Adopted by Ibix and Rayelle, Lash is the blooded son of The Omega and becomes the head of the Lessening Society in The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward.
Biography[]
According to the false birth certificate arranged for him by his adopted father, Ibix, and signed off on by Havers, Lash was born on 3 March, 1983 at 1:14 a.m. When he was arrested, he gave a fake date of birth as 13 October 1981. All that's been confirmed is that he was born in 1983. As a pretrans, he had a dog named King. When he first got the Rottweiler, he tried to pierce the dog's ear with a safety pin. In retaliation, King bit him clear through his arm. Lash wore its collar when it died.[1]
As a pretrans, he went to into the Black Dagger Brotherhood training program to learn how to be a warrior. There he met John Matthew and Blaylock for the first time. He had to leave for a time after John severely beat him in the showers for bullying Blaylock.[2] He frequently bullied John, Qhuinn, and Blaylock because he got off on it and truly felt that anyone who didn't fit the glymera's exacting standards deserved it.
Rehvenge banned him from Zerosum after he caught Lash dealing tainted drugs that resulted in a rash of overdoses. Rhage, Rehvenge, and Vishous dragged him to his father's and interrupted a Princeps Council meeting, thus embarrassing Ibix in front of the glymera.[3]
His first death at the age of 25 was at Qhuinn's hands at the Brotherhood's training centre after Lash threatened to rape John Matthew in the showers in August 2008. Thanks to his death, the Omega was able to find him and bring him back as part Lesser, turning him into the weapon against the vampires he'd created Lash to be. His first act was murdering his adoptive family.[1]
The sympath king gave the princess to Lash as punishment for her attempted coup and he brutally beat and raped her repeatedly. When she escaped him, he hunted her down at the sympath colony to bring "his female" back. Since Xhex had shot her and she was dying, Lash took Xhex instead, using his ability of illusion to take her under the noses of the Brotherhood.
Lash treated her much the same way he had the Princess because he wanted to break her and he loved that he couldn't. He was eventually defeated in combat by John Matthew and Xhex. Together, with Xhex the lead, they stabbed Lash in the heart with a knife. After the fashion of all dispatched lessers, he disappeared in a blinding flash of light and with an audible 'pop.'
Personality[]
Lash was petty, bigoted, and a bully.[2] His cruelty escalated and he used John's PTSD, which he'd discovered in his medical file while interning with Havers, as a weapon against him.[1] It took him less than 24 hours after learning he was the Omega's son to murder his whole family, which put him in shock for a while, but he recovered enough to get laid and then arrested. At least he was conscientious enough to tie his parents' bodies sitting upright in their chairs and brought dinner out of the oven to place it on the table.[4]
Power, even that held by others, was an aphrodisiac to him, which was conflicting for him since he was homophobic. anyone who didn't fit his very narrow ideas of masculinity led him to question the sexuality of other males, indeed, he assumed any male he doesn't like was gay.
Physical Description[]
Lash has sharkskin grey eyes. As a pretrans, Lash had long blonde hair drawn back in a ponytail and wore designer clothing and diamond earrings.[5] Post-transition, he cut his hair military short and wore simple black clothing that allowed him to move.[6] He also added a tattoo of a word in the Old Language on his stomach.[7] After becoming a Lesser, he returned to wearing haute couture and began to rot, revealing an indistinct shadowy form underneath. He wore a gold ring given to him by the Omega that would warm up and glow when he wanted to summon Lash.
Skills[]
- He conducted one of the worst massacres in the history of the race.
Abilities[]
- After dying and being brought back by the Omega, he can withstand sunlight without burning.[4]
- He could feed off of Lessers.
- Mhis, or something comparable[8]
- He could create what are essentially energy bombs.[9]
- He was the only member of the Lessening Society to ever be able to experience sexual arousal and to act upon it.
- He could split his sternum at will to reveal his beating black heart.[10]
- He was immune to the Beast's fire breath.[9]
Relationships[]
Mr. D[]
Lash treated Mr. D as a disposable minion, but Xhex observed his attachment to the lesser while she was his captive.
Ibix[]
He had some twinges of conscience after murdering his parents.
Luchas[]
He'd thought of Luchas as a friend, but still ended up torturing and shoving him into a barrel full of the Omega's blood.
The Omega[]
At first Lash liked the power that being the Omega's son gave him, however, he quickly grew tired of his father's need for validation and was disdainful of the Omega's homosexuality. Once Lash felt he'd learned all he could teach, he started to see his father less and less. When he started to physically disintegrate, Lash assumed it was because he needed to feed from a female lesser instead of the male lessers he'd been drinking and asked the Omega to turn a female for him, specifically Xhex. Apparently that was beyond the pale for the Omega who hated women even more than Lash and told his Forelesser, the Little Shit, to kill Lash for it.
The Princess[]
He was aroused by the power he could sense in the sympath princess when they first met. As he'd mistaken her for a male, however, he'd thought this attraction unnatural and tried to blame her for it, thinking that she somehow projected her own desires into his mind. When the king gave her to him as punishment, Lash saw her as more of an object or pet than a person, keeping her in his dog's old collar and leashed. He was territorial enough to go after her when she escaped, but since she was dying, he took Xhex instead.
Xhex[]
When he first met Xhex, he was instantly attracted to her ability to be vicious and brutal even though he thought of her in misogynist and homophobic terms. Because she could withstand so much of his abuse without breaking, he thought he was in love with her.
Trivia[]
- He once peed his pants after Zsadist threatened to pop out his eyeballs and feed them to him [5]
- After he killed his father, he drove his father's Mercedes S550.[11]
Appearances[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lover Enshrined, Ch. 29
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lover Revealed
- ↑ Lover Revealed, Ch. 46
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lover Enshrined
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lover Awakened
- ↑ Lover Unbound, Ch. 14
- ↑ Lover Unbound, Ch. 27
- ↑ Lover Avenged, Ch. 70
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lover Avenged, Ch. 67
- ↑ Lover Enshrined, Ch. 53
- ↑ Lover Avenged, Ch. 20