When Lucas Matthews was born, his family already contained the ‘prodigal’ son who was required to keep the family business going in the form of his older brother. His family liked to boast of a long succession of successful businessmen, and their words were not empty ones. The family owned Matfield Financials, a company founded back when the country was young and had provided a variety of financial services since then. As the country had grown, so had the business, always with the firstborn Matthews son at the helm. Thomas Matthews had entered the world three years earlier, and to say that hopes were high for him would have been the understatement of the century. Lucas, however, would in many ways fall to the wayside. Though he was, in his own way, loved by his parents, their focus almost always seemed to be on his brother. He was, after all, the future of the family and the company that they had created.

Lucas did prove to be a very clever boy in his own right as he grew. He caught on in his classes very quickly, though many of them did not challenge him and he simply grew bored. And as children do when they are bored, he found himself often getting into trouble. His father had no patience for such behavior, admonishing him for not being more like his brother (who Lucas knew to be skipping class to smoke behind the school gym, but didn’t dare speak up) and over time Lucas began to dread the man’s return home, fearing what defects he would find in him. He had always been a quiet child and found it hard to make friends.

When Lucas was eleven, however, his life would take an abrupt turn. His brother, during an outing with friends, drowned, leaving Lucas alone. He had looked up to his brother, admiring how he could not only appease their father but also remain his own person at the same time. He felt lost, becoming even more withdrawn than he had already been. It didn’t help matters that, likely as a way to deal with his own grief, Chester’s attentions had turned to him, intent on making up for lost time and forming him into the perfect company president. He turned to hockey as a way to cope, showing no small talent for the sport. He briefly entertained the thought of playing the sport professionally, but he knew such a future just wasn’t for him. He also turned to a tabletop roleplay game called Dungeons and Dragons as a way to cope, playing characters more heroic and confident than he could ever hope to be. His mother hated it, believing the game to be a gateway to devil worship, but still he persisted. And eventually, with the help of the game and hockey, grew in confidence and was better able to handle his father.

As was expected of him, he went to university and left some years later with a degree in both accounting and business management. And then to his family’s surprise, he packed up and moved to Boston, taking a position at an accounting firm. He would appease his parents by explaining that it was a learning experience, but really he just wanted to get out from under their feet and become his own man. And he truly did flourish once he was on his own. He made friends, built connections, helped get a few businesses off the ground, and even found a woman he decided to marry. They would have two children over the next few years, before the relationship suddenly soured. He would discover that she had been less than faithful to him during the last few years of their marriage, and a divorce was very quickly arranged (with a very clever pre-nup assuring that she would get little to nothing from him).

In 2010, his father suddenly died, leaving the only surviving Matthews son as the president of Matfield Financial. It was expected that Lucas would return to New York to take his position, but he refused. He enjoyed his life in Boston too much and it was where his children lived. He accepted the position, though most of his work was done via email since there really was little reason for him to constantly be present. His cousin was placed at the head of the table in his stead, handling the day to day runnings of the company and passing larger issues and decisions along to Lucas. In the meantime, Lucas had grown bored of his Monday to Friday desk job and had begun to take what some would consider menial jobs, jumping from job to job as he saw interest. Though his bank account contains more money than most people could even imagine, he prefers to live simply. To keep friends on the basis of actual friendship than what he could do for them. Over the years, he opened a few other businesses of his own as well as funding the founding of others.