in the thief's machinations. Beyond the professional connection, the pair seem to have a very strained, but very durable friendship.

### Rolo Herrera

After navigating the veiled opening hostilities, Lucas and Rolando arrived in a position of mutually assured destruction on the topic of secret identity, a fact that Lucas vehemently clarified. As the more experienced of the two in costumed matters, Lucas feels an obligation to steer the new hero in the right direction. Or the direction he approves of. Lucas doesn't really distinguish.

### Samuel Kane

Lucas mentions that he places a great deal of trust in Sam, who runs a bookstore on Bellow Street that doubles as a small-press publisher and triples as a criminal document forger.

## Trivia

* The original summary paragraph for *The Bellow Street Boggart* made reference to pulling a rabbit out of a hat. This line had to be cut once the protagonist's power was clarified to only produce rodents.