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Magic Drafted Application
PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: ScottCHARACTER INFORMATION
AGE: 19
JOURNAL: harry_b_dresden (I do not have a personal lj account)
AIM/PLURK/EMAIL: AIM: scott_mechler@yahoo.com, Plurk: Froglord, Email: scott_mechler@yahoo.com. Guys I'm super creative.
CURRENT CHARACTERS: none
SERIES: The Dresden FilesWRITING SAMPLES
NAME: Harry Dresden
RACE: Human? Caucasian? (not sure what's being asked so I'll give both)
AGE: 31
CANON POINT: Directly after the events of Changes. Harry is currently shot through the chest and drowning in a lake in canon.
REFERENCES: http://dresdenfiles.wikia.com/wiki/Dresden_Files (the Dresden Files Wiki)
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE: Harry is an extremely tall, somewhat scruffy looking man in his early thirties. He's thin, but fairly well muscled, more of a sprinter's build than anything stereotypically comib-book heroic. He has short cut brown hair and usually a rough five o'clock shadow. He wears a brown leather duster jacket over jeans, a plain undershirt and cowboy boots, sometimes with the addition of a matching leather hat. The only jewelry he wears is a silver amulet, round with a pentacle pattern in the center, an heirloom from his mother, as well as a silver bracelet with shield charms. In canon, his magical foci consist of a long wooden staff and a short "blasting rod" with magical runes carved along the length of both. Conveniently, at his canon point all of these items save for the pentacle amulet have been destroyed, so he'll be starting fresh.
PERSONALITY & HOUSE REQUESTS: Harry is, on the surface, both a tremendous sarcastic wiseass and something of a nerd, enjoying goofy joking around and outdated popular culture references far too much. While he doesn't possess a whole lot of the usual heroic bravery or virtue that most protagonists have, he makes up for it in loyalty and a nearly insane predisposition towards leaping headlong into things that, by all rights, he should not be able to handle. He's got a fairly outdated sense of chivalry, particularly towards women and small children, to the point where a "damsel in distress" can really be pinned down as his one greatest weakness. He generally makes either friends or enemies with a person extremely quickly, either pissing them off to no end or earning a special, though goofy place in their hearts. As for a house, I know that you're probably fairly inundated with Gryffindor characters, that would be an excellent fit for Harry, though he is extremely friendly and personable, so he could fit in with Hufflepuff well too. Since he is a professor, you might need someone to be an IC mod for the Gryffindor characters, so that will be my first choice, with a second choice of Hufflepuff if you decide that you simply have too much gryffindor right now.
COMMUTER DETAILS: None. Harry will not be aligned with the death eaters.
POSITION: I'd like to apply Harry as a Professor. In canon, Harry has an incredibly wide array of experience combating various magical threats, everything from fallen angels to vampires to faeries, and he knows every trick in the book to deal with them. When thrown into an unfamiliar location like Hogwarts, Harry would be extremely interested in finding out as much as he possibly could about the monsters that inevitably would come crashing through his door trying to eat his face. He has some experience with teaching his apprentice, Molly, basic magic and I'd like to request that he be either a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor or a Care For Magical Creatures professor, whichever you think would be better suited to the needs of the game as a whole.
ORIENTATION: Harry is straight. His half-brother, Thomas is an incubus, essentially a sex vampire. (think Twilight, but they kill you if you have sex with them. So yeah, think Twilight.) If he had any gay leanings whatsoever, he would not have survived living with Thomas for several months.
ABILITIES & POWERS: Harry's magic is fairly powerful by the end of Changes. He's always had a predisposition towards using fire in combat, both because it came easily for him and most things are weak to the combination of cleansing flame and light. He also uses wind or "force" magic, faerie ice magic and magical force fields in combat. Outside of combat he can do many more intricate things, such as track a person, or set up a defensive grid, or veil himself and others (turn them invisible) though he's not very good at it. His magic is very power-oriented as opposed to other wizards in his world, and he's much worse at the intricate stuff. He's familiar with making potions and enchanting objects, but without his talking skull, Bob, to help him keep track of the ingredients and processes, he's not very good at that either. Besides a somewhat faster than average healing rate, there's nothing about him physically that makes him any tougher than a normal human, though he has enchanted his jacket to resist attacks. (The jacket in Hogwarts will, of course, be unenchanted).
WAND: Harry will be carrying an unyielding yew wand with a dragon heartstring core, 14 inches long. He's got a strength in elemental magic, which could translate well into Charms maybe? I'm not sure how that fits into the basic categories of magic, but it'll mostly be the spells he's more often than ones he's particularly good at.
MISC.: Harry has an extremely large, lazy cat named Mister, as well as a large shaggy mammoth that, upon further inspection, is in fact a dog. His name is Mouse. If Harry could keep those pets, that would be fantastic. Mouse is, in canon, a Foo Dog, a protective chinese spirit, but if that would not translate well to HP canon he could simply be a large black dog and that would work fine.
FIRST PERSON: There comes a point in every story when you expect a little resolution. At least a little "the end" even if you don't manage a "happily ever after".
I woke up.
That in itself was pretty damn surprising, let me tell you. The first thing I saw was stone walls, and considering what I'd been through, I was set to panic at anything that wasn't fluffy clouds and pearly gates. I suppose I was just lucky nobody was around to hear the heroic, manly squeak that managed to escape my throat and see me flail at the bedsheets in the strange room which, upon five seconds' inspection, wasn't actually all that strange.
Well it was, but not because it was unfamiliar. Because it looked like home.
"Huh."
Sometimes I have such a way with words. I got up out of the bed, scratching my head a little bit at all my old posters on the walls, all my junk on the shelves that by all rights should have been burned to ash a week ago. I approached the felt portrait of Elvis with a little bit of trepidation, reaching out and touching just under the King's chin.
"Hell's bells. No way." There was even the rough patch under the chin where Elvis had gotten scorched by a wayward imp a year and a half ago.
"If this stuff is fake, somebody was paying some good damn attention to detail."
I walked back into the middle of the room, looking around until I found a mirror. I rubbed at my eyes, trying to get myself a bit more conscious when I felt something pressing up against the fabric of my jeans.
"Pretty sure I'm not that happy to see me." I reached in, hoping for a second to find my blasting rod, since whoever had put me here had restored everything else, but instead I got something a lot slimmer, a lot more polished looking.
It was a wand. An honest to god stage magic wand. Ok, so it was brown, and maybe there wasn't a white cap on the end for me to stuff things into, but I still couldn't resist a try. I picked out a knicknack on the shelf, something I'd gotten from somebody in Chigago PD's special investigations as a gag gift a few years ago, and pointed the wand at it, forming the spell in my mind.
Fuego "Incendio."
The funny little windup toy caught on fire, burning merrily as the plastic melted. That was what was supposed to happen. What had happened with my mouth, though, that was what threw me.
"I think this place is going to take some figuring out."
After another quick look around, I found a window. Still cautious, I took a peek outside.
"Yeah.
This is definitely not Chigago."
THIRD PERSON: Harry shivered on the deck of the Water Beetle, drawing the tattered shreds of his duster about him as shelter from the lake winds. He felt the remnants of the protective wards and spells he'd cast on it, over the years, and felt somewhat naked.
It was kind of Thomas to lend him his boat, after what had happened to Harry's house, car, and anywhere else he'd felt at home, but Harry still wished that it approached a little more of the opulence that seemed to drip off of Thomas' other possessions.
He sighed.
No point beating about the bush.
He removed the coat, holding it up to the light of the setting sun. Claw marks, bullet holes, marks of flame ravaged the brown leather. He set it on the deck, and went below for a moment.
Harry re-emerged with the remains of his staff and blasting rod, the former cracked in half, and the latter just a charred stump, both unable to contain the magic gifted to him by the sly fey.
Harry pushed Mab from his thoughts for a moment. He'd deal with that looming problem when he came to it. For now, he was caked with dirt and blood, and other substances he couldn't and didn't want to name, and there was a funeral to be had.
He gathered up his foci, and wrapped them in the remains of his coat. Faithful tools, his weapons and armor, now sundered beyond use.
Harry threw them out over the water, and they landed with a sad little splash, lingering for a moment on the surface before sinking to the depths.
Harry was devoid of feeling. It seemed like he should feel a touch more sadness for these things he'd loved, but in truth, what were they compared to everything else he'd lost? The places he'd felt safe, the people he'd loved... He'd won his war, the Council's war, but the cost...
It was nothing compared to Susan.
Harry turned to walk back towards the open hatch, when a massive force wrenched him a step forward. A wave rocked the boat slightly, and suddenly the tiny shift in weight seemed impossible, his legs refused to respond. Harry tumbled drunkenly backwards. He wondered where all the blood on the deck had come from.
His knees caught the rail, and he pitched back.
The blackness of the waves' embrace was absolute.