"I can never change"
Lukas Cain
Nick Names
He's never believed in nicknames; a full name is more powerful.
Age
23
Role
Devil's Son
Likes
+ Christine: He knows he's not good for her, he knows she should run. But he can't let her go. With her, everything is different. All the rules change. He can't be with her, but he can't bare to be without her.
+ Pain: He enjoys watching others in pain. Their agony is like his drug, giving him a rush. Physical pain, emotional pain, it's all the same to him. But the more intense the hurt, the more beautiful the sensation.
+ Power: Lukas loves the feeling that comes from being in control. When people do as he say, whether it be because they're scared of him, forced to, or just want to please him, it makes him feel as though he is able to do anything. He believes he should truly be in charge of hell the way his father is, and he would like to be in possession of that power himself.
+ His Looks: Lukas is very proud of the way he looks, to a level that's considered narcissistic. He believes himself to be the most beautiful creature alive, and will accept nothing else as the truth.
+ Lying: It gives him a sense of power over others. He loves the way they just slip off his tongue, spun by him and believed by others. It is a form of control, and he is wonderful at it. Who doesn't enjoy something they're good at?
Dislikes
- Noah: Lukas has enjoyed his human life much more than his one spent alongside his father, but he hated his human brother. Lukas has never ever regretted murdering him, despite growing him together and he being the only human family he's ever had.
- Love: The task was so simple; steal her pure soul for his father, making him more powerful than ever. But love has got in the way. He's always been such a good liar that he though making Christine his would be as simple as writing a made up story, but when his lies started becoming truth, everything began to go wrong.
- His Father: Lukas' relationship with his father has never been one of love or care. The Devil never felt the need to protect his son, simply seeing him as a higher ranked and more loyal servant. But Lukas didn't want to just be that. He wants to make his father proud, he wants his respect. But he is also afraid of his father. He dislikes him, not just for what he intends to do to Christine, and wants to take his power.
- Fire: Though his experience with fire was a long time ago, and it has faded to a distant memory, he will never forget. And he has the scar to prove it. The heat makes him uncomfortable, and he dislikes being in a room with any kind of fireplace. He also hates those who smoke.
- Being Lied To: Though Lukas prides himself on his ability to lie, he hates others lying to him. It may be a very skewed view of the world, but the idea that he has believed an untruth infuriates him. He hates to be taken for a fool, and he hates to be played at his own game.
Lukas stands at 6", not towering over others, but comfortably tall. He's fairly muscular, but not overly so, weighing 175lbs. He has an oval shaped face with a sharp jawline and high cheekbones. His skin is very pale, with ocean blue eyes set into his face. His lips and nose are evenly proportioned to his face. He is rarely clean shaven, preferring long stubble, but cutting it shorter if absolutely required for a formal occasional. His hair of medium length for a male, curly and dirty blonde in colouring. Lukas is very proud of his looks, believing himself to be one of the most beautiful creatures alive.
Tattoos
Lukas has a small tattoo, only an inch wide and long, on his wrist. At first, it appears an innocent pattern, but on closer inspection it is possible to see three sixes linked together to form a pattern.
Scars
He also has a faint burn on his palm, from the house fire his parents on earth were killed in. He was outside when it started, but he heard his parents screams. He ran back to the house, in an attempt to save them. But when he put his hand on the metal door handle, finding it locked, it burn his palm due to the blistering heat from the fire inside.
Race
Demon
Powers
Lukas has the ability to corrupt people. He gains a sense of elation through watching others doing cruel and terrible things. He has a strong ability to influence people into committing acts of evil such as murder and rape. His ability gives him sadomasochistic tendencies, in that he takes great pleasure in hurting others. Their emotional and physical pain gives Lukas a rush, much like anyone else would receive from a drugs high. To him, it's like receiving a shot adrenaline, endorphins and pheromones all at the same time. The only person he does not enjoy seeing in pain is Christine. With her, all his rules are different. Her pain is like knives through him and he wishes there was something he could do to gain his father's mercy for her.
Lukas is also able to steal a soul for his father. Stealing a corrupt soul is very easy for him but gives no real pay-off. But to steal a pure soul with an unblemished heart takes a lot of work. But the power received from a pure of heart is worth the effort required.
Personality Traits
Lukas is a compulsive liar. He has spent so much of his life lying that, now, lies just slip off his tongue like truths. So easy do they come that Lukas hardly even notices that he's doing it. His life has become an elaborate web of lies, spun partly from his own requirements, and partly from his own malicious love for lies. With Christine, he has begun to hate lying to her in the way he hates hurting her. But he has wrapped himself so deeply in an entanglement of lies that it is almost impossible for him to go back on them now.
He's also exceptionally narcissistic, to a degree that it could be called a disorder. He believes he is beautiful and can often be found staring into a mirror at his own reflection for a great deal of time, simply admiring himself.
Lukas is also a very controlling man. He likes to know exactly what people are doing and when, all the time. He hates people lying to him or keeping secrets from him and the idea that he doesn't know everything about a persons actions and thoughts can be enough to drive him into a rage.
Ticks
He absent-mindedly traces the outline of his tattoo when he's thinking.
When someone is secretive with information, he will continuously question them until he gets the truth.
Whenever Lukas passes a mirror, he instinctively glances at it to look at himself.
Personality
Lukas, born as son of the devil, was never going to have qualities seen as virtuous and kind. His personality is that of a sinner, someone who was brought up to see people as objects to be used and the world as his playground in which to do so. He's arrogant, believing, he is one of the most beautiful creatures on this earth and that he's looks are rivalled by no other's. He also believes, as the son of the ruler of the underworld, no one can touch him. He refuses to abide by laws and rules, thinking they're designed for lesser creatures than him. He uses his looks and charm to win others over and keep himself out of any trouble he may find himself in, and in the few occasions that fails, his father's near all-powerful nature won't. He is scared by very few things, and even fewer people. The only person he truly fears is his own father. Despite their turbulent relationship and Lukas' strong dislike for the man, he respects him and his wrath is the only one Lukas takes no pleasure in seeing. However, he is determined to prove his worth to his father. He wants to please him, and his approval is something Lukas holds in high esteem.
Lukas loves to see others in pain. His masochistic leanings drive him to influencing people into inflicting pain on others, purely so Lukas can watch and enjoy the fall out. Watching pain, emotional or physical gives him a high like no other. He gets off on watching it; the worse the pain the better the feeling. Lukas is also a liar. He has spent so much time lying that they simply come out, smoothly and perfectly formed without a though. Often, he fails to notice he's even lying, due to how deeply ingrained in his personality the habit is. Some may call it a compulsion, though Lukas still likes to contest that he has control over it.
With Christine though, all his rules are different. He has always known the right words, and exactly the right way to say them in which to come across as sweet and charming. He knows how to act to please people and make them want him. But it has always just been false and manipulative in the past. But not with Christine. With her, Lukas genuinely wants to please her. The reasons still may be for his own self-serving purposes, to make her love him, but only because of the way he feels about her. He doesn't want to hurt her, or see her hurt, or taken advantage of by anyone. He may be evil, and he would do anything to keep hold of her, including hurting her, but he wouldn't take pleasure in it. The way he feels about her is a completely unknown feeling to Lukas. It's passionate, and cruel all at the same time. He knows he is not the kind of man a woman like her deserves to be with. He knows he's a liar, living a life of darkness and evil and sin. Christine, with her beautiful pure heart and sweet soul, doesn't deserve to be caught up in it. But he loves her. He has fallen in love with her, while trying to do as his father wanted. And now, he doesn't know how to stop. He knows he should let her go, but his own desires wage a war in his mind with his thoughts for her well-being.
History
Lukas was not born, nor created. He was always there, along side his father. He had no mother, no siblings, just a father. He wasn't a person, he was an entity. He didn't have hopes, or dreams, or love. He simply did as his father told him, exacting evil upon the earth. But that wasn't enough. As the world grew up, slipping into the seventeenth century, his father wanted more. He had discovered a way to steal the souls of the poor, and he needed his son to do this job. Lukas was placed on earth, memoryless, ready to grow up human and fulfil his father's wishes.
Lukas was born on the 6th of June, 1656 into a very wealthy family. They lived in the affluent West of London in a grand house. His father, Jonathon, was a wealthy merchant and his mother, Maria, looked after the family estate and her children. Lukas also had an elder brother, Noah, who was five years his senior. Growing up, Lukas was always the favourite son. He showed intelligence and potential while Noah avoided family activities, preferring to spend his time alone. However, whenever given the chance, Noah would belittle Lukas and hit him.
When Lukas was thirteen, the family travelled out of the city for Noah’s eighteenth birthday to a holiday home they owned. While there, the holiday house mysteriously burnt to the ground, killing their parents when Lukas and Noah were outside. Noah inherited their parent’s money and took Lukas back to the city as his legal guardian.
As he grew up, constantly bullied and lorded over by his elder brother, Lukas became bitter and lonely and cruel. When he met Lillian at twenty-two, he had become heartless and arrogant, the sweeter qualities of his youth all gone. Lillian, a beautiful woman with a European accent and an apparent grudge against Noah, seduced Lukas. After spending a few weeks together, Lukas naively convinced himself that he was in love with Lillian. So that was why, when she offered him a secret as to who he was and what was responsible for his life's mysteries in exchange for killing his brother he even listed to her proposal. But, despite all Lukas had gone through, his now cruel personality and his infatuation with Lillian, he couldn’t bring himself to kill his final remaining family member when all he had against his brother was childish bullying, and turned down Lillian’s offer. But Lillian revealed to Lukas, with proof, that it was Noah who purposely started the house fire that killed their parents to get his hands on their money to pay off debts he had run up and escape his parent’s favouritism. Lukas' short temper and bitterness got the better of him and he killed his brother as Lillian had requested. In exchange, Lillian revealed he had once been the Devil's son, returning his memories to him and freezing him at the age of twenty-three. He wasn't immortal, but he was ageless. They left England together.
In the time following, they travelled throughout the world together, stealing souls as his father had always intended him to do. By the time the twenty-first century arrived, there wasn't a country they hadn't been to, or experience they hadn't had. But it was a year and a half before present day that everything changed. His father discovered Christine, the purest heart of them all, he'd told Lukas. And there was nothing his father wanted more than the girl's soul. Lillian was returned to his father's side in Hell, leaving Lukas. But, over the centuries, Lukas had fallen out of love with Lillian and so her departure was no great pain to the Devil's son. Lukas was tasked with having the girl fall for him, so her soul could be stolen. Lukas spent half a year researching her, following her, learning about her life and what she liked and didn't like. He planned the perfect introduction, and he knew just how to have her fall for him.
Finally, they met. He initially followed the plan to the letter, and he knew Christine liked him. But there was something else there too. As he spent more time with her, getting to know her, her life and her siblings, he felt herself becoming obsessed with her. The relationship he had with Christine was unlike any other he'd ever experienced. She was like a drug. With her, all his rules changed. He couldn't be without her. But his father wanted to push the plan forward. Her heart was of such purity, even though they'd already stolen it, they would have to perform a ritual, that would resemble some kind of religious sacrament to ensure it would be impossible for her to take it back. His father decided the best way to have her involved in the ritual would be if she thought she was involved in a real religious organisation. So, he used one of the cults he was responsible for and made Lukas a member.
But when Lukas told Christine he was part of a cult, in the hope that she would sympathise and wish to join. But before he was even able to tell her about it and try to persuade her to join, she ran, terrified. She told him she didn't want herself, and even more so, her siblings, involved in such a dangerous and flawed practise. Besides, she had not believed in any kind of deity for a long time, and she wasn't about to start believing now. Little did she know, Lukas had thought at the time. But his father was so angry, and Lukas so heartbroken over losing her, he went mad and kidnapped her. He took her to Hôtel De L'Amour, to carry out his father's wishes. But, the only problem is that he really does love her.
Theme Songs
Run
Is this to be our fate
Hide
Freedom is ours as we escape
We walk in the shadows
We do
Find out what we all know
Our time is near
If this is the way it ends
Don't tell me it's meaningless
There'll be no compromise
We fall in we too shall rise
You held me and taught me how
I think I am ready now
If this is the way it ends
This is the way it's meant to be
We will be spilled in blood
And this is the way that they'll remember us
Emerge from the shadows we will
Emerge from the shadows
This is the way it ends
Don't tell me it's meaningless
There'll be no compromise
We fall in we too shall rise
You held me and taught me how
I think I am ready now
If this is the way it ends
This is the way it's meant to be
Under my skin they fade away
Here's to life with no regrets
See you again all one day
Give me love or give me death
Can anyone ever really say
This is the way it ends
This is my life begins
If this the way it ends
Nothing is meaningless
There'll be no compromise
We fall in we too shall rise again
If this is the way it ends
Then this is the way it's meant to be
This is the way it's meant to be
How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb
Without a soul, my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
Wake me up
(Wake me up inside)
I can't wake up
(Wake me up inside)
Save me
(Call my name and save me from the dark)
Wake me up
(Bid my blood to run)
I can't wake up
(Before I come undone)
Save me
(Save me from the nothing I've become)
Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life
Wake me up
(Wake me up inside)
I can't wake up
(Wake me up inside)
Save me
(Call my name and save me from the dark)
Wake me up
(Bid my blood to run)
I can't wake up
(Before I come undone)
Save me
(Save me from the nothing I've become)
I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside
Bring me to life
Frozen inside without your touch
Without your love, darling
Only you are the life among the dead
All this time, I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything
Without thought, without voice, without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something more
Bring me to life
Wake me up
(Wake me up inside)
I can't wake up
(Wake me up inside)
Save me
(Call my name and save me from the dark)
Wake me up
(Bid my blood to run)
I can't wake up
(Before I come undone)
Save me
(Save me from the nothing I've become)
I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside
Bring me to life