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Prisma Application
▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: Britt
CONTACT: daestwen#6257 on discord, daestwen on plurk
OVER 18? yeah by a lot
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Jin Ling - The Untamed
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Emmet "Fox" Martin
CANON: Original Character - Impetus (original universe)
CANON POINT: Mid January 2012, a month before he starts dating Mingyu
AGE: 23
BACKGROUND:
Fox is from an urban fantasy setting set in the recent past in Toronto, Ontario. Magic exists alongside tech in this universe, openly and historically. Magic theory is generally kept tightly guarded in family lines, clans, sects or gangs, and sharing magic between groups is extremely frowned upon in the mildest cases. In the most severe, assassinations have taken place.
The city of Toronto's magic culture is segregated by neighbourhood, each district being the 'territory' of one particular group. These match to real-world neighbourhoods such as Chinatown, the Annex, Little Italy, the Distillery District, etc. Fox belongs to the gang that runs the neighbourhood of Queen West, a group of mages that came together not out of blood line but necessity, most of them without any living family. The oldest mages are textile mages that are willing to take on apprentices, and were since folded into the gang. Compared to other magical sects within the city, Queen West is one of the most open and multicultural, though with a definite counter-culture / street culture vibe. For this reason they aren't considered to have powerful magic on their own.
Their most powerful mage, and the one who has made the biggest name for the sect, is the elusive and ephemeral Fox.
Born Emmet Martin in a mixed-race family, he lost his paramedic father to a workplace accident soon after he was born, and his mother died when he was 8. His "aunt" - a gentle tiny woman who was actually his mom's best friend - adopted him. She was a mage aligned with Cabbage Town and taught him a bunch of herb and plant based magic.
Because of all this, even though he was an exceptionally bright kid, he never managed to do well in school, mostly due to absenteeism. He lived most of his teenage years out of the library system where he self taught himself any public access magic he could find.
He started running with the Queen West gang when he was 15 as he finally found a place he seemed to fit in, and was taught textile magic then, as well as getting his fist magical tattoo. This was when he started going by fox, mostly for doing magic graffiti, but slowly he began to use the pseudonym for all his endeavours.
At 16 his aunt was put into the long term care home, but he was old enough that he was allowed to make his own way. Fox began a deliberate search for ways to study other sects magic at this time to incorporate into his own, whether through bribery or seduction or theft. With a generally charming demeanour, it wasn't hard to convince people to teach him low-level day to day magic, but the greater his ambitions rose the more difficult it was to access the spells he was interested in. He just refused to stop.
By 18 he was already considered the best mage in the clan, and by 20 all the other clans had heard of him too, under the name Fox. No one outside Queen West really knew who he was, except that he was somehow learning magic from families that had long kept their abilities secret and bound to the family.
By 22 “Fox” was a household name in Magic circles, but usually said with disdain. He is actively considered a thief and many sects have put out rewards for information on him, or illegal bounties. Queen West treats him as their golden canon - his ability is great enough to be able to use him as an effective deterrent to people encroaching on their territory. He shows up to competitions mostly to wipe the floor with someone and take off. In reality there are many individuals who like him and teach him magic but are unwilling to publicly acknowledge their connection. He encourages this - it keeps them safer anyway.
In 2011 he met Bai Mingyu - “Gabriel Bai”. Wounded from an escape that went awry, Mingyu patched Fox up and they forged a fast friendship, though Fox kept to his fleeting nature and was gone by the next morning. For the next several months, the two of them played a back and forth game of public appearances: Mingyu through the pervasive channels of the media and celebrity, and Fox through escalating stunts and magic graffiti throughout the city. They met again during the Toronto International Film Festival, where Fox magic bombed the premiere gala just to impress Mingyu who he knew would be there.
The next several months saw them getting closer and closer, even as Mingyu was supposedly dating a woman named Rushi, which led Fox to pretend to date his best friend Jade in order to convince them to go on double dates.
Fox has been brought to Prisma a couple of weeks following New Years 2012, and approximately one month before he and Mingyu would begin officially dating. He knows nothing of their later life together, his disappearance or his presumed death. Not until he heard about it from Mingyu during the TDM, at least...
PERSONALITY:
CURIOSITY AND DRIVE: Fox's primary motivation always boils down to his insatiable curiosity. There is nothing more interesting in the world to him than discovering new methods of magic, or new ways to combine old ones. He is easily bored, requiring constant stimulation, and because of his obsession with magic, that stimulation better be magic related or it won't hold his interest for very long. He's very passionate about his interests, happy to launch into a TED talk about them at a moments notice. He is constantly moving, unable to sit still unless he's deep in his work and has his mind fully occupied. Because of his intense obsession, he isn't able to hold down a regular job most of the time, because it would limit his ability to research new things to his heart's content. Instead, he tends to make money through selling enchanted objects, but even these are few and far between. He is, in reputation, the Banksy of the magic world.
HIGH INT, LOW WIS: Fox is incredibly smart, living up to his moniker by being "too clever by half". He is able to decode and unravel some of the most complicated arcane texts, bringing a savant's understanding even to documents that people have been trying to learn for centuries. However, his incredible capability in this avenue comes at a cost. He's basically useless at everything else. When it comes to reading people, it's guesswork at best, and basic things like feeding himself tend to get forgotten completely. He can build a magic array capable of renovating the inside of a building, and yet keeps burning the bottom out of his kettle out whenever he tries to boil water. He has difficulty seeing ulterior motives, or indeed much underneath the surface of what someone is saying, unless he knows them very very well. He has no real sense of tact, and will simply say what's on his mind rather than consider whether or not something he is saying is rude. That being said, he's generally of a cheerful demeanour, and tends not to think ill of people, so at least he's usually well-meaning.
IDEALISM AND NAIVETY: Fox is incredibly idealistic, with a strong moral sense - even if his morals don't necessarily line up with the rest of the world's. He believes that magic should be open access, that everyone should be able to learn and grow regardless of bloodline or belief, and that is part of why he goes out of his way to learn as much magic from as many avenues as possible, so he can then teach it to others. Or he would, if he would stop doing the searching first. He believes that all humans are inherently good, and this colours his entire view of the world, even and especially when he is proven directly wrong. It isn't that he hasn't seen the ugly side of humanity, or been the target of racism, aggression and derision. But he believes that the ugliness of humanity comes from ignorance, and that if only he could help enlighten everyone, those problems would also fade into obscurity. He thinks, essentially, that given the time and resources he could save the world from itself. But this is mostly just a coping mechanism for himself to stave off what would otherwise deeply depress and upset him, by deciding it doesn't matter as eventually he'll be able to fix it.
FRIENDLY AND LONELY: Fox loves people and loves making 'friends', but he keeps very few close ones. This isn't done on purpose, but rather his intense personality and obsession have a tendency to have people keep him at arm's length. Essentially, he's hilarious for a party or an evening out, but after seven days being around him he can get very wearying. This is something he is extremely attuned to, and he's always careful not to 'outstay his welcome'. He spends most of his life couch surfing, and he rotates through his gang and his friends about every 3-4 days, though sometimes he'll find a hook up at a club just to have a new place to sleep for the night. He has absolutely no body shame and treats sex as both an activity and a currency to get what he wants and needs, whether that be magic or a meal.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
MAGIC IN IMPETUS:
Magic in the Impetus universe is complex and wide ranging in both its basis and use. Magic cannot do the impossible, but instead works like advanced technology - facilitating anything from lighting a fire, to generating water or creating a wide-range blast. The deadly and city-levelling magic that was created in WWII has since been destroyed, so the most harmful available spells have destructive capabilities along the lines of a gun, or a grenade. Most spells require components to complete, and the better the components, the more effective the spell.
While Fox is competent in a wide range of magical branches, his specialty is enchanting objects, places, or tattoos. For examples of how these enchantments can manifest, see his inventory below.
INVENTORY:
1. 1 set of enchanted clothing, including jacket, t-shirt, undershirt, pants, socks, and shoes. Clothing are all enchanted to be changed in small ways every day, as well as be self-cleaning and to smell like lemon balm and the air just after it snows.
2. 1 enchanted jade bracelet which makes the wearer extremely hard to notice/pay attention to. Acts a sort of stealth system where people just don't notice you.
3. 1 ancient Nokia flip phone, enchanted to not require batteries, and to work with any service system without him paying for it. Only allows voice and text.
4. 1 enchanted set of black jet earrings. If he taps them, they work like a noise cancelling headphones and silence the rest of the world around him.
5. 1 photograph enchanted to move and look like they are talking.
6. 1 black hoodie with white patterns on the cuffs of the sleeves that is enchanted to cast the face in impenetrable shadow when the hood is pulled up. Two little lights the colours of the wearer's eyes can be seen.
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis.
▶ SAMPLES
link #1
link #2
HANDLE: Britt
CONTACT: daestwen#6257 on discord, daestwen on plurk
OVER 18? yeah by a lot
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Jin Ling - The Untamed
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Emmet "Fox" Martin
CANON: Original Character - Impetus (original universe)
CANON POINT: Mid January 2012, a month before he starts dating Mingyu
AGE: 23
BACKGROUND:
Fox is from an urban fantasy setting set in the recent past in Toronto, Ontario. Magic exists alongside tech in this universe, openly and historically. Magic theory is generally kept tightly guarded in family lines, clans, sects or gangs, and sharing magic between groups is extremely frowned upon in the mildest cases. In the most severe, assassinations have taken place.
The city of Toronto's magic culture is segregated by neighbourhood, each district being the 'territory' of one particular group. These match to real-world neighbourhoods such as Chinatown, the Annex, Little Italy, the Distillery District, etc. Fox belongs to the gang that runs the neighbourhood of Queen West, a group of mages that came together not out of blood line but necessity, most of them without any living family. The oldest mages are textile mages that are willing to take on apprentices, and were since folded into the gang. Compared to other magical sects within the city, Queen West is one of the most open and multicultural, though with a definite counter-culture / street culture vibe. For this reason they aren't considered to have powerful magic on their own.
Their most powerful mage, and the one who has made the biggest name for the sect, is the elusive and ephemeral Fox.
Born Emmet Martin in a mixed-race family, he lost his paramedic father to a workplace accident soon after he was born, and his mother died when he was 8. His "aunt" - a gentle tiny woman who was actually his mom's best friend - adopted him. She was a mage aligned with Cabbage Town and taught him a bunch of herb and plant based magic.
Because of all this, even though he was an exceptionally bright kid, he never managed to do well in school, mostly due to absenteeism. He lived most of his teenage years out of the library system where he self taught himself any public access magic he could find.
He started running with the Queen West gang when he was 15 as he finally found a place he seemed to fit in, and was taught textile magic then, as well as getting his fist magical tattoo. This was when he started going by fox, mostly for doing magic graffiti, but slowly he began to use the pseudonym for all his endeavours.
At 16 his aunt was put into the long term care home, but he was old enough that he was allowed to make his own way. Fox began a deliberate search for ways to study other sects magic at this time to incorporate into his own, whether through bribery or seduction or theft. With a generally charming demeanour, it wasn't hard to convince people to teach him low-level day to day magic, but the greater his ambitions rose the more difficult it was to access the spells he was interested in. He just refused to stop.
By 18 he was already considered the best mage in the clan, and by 20 all the other clans had heard of him too, under the name Fox. No one outside Queen West really knew who he was, except that he was somehow learning magic from families that had long kept their abilities secret and bound to the family.
By 22 “Fox” was a household name in Magic circles, but usually said with disdain. He is actively considered a thief and many sects have put out rewards for information on him, or illegal bounties. Queen West treats him as their golden canon - his ability is great enough to be able to use him as an effective deterrent to people encroaching on their territory. He shows up to competitions mostly to wipe the floor with someone and take off. In reality there are many individuals who like him and teach him magic but are unwilling to publicly acknowledge their connection. He encourages this - it keeps them safer anyway.
In 2011 he met Bai Mingyu - “Gabriel Bai”. Wounded from an escape that went awry, Mingyu patched Fox up and they forged a fast friendship, though Fox kept to his fleeting nature and was gone by the next morning. For the next several months, the two of them played a back and forth game of public appearances: Mingyu through the pervasive channels of the media and celebrity, and Fox through escalating stunts and magic graffiti throughout the city. They met again during the Toronto International Film Festival, where Fox magic bombed the premiere gala just to impress Mingyu who he knew would be there.
The next several months saw them getting closer and closer, even as Mingyu was supposedly dating a woman named Rushi, which led Fox to pretend to date his best friend Jade in order to convince them to go on double dates.
Fox has been brought to Prisma a couple of weeks following New Years 2012, and approximately one month before he and Mingyu would begin officially dating. He knows nothing of their later life together, his disappearance or his presumed death. Not until he heard about it from Mingyu during the TDM, at least...
PERSONALITY:
CURIOSITY AND DRIVE: Fox's primary motivation always boils down to his insatiable curiosity. There is nothing more interesting in the world to him than discovering new methods of magic, or new ways to combine old ones. He is easily bored, requiring constant stimulation, and because of his obsession with magic, that stimulation better be magic related or it won't hold his interest for very long. He's very passionate about his interests, happy to launch into a TED talk about them at a moments notice. He is constantly moving, unable to sit still unless he's deep in his work and has his mind fully occupied. Because of his intense obsession, he isn't able to hold down a regular job most of the time, because it would limit his ability to research new things to his heart's content. Instead, he tends to make money through selling enchanted objects, but even these are few and far between. He is, in reputation, the Banksy of the magic world.
HIGH INT, LOW WIS: Fox is incredibly smart, living up to his moniker by being "too clever by half". He is able to decode and unravel some of the most complicated arcane texts, bringing a savant's understanding even to documents that people have been trying to learn for centuries. However, his incredible capability in this avenue comes at a cost. He's basically useless at everything else. When it comes to reading people, it's guesswork at best, and basic things like feeding himself tend to get forgotten completely. He can build a magic array capable of renovating the inside of a building, and yet keeps burning the bottom out of his kettle out whenever he tries to boil water. He has difficulty seeing ulterior motives, or indeed much underneath the surface of what someone is saying, unless he knows them very very well. He has no real sense of tact, and will simply say what's on his mind rather than consider whether or not something he is saying is rude. That being said, he's generally of a cheerful demeanour, and tends not to think ill of people, so at least he's usually well-meaning.
IDEALISM AND NAIVETY: Fox is incredibly idealistic, with a strong moral sense - even if his morals don't necessarily line up with the rest of the world's. He believes that magic should be open access, that everyone should be able to learn and grow regardless of bloodline or belief, and that is part of why he goes out of his way to learn as much magic from as many avenues as possible, so he can then teach it to others. Or he would, if he would stop doing the searching first. He believes that all humans are inherently good, and this colours his entire view of the world, even and especially when he is proven directly wrong. It isn't that he hasn't seen the ugly side of humanity, or been the target of racism, aggression and derision. But he believes that the ugliness of humanity comes from ignorance, and that if only he could help enlighten everyone, those problems would also fade into obscurity. He thinks, essentially, that given the time and resources he could save the world from itself. But this is mostly just a coping mechanism for himself to stave off what would otherwise deeply depress and upset him, by deciding it doesn't matter as eventually he'll be able to fix it.
FRIENDLY AND LONELY: Fox loves people and loves making 'friends', but he keeps very few close ones. This isn't done on purpose, but rather his intense personality and obsession have a tendency to have people keep him at arm's length. Essentially, he's hilarious for a party or an evening out, but after seven days being around him he can get very wearying. This is something he is extremely attuned to, and he's always careful not to 'outstay his welcome'. He spends most of his life couch surfing, and he rotates through his gang and his friends about every 3-4 days, though sometimes he'll find a hook up at a club just to have a new place to sleep for the night. He has absolutely no body shame and treats sex as both an activity and a currency to get what he wants and needs, whether that be magic or a meal.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
MAGIC IN IMPETUS:
Magic in the Impetus universe is complex and wide ranging in both its basis and use. Magic cannot do the impossible, but instead works like advanced technology - facilitating anything from lighting a fire, to generating water or creating a wide-range blast. The deadly and city-levelling magic that was created in WWII has since been destroyed, so the most harmful available spells have destructive capabilities along the lines of a gun, or a grenade. Most spells require components to complete, and the better the components, the more effective the spell.
While Fox is competent in a wide range of magical branches, his specialty is enchanting objects, places, or tattoos. For examples of how these enchantments can manifest, see his inventory below.
INVENTORY:
1. 1 set of enchanted clothing, including jacket, t-shirt, undershirt, pants, socks, and shoes. Clothing are all enchanted to be changed in small ways every day, as well as be self-cleaning and to smell like lemon balm and the air just after it snows.
2. 1 enchanted jade bracelet which makes the wearer extremely hard to notice/pay attention to. Acts a sort of stealth system where people just don't notice you.
3. 1 ancient Nokia flip phone, enchanted to not require batteries, and to work with any service system without him paying for it. Only allows voice and text.
4. 1 enchanted set of black jet earrings. If he taps them, they work like a noise cancelling headphones and silence the rest of the world around him.
5. 1 photograph enchanted to move and look like they are talking.
6. 1 black hoodie with white patterns on the cuffs of the sleeves that is enchanted to cast the face in impenetrable shadow when the hood is pulled up. Two little lights the colours of the wearer's eyes can be seen.
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis.
▶ SAMPLES
link #1
link #2