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Character
Name: Lukius Bridges
Fandom: Tales of the Tempest
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Time Period: After Caius & co. defeat Rommy on Mount Are.
Wing Color: Dark gray, white at the tips.
History: here. There is also an awesome write-up that Henry did here. Additionally, he’ll keep the very minimal memories he had from his last time in Luceti.
Personality: You don’t understand, brother. No, I don’t expect you to understand. After all, you were brought up in a good environment, brother!
What Lukius yells before he battles Caius speaks volumes about him and his life; it has a little bit of envy and a little bit of skepticism and a little bit of hurt. Lukius grew up in the church, and in a household that was dominated by the church. He is literally the Pope's right-hand man; worse yet, he's expected to be as his son. His father is driven mad with grief and uses him to hunt Leymon so he can cast bizarre, large scale magic to revive the world, and for what the game shows of us of their relationships it's largely professional in person and more of a master/pawn from the Pope's perspective. He calls him a useless little brat when he fails to stop the party from entering his sanctum.
During one of the earlier scenes in the game, Lukius is speaking with the Pope about acquiring the Pensient from Caius and he calls him the Pope. More disturbingly, he tells him that Lukius is the only one he can depend on — the only one who understands his thoughts — and Lukius tells him he would do anything to help him, even risking his life. He's completely devoted to a man who doesn't even treat him like his son; he's been conditioned into mindlessly devoting his life to him and his cause and he doesn't question it, even in the face of his own brother.
Since the Pope views him as more of a soldier than a son, Lukius is placed as the head of the Heretic Prosecutors Committee at the age of fifteen. He travels the world in search of Leymon (his people, technically) to torture to fuel his father's dream, because he's been sucked into his plan. He was forced to grow up too fast, and as a result he's mature beyond his age. He speaks very formally to the soldiers he commands in-game, and he has to. He is actually the leader of an entire church committee, and he has been taught and brought up specifically for the purpose of leading investigations on Leymon.
Which gets into the issue of his blood. Looking at his pre-battle quote from Lukius' perspective, this is his understanding of Caius' life: he has at least some semblance of a normal family, he has acquired friends — friends who won't turn away from him even despite his Leymon blood, his foster father accepted and loved him — the largest thing missing from Lukius' life is acceptance. He lives underneath the church's eyes, the same church that hunts and persecutes the Leymon, and even if it's for a good goal in his eyes he's still brought up to be ashamed of that part of him. He tells Caius after that battle that he couldn't face the Lycanth blood in him like his brother could; he wanted to stop hunting the Leymon, but the Pope believed so much in the Life Magic he couldn't.
In a way, Lukius actually hates himself. He's conflicted, and no matter which side he's on there's something for him to feel ashamed of. If he's with the Pope, with his father, and he says in the beginning of the game that the Pope is the only thing he has left (the only shred of family or acquaintance), then he has the disgusting blood of monsters in him. He's not really any better than what he hunts. On the other hand, if he believes in his brother, who's radical and idealistic and who truly believes being a Leymon is okay because his friends have helped him there, have accepted him and he wants Lukius to feel that kind of acceptance (he says so in a skit with Rubia), he has to feel ashamed for what he's done his whole life because he was hanging so desperately to the one thing he had left.
It's not an easy choice, and before he thinks he's about to die he says it feels like he's being punished — he feels like his death is the punishment for not being able to accept his blood, for hunting all the Leymon he has. It's another example of how he's grown up too fast; he can make a statement like that. He can say, honestly, that there's gallons of blood on his hands and he deserves to be punished.
We see a lot of Lukius' conflict throughout the game; even in the very beginning, he can't condone Rommy killing the innocent Natwicks. When he has his discussion with Rubia over hunting the Leymon, he admits he doesn't really know if it's the right thing for him to be doing. He just knows his father wants him to do it, has always wanted him to do it, and he knows he has just intentions with it. He thinks the end should justify the means but in the end he's not really sure if that's right, especially considering his best friend was taken from him and replaced with a sadistic Spot who couldn't give less of a damn about humanity.
That's another thing that makes Caius' upbringing better to him: he actively has friends. Lukius had a friend — a very good friend, if the party's comments are of any indication, a sweet girl who he could get along with — and she ended up possessed by the same thing he's been working so hard to accomplish. She turns into something (not someone, something) that doesn't care about anyone on the planet, not him and not the innocent Natwicks and, in the end, not the Pope either. His father is literally the only thing he really has and he's possessed, too, as it turns out.
Lukius is alone until he meets Caius. He's not really anything to his father — just another pawn in his plot, and maybe it's an important pawn but it's not a son; his only friend is suddenly an alien who more or less hates the world; and Lukius himself can't come to terms with the fact he's half-Leymon and half-human. The only thing he has going for him is if he clings to his father's ideals, the world will be changed for the better, and harmony will overcome war and hatred — even if it means hunting Leymon.
Maybe he is jealous of Caius and his good environment, but above all he can relate to him. Caius is half-human and half-Leymon, and yet he travels the world with this group and he accepts the beast part of him, and it's something Lukius can't do because of his position. But Caius is his brother, and he actively reaches out to him — he tells him he's a Leymon, too so why should he hunt them? Caius encourages him to embrace himself instead of trying to reject that part of him. He tells Rubia that he thinks it's sad that he can't, and he really wants Lukius to be able to understand that it's okay.
Caius is the reason Lukius can change. He kills the Pope and frees Lukius of his obligations, and before he does that he shows him that the Life Magic he's trying to cast isn't right. He tells him it's summoning Spots, and believing in something like that is being a fool, so when Lukius barely survives he can come to his senses about it instead of trying to follow in his father's footsteps. He can strive towards not the supposed greater good of eliminating Lycanths but instead learning to accept them — accept himself. Most importantly, he can do good with the skills he's learned still, and he uses his connections to the Church to find a Priseputh to dispel Rommy's transformation — even if he can't free her the way he'd like to, he can free her this way (and this is another mark of his too-soon maturity, being able to come to terms with effectively killing his best friend because his real best friend shouldn't be used by a malicious creature).
He still has his struggles, but he makes progress towards realizing what he wants instead of allowing others to dictate his ideals. Without the tie to his father, he has the freedom after the game to reform the Church, and while reforming it he collaborates with Forest to create alliances between the humans and the Leymon. Even before his fight with Caius, he's inching closer to acceptance: he calls them Leymon instead of Lycanths for once. He uses his maturity and his experience with leadership to accomplish something he can feel good about, and feel good about himself while he's at it.
Lukius' biggest struggle is with acceptance and by the end of the game, reuniting with his brother makes it less daunting and more doable. Even at his canon point, he accepts his brother's affection and joins his side because he realizes in the end he's right — and while he's at it, he learns what some actual familial affection is, and while he doesn't understand it he doesn't turn it away, either.
Strengths:
physical ; Lukius has the ability to teleport and must be well-adjusted to traveling, seeing as it's part of his job description. He's not a pushover in combat and is proficient with staves, as well as a selection of magic which appears to be focused on thunder/wind elements, including Thunder Blade, Air Thrust, Cyclone, and Spark Web.
Additionally, due to his half-Leymon status he doesn't have a zanktu, or a mark of the Leymon, but he might be able to transform into his werewolf form under stressful conditions like Caius did. With training, he can actually control when he transforms like a normal full-blooded Leymon. In a transformed state, Leymon are extremely powerful and hit like mack trucks.
mental ; Lukius is the smarter brother between the two of them. He's always more knowledgeable about the going-ons in the world than the party, which we see when he explains the Wereman Battle for what it truly was: Lycanths fighting Lycanths. Related to that, he does his research, and we see a separate instance of it when he goes through the Church archives to find the Priseputh to free Rommy.
emotional ; He has a good idea of how to keep his composure, and even when he's upset with Rommy killing off the Natwicks he proceeds and give orders in a calm manner. There's the double-edged sword of having great conviction in his ideals; as a positive, it means he looks into all his goals with determination, shown by the way he endlessly pursues the Pensients for the Pope. The only time Lukius lays his entire emotional spectrum down on the table is when Caius defeats him in battle, so he seems plenty well-guarded, though this is also a double-edged sword.
Weaknesses:
physical ; He's a Priest Soldier, but he's also young and not necessarily conditioned for intense physical fighting. In-game, he rarely gets involved with any kind of fight personally with the Lycanths, and instead allows troops or Rommy to handle them. The only time he fights is with the party, and while he is a powerful foe it's not a very difficult fight.
mental ; Lukius doesn't really know how to stand on his own, and it's something he has to learn. The whole game he's relied on the ideals of his father and the Church instead of his own, so while he's intelligent and he's learned his leadership roles well, he isn't sure how to apply them outside of what he's told to apply them to. Finding the Priseputh to free Rommy is probably the first time he's done something because he wanted it. He also doesn't bring up when he has a problem with something — not when Rommy kills the Natwicks or when he isn't sure about what he's doing. He gives into peer pressure, and if the way he treats prosecuting is any indication he desperately tries to convince himself that it's alright, probably in search for acceptance and avoiding the possibility of rejection.
emotional ; As a negative to the aforementioned conviction, he sticks with plans he might not truly believe in if he's been convinced by others he should. He's not easy to sway in his actions, and even if he doubts something it doesn't mean he'll stop doing it (please see: the entire issue of being half-Leymon and hunting them). His well-guarded attitude means he doesn't know how to react to having the kind of brotherly affection Caius offers him, and he doesn't really know how to deal with affection in general. He doesn't know a lot about leading for himself but he knows a lot about standing by himself — which is to say he's more well-acquainted with being alone than with being friendly.
Samples
First Person: Q&A. Fight me, Kyo.
Third Person: Progress is slow, as he’s used to. It was slow when he was hunting Leymon, too, scattered beasts all too aware of the hunt. The kind of effort required is different, though; it’s more difficult, more time consuming. It calls on skills he’s never been well-versed in, but he’s set to keep trying regardless.
Mostly because Caius would never allow him to quit trying, anyway, with his nose in his brother’s business, overprotective ever since he’s come back. He’s a stupid big brother with stupid big brother responsibilities, and Lukius still doesn’t know what establishes him as the big brother — but what does he remember about his birth?
He’s a stupid big brother who tells him too much about Luceti’s current state of affairs, and Lukius is a stupid little brother who worries about his part in any of it. He’s a stupid big brother who wants Lukius to make friends and tries to take care of him.
His concerns are elsewhere — back in magic, weaponry, battle efficiency. Sometimes doctrine. He makes efforts to communicate and socialize and whatever, at least, because Caius wants him to. It’s the easiest way to keep him off his back, not that he considers Caius much of a burden. (Lukius was the burden not too long ago.)
Progress is slow, as always, but it’s progress worth making, and progress which affords him more time on his own, though it seems like it wouldn’t. It’s progress that makes him a little happy, too, forging some kind of community with others, but it’s harder to admit to that aspect; it wasn’t so long ago he was trapped in his own part of the hierarchy and there was no one but him.
It’s difficult, but possible, and he takes it bit by bit with what he knows about relationships. Communal learning and trying to reach out to others and — that’s difficult, too. Sometimes he needs Caius’ help with that part.
That’s even stranger, relying on Caius again. He doesn’t want to, always so self-sufficient and capable and his father’s soldier, but there’s something he likes about having the opportunity for once.
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Current Characters at Luceti: none.
Character
Name: Lukius Bridges
Fandom: Tales of the Tempest
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Time Period: After Caius & co. defeat Rommy on Mount Are.
Wing Color: Dark gray, white at the tips.
History: here. There is also an awesome write-up that Henry did here. Additionally, he’ll keep the very minimal memories he had from his last time in Luceti.
Personality: You don’t understand, brother. No, I don’t expect you to understand. After all, you were brought up in a good environment, brother!
What Lukius yells before he battles Caius speaks volumes about him and his life; it has a little bit of envy and a little bit of skepticism and a little bit of hurt. Lukius grew up in the church, and in a household that was dominated by the church. He is literally the Pope's right-hand man; worse yet, he's expected to be as his son. His father is driven mad with grief and uses him to hunt Leymon so he can cast bizarre, large scale magic to revive the world, and for what the game shows of us of their relationships it's largely professional in person and more of a master/pawn from the Pope's perspective. He calls him a useless little brat when he fails to stop the party from entering his sanctum.
During one of the earlier scenes in the game, Lukius is speaking with the Pope about acquiring the Pensient from Caius and he calls him the Pope. More disturbingly, he tells him that Lukius is the only one he can depend on — the only one who understands his thoughts — and Lukius tells him he would do anything to help him, even risking his life. He's completely devoted to a man who doesn't even treat him like his son; he's been conditioned into mindlessly devoting his life to him and his cause and he doesn't question it, even in the face of his own brother.
Since the Pope views him as more of a soldier than a son, Lukius is placed as the head of the Heretic Prosecutors Committee at the age of fifteen. He travels the world in search of Leymon (his people, technically) to torture to fuel his father's dream, because he's been sucked into his plan. He was forced to grow up too fast, and as a result he's mature beyond his age. He speaks very formally to the soldiers he commands in-game, and he has to. He is actually the leader of an entire church committee, and he has been taught and brought up specifically for the purpose of leading investigations on Leymon.
Which gets into the issue of his blood. Looking at his pre-battle quote from Lukius' perspective, this is his understanding of Caius' life: he has at least some semblance of a normal family, he has acquired friends — friends who won't turn away from him even despite his Leymon blood, his foster father accepted and loved him — the largest thing missing from Lukius' life is acceptance. He lives underneath the church's eyes, the same church that hunts and persecutes the Leymon, and even if it's for a good goal in his eyes he's still brought up to be ashamed of that part of him. He tells Caius after that battle that he couldn't face the Lycanth blood in him like his brother could; he wanted to stop hunting the Leymon, but the Pope believed so much in the Life Magic he couldn't.
In a way, Lukius actually hates himself. He's conflicted, and no matter which side he's on there's something for him to feel ashamed of. If he's with the Pope, with his father, and he says in the beginning of the game that the Pope is the only thing he has left (the only shred of family or acquaintance), then he has the disgusting blood of monsters in him. He's not really any better than what he hunts. On the other hand, if he believes in his brother, who's radical and idealistic and who truly believes being a Leymon is okay because his friends have helped him there, have accepted him and he wants Lukius to feel that kind of acceptance (he says so in a skit with Rubia), he has to feel ashamed for what he's done his whole life because he was hanging so desperately to the one thing he had left.
It's not an easy choice, and before he thinks he's about to die he says it feels like he's being punished — he feels like his death is the punishment for not being able to accept his blood, for hunting all the Leymon he has. It's another example of how he's grown up too fast; he can make a statement like that. He can say, honestly, that there's gallons of blood on his hands and he deserves to be punished.
We see a lot of Lukius' conflict throughout the game; even in the very beginning, he can't condone Rommy killing the innocent Natwicks. When he has his discussion with Rubia over hunting the Leymon, he admits he doesn't really know if it's the right thing for him to be doing. He just knows his father wants him to do it, has always wanted him to do it, and he knows he has just intentions with it. He thinks the end should justify the means but in the end he's not really sure if that's right, especially considering his best friend was taken from him and replaced with a sadistic Spot who couldn't give less of a damn about humanity.
That's another thing that makes Caius' upbringing better to him: he actively has friends. Lukius had a friend — a very good friend, if the party's comments are of any indication, a sweet girl who he could get along with — and she ended up possessed by the same thing he's been working so hard to accomplish. She turns into something (not someone, something) that doesn't care about anyone on the planet, not him and not the innocent Natwicks and, in the end, not the Pope either. His father is literally the only thing he really has and he's possessed, too, as it turns out.
Lukius is alone until he meets Caius. He's not really anything to his father — just another pawn in his plot, and maybe it's an important pawn but it's not a son; his only friend is suddenly an alien who more or less hates the world; and Lukius himself can't come to terms with the fact he's half-Leymon and half-human. The only thing he has going for him is if he clings to his father's ideals, the world will be changed for the better, and harmony will overcome war and hatred — even if it means hunting Leymon.
Maybe he is jealous of Caius and his good environment, but above all he can relate to him. Caius is half-human and half-Leymon, and yet he travels the world with this group and he accepts the beast part of him, and it's something Lukius can't do because of his position. But Caius is his brother, and he actively reaches out to him — he tells him he's a Leymon, too so why should he hunt them? Caius encourages him to embrace himself instead of trying to reject that part of him. He tells Rubia that he thinks it's sad that he can't, and he really wants Lukius to be able to understand that it's okay.
Caius is the reason Lukius can change. He kills the Pope and frees Lukius of his obligations, and before he does that he shows him that the Life Magic he's trying to cast isn't right. He tells him it's summoning Spots, and believing in something like that is being a fool, so when Lukius barely survives he can come to his senses about it instead of trying to follow in his father's footsteps. He can strive towards not the supposed greater good of eliminating Lycanths but instead learning to accept them — accept himself. Most importantly, he can do good with the skills he's learned still, and he uses his connections to the Church to find a Priseputh to dispel Rommy's transformation — even if he can't free her the way he'd like to, he can free her this way (and this is another mark of his too-soon maturity, being able to come to terms with effectively killing his best friend because his real best friend shouldn't be used by a malicious creature).
He still has his struggles, but he makes progress towards realizing what he wants instead of allowing others to dictate his ideals. Without the tie to his father, he has the freedom after the game to reform the Church, and while reforming it he collaborates with Forest to create alliances between the humans and the Leymon. Even before his fight with Caius, he's inching closer to acceptance: he calls them Leymon instead of Lycanths for once. He uses his maturity and his experience with leadership to accomplish something he can feel good about, and feel good about himself while he's at it.
Lukius' biggest struggle is with acceptance and by the end of the game, reuniting with his brother makes it less daunting and more doable. Even at his canon point, he accepts his brother's affection and joins his side because he realizes in the end he's right — and while he's at it, he learns what some actual familial affection is, and while he doesn't understand it he doesn't turn it away, either.
Strengths:
physical ; Lukius has the ability to teleport and must be well-adjusted to traveling, seeing as it's part of his job description. He's not a pushover in combat and is proficient with staves, as well as a selection of magic which appears to be focused on thunder/wind elements, including Thunder Blade, Air Thrust, Cyclone, and Spark Web.
Additionally, due to his half-Leymon status he doesn't have a zanktu, or a mark of the Leymon, but he might be able to transform into his werewolf form under stressful conditions like Caius did. With training, he can actually control when he transforms like a normal full-blooded Leymon. In a transformed state, Leymon are extremely powerful and hit like mack trucks.
mental ; Lukius is the smarter brother between the two of them. He's always more knowledgeable about the going-ons in the world than the party, which we see when he explains the Wereman Battle for what it truly was: Lycanths fighting Lycanths. Related to that, he does his research, and we see a separate instance of it when he goes through the Church archives to find the Priseputh to free Rommy.
emotional ; He has a good idea of how to keep his composure, and even when he's upset with Rommy killing off the Natwicks he proceeds and give orders in a calm manner. There's the double-edged sword of having great conviction in his ideals; as a positive, it means he looks into all his goals with determination, shown by the way he endlessly pursues the Pensients for the Pope. The only time Lukius lays his entire emotional spectrum down on the table is when Caius defeats him in battle, so he seems plenty well-guarded, though this is also a double-edged sword.
Weaknesses:
physical ; He's a Priest Soldier, but he's also young and not necessarily conditioned for intense physical fighting. In-game, he rarely gets involved with any kind of fight personally with the Lycanths, and instead allows troops or Rommy to handle them. The only time he fights is with the party, and while he is a powerful foe it's not a very difficult fight.
mental ; Lukius doesn't really know how to stand on his own, and it's something he has to learn. The whole game he's relied on the ideals of his father and the Church instead of his own, so while he's intelligent and he's learned his leadership roles well, he isn't sure how to apply them outside of what he's told to apply them to. Finding the Priseputh to free Rommy is probably the first time he's done something because he wanted it. He also doesn't bring up when he has a problem with something — not when Rommy kills the Natwicks or when he isn't sure about what he's doing. He gives into peer pressure, and if the way he treats prosecuting is any indication he desperately tries to convince himself that it's alright, probably in search for acceptance and avoiding the possibility of rejection.
emotional ; As a negative to the aforementioned conviction, he sticks with plans he might not truly believe in if he's been convinced by others he should. He's not easy to sway in his actions, and even if he doubts something it doesn't mean he'll stop doing it (please see: the entire issue of being half-Leymon and hunting them). His well-guarded attitude means he doesn't know how to react to having the kind of brotherly affection Caius offers him, and he doesn't really know how to deal with affection in general. He doesn't know a lot about leading for himself but he knows a lot about standing by himself — which is to say he's more well-acquainted with being alone than with being friendly.
Samples
First Person: Q&A. Fight me, Kyo.
Third Person: Progress is slow, as he’s used to. It was slow when he was hunting Leymon, too, scattered beasts all too aware of the hunt. The kind of effort required is different, though; it’s more difficult, more time consuming. It calls on skills he’s never been well-versed in, but he’s set to keep trying regardless.
Mostly because Caius would never allow him to quit trying, anyway, with his nose in his brother’s business, overprotective ever since he’s come back. He’s a stupid big brother with stupid big brother responsibilities, and Lukius still doesn’t know what establishes him as the big brother — but what does he remember about his birth?
He’s a stupid big brother who tells him too much about Luceti’s current state of affairs, and Lukius is a stupid little brother who worries about his part in any of it. He’s a stupid big brother who wants Lukius to make friends and tries to take care of him.
His concerns are elsewhere — back in magic, weaponry, battle efficiency. Sometimes doctrine. He makes efforts to communicate and socialize and whatever, at least, because Caius wants him to. It’s the easiest way to keep him off his back, not that he considers Caius much of a burden. (Lukius was the burden not too long ago.)
Progress is slow, as always, but it’s progress worth making, and progress which affords him more time on his own, though it seems like it wouldn’t. It’s progress that makes him a little happy, too, forging some kind of community with others, but it’s harder to admit to that aspect; it wasn’t so long ago he was trapped in his own part of the hierarchy and there was no one but him.
It’s difficult, but possible, and he takes it bit by bit with what he knows about relationships. Communal learning and trying to reach out to others and — that’s difficult, too. Sometimes he needs Caius’ help with that part.
That’s even stranger, relying on Caius again. He doesn’t want to, always so self-sufficient and capable and his father’s soldier, but there’s something he likes about having the opportunity for once.