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Name: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden (Conjure by it at your own risk)
Fandom: The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.
Gender: Male
Age: 37, as of Changes.
Time Period: Midway through Changes, shortly before he accepts Mab's offer to become the Winter Knight.
Wing Color: Black.
History: The Dresden Files wiki page
Personality: Harry Dresden is a fairly complex individual, but his defining virtue, without a doubt, is his stubborn sense of chivalry. To him,you shouldn't aspire to be right, you should accept nothing less. This is not to say that he hasn't occasionally fallen short, but he views such things as major flaws, regrets that haunt him on a continual basis.
He's not very diplomatic, and tends to lack subtlety as a general rule. He'll do his best to help people out when they have a problem, but in general, his techniques tend to be blunt and messy, and if you come to him asking for a diplomatic socialite, he'll suggest you look elsewhere. Taking a page out of any good Noir detective's book, he's a snarky and introspective individual, invariably capable of antagonising a foe as much with his wit and stubbornly antisocial contrariness as he is with his magic.
This is not to say that he lacks intelligence, or even the ability to work with detailed plans. He can obfuscate, scheme, plot, and be devious with the best of them. However, his own role in said schemes is invariably a destructive one, at best a force of devastating magical firepower, and at worst a very noisy distraction.
He's fiercely loyal to his friends, allies, and what few family members he has. His childhood as an orphan combined with the abuse of his primary father figure as an adolescent has given him a very intense personal need to protect the few family members he has, and he also considers his closest friends to be part of his family, particularly Karrin Murphy of the Chicago PD's "Special Investigations" division, the young group of werewolf vigilantes known as the Alphas, and the family of Michael Carpenter, former Knight of the Cross. For his family and those he considers family, he is willing to go to incredible lengths, even violating his own ethical and moral compulsions in his drive to aid them.
That said, his sense of right and wrong is very difficult to overcome under even those circumstances, and he will always look for a more palatable alternative where one exists, especially after his rescue of his lover, Susan Rodriguez, resulted in the deaths of Bianca St. Claire and her followers- and sparked off a war between the Red Court of Vampires and the White Council of Wizards. He has proven capable of preserving his moral code since, whether offered a reprieve from an unfair trial by the Wizard's Council or the power to face otherwise-daunting foes from the fallen angel Lasciel. Lasciel herself admitted that Harry was the first to resist her for as long as he had.
A lifetime of abuse has left Harry intensely paranoid in general, bitter and jaded, but still willing to hope for the best despite his belief that it will invariably go wrong. He tends to distrust people inherently, and can often be overly cynical as a result of past experiences.
The exception to this, a self-acknowledged flaw, is a protective streak. Those who strike him as vulnerable tend to be good at exploiting him, and setting him off-guard in general, and this particularly applies to young women. He describes himself as old-fashioned and chivalrous to a fault, and his actions in the book often bear this out, though he eventually does learn to overcome it- to a degree- by his canon-point.
Finally, he had the seven Laws of Magic ingrained powerfully in him by his mentor, Ebenezar McCoy, after his accidental slaying of Justin DuMorne nearly led to his execution for violating them. His reaction to such violations is immediate and visceral, in many cases traumatically so.
Strengths:
Physically, Harry Dresden is a somewhat imposing figure. He's tall, keeps himself in shape, and knows how to use his size to his advantage in a fight. He is no martial arts expert, but he knows the basic philosophy- and, when the need arises, he doesn't fight fair. He is also a master of the time-tested art of running away, and is unafraid to do so if the need arises- he cites this as the real reason he runs to stay in shape. As a wizard, Harry also has regenerative abilities beyond most humans- nothing dramatic, or immediately noticeable, but his injuries heal slightly faster than those of most, and continue to do so where normal human biology would fail, such as his regaining function in his hand after it was burnt past the point at which doctors insisted it wouldn't be saved. This regenerative property also grants wizards unnatural longevity, and barring violent death, Harry could well live for centuries.
Mentally, Harry Dresden is capable of quickly adapting to many situations, and, given sufficient time, unearthing the truth behind various mysteries, a skill learned over his adult life as a private investigator. He also knows a great deal of magical theory, and with suitable time and effort master the theory, if perhaps not the practice, of virtually any sort of spellwork.
Emotionally, Harry Dresden is incredibly resilient. Even when forced to compromise his ideals- something he only rarely allows to happen- he treats the compromises as what they are and refuses to tolerate them for long. He's selfless, brave to the point of idiocy, and refuses to be cowed by those with power far greater than his own, even to the point of insulting and challenging the Wizard's Council, Vampire Kings, Faerie Queens, and occasionally even a literal deity. His morals are his life, and he regards any and all who challenge them as worthy of nothing but contempt, regardless of the consequences.
Magically, Harry Dresden is a powerhouse. Capable of enormous mystical firepower, both figuratively and literally, Harry has already been remarked upon as having dealt with more danger and more dangerous magic in his twenty years as an active wizard than most have in centuries of living. His fine control is lacking, but for those applications requiring massive destruction, he can deliver on an almost nuclear scale.
Note: This massive power, however, will be severely hampered by the power regulators in Luceti, and by the artificial and mercurial nature of the community limiting the amount of latent magical energy in the area.
Weaknesses:
Physically, Harry Dresden's height and appearance can work against him, lending him a look that is at best unpleasant and at worst outright frightening. The sorts of threats he typically faces rarely are intimidated by this appearance, but those he might otherwise consider allies are frequently put off by it, rendering this far more of a drawback than an asset.
Additionally, he is just a normal wizard, and one with little physical training outside of regular running and a few hours a week with Murphy at the gym- when he remembers and isn't too busy. He is, therefore, a pretty squishy guy, and if you take away his magic there isn't a whole lot left. Just a tall, smartish guy who runs a lot and fights dirty.
Mentally, Harry lacks any sort of special education, and can frequently lack in knowledge of the modern world. He is not a genius-level intellect, nor is he an expert in any particular field- even his magical theory, outside of practical knowledge, is far outstripped by that of other wizards. Additionally, his judgement can become heavily impaired by his emotions.
Emotionally, as mentioned, Harry is very temperamental. He's capable of anything from blind, wrath-of-god rage to blind self-sacrificial chivalry to blind self-deprecating misery, with few pit-stops inbetween. Note the use of the word blind in all three cases- his incredible perception is one of his most valuable assets, and it is frequently the first victim of his emotional nature. He can also be quite socially inept, unable to deal with people on any sort of subtle or intuitive level.
Magically, Harry's power essentially makes him little more than a thug. As mentioned before, anything requiring extreme power is right up his alley- and anything else is right out. Precision, flexibility, control, sensitivity, these words want nothing to do with Harry's magic in any way. His time working with his apprentice, Molly Carpenter, has helped him to work on some of his more subtle Illusion magic- and only now, after years of training with her, has he even managed what for other practitioners would be a rudimentary veil. His use of magic is powerful and flashy, but it is also inefficient, as much energy going into the bright light and the big noise as actually into the magical effect he's trying to achieve.
This also extends to his entropy field. All wizards have an entropy field that they emit which renders electronics and other advanced technology in the area prone to instability and malfunction, but Harry's is commonly cited as among the most severe. It affects a larger area, it has a more consistent- and more powerfully detrimental- negative effect on technology, and the breadth of technology vulnerable to it is far wider than that of many other wizards. While this occasionally serves as an asset, as it allows him to more easily disable said technology deliberately, even that is unreliable- hexing a video camera is as likely to cause every device on the same electrical circuit to short out and even combust as it is to simply disable that one device.
Note: Harry's entropy field, like his power, will be severely curtailed by the power regulators in Luceti, to the point where he's unlikely to be a danger to technology- or to technologically-inclined residents. It will still interfere with his own attempts to utilize said technology, however.
Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)
First Person: I shall require your finest sampling of Q&A
Third Person:
The first thing Harry noticed was that he wasn't at his apartment.
Of course not. My apartment was destroyed.
He struggled for a moment to remember where he'd gone to sleep, then finally his mind hit upon the Carpenter household.
This wasn't the Carpenter household. This wasn't any household. This was a... restaurant?
He sat up. Not a restaurant. A bar. He was in a booth at a bar. Not Mac's, either. The crowd around him was sort of boistrous, and...
Everybody has wings.
He reached around to his shoulder, and yes, he had them too. He sighed. That settled that. Clearly there'd been a clerical error and somebody had sent him to heaven after he died.
For a moment, he considered the possibility of simply finding the person in charge and lambasting them for managing Heaven as poorly as they had Earth. Of course, that would likely lead to the rectification of said error, and after the month he'd had, Hell was the last thing he wanted to deal with.
Finally, he decided to just listen to the sane, reasonable part of his mind. There were lots of explanations. The wings were probably fake. Some sort of themed costume party, maybe somebody had spiked his drink.
He reached back and felt the wings again. Feather, muscle, skin. Almost like the real thing. He was sort of impressed as he grasped a wing and attempted to tug it off.
He climbed into his seat, checking the table to make sure his head hadn't bled on it when he hit the corner as he fell. There wasn't, thankfully.
Note to self: Don't do that.
The pain, fortunately, was only slightly agonizing, and he was used to dealing with that by now. He was, however, receiving stares- not disturbed or alarmed, apparently, but concerned, which sort of surprised him.
I guess strangers just show up without shirts, try to pull their wings off, and smack their heads off of tables during the resulting spasms of pain often around here.
After a shrug and a half smile as if to say, 'who knows?' Harry stood up and went to the door, a hand moving down to hitch up his pants. They didn't fit properly. He could only assume it was meant to be humiliating.
When he got outside, it was incredibly cold, and he didn't have shoes or socks on. It was going to be a long walk to the nearest clothing store.
You've been taking arctic-cold showers your entire adult life and you're going to complain about a little barefoot walk in the park?
Having so chastised himself, he started walking toward what he hoped was the center of town.
Name: Justin/Yon Fellow/Dudeguy
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yonfellow E-mail: merlewhitefire@hotmail.com
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Current Characters at Luceti: Obi-Wan Kenobi |
averybadfeeling Character
Name: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden (Conjure by it at your own risk)
Fandom: The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.
Gender: Male
Age: 37, as of Changes.
Time Period: Midway through Changes, shortly before he accepts Mab's offer to become the Winter Knight.
Wing Color: Black.
History: The Dresden Files wiki page
Personality: Harry Dresden is a fairly complex individual, but his defining virtue, without a doubt, is his stubborn sense of chivalry. To him,you shouldn't aspire to be right, you should accept nothing less. This is not to say that he hasn't occasionally fallen short, but he views such things as major flaws, regrets that haunt him on a continual basis.
He's not very diplomatic, and tends to lack subtlety as a general rule. He'll do his best to help people out when they have a problem, but in general, his techniques tend to be blunt and messy, and if you come to him asking for a diplomatic socialite, he'll suggest you look elsewhere. Taking a page out of any good Noir detective's book, he's a snarky and introspective individual, invariably capable of antagonising a foe as much with his wit and stubbornly antisocial contrariness as he is with his magic.
This is not to say that he lacks intelligence, or even the ability to work with detailed plans. He can obfuscate, scheme, plot, and be devious with the best of them. However, his own role in said schemes is invariably a destructive one, at best a force of devastating magical firepower, and at worst a very noisy distraction.
He's fiercely loyal to his friends, allies, and what few family members he has. His childhood as an orphan combined with the abuse of his primary father figure as an adolescent has given him a very intense personal need to protect the few family members he has, and he also considers his closest friends to be part of his family, particularly Karrin Murphy of the Chicago PD's "Special Investigations" division, the young group of werewolf vigilantes known as the Alphas, and the family of Michael Carpenter, former Knight of the Cross. For his family and those he considers family, he is willing to go to incredible lengths, even violating his own ethical and moral compulsions in his drive to aid them.
That said, his sense of right and wrong is very difficult to overcome under even those circumstances, and he will always look for a more palatable alternative where one exists, especially after his rescue of his lover, Susan Rodriguez, resulted in the deaths of Bianca St. Claire and her followers- and sparked off a war between the Red Court of Vampires and the White Council of Wizards. He has proven capable of preserving his moral code since, whether offered a reprieve from an unfair trial by the Wizard's Council or the power to face otherwise-daunting foes from the fallen angel Lasciel. Lasciel herself admitted that Harry was the first to resist her for as long as he had.
A lifetime of abuse has left Harry intensely paranoid in general, bitter and jaded, but still willing to hope for the best despite his belief that it will invariably go wrong. He tends to distrust people inherently, and can often be overly cynical as a result of past experiences.
The exception to this, a self-acknowledged flaw, is a protective streak. Those who strike him as vulnerable tend to be good at exploiting him, and setting him off-guard in general, and this particularly applies to young women. He describes himself as old-fashioned and chivalrous to a fault, and his actions in the book often bear this out, though he eventually does learn to overcome it- to a degree- by his canon-point.
Finally, he had the seven Laws of Magic ingrained powerfully in him by his mentor, Ebenezar McCoy, after his accidental slaying of Justin DuMorne nearly led to his execution for violating them. His reaction to such violations is immediate and visceral, in many cases traumatically so.
Strengths:
Physically, Harry Dresden is a somewhat imposing figure. He's tall, keeps himself in shape, and knows how to use his size to his advantage in a fight. He is no martial arts expert, but he knows the basic philosophy- and, when the need arises, he doesn't fight fair. He is also a master of the time-tested art of running away, and is unafraid to do so if the need arises- he cites this as the real reason he runs to stay in shape. As a wizard, Harry also has regenerative abilities beyond most humans- nothing dramatic, or immediately noticeable, but his injuries heal slightly faster than those of most, and continue to do so where normal human biology would fail, such as his regaining function in his hand after it was burnt past the point at which doctors insisted it wouldn't be saved. This regenerative property also grants wizards unnatural longevity, and barring violent death, Harry could well live for centuries.
Mentally, Harry Dresden is capable of quickly adapting to many situations, and, given sufficient time, unearthing the truth behind various mysteries, a skill learned over his adult life as a private investigator. He also knows a great deal of magical theory, and with suitable time and effort master the theory, if perhaps not the practice, of virtually any sort of spellwork.
Emotionally, Harry Dresden is incredibly resilient. Even when forced to compromise his ideals- something he only rarely allows to happen- he treats the compromises as what they are and refuses to tolerate them for long. He's selfless, brave to the point of idiocy, and refuses to be cowed by those with power far greater than his own, even to the point of insulting and challenging the Wizard's Council, Vampire Kings, Faerie Queens, and occasionally even a literal deity. His morals are his life, and he regards any and all who challenge them as worthy of nothing but contempt, regardless of the consequences.
Magically, Harry Dresden is a powerhouse. Capable of enormous mystical firepower, both figuratively and literally, Harry has already been remarked upon as having dealt with more danger and more dangerous magic in his twenty years as an active wizard than most have in centuries of living. His fine control is lacking, but for those applications requiring massive destruction, he can deliver on an almost nuclear scale.
Note: This massive power, however, will be severely hampered by the power regulators in Luceti, and by the artificial and mercurial nature of the community limiting the amount of latent magical energy in the area.
Weaknesses:
Physically, Harry Dresden's height and appearance can work against him, lending him a look that is at best unpleasant and at worst outright frightening. The sorts of threats he typically faces rarely are intimidated by this appearance, but those he might otherwise consider allies are frequently put off by it, rendering this far more of a drawback than an asset.
Additionally, he is just a normal wizard, and one with little physical training outside of regular running and a few hours a week with Murphy at the gym- when he remembers and isn't too busy. He is, therefore, a pretty squishy guy, and if you take away his magic there isn't a whole lot left. Just a tall, smartish guy who runs a lot and fights dirty.
Mentally, Harry lacks any sort of special education, and can frequently lack in knowledge of the modern world. He is not a genius-level intellect, nor is he an expert in any particular field- even his magical theory, outside of practical knowledge, is far outstripped by that of other wizards. Additionally, his judgement can become heavily impaired by his emotions.
Emotionally, as mentioned, Harry is very temperamental. He's capable of anything from blind, wrath-of-god rage to blind self-sacrificial chivalry to blind self-deprecating misery, with few pit-stops inbetween. Note the use of the word blind in all three cases- his incredible perception is one of his most valuable assets, and it is frequently the first victim of his emotional nature. He can also be quite socially inept, unable to deal with people on any sort of subtle or intuitive level.
Magically, Harry's power essentially makes him little more than a thug. As mentioned before, anything requiring extreme power is right up his alley- and anything else is right out. Precision, flexibility, control, sensitivity, these words want nothing to do with Harry's magic in any way. His time working with his apprentice, Molly Carpenter, has helped him to work on some of his more subtle Illusion magic- and only now, after years of training with her, has he even managed what for other practitioners would be a rudimentary veil. His use of magic is powerful and flashy, but it is also inefficient, as much energy going into the bright light and the big noise as actually into the magical effect he's trying to achieve.
This also extends to his entropy field. All wizards have an entropy field that they emit which renders electronics and other advanced technology in the area prone to instability and malfunction, but Harry's is commonly cited as among the most severe. It affects a larger area, it has a more consistent- and more powerfully detrimental- negative effect on technology, and the breadth of technology vulnerable to it is far wider than that of many other wizards. While this occasionally serves as an asset, as it allows him to more easily disable said technology deliberately, even that is unreliable- hexing a video camera is as likely to cause every device on the same electrical circuit to short out and even combust as it is to simply disable that one device.
Note: Harry's entropy field, like his power, will be severely curtailed by the power regulators in Luceti, to the point where he's unlikely to be a danger to technology- or to technologically-inclined residents. It will still interfere with his own attempts to utilize said technology, however.
Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)
First Person: I shall require your finest sampling of Q&A
Third Person:
The first thing Harry noticed was that he wasn't at his apartment.
Of course not. My apartment was destroyed.
He struggled for a moment to remember where he'd gone to sleep, then finally his mind hit upon the Carpenter household.
This wasn't the Carpenter household. This wasn't any household. This was a... restaurant?
He sat up. Not a restaurant. A bar. He was in a booth at a bar. Not Mac's, either. The crowd around him was sort of boistrous, and...
Everybody has wings.
He reached around to his shoulder, and yes, he had them too. He sighed. That settled that. Clearly there'd been a clerical error and somebody had sent him to heaven after he died.
For a moment, he considered the possibility of simply finding the person in charge and lambasting them for managing Heaven as poorly as they had Earth. Of course, that would likely lead to the rectification of said error, and after the month he'd had, Hell was the last thing he wanted to deal with.
Finally, he decided to just listen to the sane, reasonable part of his mind. There were lots of explanations. The wings were probably fake. Some sort of themed costume party, maybe somebody had spiked his drink.
He reached back and felt the wings again. Feather, muscle, skin. Almost like the real thing. He was sort of impressed as he grasped a wing and attempted to tug it off.
He climbed into his seat, checking the table to make sure his head hadn't bled on it when he hit the corner as he fell. There wasn't, thankfully.
Note to self: Don't do that.
The pain, fortunately, was only slightly agonizing, and he was used to dealing with that by now. He was, however, receiving stares- not disturbed or alarmed, apparently, but concerned, which sort of surprised him.
I guess strangers just show up without shirts, try to pull their wings off, and smack their heads off of tables during the resulting spasms of pain often around here.
After a shrug and a half smile as if to say, 'who knows?' Harry stood up and went to the door, a hand moving down to hitch up his pants. They didn't fit properly. He could only assume it was meant to be humiliating.
When he got outside, it was incredibly cold, and he didn't have shoes or socks on. It was going to be a long walk to the nearest clothing store.
You've been taking arctic-cold showers your entire adult life and you're going to complain about a little barefoot walk in the park?
Having so chastised himself, he started walking toward what he hoped was the center of town.