Luke Van Helsing

Luke Van Helsing, also known as Luke Rutherford, was a male character that featured in BBC's Demons.

Biography

Luke was born to the Van Helsing family and was the last descendant of Abraham Van Helsing. He was scion of a dynasty of warriors who were tasked with hunting the supernatural creatures that lived in the world who were known as Half Lives. His father served as a hunter of these monsters and worked from the Library of Abraham Van Helsing underneath the city where he had a partner in fellow hunter Rupert Galvin. To protect his family, Luke's father hid his occupation from his family in order to shield them from supernatural threats. As such, they lived by the name of the Rutherford family and Luke lived in ingorance of his true family. During one such hunt of a Half Life, he was killed by the creature and to protect her son, Luke's mother told him he died during a trip.

When he was eighteen years old, he was visited by his godfather Rupert Galvin who took him out in order to reveal to him his destiny as the last of the Van Helsings. At first, he did not believe this and attempted to live his life as normal. But whilst walking with his best friend Ruby, they were ambushed by animalistic creatures and a high ranking Half Life. Despite defeating the animal beasts, he was overpowered by the Human looking Half Life but it was driven off by Glavin who used a pulse gun to scare it away. Thus, Luke agreed to return to the Library and use one of Mina Harker's weapons to help him against the Half Lives. He was forced to confront the vampire Thripp when he used his minions to capture Ruby and was captured but was freed by Glavin. However, Ruby was taken capive by the vampire and Luke fired his weapon which did not harm Humans but only Half Lives which managed to kill Thripp. (EP: They Bite)

Background

Personality and attributes

Luke did not truly believe in his capabilities and thus lacked confidence in his skills which was a notable weakness in his personality. Thus, he greatly relied on his mentor Rupert Glavin to train him and the technology developed by Mina Harker.

Powers and abilities

Due to his ancestry, Luke had a number of inherent abilities that were deeply rooted in his being providing him with increased reflexes allowing him to quickly evade enemies in battle. However, certain enemies were more powerful then him and thus capable of overpowering him in terms of strength.

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