Lucas Porter

## Lucas Porter (Yuudai Shirota)

* Lucas
* Yuudai
* Kageomi

### Affiliation

Lucas: Service staff, 12 Anchorage AvenueYuudai: Ithacan Ministry of Intelligence

## **Miscellaneous Information**

### Class

Vigilante (Shadow Warrior) [Striker (Shadowed Fist)]

### Weapon(s)

Unarmed strike; traditional ninja implements as necessary

### Theme Song

Monkey Majik - Change

**Lucas Marshall Porter** was the social identity of the vigilante **Yuudai Shirota** (代田勇大, *Shirota Yuudai*), a practitioner of the **Chrysanthemum Edge** school of martial arts. Feeling a sense of camaraderie with ex-Chrysanthemum Edge initiate **Baranya Hawall**, Lucas used his social identity's position as a butler at the First **Ithacan Prime Minister's** household at 12 Anchorage Avenue to gather information on threats to his mistress' enemies, then assumed the mantle of the **Transforming Ninja, Kageomi** (変身忍者影臣, *Henshin Ninja Kageomi*) to deal with them - permanently.

As of 28 AM, Yuudai has abandoned adventuring, forsaken his social identity publicly, and returned to Shizukumura to retire in peace.

## History

### Assumed

Lucas Porter was born and raised in Shizukumura, the descendent of humans who had integrated themselves in the kitsune-dominant culture there centuries before. Though a Chosen, he is not an adventurer, does not take Adventurer's Guild contracts, and is not registered in the Guild rolls. Having spurned a life of high adventure and preferring to serve rather than to lead, Lucas trained to become a butler, serving for a time under **House Lethain** before joining the staff of a new manor established by the recently-knighted Lady Sir Baranya Hawall. For much of the life of **House Hawall**, Lucas served as the steward and majordomo of Vérsce Manor, the House's seat of power. When the House was dissolved following Baranya's departure for the New World with **Baron Ulysses Brokenrock-Hawall**'s Myandran expedition, Lucas decided to join them.

### Real

The kitsune Yuudai Shirota was born and raised in Shizukumura, one of many distant descendants of **Ayume Mayaku**, though the veracity of this claim is disputed. Trained in the arts of *ninjutsu* from a young age, Yuudai eventually joined the Chrysanthemum Edge sect of ki cultivation, headquartered in Shizukumura. One day, a brash, auburn-haired human from the city of Catania sought tutelage in the school's ways. Yuudai was stunned when the outsider, with little instruction and without the benefit of being a kitsune, came exceptionally close to mastering the school's foundation technique of "twinsoul"; separating one's inner self from the outer self, and switching between them at will. Before she could master this art, however, she discovered the cultivation cult's true nature as a school of ninjutsu. Incensed, she punched the sensei in the nose and left without another word.

Yuudai never forgot this student, even after he himself had left the school and assumed a cover identity as a human butler named Lucas. Truly, he thought, it was kismet that one day, he would chance upon that student again, this time in the noble's manor he had begun to work as a cover to his actual goal - a freelance *shinobi*. As the wayward student's star rose, Yuudai found his opportunity to keep an eye on her - so it was that "Lucas Porter" came to work for the Arsenal Knight, Baranya Hawall.

## Personality

It is often a question as to whether a vigilante's "true face" is the one he shows to the world, or the one that he shows to his enemies. In Yuudai's case, his 'false face' of Lucas is actually closer to his actual personality and beliefs, whereas he must harden his heart and temper his zeal as Kageomi. Lucas is a loyal and dutiful servant, whereas Kageomi's interest (on its face, anyway) is on money before service.

## Friends

* Baranya Brokenrock-Hawall
* Ulysses Brokenrock-Hawall
* The Republic of Ithaca

## Foes

* Enemies of Ithaca
* Enemies of the Chrysanthemum Edge School