Lucien Marc Duval

In the early years of his life, Lucien had lived in Southern France, specifically, in Bayonne, on the bank of the Adour River. His mother was the maid for some well-to-do family, and his father was a stable boy; they hadn’t been married, and from the very beginning it had been clear to him that he was a burden. Even if his parents had been married, it had been hard enough for either one of them to survive on their miniscule salaries alone, and with the addition of a screaming little child from hell… well there were nights when his mother went hungry in favor of feeding her child. It had been a hard life, but it had gotten much more difficult when he was sold to some man in order to have enough money to survive and pay her rent.

What his mother didn’t know, or perhaps she just didn’t care, was that the man had intended to sell young Lucien, or rather, to sell his young body to willing men and women. It was a rough lifestyle, and one that he was forced to live for the next eleven years, though news had reached him that his mother had only managed to live for about three. As far as he knew, he was now and orphan, since his mother had told him that his father had died when he was only a few months old, far too young to remember any possible father figure. A few months after his twenty-fifth birthday, Lucien had had enough. He had just been with a client, and was just about to leave, when he decided he was going to run, that he couldn’t take it anymore. His only option had been to run into the woods, but aside from that, he had absolutely no plans or any idea of what he should do. Instead, he wandered through the woods, looking every bit as lost as he was.

It was then that he had found Tahlia, or, more accurately, that Tahlia had found him. She rescued him, turned him into a vampire, and lifted him from his old life of forced prostitution and misery, and he felt incredibly indebted to the woman who had saved him. It was largely because of this, because of what she had done for him, that he became her bodyguard, watching over her and keeping her safe, though he was pretty sure that she was more than capable of taking care of herself at this point. Over the years, they traveled the world, sometimes spending the nights touring the areas they could, and sometimes not even leaving their room. It was the perfect set up, and one that he certainly enjoyed. No longer was he the pathetic little orphan boy that Tahlia had rescued so long ago; now he was a different person, and he wouldn’t go back in time for anything.

In the early 2000s, Lucien and Tahlia returned to France so that the vampiress could open a Burlesque club known as The Doll House, where they would end up spending a majority of their time. He thoroughly enjoyed being at the club, and it was there that he met Dahlia, a fellow vampire that he and Tahlia would become well-acquainted with. Over the years, he came to spend just as much time in Dahlia’s bed as Tahlia’s.

Throughout his life, people who met Lucien usually liked him pretty much instantly; his kind of dark charm was incredibly alluring to men and women alike, though the only people that he really ever showed an interest in were his creator and the beautiful vampire woman who enticed just about every man and woman that she met. The rest he treated with a mixture of contempt and general condescension, as if they weren’t worth his time because, to be quite honest, in his opinion, they weren’t. They couldn’t give him what he was looking for, what only two people had ever been able to give him. Though he would never really admit it out loud, he holds a kind of love for the devious woman who had saved him from his former life, and though he has spent time in the bed of another woman, she has always been first and foremost in his mind.

Overall, the only people he really associates with on a regular basis are Tahlia, Dahlia, and Dekker, a vampire that he had come to know through Dahlia; he had even gotten a few tattoos from him. Despite his friendship with the other two, he is still Tahlia’s personal bodyguard, and his devotion to her is so strong that he would gladly lay down his life in order to save hers.