OOC: Meet Your New Librarian, Kids.
Librarian & Walking Disaster: John Constantine
Canon: Vertigo's Hellblazer, post "Dangerous Habits."
John Constantine - or if you ask anyone who knows him, John ALSKDFJALSKFJ FUCK YOU Constantine - is a magus. Or so he'll say.
Really, he's more of a con man, running the long-odds against all the Things that go Bump in the Night. The easy joke would be to say that John is a lover, not a fighter, but his lovers tend to end up rather dead. In very unfortunate and painful ways, usually with demons involved.
No. Really. There's almost always demons involved.
✖ Pretty much every single post is going to have swearing. John swears a lot, and doesn't censor it for kids. This is your warning.
✖ John is very much a "brains over brawn" character. He's good in a brawl, but he'd much rather outsmart his opponents then beat them up, although he's not above kicking them while they're down. Or fighting dirty or using magic or.... John isn't a very nice man, and he'll be the first to say so. Manipulation and cunning are how he prefers to win against his opponents, and John would be coming from the point in canon right after he tricked the devils themselves into curing his lung cancer.
✖ John was born in Liverpool, but spent most of his life growing up in London, from the sixties onward. He first left his father's house to live in a London squat aged fifteen. He is a natural born thrill seeker with hints of morality. Despite living in England for most of his childhood, Constantine has moved around the world on several occasions, following occult and mysticism all across the planet. Whenever he was back in London, he was pretty much being raised by his older sister rather than his father.
✖ He smokes, he swears, he's sarcastic and witty, and he'll sleep with any attractive women (men too) interested in one-night stands. There's a canon-mention of 'the occasional boyfriend,' but his tastes clearly tend to run towards gorgeous women who are going to be trouble. Sorry, Bo, he's going to make passes at you. Just keep throwing beers at him, and maybe one will hit his head hard enough to make an impact.
✖ Shockingly, he's good with children, especially teenagers, assuming they don't end up dead or traumatized by being in his life, much like the adults around him.
Unlike many of the adults of the DCU/Vertigo worlds, Constantine takes children seriously - deadly seriously. Given his own utterly-shit upbringing, John's pretty good at understanding teenagers and bad situations, and makes a surprisingly decent uncle-figure to some. He even acts as a quasi-mentor to Tim Hunter, one of the most powerful rising magic users of the Vertigo/DCU, although, being John, he's not necessarily the best role model in the world.
✖ He's not a particularly nice person, but he doesn't have to be; he's there to keep the dangerous magics of Special Collections out of the hands of the students and to use them for his own ends.
✖ Visually, well, he was designed to look like Sting, although DC mandated that Vertigo move away from that fairly early on. So, his PB is Paul Bettany. Yes, you can all thank me, and there will be shirtlessness.
Questions, Comments, Pie?