JACOBS, Lucas A.

[Luke Jacobs]

Jude Law

Name: Lucas Alexander Jacobs
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual
Year/Profession: P.E., debate team coach, tennis coach
Sport: N/A
Hair: Light brown, kept relatively short and styled
Eyes: Hazel
Height: 6'0"
Body: Lucas' semi-athletic build weighs him in at 176 lbs. He has tone but is not bulky, and that's how he prefers it.

Likes:
+ Teaching
+ Seeing students learn
+ Respect
+ Quality
+ Hanging out with students (finds them amusing)
+ Classical music (particularly Bach)
+ Rock music
+ Women

Dislikes:
- Rap
- Blaring music
- Disrespect
- Hate
- Prejudice
- Bias
- Illogical thinking

Strengths:
+ Sports. Luke has enjoyed sports from a very young age. Soccer was his first love and passion, then baseball, then basketball, but it was clear after ninth grade that tennis was the ultimate sport in his opinion. Even after the section was over, he would find someone to play with or just go practice on his own against a wall somewhere. He was thrilled when he found out the junior college he attended for a year offered a class in it and was quick to register. He took a few general sports related classes before deciding that perhaps he should become a PE teacher, which he did, as you can see. He's trained in most every sport possible and in keeping physical fitness. Because of this, he often hovers over the lunch lady during meal hours, making sure his students are getting healthier foods than say...hot dogs. Horrid things.
+ Charm. While certainly not his most prominent skill, Luke does have his moments with the ladies. Of course, that's not quite what is meant by charm. What is meant is that he has that sort of personality that most people like. In a way, it's that "you either love him or you hate him" deal, but he likes to think the "love him" part sticks out. He's fun-loving and laid back, after all, and not an old stickler like half the staff. What's not to like?
+ Music. Luke's a little secretive about this one. Kind of stains the rep he's tried to work up for himself as the "cool" staff member, see, if he's seen as a former band geek. Of course, seeing as he attended the school not too long ago himself, that might sort of leak out. He started playing piano at a young age, becoming quite talented on that before eighth grade rolled around and he took on bass clarinet, then alto clarinet, then pretty much any clarinet possible. He loved the jazz style and soon applied the improvisation of it to his piano playing, a fact his parents came to hate, but what could they do?
+ Debate. Luke was thrilled when those in charge of Pembroke gave him the ok to start a debate team a few years ago. He was always the sort of person that enjoyed making people think, and of course, he usually managed to do it in a way that drove people crazy with witty questions and comebacks. He won quite a few even if his informal opponents of his school years would probably not have admitted it. He took it up officially during his years in college and was at first a sub and then as one of the main people. He loved the format and is pleased to bring it to Pembroke, hoping students will work hard and enjoy it as much as he.
+ Endurance. Lucas has good physical stamina. He keeps himself in shape and is constantly pushing himself to do more than his past records. He doesn't have bulky muscles but he can withstand a good workout or jog or anything needed. On the mental front, he's able to endure quite a bit before he's down for the count. He has a strong will that is not easy broken or bent.

Weaknesses:
- Can be a bit of a pushover. Give Luke a reason he feels is really good and he can't possibly be mean enough to reject as valid, and you might just get what you want even if it's against the rules he's set up.
- Sympathy. It's probably a good thing he teaches at an all boy's academy or he's sure he'd be labeled even more of a pushover than he already is. He hates crying; he hates tears. He hates seeing someone suffer, and if he can help, he'll help, even if it does mean allowing something he said in the syllabus he'd never allow: make-ups.
- Coordination. That is, coordination when it comes to any form of dance. If it's more than a basic step in any sort of dance, don't expect him to be able to do it without bumping into you, jerking you around, or stepping on your toes. That's why he steers clear of anything called "step aerobics" or "ballroom dance" and don't even ask him to show you his impression of hip hop. Oh dear, he sends most kids laughing away from him.
- Conforming. Luke hates rules and conformity. He likes the respect that demands, but he hate, hate, hates them, which is why, if someone comes in with his shirt untucked or tie hanging loose, or calls him "Luke," he's likely to ignore it. If someone puts his earring in in his classroom, he's not going to care unless for some horrid reason it's dangly. He can hardly obey the rules himself. It's hard enough to keep his mouth from letting out a few choice words at times, especially if he feels strongly about something. He likes students to think for themselves and challenge rules and why they're there. He thinks it's great for development. He just likely earns a few glares and noses up from other staff...
- Swimming. The one sport he abhors. Sure, he'll watch it and cheer their team on, but participate in it or teach it? Forget it! He freaks out just getting to his neck deep in the pool, yet you expect him to take his feet off the floor? Are you crazy?!

Habit(s): If there's a nail file nearby and he's nervous or idle, he will take to filing his nails to avoid having to look at someone.
Pet Peeve(s): He hates when students show him no respect. He's easygoing and fun to be around, but there is a time they must listen to what he's saying or risk injury, and he absolutely hates that as he's responsible for their well-being and wouldn't want any permanent injury a student acquires to be on him.
Fears: Lucas fears drowning, not water itself. If it gets hot and he must get in water, he rarely goes any further than where the water reaches his chest. He knows he can drown in only a few inches of water, but his fear isn't that extreme or overpowering. He's also afraid of dying alone.

Personality:
Lucas described in one word: carefree. In two? Carefree and casual. He's not one for using strictness at unnecessary points in time. He lets his students talk all they want in his classes unless it's imperative for their safety that they listen to him. He prefers to be more of a friend or mentor to them rather than a stiff-necked, boring teacher. He loves having fun with what he teaches. He loves seeing his students enjoy it as well, and if they're not, then he analyzes what he's doing and tries to modify it to make it refreshing and new and interesting. There's nothing that makes class unbearable like boredom with what's going on. If it's too easy, he'll step it up a notch. If it's too hard, he'll tone it down. Speak up, and you're sure to get some attention and your plea considered.

Luke looks to please no one but himself. He's a "take me as is" sort of guy. He jokes around and has fun with life. He marches to his own drummer, and some people love him for that yet others hate him all the same. He doesn't care. They don't have to live with him, but he does, so if he doesn't like his own self, then well, Houston, we have a problem, right? He prefers to take life as it comes, rarely making plans unless absolutely necessary. Winging it provides for slight surprise at times and unexpected joy. He is quite at ease to behave like a kid at times or others around him, and mocking stiffs even while in their presence is of no consequence to him. He doesn't care what others think of the whims he has. Why should he? What makes them lord over him?

He considers arguments a sport and rarely gets angered over them. He just uses his debate tactics or, if he's feeling "adventurous," gets quite passive aggressive. It's amusing to him to watch others lose their cool while he's still sitting there calmly. Of course, he knows whose buttons not to press and whose are ok to press. He does have fairly good judgment with that. He absolutely abhors when people find his and start pressing them. He keeps himself cool for a little while but then will lose it and start arguing in a snippy manner. He raises his voice in such cases mainly for emphasis, but still, he hates that. It's when he's most illogical and unable to think straight. It doesn't really give a debate coach a good name to lose his temper, does it?

History:
Being a writer in his spare time and having published a fairly successful book of short stories quite recently, Luke knows how to spin a story, and that doesn't always stop with his writing. He likes to skim over things or color things in his past to make them sound better than what they actually were. In fact, in one version of his past that he told friends growing up when in elementary school, his parents found him abandoned after a circus. He'd been one of the trapeze artists, but he'd hated the life (which usually earned him a lot of "whys") and had hidden when they'd packed up to leave town. In a few versions, his parents had been hippies and he had been a love child. In yet others, he had been adopted, and his real parents were lost in the jungles somewhere in the Amazon, trying desperately to find him. Of course, being twenty-five, he's since given up on such far-fetched tales. Now he tends to adapt a sense of realism so the truth is difficult to distinguish from the lies.

The truth of the matter is that his life has been rather dull. He was born in "Hickville, USA" to parents Leonard and Caroline Jacobs and childhood progressed as it normally does. He was allowed plenty of freedom to be himself and was only disciplined when he was completely out of line, but he was quick to pick up on his boundaries in different places, memorizing where he could get away with certain things and where he couldn't. He attended preschool and kindergarten and elementary school. He was always the quirky outcast type person throughout middle school, labeled a band geek when he joined the band. They moved to a town near Pembroke during the summer before his freshman year and he was sent there. He partook of every advantage the school offered and was one of the ones to test the rules even if it wasn't in as extreme ways as others.

He had no girlfriends during the school years at Pembroke, but how could he? Certainly, there were the dances and little run-ins at the lake and whatnot, but he saw no opportunities for himself to take, and well, it wasn't until college that he was able to fully appreciate the female gender for longer than three month periods. He stayed at home with his family for a year before heading out to Pennsylvania for college where he studied to become a PE instructor and dabbled in a few additional but not necessarily necessary classes here or there when there was room for spare credits. Then, he pretty much returned home at age twenty-two and gained a job teaching at Pembroke, initially as a PE instructor, then as a tennis instructor, and finally this year as debate coach. He has no significant others to speak of, though he does go out to town whenever he has the chance in search of someone to be the Mrs. Right Now.

And that, my friends, is just how it is. Boring little life with no real highlights worth mentioning thus far.

Family:
Mother | Caroline Jacobs | 50 | LCSW
Father | Leonard Jacobs | 46 | Secretary
Grandma | Christine Black | 68 | Retired
Status: Single

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