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Lukas Vernesen; Male, 30, Bighorn Sheep
Topic Started: Aug 18 2011, 04:13 PM (226 Views)
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LUKAS VERNESEN
THE BASICS

Full Name: Lukas Novak Vernesen

NICKNAME: Novak, Luke, Lukas

AGE: 30

BIRTHDAY: April 13

GENDER: Male

PROFESSION: Civil Engineer, specializing in structural, construction, and geotechnical engineering


PLAYBY: Edward Burns
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THE ANIMAL
WE'RE ALL A BUNCH OF ANIMALS

SPECIES: Bighorn Sheep

OVERALL APPEARANCE: Big. The first thing you notice about this sheep is that he appears to be made of all muscle. He’s a big creature, with a thick neck and even thicker set body. His curling horns are broad and ribbed with various chips and scarring lashing the surface. He’s dark brown, sable, several shades darker than your typical bighorn.

DISTINGUISHING TRAITS: His horns curve outward slightly like a Transcaspian Urial.
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APPEARANCE
PAINT US A PICTURE


HAIR: Sable brown, dark and seal.

EYES: Deep set and denim blue.

BUILD: Hardy, Robust, Athletic. He is height-weight proportionate, has broad shoulders, a broad, muscular chest, a narrow waist and hips, and long legs.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: There is a thin layer of fat that lays over his stomach. It makes him look buff, keeping him from looking chiseled and toned. His has deep set eyes with very little eyelid showing, a very straight, long nose, and his eyelashes are thicker and longer than a typical male.

OVERALL APPEARANCE: Lukas stands 6’2 in socks. Despite being tall, his frame doesn’t award him a great deal of awe over the scheme of his massiveness. He’s robust, yes, built with heavy muscle that adds considerably to his weight and size, but doesn’t do much to intimidate. He’s not too terribly broad, and because of that, all of the weighty muscle generously hefted onto his heavy frame gets lost in his height. He’s hardly intimidating, though well put together is another thing entirely. To put it bluntly, whatever beefiness might have been ample on a man that was 6 foot, spreads out on his 6’2 frame to give off a simply ‘athletic’ built.

One thing that his appearance may, or may not, tell you is that he’s very strong. He has a lot of upper body and leg strength from his years spent working in the construction and military fields, and even though his job is more supervisorial nowadays, he pulls around his weight and more easily.

His face, far from being delicate and pretty, is quite handsome. His face is best described as squared. With a strong, clean cut, low sitting jaw and high flat cheekbones, he manages to look symmetrical despite his left ear being slightly lower than his right. His expressive eyebrows sit low over his moody brow, and perch low on a broad forehead. Beneath the shelf of his heavy brow sit two medium denim blue eyes that, depending on the weather and season, can shift between clear and stormy.

Stripped of his typical attire, one would note just how masculine Lukas is. Wooly chested with a line of coarse hair spilling down his center and pooling in a dark puddle at his groin, Lukas isn’t the type to shave, wax, tweeze, or modify his body hair further than the mandatory grooming of facial hair. He’s au natural and likes it that way (or rather, doesn’t care). His body is also slashed with work related injuries, most of them ignorable and fairly ordinary save for the deep cut scar left behind on his back, stretching across his left ribcage where a ½ inch thick cable whipped back and nearly cost him his life.

TYPICAL DRESS: He dresses casually, best. The man is as typical as most when it comes to clothing himself. He wears what’s reliably strong enough to stand up to his rough-and-tumble daily activities, comfortable enough to keep him from feeling restricted, and practical for whatever he’s doing. Unlike some men, Lukas does know how to dress and make himself look decent; the very picture of the phrase “he cleans up nice”. Seeing him on any given day when not expected to dress nicely, one would find him in a baseball cap, wearing a t-shirt or over-loved button down shirt, jeans with stains and tears in the knees and back pockets, and a pair of grubby looking tennis shoes. However, seeing him dressed up would paint a new picture to the otherwise ‘slob’ (or just simply ‘bachelor’) image he creates. He wears suits well (although he’s absolutely terrible at wearing ties- he prefers a button loose up top).

PERSONALITY
WHO ARE YOU?


”Ready! Fire! Aim!”
This is Lukas’ motto. He lives life head first, following closely with his ram Geis. The motto may be backwards for others, but he’d rather figure out what to do while he’s doing it than spend hours planning a smart course of action beforehand. Impulsive actions, however, can (and have) brought him his fair share of trouble. While others are gathering information to make informed decisions, he is already on his way. However, because of this, Lukas is prone to false starts. In fact he is so good at starting things that he can be off onto his next project before completing the previous one. Just take a look at his basement workshop to get the full story…

This man is a mixture of fearless warrior and undisciplined kid. He is also one of the easiest people to understand. He is a man of action; extroverted and assertive to a default, and dependably reliable in those faucets. He finds himself always wanting to be in charge, the alpha, the hunter, the instigator. He’s confident, fiery, bold, spontaneous and independent.

He likes a laugh and he loves enthusiasm. Lukas finds himself happiest when he is around people he knows and trusts. Like most people, he does fine, if not very well, in social situations and can handle his own in a scrap. But he’d never deny the company of a few tried and true friends. Getting on his good side is easy- just push all of his right buttons and you’re sure to be in his good graces. He’s honest, and it is, perhaps, this honesty (or rather, the naive belief that all people are as honest as he is) that makes it so easy to become good friends with him. He, truly and candidly thinks that all people are as open and honest as he is. He regularly has to stop and remind himself that some people have ulterior motives, and yet, despite this reminder, he still has the tendency to ignore the mental flags and warnings. With him, it’s an open arms policy. Conversely, it takes but one or two flubs on someone’s part to put them right back in square one. If you give Lukas any reason to doubt your friendship, he has a tendency to hold it away, far away, at arm’s length- and this often times means one must rebuild everything from the ground up.

His romantic relationships, however, are another matter entirely. He’s a completely devoted individual who will try every outlet and exhaust every resource to fix something that may not be fixable in a relationship. He’s relentlessly determined, and this hard headed attitude towards everything can cause him to exert a lot of energy to save something he’s neglected to notice has been dead a long time. When he finally notices that he’s failed, though, he’ll abandon the shattered remains and start anew- and by that, it needs to be reiterated that he truly will start anew. Lukas doesn’t take a lot of time moping or skulking over the things he lost or opportunities he’s missed. He’s too busy moving forward to think about what’s been left behind. Because of this, it’s not beneficial for anybody to try and win any battles with this ram by playing manipulative mind games in order to ‘give him a taste of his own medicine’ or whatever else the motive might be. Honesty, with Lukas, is always the best policy. You’re going to get the bald, naked, sometimes hideously ugly truth from him anyway.

Uncomplicated, bold, aggressive and impulsive, Lukas can sometimes be seen as selfish, insensitive, domineering, blunt, outspoken and impatient. He’s never afraid of taking a risk, whatever the risk may be. From mountain climbing sheer cliffs and gambling at high stakes poker, to the precarious political grounds his engineering career sometimes takes him, Lukas is as bold and daring in his actions as a fish is comfortable in water. Lacking in self control he more than compensates in resilience - this is one tough cookie, who will live life to the fullest.


  • STRENGTHS: He’s bold, direct, upfront, and honest. Physically he’s strong and mentally he’s quite smart with figures, math, engineering, and architectural design.
  • WEAKNESSES: He is not patient, whatsoever.

  • LIKES: The outdoors, military history, military technology, hiking, rock climbing, gambling, poker, high stakes bets, festival/event globetrotting, mountain climbing, sailing, back packing, canoeing, kayaking, rafting, cycling, cake, football, cold beer, ice water, his workshop, fog, driving at night, being outside, unfinished rooms, antiques, watches, long drives, new projects.
  • DISLIKES: Table cloths, warm wine, grocery shopping, People that shuffle when they walk, unreturned phone calls, cell phones that don't work, animals in cages, people who gloat about chatting online, people who don't get right to the point, people who are lousy dancers, late trains, planes or airplanes, people who dress too casually, country music, being ignored in public, emotional confrontation, slow people, waiting in lines, waiting on hold on the phone, waiting at all, being told to quiet down, being told to hold on, being told to slow down, dishonesty, lost luggage, poetry readings, cardiac diabetic diets.

HISTORY
HOW DID YOU GET HERE?


The first really coherent memory Lukas has is jumping out of his childhood tree house thinking it would be possible to fly. One wet snap, blue and red lights, his father’s fingers in his hair, a paramedic asking him about school, and ambulance ride later and he was sitting in a bright hospital room with a cast on his arm (“What color, sport?” “Red.”), and his mother telling him to never try something like that again.

Bit it all started well before that painful summer afternoon. Novak and Ginny were never supposed to have children. Novak with the radiology to eliminate his seminoma and Ginny with a uterine tilt, yet somehow the pair of cats produced Lukas. And there never were a more thankful and loving pair of parents than the Vernesens. They doted on and loved Lukas, gave him everything and brought him up well.

When Lukas was old enough to go to school, the family opted to take him to a Christian school, where he learned not only religion, but the manners expected of him as a little boy. Despite being quite spoiled and doted upon, Lukas maintained a humble disposition and was well liked among his peers.

When he was 5 years old, the family moved from the rural town where Lukas was born, to Gambol, California and a beautiful suburban area in the eastern district of the metro. It was here that Lukas met Johnny.

Johnny was one year older than Lukas, but due to his poor start in public school, had been held back and was in the same year that Lukas was destined to be in. The boys hit it off well. They formed a bicycle club with the other boys in the neighborhood, started playing on a peewee football team together, terrorized the girls in the neighborhood, and spend a great deal of their time playing by an old creek filled with lots of trash and old concrete construction blocks that had been abandoned long ago. This was their haunt for almost three years before they became bold enough to adventure to the wooded area outside of the little housing development they called home.

Johnny and Lukas spent every waking moment together, forming a club and hangout, a headquarters if you will, in the open-to-everyone forest. They talked about the teachers they hated, and liked, the girls in school they thought were “stupid” (they were ten years old…liking girls was practically a crime) and telling stories about how heroic their fathers were, and how much better their dads were than, say, the parents of Ivan the Smelly who lived down the street. They talked about how they wanted to be generals in the army, and how one day they’d join the military so they could wear the cool uniforms, blow stuff up, and drive all the cool machines (like the submarines and the fighter jets and the tanks). Lukas built a fort in the branches of their hangout spot, while Johnny worked on the base of operations, a fort on the ground beneath the tree house.

Their days of promised military adventures, however, came to a startling head one afternoon when both boys were 11 years old. A man neither of them had known came drifting through the woods whistling, dressed in an odd military jacket that was way too filthy to be treasured, and a pair of pants that looked tattered and dirty. Both boys “enlisted” that night in their Base of Operations and vowed to ‘spy’ on the man. They followed the fellow through the woods, into territory they’d never been to before until night was nearly upon them. This event went on three times a week for two months before, finally, the adult man approach the boys.

He told them that he was an ex army ranger, that he had fought in two wars in four different countries and had seen a lot of terrible things. He showed them, and gave them, a bullet casing from a real live battle. Said his name was Aiden, and that he’d been shot two times before being sent home.

And just like that, Aiden became a part of their crew. They took the man under their care, brought him food from their houses when they could sneak it out, let them sleep in the base of operations and tree house during the night, and even gave him blankets when it started to get cooler out. Aiden had nowhere else to go, and it was like fate that the boys had built a functioning tree fort, like fate that a fellow soldier would find two other soldiers just ready and willing to take in a lost compatriot, eager to hear the stories Aiden had to tell. Eager to learn of and see the biggest secret of all, a secret Aiden said he’d show them one day. A secret he’d hidden in the woods.

But…Lukas never got to see the secret. It was in November when Johnny disappeared, when Johnny’s face stared bleakly at him from the milk jug. When Lukas went back to the woods to find nothing left of Aiden or Johnny but a few bullet casings in Johnny’s special tin canteen his grandpa had given him.

Lukas never saw Johnny again.

At school he was consumed with a feeling of loss and hope. Hope that one day Johnny would turn up at school, would be on the bus going home, would shuffle up to the bus stop one morning and tell him all about Aiden’s secret. But with age, and time, came the realization that Johnny wasn’t coming back. The picture on the milk jug changed, the papers stopped talking about it, and people moved on. Lukas grew up. He moved on in life, joining the military as a way out of the town that reminded him of Johnny and the dangers of trust.

The new start in life awarded him a new perspective on things. Outside of Gambol and outside of his day to day routine at home, Lukas was deconstructed and built back up into a new human being. He received military help to put his guilt and pain to rest (though it didn’t really help), and he joined a unit, the 6th armored division, while simultaneously working on an engineering degree. It was here that Lukas met Ferdinand Benedict Byrd. His commanding officer, and very nearly shunned by just about everyone else, Ferdinand liked pissing people off and blowing shit up. He’d lost two sons in one or two wars (it was hard to get a straight story out of the man), been divorced from his wife Lily for five years and still wrote her passionate (and sometimes obscene) letters to her every day since their divorce. He was always excited to read them, in their full entirety, to Lukas. And by the time Lukas had moved on to work for the Army Corps of Engineers, he knew just about every aspect of their relationship, right down to the scandalous detail that Ferdinand, in his camel Geis, had tried to vigorously copulate with Lily while she was in her own Geis form, a Chicken.

He later learned that the pair had made emends and gotten back together.

After switching from the Army Corps of Engineers to a private company, Lukas found himself climbing the ladder relatively quickly. With his degree and military background, Lukas could have slid comfortably into the company’s Engineer Supervisor position, but the ram wanted more than just demanded respect from the men he’d be working with. He wanted to earn it. Having spent four years in the military taught him that working side by side with the subordinates, as one of them, garnered much more respect of authority than simply commanding it based on rank. He started at the bottom, getting ripped up, torn up, humiliated, and any number of things.

It was during a belligerent brawl between two of the men working under him and a bigot’s accusations that nearly cost him his life. Trying to break up a brawl between a very close friend and a subordinate, a suspension cord snapped, whipping back and lashing him across the back and side. Despite the heavy and protective clothing, Lukas was injured badly. He recovered nicely, though, and was back to work within a reasonable amount of time.

Hard working and bold, it didn’t take him long to climb the ladder and secure the title of ‘forman’ and then supervising ‘engineer’, where he sits comfortably to this day.



  • FAMILY: Novak and Ginny
  • FRIENDS: Ferdinand Byrd, Kit Ezra, Megan Haner, Gore Zachar
  • LOVE INTERESTS: Nate Black
  • PETS: None
THE BEAST
NOW, WHO'S THE REAL ANIMAL...


NAME: Sicks, ZombieSick

AGE: 66

OTHER CHARACTERS?: 666

TIME ZONE: Central Top of the World

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