Secondary Knowledges:
Lore: Garou - 1
Lore: Umbra - 1
Lore: Spirit - 1
Lore: Wyrm - 1

Fetish: Packstone - Level 1, Gnosis 7. Provides information on the location, direction and health of pack members when activated. One success determines that they're alive, multiple successes add information.

Flaws
Nightmares (1) - Mental scars from his past, Lucas relives his parents' murders on an almost nightly basis, preventing him from sleeping peacefully.

Addiction (2) - With his nightmares keeping him from resting well, Lucas has resorted to taking sleeping pills in order to simply get to sleep. Without them, he suffers further sleep deprivation and becomes frustrated and sluggish.

Persistent Parents (2) - Lucas' foster family care a little too much. Like clockwork, they use missing teen programs and attempt to use any resource available in order to find him and bring him home.

Otherworldly Taint (2) - Lucas' aura gives off an... Unnatural "taste"; a lingering by-product of constant communication with the Spirits and Wraiths of the world.


Appearance
Homid: Lucas doesn't look like much of a fighter. He's of average height, standing at roughly 5'10, and has a lean build that indicates only a basic level of fitness. He's good-looking, but in an abstract manner; rather than solely focusing on his physical features, one notices the way he carries himself with assurance or the intensity of his eyes. He has angled, youthful features, with a strong nose, wide smile, and prominent cheekbones. His eyes are almond-shaped, wide and black and ringed by faint shadows caused by chronic lack of sleep. Atop his head is a mess of unkempt dark brown hair, thick and slightly shaggy, though not out of control. Lucas usually wears dark and simple, tough clothes, including straight-cut jeans, scuffed boots, cheap button-up shirts or t-shirts, and a dark brown leather motorcycle jacket that his father used to own, worn and past its prime.

Crinos: Lucas' Crinos is nothing special. As with most other Garou, he simply gains an approximate foot and a half in height and develops significant musculature. While he isn't as developed or attuned to this form as an Ahroun or Metis, Luke finds himself to be the most comfortable in his war body, excluding his Homid. His body is tensed with power, covered with a shaggy, chocolate-brown fur, and his eyes, usually a deep black, become a wild, untamed yellow.

Lupus: Although this the form most alien to Luke, he still finds himself strangely comfortable. He has a thick, fluffy coat of light brown fur, and were it not for his black, human-like eyes, Luke's Lupus would be indistinguishable from a regular Timber wolf.

Background
Freddy King and Maria Vaughn were Kinfolk lovers of the Children of Gaia Tribe. The couple acted as the eyes and ears for the New York Sept of their Tribe, Maria through her job in the local police department as a detective, and Freddy due to his contacts among the shadier members of the underworld. The two Kinfolk met at one of the many Moots held by their Tribe, and Maria immediately caught Freddy's eye. Soon, he volunteered to be her informant, and she helped him avoid jail time on multiple occasions. Eventually, their relationship evolved into intimacy, and led to the conception of their son, Lucas.

When Maria became pregnant, the soon-to-be-parents moved into Freddy's loft above his pawnshop, intending to raise their son close to their Tribe, as was their custom, whilst also giving him a home to come back to in order to recede from the harrowing world of the Garou.
As is Fate's fickle role, this new family didn't get that chance.

When Lucas was 2-years-old, a rogue pack of Black Spiral Dancers attacked his home, intent on capturing his parents for information on the movements of their Gaian cousins. As he lay hidden in a secret compartment in the walls, Luke's parents were beaten and tortured for what seemed like hours, all whilst he was forced to sit and watch through the cracks in silence. When the Dancers failed to retrieve the information they sought, Freddy and Maria were executed, leaving Lucas an orphan. He was found the next morning by a friend and coworker from Maria's precinct who dropped by when she didn't turn up for duty that day, discovering Lucas curled up next to his parents' bodies, asleep and alone.
When the authorities were called, Child Services was one of them. Because neither Freddy nor Maria had any living (or official) next of Kin, Lucas was put into the system. The Children attempted to keep tabs on him in order to track him down and bring him back home, but they eventually lost him when he was sent to live with a human family in Colorado.

The foster parents, Peter and Kate Gavinski, took in Lucas before his third birthday, integrating the boy into their family of four. Lucas was raised a human life, ignorant to his supernatural heritage; he went to school, did chores, and played video-games like a normal, human boy.
However, this didn't stop him from feeling out of place. Ever since he could remember, Luke had felt like an outsider, even to his own family. This feeling of isolation worsened as he grew older, with reoccurring nightmares of blood and teeth and monsters that kept him awake at night. By the time he'd reached puberty, Luke had begun to see "shadow-men" in the corners of his room, and to hear voices that weren't there. Convinced he was slowly going insane, the boy became more reclusive, shutting others out until that terrifying night. When he was 15, Lucas underwent his First Change; with the little humanity he retained in his raging Crinos body, he escaped into the local forest nearby, and awoke the next morning naked, covered in blood and dirt.
When he found his way back home, he was greeted with tears and flashing sirens. Despite being questioned for hours about his whereabouts, Luke reaffirmed time and time again that he didn't remember.

For weeks after the incident, Luke "voices" became more prominent, clear and loud, but surprisingly not violent. He'd even begun to have conversations with them in private, wispy shadows in the corner of his eye, a haze hanging on his window pane. Spirits of the wild, of trees and tractors, spoke to him, calmed him. Eventually, he'd gathered the courage to travel back into those woods in the hope that he could uncover more of the truth of what happened that night, in order to discover what he truly was.
During his hike, Luke crossed paths with a group of men and women, standing tall and proud, with eyes that held something deep and wild. The pack were members of the Lucas' parents' Sept, designated to track down and find their lost "brother". They'd followed the reports of the Crinos attack, and, using the information they had on Luke before they lost him 15 years ago, tracked him down to his hometown. They explained to him who and what he was; that the family he grew up with wasn't his own, and that the people around him weren't even his kind. With understandable hesitation, Luke was eventually convinced; he found himself drawn to them in a way that he'd never experienced in his life before. He felt as if he finally belonged.

Returning home, he packed up his life and left with the pack in order to find out more about his heritage, leaving a simple not to his family to tell them he was sorry, and that he loved them. He traveled to New York and found his new home in the variety of packs and Septs spread throughout. He learned about his parents and their sacrifice, honed his abilities, and developed more and more knowledge about his new culture than he knew was capable. However, he still remained attached to his mortal life, with a love for his foster family and the ideals he was raised to believe in. It's this internal conflict that prevents him from fully embracing his role in the Garou Nation.

Five years later, at the age of 20, Lucas has passed his Rite of Passage and grown into a promising Theurge. Now, by the order of his Tribe's elders, he has been indoctrinated into the amalgamated "Last Pack" in order to fight against the same corruption that took away his life in the first place.