Lowell Macraul
A reclusive polymath, Viscount Lowell Macraul is a sculptor, chemist, and computer engineer and one of the public heads of the Macraul family. The youngest brother of Paul Macraul, Lowell lacks the ruthlessness and force of will expected of the family's public head. Unlike most members of his family, who keep to themselves, he lives an active public life as a well-respected artist.
Appearance
Lowell is a tall, lanky man in his early 50s and has graying green hair and a beard. Since the late 1980s, he had always dressed somewhat like a moneyed-up beatnik, complete with circular [Lennon] specs. Some people believe he resembles [Hugo Strange] from the Crobatman franchise.
Personality
Lowell is a haughty, arrogant, and reclusive man with high expectations of everything. When something isn't to his standards, he has it replaced, often with something of his own creation. He isn't especially reminiscent of his kin in his desire to collect. What he does share with them is the pomposity and arrogance associated with Kalos' old money families.
Biography
Lowell is unique among the Macrauls in that he is not a true collector of the strange and expensive. The collection of statues he has in his country estate were of his own creation. Instead, he collects 80s paraphernalia. Despite his present seclusion, he is also far more active in his life outside the home. In his youth was once the darling of the art world. His sculptures pushed boundaries and managed to inspire awe and admiration from even the most casual of observers.
Although his true passion was art, he is also an adept programmer and was responsible for the slot machines and security systems in the Macraul Casinos. The combined stress from the demands of both his family and the art world allegedly drove him to madness and he fled to some out of the way family retreat in Kalos.
Bullied all his life, he is almost always found alongside his golurk, Primus, who remains his stalwart protector. Although his projects—consisting of strange geometries and sophisticated AI—are thought by everyone to be harmless, his family ties, however, make people wary of him. His closeness to his brother Paul is something that make certain organizations leer at him ominously.
Relationships
Lowell looks up to his older brother Paul and holds him in great reverence. He sees any accusations lobbed at him from the public and the J-Team as malicious slander brought up by envy. Although they do not interact often, Paul does seem to reciprocate his brother's respect. Lowell often acts as the proxy for the Macraul family heads.
Since the 80s, he has been in a relationship with Helena, a lowborn sculptor he met in his art classes. She later became his wife and bore him a son, Sylvestre. Although many believed that Helena's marriage to Lowell was largely one for money (one of his only mistakes, says Paul), the two share a very passionate fondness for one another. They have a room dedicated to sculptures of them [REDACTED]. Helena has largely won over the other Macrauls as she is herself a collector.
One main difference between Sylvestre and Lowell is their taste in art. Lowell's sculptures, often quite exquisite facsimiles of life, are almost universally beloved by the Macrauls; half the decorations in their casinos and newer urban houses were "housewarming gifts" that they personally requested. Sylvestre's eccentricities and tastes have, meanwhile, made him a pariah among his family.
Lowell's Pokémon
Trivia
- Lowell is one of the few people to have created a Monese-to-Human language translator, which he straps on a Pokémon to give them the ability to speak in a human language of their choice. He has given a few away to respected family members and former friends, but has not made it commercially available due to bugs. The technology behind it he keeps top secret. In alternate timelines, the tech he used has been lost.
- Lowell is themed after the legendary creator of the Golem of Prague, Rabbi Loew.
- Lowell is a fan of the culture of the 1980s
