Post by Lucas Gorecki on Apr 24, 2012 17:35:45 GMT -5
✓►PLAYER◄
Username: Anomaly
Preferred method of contact: PB
How did you find us: In my braaaaiiiiin
Codeword: BRILLIANT
✓►CHARACTER◄
Name: Lucas Gorecki
Nicknames: Luke,
Date of birth/age: August 4 1985 / 26
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Pansexual (but oh boy does he have other things on his mind)
Job: homeless, unemployed, the fact that he's surviving surprises even him.
Degrees/Permits: high school diploma.
Languages Spoken: English.
Human or shifter: shifter
Appearance:
(PB: Joe Anderson)
Lucas lives all the romanticized sides of homeless life and it shows, from the clothes that are two sizes too big and three years overdue from their date with a waste bin, to the haggard, scraggly beard he sports and the bags under his eyes. He's scrawny, all limbs and awkward movement and ribs people can practice the xylophone on.
His hair tends towards the long-ish in a rough, haphazard cut that comes from gathering it together and attacking it with blunt scissors. It's rough to the touch, slightly oily at times and stringy. The worst thing, perhaps, is that his hair still has this hint, a promise if you will, that it could look good if just given a bit more time and care.
Due to his healing factor, bruises, cuts and scrapes heal quickly without leaving a mark, but that doesn't mean his skin is perfect. Lack of proper nutrition still has an effect, after all. Sallow looking, skin dry and rough and usually smudged with dirt just emphasise his state.
His nails are bitten to the skin and yet he still manages to somehow end up with dirt under them. It's a gift, really.
He has a few scars, left over from before the infection with Versi. The most noticeable of which is the collection of uneven, short scars on his right upper arm. He fell through a glass pane once and the shards of glass had to be picked out of his arm with a set of tweezers.
(22 May 2012): His particular manifestation of Versi has recently resulted in an eye-opening experience. Literally. A second set of eyes have appeared just below his regular ones.
Personality: Lucas is dealing very, very poorly with his shifting. He started having auditory and visual hallucinations during his teens, just shadow figures from the corners of his eyes and he could swear, occasionally, that he could hear people talking or hear someone drop something heavy while there was absolutely nothing. Shifting into a spider did not help matters. He hears things in the walls, teeth and feral grins and the scent of purple wind chasing over a desert made out of grains of moonlight. In short: dealing badly.
On top of that, he can't stand being touched. There is no big, secret, traumatic reason for it. His animal form's acute sense touch carried over the strongest of all, so he feels everything. All the time. A simple touch will cause him to shift. Anything slightly firmer hurts. He has no control nor idea how to switch those senses off.
That's not to say that his problems are all there is to him, it's just what a lot of people see and decide not to get to know him.
Lucas loves the stars. He can point out and name constellations, and not just the ones commonly used for the horoscopes, along with a vast amount of celestial bodies. He loves pecan pie, but thinks that the one his grandmother used to make is the best. He's a strong swimmer. He's the kind of guy who picks up and buries roadkill or at least moves it out of traffic so other animals won't get hit by cars while trying to scavenge.
Lucas is smart, very much so, but never really fit in in conventional schooling methods. He hates busy places, and classrooms were one of them and he always felt invisible to the teacher. These days, if he can get into the library or if he has a little bit of cash, he'll try to get a non-fiction book about any kind of subject he thinks is interesting.
Strengths:
- Smart. He's smart enough to figure out plans and patterns and ways to survive when he's lucid.
- Kind. He cares for people, animals and just has a warm, big heart.
- Survives despite the odds. His life might be a mess, but at least he's still living it.
- Excellent eye sight. He can see small details and read signs, for example, that are stiull very far away.
Weaknesses:
- He's slowly losing his grasp on his sanity.
- Being touched can hurt him.
- Shifting hurts and once he's back in his human form, he's disoriented.
- He doesn't know how to process the input from his spider form.
History: Lucas spend his early life in a state of benign neglect. The middle son of seven children with a sickly younger sister and a mentally handicapped big brother, his parents were just too busy to make time for Lucas, who was by nature quiet and didn't cause trouble and did his best to avoid brother. While his four other siblings often demanded attention by acting out in one way or another, Lucas kept his troubles a closely guarded secret, even more so when he hit his teens and it started.
It wasn't that bad. He could ignore it. Perhaps a lot of people heard and saw things that weren't there and he was just being whiny over it. Maybe that was it. Besides, it wasn't that bad that he could hear people talking and books dropping in empty hallways or saw a tree grinning at him or faint shadow figures darting around the corner of his eyes.
It wasn't that bad, he just kept quiet and hoping that it would stop when he was older. Perhaps it was one of those adolescent brain chemistry things. It wasn't as the voices talked to him. They were just snippets of conversations and at times he could swear he heard his name whispered, but it was okay and not worth troubling his parents over. The one time he came close to mentioning it, his oldest brother robbed a 7/11 and got his dumb ass caught and thrown in jail, giving his parents even more to worry about.
He barely finished high school, not really fitting in or making friends. His yearbooks were signed with 'have a nice summer' and more generic platitudes, but even those were few and far in between.
The auditory and visual hallucinations didn't go away, but by the time he graduated, he was used to it. He moved away from his parents and to his maternal grandmother, his favourite family member by far, an old lady with strong opinions about everything and who paid attention to him. She had fallen and broken her hip and needed help around the house to get by. Lucas decided to that and, hey, Florida seemed like a nice change from Texas.
And then febris versipellis came. His grandmother, old and her health hadn't fully returned to her after the fall, not even after her hip had healed and she had started walking again. She was one of the casualties and Lucas, fighting off a bad cold at the time, caught Versi on top of that. His fever sky-rocketed during the days while his grandmother lay dead in her bed and his hallucinations, combined with the illness, became worse than ever. Horrible nightmares, spiders pouring from his grandmother's mouth and eyes and nose and ears.
He was lucky that the neighbours came to check when they started to smell something off and hadn't seen Lucas around. He was brought to the hospital, which was already filled up, heavily sedated until one day a nurse came to check on him and discovered his bed empty. No one realized that a wolf spider skittering and hiding in holes, eventually escaping the hospital, was there. Let alone that it was the disoriented, scared Lucas.
Lucas has been falling apart ever since. He hasn't been able to hold down a job because he keeps disappearing. Trying to explain that he hadn't ditched his shift but had accidentally shifted never seemed to help. He lost his home and life on the streets did nothing to stabilize his deteriorating mental state. These days, he alternates between startlingly lucid, clear days with frightening episodes dominated by auditory and visual hallucinations and randomly shifting into his spider shape.
✓►SHIFTER◄
Species: Rosemary wolfspider (Lycosa ericeticola)
Group: Spiders
Conservation status: data deficient, but endemic to Florida and according to studies done in 1987 (I know, old, but the best I can locate) abundantly present in the area it occupies (1 adult male per square meter).
Appearance:
Abilities: Strength has only increased a little, but his eye sight and sense of touch have increased dramatically. He can heal from bruises and cuts and scrapes in second to minutes. His shifting causes great amounts of pain and he has no idea how to translate sensory input. He often gets confused by his number of limbs.
Username: Anomaly
Preferred method of contact: PB
How did you find us: In my braaaaiiiiin
Codeword: BRILLIANT
✓►CHARACTER◄
Name: Lucas Gorecki
Nicknames: Luke,
Date of birth/age: August 4 1985 / 26
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Pansexual (but oh boy does he have other things on his mind)
Job: homeless, unemployed, the fact that he's surviving surprises even him.
Degrees/Permits: high school diploma.
Languages Spoken: English.
Human or shifter: shifter
Appearance:
(PB: Joe Anderson)
Lucas lives all the romanticized sides of homeless life and it shows, from the clothes that are two sizes too big and three years overdue from their date with a waste bin, to the haggard, scraggly beard he sports and the bags under his eyes. He's scrawny, all limbs and awkward movement and ribs people can practice the xylophone on.
His hair tends towards the long-ish in a rough, haphazard cut that comes from gathering it together and attacking it with blunt scissors. It's rough to the touch, slightly oily at times and stringy. The worst thing, perhaps, is that his hair still has this hint, a promise if you will, that it could look good if just given a bit more time and care.
Due to his healing factor, bruises, cuts and scrapes heal quickly without leaving a mark, but that doesn't mean his skin is perfect. Lack of proper nutrition still has an effect, after all. Sallow looking, skin dry and rough and usually smudged with dirt just emphasise his state.
His nails are bitten to the skin and yet he still manages to somehow end up with dirt under them. It's a gift, really.
He has a few scars, left over from before the infection with Versi. The most noticeable of which is the collection of uneven, short scars on his right upper arm. He fell through a glass pane once and the shards of glass had to be picked out of his arm with a set of tweezers.
(22 May 2012): His particular manifestation of Versi has recently resulted in an eye-opening experience. Literally. A second set of eyes have appeared just below his regular ones.
Personality: Lucas is dealing very, very poorly with his shifting. He started having auditory and visual hallucinations during his teens, just shadow figures from the corners of his eyes and he could swear, occasionally, that he could hear people talking or hear someone drop something heavy while there was absolutely nothing. Shifting into a spider did not help matters. He hears things in the walls, teeth and feral grins and the scent of purple wind chasing over a desert made out of grains of moonlight. In short: dealing badly.
On top of that, he can't stand being touched. There is no big, secret, traumatic reason for it. His animal form's acute sense touch carried over the strongest of all, so he feels everything. All the time. A simple touch will cause him to shift. Anything slightly firmer hurts. He has no control nor idea how to switch those senses off.
That's not to say that his problems are all there is to him, it's just what a lot of people see and decide not to get to know him.
Lucas loves the stars. He can point out and name constellations, and not just the ones commonly used for the horoscopes, along with a vast amount of celestial bodies. He loves pecan pie, but thinks that the one his grandmother used to make is the best. He's a strong swimmer. He's the kind of guy who picks up and buries roadkill or at least moves it out of traffic so other animals won't get hit by cars while trying to scavenge.
Lucas is smart, very much so, but never really fit in in conventional schooling methods. He hates busy places, and classrooms were one of them and he always felt invisible to the teacher. These days, if he can get into the library or if he has a little bit of cash, he'll try to get a non-fiction book about any kind of subject he thinks is interesting.
Strengths:
- Smart. He's smart enough to figure out plans and patterns and ways to survive when he's lucid.
- Kind. He cares for people, animals and just has a warm, big heart.
- Survives despite the odds. His life might be a mess, but at least he's still living it.
- Excellent eye sight. He can see small details and read signs, for example, that are stiull very far away.
Weaknesses:
- He's slowly losing his grasp on his sanity.
- Being touched can hurt him.
- Shifting hurts and once he's back in his human form, he's disoriented.
- He doesn't know how to process the input from his spider form.
History: Lucas spend his early life in a state of benign neglect. The middle son of seven children with a sickly younger sister and a mentally handicapped big brother, his parents were just too busy to make time for Lucas, who was by nature quiet and didn't cause trouble and did his best to avoid brother. While his four other siblings often demanded attention by acting out in one way or another, Lucas kept his troubles a closely guarded secret, even more so when he hit his teens and it started.
It wasn't that bad. He could ignore it. Perhaps a lot of people heard and saw things that weren't there and he was just being whiny over it. Maybe that was it. Besides, it wasn't that bad that he could hear people talking and books dropping in empty hallways or saw a tree grinning at him or faint shadow figures darting around the corner of his eyes.
It wasn't that bad, he just kept quiet and hoping that it would stop when he was older. Perhaps it was one of those adolescent brain chemistry things. It wasn't as the voices talked to him. They were just snippets of conversations and at times he could swear he heard his name whispered, but it was okay and not worth troubling his parents over. The one time he came close to mentioning it, his oldest brother robbed a 7/11 and got his dumb ass caught and thrown in jail, giving his parents even more to worry about.
He barely finished high school, not really fitting in or making friends. His yearbooks were signed with 'have a nice summer' and more generic platitudes, but even those were few and far in between.
The auditory and visual hallucinations didn't go away, but by the time he graduated, he was used to it. He moved away from his parents and to his maternal grandmother, his favourite family member by far, an old lady with strong opinions about everything and who paid attention to him. She had fallen and broken her hip and needed help around the house to get by. Lucas decided to that and, hey, Florida seemed like a nice change from Texas.
And then febris versipellis came. His grandmother, old and her health hadn't fully returned to her after the fall, not even after her hip had healed and she had started walking again. She was one of the casualties and Lucas, fighting off a bad cold at the time, caught Versi on top of that. His fever sky-rocketed during the days while his grandmother lay dead in her bed and his hallucinations, combined with the illness, became worse than ever. Horrible nightmares, spiders pouring from his grandmother's mouth and eyes and nose and ears.
He was lucky that the neighbours came to check when they started to smell something off and hadn't seen Lucas around. He was brought to the hospital, which was already filled up, heavily sedated until one day a nurse came to check on him and discovered his bed empty. No one realized that a wolf spider skittering and hiding in holes, eventually escaping the hospital, was there. Let alone that it was the disoriented, scared Lucas.
Lucas has been falling apart ever since. He hasn't been able to hold down a job because he keeps disappearing. Trying to explain that he hadn't ditched his shift but had accidentally shifted never seemed to help. He lost his home and life on the streets did nothing to stabilize his deteriorating mental state. These days, he alternates between startlingly lucid, clear days with frightening episodes dominated by auditory and visual hallucinations and randomly shifting into his spider shape.
✓►SHIFTER◄
Species: Rosemary wolfspider (Lycosa ericeticola)
Group: Spiders
Conservation status: data deficient, but endemic to Florida and according to studies done in 1987 (I know, old, but the best I can locate) abundantly present in the area it occupies (1 adult male per square meter).
Appearance:
Abilities: Strength has only increased a little, but his eye sight and sense of touch have increased dramatically. He can heal from bruises and cuts and scrapes in second to minutes. His shifting causes great amounts of pain and he has no idea how to translate sensory input. He often gets confused by his number of limbs.
