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| Transmetropolitan |
| Name | Luc-Aurele Fleury |
| Birthdate | 1 December 1990 (22 years old) |
| Height | 5'11" |
| Weight | 150 lbs |
| Hair Color | Dark brown |
| Eye Color | Brandy |
| Biographical Data |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Ethnicity | French-Canadian |
| Birthplace | Sorel, Quebec, Canada |
| Relations | • Aori Takazawa • Lusa Chamberlain • Mina Kelley • Dana Kincaid |
| Known Family | • Jean-Basile Fleury • Anne-Marie Sulan • Marc-Aurele Fleury • Sacha Sulan |
| Professional Data |
| Category | Truemage |
| Abilities | • Cosmopolitan • Terramancer • Enchanter • Metamorph |
| Occupation | Castellan to Seattle |
| Affiliation | Council of Ros |
| Allies | The Hollow |
| Enemies | Many |
Transmetropolitan
the city breathes
and she whispers her secrets, if you know how to listen
Being the child of Jean-Basile Fleury has… consequences.
That Luc would be a true-mage of exceptional strength and talent was never in question. The blood was thick, Jean-Basile's legacy writ large. The Ros took interest in him when he was four. His mother held them at bay for a time - even the Council is leery of angering Anne-Marie Sulan - but no God or pawn would ever keep them back for long. At seven, his mother acquiesced, turned him over to the Ros for instruction as she had Marc-Aurele before him.
Luc flourished in the care of the Ros, though he did not always enjoy it. Teachers came and went as quickly as they could be found; few proved suitable. Much like his father, the boy had a font of magical talent that was not easily wrought into useful form and function by instructors of distinctly lesser ability. Jean-Basile, once, offered to take on Luc's instruction himself - though this was, of course, not allowed.
He came to Seattle at seventeen, bright-eyed and educated in the ritual and rote of hedge-magic, showing fledgling talents for greater things but still largely unshaped… a vessel of clay on the potter's wheel. And in Seattle, he met Lusa Chamberlain, and soon after, saw the world in a wholly different light.
Today finds Luc in a strange place. Barely twenty-two, and Castellan to a city he's known for scarcely four years, he's earned the ire of many elder members of the Ros. Neck-deep in the politics of Down-Below, he's associated himself with the rogue's gallery at the Hollow. The Guild of Ia owes him a debt, if he's ever so stupid as to call it in. The Thrall, for reasons still unfathomed, made an attempt on his life some months ago. He has a working relationship with Mina Kelley and Dana Kincaid, the only members of the Ros he routinely speaks with. And then there's Aori… nobody's quite sure what to make of her.
preternatural repertoire
"Cosmopolitan"
- Luc is a rare student of the flow and weave of cities, able to follow, read, and shape the nexus of energies that converge in such places - and to shape the city itself. He can find roads and alleys that haven't existed in a century, and fold the fabric of the city like paper. He likens it to being presented with threads. Cities speak to him, and provide him with pathways and possibilities. He simply follows the ways open before him.
"Terramancer"
- Luc has a natural feel for the courses of energy, the paths and intersections of ley-lines, and the places where mundane and preternatural overlap. He can nearly always find his way anywhere, and make it there quickly. And he can find most anything, if he has a mind to. It is strongly correlated to his connection with cities, themselves hubs of crisscrossing ley lines and paths of energy and places of constant overlap between mortal and other.
"Enchanter"
- Like his father,Luc an accomplished artisan in the creation of magical trinkets and curios, though he possesses no exceptional talent for it. Never interested enough to delve particularly deep, and with his own strengths distinctly elsewhere, Luc nonetheless learned to create a variety of charms and wards, simple protective measures that continue to prove useful.
"Metamorph"
- Like his mentor, Luc is an accomplished practitioner of changing, able to alter the form and function of the inanimate and - in willing subjects - the living. He has none of Lusa's panache or flair for shapeshifting, but he has proven more than capable of functional transmutation, and gifting other people with new shapes and purposes.