If there was a word to describe Luke, it would be unlucky. After a nearly fatal accident, he has just been trying to get by the new social conditions imposed on him due to his appearance. Years have passed since this accident so Luke's gotten used to living like this. He's not the best well off economically, even being homeless for a while. But for the past 1.5 years, Luke's managed to get a stable job. It's with the Oblige as an intel gatherer of sorts, but he also works at a convenience store as a front. It's not ideal having people come in and immediately make gestures upon seeing him, but he has a job and a home now so he's not complaining.
Aside from that, Luke also strives for the opportunity to go to college. With his current financial situation, it's not looking too ideal but maybe he can get an opportunity with his Oblige work and his boss, Viktor. He wants to study engineering and has a talent for creating little mechanisms and gadgets. It's a skill that helped him stay afloat amidst his unfortunate situation. But it's this that has made him want to pursue being an engineer, plus he also thinks it'd be nice to have an actual career.
I'm still writing this but here's a quick summary bc it's kinda important to his story and character. Luke grew up as part of a wealthy family, think of the type that goes to the country club regularly in the summer. Life is good y'know, until it was not. He got into a very big accident when he was like maybe 6 or 7. Very bad, very ugly. Gets rushed to the emergency room but then the doctors find out that like 50% of his body is missing entirely, cuz it exploded and shit. I'm not a doctor so I don't know surgery and doctor stuff, so what I'm about to say might be very cringe if you do know about that. The doctors grab a body donor of a guy who died of hypothermia, and put Luke back together with that. He survives, somehow idk, but he now looks like that. His very rich family, that is also very self-conscious about their image, absolutely despise how he looks now, and him by extension. His parents make the decision to legally disown him at 18, so they can kick him out to live in the streets basically. Until that day comes, his family and many of the people around him avoid him as much as possible. So many years pass by and Luke is an adult now, he's now also an orphan through dishonor. And now he's also very broke. He has nowhere to go and begins looking for a job. He gets a job, awesome. He basically lives in a cheap motel at this time. During work, a customer offers him a better job. It's a job at a convenience store. Why is this job better? He gets free housing within the store and above minimum wage. Wow this Viktor guy that offered me this position seems like such a nice guy, Luke thinks to himself. He is also very shady and quite possibly a body count nearing triple digits, but I'm gonna ignore that because I don't want to get fired and evicted. Anyways, life is getting a bit better for Luke now. His job is to be on the lookout for intel while simultaneously acting as an ordinary convini worker. He also got assigned a superior named Louis and has to help him with stuff but he's basically satan so that sucks. Rip Luke, you would have loved GoFundme.
Luke is part of a story I'm currently working on titled 'Walk of Fate'. His role in the story is: A newly hired intel trainee working under a sub-division of The Pharisee Oblige. He was hired by Viktor, a fixer for The Oblige, but works as a subordinate for Louis who helps him in various ways.
The basic plot: A bodyguard is hired to protect a famous singer from continuous threats, but there’s one issue: he’s also a hitman hired to eliminate her. A story set in 2006 in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic earth. A primarily slice of life + comedy story with some drama that follows the two main characters, Louis and Mika, as they struggle to cooperate amidst the fate that awaits them. Learn more about this story here if you're interested!

