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The Basic Character Stuff
Name (Including all aliases): Lucas Cochran
PB (The person you will be using icons of for your character): young!Bob Dylan
Age: (Including how old they look): 29 / 29
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height and Weight: short guy is short! 5'5" , 130 pounds
More detailed appearance including tattoos, scars, other marks etc:
Foofy hair, average appearance, dresses thrift store hipster
The Supernatural Stuff
Species: Human
Any heightened abilities/magic: nosy as all getout and has a good knack for being in the right place at the right/wrong time- I guess you'd say he's a master of serendipitous luck.
Origin/brief history (How your character became whatever it is that they are):
Lucas Cochran grew up in a middle class family with an unremarkable childhood. He had an average academic record, excelling in English and Journalism classes - but having that balanced out by his ineptitudes with math and phys ed so that his grade point average was in the solid middle ground. In college, he took up journalism and was perhaps headed for a career with a small town paper when his sister Lucy became a card carrying member of the walking dead after a torrid love afair with a vampire. Far from backing away from his sibling and her newfound fanginess, Lucas was facinated. He started becoming involved in researching the supernatural.
Lucy was his connection to that world, and she brought him information and gots him access to places he might not otherwise be able to get into on his own. He dropped out of college years ago, finding that it was a joke compared to his new life's work - writing The Luminator, the underground guide to all things supernatural. He had a new mission in life to attend to - bringing the truth to humanity, one paper at a time.
After the supernatural cover got broken, his sister got staked in some anti-vampire violence - Lucas is a bit bitter about that (by a bit, we mean a lot you guys) and is mistrustful of those who claim to hunt vampires/weres etc. He also has problems with authority figures in general due to years of subverting 'the Man' and writing his 'zine.
Now that the lid's been blown off the supernatural, he's a bit bitter that no one will recognize his efforts in exposing it all along. But he's got a new mission - to encounter all the supernatural types he can and put together a new book he's working on - The Luminator's Guide to Supernatural Species
The World Around Your Character
Known family/pets: Sister Lucy (Lucinda) - deceased, brother Louis - his parents were in to the L names. Has a beta fish named Zippy.
Friends: Leon, a wereraven that was Lucy's longterm boyfriend (will apply for him as well)
Employment:
Lucas got himself a job with Porter City's newspaper , writing some backend ad copy / obituaries and the like. He's hoping to someday make reporter, but with his lack of college education it's a matter of sucking up to bosses and hoping to get a lucky break.
He's also continuing to publish his 'zine, The Luminator, and working on his book. Often publicly, in cafes, so he can be WORKING ON HIS NOVEL (ASK ME ABOUT MY NOVEL!) authorman.
How long have they lived in Porter City: Lucas relocated to Porter City just recently, as soon as he had the money together to move.
How did they react when the Supernatural world was discovered, and what were they doing at the time?: He was all I told you so! and waiting for the interviews to come in, and for his praise as the guy who was telling folks about this stuff all along. That didn't exactly happen, which pisses him off.
How did they come to Porter City? (How they were caught, if they came voluntarily, etc): Voluntary, to do research for his book
The Getting to Know Your Character Stuff
Favorite color: Newsprint black
Favorite television show: CNN news
Paper, or plastic: Reusable shopping bag
Lobster or steak: Lobster (too much red meat's bad for you)
Democrat or Republican: Socialist
Personality:: inquisitive, cynical, good listener, outgoing, driven, politically reactionary, easily bored with repetitive tasks, somewhat bad at holding down a job, nosy . Presumed asexual, other than his passionate love affair with his 'zine. His hobbies include writing, graphic design, investigation, chain smoking Lucky Strikes, reading, and music. His vices are smoking, prying into others business, and occasionally 'liberating' some office supplies for his 'zine.
Is there anything you would like to do with your character in the game, or any plot ideas you have?: I'd love to post little excerpts from his 'zine from time to time, and have him interview some of the supernatural folks for his book.