Personality

While he appears princely and charismatic on stage, Luka is determined when it comes to the pursuit of his goals, and is revealed to be ruthless, manipulative, and cunning, going so far as to exploit Mizi's grief over Sua's death in order to undermine her performance during Round 5, and repeating the same technique with Till, using Ivan's death against him during the final round.

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While Luka mostly keeps to himself and rarely displays any form of genuine emotion offstage, he is shown to brighten up and become overwhelmed with emotion whenever Hyuna is present as he displays feelings for her and was close with her in the past.

From Hyuna's perspective[2], her inner monologue reveals a bit more of Luka's personality, showing a more vulnerable side to her, who he loves more than himself, despite struggling with showing such feelings in a healthy way, Hyuna describes this with “An existence who only knows suffering, and can only inflict the same. A pitiful soul who never understood the meaning of “love”. LUKA.”

It is possible he uses age regression[3] as a coping mechanism, as he's often shown displaying child-like behavior such as sucking on his or Hyuna's sleeves, or directly slobbering on her face back in ANAKT GARDEN[4], despite being older than her and other children.

ADVERTISEMENT Appearance

Luka is an extremely beautiful man with unkempt and wavy bright blonde hair and yellow eyes of the same colour. His fingers, from the midsection onwards, are a vibrant purple hue due to his heart condition. He has long eyelashes with the same colour as his hair, and thin, blonde eyebrows.

He can frequently be spotted in a long white blouse with an uneven hemline and a lilac inner lining. The blouse is cinched at the waist with a long grey belt with chains cascading down from the top of his shoulder blades, while a sizable and lengthy bow is positioned at the back of his collar. He dons a pair of black, ankle-length slacks and plain white shoes with a heel with teal-mint socks. On his shoulders, on the sides, he has lilac plasters attached to chains. On the long collar or choker you can see a triangular neckline, and on the collar or attached to the back, there was a large bow with long ribbons

In the top 3, he was wearing a white blouse with a white long collar, White pants, ribbons or ropes like a belt, and the same to the neck, as well as long sleeves of flashlights. He sat on the throne

During Round 7, Luka changes his blouse to an open-backand front suit jacket blue, a cut being made to show his left side both the open front and the neckline on the thigh from which the brand is visible, and pairs with matching blue pants and gray with a blue bottom shoes with a heel. Like his Round 5 attire, his top is also secured with a blue belt at his waist. Attached to the belt is a gray disc inside with a small circle, and sharp sticks are attached to the disc, and breaking off in the middle. His hair is slightly longer, and styled in a half-updo. In addition, he has rings fitted on both thumbs and his left index finger and right middle finger, as well as an arm band of the same shape as the rings on his left upper arm. He plays a violin. He also wears a silver earpiece that has a light indicating his emotional level and an attached microphone.

His branding is located on his left hip, and a surgical scar can be seen in close proximity to it. The scar is mirrored on the right side of his body and another faint scar sits on his sternum.

In the cover art of Sacred Light, his face is visibly scared/burned after the events of Karma. The burn scars span from both sides of his neck, fullness of his chin, and the outer left side of his face. The skin on his face has multiple staples to keep the skin in place, and cosmetic mark lines likely for cosmetic surgery and facial repair. The age he is in the cover art or the amount of years that have passed since Karma are unidentifiable but likely within the former half of years before his announcement to be back in the Alien-Stage competition in the seven year time-skip at the end of Karma rather than the latter half.

In childhood and infancy, his clothes did not change. He was dressed in the standard ANAKT GARDEN uniform, with a white collar and buttons at the bottom

In "Wiege" and in the comic in series 49, he was shown with long hair (as in the 7th round) in a white blouse with an open back, airy short sleeves, a purple long belt with a silver fastening holding the hem of the blouse, as well as black pants, and off-fingered gloves (except for the thumb).

At the beginning of the 5th round, when the 4th round ended and Luka kissed the participant, Durian's, bloody hand, he was dressed in a white blouse with a long but open collar, from which a diamond-shaped neckline with long sleeves is visible, hem, black pants, on the shoulders I could see diamond-shaped cutouts in succession.

In the timeskip 7 years later, on the billboard for his return, he was depicted wearing a black turtleneck and a white jacket with rings and gloves, the left eye is covered with bangs. His gaze looked indifferent.

Background

Past

Little explicit information is available regarding Luka's background. However, it is mentioned that he previously won the 49th season of this competition[5], earning him the title of "the greatest performer on ALNST."[6]

Due to his immense popularity among the Segyeins, he popularised the pet-human industry and started the trend of "Luka Syndrome."

Upbringing

Luka was artificially created, along with several clones of himself. [7] Luka's guardian, Heperu, aimed to create a perfect specimen of a human that is specifically engineered for winning Alien Stage. Hence, several qualities of Luka were deliberately genetically modified before his birth, including his angelic appearance, dancing talent, stage presence and singing talent. There is a possibility that he could have spawned already being some years old, making him mentally and emotionally younger than his actual age.

Luka had a very difficult and abusive childhood, which contributed to his lack of empathy and manipulative personality on stage. He undergoes "harsh trainings", which includes controlling and monitoring his heart rate. This made Luka obsessed with heart rates as he was trained to keep his heart rate at a constant 70bpm-90bpm, highlighting the need always to keep a composed, calm and apathetic self under any circumstances.[8] Furthermore, Heperu also induces a fear of death into Luka to push him further to win Alien Stage, through the methods of purposefully stopping his heart momentarily, putting Luka through an extremely excruciating experience. This can be the reason why he is so determined to win the rounds no matter what, due to his traumatic fear of death since he was young. There are many more possible "harsh trainings" that go behind the scenes that contributed to Luka's complicated personality and psychology.

In the deleted scenes of "Wiege", there were scenes of Luka bleeding against the floor after "harsh trainings". It also implied that he might have self-harmed since he was young, as there were deleted scenes of him slapping himself after waving to his ANAKT classmates with no response back.[9] It was also explained that Luka counting his fingers in "Wiege" is a coping mechanism to stay grounded, as a way of feeling in control and knowing he is still alive after all the abuse he went through.[10]

In the beginning of "Wiege", the aftermath of child Luka's slaughter of his clones is shown. Although his expression appears scared and traumatized, the reason behind this act is not yet clear.

It is confirmed in the Anakt Garden Book that Luka suffers from chronic migraines and a congenital heart disease[11], which explains his purple fingertips. This symptom is called "peripheral cyanosis"[11], where low blood flow and oxygen is reaching the extremities, tips of fingers and toes. His fragile health might be due to Heperu's artificial creation of Luka, as beings of artificial breeding tend to have more fragile health problems. Due to this, the segyeins often have to monitor his health and conduct multiple experiments and surgeries on his body to keep his state functioning. This latter information can be deduced from his flashbacks throughout "Wiege".

At some point during his time attending ANAKT GARDEN, he was close with Hyuna and her brother, Hyun Woo. The conflict between Hyun Woo and Luka seen in "Wiege" began with Hyun Woo's small, child-like feelings of jealousy and disappointment, most likely from the fact that Hyuna gives more attention and love to Luka than to Hyun Woo. This angered Hyun Woo, and he began a fight with him. Luka, who lacked the resilience to accept it like an ordinary child, ended up displaying violence[10], ultimately leading to Hyun Woo's death.

ADVERTISEMENT Alien Stage Events

His first appearance happens in ROUND 5 where he competes against Mizi. He wins against her after Mizi resorts to assaulting him to the point of bruising due to his intentionally mocking display of Sua.

Next he appears in the Final where he competes against Till. Much like ROUND 5, he intentionally makes a mocking display of a deceased loved one in order to mess with his participant’s mental state to further ensure his win. In this case, the deceased loved one is Ivan. This method has worked for him yet again as he wins against Till with the latter getting shot in the neck, making him the winner of both season 49 and season 50 of ALIEN STAGE. At the end he is seen standing face to face with Hyuna.

Seeing the person he loves, Luka is now shown flustered and smiling. Making his way to run to Hyuna, seemingly oblivious to the armed rebel behind him, she runs to him as well and spins them around, making the rebels gunshot directed at Luka hit her, which results in her death.