Luke Miles | Ally/Hacker | New Orleans, LA
Luke Miles grew up in a middle-class family in Boston as the only child of two loving, but demanding parents. Due to complications during pregnancy and birth, his mother wasn’t able to get any more children after Luke, and so all eyes were set on him. His parents set money aside for him to go to university ever since he was four. They had very high expectations of their only child.
In elementary school, everything seemed to be going well. Luke was a clever kid, able to make connections and patterns more easily than most of his peers. Around the time he reached high school his parents started to expect too much of him. When he wasn’t able to ace all his classes, Luke gave up altogether and dropped out of school.
Through an ICT course he took at one point. Luke already knew quite a lot about computers, and he decided to expand his knowledge in the crappy flat he was renting and started hacking to make money. He never meant to be a criminal, but his priorities were living a decent life of his own first.
He gained a reputation as a hacker under his alias, but still wanted to do something good in the world. He made small gestures, like giving money to a family that needed it, making sure that people had people he met had money to pay for medical bills. When he met the hitter Bennet, she annoyed him at first, but when he looked her up, realized that she was just a broken soul and decided to help her, whether she wanted to be helped or not.
During their trip to Amsterdam, he witnessed Bennet get shot and arranged her funeral. When he found out that the hitter wasn’t dead and hadn’t contacted him either, he decided to let it go, already having gone through the grieving process. Finding out that Leverage inc. needed people, he signed up, finally having found a place where he could do what he was good at and help people at the same time, not realizing that the person he previously worked with had signed up too.
Luke is quirky, a real nerd and very passionate about making the world a better place, being nice and Star Wars. Though he has overall a pretty ‘happy’ character, he can’t hold his temper in front of people who have done something seriously wrong in his eyes, especially in the form of child abuse or neglect.
NOTE: Any further specifications about working together with Bennet should be discussed by the players of both characters.
Abilities/Strengths: Excellent hacker, smooth talker, able to keep a humorous tone to every situation, creative, resourceful, reliable.
Face Claim: Jeremy Renner