Character's Name & Age (15-21): Luke Smith/17
Character's LJ & AIM: archtypal_human/banesXhopeXluke
Sexual Orientation: Bi
Addiction/Disorder: Depersonalization Disorder|Paranoid Personality Disorder
Fun/Useful Facts & Background Info: The Bane Mrs Wormwood creates the Archetype from thousands of samples of DNA taken from visitors touring their Bubble Shock! drink factory. This enables the Bane to run tests on an archetypal human. Luke appears to be an ordinary adolescent boy, except for his lack of a navel having been grown rather than gestated and born naturally. He possesses a superhuman intelligence and an exceptional eidetic memory.
During one tour of the factory, an alarm is set off when visitor Kelsey Harper's mobile phone disturbs the Bane Mother. The Archetype awakes and proceeds to escape with visitor Maria Jackson:Whom he later falls in love with, and her investigative journalist neighbour, Sarah Jane Smith. After the Bane Mother sends assassins to kill the group, they return to confront the Bane. The Archetype saves the day by recalling an exceptionally long sequence of numbers necessary to trigger an explosion in the Bubble Shock! factory. In the episode's dénouement, Sarah Jane adopts the boy, naming him "Luke Smith", having also considered the names "Harry" and "Alistair" after her friends Harry Sullivan and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Her sentient supercomputer Mr Smith forges and distributes all the necessary paperwork to formalise the adoption. Sarah Jane reveals to Luke and Maria that she is a former time traveller, having been a companion of the Doctor and lives a dangerous life investigating alien invasions and schemes on Earth.
The first story of Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Revenge of the Slitheen, depicts Luke's first day at school and his difficulties as to whether or not to refer to Sarah Jane as his "Mum". Luke struggles to adapt to life at school owing to his inability to lie or master humour and his apparent genius-level intellect which sets him apart from his fellow pupils. He and Maria meet and befriend Clyde Langer, whilst Luke makes an enemy of Carl, an intelligent boy who envies his effortless intellectual superiority. The friends discover that Carl and three members of staff at the school have been replaced by members of the alien Slitheen family from Raxacoricofallapatorius, and that Luke has assisted unknowingly their plan to switch off the Sun by providing them with the equation they needed to run the machine that will absorb its energy. Luke tricks the Slitheen into resetting their machinery and most of the Slitheen are trapped in their secret room in the school and explode.
In Eye of the Gorgon, Luke is entrusted with a talisman by Bea Nelson-Stanley. The talisman is alien in origin and is the key to a portal in space and time sought by a Gorgon. Learning that Bea gave Luke the talisman, nuns controlled by the Gorgon kidnap Luke. Eventually, Luke is freed after Maria turns a mirror on the Gorgon causing it to fossilise itself. Warriors of Kudlak sees Luke and Clyde noted for their exceptional combat ability when playing laser-tag leading them being kidnapped by the alien Uvodni who seek to make them fight in a distant intergalactic war. Sarah Jane and Maria manage to teleport aboard the Uvodni spaceship and attempt to rescue the boys, but it is Luke who exposes the fact that the Uvodni's war has been over for a decade prompting the Uvodni to free their captives. Rewarding him for his heroism, Maria gives Luke his first kiss.
In the finale of Series 1, The Lost Boy, a couple alleges that Luke is their biological son. Mr Smith verifies the accuracy of their evidence and purports that perhaps Luke was abducted and altered by the Bane rather than grown by them. Luke is returned to his "parents" and is told his real name is "Ashley"; Sarah Jane is pronounced a child abductor but is released from prison by UNIT. Luke's "parents" are abusive, later revealing themselves as Slitheen in league with the mysterious "Xylok" - in turn later revealed to be Mr Smith's true identity. Mr Smith recruited the Slitheen to capture Luke for the purpose of using his latent telekinetic ability to destroy the Earth and release his Xylok brethren. The child Slitheen, having survived the explosion in Revenge of the Slitheen, has developed a device that harnesses telekinetic power which Mr Smith has Sarah Jane steal under the pretence of analysing it and uses it in conjunction with Luke to bring the Moon crashing towards Earth. Discovering that Mr Smith is the evil Xylok and that he is betraying the Slitheen, Sarah Jane works with the Slitheen and her robot dog, K-9 Mark IV to defeat the Xylok, using computer virus to give him a new benevolent raison d'être. Luke is reunited with Sarah Jane as the Slitheen return to Raxacoricofallapatorius.
(Next part is made up... well parts of it. Mona Lisa did come to life actually.)
Once his mum was killed by the Mona Lisa, Luke lost everything. Clyde was eliminated by the abomination. Rani pulled Luke out of the art museum and brought him to her house. After that day, Luke just lost it. Not being able to cope with his mother's and best friend's murder, he began to suspect everyone of being some alien from space or a creature that hadn't been seen in a thousand years. He constantly stayed in the attic where Mr. Smith and K-9 protected him, the only alien and robotic creature he could ever truly trust. His only other friend, Rani, and her parents saw that what was happening with Luke, was too much for him to handle. Even though they knew that they shouldn't send him off they had no choice. Luke needed more help than an alien computer and a robotic dog could give him.
Luke is now attending St. David's Catholic School. He still does not trust anyone at all, fearing that they may be the Slitheen or the Bane or someone else even more powerful, like the Trickster. K-9 still stays with Luke, reporting back to Mr. Smith every now and then to keep in contact as it was their job to keep the Earth protected from the evil aliens. Rani still fights, having her other friends, Eve (a time-line alien) and Sam (a friend from her past), help her protect the world while the boy genius is getting help.
RP Samples: Sweat was dripping from the teen's brow as he ran on the school's track. A meet was coming up really soon so their captain had them training harder than ever. The honey-brunette haired male soon stopped as he finished his eighth lap around the track. Asato, even though he was only 19, he had already earned several olympic bronze medals for track and field events. The captain had given them one last pep talk before they all left, mostly everyone headed to the locker room for a shower, but Asato still had to get those pictures sent down to the police. Going to the bleachers on the north end, he grabbed his bag and slid it onto his shoulder. A phone rang inside his bag and he pulled it out. It was his boss at the newspaper, the man who he tended to give his incriminating photos to for money. He ran his hand through his hair as he began to talk. "Hey Boss... New photos? Nope... not yet. I was just about to head out for them." He turned around and began to head out of the field. "Sure one sec boss.." Asato looked up, shuffling through his bag, searching for his camera. "Yea... I'll go there tonight. I'll make sure I get incriminating evidence of him ok?"
Photo Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sja/images/wallpaper/1280x1024/sja_s2_ep11_clyde_hose.jpg (the caucasian one)