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Name: Lucien de la Fuentes
Nickname: Luc (Luke)
Species: Vampire
Born: September 30, 1970
Mother and Father, family: Anna Renaud and Sebastien de la Fuentes, both deceased. No other family.
Appearance: Vivid blue eyes and ink-black hair. Very lean side of thin. 193 cm tall & 68 kg. He has various tattoos, some pre-change and some after.


Specific Details:

• Like all vampires, he requires blood to live. However he can safely & easily consume any liquid a human can, it just won’t provide any sustenance for him. Solid food of any sort is beyond his ability to consume and so is avoided.
• He can be awake during the daylight hours but his skin is very sensitive to the sun and will sunburn & blister easily. He is also not at his best during those hours and will appear tired or nearly listless
• It is possible for his skin to be tattooed even after the change as the ink isn’t expelled by the healing factor. It does take far less time to recover from the process though.
• He has all the expected heightened senses & enhanced movement and strength & accelerated healing
  Death comes from silver shredding his heart and/or beheading. One or the other will do but it’s often best to do both if you want to truly make certain his kind is dead.
• He can inject a form of venom from his bite that can instill a very temporary sense euphoria. It has no other effect than briefly enhancing physical pleasure. It cannot bewitch, bespell, or otherwise affect a person and it wears off within 10 to 15 minutes.

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History:

Born to a mother of French nationality and a father of Spanish, he and his family moved to Manhattan when he was still a small child. His childhood was much like that of his peers in that he saw more of the nanny and housekeeper than he did his own parents who were hell-bent on furthering their careers and social standing. When they were present, there was no small amount of affection on both sides but very little to connect one generation to the next.

Lucien grew up with a sense of independence and the freedom and money to match. By his teen years, he was largely left to his own devices as long as he brought home the grades and accomplishments that were expected of him. Neither of which were all that challenging to Lucien and he learned quickly that meeting their expectations was paid back with few restraints being placed upon him and a generous bank balance.  The only dark cloud in an otherwise stunningly bright future came from the rare asshole classmate who felt slighted by the fact a foreigner dared to consider himself their equal, socially and scholastically. Idiocy such as that was rapidly shut down by Lucien and his friends and did little to ruin the day for longer than a few minutes.

To be brief, Lucien de la Fuentes led a charmed life. Until he completed his primary education that is.

Following graduation, he managed to convince his parents to allow him a gap year. As they’d had something similar at his age, they agreed but with the expectant warnings that this wasn’t an excuse to party incessantly or otherwise ruin what was sure to be an exceptional future. And as expected, Lucien completely disregarded his parents’ warnings. The peaceful accord between parent and child broke down little by little. With nothing to actively work for, it became easier to spend nights and days looking for the next party. When once he put his clever mind to meeting the next scholastic milestone, it was now turned towards how to best avoid his parents and the unwelcome discussions regarding Lucien’s lack of self-control. However, avoidance was possible for only so long and matters came to a head one night. What started as threats of being cut off became promises. By the morning light, Lucien was on the streets with only the money in his pockets to live off of.

What followed was a headfirst dive into a hedonistic lifestyle which rapidly turned into a free fall of self-destruction. Alcohol turned to drugs which turned to weeklong benders spent in the darker corners of the city. He did whatever was necessary to get the next fix; from theft to prostitution. All that mattered was feeding the need. The longer he spent in the lower levels of society, the more he heard of places where the offered high was more than words could describe, Lucien wasted no time in searching out these new, darker corners. He walked willfully into the abyss and into the arms of a creature he would only know as Adam and, ultimately, his salvation. 

From their first meeting the older man drew the youth off the path of destruction he was set on. Under Adam's care, Lucien's life took on new purpose and direction. Lucien was weaned off the drugs he had become addicted to. He was given a home and clothing. His every need was seen to, often before they were expressed. All that was required in return was that he remain clean of drugs and that he made himself available for companionship at Adam's whim. Their relationship remained  platonic though there were disturbing gaps in his memory that came with a dizzy weakness. But what did that matter when he finally had someone who valued him for himself and not what he could accomplish just to keep up appearances. 

With Adam's encouragement, Lucien was setting his life to rights. He was considering continuing his education and even reconciling with his parents. The future before him was promising in ways that it had not been in over a year. But as Fate is a tricksome bitch, Lucien's life was thrown off course once more in the form of, ironically enough, a junkie looking to fund his next fix. 

With his life bleeding out, Lucien managed to dial Adam's number as he lost consciousness.  When next Lucien opened his eyes, it was to a new life and a hunger that seared him from the inside and was satiated by only one thing. Blood. In the coming months many truths were brought to light and the newly made vampire began life anew.