Tant que je peux m'en tenir à la gestion de la scène et ne pas danser dessus. Lucas a répondu froidement. Son visage impassible n'a pas semblé particulièrement surpris ou excité par les nouvelles, le seul changement d'expression étant son sourcil droit arqué brusquement vers le haut. Tirant la note du bout des doigts de Charlene, il courut les yeux sur la note de façon critique, la coupant et l'analyseant autant qu'il le pouvait à partir d'un message aussi court.
L'altruisme n'était pas un concept auquel Lucas a souscrit. Il y avait toujours des cordes attachées à toute action généreuse, une faveur due qu'ils ne pourraient pas sortir de leur dette. C'était pas trop beau pour être vrai?
« Nous n'avons pas assez de temps pour trouver quelque chose d'original », a fait remarquer Lucas, même si c'était l'une des choses les plus évidentes qui pourraient être glissées dans leur situation. Un mois. Même si Lucas était optimiste (ce qu'il n'était pas) ce serait un énorme coup et un pari de mettre ensemble, répéter et parfait une production de do-or-die en un mois. Une pièce de théâtre du collège pouvait certainement fonctionner dans ce délai, mais il s'agissait d'une entreprise de production professionnelle — rien de moins que fantastique était inacceptable. Cela, et le microgestionnisme de Lucas a souvent exigé beaucoup de temps.
"Mais cette note dit que nous devrions prendre un risque, donc nous ne devrions rien faire de traditionnel." Il a souligné, tapant le mot risque avec le dos de son doigt. "Je pense que nous devrions rester loin des classiques comme Shakespeare, Wilde, toutes les pièces grecques... Si nous mettons n'importe quelle pièce classique, bien connue ou dieu interdit, les comédies musicales, nous devons le tourner d'une manière ou d'une autre, le rendre différent et citation-unquote brillant." Après avoir fait la motion de citation exagérée avec ses deux mains, Lucas a transmis la note à celui qui était le plus proche de la main.
Il tenait à l'espoir mince qu'il n'aurait pas à monter sur scène. À ce moment-là, les chiffres de l'entreprise s'estompaient jusqu'à ce qu'il savait qu'il devait reprendre le jeu quelque part, donc quelque part dans son esprit, il avait déjà démissionné d'être un interprète. Un petit rôle pour Lucas serait idéal, mais si une comédie musicale était choisie...
Peu importe ce qu'ils décideraient de faire, Lucas s'était déjà engagé à cent dix pour cent. Tout le monde sur la production aurait besoin de contribuer plusieurs tasses de café pour Lucas pour être en mesure de gérer la scène, mais il était déterminé à faire cela la meilleure production qu'ils aient jamais mise sur.
Male | Twenty | Pansexual
𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘
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Icy looks to go with an icy demeanor, Lucas is the embodiment of the 'aloof blonde' stereotype. His well-defined jawline and cheekbones sharp enough to cut glass accentuate his angular face. Narrowed green eyes, pink lips and the occasional freckle dotting his face are the only colored features on pale skin. His dirty blonde hair is tousled from him running his hands through it so often.
Sometimes you can see dimples during his rare smiles.
Lucas' slender frame stands tall and proud. His imposing height of six feet often distracts from the fact that he could afford to put on a couple of pounds and a bit more muscle. He has a confident strut and moves at his own pace on his own terms, not anyone else's. Lucas is rather fidgety and he's seldom seen sitting still — he's always moving, whether it be his foot tapping away restlessly on a beat that only he can hear, or twiddling his pen between his fingers.
For lack of a better term, Lucas is the surly owner of a resting bitch face. While it's difficult to deny his conventionally attractive looks, he's hardly the most friendly-looking person in the company. Lucas doesn't smile, he smirks; he doesn't laugh, he snickers. Sarcasm often hangs heavily on his clipped tone, and it often surprises people that his singing voice is actually capable of warmth.

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬
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They say that laughter is the key to a long life. If that's true, Lucas is fated an early death. Far from cheerful, Lucas is brooding and appears to be carrying more than the necessary amount of stress on his thin shoulders. A realist through and through — though many people will insist on saying pessimist — false hopes and empty reassurances mean little to him. He's not the type of person to say that everything will be alright or that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Lucas drops the cold hard truth on people, and if that doesn't make him friendly so be it. The higher the optimism, the higher the fall.
He's ruthless in his endeavors, working with the mindset that the end justifies the means. He gets results, and that's all that matters. Lucas' confidence borders on arrogance and while he isn't a "my way or the highway" kind of person, he has difficulty delegating tasks because the only way to assure that everything is under control is if he does it himself. He understands the importance of teamwork, cooperation and friendship in theory, but to actually practice those ideals is a different story.
Snarky comments and stinging words are his main method of communication. His interactions are as spiky as a porcupine and just as effective at pushing people away. Aside from the sense of camaraderie within the members of a stage production, Lucas is sorely lacking in friends and the skill to make any. Being nice doesn't come naturally to him, and his knee-jerk reaction to everything is to insult it — which doesn't help warm people up to him whatsoever. But say what you will about Lucas, when he praises or acknowledges something, it's genuine and probably took a lot of willpower to say it out loud. Slight flickers of kindness from an otherwise thorny persona keeps him from being a complete jerk (though he's still unabashedly an asshole).
Lucas is a rather vain person, extremely concerned with appearances and how he portrays himself. This isn't just limited to his looks, he feels the need to make everything he does seem effortless. Even though he's a hard worker, he refuses to acknowledge or show that he is, preferring to let everyone think he skirts by based on natural talent. There's not really any particular rhyme or reason as to why he's troublesome in this way, he just is and has to go out of his way to project himself as such.
Having an emotionally abusive father has left its mark on Lucas, even though his mother whisked him away when he was young. He has a fear of being trapped. As a cleithrophobic, Lucas is not a fan of locked doors or feeling restrained in general. He values freedom highly, and even feeling trapped emotionally can be distressing. Whether it be actually being trapped in a locked room or even being stuffed in an elevator with a lot of people, he's more prone to anxiety attacks when he feels cornered.
But at the very core of it all, Lucas is passionate above everything else. He may feign disinterest and purposefully goes out of his way to make it seem like he has better things to do, but on this sinking ship Lucas is the one frantically plugging holes and hauling out the water. Even when every instinct is screaming at him to abandon ship, Lucas has remained, is remaining, and will remain on it as it sinks. Like with almost everything he does, there's a nearly undetectable hint of warmth beneath his actions. He may not ever admit it in person, but he cares.
𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘𝗦 & 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘𝗦
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✓ Music of all genres
✓ Forts Small enclosed spaces
✓ Horror movies
✓ Staying up into ungodly hours of the night
✗ Feeling restrained
✗ Asking for help
✗ Modern art
✗ Audible mastication
𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬
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Lucas Olson is no stranger to the life of a starving actor. He grew up in that lifestyle due to his mother who pursued the unglamorous and unfulfilling life of an actress who wanted nothing more than to find her big break.
His mother Olivia Olson is first and foremost a dreamer. Chasing after one's dream is often seen as an admirable quality, but in Olivia's case she was a dreamer before a mother. Consequently, her son was usually not at the top of her priorities. While this may sound cruel, there was never any doubt between the two that the love between them was unconditional and true — this was only reinforced and strengthened after Olivia left her emotionally abusive husband, fleeing with a five year old Lucas in her arms.
After being constrained for her entire life, Olivia finally found the world at her fingertips. There was finally no one to tell her that she couldn't follow her dream of becoming a musical actress. She did her best to raise Lucas as well as she could, but juggling several part-time jobs while she attended audition after audition was hardly the ideal lifestyle for Lucas.
Due to his mother being absent for long periods of time and her scatterbrained tendencies, Lucas developed an anal-retentive personality to make up for his mother's shortcomings. He stepped up to handle the day-to-day chores, organizing and scheduling, everything his mother had trouble doing. If his mom was a dreamer, she needed a realist to keep her grounded and Lucas had to become that person. On the other hand, his mother taught him the the value of freedom, the joys of music and his love for the theater.
Many nights were spent at his mother's rehearsals and vocal training. When she couldn't afford a babysitter, he was often brought along and allowed to stay as long as he stayed quiet and unassuming. It eventually became a routine for him to swing by his mother's rehearsals after school and complete his homework while she practiced her lines on the stage. Lucas started taking singing lessons alongside his mother at the young age of ten, after the teacher noted Lucas' natural talent when Olivia brought him along.
Though the triumphant nights that he waited for her in the lobby of an auditorium with a bouquet of flowers were few and far between they were among the best memories of Lucas' life.
After an entire lifetime of watching and supporting his mother on her journey to become an actress of minor success, it only made sense for Lucas to also join his school's drama board as soon as he was able. Even in middle school, it became immediately apparent that not only did Lucas not have the skill to perform on stage, he didn't want to either. He was far more comfortable pulling the strings from backstage, telling people what to do and making sure everything ran smoothly. For every year since sixth grade, Lucas served as the stage manager for all of the productions put on by the school.
During high school, Lucas took on an internship at Abracadabra! as an assistant stage manager at the young age of sixteen. He eventually became promoted to stage manager a few years later once the old stage manager left for greener pastures. Lucas was far too young and inexperienced to fully take on the responsibility, but they were forced to make do — there wasn't any other alternative. As a result Lucas is an unconventional stage manager: a little rough around the edges, but effective nonetheless.
Lately, it's been feeling like Lucas' job isn't just managing the stage anymore; he's been forced to climb onto the stage to fill in for various roles that they didn't have enough actors for. For minor roles that require a maximum of one line or two were manageable, but when it came to musical roles... He thought that he had big shoes to fill when he got promoted to stage manager. If only he knew how much bigger his feet would need to be now.
𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦
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● Management — Lucas is a perfectionist and has the know-how to make things happen. If you give him something to oversee, he'll make sure it works or die trying.
● Singing — Having been trained in the art since he was a young child, it comes easily to him. It's easier to mold the brain of a young child than an adult.
● Tenacious — Even in the darkest of times, Lucas will persevere and find at least some form of success. He doesn't need to see the light at the end of the tunnel to work with his hands and brain.
● Adaptable — After living a life where he and his mother just barely scraped by, Lucas is used to being thrown curve-balls. If something is unavailable, he doesn't dwell on it and is capable of coming up with a solution — no matter how atypical it may be.
𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗦
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● Acting — he's too emotionally stinted to express himself normally. How is he supposed to do that on stage!?
● Delegating — Teamwork doesn't come naturally to Lucas. He has a tendency to pile way too much on his plate, and is stupidly prideful enough to not ask for help.
● Unfriendly — There's no way around it, Lucas is a jerk. Even when he means to say nice things they come out aggressively mean. It's not necessarily the most desirable trait for a healthy production environment or a team leader.
𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗦
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Stage Manager – Crucial to making the production run smoothly, Lucas' expertise lies in providing necessary leadership and support to the entire crew. Responsible for all of the logistics, he helps runs the rehearsals, communicates and coordinates with the stage crew, works closely with the director in overseeing the entire production, and so much more.
Musical Lead – Despite his lack of acting skills, Lucas' exceptional singing talent is undeniable and lands him major roles in the musical productions they put on. His rich tenor tone is flexible and well-suited to a variety of characters, and he can even somewhat emote while singing! Now, if only that applied to every other non-singing scene...
𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗖.
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● Has decent skill in piano, guitar and percussion – good for an amateur; nowhere near the ability of a professional.
● While Lucas is gifted in solving problems on set and micromanaging his way into a solution, when it comes to personal problems his go-to method of dealing with it is to avoid it completely. Completely useless when it comes to himself, Lucas is content to wallow in self-pity and hide himself from the world — quite literally. When he's upset or anxious, he has the childlike tendency to crawl into a small space and sit there to get away from everyone and everything. If he can't be found, try looking in tiny nooks.
● Sweeney Todd — if he's going to be forced to perform on stage, the role of Anthony would fit quite well for Lucas.