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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Jillian
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: dayofjudah
IM: inarkhamego
E-MAIL: exprophet AT gmail
RETURNING:
CHARACTER NAME: Timothy Hunter
FANDOM: Vertigo comics
CHRONOLOGY: post-issue #25 "Used to Bes"
CLASS: Hero-ish!
SUPERHERO NAME: Opener
ALTER EGO: Timothy Hunter
BACKGROUND:
Timothy Hunter shares a world with many of Neil Gaiman's creations and a pinch of DC, too. The Endless, the Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, the Spectre, and Zatanna all make appearances in his story. Why? Because Tim has the potential to become the greatest magician of his age. At twelve, the Trenchcoat Brigade - the Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, Doctor Occult, and Mr. E - took him on a precarious tour of the DC Universe's past, present, really-pretend, and future of magic. It was a look at the whys and hows of magic. Arion, Sargon the Sorcerer, Zatara, and Merlin all tell Tim of the hideous price their devotion to magic has extracted from them and those they love. Constantine took him to meet modern day denizens of the magic world, such as Baron Winter, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Deadman (who saved Tim's life). Doctor Occult took Tim to Hell, Gemworld, and Faerie, as well as other imaginary worlds, teaching him a little about fey etiquette in the process. Finally, Mr. E took Tim far into the future, right up to the end of the world.
When asked whether he would choose a life of magic or a safe, normal life, Tim tellingly chose the latter. However, he had really made his choice when he agreed to hear what the Trenchcoat Brigade had to say... and magic had already chosen him.
As far as he had known, Tim had been born a normal child to John and Mary Hunter, the latter of whom died in a car accident when Tim was young, in which John (presumably) lost his arm. It was revealed, however, that Mary was already pregnant when John married her. Mary's identity is ambiguous and unknown. She is not depicted in the series, and it is implied at one point that Titania is Tim's mother. However, Auberon says that Tim has no elf blood in him. There are some hints he was being disingenuous, however, and it is also revealed later in the series that Titania is actually a human sorceress. However, Death gave Tim seeds that he sprinkled on his mother's grave. When grown, the strawberries contain his mother's memories of Tim as a child, so there is presumably someone in that grave who at least raised Tim.
Tim was thirteen when he entered Faerie on his own and eventually was trapped by a manticore, who had for years been sucking the life and magic out of Faerie and imprisoning it in books and parchments. Though it came close to killing and devouring Tim, he was saved when his blood revived a long dead and stuffed unicorn, who slayed the manticore. After this, Tim escaped the manticore's house but bled out onto the land, restoring Faerie the same way he revived the unicorn. Though he died, or rather, came very, very close to dying (and met Death while at it), he was brought back to life when Tim's maybe-biological father Tamlin (it's never confirmed) performed a rite to die in Tim's stead.
Shortly after this, a Timothy Hunter from the future determined that his present was becoming increasingly unlikely (which was harshing his future buzz), so he and his demon Barbatos travel back to 1994 with the intention of nurturing the young Tim into himself. But this older Timothy Hunter was basically a big idiot jerk, for various reasons. Furthermore, he was thwarted by Khara, one of Tim's self-appointed protectors, and Tim never even knew he was there. Khara called the older Hunter "Mr. Wrong", hence the username of "wrongmagician".
Skipping a small storyline in the interest of brevity, there then ensued an extremely complicated plotline involving orphans, a cybernetic reverend, Victorian sewer people, this cunt Daniel, a unicorn, Molly and Tim dating, Tim's childhood imaginary friends, and of course, magic. The only really important bit was that Molly and Tim began dating. That's why he brought her to a certain grassy lot where two of his imaginary childhood friends were still living. Unfortunately, while looking for a bathroom, Molly was kidnapped by giant pink dinosaurs (seriously) and taken to Hell. Tim followed with the intention of rescuing her, and after a lot of trials (such as meeting his doppelganger "Nobody", being sucked into a magical book, and having his glasses taken away), he did so. Not, unfortunately, before curfew. They both were grounded, but Tim learned that Molly has discovered the truth about the idiot jerk version of his older self - that he's not only an idiot jerk, but he hurt Molly, a lot - he copied her dozens of times and had her trained (which is why she was kidnapped in the first place). To make sure this never happened, Tim agreed to let Circe tattoo him. After he ended up with a giant honking tattoo of a moth and a scorpion on his chest (see powers), he ended up deciding that the people in his life got hurt much too often, and ran away.
PERSONALITY:
At fourteen, Tim is a loner, cynical enough not to be taken in by so many of the traps he's presented with, but far from an adolescent Constantine. The things he's seen and done far outweigh the majority of what adult magic-users experience in a life, yet he's helplessly lost and still in many ways very naive.
He is a reasonably polite, usually nice boy with an inferiority complex that should have its own zip code. His mother died when he was young, in a car crash caused by his now one-armed father; he and Tim have never really understood each other, and it only gets harder when Tim realizes he may not be related to him at all. Tim talks to himself a lot, a result of a somewhat lonely childhood full of imaginary friends. He resents a lot of things and writes in his journal frequently, but rarely does anything about them - it's not until magic comes into his life that he starts doing anything at all.
The question of his parentage drives Tim for a while, to the point where finding out Queen Titania was not his mother depressed him, even though he hated her. Eventually he decides where he's from isn't as important as where he's going.
Though a pretty good person, like many self-sufficient loners, Tim tends to focus on himself and can be selfish. This is especially apparent in his one possible future incarnation, "Mr. Wrong", who sold all his important memories to demons in exchange for power. He can remember that he loved Molly, but obviously not why, as he has Barbatos create dozens of copies of her in an effort to make a "perfect" Molly. The "imperfect" ones he abuses and abandons. However, the whole point in Mr. Wrong trying to reform Tim into himself is that this Tim was increasingly unlikely to become like him, thus making Mr. Wrong's existence waver and disappear. After Molly learns the truth behind Mr. Wrong's identity, she makes Tim promise never to make a deal with a demon. When Tim discovers the truth behind Mr. Wrong's identity, he goes through elaborate means to make sure it never happens. Circe puts two magical tattoos on him: a scorpion that stings him when he does active/aggressive magic, and a moth that keeps him from getting close to people. Though he eventually gets rid of the scorpion, the moth stays with him and causes him a lot of problems, one of which results in Molly breaking up with him. But this kind of obliviousness to the effect of magic on others in his life is typically Tim.
That is also why he decided to run away, once he realized that. His father was magically set on fire in an attempt to drive Tim into the tutelage of an asshole magician; his girlfriend was kidnapped by demon minions of his older self; even his potential step-brother was enticed to become a sort of supernatural suicide bomber, just because he might become someone who meant something to Tim.
POWER:
Magic. Tim is a young, inexperienced magician whose magic appears to work on intuitive lines, varying greatly situation to situation based on his emotions and mindset. He has the power, but he has a lot to learn about how to use it, not to mention when and why. Some of it comes intuitively; the rest, he has to figure out on his own, which he generally does through application of common (and uncommon) sense. At this point in his progress, he's learned how to more or less defend himself and do some useful things. Circe calls him wet behind the ears, however, which, as a magician who's been left to his own devices and has to teach himself, is perhaps not surprising.
Some examples of magic Tim has done:
- revived a dead, stuffed unicorn with his blood
- stopped and restarted time
- turned himself into a cat (first giant, then proper size), and gave himself bat wings while in that form
- wrote "M->" on a coin and flipped it so it would point to where Molly was
- made the letters in his cereal spell out the address he needed to know
- rustled up leaves so they pointed where a missing object had gone
- turned one of his tiny nagging selves into a turtle
- threatened to turn his doppelganger into a china pug with googly eyes
- destroyed a troll bridge and its troll, and made the bridge lead to Molly instead
- banished a demon
- stopped the weather from snowing around a man
- remade a golem (he gave it a happy face and bound it to him so it follows his commands instead of its creator's)
- created a giant metal knight with an axe (out of metal that was already there) to attack Barbatos
- buried an oncoming car in the asphalt (it was about to run him over)
However, as long as he has the scorpion tattoos on his chest (or any part of his body; they can move around) he cannot do magic without being "stung", which entails being put in a lot of intense torso-centric pain after he's performed any kind of magic. The only exception is life-threatening situations (and it'll still sting him if Tim gets too sassy). I would eventually like for him to get rid of the scorpion tattoo, as he does in canon. This would mean he has immense power (it is said in his canon that an ice age ended overnight when an Opener fell in love) but little idea how to use it. One lesson he's learned quite well is that magic is not a solution you should go to easily.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: All right, that's... convenient. I wanted to go to America, and here I am. Well. At least I think I am. Am I? It's definitely not London and I don't have the right currency for a newspaper I've got this deductive reasoning thing down pat and things look, um. Big?
Anyway, ah, I'm not anywhere near San Francisco, am I? Anyone, um, have Zatanna Zatara's phone number? No? Calling card? No? Xanax? No?
... How about any hints on home tattoo removal?
I'm sorry. I have no idea what I'm doing or where I am or who I'm talking to, so I tend to just... babble, madly. And so on. Um. Help?
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Mad. They were all mad. But in a very charming and earnest way. He wondered if this was because they were (mostly) Americans or because they were superheroes. Perhaps both.
Maybe that was unfair of him. Isn't that what you want, Tim? Become the greatest sorcerer/wizard/whathaveyou there ever was and go round saving the world? Frankly, if he could figure out what he was doing day to day, that'd be something to call home about. His dad would probably appreciate a call home, actually, and they couldn't do anything about it now that he was in America, could they? ... in American in a whole other universe, Tim, way to think things through. And isn't that what he'd wanted? To leave them behind. Now they would never be hurt because of him. They were free. He was free.
And it felt so goddamn lonely.
Tim set his jaw. Feeling sorry for himself wouldn't solve anything. He'd made his decisions and this was probably a consequence of that. Lie in the bed you've made, Tim. Fact was, his goal was still the same: he was going to find someone to teach him what to do with this bloody ability to do magic. And then, maybe, when he was ready, he would be able to go back home.
Is that what you really want?
Yes, he insisted silently. Yes, it was what he wanted. All he wanted. Molly...
Molly was probably better off without him. No, there was no 'probably' about it; she was better off without him. No more being kidnapped to Hell by the retarded pink dinosaurs. No dystopian future of abuse and murder. Never make a deal with a demon, Tim, she'd said, and he'd promised. It seemed like an easy promise to keep, but if Tim had learned anything about magic, it was that nothing was easy.
NAME: Jillian
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: dayofjudah
IM: inarkhamego
E-MAIL: exprophet AT gmail
RETURNING:
- Jason Todd deadredbird
- Barbara Gordon sibyllant
- St. John Allerdyce fuckrobertfrost
CHARACTER NAME: Timothy Hunter
FANDOM: Vertigo comics
CHRONOLOGY: post-issue #25 "Used to Bes"
CLASS: Hero-ish!
SUPERHERO NAME: Opener
ALTER EGO: Timothy Hunter
BACKGROUND:
Timothy Hunter shares a world with many of Neil Gaiman's creations and a pinch of DC, too. The Endless, the Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, the Spectre, and Zatanna all make appearances in his story. Why? Because Tim has the potential to become the greatest magician of his age. At twelve, the Trenchcoat Brigade - the Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, Doctor Occult, and Mr. E - took him on a precarious tour of the DC Universe's past, present, really-pretend, and future of magic. It was a look at the whys and hows of magic. Arion, Sargon the Sorcerer, Zatara, and Merlin all tell Tim of the hideous price their devotion to magic has extracted from them and those they love. Constantine took him to meet modern day denizens of the magic world, such as Baron Winter, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Deadman (who saved Tim's life). Doctor Occult took Tim to Hell, Gemworld, and Faerie, as well as other imaginary worlds, teaching him a little about fey etiquette in the process. Finally, Mr. E took Tim far into the future, right up to the end of the world.
When asked whether he would choose a life of magic or a safe, normal life, Tim tellingly chose the latter. However, he had really made his choice when he agreed to hear what the Trenchcoat Brigade had to say... and magic had already chosen him.
As far as he had known, Tim had been born a normal child to John and Mary Hunter, the latter of whom died in a car accident when Tim was young, in which John (presumably) lost his arm. It was revealed, however, that Mary was already pregnant when John married her. Mary's identity is ambiguous and unknown. She is not depicted in the series, and it is implied at one point that Titania is Tim's mother. However, Auberon says that Tim has no elf blood in him. There are some hints he was being disingenuous, however, and it is also revealed later in the series that Titania is actually a human sorceress. However, Death gave Tim seeds that he sprinkled on his mother's grave. When grown, the strawberries contain his mother's memories of Tim as a child, so there is presumably someone in that grave who at least raised Tim.
Tim was thirteen when he entered Faerie on his own and eventually was trapped by a manticore, who had for years been sucking the life and magic out of Faerie and imprisoning it in books and parchments. Though it came close to killing and devouring Tim, he was saved when his blood revived a long dead and stuffed unicorn, who slayed the manticore. After this, Tim escaped the manticore's house but bled out onto the land, restoring Faerie the same way he revived the unicorn. Though he died, or rather, came very, very close to dying (and met Death while at it), he was brought back to life when Tim's maybe-biological father Tamlin (it's never confirmed) performed a rite to die in Tim's stead.
Shortly after this, a Timothy Hunter from the future determined that his present was becoming increasingly unlikely (which was harshing his future buzz), so he and his demon Barbatos travel back to 1994 with the intention of nurturing the young Tim into himself. But this older Timothy Hunter was basically a big idiot jerk, for various reasons. Furthermore, he was thwarted by Khara, one of Tim's self-appointed protectors, and Tim never even knew he was there. Khara called the older Hunter "Mr. Wrong", hence the username of "wrongmagician".
Skipping a small storyline in the interest of brevity, there then ensued an extremely complicated plotline involving orphans, a cybernetic reverend, Victorian sewer people, this cunt Daniel, a unicorn, Molly and Tim dating, Tim's childhood imaginary friends, and of course, magic. The only really important bit was that Molly and Tim began dating. That's why he brought her to a certain grassy lot where two of his imaginary childhood friends were still living. Unfortunately, while looking for a bathroom, Molly was kidnapped by giant pink dinosaurs (seriously) and taken to Hell. Tim followed with the intention of rescuing her, and after a lot of trials (such as meeting his doppelganger "Nobody", being sucked into a magical book, and having his glasses taken away), he did so. Not, unfortunately, before curfew. They both were grounded, but Tim learned that Molly has discovered the truth about the idiot jerk version of his older self - that he's not only an idiot jerk, but he hurt Molly, a lot - he copied her dozens of times and had her trained (which is why she was kidnapped in the first place). To make sure this never happened, Tim agreed to let Circe tattoo him. After he ended up with a giant honking tattoo of a moth and a scorpion on his chest (see powers), he ended up deciding that the people in his life got hurt much too often, and ran away.
PERSONALITY:
At fourteen, Tim is a loner, cynical enough not to be taken in by so many of the traps he's presented with, but far from an adolescent Constantine. The things he's seen and done far outweigh the majority of what adult magic-users experience in a life, yet he's helplessly lost and still in many ways very naive.
He is a reasonably polite, usually nice boy with an inferiority complex that should have its own zip code. His mother died when he was young, in a car crash caused by his now one-armed father; he and Tim have never really understood each other, and it only gets harder when Tim realizes he may not be related to him at all. Tim talks to himself a lot, a result of a somewhat lonely childhood full of imaginary friends. He resents a lot of things and writes in his journal frequently, but rarely does anything about them - it's not until magic comes into his life that he starts doing anything at all.
The question of his parentage drives Tim for a while, to the point where finding out Queen Titania was not his mother depressed him, even though he hated her. Eventually he decides where he's from isn't as important as where he's going.
Though a pretty good person, like many self-sufficient loners, Tim tends to focus on himself and can be selfish. This is especially apparent in his one possible future incarnation, "Mr. Wrong", who sold all his important memories to demons in exchange for power. He can remember that he loved Molly, but obviously not why, as he has Barbatos create dozens of copies of her in an effort to make a "perfect" Molly. The "imperfect" ones he abuses and abandons. However, the whole point in Mr. Wrong trying to reform Tim into himself is that this Tim was increasingly unlikely to become like him, thus making Mr. Wrong's existence waver and disappear. After Molly learns the truth behind Mr. Wrong's identity, she makes Tim promise never to make a deal with a demon. When Tim discovers the truth behind Mr. Wrong's identity, he goes through elaborate means to make sure it never happens. Circe puts two magical tattoos on him: a scorpion that stings him when he does active/aggressive magic, and a moth that keeps him from getting close to people. Though he eventually gets rid of the scorpion, the moth stays with him and causes him a lot of problems, one of which results in Molly breaking up with him. But this kind of obliviousness to the effect of magic on others in his life is typically Tim.
That is also why he decided to run away, once he realized that. His father was magically set on fire in an attempt to drive Tim into the tutelage of an asshole magician; his girlfriend was kidnapped by demon minions of his older self; even his potential step-brother was enticed to become a sort of supernatural suicide bomber, just because he might become someone who meant something to Tim.
POWER:
Magic. Tim is a young, inexperienced magician whose magic appears to work on intuitive lines, varying greatly situation to situation based on his emotions and mindset. He has the power, but he has a lot to learn about how to use it, not to mention when and why. Some of it comes intuitively; the rest, he has to figure out on his own, which he generally does through application of common (and uncommon) sense. At this point in his progress, he's learned how to more or less defend himself and do some useful things. Circe calls him wet behind the ears, however, which, as a magician who's been left to his own devices and has to teach himself, is perhaps not surprising.
Some examples of magic Tim has done:
- revived a dead, stuffed unicorn with his blood
- stopped and restarted time
- turned himself into a cat (first giant, then proper size), and gave himself bat wings while in that form
- wrote "M->" on a coin and flipped it so it would point to where Molly was
- made the letters in his cereal spell out the address he needed to know
- rustled up leaves so they pointed where a missing object had gone
- turned one of his tiny nagging selves into a turtle
- threatened to turn his doppelganger into a china pug with googly eyes
- destroyed a troll bridge and its troll, and made the bridge lead to Molly instead
- banished a demon
- stopped the weather from snowing around a man
- remade a golem (he gave it a happy face and bound it to him so it follows his commands instead of its creator's)
- created a giant metal knight with an axe (out of metal that was already there) to attack Barbatos
- buried an oncoming car in the asphalt (it was about to run him over)
However, as long as he has the scorpion tattoos on his chest (or any part of his body; they can move around) he cannot do magic without being "stung", which entails being put in a lot of intense torso-centric pain after he's performed any kind of magic. The only exception is life-threatening situations (and it'll still sting him if Tim gets too sassy). I would eventually like for him to get rid of the scorpion tattoo, as he does in canon. This would mean he has immense power (it is said in his canon that an ice age ended overnight when an Opener fell in love) but little idea how to use it. One lesson he's learned quite well is that magic is not a solution you should go to easily.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: All right, that's... convenient. I wanted to go to America, and here I am. Well. At least I think I am. Am I? It's definitely not London and I don't have the right currency for a newspaper I've got this deductive reasoning thing down pat and things look, um. Big?
Anyway, ah, I'm not anywhere near San Francisco, am I? Anyone, um, have Zatanna Zatara's phone number? No? Calling card? No? Xanax? No?
... How about any hints on home tattoo removal?
I'm sorry. I have no idea what I'm doing or where I am or who I'm talking to, so I tend to just... babble, madly. And so on. Um. Help?
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Mad. They were all mad. But in a very charming and earnest way. He wondered if this was because they were (mostly) Americans or because they were superheroes. Perhaps both.
Maybe that was unfair of him. Isn't that what you want, Tim? Become the greatest sorcerer/wizard/whathaveyou there ever was and go round saving the world? Frankly, if he could figure out what he was doing day to day, that'd be something to call home about. His dad would probably appreciate a call home, actually, and they couldn't do anything about it now that he was in America, could they? ... in American in a whole other universe, Tim, way to think things through. And isn't that what he'd wanted? To leave them behind. Now they would never be hurt because of him. They were free. He was free.
And it felt so goddamn lonely.
Tim set his jaw. Feeling sorry for himself wouldn't solve anything. He'd made his decisions and this was probably a consequence of that. Lie in the bed you've made, Tim. Fact was, his goal was still the same: he was going to find someone to teach him what to do with this bloody ability to do magic. And then, maybe, when he was ready, he would be able to go back home.
Is that what you really want?
Yes, he insisted silently. Yes, it was what he wanted. All he wanted. Molly...
Molly was probably better off without him. No, there was no 'probably' about it; she was better off without him. No more being kidnapped to Hell by the retarded pink dinosaurs. No dystopian future of abuse and murder. Never make a deal with a demon, Tim, she'd said, and he'd promised. It seemed like an easy promise to keep, but if Tim had learned anything about magic, it was that nothing was easy.