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NAME: Rachel
AGE: 18
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character information.
Full Name: Lukas von Esper
AGE / BIRTHDAY: 18 / November 11th 1990
TITLE: Prettyboy Without A Soul
ETHNICITY: Viennese. He's touchy about this. If you call him German, he'll at least correct you with "Austrian."
ALLIANCE: Shitennou. Usually. Hopefully.
RESIDENCE: An apartment in Chiyoda, Tokyo, near the Imperial Garden Theater
OCCUPATION: Stage actor
REINCARNATION OF: Zoisite
APPEARANCE: Pretty. Pretty and he knows it. With tousled hair and soulful brown eyes, Lukas prides himself in his face and loves his reflection. He tends toward the fine-boned and delicate; high cheekbones under arcing eyebrows and a gentle, sweeping jawline makes him a little too feminine for his liking, but he's not complaining. With spider-like fingers and wrists that you could likely break with your thumb and forefinger, he's not just thin, Lukas is nearly skeletal. His muscles are sinewy under his skin but don't lend him any bulk or size, and at about 5'10", he's never going to have to wait for old age before he looks anything besides pretty. To make matters worse, Lukas takes longer to dress himself in the morning than most girls.
More notably than any sort of genetics, Lukas' natural facial expressions are limited to bored, unfeeling, and possibly amused--yes, I say possibly, because it's always a little questionable. Laughter is a rare commodity to be valued, and his voice, which carries a light Bostonian accent, rarely hits any emotions save for perhaps impatience, cynicism, and annoyance. On a stage, he turns into whatever person he needs to. He's paid to act, after all.
PB: Conrad Matschke
PERSONALITY: The one overarching rule for Lukas is that he thinks he's better than everyone else. Okay, occasionally, he finds the humility to admit that he's equal or maybe even a touch worse--but then throw in future potential, and he's better again. In general, he really needs to be taken down a peg or two, and I trust some kind mun would be happy to do that for me. To be fair, dealing with Lukas isn't especially difficult, especially if you're clever enough and beautiful enough, but it's not always pleasant. Cold by nature, he's often brusque or supercilious to people, but he at least humors most people with a smile that obviously doesn't meet his eyes and a generous dose of light snark. He's the sort of jerk some chick thinks she can change for the better. She'd be delusional, and he'd string her along until he lost interest. Occasionally, he finds someone whose company he genuinely enjoys, and they can enjoy being snide little bastards with each other. It's not that Lukas is misanthropic or anything--on the contrary, he finds people fascinating--it's that he's yet to realize that he needs other people for anything other than entertainment. This makes him a little lonely at times, but he's yet to realize that's probably a bad thing. While he's never outright rude to anyone unless they've pissed in his cheerios, he's never going to be anyone's knight in shining armor.
Lukas is what you'd expect of someone who grew up spoiled through and through and still doesn't understand why he should care about anyone but himself; what other people think or feel don't matter to him at all. He's easy enough to get along with if you don't mind nearly a complete lack of warmth, and he's a loyal friend if a bit distant and unreliable at times. Lukas treats the people he does respect with surprising kindness, and you could even call him sweet (though he'd be mortified to hear it). His temper's a bit on the short side and setting it off tends to result in a string of petty insults over the next few days but little more. In general, he's laid-back and open-minded, very few things break through his apathy enough to worry him, and Lukas just does what he can to pretend those things don't exist. For the most part, he lives entirely in the moment, willing to do most anything to keep himself entertained but very little is fast-paced enough to keep his blood rushing. Bored is pretty much his main state of being, and Lukas is usually open to interacting with people to pass the time if nothing else. Occasionally, he finds a person or a cause that provides all sorts of good times, and then he tends to attach himself in a his own detached, passive-aggressive manner until something else takes his interest.
Lukas doesn't make a habit of thinking twice. He doesn't have the patience for it, and he's confident enough to figure that even if the first idea that pops into mind isn't the best one, it'll still work. Except when it doesn't. If you're ever stuck working with him in a group, you may want to improve your telepathic skills because Lukas probably won't talk to you--it won't occur to him that, hey, maybe someone else's help would be nice. He'll either lone wolf it or humor the leader and do mostly as he's told without once speaking up with any useful comments. Alternatively, he'll whine about it with all the maturity of a five-year-old, so you're probably better off with the silent treatment anyhow. It's not that Lukas actually works better alone (he doesn't), he just prefers to be a one-man show. He has an older brother, but he's effectively an only child, and he likes attention. That's pretty much why acting's worked out well for him so far--he feeds off an audience like a parasite, and while's he's not inclined to elbow his way into the spotlight (that'd be tasteless), Lukas is more than willing to bide his time and set up an opportune moment for him to step in graciously. He does the same with relationships; Lukas doesn't mind ruining someone else's love life just because he's got nothing (or no one) to do over the weekend. But hey, if you ever want him to get out of your life, just drop words like "commitment" and he'll be out the door. You could slap him too, and he'll take the hint. Even better, it won't even be awkward since he won't remember your name the next day.
More than a little vain and often very selfish, he concerns himself entirely too much with material things. Fact is that he could be less shallow if he wanted to, but Lukas doesn't want to. Quite the opposite, he bottles up his emotions with an unhealthy dosage of cynicism and cheap thrills. It numbs him, and that's really the way he likes his life. It's not that he's hit the off switch for his emotions; it's that he pretends they're not there because he doesn't want to deal with them. Despite his general air of confidence and security, pretty much anything that he can't understand frightens him. Some people are terrified of spiders or heights, but Lukas is terrified of his emotions. Everyone else's feelings don't bother him (at all, as evidenced by some of things he's said without a hint of shame), but his own stay buried down somewhere very, very deep down in his heart--and Lukas' pride wouldn't mind trying to convince everyone that there isn't a heart at all. Lukas doesn't have the time to worry about silly things like feelings, and if he does have the time, well, he'll go find something else to do with his time. Quick wits and a bit of common sense are all he needs; as for everything else going on in his head, Lukas shoves them away somewhere in the back of his mind while he contemplates something else. He makes his living in stage acting, and all that proves is that he's a great liar--probably the world's best liar given the theater's latest reviews. It's an outlet for expression, if nothing else. It hasn't occurred to Lukas that bottling everything up is probably a bad idea and not particularly healthy for the soul. He could really use a shrink, but you'd have a hard time convincing him that he needs one.
history.FAMILY: Daniel von Esper - 51yo
Marie von Esper - 56yo
Mathias von Esper - 31yo
PERSONAL HISTORY: Meet the von Espers. They're rich; they're vain; they're shallow. They're Viennese too, and damn proud of it to boot. If you want to start at the beginning, Daniel von Esper was born and raised in Vienna. He worked as a model and actor in his youth, a career that made his family wince but led him to meeting Marie, an older woman and heiress. They didn't marry for true love, but they did marry, and they're still married, so it all worked out in the end. For the most part, Marie was unbearable. Bossy, demanding, and petty, not to mention stuffy and racist, being in her presence was pretty much the same as subjecting yourself to a tyrant. Daniel soon made it a habit to travel the world and only returned home for holidays and anniversaries if even that. Their first son Mathias didn't have that option and would've given the world to get out of the house, but Marie would not have given that thought even a moment's consideration. She was that horrible, control-freak mother insisted Mathias do everything her way. When Mathias grew enough of a backbone to ignore her, that left Marie without a tamed pet at home, so she called up Daniel to make another. And thus we have Lukas.
Yeah, he was spoiled, and unlike Mathias, he actually liked mommy dearest. A bold, loud, and active child, he became the apple of her eye more than Mathias ever was, and Marie brought him along everywhere. As most of her time was spent preserving her youth at spas and salons, her habits convinced Lukas at an early age that beauty was one of the few things in the world that truly mattered. She instilled him with a sense of superiority, an arrogance and an unwavering belief that a pretty face triumphs over all. He could've become an overbearing bully when he started school, but he turned out to be one of the quiet kids that preferred building his own block towers alone and shooed away anyone that came near. The teachers told his mother that her son was very shy, and Marie informed them that her son just didn't like the other children. True enough, Lukas seemed to fear nothing, but he always avoided mingling with the other students. As he aged, he fell out of the child's habit of idolizing his mother and finally started seeing her flaws. She was old and getting older, stuck in the past, clinging to Lukas in hopes of pretending that she was as young as she was when Mathias was his age. It became harder to deal with her, and life at home took a turn for the politely unpleasant.
His father was in Japan at the time, and he responded to a few hasty phone calls from Lukas when enough was enough, and Daniel relocated him to Tokyo where Mathias von Esper was busy serving as an associate professor in astrophysics at the Azabu Institute of Technology. Lukas enrolled into St. Thomas's Preparatory School with the help of a generous donation from his father and a second generous donation from his mother. Given the sum of the donations, the school realized that Lukas' parents were either not talking to each other or very, very, very wealthy. Or both. Mathias made a habit of dropping in to visit his baby brother as often as he could because he's an over-protective big brother like that. Lukas adjusted happily (or as happy as he gets), figuring any place that wasn't a quick train ride away from Vienna would work out great, language barriers be damned. He's since settled in beautifully, and his Japanese is fluent if lightly accented. Surprisingly enough, Daniel's decided to stay home with Marie for good, and the two of them share a surprisingly gentle and healthy relationship for an aging couple that never loved each other before. Lukas still isn't on speaking terms with his mother, so now he's no longer speaking to his father either, which puts his cash cow out of reach. He's had to adjust his spending habits appropriately, basically by skipping his weekly manicure. Mathias still drops in on Lukas to make sure he's still alive, and they're out for coffee together once a week (traditionally on Monday evenings at 6:30PM on the dot; these two have orderly minds).
During high school, his father encouraged Lukas to go into acting as he had when he was younger, and Lukas grudgingly began auditioning in various theaters around Tokyo. He proved himself a natural-born performer. The spotlight never unnerved him, and he fed off attention, giving even the most minor one-line roles just enough of a spark to pull at heartstrings or to inspire laughter because he just had a hell of a lot of fun toying with the audience. While he still had classes, he worked on alternating nights as swing or ensemble cast depending on the given show, but he moved up in the ranks after he graduated from St. Thomas'. He signed a contract with Toho at the Imperial Garden Theater and now performs exclusively in musicals and operas there. He's recently been promoted from understudy status to fill a vacancy left by another actor, and the reviews are favorable enough with the general consensus on "has talent" and any variation of "the accent is adorable" to "the accent is annoying." Currently, he's running the problem of being a baritone consistently cast as a romantic tenor where he strains to reach the higher notes, but he figures that'll pass as soon as the casting director realizes he is, in fact, past puberty. On the topic of not being a romantic tenor, romantic life's been pretty bumpy for Lukas on a whole since he fails at commitment. Lukas has been dumped more than a few times for being cold, and he's dumped girls a few times just for being boring. Needless to say, he gets slapped an awful lot when relationships head south. It's a wonder that he's still considered a good catch by any account. This mun is reasonably sure that this incarnation of Zoisite is straight if perhaps a bit adventurous, but I'm willing to talk to Kunzite's mun over it. Exceptions will be made for true loves from past lives.
Lukas would likely react pretty well to the metaphysical on the loose. He's not inclined to believe in the supernatural, but if pitted against its confirmed existence, he'd first save his own ass and then possibly the asses of those nearby if it's not too out of the way. Just because he's cold doesn't mean he's entirely heartless, after all. He keeps a level head and will adjust to suit whatever wacky hijinks that crop up--except transforming. Convincing Lukas that he's got to go help save the world with a bunch of girls in short skirts is going to be a hard sell. Well, spending time with a bunch of girls in short skirts is an easy sell, putting his neck on the line in exchange for it is the hard sell. Eventually, he'll figure there's nothing better he could really do with his spare time besides fighting evil, but that will either take a while or dire circumstances. However, even after Lukas is convinced that it's his duty to save the world, he's still very much a loner and would prefer to work alone or in pairs rather than as a whole group--except for when dramatically appropriate, of course.
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