a character i'd created a long time ago in a fit of inspiration, L the magnificent is a character who represents my own journey through the strange world i was born in, in a sense, his struggles are parodies of my own, whereas my situation boiled down to an identity crisis and a crisis of conscience, lucky's own versions of these problems could potentially threaten his life.
purely intended as a comic relief character for a far more serious book i was writing called "fearless, the werewolf knight" I soon fell in love with the established nature of the character, a man who unwittingly gets into ludicrous situations, yet luck and skill always seem to save the man at the last moment.
since then I sought to redefine lucky the magnificent from being "just a wiseass city guard" to being his own unique and fundamental character with a very lengthy and ridiculous backstory.
what drives the character is his desire to find a chaos crystal, in the first book he needed it to quarantine his original name, due in part to the fact that it had become a frightfully powerful spell that could take life away.
the first part of his story dealt primarily with him uncovering his old identity and trying to discern the truth behind his past and reconciling that with the false identity he'd been gifted with to help him survive.
the plot ends when lucky's father, the villain in the first book, dies due to his own misfortunes finally catching up to him, the second plot ultimately wound up being told, but was neither published or restored, and was little more than a side story within the larger tale.
My plan now is to write out the story of lucky the magnificent, starting with his hibernative state shortly after his name was stolen.
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