David Corenswet

Name: Lucius Fleming

Nickname: Luke

Age: 23

Year: 3rd Year

Discipline: Physical Magic

Specialty: Minor Mending

Physical Description: Standing at exactly 6 feet tall and weighing in at 171 lbs, Lucius has a slim, slightly athletic frame. His blue eyes hold an intensity behind them, often speaking volumes to those paying attention. Luke keeps his dark brown hair on the longer side, usually keeping it slicked back. His attire typically consists of slacks and a button-down long sleeve shirt, untucked more often than not.

Distinguishing Features: Lucius carries a small screwdriver set with him at all times. Hanging from it through a self-drilled hole is a well-worn Eiffel Tower keychain.

Personality: Luke is a careful individual. Careful in his interactions with others, careful with who he trusts, careful with magic. Between his relatively secluded childhood and his rather sharp focus on his studies, he isn't always sure how to handle himself around others. This isn't to say that he doesn't enjoy the company of others, but, to most, he is simply that quiet loner, always focused on his studies.

For those that took the time to get to know Luke, though, they would find a man with a rather gentle heart. He cares deeply for the family who discarded him, and he longs to bring good into the world. He is studious, but he is studious in the pursuit of the knowledge to create a better world. When given the opportunity, he is also fiercely competitive, a fact that he showed time and again growing up, trying to compete with his older brother.

Perhaps most important for Luke, he is a mender. He is a mender not only in specialty, but also in mentality. If something is broken, he has an overwhelming need to try to fix it, whether it can be repaired or not. Whether it be an object, a relationship, a person, he is driven to try to find some way to fix what is broken.

Personal Goals: He aspires to become a Brakebills professor to make his mark on the world, an aspiration he hopes to attain not through the weight of his name but through his own abilities. Though he knows that it will likely never happen, he also wishes to someday find a way to help his younger brother.

Likes: Reading (except for fantasy, what's the point?), modern art, the sound of rainfall, singing (though he will rarely be caught doing so), sugary/fruity candy.

Dislikes: Clutter (though this doesn't keep him from maintaining it), chocolate, wine, geese.

History: Luke grew up the second of three sons to Theodore and Lily Fleming. The Flemings were well-respected Magicians, his father a historian of magic who has written a number of textbooks, one of which having found its way into the Brakebills curriculum, and his mother a well-known name in the magic theory community. His older brother, Matthias, a good eight years older than himself, has also gone on to make a name for himself in the realm of magical architecture. As for his younger brother, William...Well, we'll get there.

Luke would say that his childhood wasn't unpleasant, though to get him to expound upon that would be quite a feat. The Flemings moved every couple of years to lands far and wide. Sometimes for the benefit of his parents' careers, sometimes just because they wanted to. This, of course, led Luke to never getting much chance to make friends, but, given that he was quite extensively homeschooled like many other young Magicians-to-be, he wouldn't have been given many chances to socialize, regardless. Not that he minded, of course. Magic fascinated Luke from an early age. While other kids his age were off playing pretend, he was studying daily to become what they could only pretend to be. His studies were sometimes grueling, though his parents were never quite as strict on him as they had been his older brother, the one who showed more potential. He studied as hard as he could, though, determined to one day prove them wrong.

Though he never grew too close to his older brother, a bit of jealousy lending to some sort of sibling rivalry, Luke was always quite close to William, two years his junior. The two planned at what sort of Magicians they would be, of the changes they would make to the world, of the lives they would lead. Neither of them might have ever compared to their eldest brother, but they knew they would do great things. The family moved to Paris not long after Luke turned 18, and, as had become customary for the pair, they began heading out nightly, seeking out whatever secrets the city held and what magic kept the city running, unbeknownst to the common folk. It was on one such night that their lives changed.

At the light of dawn, Luke returned with his brother to their new home, carrying the 16 year old passed out in his arms. When William awoke, he wasn't the William that had left with Luke the prior night. Whatever had occurred in the city, William's mind was shattered, little left of it besides fear of something he couldn't name. Understandably, the family looked to Luke for answers, but all he returned was silence. For whatever reason, he refused to speak a word of what had occurred, and what had previously been concern for the both of them quickly turned to anger and blame toward Luke. He was banished from the home, and quickly became the black sheep of the family, a tarnish to the family name.

The next few years, Luke made due mostly with his family name, traveling here and there, wherever he could stay for a while. To his surprise, at the age of 21, he was welcomed at Brakebills for his entrance exam. He had assumed, given his family's renown, they would have ensured he wouldn't be allowed to attend, but it had seemed that his grandmother, a retired member of the Brakebills faculty, had ensured he would have his chance at a proper Brakebills education. And so, after passing the exam and finding himself at Brakebills, he again vowed to study as hard as he could, determined to one day prove them wrong.