| Additional Info About [ABANDONED]Luke Ward |
| Age: |
24 |
| Occupation: |
Fisherman |
| Class: |
Working |
| Origins: |
Whitby |
| Relationships: |
Paul Ward (father, deceased)
Mary Ward (mother)
Loretta Ward (sister)
Matthew Ward (brother, deceased)
Others (?)
Benjamin Ward (uncle)
Hannah Ward (aunt, deceased)
Simon Ward (cousin, deceased)
Tom Ward (cousin, deceased)
Lizzie Ward (cousin, deceased)
Maggie Colley (cousin)
Rose Willaby (cousin)
Alice Appleton (cousin)
Anne Ward (cousin)
William Ward (cousin)
Abraham Ward (cousin)
Paul Ward (cousin, deceased) |
| Height: |
5'8 |
| Physical Description: |
While not as striking as, say, his sister's, Luke's hair is a ginger-red color that dulls in the winters and brightens like fire in the sun. His skin is pale and freckles generously in the summer. He's on the leaner side of an average build, and bears the callouses and scars of years of hard, hands-on work. |
| History: |
Luke never wanted any of the perks nor the responsibility that came with being the eldest son. But he is, and he has them, and he buries his hatred for it all under thick layers of denial and hopelessness.
He’s known since he was a child that it was his job to care for the others. That he would grow up and provide for them the way his father did, and that he’d find a wife and start a family of his own at some point too. It never appealed much to him, that idea – why did so much of the burden fall on his shoulders purely because he was the first? – but over time he learned that it didn’t matter what he wanted to do. He would do it because it was his job.
While he wasn’t the best in school, he was far from the worst. The other kids bothered him more than the work did, and he found that a lot of it was more interesting than boats and fish and nets. It became a guilty pleasure of his to organize and reorganize his schoolwork, and his younger brother Matthew’s too once he was in school. Things made sense that way – when he could write them down and keep track.
Once he was old enough, he was pulled out of school to work full-time with his father, his uncle Ben, and Ben’s boys. Luke envied the girls in his family, who went through school and had the chance to become teachers themselves while he slaved away catching fish.
Of course, his sister Lory’s teaching job was short-lived, and so were those of his cousins, but that didn’t stop him from resenting his own lack of choice. He didn’t even want to teach! He just wanted to be smart like the rich folks that sat around reading books all day, even if it meant that he had to serve under them.
He came up with a plan: he’d find work as some kind of low-level assistant and work his way up from there, once they realized his potential. It was a little far-fetched with his level of schooling, but it was nice to think about.
His father was… well, Luke had a strained relationship with him in the years leading up to his death. He didn’t like the way he treated his sisters, nor did he like being forced into destroying his body at sea. He might have even told him so, too, had tragedy not struck before he could.
Along with Matthew, and his cousin, Tom, his father found death pulled under the waves. Luke was on a boat with Ben and his other son, Simon, when it happened.
He stopped thinking about books after that. He felt guilty that he ever had.
It was the life of a fisherman for him. Someone had to take care of the family once their father was gone, and Luke understood then why he’d always prepared him to do it. He sold what books he’d managed to acquire over the years, along with everything else of his that he didn’t need for fishing, and dove fully into the role of the ‘provider.’
It didn’t help the already-poor relationship he had with his siblings, but it was just the way it had to be. It was for the best, even if it didn’t feel like it. Luke had never been the warmest child, but the responsibilities of his young adulthood saw him retreat even further into himself. He was irritable, protective to a fault, unwilling to compromise – he knew best and he would make sure that it happened, lest another tragedy take him or any more of his family to the grave.
He's been working himself to the bone ever since, unwilling to rest long enough to let himself think or, God forbid, feel anything that could compromise his efforts. |
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Local time is 04-26-2024 at 08:37 AM.
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Birthday: Hidden (23 years old)
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