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[Luke Indigo]

Name: Luke Skywalker Indigo Age: 19 Gender: Male Sexuality: Bisexual Faction: Neutral Occupation: Scientist / College Student Playby: Clock Zero, Saionji Toranosuke / Traitor Traits Positive Intelligent Realistic Motivated Loyal Accepting Coordinated Raw instinct Negative Blunt Inferiority Complex Psuedo-pride Easily Frustrated Not Respectful Rash Reactionary If there is one thing Luke desires, it is to be recognized for his own intellect apart from his father’s scientific mastery. With his surname rather well known especially in the United States, Luke finds it frustrating to be compared even slightly to his father for this reason, but with his red hair and features rather similar to his father’s, it’s rather difficult not to be. That being said, a lot of Luke’s personality seemed to be birthed from a reactionary response to being so frequently compared to Indiana. However, there also seems to be an obscure duality to his nature when one gets to know him better. He can be forceful and harsh in one moment and awkward and caring in the next, and the more one gets to know him, the more he will reveal the latter persona. It becomes clear a lot of his harshness is reactionary and the calmer nature is more of his true nature- not that he’d admit that outright. Around the lab and by himself, Luke displays a lot of mental and physical maturity. Cool, collected, and careful, he takes care of the instruments he uses and takes the safety precautions necessary to ensure a healthy lab life. Honestly, he feels more at home there than anywhere else, and for this reason, one can find him to be generally more mellow. That doesn’t mean he tolerates idiocy that well, however. Ironically due to how protective he is of this ‘home’, he can be rather harsh towards anyone that brings any sort of threat to it whether it be in the way of ignorance or intelligent hatefulness. One might not he comes off as an egotist around the lab, someone that thinks he owns the place (which isn’t quite a stretch considering most of it was bought and paid for by his father’s money, but still), and the truth of the matter is yes, in this place he finds a sense of pride (even if this sometimes crushes him when he is reminded of whose lab it *actually* is at the end of the day). Outside of the lab, Luke tends to feel out of place rather quickly. Awkward and easily frustrated in his awkwardness towards others, he is quick to jump the gun and be antagonistic just in case anyone thinks lowly of him (with the irony being that very frequently he leaves people thinking he is rather immature by his remarks during such episodes). However, under certain circumstances, he can be a bit more relaxed. He enjoys video games and places that harbor them just as much as he enjoys getting his hair done (the latter of which he hates to admit), and like many teens his age, he likes to eat. On most days, however, one is more likely to catch him in the library or a bookstore wherein he’s quick to pick up just as many science novels as scifi fantasy and romance books- again not like he’d admit the latter. Share any of these interest? He might talk to you, he might not. It depends on his mood. Around peers, he tends to be a bit more antagonistic, especially towards those in his similar field. He’s protective of what’s his and can’t help but be ready to defend it no matter the situation. Again, his first reaction tends to be venom and harshness. However, if one can prove to be on his level and not too threatening, he may relax a bit and eventually associate said person as a colleague rather than a rival. This often takes some time to accomplish, however. Towards those that are not in his field, he comes off as condescending- because science is the best, especially his studies, and no one else can tell him otherwise. He doesn’t understand or respect the liberal arts at all despite enjoying reading and sometimes respecting artistic works. Towards the psychological sciences, he’s just as condescending tending to feel as though there is no actual basis for such studies and therefore they shouldn’t be acknowledged. From the latter part of the previous paragraph, one might be prompted to ask what Luke believes in, and when prompted to ask, he’ll generally say atheist. More than not, he sits more in an awkward agnosticism believing that the world is a bit too complex to happen by chance but not ascribing to a known god. Ironically, however, he tends to leave theists alone and doesn’t bring up the subject unless someone starts attempting to bash science with it in which case he is quick to defend science like no other- promptly tearing down a lot of theism in the process for it. As one can see, he’s rather protective of his ideas and what he deems ‘his’ at the end of it all. People that are ‘his’ are hard to come by for Luke. He has trouble opening up due to his high defenses and paranoia of social attack or social parallel with his father. However, when it happens, he tends to view such people as his. That doesn’t quite mean he will change for them- for science holds a high place in his heart and tends to take precedence in ruling his personality. However, Luke is quicker to defend those that are his and does have a natural inclination to protect them. On the flip side of this, he also tends to get frustrated when they do not live up to his idolization of them. Luke wants people to be a certain way, and when they’re not, his first reaction tends to be anger and usually brings about harshness or sarcasm even (or especially) towards those that mean something to him. Ironically, all that said, Luke is rather clingy of such people. He wants some sort of organized balance in his life and tends to grip tight to people that hold it. Many would be surprised to find him so clingy both physically and emotionally, but it’s a part of himself that he can’t quite defeat either. He does have ideals for his life, one of which includes a good number of good friends, and thus he can’t let go of those that he makes even when it’s not healthy to do so. History As the son of Indiana and Luana Indigo, two well-known scientists of their era, Luke was named after a character in Star Wars movies— only after his father ‘won the war’ by getting his drugged on pain killer mother to sign off on his name shortly after birth. The schism that ensued from this naming fiasco would be only one of many that Indi and Luana had between them, yet despite a considerable amount of fighting concerning everything form daily life to scientific ethics, they loved each other enough to stay together, very often to the confusion of their small child. With both his parents’ names hanging over his head, Luke was expected to be a prodigy by many around him including his parents and grandparents. However, his childhood was relatively average. His first words were ‘No’ and ‘Mama’, and his favorite toys were trains and legos. He couldn’t sleep without a nightlight for many years, and he was a bit of a cry baby even in the daylight hours. While he showed some interest in machines, he liked ‘toys’ more, and while he had questions galore, none were incredibly insightful or advanced for his age. Despite some being disappointed that Luke wasn’t playing Mozart at the age of four, his mother certainly loved him and was quick to defend his childhood any chance she got. It was only as he grew into instruction years that Luke would come to more readily realize there were certain expectations placed on him as Indi and Luana’s child. His school teachers treated him differently, and even his peers did as time went on. He was often scolded in school for not doing better because as Indi and Luana’s child, he was supposed to. Very often during these times, he’d come home crying more frustrated than anything, yet no matter the amount of parents-teacher conferences Luana attended, she could not breach a good deal of the teacher bias that persisted. Eventually, she decided to leave long lab hours and homeschool him. This only worked partially, however, as Luke was already influenced by crippling expectations. He had already begun to hold them for himself and was often frustrated when he could not compare. The older he got, the more aware he was of his father’s fame and genius, and the more jealous and inferior he felt in the process. Being homeschooled also cut him off from what friends he might have made growing up, and more often than not, those he associated with were adults. His parents’ friends had very few children his age- most of whom were babies or much older than him, and he couldn’t help but feel more isolated because of this. At the very least, one of Indi’s associates, Aletha, would become an ‘aunt’ to him and give some support- in some rigorous and harsher forms than necessary, but yeah. At least there was less judgment and prying eyes at home, and he could do things on his own time. Yes, that was clearly better than having teachers and peers on such a strict schedule. As he grew, Luke did show a budding heightened intelligence. Certain things came naturally to him, especially the maths and sciences, and when given things to put together, very often he could build them up instinctively. He may have needed to be taught the whys and such, but he had the ‘hows’ down pat rather intrinsically. His mother’s praise certainly brought some comfort to Luke, but with his father rather aloof to his growth (what with the scientific world being far more interesting by default), the inferiority complex never ceased in its chronic infection. As time went on, Luke desired more and more of his father’s attention. He rebelled, made mistakes, and did a number of things he shouldn’t have in a ditch effort to get his father’s attention. However, in the end, it only earned him a broken leg and shattered pride. Pushing it away as best he could as he continued to mature, Luke found he could never forget despite his tries. When he was considered ‘middle school’ aged, Luke began to take daily trips to his parents’ lab wherein he would get to know the other researchers there as well as the projects they were working on. Considering he was Indiana’s son, Luke very often got special treatment including tutorials on how to do various lab things. His general intelligence helped him understand a lot of what was said, and when he couldn’t quite understand, rather than ask a question, he was quicker to run to the books least someone know he didn’t know something. In this way, he often appeared more smart than he actually was. Luke enjoyed it, though. It made him feel special and just as important as his father. However, just as he was entering his teenaged years, Luke would find out his mother had cancer. Luana assured everyone it was going to be alright, that she would be fine after a couple weeks of treatment. However, as time progressed and the cancer only got worse, he began to panic. For almost days at a time, Luke was at his mother’s bedside, and while she continued to assure him it would all be well, his own doubts writhed inside of him. His father had never seemed so lost, the man looking vacant and depressed almost always. Luke very often attempted to start fights with his father during this time arguing that if Indi was so smart, why was Luana having to suffer? Indi could never come up with a proper rebuttal- though somewhere in Luke, he was sure it was because the man didn’t bother to answer. Both knew there was still much science couldn’t explain. Six months after the diagnosis, Luana died, and Luke was left with a vacant feeling in his bones. He didn’t do much but sleep for the first few weeks thereafter but to his credit neither did his father. When he was awake, Luke was angry, an angry mess. He would angrily read scientific articles, angrily study his notes taken from Luana’s lectures, angrily cook dinner when he felt like it. He angrily ‘graduated’ from home school “at the top of his class” – of one- at the age of sixteen, and angrily started applying for various colleges around the states. He wanted to get away from home, as far away from home as possible. Surprisingly, Indi actually got up and helped him, showing what schools would be good for what study programs and what had research places and what didn’t. While he couldn’t help but continue to feel frustrated, Luke slowly grew thankful towards his father. After applications were sent in, letters were sent back, and decisions were made, Luke decided to go to Barclay University. While it was closer to home than he wanted to be, he’d come to slowly accept the idea of leaning on his father for things, especially on some of the more heavy emotional burdens- sort of. Right before he was to go to school, they had a rather nasty fight that ended in both men parting ways unhappily, and that first year of studies, Luke was back to his angry ways, angrily testing out of a few classes and angrily getting into the classes he wanted. After his freshman year, Luke stayed at school over the summer to attend summer classes rather than head home. At the beginning of his sophomore year, he would start doing undergraduate research under the careful eye of one of his professors; this mostly entailed doing everything that none of the other researchers wanted to do (such as cleaning and the like), but he knew at the very least it would look good on a resume someday. The summer after, however, he returned home. He and his father would have a series of fights and make ups that eventually ended up in something mellow between the two of them. While Luke couldn’t say he was completely happy with things, Indi did buy him literally part of the Barclay research labs so that he might do what he wanted rather than be ordered around- much to Luke’s embarrassment initially. He would return to school after that, feeling more determined than not to prove that he could do more than his father did! He was younger! He may have not been smarter, but he was definitely more equipped! When the event happened, things turned on their head. A being appeared before Luke offering to give him insight like no other, and though he was somewhat skeptical, he ended up making a wish. Photographic memory was bestowed upon him much to Luke’s surprise, but more than that still, he was given the power of telepathy. It was interesting to say the least- up until he looked in the mirror and realized the insignia decided to situate itself over one eye and his familiar started yelling in his head. This sucked. Insignia Level 1 Telepathy – level 1- Luke’s right eye has been transformed from its sea foam blue to a bright gold color that he hides partially under his hair and generally keeps shut. When he opens that eye and meets the gaze of someone else, however, he can read a person’s surface thoughts / whatever it is they happen to be thinking about right then and there. This power has a maximum of a minute, however, and if either Luke or the person whose mind he’s reading break the gaze, the power stops. Thus, it gives very brief insight into the minds of others. Luke can use the power only five times per day, however, as it puts a heavy strain on his mind and psyche to do so. The passive takes the form of a mouse that Luke has named Alpha, and while he thinks she’s rather cute, she tends to frustrate him by yelling things in his head at random moments in time. Extra I’ll probably add stuff to here eventually. OOC OOC Name: Nai How did you find us?: the force Other Characters: Deonte, Sagira, Julius, and Jesse

[Neko]

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