Lucas Schneien

## Lucas Noah Schneien

> *“Do you even want to earn my love or are you purposely trying to make me think you’re the most disgusting creature I‘ve ever had the misfortune to give life to?!”* - Lucas to Tobias
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## Appearance

Lucas is tall with fair skin, greyed hair (formerly black in his youth but likely greyed faster due to stress) and grey eyes- though his eyes haven't been seen by the audience in adulthood perhaps indicating that Tobias has yet to look him in said eyes or is too intimidated by him.

## Personality

Lucas is authoritarian when it comes to particularly Tobias much like his own mother was with him. He's cold, strict, and even comes across as sadistic at times with Tobias yet is softer and more human with Suzie and understandably upset when speaking to Luther, having conflicting behaviors and feelings about things. He cherry picks biblical passages to suit his current point whether those passages are from the same volumes or not and seems to utilize Christianity as a safety net rather than a true religious devotion.

## History

Lucas and his twin brother Luther were raised separately when they were young— Luther by the twins’ rebel father Ludwig Schneien in Germany and Lucas by their religious and strict mother Katarina Schlubach in America where Ludwig abandoned her before Ludwig dropped him off with his mother and bailed once more. Luther describes child Lucas as a quiet boy who wanted to be the perfect son for their mother and the perfect son for god. Luther would get into fights with Lucas frequently, believing his twin to be weak and pathetic, and Lucas would never fight back. While Luther was the rebellious one who did as he pleased, Lucas attempted to adhere to his mother's wishes and began to see an imbalance between his and Luther's treatment, assuming Luther was merely given freedoms Lucas wasn't as opposed to his mother having given up entirely on Luther as a son, the woman referring to Luther as a failure and insisting Lucas would not be the same.

At some point in the twins’ childhood, an unknown incident happened which resulted in a personality change for Lucas. He began saying that he and Luther were “god’s favorite” and that an angel had saved them. Lucas befriended a nervous and weak-willed boy named Nicholas Ardonis, defending him from the class bully Jim and seemed convinced Nicholas was sent by god to offer good to the world, though something may have happened to Nicholas later in life.

As a teenager, Lucas began dating a girl named Charlotte Vanditto. She fell in love with him and was convinced that deep down, he was a nice person. This frustrated Lucas. Luther encouraged the two to date. They began going out for a time, during which Lucas was decently happy. However, their relationship ended with Charlotte dead at 14 and Luther believes that Lucas was the murderer as Lucas apparently kept a lock of the girl's hair in his possession.

Luther suggests that another disastrous event took place the October after the twins’ 17th birthday, but panics while talking about the incident to Tobias and can’t go into detail. This incident involved the twins and Luther’s soulmate Holly, and possibly others as well. Holly died at age 16, suggesting that this incident directly led to her death.

The time between Lucas‘s high school years and when he becomes a father has no specific timeline as of chapter 3.5.

A few years before the events of Ghost Eyes, Lucas adopted a child named Nigel. It is suggested that Nigel's father may have been Nicholas due to their striking similarities. When Nigel was a toddler, Lucas adopted Eugene, the child of a friend of his and Luther’s, Ada Finch and unknown twin brother of Silas.

As a child, Eugene was possessed by an entity (most likely Mr. Edburt) that caused his eyes to change from brown to glacier blue and Eugene to hurt himself. Lucas was torn apart by Eugene’s pain and eventual death at age eight, attempting to stop his death from happening and Nigel mistaking Eugene's death as murder.

After this, Lucas met Suzie and the two had their first eight children. Two, Kaitlyn and Gunther, were stillborn and Mattias died within a couple of years, leading Lucas to desperately strike up a deal with Lady Kiraba that would sacrifice Tobias's future in exchange for the three children being brought back to life. Initially, he seemed guilty about what he had agreed to but as time went on and Tobias's behaviors were more frightening, Lucas saw the boy less and less as his son and more and more as the demon he offered him to, his punishments growing in aggression as he no longer saw Tobias as human but a demonic mistake he needed to protect his family from and keep under control despite Tobias's continued human mental presence and misunderstanding. After Tobias's assault on Mattias, Lucas was completely unwilling to show any further mercy on Tobias whether Tobias remembered the incident or not despite Luther's pleas for understanding.

## Relationships

### Katarina Schlubach

Lucas and Luther's strict and religious mother. A cold and fierce woman from Western Germany who Lucas spent his youth attempting to be perfect to and faced the brunt of her anger and restrictions while Luther disregarded her authority entirely and acted as he pleased- something Lucas resented.

### Ludwig Schneien

Lucas and Luther's deadbeat father who married Katarina in America after the two left Germany but absconded back to Germany with one of his sons as the pressure of having two children at once didn't appeal to him. He later returned several years later to drop Luther off with his mother before leaving once more a year later, leaving Katarina now to raise both boys herself as a single mother. Lucas seemingly never got the chance to know him as a father but doesn't seem to care, his focus solely on his mother.

### Suzie Titus

Lucas's monogamous life partner though the two not formally or legally married. Suzie is significantly younger than him but the two are obsessed with one another, sharing the same violent capabilities and have referred to themselves as the Adam and Eve of their family. Suzie is often the one to calm him down in the face of his temper but doesn't entirely prevent him from being aggressive towards Tobias. Suzie's bore 24 of his children over the time they'd been together and whether or not that's their stopping point is unknown, Suzie's attention stretched thin between them all.

### Luther Schneien

Lucas's reckless identical twin brother who he seems to have mixed feelings about, feeling both deeply bothered by him but also occasionally confiding in him. Luther is fully aware of Lucas's misbehavior and may even know the reasons due to their history together but keeps back due to certain complications and having a family of his own to keep safe.

### Mattias Schneien

Mattias is Lucas's clear favorite child, Lucas reeling from the grief of losing him at a young age and pouring his love and attention into the boy upon his relief having him back. Though Mattias disrespects him on behalf of Tobias, Lucas has never laid a violent hand on him nor seems willing to even punish him, saving every ounce of mercy for him as he never got over losing him in the first place.

### Tobias Schneien

The son he gave up to save his 3 deceased children. Though he seemed to regret his sacrifice initially and attempted to continue to treat Tobias like the rest of his children, the fear took over as Tobias displayed concerning and even murderous behaviors and Lucas shifted to more aggressive treatment, no longer acknowledging the boy as his own and adhering to treats and violence to keep "the demon" in line.

### Lady Kiraba

A mysterious entity said to have been the god of life accompanied by her foul creature Mr. Edburt. Lucas made the deal with her to save his other children and cursed Tobias with Mr. Edburt's presence, though her motives for accepting this deal are unknown.

### Nicholas Ardonis

Lucas's childhood friend whose fate is currently unknown but may be the father of Lucas's adopted son Nigel.