Lucius

## Background

Lucius was born and raised in a very /neg household. His mom died shortly after he was born, and his dad was uhhh.. very silly in a not nice way.

Luc hadn't been taught how to use his plant abilities when he was growing up, and he couldn't control them. \*\*Note: Ability users are less common in this universe, and the likelihood of there being multiple families that used abilities in the same town was incredibly rare. Abilities are somewhat genetic- you have to be born with them and one of your parents has to have had one. 50/50 chance, gotta pull up that Punnet Square bro.

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Luc grew up in a town in the middle of nowhere basically. Think Wyoming. He didn't grow up there, but I'm just using that as a point because there is nothing in Wyoming. Anyways- he lived with his dad and older brother, and his home life wasn't the best. At all. His dad was an alcoholic, and was very, very not nice to Luc or his brother. Luc also got like- bullied really bad cause he's pretty strange. Like- strange meaning he's not society's vision of what 'normal' is. He was a pretty sad kid generally.

He couldn't really 'tame' his plant magic, so it eventually grew a mind of its own almost. It would create stuff at random, so Luc was overall just really exhausted (magic uses mental and physical energy). The ability at one point created this really toxic spore, and the spore quickly multiplied and this really bad pandemic started and wiped out a lot of people. It got into their systems and just did a lot of bad stuff yk. Nobody knew where it came from, nobody knew how to stop it from spreading, so it just kept wiping out the population.

Eventually Luc realized it was him who caused it, and no matter how hard he tried to stop growing the spores, he just.. couldn't. This young kid (he was 13-14) had to deal with the guilt of knowing he was the reason all of these people had died. He couldn't stop the spores from growing, so his thought process was this: If the user of this ability is dead, then the pandemic can end. It can end easier at least. So he went out and just- ended it. Or tried to at least. He died, but he didn't *really* die. His ability started healing him almost right away, and he was alive again. Sorta.

When he woke up, he was in a cave-like enclosure, and a figure of ghost-like appearance was there to greet him. This non-living spirit is known as the Guardian.

The Guardian had found Lucius' body in the forest, as he brought him to Limbo because he became a "universe killer." He was responsible for the death of many in his universe, so in order to keep everything in check and let the universe either die off in peace of come back, these killers are put in enclosures in Limbo and are either kept there for the rest of their lives or let out when the Guardian sees they're ready to be put back in society.

After a few years, when Lucius is 16 (Limbo time goes slower than actual time), Luc had enough control over his ability, with the help of the Guardian. He was let out of Limbo and put in the Interstellar universe, or his current universe.

## Appearance

Luc is what you would describe as a tall scrawny white boy. /j

In all seriousness, Luc is pretty tall but really thin for his height. He is a noodly man. He has naturally red hair, but he has been dying it green for a year or two because it makes him feel more like *him.* He likes to keep his hair shorter, but is very uncomfortable with going to hair dressers so he waits until he absolutely needs a haircut to get one. Because of this, he'll normally have pretty long hair. \*\*Fun hair fact: Whenever Luc is reading (in the comfort of his own home), he tends to put his bangs up in a silly little pony tail to avoid them annoying him.

He has green eyes, and his sight is awful, so he wears contacts. Don't ask why he wears fashion glasses instead of real ones, it's just him wanting to be quirky and different I guess.

Outfit wise, he dresses in a casual but nice way. Lots of fun button-ups and stuff like that with just navy jeans or jean bell bottoms. He almost always has his green jacket on, that or a sweater. \*\*Fun fact: Most people have never seen his arms /srs (C: Just like me frfr). Along with always wearing his jacket, he also always wears black and white checkered vans. He just kinda feels wonky whenever he is out and not wearing them.

The amount of jewelry he wears is.. extensive. He wears a lot of different rings and bracelets and necklaces and has a bunch of piercings (Ear piercings, lip piercing, septum, etc). \*\*Fun jewelry fact: Luc absolutely cannot deal with having bracelets on his right wrist. It just freaks him out to have an extensive amount of them on his wrists, so he limits them to his left one. This way, he can still enjoy bracelets without freaking out.

He has a scar on his left cheek that he most of the time covers with a small bandage (If it isn't covered he'll claw at it).

Because of his ability and it never really 'stopping', little flowers and plants and stuff tend to sprout/appear on him or around him so he has a lot of flowers in his hair most of the time. This mostly happens whenever he's excited, anxious, overstimulated, or bored.

### Voice Claim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekUz5S\_HNM

## Personality

### Description

Luc can sometimes come off as a jerk. He isn't one and he's genuinely a pretty nice guy, his resting face and lack of social skills just give that impression to people at first. He's pretty chill and quiet, but on the flip side he can be very loud and impulsive when he's talking about his interests or when he's talking to friends.

He got his 'addictive personality' from his mom, so he's that much more likely to get hooked onto stuff. It applies to a lot of things, but it especially applies to his caffeine intake or even just stuff that has to do with his hyperfixations.

He is extremely impulsive whenever it comes to anything that has to deal with his interests. If he goes into any store that has anything to do with the silly things he enjoys it, well it hurts his bank account a lot to say the least. He is absolutely awful at saving money. If he sees something silly he likes, it will come home with him. This is especially true with stickers and pins. \*\*Pin fact: His favorite place to buy pins is at Spencer's. He's gotten a bunch of silly pins from there, including the ones that can never be shown in public. For the stickers he has a very large collection, and enjoys to give them as gifts sometimes.

### Alignment

Luc's alignment is between chaotic nuetral and chaotic good.

### Hobbies

He enjoys collecting stickers, pins, monster can tabs, etc. All of his collections are... excessive. He has a really bad caffeine addiction, so his can tab is always growing, and then the stickers and pins are just fun to have.

Luc is almost always listening to music. Quiet makes him uncomfortable, so it just makes him more comfortable to have something in the background. Even in conversation he prefers if there's something playing quietly in the background. His favorite band is Ghost (C: OH MY GOSH THAT'S MY FAVORITE BAND TOO NO WAYYYYYYY). He has lots of vinyl from the band, as well as the grucifix necklace and a bunch of other silly merch (He is always wearing the grucifix// C: OH MY GOSH HE IS LITERALLY MEEEEEE). If you give him the opportunity, he will info dump all of the band's lore and you will sit listening to the band for hours on end. If you put up with it, he will appreciate you and will love you with all of his being (C: BRO'S LITERALLY ME- I'll stop with the Corie text cut-ins... for now... mwahahaha....)

He likes the arts, and he loves *being* art. He's really into music and drawing and stuff like that, but he also gets a ton of tattoos and piercings so he's, in his own words, 'a museum'. He also loves the arts musically, and he plays the clarinet, the electric bass, and... his favorite... the kazoo of destiny... (C: He's canonically a Ghost fan now so I'M ALLOWED TO MAKE REFERENCES IN HIS WIKI PAGE).

### Mannerisms

Luc moves around a lot when he talks, whether that be him pacing or him just moving his hands around a bunch. Staying still freaks him out. He's just generally always moving; swaying, moving his hands, etc. Chewing gum helps with his inability to stay still (It sorta just keeps his brain focused on the repetitiveness of it so he can focus on other things).

## Relationships

### Family

His parents and brother are dead. His mom died in child birth, his dad and brother died cause of the pandemic (The one Luc started).

He lives with his aunt (Natalie) and uncle (Henry). Nat and Henry aren't actually related to him, they're just good friends with the Guardian and they're sorta like the foster parents for kids who got out of limbo. There's a bunch of these.. "foster families," and the whole point is to get the limbo people back into a regular pattern with the 'real world.' They were isolated from society for years, and it's just to make the switch back more easy.

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Natalie works as art professor and is still in her field. She mostly does tattoos and commission stuff for clients. She majored in teaching and minored in art, and took a bunch of extra art classes. She had always been a very energetic person. Like she can get close to no sleep for a few days and still be her perky self. So, as the sane teaching and art student she is, she also juggled being in a band as well as having her art jobs on the side. She somehow managed to balance everything and her mental health, and stayed a B student.

Henry works as an English teacher, and is a pretty well-known author. He currently is the owner of a bookstore in the town. He majored in teaching and minored in music. He, unlike his wife, was a very exhausted college student. He was in the Marching Band, had his internship, and was writing a book on top of his studies, and it was a lot. He was very bad at balancing his work time and his me time, so he was always pretty burnt out. He always strived for perfection, so although he stayed an A student and was successful in his internship and in the band program, he saved almost no time for himself and was struggling a lot mentally.

One day, Henry's band friends decided to drag him to a concert. Henry was very against it yet went anyway to get them off his back, and that was the night when he and Natalie met. It was a small concert at a popular pub off campus, and there weren't a lot of people as the band was still pretty underground, so after they performed Henry and Nat just got to chat all night. They were pretty good friends for a while and Nat helped get Henry out of his shell. After a while they started dating, and they were and still are just the most wholesome and cute couple. They got married five years after their main college experience ended, so seven years after they met.

### Partner(s)

He's not dating anybody at the moment, which is honestly.. pretty valid. People suck.

He had a partner and broke up with them pretty recently in the lore. The partner was very... not silly to Luc. :((

### Friends

Luc is pretty good friends with The Guardian. They're basically the one in charge of limbo, and they make sure all the people being held in it stay safe and are safe for others. Limbo is a universe that's basically just a massive mental hospital for people who were a harm to society and almost killed the society in their universe. Also the guardian is yet another alternate universe of me. Soooooooooo yeah. The Guardian is one of his only real friends.

His other friend is an alternate universe of Tommy. In his original universe, the town he lives in is pretty crappy and very crime ridden. There are many small groups, of teens and young adults mostly, who are assassins. The group Tommy was in was the most well known and skilled group. All of the members of the group had their own unique skills, and Tommy's was technology. He was a skilled hacker, sniper, and he absolutely loved to build bombs (he never got to actually use them though because Sammy, the group's leader, hated that little hobby of his). In this version of the universe (there are many alternate timelines in each universe, so there are MANY different versions of each character), all of the cyberwear, or technological add-ons to his organic body, caused him to go mental. Note: If there is too much robotic type stuff added to you, it'll mess with your nerves really bad and you'll either so psycho or die. Tommy went psycho and lived, and he basically like- killed a lot of people. The Guardian realized, took him under captivity, he got better. He's not sane, and he never will be again, but he's at least better. A lot of the cyberwear was removed, but Tommy messed himself up *really bad.* Now his life support is basically just a tv head. Tom and Luc were pretty good friends, and met during the 'group therapy' sessions in limbo.

## Ability

### Description

Although Luc's variation is very different from most plant/nature ability users, this is the basis.

#### Creation

The nature ability falls under the creation category. The user can bring dead plants back to life, or they can create their own plants. If they're creating their own, most users carry a small pouch of seeds around to avoid it effecting their body too badly. If they don't have a base to grow the plants from, then they can use their own matter and/or energy to grow them. Most users don't choose the second option because it's very bad for them and they can actually like genuinely die from it.

#### Healing

Some users of this ability have self-healing from it. If it's a minor thing like a scratch, then it's quick and simple to deal with and uses little if any energy. If it's a big thing then the user goes into a comatose state. They go into this state to save their energy so that it can all go towards the healing process. This can go for as little time as a week, or it can extend for a few months. In most cases someone needs to be keeping watch of the user to make sure no harm goes to them in this state.

### Weaknesses

The plant magic relies mostly on Luc's emotions and mind-space. For most other nature ability users it doesn't rely on this because they were taught early on. Since Luc wasn't, and couldn't even begin to control his ability until a bit after he was put in Limbo, the ability holds the power over him rather than the other way around. It's kinda like his plants have their own consciousness.

Luc's ability never really stops. It's very draining to him, and it honestly hurts. He's constantly exhausted, and he constantly needs some sort of pain killers for the pains and migraines it causes him. The ability doesn't stop as a trauma response basically lol (it's not lol trauma isn't funny).

### Extra Information

Nature users pair well to technological people. The opposite skills can complement each other. I have a genuine reason for saying this I just don't wanna explain rn.

## Important Possessions

### Objects of importance

Luc has a necklace with a metal piece from Tommy's cyber-wear on it, and he never takes it off. Tommy will never get to leave limbo so he'll never see him again unfortunately, but at least he gets to keep a memento from their friendship.

Luc wears a spell jar for anti anxiety as a necklace. He taught Astro how to make spell jars as he seemed interested in all of the spiritual things Luc had, and they now both wear the one the other made as necklaces.

### Weapon(s) of Choice

He doesn't really fight, but he carries around a pocket knife and lighter around so... I guess that counts. He loves pocket knives and lighters and think they're absolutely awesome (this definitely isn't just me projecting my interest of those things onto him haha). His ability is more defensive than it is offensive, sooooooo yeah.

## Extras

### Playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6TDp2rM67KDu42pWAwjTkW?si=5feec3063957499d