Nickname(s): Luck, LuLu
Birthday: February 13, 1975
Gender: Non-binary, femme-leaning, uses both she/her and they/them depending on context and willingness to put effort into it
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Residence: Ocean Breeze Apartments
Member Group: Rabbit
Occupation: Elementary School Librarian

Face Claim: Stephanie Sun
Appearance: Luck is on the short end at only 153 cm/5'. They keep their hair cut short, and often bleached to blonde or orange sorts of shades. While they used to have five piercings in each ear, they've brought that down to two in the right and three in the left (one in the cartilage). They generally like to wear loose, vaguely androgynous clothes, but occasionally, they do like to wear dresses. They have five tattoos: a tiger on the right shoulder, a small four leaf clover on the left ankle, a dragon on the left shoulder, a bouquet of a variety of flowers on the upper back, and a small rose on the right ankle. They don't have any major scars, but they do have more than usual of scrapes small things that scared on the legs and arms.

Personality Traits:

• Encouraging: Luck wants other people to be happier than they were when they were young, so they have gotten very good at making safe and encouraging spaces, especially for kids.
• Caring: Luck likes to take care of others and has a lot of "motherly" instincts. It makes them good with the kids at the elementary school. They realized a lot of this with their own kids, and it is part of what helped them find their way through everything.
• Determined: Luck spent a long time drifting, not sure of who they were, what they wanted, and all sorts of other things. When they finally figured themself out, they developed a really strong drive to make sure that they took care of themself and everything around them that was important to them.

What Sets Them Apart: Luck is non-binary, though femme leaning, but it took them a long time to reach that conclusion, and a lot of struggle. They spent most of the first 25 years of their life severely depressed, and it wasn't until after they had their second child that they started to work themselves out. It's under control now, though they do sometimes still have bad days, or stretches of days, but feeling like they understand who they are and what they want has been a huge step forward. They want to find someone to spend the rest of their life with now that they've gotten to be more stable, but they aren't really sure how to go about that now. They've basically started exclusively going by one of their childhood nicknames (Luck) because after all the stuff they went through when they were younger, they feel like it's a pretty good testament to what they've had a lot of to get to where they are now.

Mother:

• Name: Marianne MeiLing Na
• Age: 67
• Occupation: Doctor
• Feelings Towards: Luck used to feel a lot of resentment towards their mother, but now they just sort of feel resigned. Marianne is not going to change who she is, and she is an excellent grandmother in a way that she was never a good grandmother. Luck has been able to appreciate her for that now that she's come around to the existence of the kids.

Father:

• Name: Henry HaiLin Yu
• Age: 77
• Occupation: retired Software Engineer
• Feelings Towards: Distrust. While their mother eventually made an effort to at least respect their choices and love their children, Henry never really gave that to Luck. He generally is demanding of respect, and expects to be granted a relationship with Luck's children, without treating them with respect in return. While Luck still talks to him a little bit, their relationship is very strained.

Older Son:

• Name: Carl Yu
• Age: 26
• Occupation: Journeyman Electrician
• Feelings Towards: Love, deep caring. Luck wishes that they had been able to be a better parent to Carl, but they tried their best, and they do have a deep, caring bond with their eldest son. He only recently moved out into his first apartment of his own, but he still lives nearby, and he regularly eats at home. Luck is always impressed at how well Carl turned out as an adult considering.

Younger Son:

• Name: Mark Yu
• Age: 17
• Occupation: High School Student
• Feelings Towards: Love, deep caring. Mark being born was a lot of what got Luck to turn their life around and figure themself out. While they'd always loved and cared for Carl, they'd been doing only what they could to keep themself afloat and give what they could to him. Having a second kid, and then meeting some very helpful and caring nurses when going through the medical stuff leading up to Mark's birth, Luck got the chance to figure out what they needed to do to help themself as well as their sons.

History: Luck's parents came to the US about a year and a half before Luck was born. Marianne to enroll in medical school, and Henry to take a high paying software engineering position in the early days of the field. He had been educated in the US, but had returned to Singapore to get married and start a family. Marianne had encouraged him to go back to the States for the good of their future children and so that she could get a medical education. They had their first and only child early than Marianne had hoped to, slightly stalling her education, but she kept going, eventually earning her medical degree with a toddler in tow.

Lucianne, nicknamed Luck or Lulu, was a quiet, shy, rather troubled child. She cried easily and didn't make many friends. She did intermittently well in school, but she was badly bullied and teased. Her father payed her little attention, and her mother only payed her attention when she wasn't too busy with med school and then being a doctor. It wasn't until Lucianne was in high school that she really started to get any sort of positive attention. However, by that point, she had incredibly low self-image, and she didn't feel like she was worth much of anything. She didn't directly self harm, but she had developed a lot of self-destructive tendencies. When she was in high school, she started getting attention from older boys in the school, and she didn't know what to do with it. It felt amazing to have someone praise her and say good things about her, and it filled something that she felt that she'd been missing for ever. She would do all sorts of things that she knew were silly or not necessarily a great idea to get that praise and attention. At first it was mostly innocent, but over time, with a few of the boys who payed her the most special attention, it started to become sexual as well as the more innocent side of it. Luck didn't care enough about herself at that point to be careful, and about a year after she started having sex with some of her admirers, she got pregnant.

She was just barely sixteen years old, and starting her junior year of high school. This started spirals of self-loathing and self-hatred, especially when all her admirers disappeared as soon as she started to show. Her parents were livid, and her father threatened repeatedly to kick her out, to disown her. Her mother was more quietly disapproving, and she convinced her husband to let Luck stay on the condition that she finish high school. Luck did her best, getting a grocery store job after school to be able to afford her medical appointments, and later food for the baby, and she did graduate, though not terribly close to the top of her class. After graduating, her parents removed all support from her, and she had to move out, just barely eighteen with a one and a half year old. Fortunately for her, the grocery store was able to up her hours to full time, and it was enough for her to get by in a tiny run down apartment not really big enough for even one person.

Luck spent the next seven years jumping from boyfriend with a bit more money to boyfriend with a bit more money, who would help keep her in food and clothes, but most of them resented her for having a kid. She loved Carl though, which was one of the few things that she really new for sure. Things were easier once he started school, and she had a more flexible schedule, but she struggled financially and personally, having long rough cycles of depression where she didn't take care of herself well at all. During one of these down swings, when she was twenty four, she stopped bothering to take any of her medications, including birth control, since it just didn't seem worth it, nothing seemed worth it. She was seeing three different guys as the time, and rather inevitably, about three months after she went into the downward spiral, she discovered she was pregnant again.

This was a sort of wake up call for her. The nurses that she worked with at the community health center were all kind and caring, and trying their best for her. One of them in particular made an important impression on Luck. She was trans and still in the relatively early stages of transition. She was kind and good at explaining things when for the first time in a long time, Luck felt actively curious about something. The two of them actually became friends as well as Luck being a patient, and through their discussions, Luck started questioning their gender and trying to figure out what they wanted to do with their life. They came to the conclusion that they were non-binary, and though they didn't mind using female pronouns, and actually preferred presenting mostly as feminine, that wasn't necessarily who they were at the core.

After Mark was born, when they were twenty-five, they really turned themselves around, enrolling at Golden West College, first to get warmed up to academics again, and then finding their way into the Library Sciences program because of how much they adored the library and remembered finding pleasure in libraries as a kid. They transferred from Golden West to UCLA, and at the age of thirty-three, they earned their Masters in Library Science. They applied to school library jobs in Huntington Beach, first subbing at the middle school, then working as a floating librarian in the next town over, and then finally, at thirty-seven, they got a permanent position at Huntington Beach Elementary School. They've worked there for the past four years, and they don't plan on changing that any time soon.

They have their depression under control, and they are so so proud of both of their sons. Carl went into an electrician apprenticeship right out of high school and is a journeyman now, and he moved out of their apartment when he got his journeyman status (and the pay raise that came with it). Mark is a high school student, and doing very well in school. Luck is proud that they will be able to send him to college with confidence and a strong support at home.

After everything, they are finally starting to actually be interested in dating properly now, actually seeing someone as an equal and forming a partnership of some sort. They aren't too focused on it, since taking care of Mark is pretty much the most important thing for them now, but it would be nice.