Name: Lukas “NoLuck“ Grote
Age:29
Bounty: 18.000.000 for bringing down “NoLuck“. Nothing for bringing down the famed mercenary Lukas Grote. No one knows what “NoLuck“ looks like, acts like, or what his real name is. Good thing too.
Species: Human
Occupation: Mercenary (Engineer, Informant, Forger)
Allegiance: Whoever pays most.
Home Village/Ocean: Grand Line, Water Seven
Appearance: Everyone knows his workingname but only few people knows his face. Out of those few, even less know the name belonging to it.
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History: Lukas was an orphan and lived at an orphanage. His parent's died shortly after he was born.
It was a stupid accident. Lukas was born, everyone was happy and they left the hospital soon after. Lukas was carried by his older brother, and everyone was too busy doting him to notice the noise down the street, where marines were chasing a pirate crew. No one knew whether it was the pirates or marines who shot them, but it was an accident. Lukas doesn't even remember it. Well, his brother didn't have enough money to take care of both of them, so Lukas had to live in the orphanage. Lukas didn't take much mental damage from all of this, because he didn't even know his parents. But that's how he got to the orphanage. He didn't have a bad childhood but he never met his brother. At the age of 6, he entered school. His results were good, very good, but because of his precocious, better-knowing manners, he didn't have any friends. But that didn't make a diffrence to him. At the age of 9, he began to steal things. Of course, he wasn't a professional thief at that time but he learned fast from his mishaps. At the age of 14, he wanted to steal from his maths teacher. The teacher saw him stealing before but he was old and he was dement. He had a folder where he kept the things he had written down that day. That folder served as his memory, and so it contained all he knew about Lukas and his little.... adventures on the criminal side.
Lukas broke into the teachers house to steal those documents. That was his first time breaking into a house. Since the opportunity was there, he upgraded his marks as well. And since he found that upgrade to be very useful, he continued doing it with other teachers, who had to protocol the information about their students by school law. During that year he skipped the next two school years. Of course his teachers found that suspicous, but it was the headmaster who decided such things, and that jeadmaster had only documents of him.
At the age of 15 Lukas entered the college. He left after a year with some of the best resultsof any student. The professors history wasn't flawless, even less were his hobbies, and a few photos and documents can change a lot.
At the age of 17 he worked at a machine factory of the marine, were he learned much about machines, electric and the best global technics. That's were he learned the basics of fighting too.
At the age of 19 he invented his fireswords by combining a sword-dial with a fire-dial and some special fancy devices, some of which were his design also. He needed a year to find the dials and another year to invent the swords. (just for making clear that he didn't just took a fire-dial and smashed it with the axe-dial till it was one compound of something...).
At the age of 20 he decided to become a mercenary. There was, from his point of view, a lot more money to make in that business. Also, once the marine would find out about his little invention, they'd surely want it for themselves, and he couldn't let that happen. So he left the marine and started to make money by taking all kinds of requests.
At the age of 23 he was quite a popular, successfull mercenary already.
By stealing information from the HQ of the World Goverment, he made his workingname known to the world. Not that the government wanted that little detail to be known, but he didn't let them decide about it, and some journalists were just waiting for the opportunity to pay a lot for that kind of scandal.
The government didn't like that, and gave him a bounty. Too bad they only had his working name. Neither his real name, nor his face, and he's very careful to have it stay that way.
To the world, he's Lukas Grote, the big mercenary. To himself, he's NoLuck, the criminal. He finds that little game quite fun.
Personality: Give him the money and he'll give you information, help or blood if
you need it. He values on anonymity, timing and unnoticed and precise working, which is understandable if you consider his second life.
When he finishes a job as Lukas Grote he always leaves his sign (his flag simbol) instead of the stolen object on the dead body or whatever the target was - except when the job forbids it. That sign is linked directly to the mercenary Lukas, who has absolutely nothing to do with “NoLuck“.
As “NoLuck“, he rarely ever does jobs, never shows his face to the ones who hired him, and finishes the job without leaving clues to his identity, save for one: a playing card. The zero of clubs. Unmistakingly his own design.
“NoLuck“ doesn't take requests, he asks for them.The information he gathers allows him to find out who might need his service with what. What follows are ominous phonecalls or messages. He chooses his employers and jobs carefully, so that his choices do not lead to what he prefers. Naturally, of course, he still makes it obvious that you need a lot of money to hire “NoLuck“.
He's had assassinations, thefts, forging, requests for information, treasure hunts.... As “NoLuck“, he takes them seemingly randomly. As Lukas, he takes the most profitable, though he wouldn't say no to something immensely fun either. It's just that money always comes first.
No one knows just how he got so greedy, and other than that, he's a pretty chilled and nice guy, but when it comes to money, he gets really, really serious.
He's undeniably very intelligent, and a sociable man, though he always pays mind to not giging any clues about his second identity.
Ship: Doesn't have a ship since transportation is not part of his job. The one who hires him has to take care of that.
Flag (Well, sign, kind of): „Crazy Skull“/“Zero of clubs“
Picture:Crazy Skull
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Zero of clubs: A simple playing card, it looks normal, but instead of a number that actually exists in a cardgame, it has a zero on it.
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Special Abilities: He thinks fast and logically.
“There's nothing in the world I can't steal“
Learned Techniques : He is a sword fighter.... he fights with his Fireswords. But since the
swords are made of fire he can't block with them. If someone attacks him he has to dodge or be hit, unless the thing that attacks him can melt or burn (he's still possibly going to get hit by it though).
He learned the basics of swordfighting from the marine, but refined his style simply through experience.
Weapons/Items:
Two fireswords (plus refilling devices)
Lockpick
Wrench (and some other normal, not too big tools)
Goals: Being the best one in every one of his professions and find his older brother.
Sun Jan 02, 2011 2:30 pm
