Town Opening: Military (Unwilling Enlisted) Housing: The Motel Character Journal name: aneternity Character Name: Luke Henry Character Age: 25 Character Played By: Andrew Garfield
Character History and Personality:
Once, Luke was normal.
He had normal parents. A normal childhood. He wanted to be a hero, someday, to save people, he lost himself in comic books and daydreams of things that would never be. He went to school, he had friends, he had crushes and awkward encounters and the sorts of things normal teenagers did. He loved his parents, even if they weren't particularly close. Even if they didn't always see eye to eye.
When he was eighteen he still wanted to be a hero. He worshiped real-life vigilantes, one in particular, and decided to follow his heart even if his parents (especially his father) disagreed. So Luke, he left home. Packed his bags and went to Seattle.
His life was never normal again.
He fell in with the vigilante he so admired, fought at his side and grew to love him like a second father. Luke was wholly loyal, blind to the man's faults, and he was entirely willing to become his adopted son once his own parents were killed in a car accident. He tried to be good; he tried so, so hard. He did everything the vigilante asked, and in doing so he faced evil, the darkest parts of humanity, and become embroiled in a battle to not only save the innocent but to save his soul.
Time passed. Luke fell in love with a girl, he grew harder, more jaded, more obsessed with carrying on his adopted father's work. When the girl left him he snapped, went too far and crossed the line he swore he never would. Once, he had only killed one before that rainy night, a drug bust gone bad, and Luke could take no more. He turned his back on the vigilante, the man he loved so dearly but did not (he felt) love him in return.
He ran. He killed more, and more, and more. Blood was his morning, noon, and night. Criminals were his target, the worst of the worst, and Luke became the very thing he so loathed, the thing he never wanted to be. Five years passed, and they were dark, dark times. He still bears the scars, some self-inflicted and some not.
Then, Las Vegas. A reunion with the girl he loved and the discovery of a son. Life wasn't normal, but it started to improve. Luke married his beloved. He had a daughter. He stopped killing, moved to New York, got a job as a police officer.
But for Luke, nothing good ever lasts.
His wife disappeared. Vanished, just like before. Gone. Gone. Gone. He was left with two children and his heart ripped from his chest, his very reason for breathing torn away. He didn't know what to do.
A week. That was how long he lasted before he tucked his children into bed, before he left a note for his adopted father, before he rented a motel room where he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.
He was supposed to die.
He didn't.
Luke wasted all his bullets trying. He was still alive. How, he didn't know, but he couldn't stay. Time was no longer constant for him after that night, after he learned of his newfound immortality. A day could feel like a decade, or it could feel like an hour. It was hard to know the date, the time, how little or how much had passed. He didn't know if things he remembered had actually happened or if he'd dreamt them.
For a second time, he ran. He left the children with his father and went in search of his wife, a dream, a memory, a name branded upon his hip and a ring on his finger.
His search brought him to Repose. He was a little too reckless, not careful enough, and the military found him. With his police background he was the perfect candidate and they forced him to enlist (blackmail, they knew things they shouldn't) and he hates it. He is a mad dog straining at his leash, and the fact that he cannot die makes him very, very dangerous.
Town Connections;
The Wife: The one he's searching for. [isconfetti] Friends: Good luck. Could be someone with similarly skewed morals. Fellow military: People who hate it as much as he does. People who don't. The boss: Someone(s) he (reluctantly) answers to. The Affected: Luke's killed a lot of people, that kind of thing comes with repercussions.