Luca Prohaska

Luca Prohaska (also briefly known as Jack Faust) is the protagonist of Strange and Wild.

## **Appearance**

Luca is a lanky man with a lithe build and bleached blonde hair. He wears a turtle neck shirt, tight pants, and a leather jacket lined with fur around the collar. He also has a tattoo that affiliates him with the gang Gold Devils on the inside of his bottom lip.

## **Personality**

Luca is caustic, abrasive, cocky, and described as an asshole by multiple characters. He doesn’t seem to get along well with most people unless they align with his ideals.

Despite being somewhat unapproachable, Luca can be helpful in that he is quite smart and knowledge in areas he cares about. Like with summoning, he knows about related literature, plenty of trivia, and has lots of first hand experience. In update 49 when he finds Roman’s uncle’s summoning circle he quickly identifies the source of the circle’s problem.

It’s also established/heavily implied that Luca is gay. Turning down a woman who flirts with him in chapter 10 episode 1 and reeling back when Roman assumes he is interested in women after Luca describes his type in update 37. The author themself, Montoya, mentioned in the description of the episode that “Luca never even considered someone would mistake him for straight.”

## Relationships

### Roman

Luca takes quite some time to come around to Roman, only admitting that he actually likes him in chapter 21 episode 3. Before then, he tries to keep their relationship strictly business. Luca teaches Roman how to summon, and Roman gets Luca across the border.

### Oli

Oli and Luca have a prickly relationship, especially when they first meet. They bicker frequently, mostly about what they think is best for Roman. Luca often calls Oli a “rat” and (at least during the beginning of their relationship) doesn’t seem to care for her well being; Stating that “The rat could freeze to death and I wouldn’t care.” in chapter 11 episode 3.

### The villigers

Luca (tries to) seem detached from the people in Roman’s village, disliking their way of life and reasoning that there would be no point in him getting close to them because he would be crossing the border soon enough anyway.

Despite this, Luca seems to have become attached to Fern and Miss Nina; getting scared for their safety in chapter 17 episode 1 after Roman tells him that one of the residents had passed away.

### Rix Viktor

Rix Viktor is Luca’s adoptive dad and leader of the Gold Devil’s gang. He and Luca have a sparse relationship, as Luca recounts barely even seeing the man most of his childhood.

Though Luca resents Rix Viktor, we can still see ways he has rubbed off on Luca. In chapter 20 episode 2, Luca explains to Roman how he became no longer useful to Rix Viktor and that “broken tools get thrown away.” A parallel to how Luca talks about Razel after finding out that Roman broke his contract with the summon. (Rix Viktor may also be to blame for Luca’s general sour attitude.)

## Trivia

* Luca's hair is bleached blonde. We know this because his hair can be seen as brown in flashbacks to when he was younger (like in chapter 13 episode 1).
* Oli's connection to Luca and Roman as their summon means that none of them can get more than 1 3/4 miles (about 2.8 km) away from each other.