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Post by Luka Ronan Giroux on May 19, 2019 16:58:30 GMT
character name
the basics
full name ♦ Luka Ronan Giroux. nicknames ♦ Stop. You shouldn't do that. You can remember four letters. age ♦ Twenty-two. birthday ♦ July 14th 1997. occupation ♦ Grad Student at University of New Orleans [Civil Engineering] & Bartender at the Gorgon's Head school ♦ Phalanx House. species ♦ Skin Walker. ability/power ♦ n/a. how the ability works ♦ While Luka is able to change his appearance, he cannot change his original form. It seemed involuntary. One moment, he would blink and then with a heated rush, he was suddenly much taller, fatter, or older. Luka could only seem to turn into people he had already seen before, and was more noticeable when he was angry. Luka’s gift changed his physiology whenever he slipped into a skin. This could be incredibly painful, though only momentary. Like stubbing one’s toe, but all over. The sensation of realigning teeth or ear lobes can be a bit odd, but it is one that he has gotten used to over the years. With his physiology changes, this also means his mouth, tongue, and vocal box changed to match the skin he is in. For this reason, his is apt in a number of languages. French and English is where he is most comfortable, but he has also picked up a bit of German, Russian, Spanish, and Thai.
gender ♦ Male. sexuality ♦ Complicated.
the appearance
face claim ♦ Garrett Hedlund. height and weight ♦ 6'2". 175 lbs. identifying features ♦ Getting into all sorts of trouble with his brothers on the farm led him to a myriad of injuries. He has broken 8 bones and dislocated his shoulder twice. There are small white scars covering his well calloused hands and one near his brow from a stray bull that knocked him back against a fence post. Across the bottom of his left rib cage is the french phrase, “C’est la vie” tattooed in a dark ink, though now a few years faded, though he hasn’t had the stomach to tell his mother.
overall appearance ♦ Average is a pretty astute way to describe Luka’s appearance. He’s tall without being lanky and built without being stocky. Wes’s body put his to shame, but at least he dressed better than his brother. Luka likes to keep a bit of facial hair around his mouth and chin, mostly because he knows he looks like a 14 year old boy without it. On occasion he will style his hair, but it just seems to fly around his face naturally. This gives him the perfect excuse to comb through his rudy waves as a pretty girl walks by. He does wish it wouldn’t get in his eyes so much.
weaknesses ♦ Can be too philosophical. Broody. Drinks too much. Gets stuck in his own head.
dreams ♦ Having a family of his own.
fears ♦ Losing himself completely.
overall personality ♦ Where Luka’s brothers seem to open right up in social situations, he tends to blend into the background. However, one wouldn’t call him shy or quiet. In fact, it seems no matter the situation, Luka seems to slip into settings as if he had always been a part of them. As a child it became quite problematic. He would become so comfortable that he would change skins. Luka had this funny way of getting people to be at ease in his company without ever saying a word. Suddenly, you would find yourself spilling your darkest secrets and he seemed to know exactly where you were coming from and how to get you to smile again. Luka tries to be brave and do the right thing like Wylie taught him, but every once in awhile, Luka gets in these moods. Sometimes he just wishes he could crawl into someone else’s skin and never leave.
He can also be overly protective of his family, especially so with his youngest sister. This may be broken down as the need of belonging or over compensating. He knows he is different, but just because he doesn’t share every genetic strand doesn’t mean he loves them any less. There is also a cloud of guilt he carries for being such a product of pain. He feels that if for a moment, he was mean spirited or cruel, that he will be exactly the man his father was.
important people ♦ Luka is looking for someone he can completely be himself around, and while he is very close to his family there still feels a part of himself missing.
hometown ♦ Baton Rouge, LA. overall history ♦
{TRIGGER: RAPE}
Born as a byproduct of a terrible circumstance, Luka had all the love he could ever need. His mother, adoptive father, and half brothers never made him feel anything less than who he was. But then some differences started turning up. Like why his hair color didn’t seem to match Wylie’s when Wes’s did. Why the twins had the same nose slant as his mother’s but his was different and why he couldn’t seem to stop turning into a human when they were all animals? For the first few years, Luka tried keeping his changing a secret. One day after Wes hogged the train set for too long, Luka became so infuriated that he turned into Wes himself. This event turned the whole household upside down and it was then that he learned how different he was from the rest of the family.
Discovering that your own father was a bad person can do things to a young boy. He knew his family loved him, but there was still a part of him that wondered if he would ever follow in his father’s footsteps. Middle school was a rough period of time for him. Especially once he figured that he could shift into an adult and walk into a bar. Also being able to turn into a woman came with it’s own challenges after hitting puberty. But once high school came, life seemed to be more settled. Luka would help on the farm and in his mother’s clinic during the day and get into all sorts of shenanigans by night. It was around this time that Luka discovered he had an apt for creating and fixing. Like when the horses needed a way to back from the stables to the pasture after a storm hit, or how build a water wheel so the house could run on it’s own energy, and finding a way to make better use of their land by designing a food forest for the town and their family. He loved fixing problems; however, this wasn’t always linked towards noble endeavors. One time a cop caught the boys cliff diving, so Luka turned into a pregnant woman for the police to escort to the hospital. He’s also gotten into a fair amount of trouble for walking into restrooms as one person and coming out as another. One time, he got arrested as a different skin just so he could see what jail was like. He wasn’t a fan.
Though Luka loved playing sports, especially football, lacrosse, and soccer. Playing them was difficult because of his changes. He worked with his brothers and Wylie on keeping them under control, but under periods of intense stress or emotion it was just too hard. This lead him to more of the art crowd. Luka was fantastic at depicting images through art and had already shown his creative mind through his designs. Much of high school was spent in the art room painting with oils or welding industrial sculptures. Luka tended to carry a notebook around with him that held some poems and sketches, but he preferred not to share these with anyone. His senior year of high school, Luka received a scholarship to the University of New Orleans. There he majored in civil engineering to better his surrounding communities with his art and design. Most of the time, he spends at the Phalanx House with his brothers working, studying, and using his gift for all the worst reasons.
the role player
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