Luc
Names: LucLuc RemillardLuco
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 7 (4 HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARTH 24 AUGUST 2051)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 7Luc inherited the harmful mutation but could be repaired to near-normality; Madeleine is a carrier but unaffected.
- Ch 8Luc, born 2041, was epileptic, blind and deformed with enormous but latent metapsychic powers; genetic engineering restored his organs and an implant limited his seizures.
- Ch 23Marc's frail younger brother Luc has not recovered from the painful upsilon-field translations of the voyage.
- Ch 26Ten-year-old boy with lingering effects of congenital abnormalities treated by genetic engineering; vulnerable to disease, he misses his mother.
- Ch 33Luc has grandmaster-level mindpowers but cannot use them; his early ordeals left him a metapsychic invalid, and his body awaits full regen-tank restoration after puberty.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 12Luc is a twenty-two-year-old who has recovered from childhood invalidism and is now an intern at Catherine's latency clinic.
- Ch 12Luc secretly feared his genetic abnormalities would make him metamorphose into something like Jack; Denis showed him his heredity differs and redacted his fears.
- Ch 18Luc, a preceptor-therapist at the Institute, supplied Dorothée's psychological profile of Marc; he and Marie are unlikely to be Fury.
- Ch 23Married Kenneth Macdonald in the Hanover fieldstone church.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 9Luc is Paul's second son, now healthy, and lifepartner of Ken Macdonald; both are consulting metapsychologists at Catherine's research institute.
- Ch 9Luc was born with terrible physical deformities and is homosexual; he offered to share his memories with Jack.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 26Marc reveals secret to siblings
Marc tells Marie, Maddy and Luc that their mother is alive and pregnant, then blocks their minds to prevent leaks.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Saint Patrick's Day party at Orb
The Remillards attend the Poltroyans' Irish-themed party; Denis and Lucille avoid Rory Muldowney and discuss Marc, Unity and the Hydra.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Jack learns of Marc's plan
Jack, after winning at the races, reveals he overheard Marc planning to leave Dartmouth and open a private lab near Seattle; Luc warns him to keep quiet.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Wedding of Kenneth and Luc
In 2076, Kenneth Macdonald and Luc Remillard marry in Hanover; Dorothée and Rogi renew their friendship at the reception.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Drunk Rogi subdued
Rogi, drunk on champagne Jack coerced him to drink, tries to flee redaction; Marc freezes him with coercion and takes him to sober up.