Lacan

Lacan is a character in Xenogears. He is the third known reincarnation of the Contact and a preincarnation of Fei.

Appearance and Personality
Lacan's appearance is identical to that of the modern day Fei. He has knee-length black hair which he wears in a ponytail and brown eyes. He is of a muscular build.

Lacan displayed the ability to be independent from a young age and desires to help the surface dwellers in their rebellion against Solaris. He is an accomplished artist, although he has doubts in his personal abilities as well as whether he is worthy enough of Sophia. After Sophia's death, Lacan despairs greatly and develops a destructive personality as he becomes the entity known as Grahf.

Story arc
Lacan is a previous incarnation of Fei that lived approximately 500 years before the events of the game. Born in a frontier village, he was separated from his parents at 6 years old when they died. Despite being a young child, he lived by himself. He first met that era's Elly when they were 8 years old, when she was returning from the Ashura Monastery in order to recover from an illness. Upon their parting he gave her a drawing he made of her.

Lacan left his village and after some travels became involved with the rebellion against Solaris. As part of this he met and befriended Krelian. 3 years later he was reunited with Elly at the Ashura Monastery. Elly was now going by the name Sophia and was the Holy Mother of Nisan. Formal war with Solaris broke out that year and Lacan would meet other members of the resistance including Roni and Rene. Krelian would suggest to Lacan that he paint Sophia's portrait and he would so so. The portrait remains in the Nisan Cathedral to this day.

Lacan was deeply in love with Sophia, but had poor self esteem and thought he wasn't good enough to be with her, or to even paint her portrait. He greatly valued his time with her though, and would lie about needing to get more paint in order to be with her longer.

Lacan was devastated by Sophia's sacrifice. He secretly met with Miang in Shevat's prison and she was able to take advantage of his despair, convincing him to seek out Zohar. Lacan was able to set Miang free and they pursued and eventually found Zohar. However Lacan had an incomplete contact with Zohar as spiritually he was incomplete and that era's Elly was no longer alive. At this time Lacan became the entity known as Grahf. As Grahf, Lacan awoke the Diabolos, the first stage mobile terminal weapons of Deus. They destroyed the surface of the Earth, killing 96% of the population in what is known as the Days of Collapse. After this Lacan went into hiding. His physical body would die 9 years later, however as Grahf his will continued to live on.