Luce (Luce (Interface))

Luce's family was never perfect, as even when his parents were not in battle, his father didn't spend much time at home, as he was more interested in his training and combat than family life. Even when he was home, he did not interact with his son much. Luce felt uncomfortable with the gap between himself and his father, but never made any effort to lessen it himself. He was afraid of what his father really thought of him, and he didn't want to find out. His mother gave him enough attention for the two of them, however, and doted on him every chance she got. He grew very attached to his mother, and looked up to her immensely. It was because of his adoration for his mother that he choose deception as his division.

It was his plan to stay in deception, so he created his weapon with the traits of his division in mind, though any observant person would see specialization inspiration, which he would have been motivated from his father. He excelled in training during his first few cycles as a neophyte, but it changed one day, when his mother never came home. She had died in a battle with the anti-viruses, and she was past the age of regenerating. He was devastated. The one person he felt a real connection to, not only as his mother but as a person, was gone. He got angry at his father, as he was in the same battle. He felt it was his responsibility to protect her, and he had failed. This widened the rift between them. His performance in training drastically fell. He had lost all motivation for something that he had chosen because of his mother. He considered switching, but in the end he couldn't bring himself to leave his mother's beloved division.

The day he became an initiate, his father made an unusual move and confronted him. He handed him a necklace, and Luce immediately recognized it as his mothers. "She'd want you to have it. She'd be proud of you, you know." All his resentment towards his father fell away, and started to cry. The necklace had freshened the reminder that his mother was gone, but it also caused him to think a lot about his life and how the loss of his mother had affected him. She wouldn't be proud of him at all. This isn't what his mother would want to see, to see him miserable day in and day out. He made a resolution to himself that day. He devoted his everything to training, and went out of his way to talk to others. He wanted to rediscover the love of life that his mother had shown him.

The pain of his mother's death still weighs on him, but he's moved on from letting it bring down his life. He's more to his old self, before his mother died, and he's hoping he can build a life for himself that his mother would be proud to see..