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Name: Luke Mann
Nicknames: None, really. He uses the alias Y2K when he's hacking, but in reality he's just Luke.
Age: 19
Sexuality: Straight
Name: Luke Mann
Nicknames: None, really. He uses the alias Y2K when he's hacking, but in reality he's just Luke.
Age: 19
Sexuality: Straight
Appearance:
Luke doesn't look like much. If he was in a line-up, you wouldn't pick him out as the hacker. You wouldn't pick him out as any sort of criminal. He's tall for his age, being 6'2", but not much else about him stands out. Sure, he's got a nice smile and his eyes are pretty, but you could walk past him in the street and forget him a few seconds later. And that's exactly what he relies on. Because he's nothing remarkable, he's entirely forgettable.
He relies on anonymity and being forgettable. Even his clothes don't stand out. He just dresses to suit the weather and makes sure he doesn't wear anything weird or anything that could make him easier to identify.
With his dark hair and brown eyes, he's just like any other teenage boy. On the outside, at least.
He's always verging on too skinny. He eats like a horse but his metabolism means he never puts on much weight. He lost what little he had when he was sixteen and has never put it back on again. Like the stereotypical computer geek, he has little to no physical strength. That doesn't mean that he can't break your nose.
Personality:
In case you haven't gathered, Luke's a secretive person. He's the type of person you'd walk past and forget immediately- if you even noticed him in the first place. He makes a point of never starting a conversation, and of participating in one as little as he can without being blatantly rude. It is his aim in life to be noticed as little as possible.
A professional may say that his desire to be invisible is why he hacks instead of any other form of crime. The truth is that he wants to be invisible because he is a hacker. Invisible people are much harder to catch, and hackers are pretty difficult to catch anyway.
If you can manage to get close to him, you'll learn exactly how slow he is to trust. You have be practically family for him to fully trust you. The closer you are, the more he trusts you. However, he lets very few people get close.
To most, he comes across as cold. His manners are impeccable, he's chivalrous, but he doesn't willingly engage in any social interaction. He's the type to thank the waitress, but not to engage in conversation with her. Sometimes, if he's engrossed in what he's doing, he can not notice someone speaking to him.
If he considers you a friend, you see that he's actually quite friendly. He's extremely honest, to the point where it's almost a fault. His immense intelligence becomes evident when he speaks, but he tries pretty hard not to be patronising. He's extremely protective over the few he considers friends.
However, if he doesn't like you, you'll know. He can be extremely cold, and always has a smart answer on his tongue. He can also get physically violent if he feels threatened or if someone he loves is threatened. The fact that he finds it difficult to open up means he's got a vicious temper.
It's necessary to point out that Luke generally doesn't like people. He puts up with them, but would much rather be on his laptop.
He hacks for fun, messing with high-profile websites. However, he also occasionally does hacking for companies, testing their security systems and anti-virus systems and the like. This free-lance work is what he lives on, but he holds a decent reputation and usually has enough to get by.
Likes:
Coffee
Technology
Coffee shops
Security
Heights
Going fast
Freedom
Having somewhere warm and dry to sleep
Coffee
Technology
Coffee shops
Security
Heights
Going fast
Freedom
Having somewhere warm and dry to sleep
Dislikes:
People who are jerks
Water- he learned to swim, but when he was being bullied, they held his head under the water and wouldn't let him up.
Rubbish coffee
Being frightened
Being anxious
Police interrogation rooms
Police in general
Hospitals
People who are jerks
Water- he learned to swim, but when he was being bullied, they held his head under the water and wouldn't let him up.
Rubbish coffee
Being frightened
Being anxious
Police interrogation rooms
Police in general
Hospitals
Power:
Luke is a technopath. He can control technology at will. He can also hack into various systems at will. He's fluent in just about every computer language, from HTML to Python to C++. Anything that is considered technology is within his control. His "range" is a five metre radius around him. However, he can broaden his range through his laptop and what he can do through his laptop is much greater than through his mind alone.
Skills:
Obviously, he's skilled with computers. He's also extremely smart. He's used to hardship and anything more than that is good. He's fast with a decent amount of stamina. He's also damn hard to catch, both as a hacker and in general. He's a decent chef. While he doesn't look much, when he was on the streets, he had to learn to fight so his laptop wouldn't get taken. His aim is pretty good.
Flaws:
He's extremely slow to trust. He finds it next to impossible to sleep unless he's certain he's safe. Put him in a room that's empty of technology and duct tape his hands and he's powerless. He refuses to persevere anything if he thinks it's useless. He can't understand a lot of accents, ranging from Texan to Australian. He loses his temper extremely easily with anyone he doesn't like. He gets too absorbed in his work and becomes dead to the world.
History:
Luke was the only child of a wealthy businessman and his socialite wife. His manners were drilled into him from a young age. He was put in the best private schools, because his family could afford them. His parents never really paid much attention to him, and didn't exactly notice that he wasn't bringing home friends from school, or the fact that he avoided talking about school as much as was possible. The other kids didn't like him. He was a little too nice and not good enough at sports. It started out with just a few pushes, name calling and the like. However, before long, he was getting physically beaten up. About the same time the beatings started, his power became fully evident.
It started small, noticing he could control different things. Then, when computers came more commonplace, he discovered he had an influence on them. And as technology developed, so did his power.
By the age of twelve, he was able to manipulate computers in a way that even trained computer scientists struggled to. When he was twelve, he fought back for the first time. They stopped beating him up and instead isolated him, spreading rumours. All of the people he used to call his friends disowned him. And so, he started hacking, hoping to distract himself. It worked. At first, he struggled to even change the colour of a web page using his mind. But as he gained more practice and grew older, he found himself able to do more and more.
He got a top of the range laptop for his fourteenth birthday- and then there was no stopping him. He wreaked more and more chaos until he was sixteen. Then he hacked the wrong site and it was traced back to him. He was arrested. The police agreed to forget about his crimes if he done a job for them. He did it and was released. But when he got home, his parents had changed the locks and left his suitcase outside.They didn't want a criminal for a son.
He went to live with a friend for a year. Around this time, he started hacking as Y2K. He lasted the year before his roommate found out that he was hacking. He was given an ultimatum- get out or go to the police.
Luke was forced to the streets, scavenging a living any way he could with only his laptop. He lived on the streets for a year. He was on the verge of selling his laptop, his only possession and the key to his power, when he fixed someone's laptop in a cafe.They offered him some freelance work.They were so impressed by his work that they recommended him to a friend, who recommended him to another friend, and so on.
And Luke was back on his feet.
However, he was much slower to trust anyone and he hadn't forgiven anyone for turning a blind eye. Even other people like him had ignored him on learning what he was and had shoved him away.
A few months ago, he hacked into a government page as Y2K. The police can't conclude that he is Y2K, but they have their suspicions. They more desperately searching for any proof that he is.
Luke was approached a short while ago about joining the Wicked. He declined at first, preferring to work by himself. However, as the heat is being turned up by the police, he's decided to find them and see if they'll take him on.
Other: He owns the top of the range MacBook Pro. He's made a few modifications to the software, allowing for the best performance and preventing any work he does from being traced back to him.
