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Character Information
Name: Luke fon Fabre
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Canon Point: Post-game/post-death.
Age: Physically, 17. Chronologically, 7. Something to note here is that Auldrant’s calendar is 765 days long, a little more than twice the length of an Earth year, meaning its residents age half as fast.
History: Luke’s wiki page from Aselia!
Personality: So about a quarter-to-a-third of the way through the game, Luke decides to turn around and practically be a different character. While not true past the surfaces of his long-haired and short-haired selves, for this reason much of this will be referenced as “before” and “after”. And perhaps “now,” since he keeps developing right up to his death.
So Luke started out as a spoiled supposed-amnesiac with an arrogance problem while being completely ignorant about the world. He had some kindness buried in there somewhere but with poorly developed empathy and a too-big mouth, most of the people he came across had trouble seeing it, and it took the eyes of a saint (Ion’s) to spot it and point it out at all in the first place.
But then he Fucked Up and a lot of people died at Akzeriuth, and after the initial denial that - understandably - left the party just not wanting to deal with him anymore, he recognized that he Fucked Up. Wobbling between the tough love and keen eye of Tear and Guy’s pretty much unshakeable friendship, he managed to get back on his feet and start dealing with the truth of everything around him. So he was a replica of the original Luke - this started a drive to understand why he was born, and made him feel like an impostor in his own home, as he’d taken Asch’s place. He’d killed a lot of people - so he had to find a way to make up for it, and find a way to understand the vastness of what he’d done. He’d advanced Van’s plan - so he needed to recognize that he’d been betrayed by his most trusted mentor figure and that he’d treated all of the people he should have been listening to really fucking poorly.
That’s a lot for a seven-year-old to handle, but he manages.
The first thing Luke learned to do at this point was ask questions. Before, he’d complain about things for being as they were, not bothering to understand why they were like that. Before, he’d follow an order from a trusted source without questioning their motivations or what he was doing. After, he entered his Terrible Twos, maybe five years late but at least it happened. After Akzeriuth, and indeed until the end of the game, Luke tries to learn and understand as much as he can, not for the sake of knowledge but for the sake of being informed, so he can make decisions for himself and act on his own. However, his tendency to complain about everything beforehand kind of morphed into a different flaw during this transition, since informed decisions are often more complex ones. If a choice is a difficult one, or if there are too many possible choices and all of them are equally good (or equally bad), Luke has to catch himself to keep from freezing up and worrying too much about taking any action at all. Akzeriuth might have left him with just a slight case of the Anxieties.
By opening up his mind to information and other points of view, Luke also worked on his empathy. He sticks his nose in his friends’ business just a little too much at times, whether it’s (poorly) keeping secrets for Jade about his past attempts to revive his professor, fussing over Tear’s condition when her body is contaminated with miasma, or even just following party members (Guy to meet Van in Belkend, Natalia meeting Asch in Sheridan) when they probably don’t need an eavesdropper.
Or, you know, listening through the door while Cecille and Frings talk during one of the most tedious sidequests of the game. But it’s okay, because “he’s worried about them.”
So he’s nosy sometimes. He also doesn’t always do the best job with compliments, especially when it comes to Tear, often meaning well but ending up making a compliment sounding backhanded at best, or an all-out insult at worst. (That poor cake…) It wouldn’t be so bad if he realized when he was doing this, and sometimes he does! Really!! ...But other times, well, the victim of his accidental insensitivity storms off for a while, he doesn’t understand why, and that’s that.
One thing that (unfortunately?) stuck with Luke through his haircut is his tendency to be a little melodramatic. True, by the time of his death it’s been a long time since he’s bitched and moaned at the top of his voice because “dinner” was just rice balls or the party had to sleep on the ground one night while they were traveling, but wow, when it comes to having no guilt about anything and then turning on a dime to admit he fucked up, Luke is awful in the moderation department. If he has some hand in bad events that are happening, he tends to treat it like it’s his fault. At a couple points he blames everything happening in the game on the sole fact that he was even born. Whenever he slips up or makes a mistake, he puts himself down, and then when his friends tell him to stop, he apologizes again. Since he’s working with broken scraps of a sense of pride that was too strong, when criticized he will either end up with hurt feelings (if it’s less serious) or crushing depression bordering on suicidal (when it’s very serious). He’s better at laughing things off when in a lighthearted situation, but since those are few and far between in this canon, his self-esteem and sensitivity is a glaring flaw and insecurity that could leave one pulling out their hair if left unchecked.
But man, he tries hard, though. In addition to correcting his behavior, he aims to be as selflessly helpful to others as possible. When he’s done someone wrong, Luke in theory would love to do something equal to make up for it, but the world doesn’t work that way, as he’s said himself. So, instead and at the suggestion of Guy, he’s taken up a very eager and utilitarian approach to life as a whole. He killed a lot of people, so he’s going to try and make a lot of people happy to balance it out. As a general rule, Luke means well, he’s earnest, and he tries hard. He’s still not especially fantastic at dealing with people in a way that doesn’t ruffle anyone’s feathers, but his attempts are sincere, and even if he doesn’t handle criticism as well as he wants to, he tries to at least recognize and address his flaws. This is the key root of Luke’s character.
I could keep rambling on and attempt to give this section more structure, but I’m pretty sure that’s what Tales crew tried with Abyss’s magic!science system and we all know how well that went. So I’m going to hold my breath and pray that this was clear enough, because that’s about as well as Luke understands himself hnnnnnn.
Abilities: For the most part, Luke is a heavy-hitting, moderate-speed swordsman that excels in plain ol’ physical techniques. which are referred to as “strike artes” in canon. He does have a few moves that are elementally-flavored, but no actual castable spells to speak of. The fact that his original, Asch, does, however, means that he may have the potential to learnif one was successful at making him sit still long enough for that. He could also potentially read the score and learn healing artes, since he’s termed a seventh fonist, but he’s an idiot, so who really knows?
Due to being Asch’s perfect isofon, he also gets incoming “foncalls” (not a canon term but it fits so fight me) from Asch which basically proceed like your standard psychic conversation, with potential sensory piggybacking on top of that. Luke could potentially get better control over this over time, but by the time of both of their deaths Asch is the only one of the two of them that can reliably initiate these interactions.
Above all else, Luke’s most notable ability is the fact that he can cause a hyperresonance by himself, just as Asch can, which ismagical science bullshit basically the act of pulling apart matter and, theoretically, reconstructing it into something else. In action, it explodes or disintegrates things. In addition to this, since Luke outlived Asch and yoinked some energy/ability/power from him, he can also perform second-order hyperresonance, which completely neutralizes any fonon (energy, matter) it is performed on. Where normal hyperresonance tears things apart, second-order causes a dead space, effectively making it a great neutralizing shield against anything.
Or at least this is how the player interprets the very poor explanation given in canon. “It neutralizes fonons.” Interpret as you see fit etc.
Strengths:
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Weaknesses:
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God/Shinki: God.
Why?: asdf
Top 3 Choices:
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God Type: asdf
Power: asdf - asdf
Writing Sample
Sample: This postgame PSL thing isn’t too old, is it? Includes nondescript nudity of a nonsexual nature! Erp.
Other
Anything Else?: asdf
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partedwitheveryoneCharacter Information
Name: Luke fon Fabre
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Canon Point: Post-game/post-death.
Age: Physically, 17. Chronologically, 7. Something to note here is that Auldrant’s calendar is 765 days long, a little more than twice the length of an Earth year, meaning its residents age half as fast.
History: Luke’s wiki page from Aselia!
Personality: So about a quarter-to-a-third of the way through the game, Luke decides to turn around and practically be a different character. While not true past the surfaces of his long-haired and short-haired selves, for this reason much of this will be referenced as “before” and “after”. And perhaps “now,” since he keeps developing right up to his death.
So Luke started out as a spoiled supposed-amnesiac with an arrogance problem while being completely ignorant about the world. He had some kindness buried in there somewhere but with poorly developed empathy and a too-big mouth, most of the people he came across had trouble seeing it, and it took the eyes of a saint (Ion’s) to spot it and point it out at all in the first place.
But then he Fucked Up and a lot of people died at Akzeriuth, and after the initial denial that - understandably - left the party just not wanting to deal with him anymore, he recognized that he Fucked Up. Wobbling between the tough love and keen eye of Tear and Guy’s pretty much unshakeable friendship, he managed to get back on his feet and start dealing with the truth of everything around him. So he was a replica of the original Luke - this started a drive to understand why he was born, and made him feel like an impostor in his own home, as he’d taken Asch’s place. He’d killed a lot of people - so he had to find a way to make up for it, and find a way to understand the vastness of what he’d done. He’d advanced Van’s plan - so he needed to recognize that he’d been betrayed by his most trusted mentor figure and that he’d treated all of the people he should have been listening to really fucking poorly.
That’s a lot for a seven-year-old to handle, but he manages.
The first thing Luke learned to do at this point was ask questions. Before, he’d complain about things for being as they were, not bothering to understand why they were like that. Before, he’d follow an order from a trusted source without questioning their motivations or what he was doing. After, he entered his Terrible Twos, maybe five years late but at least it happened. After Akzeriuth, and indeed until the end of the game, Luke tries to learn and understand as much as he can, not for the sake of knowledge but for the sake of being informed, so he can make decisions for himself and act on his own. However, his tendency to complain about everything beforehand kind of morphed into a different flaw during this transition, since informed decisions are often more complex ones. If a choice is a difficult one, or if there are too many possible choices and all of them are equally good (or equally bad), Luke has to catch himself to keep from freezing up and worrying too much about taking any action at all. Akzeriuth might have left him with just a slight case of the Anxieties.
By opening up his mind to information and other points of view, Luke also worked on his empathy. He sticks his nose in his friends’ business just a little too much at times, whether it’s (poorly) keeping secrets for Jade about his past attempts to revive his professor, fussing over Tear’s condition when her body is contaminated with miasma, or even just following party members (Guy to meet Van in Belkend, Natalia meeting Asch in Sheridan) when they probably don’t need an eavesdropper.
Or, you know, listening through the door while Cecille and Frings talk during one of the most tedious sidequests of the game. But it’s okay, because “he’s worried about them.”
So he’s nosy sometimes. He also doesn’t always do the best job with compliments, especially when it comes to Tear, often meaning well but ending up making a compliment sounding backhanded at best, or an all-out insult at worst. (That poor cake…) It wouldn’t be so bad if he realized when he was doing this, and sometimes he does! Really!! ...But other times, well, the victim of his accidental insensitivity storms off for a while, he doesn’t understand why, and that’s that.
One thing that (unfortunately?) stuck with Luke through his haircut is his tendency to be a little melodramatic. True, by the time of his death it’s been a long time since he’s bitched and moaned at the top of his voice because “dinner” was just rice balls or the party had to sleep on the ground one night while they were traveling, but wow, when it comes to having no guilt about anything and then turning on a dime to admit he fucked up, Luke is awful in the moderation department. If he has some hand in bad events that are happening, he tends to treat it like it’s his fault. At a couple points he blames everything happening in the game on the sole fact that he was even born. Whenever he slips up or makes a mistake, he puts himself down, and then when his friends tell him to stop, he apologizes again. Since he’s working with broken scraps of a sense of pride that was too strong, when criticized he will either end up with hurt feelings (if it’s less serious) or crushing depression bordering on suicidal (when it’s very serious). He’s better at laughing things off when in a lighthearted situation, but since those are few and far between in this canon, his self-esteem and sensitivity is a glaring flaw and insecurity that could leave one pulling out their hair if left unchecked.
But man, he tries hard, though. In addition to correcting his behavior, he aims to be as selflessly helpful to others as possible. When he’s done someone wrong, Luke in theory would love to do something equal to make up for it, but the world doesn’t work that way, as he’s said himself. So, instead and at the suggestion of Guy, he’s taken up a very eager and utilitarian approach to life as a whole. He killed a lot of people, so he’s going to try and make a lot of people happy to balance it out. As a general rule, Luke means well, he’s earnest, and he tries hard. He’s still not especially fantastic at dealing with people in a way that doesn’t ruffle anyone’s feathers, but his attempts are sincere, and even if he doesn’t handle criticism as well as he wants to, he tries to at least recognize and address his flaws. This is the key root of Luke’s character.
I could keep rambling on and attempt to give this section more structure, but I’m pretty sure that’s what Tales crew tried with Abyss’s magic!science system and we all know how well that went. So I’m going to hold my breath and pray that this was clear enough, because that’s about as well as Luke understands himself hnnnnnn.
Abilities: For the most part, Luke is a heavy-hitting, moderate-speed swordsman that excels in plain ol’ physical techniques. which are referred to as “strike artes” in canon. He does have a few moves that are elementally-flavored, but no actual castable spells to speak of. The fact that his original, Asch, does, however, means that he may have the potential to learn
Due to being Asch’s perfect isofon, he also gets incoming “foncalls” (not a canon term but it fits so fight me) from Asch which basically proceed like your standard psychic conversation, with potential sensory piggybacking on top of that. Luke could potentially get better control over this over time, but by the time of both of their deaths Asch is the only one of the two of them that can reliably initiate these interactions.
Above all else, Luke’s most notable ability is the fact that he can cause a hyperresonance by himself, just as Asch can, which is
Or at least this is how the player interprets the very poor explanation given in canon. “It neutralizes fonons.” Interpret as you see fit etc.
Strengths:
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✓ asdf
✓ asdf
Weaknesses:
☠ asdf
☠ asdf
☠ asdf
☠ asdf
☠ asdf
God/Shinki: God.
Why?: asdf
Top 3 Choices:
♮ asdf[aka/aka] - ___ deity of ___.
♮ asdf[aka/aka] - ___ deity of ___.
♮ asdf[aka/aka] - ___ deity of ___.
God Type: asdf
Power: asdf - asdf
Writing Sample
Sample: This postgame PSL thing isn’t too old, is it? Includes nondescript nudity of a nonsexual nature! Erp.
Other
Anything Else?: asdf