Lucas Orfeo

### Allies

Samantha DahlSuzume (Zu) KimuraRuby DalyVidaNicolas RamirezMia OferoLiam Stewart

## Looks

### Early Life

Lucas Orfeo is the son of Peter and Melissa Orfeo and the older brother of Mia Orfeo. They lived in Bedford, Virginia, and were the neighbors to the Dahl family. Lucas eventually became friends with the Dahls' daughter, Samantha Dahl - or as he likes to call her, "Sam" - despite not appreciating the strict behavior of her parents. Lucas and Sam would hang out with Mia in the Orfeos' backyard, more specifically in their treehouse, which they named Greenwood after the street they lived on, Greenwood Lane. To them, Greenwood was a magical kingdom where they could imagine fantastic stories involving witches, monsters and knights. Lucas would come up with ideas, Mia would write what to say, and Sam would act the stories out with them. Lucas once kissed Sam in Greenwood.

After IAAN infected America and indirectly caused the economy to collapse, the Orfeos' house was foreclosed by the bank, forcing the family to move away. This broke Lucas, Sam and Mia's hearts, as they thought they would never see each other again. The Orfeos moved around, living in their car wherever they could park. At some point, Lucas powers showed up. Lucas parents weren't afraid of him, and would even protect him from threats. The family tried to hide, but men hijacked their car while they were sleeping and killed the panicked parents. They also reported the two children to the PSFs, who came and had to break Mia's hand to separate the heartbroken siblings.

Mia would be shipped to Black Betty since she was a blank. Lucas was shipped to a red specific camp because of his abilities. While in the camp he would be subjected to the effects of Project Jamboree. Unlike most of the reds in the project, Lucas was able to protect his mental state and was able to hide behind a sort of veil. Thanks to this ability, and his unwillingness to fight back, he went unnoticed by the trainers.

### Sparks Rise

When he was finished with Project Jamboree, Lucas would be shipped to Thurmond with a bunch of other reds from his camp to replace some of the guards and to work in the camp until Project Cardinal was finished. He saw Sam for the first time in the camp, but he doesn't recognize her because the pair hadn't seen each other in seven years. Sam however is able to recognize him immediately thanks to her seeing him after her photographic memory came in.

When Tildon, a PSF, attempted to assault her, she defended herself and attacked him. Lucas restrained her and held her while she was beaten, while being forced to pretend that he didn‘t know or recognised her. He accompanied her to the cages where she was put into a dog crate. Olsen left and because there was a power outage, Lucas talked to her, seemingly to find a piece of himself again.

However, Tildon entered, and Lucas - keeping up the act of a brainwashed red - had to step away. When the PSF began to harass Sam again, Lucas notified control center and both of them left. Shortly afterwards, Sam was bitten by a snake.

The next morning he lines up next to a girl he had nicknamed Rose and receives his schedule. Seeing that he is accompanying kids to the infirmary, he is disappointed that he won’t be seeing Sam. As he is leading Chelsea, Tildon provokes him and Lucas barely holds his power in control. At the end of his schedule, he slips into another room to look on the computer for his sister. He had no idea that Mia had survived IAAN and had become a blue. Pat Dunn finds him looking for Mia, but doesn't turn him in since he was looking for his younger brother Martin, a orange who had been a resident in the camp until a few months earlier.

Pat is distracted when he hears that Sam's injury is getting much worse. Pat wants to get Sam to a real hospital since Thurmond's infirmary was constantly lacking. None of the camp controllers or PSF's wanted to let Sam go, since she was so malnurished and abused that it would send red alerts to the hospital staff and could possibly spill the news about how terrible the camp was. The three come up with a plan, but Sam and Lucas are captured. Sam is resent to the Infirmary to heal, and Lucas would be sent back to the trainers to redo his training. This time, it is successful, and when Lucas is returned to Thurmond, he truly doesn‘t recognize Sam and cannot control his own thoughts and actions.

### In The Afterlight

When the camp fell, Lucas was rounded up with the other reds and shipped away from the camp to get his memories back.