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Lukas Wilkan
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Personality: The man who used to be a bubbly, happy person with the life he knew he wanted to live heading right his way, is now an anxiety filled mess of a guy. He was able to stomach the fact zombies were a thing for the first week they had been occurring, but now they only bring back trauma from more than recent events. He has trained himself, within two days, to swallow his screams best he can and ignore fear, even when it wracks him in tremors. Lukas used to be very social and open to meeting strangers, but he is now extremely nervous and shy, and will not approach anyone on his own free will, not even another survivor. He must be approached, but even then he will be cautious, and probably have a weapon drawn. He has extreme mood swings where he will be unreasonably angry, depressed, or of course nervous.
This was long so I put it under a cut... sorry
Lukas has always told people that his life started when he met Nate. At the age of fourteen, he met Nate and they quickly became friends. Both were huge art nerds who spent half of their classes ignoring the teacher and drawing. They also had the same taste in music, same sense of humor, and were overall drawn to each other. It was the first point in Lukas' life that he felt truly happy.
His parents had never really paid him much mind since they were too busy getting high or drunk, sometimes both, and he'd been confiscated by social security officers more than one time. He bounced around foster families quite a lot, but they all managed to be within in the area. He never really told anyone about it, but Nate knew barely even a week after they'd started talking. After about three months, Nate brought him home to his parents and told them about him and his situation, and Nate's parents agreed that Lukas could stay with them instead of moving around with foster families so much.
From there, Lukas only bounced between his actual home and Nate's house until the day his father died from alcohol poisoning. His mother had followed quickly after with a drug overdose, unintentionally. From then on, Lukas went under the care of Nate's parents. He was never adopted by them - only stayed in their home with the permission of the court.
Lukas and Nate had become extremely close, to a point where they were never seen apart, and if they were, it was only because they were forced to be. The strong friendship they had became more than that soon after, with them declaring themselves a couple before they finished freshman year. They were high school sweethearts from then on, and never once did they even consider breaking up.
They spent the rest of high school together, making it through with one another at each other's side, and when they graduated, they applied for the same college. Both were accepted to the University of the Arts, They moved out of Nate's parents' house and got an apartment of their own off of campus grounds and were pretty content with their lives. It wasn't even half-way through their first year of college when Nate gave Lukas a promise ring, saying that when they were out of college and were in a good enough patch of their lives together that they could, he was going to marry him. Lukas had accepted it whole heartedly, and had never been merrier from then forth. Everyone noticed the happier mood change from him, and it was a pretty happy time for them for the next year and a half.
That was when the apocalypse happened.
When it had first been announced that the disease was breaking out, Nate had grabbed Lukas' hands and demanded to have an answer to "Will you marry me?". When Lukas had asked why, Nate told him, "If I die, I want to know you gave me a yes."
Lukas of course, said, yes, with all his heart, yes he would, and Nate brought their battle plan up from there. He grabbed everything they could stuff into their backpacks, as well as their messenger bags, and Lukas joined him. They set out after that, hoping to get a head start away from everything that was happening so they could leave.
They didn't make it in time. Their first encounter with zombies wasn't a pretty one. They defended themselves well, Nate having found a machete in an abandon house they found, along with a handgun, chefs knife, and sword that he's given to Lukas. Why the guy had a sword, neither of them questioned it. Still, Lukas fared well enough with it. Just before the last zombie of the bunch had been killed, however, it leaned over and bit into Lukas' wrist. It was an extremely deep wound, and Nate quickly pulled the zombie off of Lukas and killed it using Lukas' sword. Without a moments hesitation in between, he pushed Lukas to the nearest flat surface, slammed his arm onto it, and used his machete to amputate his arm, just above the elbow. It obviously hurt a lot, so much so that Lukas passed out quite quickly from the pain.
When he woke, Nate had used what little medical supplies he had to clean and dress the wound as best he could without professional help. Lukas was more than horrified to keep looking down and find half his arm gone, wrapped up in bandages and shreds of Nate's shirt, which had been used completely for bandages, but he didn't blame Nate one bit. Nate, however, blamed himself entirely, and was completely mortified by the fact he'd even done that at all. He'd just wanted Lukas to live, and if cutting off his arm was the only way to stop the infection from spreading completely, that was the way it had to be. Lukas was thankful that he did it, as he had no wishes to die so soon.
They had continued traveling for about two weeks before they next encountered zombies, and disposed of as many as they could before they decided they needed to try and run for it. They did, but Nate was grabbed from behind by a Walker, which bit into the area between his neck and shoulder. Lukas killed it and pulled Nate along, helping them both escape the zombies. They were both in stunned silence as they kept going to find a safer, quieter place, not really speaking to each other but holding hands very tightly. It wasn't until they were sure that they were safe that Nate pulled out his machete and asked Lukas to kill him.
Lukas refused at first, but Nate began to insist, saying he wasn't going to become one of those monsters. He told Lukas that his bite had been fixable, and that he was able to be saved, but he was not. Lukas and Nate fought for an hour before Lukas agreed to even hold Nate's machete, and it took even longer for Lukas to finally agree that he needed to kill Nate so he wouldn't suffer for longer than he had to.
In a quick flurry of words, Nate told Lukas that he wanted Lukas to live for him, that he wanted Lukas to be happy and that he wanted Lukas to make it through this for the both of them. He made sure Lukas knew that he didn't want him to linger on what they had these past six years, and to just live life in any way he could once this was over. He sounded sure when he said it would end, and he wanted Lukas to be able to move on from him once it was.
Nate once again made a point in asking if Lukas would marry him, for his own mental reassurance, and Lukas once again told him yes. Nate took of his promise ring and gave it to Lukas, along with everything else he had on him that he knew Lukas would need to survive. He then made sure the last thing he said was "I love you". No matter what Lukas said to him, Nate responded with, "I love you, Lukas," and that was that. It took some time and minimal assistance from Nate for Lukas to finally raise up the machete and bury it into Nate's skull, killing him instantly.
Lukas has a break down then and there, crying for what seemed like hours and screaming, not caring if anything came and found him. Nothing did, to his sudden disappointment. He did his best to respect the dead, taking his time in burying his lover of six years at the time, making sure he remembered where he was buried. He would visit the make-shift grave in the future, maybe give him a proper one when this was all over with, if it would ever be over with.
This event occurred two days before he appears in the RP, which leaves the idea and trauma of the event clear in his mind, and lingering always in the back of it.
He wears both his and Nate's promise rings on his left ring finger. They are the same silver banded rings, but with different gems in them. Lukas has diamonds in his, and Nate had amethysts in his.
Preferred Weapon: Butcher's knife and handgun




