[spoilers] Lucas and his tattoos

[Byatil]

To be completely honest I think I was half-asleep when I posted that, and I can't remember exactly what I meant by it Warning: do not allow yourself to enter into any form of discussion whilst lying in bed at 4am!

I think I meant that it's interesting how Lucas tries to focus his attention onto the person who he currently has an interest in acquiring something from... with Harry, he wanted his trust. With Elizabeta, he seems to want some sort of redemption - perhaps he sees her as a path back towards his old life. The fact that in the first instance, he tells Harry "Katchimov was my only company", and then in the second tells Elizabeta "All I thought about was you" seemed significant to me. I do concede your point that it was probably a form of self-realisation for his character, and I wasn't trying to suggest that he was consciously lying (...I don't think!), but more that he seems to almost guilt-trip people into giving him what he wants? We see it a lot in his close relationships with certain characters, as he repeatedly uses his past experiences to try and convince people to trust him, or to give him information. Whether he's using this technique consciously or not is unclear, because he obviously feels rather bereft of sympathy throughout S7.

Hopefully that makes sense...? xD I haven't been getting much sleep over the past week, so apologies if my coherency levels are ridiculously low.