Lawrence Malheur

Lawrence Malheur, is the Head of Service aboard the Nanotrasen run facility of Heavenstation. He's one of the last known remaining members of the Knights of the King, and a former surviving member of Station 9. Lawrence has the ability to see death thanks to his first Boundary, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception; an ability to be able to see Death in all living and non living things in the form of threads (which later on become lines.) He assists in multiple ongoings while aboard Heavenstation.

Appearance
Lawrence wears a slightly altered Cook's uniform, replacing the red necktie with a blue bandana. Lawrence is of below average height, with bobcut hair and dull red magenta eyes, making him look lifeless. He appears to look very androgynous, making him an oddity among his diverse adopted siblings.

During the Spirit Arc, Lawrence ditches the uniform later on and dons a stolen altered version of an Admiral's Uniform, a black double breasted coat with black combat boots and deep blue gradient pants. The right sleeve appears to be completely ripped off.

He loses his right arm temporarily in his fight with Ritz Berbier. This was replaced with a gold an silver arm named Armstice, which had contained magical properties that warded off and burned away any outside Divine energies when activated.

Personality
Lawrence has a very dry sense of humor, and often always displays a sense of joking sarcasm when out and about. While formerly denying his kindness and need to help others at first with apathy and some level of uncaringness, he eventually opened up more and more towards his crew the more he got to know them. Deep down Lawrence has always had a good heart, and showcases a sense of vulnerability. He wants what's best for others and tries to help however he can in his power, even if it meant to resorting to more drastic and morally questionable measures to ensure that. While caring and ensuring the longevity of the others aboard Heavenstation, he cares little about his own wellbeing and can at times end up being very reckless about attaining the best possible outcome. His deeprooted impression of wanting to help others the most, even if came at his own cost, most likely came from his time with Station 7's Warden, Zevachya Ermingild.

History
While wanting to stay in the background and watching things unfold from afar, Lawrence became very decisive and confrontational about handling the conflicts that arose in Heavenstation. Indirectly became the opposite of what he wanted, and eventually became a large contributor to the many different conflicts that occurred in Heavenstation.

Creation
Lawrence was one of the last of the Malheur Children to be created. Being born as a homunculus, Lawrence had no biological family until he was adopted and raised by Ezel Malheur. The man who sought out to adapt all of the other children aboard Station 9.

Early Life
From a young age Lawrence was coddled by Ezel, having a much more kind hearted and sensitive nature compared his more problematic siblings. Lawrence never left Ezel's side, and even went along with him on his multiple visits to Station 7 to see Mother. His siblings on the otherhand saw him as a bit of an outcast, due to him receiving more attention from Ezel than the rest of the children.

Station 7
From his many visits to Station 7, Lawrence felt more comfortable and open to its crewmates. To him, Station 7 was his real home, and he viewed such people as Zevachya as an older brother figure. In hindsight if he had never visited Station 7 at all, Lawrence felt like he wouldn't have a childhood to remember as fondly as he did. To him, his time on Station 7 were much simpler days....though....something did always feel off on his last few visits back.

Boundaries: The Eightfold Path
Gifted by the Goat King during the Harbinger Trials, Lawrence inherited the power of using Boundaries. An Eightfold power that helps the human body surpass its mortal limitations and help them gain divine powers. Lawrence having to unlock more of these boundaries, has helped him further manifest his power.

While not all boundaries proved to provide much of a practical use, the following were used and proved to be boundaries Lawrence utilized the most.

Language of the Lost: The Third Boundary
Boundary of the Tongue, this iteration of the Third Boundary allowed Lawrence to become quite adaptable in many languages, especially ancient languages that were lost to time.

Strange enough however, he cannot be able to speak in any Nar'Sian languages.

Physical Strength Enhancement: The Fifth Boundary
Boundary of the Body, this iteration allowed Lawrence to physically enhance his strength without altering his appearance. Being very capably strong, Lawrence's strength compared to that of a mech or powersuit. A noticeable feat was being able to fireman carry Captain Tay Nachure across several miles in Lavaland.

The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception: The First Boundary
Lawrence specializes in the First Boundary. Originally being able to see faint threads on others, he develops this ability further later on and is able to see 'the death of all things' visualized by distinct lines on objects or things he considers 'alive.' Lawrence is able to cut these lines, allowing him to practically cut through anything that fits within his qualifications, this includes anything of divine relation. The object he uses to cut these lines with does not matter, ranging to using a simple ruler or a sword.

Thread Perception
A lesser version of his current Mystic Eyes, while unable to cut through divinity with this power, Lawrence could cut away the threads of Death that loomed over those who were on the brink. This proved to provide a more utilitarian use to his crewmates until he learned to specialize in his Boundaries.

Harbinger Training
By training for the Harbinger Trials at a young age, Lawrence gained combat experience and a number of various acrobatic skills. His training varied from things such as utilizing magical energy, strenuous strength and agility training, and so on.

Despite Lawrence's small stature, and even without the boundaries, was shown to be one of the more physically adept of the homunculus children.

Blade Proficiency
From Lawrence's harbinger training, bladed weapons had become his preferred weapon choice. Being adept at using most bladed weapons, ranging from knives, to various kinds of swords. Lawrence's fighting style lets him able to adapt to whatever type of sword he is wielding, and use proper techniques for said weapon so he can use it at maximum efficiency.

Ezel's Knife
A knife inherited from Ezel, last used in a fight against a powerful cultist leader that destroyed Station 9. This is one of the last remnants of Ezel Malheur that Lawrence dearly clings onto.

This knife is Lawrence's go-to weapon, can he can be seen with it on his person at all times, prefering the discrete nature of carrying a concealed weapon given his circumstances aboard Nanotrasen facilities.

Forebearer
A Specialized Sword once wielded by Sir Enoch, the first of the Goat King's Knights that walked among gods. Formerly being a knight that specialized in Spirits, this sword was forged in order to help purify Feral Spirits and return them back into a more 'human' state.

Forebearer appears to be a very, almost comically long katana. The blade was a bright gold that illuminated in the darkness, its crossguard was a small bundle of flower pedals that resemble the ones seen from the Goat King's Courtyard. It had a gold hilt with a sapphire pommel ring at the end. A large gold chain wrapped around the user's arm upon wielding Forebearer, allowing the user to extend the sword's reach by being able to swing the blade around by the chain.

Broken Forebearer
In an ensuing fight with Ritz Berbier and pressing matters at hand, Forebearer had its blade broken. Now down to only a fourth of its size, the blade took on a dull steel look with its flowery crossguard looking half burnt from Berbier's attack. While Forebearer could still purify Spirits, its potency was lessened.

Master Cook
Learning to cook professionally from a young age, due to a lack of a proper cook aboard his old station. Lawrence took on the mantle of becoming the station cook for Station 9 and later, though not through his own choice, became a cook for Heavenstation as well.

His food is regarded as being the best and excellent among his friends and fellow acquaintances. Lawrence has a strong passion for cooking, and wishes to own his own restaurant or bakery someday.

Oreo Quota
Through mysterious and universal circumstances, not of his own or any who are associated with Divinity. Lawrence is always seen preparing boxes of oreo cookies he makes himself. Whether they are eaten or not does not matter to him, he just needs to make a quota of one box every week aboard Heavenstation. If he does not meet this quota or if the oreos go missing from the station, calamity will ensue.

No one questions why he does this, or who put him up to it. Its mutually not questioned by everyone, for there isn't an exact answer.

Close Quarters Cooking: A Service Worker's Oath.
Lawrence is quite proficient in CQC, an altered form of Close Quarters Combat that is taught to all cooks in Nanotrasen facilities. Making a vow to the service worker's oath, Lawrence can only utilize the full extent of his CQC if his workspace is being disturbed.

So far he has not found a practical use for CQC yet. To people's surprise however, he is quite adept at this form of martial arts, being able to fend off an angry hoard of monkeys once while off shift in the kitchen.

Homunculus
Being an artificial human, infused with magical energies. Lawrence has very powerful magical circuits flowing through his body, allowing him to have a stable use of his Boundaries. Due to how he was created, Lawrence's body is very suitable and adaptable to any modifications or alterations made to him. Most of these don't tend to last long however depending on the circumstances of the situations he finds himself in.

Relationships
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Trivia

 * Lawrence draws heavy inspirations from Ryougi Shiki, the protagonist of the Kara No Kyoukai series. His use of Death Perception and the knife he carries are homages to the character.
 * Out of all of his other siblings, Lawrence appears to be the most androgynous of the Malheur Children. Not only that but he is the shortest of the bunch as well.
 * Due to growing up with a lack of AI's or robots on his station, this made Lawrence wary of robots and AI. This is because his only impressions of robots at the time were violent and malicious malfunctioning ones.
 * While expressing time and time again he does not fear death. Situations where he feels he can truly die exemplify how fearful he still is deep down at that idea.
 * Originally, Lawrence started out as a gag character for Heavenstation.
 * Lawrence could likely pass the gorilla test in theory, but would more than likely be overwhelmed by the sheer amount and strength of several gorillas.