Profile R-154: Luxuria

Luxuria was born in a small T'tere village to two, rather poor gryphon ranchers. He lived a relatively normal, if poverty filled life up until their untimely demise, after which he took over the business with the assistance of an aunt, who, too, later died of a badly timed illness. Thus, leaving Lux an underweight, practically penniless 20 year old man, far more mature then he should've been at the time. He'd learned to hide his emotions and feelings by falling back on jokes and humour, but most of all, he seemed to come out of all of it a little unhinged. He sometimes struggles to notice emotions for both himself and those he's talking to, which can make him come off as insincere, nasty, or just argumentative. He also wont thing twice about cutting someone if they try to attack him or his gryphons. 

He started to train himself how to fight properly, and as the years dragged on he developed his unique, imaginative and eccentric personality into something of a character in his local area. His charismatic and polite nature towards strangers and calm nature when dealing with officials and important strangers in his life has made him a skilled business man and, in his community, a well liked man to boot. Lux also developed his skills in being a craftily skilled and resourceful individual as well. Being poor often meant stealing, but he made his trade in the exchanging and delivering of wanted information - and some unwanted information as well. He used these talents to get things he, or someone who's paying him, wants. He won peoples respect both willingly and unwillingly at times through his 'Jack of all trades' persona, the most notable being when a travelling official from the Rebellion started to take a shine to him. Luxuria didn't want any part in it. The official left, but not before leaving their card with him in case he ever changed his mind about lending his stock, or his skilled hands and mind, to the Rebellion. 

 

The Abrendese Militia wasn't so forgiving of his crude jibes or his refusal to relinquish his services, land or gryphons to their cause though. They attacked swfitly and fiercely and despite Lux's abilities, he barely got away with his life. He lost everything that day. Everything but one egg - the last surviving gryphon. He lost his eye during that fight and gained many of his scars. After staying with an ex for a while, with nowhere else to go, he took off as soon as he was better and vanished for a long while, planning to raise his gryphon and get revenge at the same time - he wanted to join the Rebellion. 


While his moral compass is now currently quite questionable in itself, and sways heavily with his mood at the time, his fierce, twisted loyalties tend to only come into effect with those he loves or is especially close to rather then whoever he's pledged his services to at the time. Lux has a tendency to snoop and sneak into places and things he's not supposed to overhear, or even be in, and manages to get out without being caught a majority of the time. Spying and information collecting had been second nature to him since he was a child, and has only matured with him. He even manages to make a little under the table money doing these things for the Alliance despite not being an official member yet. 

He is ferocious and very lethal in a fight with one of his two favoured weapons he often carries on him at the same time - a sharp, light weight dagger he made himself, and a crossbow that was given to him by the official he met, now a friend. He dislikes serious meetings and often finds a way to showily barge his way into them, and has been shown to have a soft spot for people he's somehow managed to win the loyalty of, making himself a 'gang' of sorts which he leads - if they mess up though, he does not hesitate to physically punish them. He respects physical power and resourcefulness above all else, and dislikes dishonorable men, especially ones that intentionally break rules. He is shown to go out of his way to help civilians that are put in danger by Milita or even Rebellion affairs, specifically women and children. Occasionally his sense of self preservation will win over his need to do the right thing, and unlike some, he is not above turning a blind eye to the suffering of others. If there is a chance that something will cause problems for himself or anyone close to him, he will not hesitate to throw others under the bus.

He is shown to hold on very closely to the past, and never forgets a promise. He is loyal to a fault and will put anyone that he cares about above himself. He is incredibly hard to read or predict unless you know him inside out. His closest ally and friend is his gryphon Nova, whom he treats like a spoiled child. She is never far from him. He also has an obsession with hand operated traditional weapons such as knives and bows.