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Character's name: Morgan Knight
Character's LJ: morgan_knight
Character's canon: Mage: the Ascension (OC)
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
Morgan is friendly, outgoing, personable, and an absolutely shameless flirt. Energetic and intensely active, he keeps a very full schedule as a rule, and throws himself wholeheartedly into even leisure activities like video games. He's always eager and willing to learn something new or develop a new skill, even though he knows he lacks the technical-analytic mind necessary to really succeed in scientific fields.
In some respects he might be TOO friendly, personable, and helpful. Though he's inherently like that in general, he also pushes himself to be those things to reinforce them in himself. He very much failed to live up to his own ideals for long enough to embarrass and grieve him; he never again wants to feel that he hasn't tried his best, hasn't done enough, or has been selfish and self-centered to the detriment of someone he cares about.
Martial arts are his life, but he takes a very broad view of the study. To Morgan, martial arts is more than just the ability to fight or even move; he embraces the idea that one can find the essence of martial arts in any activity. It's all a matter of finding harmony and fusion between mind, soul, and body.
He enjoys fighting a little more than he knows he should, but he's very much the technical pacifist; he will not take a life unless there is absolutely no other choice. He's also a bit too eager to have a student of his own; he's technically qualified and knows that he needs to teach as well as study himself to advance. He also knows this flaw of his own, but can't quite seem to work through it.
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character OR link to a really good wiki page with their history. In either case, explain where they cut off from the timeline:
Morgan and his twin sister Andrea were born in 2004 to Maureen and Andrew "Insane Rampaging Bulletstorm" Knight; the former a Euthanatos mage, the latter a medium ranking werewolf (Adren Glass Walker Ahroun). Despite being parents, both Knights still had duties and no desire to shirk them; consequently, a few years later, a massive ambush by the local fomori population lead to their unheralded deaths.
Disposition of the children fell to one Siryn Valkonan, longtime family friend and mother of Stephen Valkonan. Her first and foremost concern was to get the children out of danger; the Knight name was well-known to many of the Garou's supernatural opposition, who would have gone to great lengths to seize and destroy or corrupt a werewolf cub. Andrea was that cub; Siryn sent her to be raised amongst the Garou where she would be safe. And to ensure Morgan could not be captured and used against her, or his Kinfolk blood exploited, she pulled a few strings with her martial arts mentor and had the baby sent to what amounted to a boarding school in the mountains of Colorado. To all outward appearances, it was sort of a 'theme' school, for troubled children or those kids whose parents wanted them to grow up in that particularly structured environment. It emphasized discipline, strength of body and mind, and martial arts. Beneath its surface, of course, it was run by the Mage Tradition called the Akashic Brotherhood.
Morgan grew up healthy, strong, a decent student, and a very competent martial artist. The teachers at the school made no pretense of being parents, and offered no filial love, but Morgan worked hard for their praise and respect as a substitute. After the first few years, the wishy-washy or those who simply didn't fit had washed out, and the remaining children of his level solidified into a fairly tight-knit group. One unintended side-effect of this was that dating opportunities were thin on the ground, when one looked at the girls one knew as closer to siblings than anything.
During one spring break shortly before graduation, the school came under brief attack by a scouting party of evil mages known as Nephandi (or rather, it hadn't been intended as an attack, but it turned into one as soon as the Akashics put together just who had attempted to blithely enter their temple and investigate under innocuous disguises). In the middle of the fray, Morgan was ushered into the basement -- where the hidden vaults had been left open after one of the senior monks had taken something from them. Eager to help with the fighting, Morgan picked up a rather fancy-looking weapon -- and abruptly found himself bound to it, body and soul. The traumatic binding experience shattered the already somewhat-fragile barriers that protect the human mind from understanding the true nature of reality, and he Awakened as a mage.
Worse off, the weapon in question was the Tradition Blade of another Tradition entirely, the Celestial Chorus. They immediately demanded the weapon back, but the Akashic Brotherhood, after inducting Morgan into its ranks, elected to take the long view and indicated that it not only had no way to forcibly separate Morgan and the sword, but would not do so even if it could.
Morgan graduated at 17, and at that time was finally told about the inheritance and legacy of his family waiting for him back in Pittsburgh. He returned there to claim it, and abruptly found out that, like his father before him... he was now a multibillionaire. The Knight holdings stretched across a vast swatch of American business, and his personal fortune had him set for life. More intimidated by this turn of events than anything - he had lived quite frugally, and quite happily, for years at the school, after all -- Morgan did not go on the spending spree and debauchery one might expect from a suddenly-wealthy teenager, except in one respect. He commissioned the world's most awesome car.
As a consequence, Morgan met Stephen Valkonan. Much drag-racing ensued between his Ferrari Infinity and Stephen's car, Black Sunshine.
And yet Earth, as a whole, intimidated him. The world outside of the school was massive, and he had become an instant celebrity in it, as the handsome rich with a dramatic past are wont to do. It was then that he and Stephen had the idea to follow up a legacy of the Valkonan family, and chased down what they understood to be a portal to a High Umbral Realm.
It turned out to be another world, a cosmic nexus where people and creatures of all kinds clashed. Intrigued, they kept coming back; Morgan was particularly fascinated by a world where he could introduce himself as just another guy, not rich or special or hunted by the Celestial Chorus.
...He failed spectacularly in so many respects. He was out of his element and unfamiliar with the whole process of meeting new people and making friends. He alienated Stephen on more than one occasion, botched interactions with peers and elders alike, ruined dates and chances at dates, damaged his relationship with his sister almost irreparably, was selfish and stupid and whiny...
And yet somehow he made friends, found some people who would forgive his flaws, and met one of most influential people in his life: one of the most skilled Akashics and martial artists on the planet, Nhairis by name, agreed to be his mentor... and in time, his adoptive mother. From her and the other people in his life, he reforged himself into a better person, a stronger man. He found the strength to have dates, to adopt others as his family selflessly, to at last separate himself from the sword that gripped his soul... and ultimately, to find happiness with a girl; one Diast Malorna. (She also happened to be a Jedi Knight, but that was just icing on the cake.)
They were married for a year or so. Six months into it, she was sentenced to death for crimes she allegedly committed as a sleeper agent. (Morgan never was clear on the details.) Six months later, the sentence was finally carried out. Those intervening months finally made Morgan grow up all the way.
Six months after that, a ship saved him (and Stephen at least) from the destruction of the planet.
Sample post (just a general, everyday, puttering-around-the-ship post; please include a snippet of dialogue):
Mentally manipulating the sensorium environment came naturally to Morgan. In a moment he'd constructed a training environment for himself: a pagoda atop a tall mountain, open to the cold, thin air that blew gently through it. A path led down and away from it, and next to that path, following its lines, a series of posts jutted out of the ground, just wide and flat enough to find purchase on.
"Not that I think I'll start people jumping from pole to pole to begin with," he murmured, "but it'll tell them what to expect once they can run the path without exhausting themselves."
He clapped his hands together, then rubbed them in anticipation. "Now all I need are some students!"
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain what they are and outline EXACTLY how they function, as their powers may not work due to the nature of the ship or may need to be limited somehow:
Morgan is an Akashic Brother, meaning he is a "Mage". Mage magick works by essentially replacing the existing reality with one the Mage prefers more, through raw willpower (which must be focused through some means, such as martial arts). The abilities a Mage can perform through magick are determined by what Spheres they know and at what levels. Morgan's are as follows, linked to prevent TLDR in the app:
Correspondence 2: Sense Space, Touch Space
Forces 3: Transmute Minor Forces
Life 4: Alter Complex Patterns, Transform Self
Mind 2: Read Surface Thoughts, Mental Impulse
Prime 2: Weave Odyllic Force, Fuel Pattern, Enchant Patterns, Summon Prime Weapon, Activate Quintessential Matter & Forces
Time 3: Time Manipulation
Morgan possesses a trenchcoat made out of a flexible alloy metal which functions as armor, and is enchanted to have internal hammerspace. It holds a large variety of weapons.
Morgan's melee weapon of choice is a sword made in the make of the one that imprisoned his soul for some time; it is forged of the ludicrously antimagical metal Primium. It is capable of cutting through and disrupting magical or supernatural effects, as well as technological weapons of substantially beyond Earth standards (e.g. superlasers).
Non-superhuman special abilities of note (Is your character a master ventriloquist? A naturally-occurring super-genius? The best martial artist in the world? Say so here):
Morgan is highly skilled in 'Do', which is, in Mage terms, the fundamental martial art from which all others stem. In a fair ground and using no magic he would be considered a top-tier martial artist in conventional circuits. The style itself allows for the practitioner to inflict blows as deadly as a sword strike, block weapons with his bare palms -- in other words, generally behave as if he had stepped out of a martial arts movie.
Oddly, some of this skill has bled over into his ability to play the electric guitar. Because of this, he's a skilled guitarist as well, but generally tends to look like he's about to start beating the crap out of everything in range when he's playing. (He favors metal, so this is not always a deteriment.)
Morgan is also a Kinfolk, as a result of being the child of a werewolf who is not himself a werewolf. This gives him no real benefits (as Mages are already immune to the Delirium that werewolves inflict), but is mentioned because it might influence CR with Garou.