The Horrid Start

Lee was born in the mid 20th century to his mother. His father had died before he was born, so the idea of a father was a faraway dream for Lee. His mother, however, made it very clear that Lee’s sister, Celia, was the favorite child in her eyes. Lee grew accustomed to the rather harsh treatment from his mother and took refuge in his sister’s company.

As Lee grew up, he not only became accustomed to his mother’s treatment, but came to expect it. When his mother wasn’t berating him, he was left to his own devices to wonder what he was doing wrong to earn the treatment he was receiving. When Lee had the time, he would write creatively; he wrote poetry and pieces of prose heavily inspired by his home life. Days were spent filling page after page with laments, then hiding those pages from his family. To avoid spending so much time writing negatively, Lee stayed glued to his older sister, Celia.

Celia, although unable to fully protect him from their mother’s distaste, would let him follow her to places and let him explore the outdoors with her. During the summers, after Celia would work, she’d take Lee out to a nearby grove where she would play pretend with him and discover ‘the secrets of the universe’. Celia noticed Lee’s knack for getting into trouble, or ending up with horrible luck; to help him laugh it off, she affectionately nicknamed him Lucky, and Lucky refused to be called anything else.

Unfortunately, Lucky’s nickname proved to be cruelly ironic early on in life. One day, Celia never returned home from work. Lucky, being a teenager at the time, panicked and went out looking for her, staying out late night after night; not only did Lucky’s grades in school begin to suffer with the lack of sleep and studying, but he never did find his sister. The night Celia disappeared sent Lucky’s mother into a frenzy, and she acted out aggressively whenever Lucky was home. She even went as far as to try and hit her son with her car, but she failed to do any damage aside from clipping him. Lucky tried to believe it was an accident, but he had come to accept the worst explanation when it came to his mother.

As time went on, Lucky developed MDD, or depression. While the usual and common symptoms plagued Lucky’s life, he kept most of it to himself, but others noticed his slight shift in demeanor. While Lucky had always been standoffish and hard to get along with, he started to snap more at others and become more abrasive when confronted. Friends passed it off as a poor change in personality and began to leave him behind, which gave Lucky more time to lose himself in the shelves at the library he worked at. Lucky’s job seemed to be the only thing that kept him afloat anymore, alongside writing prose and poetry for himself when he was alone.

That is, until he met Juliet.

The Horrid End...?

Juliet was the light at the end of the tunnel in Lucky’s eyes. They met at Lucky’s library, and Lucky found it easy to fall in love with Juliet’s sweet and gentle nature. They were inseparable; while Lucky was still outwardly brash, Jules was able to soothe him a lot of the time. Lucky found someone he could confide in, someone he could love, someone he wanted to spend every moment of his life with.

Unknown to Lucky, Juliet was a Shapeshifter, a species of monster capable of taking several forms. Most Shapeshifters go through a mating process known as Knighting, in which two Shapeshifters, who wish to mate for life, inject each other with a unique liquid from their tails. This process is natural and harmless for Shapeshifters, but it tends to have strange effects on humans that are Knighted by Shapeshifters.

When Juliet inevitably Knighted Lucky, he began to undergo changes. Some were physical, like the transformation of his pupils to resemble a goat’s, but many of the changes were mental. His world began to revolve around Juliet; if she wasn’t around, for even a day, Lucky couldn’t function. His mind obsessed over her as his depression quickly worsened. As a result, Lucky became volatile and extremely explosive towards friends and strangers alike. He had a hard time coping with his emotions and the unwanted changes overcoming him; he didn’t notice that Jules had begun to fear him despite his struggles. She suddenly upped and left one day, telling Lucky she couldn’t be with him any longer before disappearing.

The sudden break-up threw Lucky into a frenzy; his behavior worsened with Juliet gone, and severe physical changes followed. Lucky would constantly fall ill, suffer from seizures, and react strangely to certain stimuli, like his own blood or bright lights. He knew something wasn’t right, so he had tried to get physical - and even psychiatric- help, but the doctor passed off Lucky’s behavior and depression as aggressive masculinity. Since Lucky couldn’t control when his symptoms occurred, the doctor wrote Lucky off as a liar and refused to see him again. Lucky felt alone and abandoned; his addiction to Jules came in waves and physically destroyed him every time. As Lucky acted out more, his job threatened to let him go, and his life fell apart. During one particularly rough night, left alone to close up the library, Lucky hanged himself from the second floor of the library, killing himself instantly.

Well This Just Isn't Fair

That was meant to be the end, but Lucky awoke some years later with a broken neck in the library he used to love so much. He couldn’t recall a single thing from his life, except that his name was Lucky, and he felt angry at the world. It was a feeling underlying all else, and something he just couldn’t shake. Assumptions told him he was a ghost, and this didn’t sit well with Lucky at all. He wandered among the land, aimless, unsure of what to do with his afterlife, or even why he was here. It was then he met Adrestia, a spirit older and wiser than him. She took him into her care, using her powers to disguise Lucky’s unpleasant image into an image of himself he was comfortable with. Lucky was extremely grateful for her help, and he became close friends with the other spirit in her care, Doom.

Adrestia invited Lucky to live in her castle, which was home to many wandering and lost children spirits. Adrestia was also involved in the complex monster mob crime web housed in Australia, as the ghost representative, and she invited both Lucky and Doom to join her. Lucky picked up the position as a hitman, and became familiar with a bazooka. It’s one of his favorite weapons now.

Lucky lives with Adrestia and Doom in her castle with countless other spirits in Adrestia’s care. Lucky finds himself tending to children more often than not, and he tends to write when he’s feeling down. His ghostly status has made him bitter towards humans, but he does have a soft spot worth finding. He doesn’t know why he’s on earth still, but he wants nothing more than to be able to rest eventually.