Lucan

### Relationships

Achillean Kyber (ally, friend), Mara Moran (ally, friend), Miles Kyber (best friend, formerly; enemy), Alex Adams (ally, friend), Danny Herrera (ally, friend), Andy Vivid (ally, friend)

## Other Information

### Debut

The Runner

Lucan is a fictional character created by Alejandro Pineda. They are a supporting character in The Runner and a minor antagonist in the ongoing book series The Kyber Realm.

## Appearance

Lucan is a young, female-presenting person of small stature with slightly tanned skin, large blue eyes, and short blond hair tied back in a winged style with clumpy bangs framing their face. They are described as usually having a cheery and calm look on their face. They wear a purple hoodie that is visibly loose around the sleeves, black pants, and running shoes.

## Personality

Superficially Lucan has a rather calm, collected, and rather cheery personality, coming across at outwardly friendly and social. This is also further expressed with their somewhat sing-song manner of speaking. However, this all acts as a guise for their immense hate for authority and political loyalty, which is driven by the lack of freedom that they result in. Because of the death of their sister years before being a result of an independent assassin, they have a vow to prevent such an incident from occurring again by remaining free of any authority or restraint, both economically and mentally. Despite these feelings, they have displayed an immense amount of respect for their peers in the Warrior Unit, particularly those in the Greater Realm, and admitted to taking a liking to them. Lucan is also highly intelligent, possessing one of the highest IQs of the Kyber Realm, as well as their previous world. This mainly shows in their immense expertise in potion brewing and healing.

## Abilities

**Unparalleled Agility**: Lucan is by far the swiftest and most agile member of the Warriors and possibly the Kyber Realm thanks to their fighting style requiring a great amount of it. They proved capable of delivering dozens of sword thrusts in an instant before their opponents can react or even notice.

**Enhanced Strength**: Despite being possibly the physically weakest of the Warriors in terms of arm ad swinging power, Lucan possesses an incredible amount of physical strength, particularly in terms of thrusting and stabbing strength. This is evident when they were able to pierce a solid boulder with a single stab with an iron sword, and later impale Callista, one of the most physically durable combatants of the era, through her shield and pin her to a ceiling.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes**: Lucan is one of the fastest combatants in the world, being able to move quicker than the eye can perceive in combat. This is mainly to account for their lack of upper body strength due to having a rather weak build. Their raw speed and lateral movement was enough to sunder a bridge with each change in direction.

**Immense Stamina and Endurance**: Like all of the Warriors of the time, Lucan has attained a tremendous amount of endurance and tolerance for pain, being able to continue a fight and even push her abilities to even further heights after sustaining a punctured lung and losing a good amount of blood. This was enough to make Callista question their humanity in amazement.

**Keen Intellect**: Lucan has arguably one of the highest IQs of the realm, which comes in the form of strategic and medical expertise. Above all, they display their intelligence through their nuanced use of potions in combat, using them to coat their blade for thrusting attacks instead of simply throwing them at opponents. They also have an incredible ability to retain information, especially that which they attained through reading or simply observation. They were able to identify a cabinet breaking and Patrick Donovan being slammed into a wall simply by the sounds coming from the room next door, showing their incredible knowledge of material properties.

**Potion Expertise**: Despite claiming to be one of the lesser skilled members of the Warriors in terms of combat, Lucan has shown to surpass every one of them in their knowledge of the medical field and above all, in chemistry. They are able to concoct any potion and any drink without instruction, and even create their own using different mixtures, making them one of the most valuable members of the Greater Realm's military. They are also shown to have an incredible talent for making drinks, serving as a part-time barista in Glowstone City, a job they are incredibly popular for.

## Fighting Style

**Master Swordswoman**: Being from an incredibly dangerous part of the world, Lucan is incredibly skilled in combat, showing incredible proficiency as a swordswoman, archer, and most of all, in acrobatics and parkour. This originates from their time operating in the Skylands, a series of floating islands high above ground that required a good amount of this to survive due to the dangerous landscape. Lucan is skilled in a very particular, self-created style of fencing consisting primarily of quick thrusts and stabs with a blade reminiscent of a needle injection. Because of this, they use a specialized sword with a lighter, thinner blade to allow better movement. They pair this with potions of Harming, Slowness, and Poison to drench the blade of their sword wither by slashing them in mid-air or simply applying them beforehand. Because of this, they are able to severely harm their opponents with each stab.

### Techniques**:**

* **Vital Flurry Thrust: Critical**: the user leaps forward and stabs the opponent in various vital spots in quick succession to inject them with poison in a quick and effective manor.
* **Shock Thrust:** **Pine Lunge**: the user dashes forward with incredible speed, using the momentum to produce a a single, powerful thrust capable of piercing even solid stone.
* **Sixfold Thrust: Barrage**: the user delivers six quick stabs to their opponent with various harmful potion concoctions in order to incapacitate them.
* **Stepping Stone Maneuver**: a technique that requires the full speed and movement of the performer, the user tosses multiple pearls around themselves while dashing in a zigzag pattern and teleporting to various spots to confuse their opponent, all while using the momentum of each change to build up for a singular powerful thrust. This technique was powerful enough to destroy a wooden bridge with each switch in motion, but cost Lucan a good amount of stamina due to the adverse effects of potion use.