Zoinks Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) Lucas Joseph Conley was born 22nd May, 1998, starting his life in Blaine County and the arms of his single Mother, Lily Conley. He would go on to spend his childhood and adolescence growing up in Stab City, sharing a one-bedroom trailer with a woman who was only ever home from her two, low-income jobs to invite men willing to pay for her services. This thread will follow the life of Lucas Joseph Conley. May include mature content. Early life Lucas experienced his first abandonment before he was even out of the womb. Lily had a habit for choosing rich, but uncommitted men, trying to marry herself out of the poverty that she had experienced her entire life. This proved to be the first bad decision she made as a Mother. Not even a couple of months into the pregnancy, she was alone again, up until Lucas was brought into the world at Sandy Shores Medical Center. Despite his Mother's struggles to financially support them both on her own, his situation could have been a lot worse. He was fed, clothed, and generally looked after, even getting his first ever bicycle on his 9th birthday. When he wasn't outside with his friends, he would hide away in the bathroom with some crayons and paper and draw for hours, plastering the worlds inside his mind onto paper to distract himself from the reality coming from the bedroom. Nevertheless, he never saw this upbringing as abnormal, and admired his Mother for always working hard for them and teaching him the value of money. Adolescence By the time he was 13, one of Lily's gentlemen visitors had become a regular, so much so that he had started to have a personal relationship with Lucas. Darryl Patterson was a man from Los Santos - a man with so much money that he didn't know what to do with it, and a wife that stayed with him out of pure reputation even though she never believed any of the frequent 'business trips' he would take. Lucas had no idea that his Mother was just a side-fling to him, however, and started to see him as the father figure that he craved. He would bring gifts for Lucas whenever he arrived, gifts that he had never experienced so frequently before. On top of this, he would give him school advice, and sometimes take him camping or fishing to give Lily the opportunity to have some time alone. It was a dream come true, a sweet haven for both of the Conley members, until Lucas learnt that Darryl wasn't much different from the man who abandoned him almost 14 years ago. Lily was pregnant again, this time with a little girl later to be called Willow, born 8th August 2012. Darryl had left to never be seen again after Lily told him, an action that sent his Mother on a downward spiral. She didn't want to go back to being alone, now with the responsibility of two children instead of one, and subconsciously blamed them for it. She became entirely consumed by her rage and postnatal depression, especially towards Willow. Lucas would often have to take the role of caregiver, and during an argument about his responsibilities, was the moment she hit him for the first time. The shock of what she had done to her child snapped her out of it for a little while, just enough for her to buy him a puppy (a golden retriever known as 'Bear') as an apology, but this was a temporary fix for a much longer cycle of abuse that only ended when she committed suicide. One page of many from his old journal: Aged 18, Lucas tried his best to convince social services to let Willow stay with him, a plan that didn't work out due to his financial situation. He would have done anything for her, and instead they passed her onto a random family in the city that didn't love her like he does, or that's what he thought about the situation. Present Day Lucas is focusing on bettering himself to be the kind of brother that can take care of Willow, getting her everything her adoptive family can get her, and more. He wants to be the parental figure he never got. A motivation that is easier said than done for a man with no qualifications apart from his ability to draw a cartoon occasionally and an attitude to life that makes doing anything other than drinking, smoking and seeking the next adrenaline high almost impossible. ((First time doing this so taking any constructive criticism in PMs, thanks for reading!)) Edited February 18, 2020 by kylefromcarlisle Link to comment
Zoinks Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, Tr1bal said: Take all my likes! thanks a lot! Link to comment
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