Name: Lucien âLukeâ Denova Age: 32 Birthday: May 1,1989 Gender/Pronouns: Cis Male, He/Him Hometown: Seattle, WA Length of time in Seattle: Native Occupation: Running Back for the Seattle Seahawks Faceclaim: Michael B. Jordan
QUICK INTRO
Has five siblings, mostly younger but one older, parents are still madly in love and have been since they met in the 1970s
Started playing football as a child and played in high school and in college on a full ride at University of Washington
Was drafted into the NFL when he was 23 and has been playing ever since
Had leukemia when he was a child, has been cancer free for 15+ years
Has two dogs, three cars, a mansion in Bellevue, and has been named one of Seattleâs most eligible bachelorâs four times.
Speaking of bachelorâs, he appeared on The Bachelorette in 2016 and came in third place.
Spends a lot of his time off work volunteering at the local childrens hospital and has even opened a foundation to raise money for childhood leukemia in memory of the best friend he lost to the disease, Raymondâs Trust.
His ex-girlfriend is Tasha Alhassan, their relationship and breakup were both highly publicized.
Luke is extremely generous with his money and has bought his parents a large home in a nice neighborhood after growing up in poverty himself. He likes to spoil his girlfriends and even his friends.Â
BIOGRAPHY
tws: cancer, childhood illness, death, car accident, cheating
A long list of things brought Richard and Tabitha Denova to Seattle but the weather was never one of them. In fact, it was the one thing that could have ended their happy little family before it got started back in 1985. On their way to the hospital for Tabitha to give birth to their first born child, a storm caused their car to spin out on the freeway and roll three times down an embankment. Both parents and the baby survived but Tabitha gave birth on the side of the road once the paramedics arrived and vowed to leave that dark and stormy city as soon as they could. But one the dust settled on that trauma and the sun shone through the clouds and produced a beautiful rainbow the next morning, the family decided to stay and continue growing their family.Â
It wasnât long after that when they found out they were expecting again, a boy, and they named him Lucien, meaning light, as the sun decided to show its rays that morning when they traveled to the hospital to bring their second child into the world. And then over the years there were four more children until the Denova family was eight in total. With six kids to raise, the family struggled financially and often didnât have enough to get by without a little help but the one thing they were never lacking in was love. The Denova house was always filled with laughter and love and Lucien, affectionately called Luke, stayed close with his siblings and his parents through everything.
He learned from a young age that his strengths were in sports. Luke excelled in baseball, basketball, soccer, but more than anything football. By the time he was six he was already well ahead of his peers and showing a real natural gift for the sport. With five siblings it was hard to stand out sometimes but football set him apart in a way that nothing else did. Until the cancer anyway. When he first got sick, Luke was eight years old. Leukemia, it was scary but the doctors said it was treatable. The next six years were spent in and out of hospitals, chemotherapy and stem cell transplants. There were times that things had looked bad and Luke even got to be a Make-a-Wish kid when he was eleven. He lost a best friend to the same disease, a little boy he met in the hospital. Luke learned how horrible cancer was first hand and he watched the way his illness hurt his family too. He thought that after all he put them through, the least he could do was to help better their lives someday when he got better.
And eventually Luke did get better and when he was 14 he was declared officially cancer free and in remission. In high school Luke got to join the football team, he started dating and going out with friends, doing all the things that normal teenagers were supposed to do. His family stayed behind him and supported his dreams of becoming a professional football player. When he got multiple scholarship offers to play for colleges across the nation, it was an easy choice for Luke. He wanted to stay close to home so he could be near his family, so he took the scholarship to University of Washington and played there for five years until he was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks when he was 23.Â
It didnât take long for Luke to become a star, being named rookie of the year his first season. He was the best running back the team had seen in a decade and the public picked up on that quickly. Fans and paparazzi became a regular occurrence for Luke but he liked the attention. In fact, it went to his head a little more than it should have. The world was his oyster and after a couple of years, he bought his parents a nice big home in North Bellevue right down the street from his own. He traveled the country playing football, and eventually the world on lavish vacations. He became known as a young playboy, being named one of Seattleâs most eligible bachelors in 2015. But that all changed when he met Tasha Alhassan.
She was perfect in his eyes. Every piece of her fit perfectly into his life and their relationship took off quickly. It was highly publicized and everywhere they went, their pictures were being taken and plastered all over the internet. Luke fell in love faster than he thought was possible and it only took him a few months to know he wanted to marry her. But he waited and gave her time to be sure, keeping their relationship fun and exciting as long as he could. The day he told her he was ready to marry her after dating for a little over two years, something was wrong and he knew it. A few days later there was a picture on the front page of TMZ showing Tasha leaving another manâs apartment early in morning looking a little more than disheveled.
It was over and they both knew it. His heart was broken and rather than admit that or show it to anyone, Luke fell right back into his old ways. He started dating almost immediately after, though he never cared about any of those women the way he cared about Tasha. Though heâs sworn off love for a while, Luke has stayed humble in a lot of ways and cares deeply about the people in his life. Heâs someone that a friend can always call for help and heâs generous with his money. He likes flashy things and he spares no expense when itâs for something he wants but he also donates to charity often and volunteers his time at childrenâs hospitals to give back to the people who saved his life years ago.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
+ Headstrong, dependable, resilient
- Materialistic, cynical, clingy