Today’s character is Lukas. Introduction done. Lukas is a noble. He was born into a noble family, and is open about the fact that he is a noble. What’s unique about him, however, is the nature of his nobility. Lukas doesn’t have anything to his name. The region his family rules over is in the middle of nowhere, and he’s not the eldest child, meaning out of what they have, he gets nothing. Even other members of the nobility refer to him as a “backwater noble” disrespecting him in a very similar way they would a commoner. This “radicalized” Lukas in many ways, as he has much respect for many commoners, and is the only noble in the game to assume nothing bad of commoners. He has gone through the treatment himself, and therefore he treats nobles and commoners equally, no questions asked. This includes defending commoners when what they do, and where there place is, comes into question. Lukas is always the first noble to defend the commoner characters, with no hesitation. See the mega post, that’s how he gets when people try to disrespect them.

The person with all of the power in Lukas’s family is his half-brother. In fact, his half brother treats Lukas like a political pawn. He forced Lukas to join the Deliverance rebellion against Desaix, using Lukas as a way to gain favor. If Lukas and the Deliverance reclaimed Zofia, he could boast that he was the reason Lukas joined. If they lost and were killed/captured, he could feign ignorance. Lukas likes his work though, and he believes in the cause he is fighting for. Lots of respect for Lukas, because without him the Deliverance would have died…

Here’s where Lukas gets really interesting. He struggles a lot with emotion. People find him reliable because he is so level headed, but he wants to be able to portray more of his emotions. He’s definitely a kind of autistic, there’s a lot of them in this game, and there’s another aspect of his character that makes him feel worse in this case. Unlike all of his comrades, he does not experience any sort of sexual or romantic attraction. He’s very self-aware about this, but he doesn’t know why he feels this way. He just feels like something apart of what he sees as the human experience is missing for him. He has a partner back home, but he really doesn’t miss her, or care for her in that way. Another thing I like about Lukas’s writing is that he grows to accept his aroace identity, rather than tricking himself into a sexual or romantic relationship. He realizes that he doesn’t want that, and throughout the rest of his life, he never longs for a companion. He realizes that he was not missing something, but that being aroace is apart of him, something that makes him who he is.

This was Lukas, if you enjoyed please leave a like, subscribe to the channel, and comment below about who your favorite character from the world of Valentia is! I’ll see you all in the next one, bye

(cringe 2010s youtube outro music plays)

I saw one of my co-workers while we were out getting clothes, and I responded in a certain tone of voice that sounded really good to me. I tried holding on to it for as long as I could, but it slowly slipped back into it’s normal sound 😮‍💨. I was actually almost crying in the store, the combination of everything just hit me really hard.