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Cyrus Lucian Quintavius concept sketch - 8/17/14

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A concept sketch for one of the oldest and continually revised characters in Luca Stories. (Also was Luca's first major villain.) To be honest, this is the first completed concept sketch of Cyrus. He's just about as old as the creation of Luca Stories, and to this day, remains a key character in the middle of the series. He's not supposed to look so young... (Guess I still need practice with humans) Even though he's not quite how I envisioned him, I'm still rather happy with this picture. :)



Cyrus is a scientific genius who specializes in mechanical engineering, weaponry, and later biology. Due to his exceeding brilliance, The Company, headed by Seamus Lennox, sought him out. He joined, and began working on large, and sometimes creative, projects for them. In just a few years, The "daughter" Company out teched it's "sister" companies and nearly match the "founding" Company. Cyrus was so dedicated to his work, that he almost lived in his lab. Fearing that Cyrus would burn himself out, Seamus Lennox forced him to take a sabbatical that lasted several months. Durning that time, Cyrus stopped by a quiet town and began hearing a rumor about a monster that lived in the neighboring forest. He ignored it at first, but seeing hunters return severely injured, he decided to check it out for himself. He hired some hunters to help him track down the "monster." After searching for several days, they found it and gave chase. At first, it tried to run away, but a well placed bullet sent it crashing out of the tree. In self defense, it killed one man and injured the others. Cyrus didn't shoot at it, and made himself look harmless. So, the monster tried again to flee. Cyrus left the hunters to pursue the monster. He followed the blood trail until he came apon it. It had collapsed on to the ground, choking on its own blood. After sedating it, Cyrus went about to quickly remove the bullet and patch the creature up. He had planned on studying it and then turning it over to the town. However, the later part of his plan was changed, when he watch the creature's wounds slowly healed before his eyes. Cyrus then decided that he'd bring it in to The Company to study its regenitive properties for possible application on others in the future. However, he still had several months of his vacation left before he was allowed to return, and since he didn't have a way to contain the creature for such a long period of time, he let it go. During those remaining months, Cyrus observed the creature and later came to the conclusion that it was not a beast, but actually an intelligent, albeit severely confused, being. Once his time was up, Cyrus called in for back up to capture the being. In surprise, they had to gas the being, due to the dents he had made to the container in his efforts to escape. 

Cyrus, along with Lorellie (who he later married), eventually managed to reach the being known as Luca and began educating him. With Cyrus' help, Luca discovered many of his abilities and became Seamus' Partner. Unfortunately, an experiment went wrong and Luca began to explode, taking out a huge chunk of the moon. Cyrus was able to get close enough to stop Luca, thanks to a prototype suit he had made to resist Luca's energy. Unfortunately, the suit was compromised and Cyrus got poisoned from the radiation that came from Luca. After surviving the explosion, Cyrus desparetly searched for a cure. The radiation was slowly mutating him and driving him mad. When he discovered that Luca had survived his fall through space, he tried to contact him. Unfortunately, Luca suffered amniesia from the incident and didn't remember Cyrus or anything related to The Company. Cyrus became convinced that Luca was the key to his cure. As the madness began to take him, Cyrus began harassing Luca. It got so severe, that Cyrus even abducted Luca occasionally for experimentation. After several years, Cyrus found the cure in Luca's green, energy cells that traveled in his blood stream. When injected, the energy cells rapidly regenerate damaged tissue until they ran out of energy. (Unfortunately, the radiation damage had affected his DNA. Without a periodic injection of the energy cells, Cyrus would regres.) 

After momentarily curing himself, Cyrus begged Luca for forgiveness. Luca refused to trust him for years, but eventually forgave him after Cyrus helped defend Luca from being labeled as a created experiment (which would have stripped him of all rights).  Now Cyrus is Luca's official doctor. He and Luca have also come to an agreement about allowing mild periodic tests. And Luca allows Cyrus to take some of his energy cells from time to time to keep back the illness.

To maintain his lab and equipment, Cyrus creates tech and weapons and sells them. 
Also, Cyrus is the father of Lucas. He created Lucas as a partial clone of Luca right before curing himself. After performing a harmful experiment on Lucas and finding out that he possessed none of Luca's powers or abilities, Cyrus vowed never to perform another experiment on Lucas again, and instead, he raised him as a replacement of the child he would have had before the explosion. (Lorellie died while pregnant with their first child when the moon crashed into and destroyed the Earth.)



Ok. That was a lot of typing! Hope all those words didn't scare you guys off. ^^;
Since this was Cyrus's first picture, and who knows when I 'll draw him again, I decided to try and summarize as much about him as possible. (I probably left some things out, but I'm tired now.) Anyway, I had to take a picture of my left hand to get a reference so I could do his correctly. (And it turned out beautiful!) His clothing is mostly black with cerulean blue details. His hair is black, with a dark teal hue.



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Wow this is awesome! For some reason I really like his shoulders?? And you can draw better shoes than I can x'D

I really love the backstory!! I like how his relationship with Luca wavered from friendly to antagonistic and back again. It's really neat plot-wise! c: