Luka Kotova

**Luka Kotova** is the protagonist in The Secret Ex-Boyfriend. Reckless but generous, has a knack for stealing useless things and tries not to think about Baylee Wright; also Vegas acrobat in Viva, later Infini.

## Physical Appearance

Luka is Russian-American. He has brown hair, grey eyes and sculpted but lean arms and torso.

## Early History

Luka first saw the Wheel of Death when he was about four or five.

By the age of five, Luka was a kid actor, collecting props, clearing the area for the next act, and performing simple floor acrobatics in group routines. Luka began specializing in a variety of high-risk acrobatics: Russian swing, Russian bar, trapeze, teeterboard, and aerial apparatuses (hoops, silks, straps, metal cubs, chandeliers).

When Luka was six, Katya (age three) and Timo (age five), were in the Midwest for a few months. Luka's parents became friends with a few locals while they lived there. His parents got invited to a neighbourhood summer barbecue. The party was unrelated to the circus or Aerial Ethereal, so only his parents, four brothers, and sister went. The three of them were lead upstairs to a game room, by the host's teenage son. The son took his clothes off, and undressed Luka, Katya and Timo. Later, they were told by adults that he touched himself and forced the kids to undress and watch. Due to her age, Katya doesn't remember this.

When he was ten in Minnesota, Luka stole a pair of sunglasses and gave them to Katya. The store clerk saw and called the cops. No matter how many times Luka told the cops that he was the one that stole the sunglasses, they didn't believe him and kept scolding Katya, who was little and sobbing on the ground.

At thirteen, Corporate sent Luka to New York City and join the cast of a new show called *Infini*. When *Infini* moved to Vegas, Luka moved to *Viva*. When he was thirteen, Luka stole a chess set. Aerial Ethereal gave him a warning for it.

4 1/2 years before The Secret Ex-Boyfriend, Luka's cousin, Dimitri and Vince, the Marketing Director of Aerial Ethereal, walked in on Luka and Baylee having sex in the costume department. Vince reported them to his supervisors, and his supervisors reported them to Marc Duval, the Creative Director of Aerial Ethereal. Before being caught, Baylee and Luka had been secretly dating for about a year and a half (Luka was fifteen and Baylee was fourteen). At the time her aunt Lucy is her legal guardian. After speaking to Marc, he gave them a choice, to sign the termination contract or sign a new contract stating that they will have no further verbal or physical contact with each other. Not long after that, Brenden, Baylee's older brother got into a fight with him.

When he was eighteen, he went to Saint Petersburg, Russia. When he got there he thought he'd feel at home but he didn't. He felt foreign there, like he didn't fit in.

In The Failed Audition, he is a porter for Russian bar. He was supposed to be in Amour but they found out that Timo was turning eighteen around the show's premiere, so they switched them. In The Secret Ex-Boyfriend, Luka is assigned to Room 4303. He is rooming with Dimitri Kotova, Zhen Li & Brenden Wright. In the Infini program, Luka does four acts, the Opening Dance, Wheel of Death, High-Risk Trampoline, and Russian Swing.

## Birthday

* 20 years old in The Failed Audition.
* 21 years old in The Secret Ex-Boyfriend.

## Trivia

* In chapter 23 of The Failed Audition, Luka has to pay a fine for stealing a four-hundred dollar snow globe.
* *Chicago* is Luka's favourite Broadway.
* Luka has been Corporate's Least Favourite Kotova since he was fifteen.
* Luka has roomed with his brother Timo for nineteen years.
* Luka likes watching basketball and Broadway.
* Luka has struggled with bulimia since he was six.
* Luka can speak Russian.
* Luka's father upholds Russian customs more than others in their extended family.
* Luka sucks at cooking and baking.
* Baylee was Luka's first kiss & first love.
* When he was fourteen, Luka lost his virginity to Baylee.
* On Saturdays, instead of going to The Red Death with the other Kotova's, Luka goes to Verona with Katya.