LUCIUS MORGEN

LUCIUS H. MORGEN

Am I too dirty? Am I too flirty? Do I like what you like?

Depending on who you ask, Lucius could be either the most obnoxious person in town, or the most pleasant. It's usually the former. Perhaps due to his heritage, Lucy is known to go about flirting with any pretty face he sees. Men, women, humans, elves, monster form beings... Basically, no one is safe from his relentless advances. As he's not exactly bad looking or a bad person, some people won't mind, but the problem is that he just doesn't seem to know when to stop. The only time that Lucius may calm down in his usual flirtations is when he's working and needs to focus on something else. Otherwise, it's kind of a constant thing.



As a Merman, Lucius naturally spent most of his life in the ocean. He grew up in one of the deepest points of the gorgeous civilization, in an area that was widely considered the city's slums. Of course, it was never openly referred to in that way, as it would be bad taste. He was born as the only child to a lone mother, making it a pretty difficult start on life, but his mother did her best to support him, and he strove to mature quickly in order to help her out. Being born and raised so far from the surface, Lucius never gave going there a passing thought as he was growing up. Aside from the occasional stories his mother would tell at bedtime when he was young, at least. It certainly had sounded like a wonderful place from the stories, but it never occurred to him that he might belong anywhere but where he was born.

As a child, Lucius was a rambunctious little thing and certainly didn't make things very easy for his mother. With his natural charisma, he had a bit of an obsession with people. It was purely innocent at this time in his life, of course. His mother would send him to get something from the store, and he'd stop on the way there to talk to various strangers for a few hours. His late return home never ceased to terrify his mother, but he would always eventually make it back with the requested item.

This chatty hobby of his is probably how Lucius ended up in bad water, getting involved with the wrong Merfolk. Feeling the full angst of his teen years, he was coerced away from his family values and towards a far more destructive mindset. By this point, Lucius' mother had fallen ill from stress and had been bedridden for about a year, but rather than spending time taking care of her, Lucy had instead been spending more and more time away. He knew he needed to be with her, but he just couldn't bear it and ended up snared in the dangerous workings of the slums. To distract himself from his dying mother, he'd become part of a gang.

Lucius stayed with the gang right up into his adult years. In all this time, his morals had become blurry at best and he'd gone right along with anything he was told to. He'd hurt people more than once, and had stopped caring. It was only when Lucy was already twenty-one that his gang went too far and all of the prominent members ended up on a wanted list, himself included. Panicked as the sheer weight of everything he'd done suddenly collapsed on him, he abandoned the others and fled to the surface.

It was an entirely foreign world to him and for a long time he had no idea what he was doing. When he dried up and legs took the place of his tail for the first time, he was terrified. All he could do was wander about in utter confusion, slowly adjusting to his new legs and terrified of everything that moved in the forest, it was a few weeks before he came upon Selphia. Unable to make heads or tails of anything, he wandered into the first building he saw. The tavern. It happened to be closed for that day and the only one there was the owner. Thankfully it was a good person who helped get Lucius cleaned up and adjusted to the town before officially moving in and meeting the other townsfolk. He was even given a job.

It's been about a year since he was given the new life he didn't deserve.


Lucius fixed a charming smile on the beautiful patron across from him as he took his time mixing the rather complicated drink that she'd ordered, and slid it across the bar. Not once in this process had his eyes left hers. "All for you, beautiful~" He purred with a sly wink. To anyone watching this one instance, it would seem that Lucy had this flirting thing down to a science. The target of his affections was obviously loving it... But of course, he immediately made the usual mistake. As another fair-faced pair approached the bar, Lucius immediately turned his attention to them with an appreciative chant of "Well, hello, lovelies~"

Almost immediately as he'd done this, did Lucius suddenly feel a cold liquid pouring down the sides of his face. In momentary shock as his mind raced to figure out what happened, he was only snapped out of it as the woman from before slammed a now-empty glass on the bar and sashayed away. Blinking a few times, Lucius glanced down to see his legs had already been replaced by his fishy tail, and sighed heavily before beginning to hop after the woman he'd offended so thoroughly. "Baby, wait! I promise there's enough of me to go around! C'mon, Beautiful!"

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