Lucanus

> It's Lucanus, but you can call me anything you want to, Galaxy. I *am* a HiveWing. And *you* are beautiful.
>
> ***Lucanus to Galaxyswimmer***

An arrogant, flirtatious HiveWing who tries to seduce anything that moves. He is handsome and he knows it, using his looks to his advantage with the ladies and his intimidation to his advantage with the dudes. He is quick to anger and a sore loser.

## Misc

### Debut

12/8/22- Copper Common Room

Lucanus is currently portrayed by Oliver/Dapple.

## Appearance

Lucanus is a stocky, muscular HiveWing with red scales varying from maroons to strawberry red. He has black scales accented throughout his body. His primary horns split into two at their ends, creating prongs, and the end of his tail fades to a darker red. His hard, thick scales are always gleaming.

## Personality

Lucanus's defining personality trait is that he's flirtatious. Oh boy. Any girl in his line of sight will get hit on incessantly. Taken, single, cute, ugly, student...probably teacher too, though those never get reciprocated. He knows he's handsome and can be very charming when he wants to be. However, if he gets rejected things turn nasty quickly. He can get angry and throw tantrums....they're not pretty.

Lucanus is very arrogant. He's really just here to have a good time, skim through classes, date some dragonesses. He has almost zero loyalty and will move from dragon to dragon as it suits him, never staying tied down. He's extremely shallow both in his perceptions of himself and his perceptions of others.

He is willing and able to take up any persona he needs to to pick up a girl, but often drops this once further in, as he gets bored very easily. He can be perceptive but that is often overshadowed by either lust or pettiness. He loves demeaning pet names and stupid pickup lines.

With non-female dragons he'll usually either ignore them, talk down to them, or try to pick a fight. He loves a good fight and can win them, often playing dirty or simply threatening with venom stingers.

## History

### Early Years

Lucanus grew up with his father, who imbued him with overconfidence and arrogance for miles along with a superiority complex and a need to try to seduce every woman who came along. He pretty much blew through every girl in the area and back again (and back one more time with a few) before they learned their lessons and stopped giving him the time of day.

### Jade Mountain Academy

Lucanus enrolled in Jade Mountain Academy to meet new dragons (all the ones in his area had learned their lessons) and party.

*More to come!*

## Relationships

### Styloxus

Styloxus is Lucanus's father, who's pretty much a carbon copy of him. Luc gets along really well with his father, who usually supports him in all of his...endeavors, no matter the inevitable consequences. Styloxus is very lax on rules and was pretty much floored when Luc said he wanted to go to school.

### Violet

Violet is the LeafWing in Luc's winglet.

Lucanus and Violet met on the first day of school, the HiveWing immediately trying to flirt with her (and being utterly rejected). She became very frustrated with him and his attempts at romance, which battled with his rudeness and hot temper towards Troubleseeker. Later on, after she left the two boys to fight out their differences, she patched Lucanus up. Returning the favor, Lucanus brought her to the hospital when she was injured in the crossfire of a fight between him and Troubleseeker.

Lucanus wants very much to win her affections, if only to prove something. He thinks Violet secretly likes him and is just playing hard to get (she is not).

### Troubleseeker

Troubleseeker is the NightWing in Lucanus's winglet.

The two immediately clashed upon their meeting, insults quickly escalating into a nasty fight. The NightWing beat Luc (though he'd never admit it). Several more fights continued to erupt throughout their relationship, leading Lucanus to report Troubleseeker to the headmaster.

Lucanus hates Troubleseeker's guts and has a vow to get revenge on him. Neither are excited about sharing a room for the rest of the year.

### Galaxyswimmer

Galaxyswimmer is the NightWing in the Quartz Winglet.

Lucanus met Galaxyswimmer in the hallways by chance, along with Frostbite and eventually Sunkiss and Firefly. He started flirting with her immediately, as per his usual custom, and got her to drop some of the aggression she led with. As their conversation went on he found himself focusing more on her than the others, and wants to pursue the relationship further.

### Frostbite

Frostbite is the IceWing in Lucanus's winglet.

Lucanus met Frostbite in the hallways by chance, along with Galaxyswimmer and eventually Sunkiss and Firefly. Currently Luc is unaware that Frostbite is in his winglet. While he flirted with her at first, he quickly lost interest in her in favor of Galaxyswimmer. She seemed to mistake some of his flirting towards the NightWing hybrid for flirting towards her.

Because Lucanus does not try to flirt with royalty anymore, he has no real interest towards Frostbite.

### Firefly

Firefly is the HiveWing of the Jade Winglet.

Lucanus met Firefly in the hallways by chance, along with Galaxyswimmer, Frostbite, and Sunkiss when she quite literally ran into him. He didn't flirt with her much, identifying her as royalty along with her being a little young for him anyway.

Lucanus really only wants to be on Firefly's good side, and does not have much interest in her otherwise.

### Sunkiss

Sunkiss is the SilkWing of the Jade Winglet.

Sunkiss also quite literally ran into him in the hallways while Lucanus was talking to Galaxyswimmer, Frostbite, and Firefly. Though she was very pretty and would normally have been a target for Lucanus's advances, she was a quick supporter of Lucanus's enemy, Troubleseeker, and very rude to him. He was quickly annoyed with her and even more so when she cited some status she had.

Lucanus is not a big fan of Sunkiss and is more annoyed at her than anything.

### Xylorhiza

Xylorhiza is the headmaster of Jade Mountain Academy.

Lucanus went to Xylorhiza to report Troubleseeker for injuring him in their many scuffles. Luc has no real opinion of the headmaster, mostly thinking that she is someone to get on the good side of.

*Relationships in progress! More to come soon.*

## Trivia

* Lucanus is named after the Lucanus genus of beetles.
* Lucanus has learned not to try flirting with royalty after a less than ideal experience back home with a princess. He also tries not to go long term with any powerful dragons, because breakups always seem to go worse that way.