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Lucas "Luke" Pierce ([personal profile] huamo) wrote2014-09-21 02:47 am
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the undercurrents > dossier




CERBERUS DATABASE: Pierce, Lucas

VIRTUE: Faith
VICE: Wrath
CONCEPT: The Last Man in the Team


   BIOMETRICS.

KNOWN ALIASES AND TITLES: Luke
DATE OF BIRTH: November 29, 2041
AGE: 25
NATIONALITY: Australian-Maori
FAMILY:

  • Oliver Pierce (Class: Touched, Water Adept - Legal Father, Head of R&D [Stormwatch, New Zealand])
  • Benjamin Pierce (Class: Touched, Fire Adept - Legal Father, Senior Auditor [Vice Enterprises, New Zealand)
  • Biological father unknown. The name of his biological mother has not been listed.

DISTINGUISHING MARKS:

  • A tattoo on his arm that looks much like this one.

 
APPEARANCE:





   HISTORY & PERSONALITY.

Sections have been written out on a separate page, linked here.
 


   HUNTER DOSSIER.

CLASS: Card (Hanged Man)
HOME CONSPIRACY: Zangyaku (originally stationed at Tangaroa [Sydney, Australia] - recently transferred to Gisi [The Falner Estate])
RANK: Oni-Tsukai {Koeda}/Nami {Eda}
POSITIONS HELD:

  • Senior Mortician (Tangaroa)


AFFILIATED COMPACTS/CONSPIRACIES:

  • The Midnight Riders [Ranger Division, Homesteads of Oceania]


OTHER AFFILIATED GROUPS:

  • None




   COMBAT ASSESSMENT.

TACTICAL DESIGNATION: Mid-Range Fighter (Defense/Control)
FAVORED WEAPONS:

  • Long Polearms
  • Staffs

ABILITIES: 
Card.
At its base, a Persona is the crystallized set of urges, drives and impulses that your character possesses – he or she is a direct reflection of the most powerful facet of its Card, what truly represents the Card for who he or she really is. Beyond that, however, a Persona is also an “archetype” – that is, a collection of symbolic ideas pertaining to a particular set of beliefs dedicated by the collective human consciousness. World literature and lore is populated by figures that represent something – Personae are similar to them, in that fashion.

If this analogy doesn’t quite make sense, let’s bring psychology back into the equation. Freud speaks of the Ego, the Id, and the Superego. The Card is the Ego. The Persona is their Id and Superego, combined.

Of course, the “human” aspect of a Persona is the Card, since his or her Persona was born from his or her psyche. It does not, however, possess any of the contradictions of thought and feeling that the Card possesses, and “lives” to act according to the rules and stipulations of what it represents. That, in turn, is governed by its Arcana. The individual powers and abilities that a Card has depends on two things: the Card's Arcana, and the Social Links he or she ends up making with other sentient creatures.

At the end of the day, a Card and her Persona are like two souls dwelling in the same psychic space, made up of exactly the same stuff – one merely represents a different side of the other at its “highest” and “finest” point without the limitations of the physical mind and body, including the burden of contradictory urges and feelings.


The Hanged Man.
The Hanged Man Arcana is the Arcana of consequences, of negotiating human suffering. The drawing of the Second Breath of a new Hanged Man is often a cause for concern among other Card: it means someone, somewhere, is going to feel hurt deeply. And while it’s no guarantee that it’s Hanged Man fault, it’s sure that he will do something about it.

Cards dealt under the Hanged Man usually have tragic pasts; the number of betrayals and suicides suffered by the members of the Arcana are second to none. As a result, they are sensitive to the nuances of pain and despair; disturbingly, some have learned to revel in it. The Arcana calls to it those who are capable of surviving the morass that is human suffering. Its duty is clear: to ensure the survival of the human race, it must weed out those who would be victims to the darkest of emotions. In a way, the Arcana does what other Arcana, even Justice, would not: to weed out the infirm, the weak, the spineless. It is still unclear, however, if Cards of this Arcana do this simply out of deference to their creed or out of sheer sadistic pleasure for the sort of power they now possess.

Luke has only recently drawn his Second Breath, and is still too used to fighting on a "human" level - as human as a trained Zangyaku oni-tsukai can get, anyhow.



   ITEMS & EQUIPMENT.

HUNTING EQUIPMENT:
Zangyaku

  • Wolf's Crest
  • The Demon's Mask (Taniwha, Shark)


The Midnight Riders

  • The Rider's Chain
  • The Rider's Toolbox
  • Rookwraith


PERSONAL POSSESSIONS:

  • Evoker, named "Kaitiaki"
  • The Book of Triumph (has been studying the book since acquisition on June 10, 2066)