Who do you think Luke was, before TWD?
We already know a little bit about his backstory.
Him and Nick being friends for 20 years.
Their trying to start a business together.
( I can't remember anything other than that).
So if you were to design more of a backstory for Luke, including how old he is and alike, what would it be?
I'll add my own ideas in a little bit.
So stay tuned.
Here are my idea.
Luke was born in 1985, to a hardworking farming family.
His father worked hard to provide for the family, and just barely earned enough money for Luke to attend school.
Being a straight- A student, Luke excelled at school.
And was also quite good a at sports, Luke eventually made it on the basketball team in middle school, but had to quit, in order to help bring money into the house.
During his time in the 3rd grade, Luke met and befriended Nick, and protected him from local bullies.
The two became good friends, and later on in high school, the two started working as farm hands, to pay their way.
Their employer, a middle-aged man named Carver, was a fair man, and treated his employees well.
When both men were in their mid 20's, they tried to go into business as furniture movers.
Being hardworking men, Luke figured the business would be a success
However, cause of financial setbacks, their business folded after 6 months, despite the two's professional, and hardworking manner.
It was shortly afterward that the apocalypse began.
Nick's mom, was one of the first to be killed, forcing Nick to kill her before re-animation.
After a year and a half on their own, the two eventually reunited with their former employer Carver, and sought refuge in his camp.
However, after seeing what he had become, Luke was determined to leave, and eventually persuaded other to follow him.
The rest is history.
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They were moonshiners and had run-ins with the wrong side of the law. The new Dukes of Hazzard.
Farm boy.
I think that Luke and Nick were good old Southern Boys. Can't really think much about who exactly they were and what they did, but they seemed like good guys.
Credit goes to InfiniteDawn for this amazing and godly pic.
He's a hunter, police officer, military reserve, the president, a secret agent, a factory worker, construction worker, a babysitter, a teacher and a garbage man
Nick: Clem, do you know what the most important thing you can have in this world is?
Clementine: Family.
Nick: Nope, lies. Lies are the most important thing you can have in the world, for instance, this one time Luke and I decided to have a lemonade stand as a "business". Luke and I spent months lying to ourselves, sayin', "this is a business" or "We're burnin' daylight!", all so we could stop each other from beating the shit out of the other for going along with that lemony scented bullshit waste of daylight.
Clem:...
Nick: Lie, Clementine, just lie and you'll find peace in this world.
Luke
aye, my pic.
Well, apparently Nick and Luke were farm boys. I think that they both could have possibly worked at the St. John's Dairy?
Too far-fetched.
It's more of a headcanon than a theory.
I can see Luke as a cowboy "Howdy folks"
In the game files, It's mentioned Carver used to be an engineer before the apocalypse.
a stripper
He was a handiman who fixed holes in sheds and cabins.
My headcanon:
Luke is 25 now. His favourite subject at high school was biology. He was a B-grade student, liked to think he was a bit of a charmer but was never successful with dates. Worked on a farm during high school and when he finished school, worked there full time as he didn't want to go to university. He likes to go to Nick's on a weekend, drink beer and play video games. Sometimes, when Pete visits Nick's mother (Nick still lives at his mother's house but was in the process of looking for a flat) They sit down and have a game of cards. Luke often gets invited by Nick's mother to stay for dinner. After years of working on the farm with Nick, Luke decides he wants a change and plans to go into business with Nick.
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A bit of a ladies' man
A prostitute?
I've always imagined him as part of a tight-knit family where he was the eldest and had many younger siblings. Perhaps that's why he bonds so quickly with Clem and seamlessly steps into an 'older brother' type of role around her.
He was an average student who loved playing sports, Preferred and was more inclined towards working with his hands, etc.
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#CrazyALB
ALB?
Oh, the Anti-Luke Brigade, founded after a few days ago the KDB (Kenny Downvote Brigade) were disbanded due to the removal of their primary weapon, the downvote.
Oh jeez.
Just so we're clear, I don't smash my keyboard or foam at the mouth every time someone makes a post about Luke, and you shouldn't either when someone makes a post against him. So can you please go easy on the 'H' and 'A' letters?
My laughing was genuine laughter. I thought what you said was funny.
Then I thought more and considered it might be a dig at luke about the Jane thing.
Oh, alright. I didn't actually mean it that way. Sorry about that.
Ah I didn't know who made it I just remembered it and thought it would be great for this thread :P, I'll credit you >:3
Now we just need someone to swap his model with Nerissa's in Smoke and Mirrors.
And please. please put Jane as Georgie as well.
credits: me
I'm thinking more along the lines of Dumb and Dumber.
He was the ladies man.
Dammit... Why did you to steal my idea hours before I came up with it >_<
I think you're confusing me and my fri..... I mean Eddie and Wyatt.
Luke had a career as a fast food technician
burning daylight
Luke was Luke Skywalker before everything went to shit.
Luke and Nick's business before the apocalypse
It says on the wiki that he was an antrapanuer.
"Who do you think Luke was, before TWD?"
You have no idea how much I want to know the answer to that.
I would think Luke age is near to mid 20's. When he and Nick started up the business they must of been over the age to purchase and drink alcohol to do that [not to say they didn’t drink way before that XD]. The drinking age can vary from 18 to 21 depending on the states, but I'd of guess they would've been in the 20's to have started that business. So you have the time for Luke to hitch up the idea, convince Nick it's the best plan ever and get it all set up and running, 6 months before the business went bust, additional time before the zombie outbreak that could've been months to another year, and then the extra two years into the apocalypse, that'd make Luke near to 24/25 years of age in theory, or he could be 26/27 at the highest.
Now the business itself could've been an actual drink brand they created in the hopes of hitting it big for themselves because Nick knows what a still is and how one works, so it sounds plausible they made their own brand at one point. But the business could've been a liquor store too and that brand thingy was just something on the side that they did and used the liquor store as a means to sell it. Clearly the brand sucked or they didn't know how to run a business properly being too inexperienced or starry eyed about the whole thing and hecked up. Them 'being flat broke' by the end of it like Nick says would suggest they might've gotten some financial help or they were lucky to get some jobs after that as not to end up homeless, unless they were already living with their folks. Nevertheless, I don't think it would have gone down well with family learning the business failed and they were both broke.
Carver calling Luke and Nick ‘farm boys’ could just mean they were from the country and that they didn’t actually both live on farms, so I won’t try taking that too much into account, but it is possible Luke could’ve more than Nick because since you could stick Luke on a farm and he’d blend right in! XD
Back on the talk of family I do think they were there, that his parents were both alive and they were good people. I don’t believe Luke had any siblings. I used to with Episode 2 with how he was with Clementine, but when Jane talks about leaving her sister behind, his reaction wasn’t something I’d expect from somebody who might’ve lost any siblings himself. I still definitely think he connected with Jane on the whole losing family deal, but yeah, no siblings.
Also sounds like he was a little wild as a kid with ‘the whole jumping rooftops in town’ thing Luke mentions, so I’m going to imagine he got up to a lot of trouble. Not necessarily gang stuff, but just he was a daredevil and might’ve dragged Nick along for the ride and any other friends they had at the time. Maybe he read comics growing up and wanted to be superman or something, who knows.
Girlfriends over the years? Oh definitely! Although I get the impression Luke wasn’t the best smooth talker in town, or went for the wrong type of chicks, because Pete seems to call him out on it in Episode 1 And if Jane is anything to go by, I’m guessing he likes some danger XD
With his selfless nature, and the way Nick says Luke always used to push him, it might suggest Luke was always looking out for Nick even when they were kids because of the shitty time Nick had with his father, who Pete says wasn’t always around and was a piece of shit when he was. Nick having it hard, could explain one of the reasons Luke is so optimistic at times, or tries to be, because he's had to be there for his friend that he might even consider like a brother after all those years.
However Luke is too selfless because he doesn't acknowledge his own limits. In Episode 3 if Clem asks if he's feeling okay Luke firsts says no, then quickly tries to cover up with a poor lie. He refuses to admit his own suffering, perhaps not to gain pity or appear weak. This again might be a little because of Nick in the past as mentioned above, but for other unexplained reasons too, perhaps from other people once in his life that he had to be pillar of strength for, or it could just simply be because that's just who he is and he can’t help but put others before himself.
Luke’s behaviour towards not wanting to kill human beings meanwhile leads a lot to question. Has he always thought his this way or did something violent in his past invoke that inability to take another person’s life? Perhaps it’s even something he did and regrets and has tried to make up for it since. If I was to take a guess at it, I would think it’s more to do with something he was a witness to before or after the apocalypse started. Then again it could've just been horrible stuff that took place in Carver’s camp and the extremes that man went to that put Luke in that frame of mind not to be that way himself.
The subject of not being perfect and mistakes made in the past are terms Luke indirectly refers to himself as in Episode 2. He’s done things in the past he’s not proud of, where the fault was his or he put the blame on himself. If the business he and Nick ran is anything to go by and many other incidents in the game, it would show Luke’s plans don’t always work no matter how well he plans things out. Yet he never lets it slow him down, he just gets up and keeps going something Nick envy's him for.
Although for somebody who has lost family to say that family itself is the most important thing in the world too, would imply he was definitely close with his folks before they died. Luke even admits In Episode 2 at the dinner table that 'a thing like that can hit a guy pretty hard' when commenting on Kenny's own loss of his family, and also depending on the dialogue you will get this
Clem: He did the best he could.
Luke: I'm sure he did.
Clem: It was really hard on everyone.
Luke: [pause] I bet.
Even choosing silence over commenting over Kenny's loss of Katjaa and Duck, Luke will look sad about something. So yeah, family probably meant a lot to him.
With Pete, I think he was the ‘uncle you didn’t mess with’ type around Luke and Nick growing up, just for the way Luke addresses him as ‘sir’ when Pete raises his voice to him in Episode 1 and calls him ‘boy’ back as if he's still quite literally a boy [clearly Luke must've known Pete since he was a kid, as well as Nick's mom]. Plus Luke's ability to lie is so poor it would make me think Pete was right about the poker thing and the old man was forever winning all Luke's money even before the dead started walking. But if Pete can tell when Luke is lying, no doubt his parents wouldn't have had much trouble figuring him out too.
There's also the theory of Luke bottling stuff up and that even though he always listens and helps others, he might be the best at talking over his own problems. Like how he says 'it's not my place to talk about somebody's else's past' to telling Clem she doesn't have to talk about her own history if silence is chosen at the table in Episode 1. Maybe in his life, Luke's just not had it easy to where he doesn't always talk, because sometimes it's not always been an easy for him or he doesn't want to burden others with it.
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Also! He's such a decent guy he could hold off having sex for nearly 2 years until somebody offered him, in which case: