Application for Noctium

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Name: Kerry
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact: halfbloodly
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Character: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Canon: Original
Canon point: Mid-teleportation away from his parents' home.
OU or AU?: OU
Age: 19
Species: Human (Witch)


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Disposition:

OBSESSIVE: Nate tends to obsess over the things that matter to him. He is stubborn to a fault. When he wants something, he works for it, and he’ll not be moved from that desire, regardless of how difficult the task. The greatest example of this is his aspiration to be free of his family’s control and live a life of his own, indulging in all the magic he wants. This isn’t just an idle dream; he made active plans to make it a reality, including finding somewhere to live. This is a side of him to which his family are largely blind, imagining him to be acting out as a disaffected teenager who’ll eventually grow out of the impulse. While he is a disaffected teenager, he’s also determined to achieve what he wants out of life, and he has no intention of letting it go. He has few hobbies that aren’t related to magic in some way, and he’s willing to ignore dangers and take foolish risks in order to progress with his learning. Nate is not a person who ever has a vague interest in anything; he’s either into it to an extreme, or he doesn’t care about it at all.

STUDIOUS: Nate doesn’t give the impression of being a serious person; he breaks rules like it’s his job, he drinks and smokes, he has sex with a different person every week yet never once has he had a serious relationship. That’s the public face that everyone sees. Beneath it, Nate has a true passion for magic, and works constantly to improve his abilities. He reads every spellbook he can get his hands on, he practices daily, he meticulously wards his room so that he can work without interruption. He’s far more intelligent and diligent than the first impression of him would make anyone believe, and that is intentional. He’s secretive by nature, and while he is both reckless and even anarchic in his approach to life, he’s not stupid. He knows what he wants, and has the drive and diligence to achieve it.

EMPATHETIC: Nate very much cares about people. He has a very complicated relationship with his family, always resenting the control they have over him and seeking his freedom from them. In spite of that, he very much loves his older brother and sister, though his relationship with the latter is problematic, and aggressive on his brother's side. Nate is genuinely convinced that his sister is the only person who really loves him, and he responds to that with everything he has. He’s equally convinced that his brother despises him, and he so badly wishes that they had a better relationship. These strong emotions lead him to be empathetic when it comes to the feelings of others. Nate is always trying to make new connections, and when he does, he’s as caring and comforting as he can be to that person. He finds it easy to identify with their sadness and does what he can to make them happy. Despite this, he remains a lonely person whose desire for companionship and friendship goes largely unfulfilled.

ANARCHIC: Nate strains against authority, chafing under the strict control of his family's rules. He desperately wants the freedom to make his own choices, study as he pleases, and have relationships with who he pleases. Anything that his family disapproves of appeals to him, and if there's an opportunity for him to rebel, he'll take it. He takes drugs, enhanced by his own magic, to give himself a sense of liberation. He deliberately studies the spells that are forbidden by his society, and steeps himself in magic that risks real danger to both his body and soul. He's reckless - he's not unaware of the dangers of anything he's doing, he just doesn't let that stop him. He shows little care for his own safety, enjoying the high that comes with taking risks.

EMOTIONAL: Nate swings between an intense, excited high, and a dangerously unhappy low. He's aware of this and hates it, and will talk about wanting to get out of his head to avoid it. He finds it hard to control his temper, and when something upsets him his mood will quickly escalate. He’ll easily fly off the handle at someone whose attitude bothers him. His family's constant disapproval of him has left him sensitive to the same in others. He’s not very used to other people being on his side, and thus has a tendency to brood in silence and alone rather than share how he’s feeling with anyone else. This is partly down to his youth; he’s still a teenager, and he hasn’t learned particularly healthy coping mechanisms. Nate feels like he always needs an ally that he’s lacking.

Suitability: Synchrony, on the face of it, will seem easy to Nate; he's had plenty of casual relationships, and he's pretty free when it comes to sex and affection. He won't have a problem with indulging in that way of life, so he'll be happy to play his part in generating Manna. Genuine intimacy is something he's been starved of, though; he only really experienced it with his sister, while the rest of his family were distant and disapproving. Nate would say that he doesn't need intimacy with anyone, but he craves it all the same. He wants to know what it's like to have a real family. He wants to feel loved. If he can find that here, it'll be a new kind of drug to him; as thrilling and addictive as all the others he reaches for. The world itself will fascinate him; the similarities and differences to Earth will be something he wants to research and understand. He'll want to befriend the Gems and learn from them - and he'll want to show off his own magic, show them how it works where he's from. The Gembonding is something that he'll love. He's started experimenting with his own body mods (mainly piercings, but as he gets older he'll be into tattoos, too). He'll see the Gembond as essentially that - except that it comes with a whole range of new magic that he can learn about and command. That's going to fascinate him. He loves nothing more than delving into magic and discovering its secrets. The Gembond will offer something completely new and unique. He'll want to taste and explore it, and in time, he'll want to learn how to combine it with his own magic and interplay the two of them. His love of magical study will make him a quick learner where his Gembond is concerned.

Condition upon arrival: Perfect health, aside from some bruising.

Abilities: Nate is a witch. In his world, magic is accessible in different ways; there is magic through herbalism, which anyone with enough knowledge and learning can access, and there is magic that comes from an innate connection to the natural energy of the world. Nate comes from a long generation of Hawthorne witches, whose innate connection to magic, and obsession with continuing that legacy through marriage, has made them an exceptionally powerful family. Because of this, Nate has a considerable amount of natural talent for magic, which he has furthered with his own obsessive study of his art.

The magic of his world is separated into seven different strands or schools, as follows:


• Conjuration: Summoning the elements, teleporting, creating objects, turning something into something else, binding spells, telekinesis, chlorokinesis (manipulating plants), atmokinesis (manipulating weather)


• Evocation: Necromancy, summoning and banishing spirits or entities from other planes of existence, exorcism, astral projection, mediumship, and resurrection of the dead


• Divination: Predicting the future through various means, including astrology, augury or precognition; sight of the present through scrying or dowsing; sight of the past through psychometry


• Enchantment: Charms, curses, compelling another person, manipulating someone's memories, telepathy, dreamwalking


• Transmutation: Changing one's own or someone else's shape, alchemy, temporarily altering the status of reality
  
• Illusion: Glamouring (changing how someone is perceived), creating phantasms (making someone see something that isn't there), shadow magic, creating figments (spells which produce false sensations)


• Abjuration: Creating wards, healing, cloaking, cleansing negative energy from an area


Nate has studied every school to a certain extent, but has a particular talent for Enchantment, especially creating cursed or charmed objects (which he loves to wear as piercings). He's also skilled in Illusion and Conjuration, and has made special effort to study Evocation, much of which is forbidden by his world's magical law. In spite of that, Nate has studied on his own to learn how to summon and trap demons, and how to contact and call forth spirits of the dead. He's good, though not excellent, at Transmutation and Abjuration, with the exception of creating wards which he's practised extensively. Divination is his weakest school; he uses spells in that area very rarely, and hasn't extensively obsessively researched them.

In game, Nate's powers will be nerfed so that he is not able to do anything game-breaking (e.g. he will only be able to teleport within Noctium, and not out of it, and effects such as manipulating weather or reality would be possible only within his immediate area and not any more widely). I will also have a permissions post to cover any spells that affect other characters (e.g. telepathy).

Inventory: The clothes on his back (t-shirt, hoodie, leather jacket, jeans, belt, boots) and a backback which was full over other clothes. It'll now have 10 items (4 t-shirts, 2 pairs of jeans, 2 hoodies, his personal grimoire and a phone charger). His pockets hold a set of keys, his phone, and, 2 rolled joints, and a packet of the herbal mixture he puts in the joints. Nate also has charmed piercings (3 in each ear).

Gembond: Amethyst
Gem Location: Palm of his right hand


« MISCELLANEOUS »

Sample: Link. Here's also an extra from Duplicity's texting meme. Game posts are locked but this meme was allowed as game canon and could be used for AC.

Notes: His history!