Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2023 8:00:40 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA
Lorenzo François Lèclusier
"Et merde.... I guess I'm going to try...Because...I...Have to?"
BASICS
NAME: Lorenzo Lèclusier
AGE: 27
BIRTHDATE: 06/07
PRONOUNS: He/Him
SEXUALITY: Bisexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Security Guard
NEIGHBORHOOD: East End
MEMBER GROUP: Gifted
POWERS: Empathy
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT:
WEIGHT: 5’4’’
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Clear brown
FACE CLAIM: Luca Marinelli
OVERALL APPEARANCE:
Despite his kind (but shy) smile and his muscular and tonic body, Lorenzo is not especially charismatic and he doesn’t looks like his doing any effort to improve in this area. His arms are always folded, he looks like a guy who’s never very happy to be where he is. It’s like he’s always waiting for the authoritazion to leave. He rarely looks at someone straight in the eyes, even when they’re harmless or even friendly, but with the violence that emanates from his body it’s a nice thing : his eyes pointing at the floor make him look akward and shy instead of agressive. Most people are not scared of him, and he’s very grateful for that. Sometimes, very perceptive people have an odd feeling nontheless standing next to him, like there is something unstable, hide beneath this shy stocky man. Something that could explode. His clothes are very simple and often the same (jean, t-shirt with a generic color (brown, navi blue, kaki) and the same leather jacket every season) but those clothes are always very clean and freshly ironed. Lorenzo smels like soap, wine and tobacco.
INSIDE
LIKES:
-French boxing
-Running
-Swimming
-Cooking and good food. Lorenzo likes to eat italian food, with good products. It’s not an easy things with his salary as a security guard. He often stops in front of traditional fish shops of Los Eurosias, stares at a salmon which looks nice, realises it’s the tenth of the month and that his wallet is already empty, and then continues to walk, his hands burried in his pockets.
-Quiet place and silence
-Water : river, shower, sea, ocean, rain, whatever forms the water wants to take..Lorenzo is an H2O lover.
-To clean and wash things ( it really cools him down and when he has a hard day, it’s not rare for him to buy a set of inovative sponges to calm his nerves.)
-When he’s able to use is gift to help someone who is depressed or angry (but it’s rare, most of the time his gift just tame him like a poor puppy and he ends up being depressed or angry with the person)
-His neighborhoods (East End)
-Most of his colleagues at Illusion Lounge
-To have money in his wallet (but it’s rare)
DISLIKES:
-Liar, manipulator
-People who knows what is best for people better than themselves
-Noise, crowded area
-When his gift becomes out of control and he is powerless
-Most of rich people (even if deep inside he knows some of them are ok.)
-When he cannot translate what he wants to say in english
-That he’s still dreaming in french after three months in Las Eurosias
-The mess
-Hunters
-The Sector
-His gift
-His job at the Illusion Lounge
-Most clients at the Illusion Lounge
-Fire weapons
-Fast food and particularly cheap cheesy pizza with grease.
STRENGTHS:
-Exellent instinct toward people because of his gift: The extreme empathy he has allows Lorenzo to percieve the feelings and sensation of people near him (twenty metters area.) He feels the true intention of people. When he is in a quiet place where they are not too many people to distract him whith their feelings, a manipulator cannot lie to him. This helps him a lot at his job as a security guard.
-The possibilities of his gift : He’s supposed to be able to contaminate others with his own feelings or sensation. It could be precious in a lot of situation but he doesn’t handle this well and is affraid to use it.
Also, it happened by accident before, he can have acess to some of the strongest emotional memory of a person if he touches its skin. But, once again, he’s too careful to try this, Lorenzo is terrified to switch permanently memories, he have already been lost in other's life too many times.
His sister told him once she wondered if he could feel the feeling of a deceased person by touching him, but he swore to himself to never try. He does’nt want to know the feeling of a dead corpse. He has enough enigma to solve with the living.
-Patience : his current job involves to stand on your feet in the cold all night, his colleagues suffer from those conditions, but despite the low salary, Lorenzo does’nt mind the job. When his colleagues ask him how he does he answers that he’s just use to wait. And that waiting is like riding a bike : you never forget, because that’s the easiest thing to do on earth.
-Solid : His mind is a little bit scattered because of his gift, but Lorenzo can take a lot of mental, emotional of physical pain before breaking. He just has that kind of stubborn hard-boiled spirit that allows him to take multiple attack before passing out or dying.
-Hand-to-hand fighting : Lorenzo is a very competent boxer when his gift doesn’t prevail him to punch his opponent.
-Humor : Lorenzo knows how much his incapicity to handle his gift makes him weak or akward, but he has learned to laugh about it instead of going on dramatic walk under the moon, pitying himself as he used to do when his gift spoiled his life as a teenager. As a French, it was a journey but he managed to grow up some self mockery ...miracles happened.
WEAKNESSES:
-His « gift » : Lorenzo does’nt control his gift very well, it’s quite the opposite way. Most of the time, the young man is drowned under hundreds of feelings and sensation from strangers. When there is too many people, the feelings are all mixed up and he cannot remenber what his original sensation was. In hugely crowded area, if he hadn’t drink enough, it can come to a point where he forget his own name or history. For instance, one day, he almost called his father in Texas, excited to annouce him he had graduated, before realising he had never graduated anything, had never put a feet on Texas, and didn’t know where his biological father was. It was someone else’s joy.
His own immediate sensitive memory can be mixed up with the one of a stranger : for instance, one day he asked all night for Spritz and Manhatan instead of red wine at Pat’s Bar, it took him ages before realising that a girl and her friends were drinking Spritz and Manhatan at a table next to him, and were so glad of her drinks that they contaminated him and made him forget he liked wine.
Moreover, when he concentrates enough to use his gift in an useful way, a lot of issues can appear. For instance when he focuses on someone with a critical pain (mental or physical) he will feel the suffering of the person so precisely than he will have the same effect as if he was injuried himself, at a point where it could kill him.
-Foreigner : Lorenzo is French and he doesn’t speak or understand english as much as he would like to. Besides, he has a very strong south of France accent, and often, american cannot understand him well.
-Alcoholic : Lorenzo drinks a minimum of two bottle of red wine and a flask of vodcah per day, he pretends that if he doesn’t he feels the emotions of too many people.
-Smoking: Lorenzo smokes a lot, and if he does’nt, his gift manifest itself in an even more agressive way than usual. And, in a less romantic level, he’s simply addict.
-Guilt : Lorenzo knows that he could have saved his sister if he had come to the united states when she send him a postcoard where she said she needed help. Now she’s missing, because of him.
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Most of the time, the real personality of Lorenzo is burried under the one of other people passing by. But some things seems less inconsistant than others: he always tries his best to be a good simple man, he's steady, compassionate, likes good food, good laugh, people who take care of each other, he likes to solve his problems with hand to hand fight, and even if his gift provides him to do it easily, Lorenzo knows that team work is always better than a lone path. He's quiet most of the time, don't have a strong leadership, he's a patient guy who keep swimming to not drown. Even if his Gift encourage him to go away from people, he likes them and try to fight against his envy to flee from all those feelings.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: Carcenac, France.
FAMILY:
-Sister : Flora Lèclusier Tivadi (missing)
-Mother : Maria Lèclusier (insane)
- Step – Father : Robert Tivadi
-Father : (unknown)
PETS: None.
HISTORY:
Lorenzo François Lèclusier was born in Las Eurosias from a young naive french mother who wanted to be a singer in the US and ended up in very dark places in Las Eurosias. He doesn’t know his father, her mother explained to him that there was at least ten guy who could be his genitor and that she didn’t remenbered the name of half of them. So Lorenzo never searched. When he was two, an ancient friend from France came to rescue his mother : Robert Tivadi, a plumber, a simple man, poor, crushed by life, but steady and very much in love with Maria Lèclusier and «prêt à être un père pour le petit Lorenzo. » Robert lived with Maria and her little baby Lorenzo for one year until Maria get pregnant again with a little girl. Flora Lèclusier Tivadi was born in a seedy clinic called Las Floras de Eurosias, but the trouble of Maria with druggs didn’t improve during the pregnancy, and affraid to lost his wife to the temptation of East End, Robert convince Maria to move back to France with their two babies « Il y aura du soleil, des gens qu’on connaît, et on pourra t’éloigner de cette foutue saloperie de drogue... » The Lèclusier Tivadi had no money, being four to survive on the ridiculous salary of Robert the french plumber, but with a lot of effort, Robert managed to buy four plane tickets when baby Flora was one year old and Lorenzo three and a half. Bye bye, Las Eurosias, Bye bye Maria’s demons. That what Robert hoped.
They lived in Carcenac, south of France, for fifteen years. Lorenzo liked his step father very much, knowing that beneath his roughness, he was a honest man and most importantly, a kind one. Robert taught to Lorenzo to fight , to cook, to fix plumbing, to stay quiet when you have nothing to say, to be honest and never ever stole (even to the rich) because society smash hardly those who have nothing and want more, to respect authority, to be patient with life even when it was hard because «qu’est ce qu’on peut y faire de toute façons ? », to wait, to not think too much because « penser, ça fait réver, et dieu sait de quels vilains atomes nostalgiques nos rêves sont fait », to be joyful as much as you could because it was so easy to be sad, to accept that life wasn’t going to be what you were hopping for, to accept that you didn’t matter for the rich and powerful in this world and it didn't provide you to keep your promises and take care of your family. The nice plumber taught Lorenzo to stay sane in a brutal and unfair world.
Even if it was sometimes a lethargic way of perceving lige, knowing you are nothing but accepting it and never fighing back, with his Gift tormenting him since his childhood, Lorenzo hold to that steady state of mind to stay sane. Because, with his gift of empathy and his mother slowly falling into depression and madness in their little house, he had to focus on the rock, and not felt into the deep blue heart-rending distress of his mother. It was a fight of every day to not slip into madness with her . Sometimes, when Robert was out and Lorenzo stuck at home to take care of his mother, he began to forget he was he and she was she after two hours, feeling the void of crushed singing dreams inside his stomach, the bitterness to have two child she never truly wanted, she who was so independant as a little girl, so sure to be an artist and not a mother, and percieving sharpy bones under a fleshless body even if he was, himself, a healthy and muscular young boy.
But then, when Lorenzo was eighteen and Flora fifteen, Robert felt in love again, with a witty italian woman full of joy named Elena. Lorenzo felt the shame and guilt of Robert when he annouced he will took Flora with him to Napoli and let Lorenzo decide what to do with his life since he was eighteen, because that was the law. The two men knew Lorenzo was bound to his biological mother and had to stay here with her, that was the right thing to do. Flora, who was very critic toward his father and always warned Lorenzo on the « manly and prehistoric » point of view Robert had toward the world, cried and screamed, and asked her father to take Lorenzo with them to Napoli. « You don’t stop needing help just because you’re eighteen and you’re a man !My brother can’t keep a job since his sixteen with his « gift », father, he stills need help for a little while until he manage that issue. You’re not going to scramble my brother life saying he must take care of my depressed mother to fit to your patriarchal fairy tale : We’re not living into the sixties anymore ! Our mother needs medical help, not the sacrifice of her son’s mental health for some manly romantize bullshit ! Lorenzo,you have to come with us, you know I’m right, don’t you ? Please.. » Flora was truly a smart teenager, and years laters Lorenzo knew he should have listen to her.
Lorenzo took care of his mother for two years. Then, Maria began to experience paranoid crisis. Lorenzo was unable to stop the crisis. He was too contaminate by the craziness hovering inside the house already and most of the time, despite all the acohol he was already drinking, his mind, slave to his gift, felt into the distress of his mother and he felt the same terror as her. By the time she had daily hallucination the young Lèclusier finally found her a place in a psychatric institute. Then, for the six and a half next years, he worked at crappy job across Europa, trying to heal himself from the two years spent alone with his depressive mother. To do so, he drank and worked. During those nine years alone in Europa, he always received letters and postcard from his little sister and tried to hide his distress to her. Flora was doing great, reaching twenty years old she had moved to the fantastic city of Las Eurosias to be a reporter, there was a good school in this city, and possibilities. It was hard, she had a huge student loan and had to work at the mall to pay her rent, but she was happy. Until…
Until six month earlier, when Lorenzo recieved a card from Flora informing him she was affraid to be cursed with a « Gift » just like him. She didn’t wanted to explain her gift in this postcard which was " likely to be read by The Sector, -or worse : Hunters- " but she was terrified and begged her big brother to come help her as soon as he could. She was trying to contact Blackstorm, but she was scared that the Hunters found her first.
When he recieved the letter, the oldest of the Lèclusier lived in a permanent alcoholic blur in Croatia, drinking by night and working by day as a docker. His colleagues were bitter, lonely worker, one of them had recently lost his wife and with her, any taste for life, and in consecuencies,with his gift, those feelings had became the knew personality of Lorenzo. At this time, surounded by those colleagues, he truly, sincerely, felt like Flora troubles were none of his business. She was young, she was alive, why all the fuss ? So he wrotte back a laconic postcard (portraying neutral ship on a neutral beach), saying he was too busy and too poor to come to the US. But he wished her luck, she was smarter than he would ever be and she would find a solution. "Xoxoxo." He didn’t even buy an envelop, just stamp the postcard and send it to Las Eurosias.
Three month later, Lorenzo moved to Serbia and met a bartender full of joy and concern. THe young Lèclusier then slowly felt again some feelings he had completly forget on the docks : humor, lightness, love and worries for his sister, sense of duty… Lorenzo then tried every way to reach his little sister, but nothing worked. He managed to contact his step-father, who informed him that Flora had been declared missing for two weeks now in Las Eurosias. Robert had an heart attack hearing the news and hadn’t been well enough to informed Lorenzo, and Elena didn't known how to reach him. Lorenzo hanged the phone and bought a plane ticket the next day for Las Eurosias.
He has lived there for three month now. The oldest Lèclusier had become a Security Guard at the Illusion Lounge, renting an appartment in the neighborhood of East End, trying to figure out what happened to his little sister and if she’s stile alive. Have those Hunters captured her, or is this the Sector ? He wishes to meet someone from Blackstorm, maybe those guys could help him find the little sister he has abandonned.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Gwen
Note: Hello! I'm French and therefore my english is not very good (== ....) I really love to writte with others (and I'm currently working very hard on my english) so I've created this character. But if you think it's going to be too complicated to play on you forum, I would entirely understand.
AGE: 25
TIMEZONE: UTC+2