Character Information

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LUCIEN VANSERRA

CANNON: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
CANNON POINT: First book, somewhere around chapter 36-38
AGE: ~280s
GENDER: Male
SPECIES: "High Fae" (SJM's hot magic elves)

[FIRST IMPRESSIONS]

VISUAL: Lucien is like 6'4 ish, has not-quite waist length red hair, and pointed ears. He's always wearing a fox mask made of some kind of bronzey-copperish material, from which peers one russet eye and one golden mechanical prosthetic.
AURAL: His voice isn't particularly low or high, but it's got the confidence of a noble and a light playfulness in it.
OLFACTORY: Autumn Leaves and something Almost Floral
DEMEANOR: As a default, he puts on a haughty, mischievous, confident facade, albeit a little old-fashioned in his mannerisms.

[GENERAL]

BRIEF BIO: Lucien believes himself to be the exiled seventh son of the High Lord of Autumn. Many decades ago, when he was exiled, Tamlin, the High Lord of Spring, claimed him as the Spring Court's Emissary. 50 years ago, the Spring court was cursed until Tamlin could fall in love with a human, and the human loved him back. Over the past year, Lucien has watched that finally happen, but Tamlin let her go. She returned, but she was too late. Now he is held captive Under The Mountain by the wicked sorceress Amarantha, forced to watch this human fight though brutal challenges to prove her love, and, if she prevails, save the Fae Realms.

CANNON DIVERGENCE: I choose to interpret Lucien as, at the very least, having tragic, unrequited romantic feelings for Tamlin, if not an ambiguous sexual tension/history with him as well. I'm way more interested in the nitty gritty of his mechanical eye than SJM and I love making his ears very expressive. I'm not doing the "male" instead of "man" thing outside of dialogue where he's referring to another high fae.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Lucien has only one eye, and wears a golden prosthetic described above. At his cannon point, he is also suffering from 20 deep slashes across his back from a punishment Tamlin was forced to give him. Amarantha has also cursed these wounds to be Especially Severe and slow-healing.

[ABILITIES]

PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Lucien does not have mental magic BUT has been trained in how to defend against a very specific kind of it. That being said, he isn't very good at it even when he's not nerfed by Amarantha, and his mental defenses are weakened even further now. If it comes on super strong, he'll notice and try and defend against it, and he won't like it at all. But it's not like those defenses are very strong or passively up.

MAGICAL INFORMATION: Lucien is a very powerful magical being. However, at his current cannon point and for the last 50 years, he and all the residents of the Spring Court Have been put under a curse by the wicked sorceress Amarantha. The most visible evidence is the masks they cannot remove, but the underlying effect is that all their magic is dramatically weakened. I will do my best to describe both Lucien's true or potential powers, and then lay out what he can presently do in bold.

• Standard High Fae Powers/Abilities:
  
  • telekinesis of small items
  
  
  • temperature manipulation
  
  
  • wind sheilding: protects from physical impacts of thrown items
  
  
  • super speed (think edward cullen, not the flash)
  
  
  • quick healing body
  
  
  • super strength
  
  
• Glamours: Superficial, visual illusions. Lucien has only ever been described using these to dampen how much power he seems to have, hide his appearance being disheveled and injured, and make an object smaller than himself (read: a small human woman) appear invisible. At full strength, he could alter the appearance of a whole ballroom, but under the curse, he can only glamour himself or objects smaller than himself.


• Winnowing: Teleportation! Must have at least a direction in mind, but is much safer and more accurate with a clearly visualized destination. Goes through most walls and obstacles, but watch out! Winnowing accidents are rare, as the magic usually snaps to an open space, but they can happen. The distance you can go in one winnow, as well as how many times you can winnow in sequence, depends on your skill, focus, stamina, and willpower. Anyone in physical contact will come with you. At his strongest, Lucien can winnow a few miles at a time, many times in succession. At his current cannon point, he can manage maybe a few hundred feet.


• Healing: In addition to his fast-healing-high-fae body, Lucien can also heal others with physical touch. His fingers glow and warm up when he does this. At his current cannon point, he has been shown healing cuts, bruises, and a broken nose, so we'll say he can currently heal most superficial injuries and minor, simple fractures. He could heal more extensive and internal injuries without the curse.


• Fire Manipulation: What it says on the tin! At full power, he can bring forth walls of flame. Under the curse, he can manage a small ball of flame.


• Light Generation: Undiscovered. He has not realized this is a separate power from his healing and fire stuff, but he can cast light on things. We'll say that at this point, under the curse, his fingertips can glow as bright as a small flame


• Spell Cleaving: Undiscovered. In the second book, when in a situation of absolute distress for his mate, Lucien is able to shatter a petrification spell cast on himself. This is after the curse has been lifted so I will treat it as mostly nonexistent. Hypothetically, it would only emerge in an extreme moment and to help another person, not to save himself. The curse would have to be lifted to use this power, or be the only spell he breaks. (If you have an idea for it to come into play, feel free to reach out!)


• Mechanical Magic Eye: Lucien's prosthetic eye not only funtions just as well as a normal eye, but also can see through glamours and illusions. This is unaffected by the curse.

PERMISSIONS | HMD/OPT-OUT