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I don’t use ‘the character of all time’ lightly but that’s what Luke Triton is. He’s a plucky, precocious, newsboy cap-wearing English boy. He’s the coddled son of a mayor. He’s an orphan for 6 years because he hates his dad. He forces his apprenticeship onto his master. He’s been arrested. He’s the sweetest little angel. His first instinct upon meeting a law officer is to assault him. His first instinct upon meeting his future self was to beef with him, too. His solution to a casino shootout was to construct a machine gun. He pauses on the street to scope cabaret dancers. He’s a gentleman. The other kids can’t stand him. A terrorist impersonated him. Logic is his religion. He receives prophecies from rats. He spent an acid trip mistaking a grown man for a little girl and didn’t let it go for ten years. The Loch Ness monster almost killed him and he never spoke of it again. He’s been at the counsel table for witch trials and never spoke of it again. He unearthed a lost civilization and never spoke of it again. By age 8, he’s ready for the world to end. By age 13, he’s bright-eyed and full of beans. If you’re nice to him, he loves you for life. If you’re mean to him, who the hell knows what’ll happen