he is such a poor little meow.
contains spoilers for the 5 fellow players in this campaign (folks look away)
here's some tiktoks i made about him, in my brief tiktok era (beware cringe):
i think he's my oldest active oc (4 years)
the auspices of his birth were so fucking dire that his fanatically religious family sequestered him from his siblings. he clawed his way into public life with his less-than-legitimate methods of getting shit done. this may or may not involve his bestie the Fucking Poisoner.
he's infamous in his household for throwing violent tantrums, often involving unrecommended amounts of fire.
it was in his twentieth year that he made his very first actual friend — his new personal servant, osuuald. he started to realise...maybe some people weren't out to get him...and maybe some people genuinely liked each other...but then he fucked it all up, osuuald (quite rightly) quit, and lucius went off the fucking deep end. queue the alcoholism.
he went back to his beloved mantra: the only thing you can trust is power. his soul screamed out for power, and something answered. something that wasn't alive, but certainly wasn't dead. they made a deal.
then his family disappeared. well, everyone know where they went, but few said it aloud. they went to the Undermountain, to fully devote themselves to their god.
but...they weren't dead. so here was lucius, second son the the viscount ardendum, acting head of the household, mistrusted, disrespected, feared.
this is when he met the rest of his party. his emotions were tight as a fucking clamshell, and, to understate it, he wasn't very nice.
he's opening up to them, but it's slow going, and for every step forward, he falls two steps back.
they make the decision as a party to explore a dungeon. this dungeon is in the Undermountain. when he sees his family, he'll have to make a decision; does he try to snap them out of it, does he leave them be, or does he kill them to take his place, at long last, as the viscount? before he met the party, the decision would have been easy. kill them and be done with it. but as he stumbles through this new world of loving and being loved, he's doubting everything he once knew. maybe power isn't everything. maybe the world is big enough for his family and himself.
or maybe he should kill the bitches who taught him shame and made his life hell.
his artfight
his toyhouse
his name means 'he who must be burned'. but it also means 'he who must be loved ardently'. i think that pretty much sums up his main inner conflict ahah
i can't wait til he betrays his party because of his own self-esteem issues
