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Name: Dante
Contact Info: TheIrradiated@gmail.com and
Other Characters Played: Toboe
Preferred Apartment: None
Character Name: Luke Triton
Canon: Professor Layton
Canon Point: Chapter 6 of Unwound Future
Background/History:
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Previous Game History:
Luke spent nearly two years living in Mayfield, a seemingly quiet American 1950s town. The town had kidnapped him and tried to force him to believe that he had lived there all his life under a family of people he'd never met before. The town like to experiment on its residents, forcing them to kill one another, performing surgeries, altering memories, and other things. Luke had quickly worn down in the two years he lived there, and discovered after the town was falling to pieces that he was never the original Luke Triton. That he was only a digital copy in a computer simulation. This knowledge and his time in Mayfield had changed him in a lot of ways.
Luke is a lot more paranoid then his canon self. In canon, he's afraid of things like ghosts and monsters, but Mayfield has given him a reason to fear other things - violent people, hospitals, he even fears the people he cares about, because he's afraid they will either turn on him or abandoned him. Or worse, that they'll die and he won't be able to save them.
Luke is a little more violent and willing to get his hands dirty as opposed to his canon self. Mayfield taught him that in order to survive, he needed to learn how to fight in order to protect his own life or someone else's life. For a while, death and violence were a normal part of his life and because of this he has a lot of psychological scars as a result of some of the terrible things he's had to go through.
One of the big changes though, is how Luke went from cheerful and optimist to bitter and cynical. His optimistic attitude was worn down over time, and now it's harder for him to find hope in bad situations. He's also a lot more sad and distant from other people. And with the knowledge that he's only a copy, it's both a relief that he now doesn't have to feel guilty for some of the things he's gone through, but also deeply traumatic as now he's not sure what's real and what isn't.
Personality:
Luke is generally very kind and sweet to other people, as he sees it as part of becoming a gentleman. From time to time, he has the tendency of being cheeky, especially towards a person he sees as rude. He usually speaks his mind freely, which sometimes gets him scolded by Layton. He also has a tendency of acting before thinking, especially if he‘s suspicious of someone, such as when he tried to attack Inspector Chelmey thinking that he was the evil Don Paolo in disguise. Despite his brashness, he always tries to help someone if they need it.
Luke idolizes Professor Layton, to the point that it was he who made himself Layton’s apprentice, not the Professor. He tries hard to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, sometimes even mimicking his actions (pointing like Layton does when Layton isn‘t around). Also, he takes his role as an apprentice very seriously, even becoming defensive if someone questions his apprenticeship. Luke tends to be very curious about the world around him. The boy is very inquisitive and is always asking questions. Much like his mentor, he also shares Layton’s love for puzzles, but not to the extreme that Layton does.
Like most kids his age, Luke tends to have an overactive imagination. He gets scared by things like ghosts and vampires, and depending on the environment he‘s in, he‘ll be more jumpy and easily startled. He’s also a little naïve, especially about adult matters. Unlike the Professor, he lets his emotions show more often. He’ll lose his temper or become easily shocked by something. Or if something angers him, he'll let it show, even calling someone out on their actions if he doesn't approve of them. Sometimes, he’ll even give in to certain child-like temptations, like jumping on cushions of trains.
He loves animals, and has the ability to communicate with them. If he sees an animal, he’ll usually stop whatever he’s doing to greet it. Whether or not the animal reacts kindly to him is a different matter, because sometimes the animal will lash out at him no matter how nice he is to it. Nonetheless, he’ll always try to reach out to an animal that needs help.
Since Unwound Future, Luke has matured a little. He's become more confidant, going as far as calling himself a "whiz" at puzzles. Not only that, but he's more outspoken and will jump in conversations more often. Luke also is more independent, trying to take charge of a situation rather than letting the Professor decide for him, and will even argue back with the Professor if he doesn't agree with something. But what's probably the most noticeable is that Luke is more blunt than he was before, even to the point where he comes off as downright rude and the Professor ends up having to scold him for it. But on a positive note, the boy has learned to become a little more bold and even braver then he was in previous games.
Abilities/Powers: He has the ability to talk to animals.
Items/Weapons: His clothing, his violin, and tea set.
Sample Entry: Here!
Sample Entry Two:
When Luke woke up in a bed that wasn't his own, only to be met with silence, he thought of two things: One, this was another one of Mayfield's tricks or two, he was in some sort of dream. The past few days of his life had been nothing but pure chaos, from fighting for his life in a dark void filled with killer glitches to being told by Mayfield's creator that they were nothing more then copies created in a computer simulation. So when Luke woke up in a very bland-looking room, he wondered if this just another part of Mayfield. He couldn't leave after all, right?
A glance out the window managed to get a shocked gasp out of him. It looked like a bomb had been dropped on the area. That's it, he thought, this had to be a simulation of some kind. He's dealt with this kind of thing before, although the last thing he remembered was Mayfield falling apart, so maybe this was the new Mayfield. The idea admittedly did scare him, but he wasn't going to find out just staring at the window. So he bolts out of the room where he can get a better look, and what he finds by looking up at the old billboard causes him to do a double take.
"...Haven? Where on earth is Haven?"
No Westport, no Soviet Mayfield, he didn't remember any towns linked to Mayfield that went by the name of Haven. So if he woke up in a strange new town, then...
How on earth did he get here?