🏘️ guess who i just saw at ELMERTON RADIO STATION? CAL LUCAS! don’t they look good for 41 years old? they have lived here for 30 YEARS and ARE a DJ. they view the increase in tourism as NEGATIVE 🏘️ MICHIEL HUISMAN - CIS MAN - HE/HIS 🏘️
trigger for gambling, death, ptsd, violence
STATISTICS
calvin lucas. 41. june 19, 1981. gemini. cis man. he/his. heterosexual. heteromantic. perpetually single. white, dutch-ashkenazi jewish. dutch. raised jewish, nonpracticing. charismatic. focused. independent. aggressive. narcissistic. venomous.
SUBPLOT
elise murphy o'connor, CAL LUCAS and julien have been friends since they were in their twenties and have been committing crimes just as long. elise murphy o'connor is the brains, CAL LUCAS is the muscle and julien? well, they’re just motivated by greed and adrenaline. elise murphy o'connor is from a family who was known for thieving and swindling, so their behavior was more of a legacy, a family business they continued. CAL LUCAS has always been aggressive and had a need to express their anger. they also like money, so they’re always down for theft, a robbery, or a scheme - a good excuse to blow off some steam. julien never had to do any of this. they came from an affluent family and were talented enough to make it in the business world but they never seemed to be able to keep themselves from getting into trouble and bring shame on the family. so, they were cut off financially. this meant that julien had to beg, steal and borrow to be able to afford even half of what they were used to… so, when they met the other two, they entered into a bit of a… gang. they’ve all spent quite a few years in jail over the course of their lifetime, but they’ve not thought of quitting just yet.
BIOGRAPHY
born in north holland, the netherlands to an incredibly middle-class family, for the first 7 years of his life cal lived a relatively normal life. his father was doting but often away from home for work and his mother was less attentive than she should have been, though her true vice was gambling.
his mother had a tendency to squander their savings or paychecks into her vice, spending in big sums to racking up more debt —whatever small game caught her fancy that required cal’s father to dump his hard-earned money into paying off that debt before loan sharks came calling. for a while it worked, and cal was none-the-wiser to the hole that the lucas family was slowly digging themselves into.
at seven years of age he lost his parents. on the way home from his best friend’s house down the road at dusk, he came into his house to the most gruesome and jarring scene he could possibly comprehend: the dismembered bodies of his parents. the night was a blur, the month was a blur, the rest of that year was blocked hard in his memory. details escaping cal, resulting only in the memory of being tossed to his aunt in lieu of the system where he was raised thereafter.
at eleven he moved to the united states with his aunt, settling in elmerton, florida for her work – an awkward child who was socially and emotionally distant, it was difficult for cal to make connections or friends, and though he was an incredibly aggressive child there seemed to be no option to assist in quelling his rage. therapy didn’t work - an attempt to dig into his traumatic past only triggered cal into a rage that the even the therapist was not expecting. with puberty came the charm, and slowly over his teenage years cal learned to control his anger into hobbies ---primarily those that consisted in physical contact. it was time that formed his personality more completely into adulthood and had him blooming out of his awkward, quiet shell.
cal blossomed, his personality shifted to something charismatic and utterly charming with quick wit and sarcasm adorning his demeanor, though his smiles never met his eyes. as he grew older it was obvious just how impactful his parents’ death was, where his initial responses and reactions to the crimes he seemed to devolve himself into, and violence he was slowly being exposed to seemed not to bother him … or quite simply, no emotional response was registered.
twenty years ago he met the two members of his own little gang - elise gave purpose to his rage and though her brains were enough to carry them into wealth in the earliest formation of their group, it wasn’t enough to keep each of them out of jail at one point or another. cal, who had a short stint in juvenile hall already, was let off on a technicality. his aunt - a prominent lawyer, had ways of cheating the system she made so much money off of. she’d do anything to keep her nephew safe, even if he had anger issues. he spent, at most, three years in a correctional facility in his late twenties.
by day, now, cal dj’s. music (and photography) were always passions of his and throughout his troubled life he chased the former into a career. you can find him dj’ing for elmerton radio station ---music of choice being synthwave and like variants.
PERSONALITY
the personality and demeanor of cal lucas is carefully cultivated to deceive those around him, with the most common denominator being that of a charming albeit sarcastic man who always has a smile on his face. he can carry a conversation, crack jokes, find common ground with anyone, but in reality his interest is barely measurable. it’s a farce to project normalcy, to keep any interested minds or eyes out of prying where they don’t belong.
in reality he’s a very solitary and angry man, finding solace in his hobbies (which are spent alone) and enjoying time to himself. he’s comfortable in that silence, and seldom reaches out to forge more meaningful connections, outside of the would-be family he’s worked in for so many years.
cal has unaddressed ptsd surrounding the trauma of his childhood. he’s done a lot to lock up the details of the memory of what happened to his parents, and can become aggressive if pressed on the matter or issue.
but the personality most people will experience is that of the charming, charismatic dj whose more than happy to crack a joke at his own expense. it’s part of what’s kept people off of his back for so many years, after all.
