Lucas

Lucas is the player's character (PC) in Finding Miranda (2016), the third game ever set in the Elsaverse. As a non-player character (NPC), he only appears in a couple of other titles, as a side character. He is a professional coder, and also Miranda's current boyfriend. Lucas doesn't have any powers.

Due to the characterization system implemented in Finding Miranda, a very important part of Lucas' life background is not canonically established. In that game, players can choose whether Lucas is a widower or a divorced man, and then whether he became a celibate man or went total Casanova after losing his wife, but after FM none of those options have been explicitly defined as canon. Despite that, Lucas is undoubtedly the most shaped PC in the whole saga, at least regarding his tastes, hobbies, social relationships, and past experiences.

Character Overview
Lucas is smart, stylish, handsome, and a perfect gentleman around his thirties who still feels anger whenever he recalls how a friend of his, Oliver, whom he taught how to skate, was unfairly treated back in high school just for being gay. It is known that Lucas played ice hockey in high school, and then practiced kung fu during his college years; when he starts dating Miranda, he's also an amateur motocross rider. Lucas's favorite color is purple, and he likes dubstep music, although Miranda teases him about it, as she considers that dubstep is not music at all. He also seems to be a caring son who fondly remembers the trips to the mountains with her mother when he was a kid, and he is a quite respectful man towards women: he either politely rejects them all or warns them upfront about his non-binding intentions; and doesn't have any problem to express his sincere admiration for his female motocross rivals despite they crushing him on each race, Lucas being the only male rider willing to compete against these mighty Takada sisters.

Professionally, he is a brilliant coder who, a couple of years before the events depicted in FM, was a rising star at a hot startup named Infinitech, and had stock options that were going to make him rich when the company went public. Back then, he was unaware that his wife, Karen, only started dating him because she was following Morland's orders, as he had foreseen that Lucas' emotional collapse would sink Infinitech's price enough for him to buy the company at a bargain. When Morland succeeded either with his plan A (Karen repeatedly and shamelessly cheating on Lucas) or B (Crow killing Karen in what looked like an accident, after she had refused to do her job because she actually fell in love with Lucas), Lucas was hit so hard that, indeed, he ended up losing his job, as well as those stock options; fortunately for him, when he was about to lose his apartment too, his friend Ismael came to his rescue and helped him to get a new job. They now work together as computer programmers for a large conglomerate that makes a number of products.

Miranda works there, too. She is an attractive and eccentric woman who seems to scare all of her co-workers, but she is also the kind of woman that could make Lucas forget about Karen. On a certain Thursday, after a tense work meeting in which she shows her amazing skills and Lucas defends her when she's belittled by her superiors due to her looks, Miranda takes the first step and basically forces Lucas to ask her out. Over the next week, Lucas' life experiences a radical change, as he finally gets over Karen's situation and starts dating Miranda. That's when he learns about her own drama and uses all his charm and kindness to be the caring and supportive man she desperately needs to not go insane. But Lucas learns other things too, like Morland's role in his past relationship and other dirty business, or the existence of supernatural powers some people like Morland have, or that there's a group, poorly led by a blind but apparently deadly woman called Xara, that is covertly trying to take Morland down.

In Finding Miranda, Lucas agrees to help Xara by training her almost inexistent social skills to be easier to follow by her group, and Saving Chloe (2018) shows some signs that his training was effective. SC also ends with Miranda in what seems like a good place; but in Elsa's Nightmares (2019-2020) is stated that her issues are far from being solved. However, Lucas is still by her side, trying to help her.

Miscellaneous

 * On an early development stage, Lucas' role in Finding Miranda was about to be given to Ismael's 3D model.