Lancer Shank

Physical Appearance

• Medium length black hair with longer bangs on right side
• Red eyes
• Fair skinned
• Very tall in height
• Physically fit with muscled build
• Gill slits on neck
• Razor sharp teeth
• Rough patches of skin on his arms where fin ridges can grow out from

Clothing Style

Lancer tends to dress professionally or at least nicely no matter what he's doing. His clothing all tends to be well made and high class since his family certainly has the money for it, but he does not go out of his way dress extravagantly. He tends to wear jackets, usually red, with white and gold embellishments or trim, along with black pants and boots. He tends to wear relatively simple jackets when working or traveling and only wears slightly more decorated ones for formal events. Even when at home he doesn't tend to relax his style much. He's very selective about his clothing and refuses to wear anything cheap, tacky, childish, or anything with graphics, logos, or words. Everything he owns is made from high quality materials, yet in general his style focuses on simple designs while remaining sharp and clean looking. His style is very similar to his father's, which is no surprise considering how much he looked up to him.

His most common look consists of his favorite red jacket with white trim around the collar and down the center and white cuffs on the sleeves. The fasteners, cuff-links, and trim along the coattails are gold, and under his jacket he wears some kind of black shirt, usually a sleeveless shirt. The sleeves of his jacket are removable so he can use his arm fin ridges without damaging the material. He wears a white sash belt and black pants that tuck into red boots with gold trim, a white inner layer, and black fastening straps and soles. He does not go out in public without his black scarf, usually worn around his neck and tucked into his jacket, and his gold family medallion hidden beneath that.

Personality

Lancer is a rather aloof yet highly intelligent and cunning man with a very short temper. He tends to keep detached from others and doesn't seem to emotionally invest himself in anyone outside his family. He is a cold and calculating man who tends to speak eloquently yet is always rather terse. He comes off as very harsh and blunt, and his aggressive and no-nonsense demeanor makes him very difficult to approach. Although he is very clever and has a brilliant mind, he tends to be rather impulsive at times since his short fuse can often make him act through his emotions rather than through his mind. He doesn't warm up to others easily, so coupled with his intense and abrasive personality he rarely makes friends. He only seems to open up toward his family members, and even then he has trouble expressing any emotions that might suggest he's vulnerable in any sense.

He's incredibly condescending and dismissive toward most others, the only exceptions being his family members. Lancer can sometimes be a bit snippy with some of his younger siblings, but it's just him being grumpy rather than legitimately cruel toward them. He is actually very protective of his family, but he doesn't openly show much affection toward them other than his mother. Lancer tends to feel uncomfortable with displays of affection and tends to be rather stiff when any of his siblings are huggy with him. He struggles to be a kinder person to those he legitimately cares about, but he has a hard time opening up and gets annoyed or embarrassed by displays of affection. His siblings tend to look up to him as the figurative king of the household and basically the entire trade ring across the region due to his position in the family company. Some also tend to have a mild fear of him while also respecting his power, yet this fear tends to bother him since he knows how some of his siblings don't think of their father too fondly for his aggressive tendencies and lack of compassion. Lancer wants to find a balance between being more like the person he looked up to without crossing that line into being disliked by his family, and although he can be rather sharp tongued and grumpy with them, he means the best for them and usually needs a lot of convincing from his family to keep him from utterly slaughtering anyone that slights them.

Lancer also tends to be a bit of a workaholic and rarely takes time for himself. Marquis often has to force him to relax and step away from things, since the added stress and obligations don't seem to help his mood or his short temper. Lancer rarely does anything at work involving other people without Marquis with him, since Marquis tend to be the mediator and can usually keep him from getting too worked up. Their subordinates walk on eggshells around Lancer, and he acknowledges that Marquis is probably the only reason half of their staff is still alive. As blunt and snippy as Lancer sounds even when talking to Marquis, the two know each other better than anyone else, and their opposite personalities balance each other out perfectly. Marquis is one of the few people that doesn't take Lancer's harsh words to heart, since he knows his older brother usually doesn't mean it that way and just has trouble finding nicer ways of phrasing things.

Abilities

• Watyr rifting - rank 1/5
• Demonic strength and stamina
• Advanced combat training and high pain tolerance
• Accelerated regeneration from demonic aura and can survive most injuries that would normally be fatal to mortals
• Underwater breathing and faster movement/mobility while swimming
• Skilled with firearms and various other weapons

Strengths

• Intimidating, confident, and assertive
• Persistent, focused, and tactical
• Cunning, calculating, and eloquent
• A strong leader, relentless, and fearless

Weaknesses

• Vindictive, aggressive, and sadistic
• Harshly blunt, not terribly compassionate, and condescending
• Short tempered and resorts to murderous violence very quickly
• Mildly mentally unstable due to both mild demonic insanity and hereditary mental issues characteristic of shark Aquanix

Backstory

Lancer was the first child of Ragnarok and Joyeuse, and he was born 4 months early and terribly premature. Due to the doctors’ efforts and his father’s connections, Lancer was able to survive, and he grew healthily for the rest of his childhood. Due to him being the oldest and having a rather rough start to his life, his mother tends to be very sentimental with him and always seems to express her happiness with how he's grown. While growing up, he was deeply influenced by his father’s involvement with Red Excalibur, and he strove to follow his father’s example despite him not being the most sensible role model. Due to this, Lancer picked up Ragnarok’s temper and unforgiving nature toward enemies, and it is later apparent he may have inherited a few of Ragnarok’s mental instabilities. It is likely that this is the reason why Ragnarok tended to favor Lancer (when he normally wasn't interested in that many of their children at all) and eventually decided to teach him to fight and defend himself and his family, along with helping him find ways to manage his mental problems since he wasn't able to in his own childhood.

As the eldest child, Lancer has always set high expectations for himself to stand above his siblings. He strove to succeed his parents with the family business in the empire of trade. Lancer’s education made him highly intellectual, but his short temper overshadowed his brilliance at times. He thought very highly of his father and mother, but he was a bit detached from his siblings in order to keep his violent tendencies under control. He seemed to be handling them rather well, but this changed after his youngest brother caused the death of their father. Consumed by hate for this brother that he never even found useful or necessary in the family, Lancer immediately tried to kill his brother, Fathom. Fathom managed to escape, and Lancer dedicated the majority of the next decade to finding his brother and exacting his revenge.

Lancer has grown farther apart from his family during his search for Fathom and became colder, harsher, and less reasonable with others. His siblings worry about him the most, because their mother is still too torn up about Ragnarok's death to notice, and it's clear to everyone but her and Lancer himself that his obsession with revenge is making him more and more unstable. The only thing that seems to keep him grounded anymore is his work with the cartel and constant interactions with his closest brother and business partner, Marquis.

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