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Player name: Zoë
Journal:
nutterzoi
AIM: W1ndrBoy003
Email: nutterzoi@hotmail.com
Other characters: Tim Drake/Red Robin
Character name: Molly Carpenter
Age: 25
Canon: Dresden Files Books
Canon point: The end of Ghost Story.
Totem: A photograph of her family. During a fissure event, family members will go missing from the photo.
Weapons: Two wands, used to help focus her illusion magic. ...I suppose her cane could also be a weapon, but she generally uses that for help walking.
Abilities/powers: Molly is able to use magic to affect the world around her. While not especially strong in the area of evocation (the flashy stuff, like throwing fireballs around that Harry does), she is particularly gifted with the more subtle forms of magic, such as veils and illusions, and has a naturally sensitive touch with it. Even before her training began, she was able to use dangerous and complicated (and illegal) forms of mind manipulation magic in a misguided attempt to help some of her friends.
Molly’s subtle hand with magic means that while her veils and illusions are strong, and she’s sensitive to magic being used around her, she’s not very effective in combat. She doesn’t have the raw power needed for effective offensive spells, and when Bad Stuff happens around her, she feels it and it can completely throw her off. She is, however, beginning to be able to shield herself from physical attack, using magic-though it takes more effort than her usual kind of magic.
Along with her specific powers, Molly has Wizard's Sight and the ability to Soulgaze, as do all of the wizards from her world. The Sight allows her to look at the supernatural world directly, and see things that are hidden from normal sight. Soulgazes happen when a wizard meets a being with a soul's eyes for too long. It can only happen once per person, but it allows the wizard to see the truth of the person. What they are, were, and could be. The drawback of both of these gifts is that anything seen this way can never be forgotten, and remains as fresh in the wizard's memory as though it just happened. It can have the effect of driving the wizard insane, if they do it too often, or See something too horrible.
She is also able to use spells to open a Way into the Nevernever, or pull someone's soul from their body. ...Obviously these abilities should be limited/nonexistent in Limbo. Wizard Sight and Soulgazes should probably also be limited/nonexistent, as it might be a bit game-breaky. (Basically any limits you want to put on her powers are fine by me, I wasn't sure what to do there.)
Wizards in the Dresden Files are also unable to use most modern technology. It tends to break down around them. The more complicated the technology, the faster it breaks down. Molly's father is handy and managed to keep things running in their home while Molly lived there, but most wizards aren't able to use much technology developed after the 1950's. (This should also probably be limited for her-or she should be hilariously inconvenient for her roommate.)
Location: Molly will bring to Limbo the treehouse that her father built for her and her siblings. It's settled in a tall, old oak tree, with a sturdy ladder leading up to it. The windows are trimmed with handmade curtains in a bright, colorful fabric, and the space itself contains toys, crayons, paper, and the other detritus of the seven happy childhoods spent there.
Personality: Molly is a determined, serious young woman, who is trying her hardest to help save the world. This is not an exaggeration. Her father was a Knight of the Cross, and her mentor was Harry Dresden, Wizard Protector of the Meek, and knowing them shaped her into who she is now. She grew up watching her father literally fight against the forces of evil, and then became Harry Dresden's apprentice, where she saw up close and personal how people were affected when supernatural nasties brushed up against their lives. And the world is getting darker. The White Council wizards are under attack from the inside, there's a huge void of power where the Vampire Red Court used to be, and everyone's scrambling to figure out how the pieces will fall. The Red Court is gone, but the world is more dangerous than ever, and Molly wants to stop that danger from spreading, so that people-like her family and Harry's daughter-can be safe.
Despite her determination and idealism, though, recent events in her life have cause Molly to grow angry, and maybe a little bitter. She was injured in battle with the Red Court, and while wizards can eventually heal nearly any injury, it takes time, and she's walking with a cane now. Her mentor is dead, leaving her to face the White Council on her own-the head of which wants her death for a crime committed hen she was a teenager. One of the fae of the Winter Court has taken over mentoring her, using much more brutal methods than Harry had when he taught her. She's homeless, trying to keep her family safe, because it's too dangerous for them to have her around. In short, she is hurt, grieving, and angry, and trying to deal with it by herself. She's not coping well.
Still, underneath that anger is the caring, young woman that Molly really is. She “mothered” Harry, his pets, and her younger siblings. In Harry's case, this took the form of trying to get him to eat more healthily, cut back on junk food, and making sure his pets were walked, watered, and fed. She looked after her younger siblings, too, keeping them safe, playing with them, and trying to make sure they were happy and healthy. She likes taking care of the people she cares about, and she hates that the best way to do that right now is to stay away from them, so she and her troubles won't be a danger to them.
She believes in taking responsibility for her actions. When she realized the harm she had done to her friends in manipulating their minds to try to remove their addictions, she chose to face the consequences of her actions, even though it meant that she was facing a death sentence. Harry gave her the opportunity to run or to deny her power, but she chose to face her punishment as a wizard, and so received a kind of probation. She would be allowed to live if she trained under Harry, and never made another mistake, or she and Harry would both be executed. Harry's death has left her with no mentor to vouch for her, and so she is subject to execution now... if the White Council catches her.
Beyond that, she has used psychomancy (the illegal form of magic that she was nearly executed for) at Harry's request, to help him arrange his own death. She has also been using magical illusions to cause Bad Guys (supernatural and not) to kill each other. She feels guilty about this, and sees her situation now as a kind of penance for what she's done, as well as simply the way things have to be to keep her family safe.
Just because things are difficult for her right now, though, doesn't mean that she's completely lost her sense of humor. She used to call Harry “boss” and tease him, and when she recently encountered his ghost, she fell back into the same pattern. Master and apprentice. “Boss” and “Grasshoppper.” Her sense of humor might have a bit more of a sarcastic bite to it now, but it's still there, and she still likes to laugh and play when she can. Even her mind fortress shows this playful side of her-it's the bridge of the Enterprise of Star Trek: the Original Series, complete with a Molly version of each other the characters, manning their positions.
Molly will probably believe that Limbo is some part of the Nevernever that she's become stuck in somehow, though the “shared dream” theory will be very intriguing to her. She'll want to know they think it's a dream, and if there's magic involved, and how something like that could even be done, because the idea is just so unbelievable to her-but not impossible to believe. She's seen a lot of weird stuff. Just because this place is near the top of the list doesn't mean she won't take it very seriously. The hardest part for her to comprehend will be that death doesn't stick.
History: Molly is the oldest of seven children, and she grew up watching her father, Michael Carpenter, fight with Harry Dresden against the forces of evil as one of the Knights of the Cross. When she grew into adolescence, she discovered that she had the ability to use magic, and began to use it-untrained-to become invisible, create illusions, and then-disastrously-to try to remove her friends' addiction from their minds when they were going to have a child. Harry Dresden discovered what had happened, and managed to contain the worst of the damage, but wasn't able to undo the damage to her friends' minds that Molly had already done. He gave her a choice to run, renounce her magic, or face the White Council and confess to her crime. She chose to face the White Council, and against the wishes of the Merlin (the leader of the White Council), they rulesdto put her under the Doom of Damocles. She would be allowed to live as long as Harry Dresden mentored her and she didn't break the law again. She became Harry's apprentice, and spent the next several years learning from him and becoming a better, stronger wizard until his death after the fall of the Red Court. She was injured in that battle and now walks with a cane while she continues to slowly heal.
Wikipedia
Dresden Files Wiki
3rd person sample: N/A
1st person sample: (A sample 5-10 sentences from 1st person POV to demonstrate chara
What the Hell? How... I... don't think we're in Kansas anymore Toto. Or Chicago. My best guess is that I somehow managed to slip into the Nevernever in my sleep, which should be impossible, or that this is a test.
This had better not be a test, Lea. I don't want to find myself trying to shield against... I don't know. Fire-breathing dragons, or something like that. You're supposed to be my mentor, which ideally means keeping me alive. My shields aren't that strong yet and you know it.
Journal:
nutterzoi
AIM: W1ndrBoy003
Email: nutterzoi@hotmail.com
Other characters: Tim Drake/Red Robin
Character name: Molly Carpenter
Age: 25
Canon: Dresden Files Books
Canon point: The end of Ghost Story.
Totem: A photograph of her family. During a fissure event, family members will go missing from the photo.
Weapons: Two wands, used to help focus her illusion magic. ...I suppose her cane could also be a weapon, but she generally uses that for help walking.
Abilities/powers: Molly is able to use magic to affect the world around her. While not especially strong in the area of evocation (the flashy stuff, like throwing fireballs around that Harry does), she is particularly gifted with the more subtle forms of magic, such as veils and illusions, and has a naturally sensitive touch with it. Even before her training began, she was able to use dangerous and complicated (and illegal) forms of mind manipulation magic in a misguided attempt to help some of her friends.
Molly’s subtle hand with magic means that while her veils and illusions are strong, and she’s sensitive to magic being used around her, she’s not very effective in combat. She doesn’t have the raw power needed for effective offensive spells, and when Bad Stuff happens around her, she feels it and it can completely throw her off. She is, however, beginning to be able to shield herself from physical attack, using magic-though it takes more effort than her usual kind of magic.
Along with her specific powers, Molly has Wizard's Sight and the ability to Soulgaze, as do all of the wizards from her world. The Sight allows her to look at the supernatural world directly, and see things that are hidden from normal sight. Soulgazes happen when a wizard meets a being with a soul's eyes for too long. It can only happen once per person, but it allows the wizard to see the truth of the person. What they are, were, and could be. The drawback of both of these gifts is that anything seen this way can never be forgotten, and remains as fresh in the wizard's memory as though it just happened. It can have the effect of driving the wizard insane, if they do it too often, or See something too horrible.
She is also able to use spells to open a Way into the Nevernever, or pull someone's soul from their body. ...Obviously these abilities should be limited/nonexistent in Limbo. Wizard Sight and Soulgazes should probably also be limited/nonexistent, as it might be a bit game-breaky. (Basically any limits you want to put on her powers are fine by me, I wasn't sure what to do there.)
Wizards in the Dresden Files are also unable to use most modern technology. It tends to break down around them. The more complicated the technology, the faster it breaks down. Molly's father is handy and managed to keep things running in their home while Molly lived there, but most wizards aren't able to use much technology developed after the 1950's. (This should also probably be limited for her-or she should be hilariously inconvenient for her roommate.)
Location: Molly will bring to Limbo the treehouse that her father built for her and her siblings. It's settled in a tall, old oak tree, with a sturdy ladder leading up to it. The windows are trimmed with handmade curtains in a bright, colorful fabric, and the space itself contains toys, crayons, paper, and the other detritus of the seven happy childhoods spent there.
Personality: Molly is a determined, serious young woman, who is trying her hardest to help save the world. This is not an exaggeration. Her father was a Knight of the Cross, and her mentor was Harry Dresden, Wizard Protector of the Meek, and knowing them shaped her into who she is now. She grew up watching her father literally fight against the forces of evil, and then became Harry Dresden's apprentice, where she saw up close and personal how people were affected when supernatural nasties brushed up against their lives. And the world is getting darker. The White Council wizards are under attack from the inside, there's a huge void of power where the Vampire Red Court used to be, and everyone's scrambling to figure out how the pieces will fall. The Red Court is gone, but the world is more dangerous than ever, and Molly wants to stop that danger from spreading, so that people-like her family and Harry's daughter-can be safe.
Despite her determination and idealism, though, recent events in her life have cause Molly to grow angry, and maybe a little bitter. She was injured in battle with the Red Court, and while wizards can eventually heal nearly any injury, it takes time, and she's walking with a cane now. Her mentor is dead, leaving her to face the White Council on her own-the head of which wants her death for a crime committed hen she was a teenager. One of the fae of the Winter Court has taken over mentoring her, using much more brutal methods than Harry had when he taught her. She's homeless, trying to keep her family safe, because it's too dangerous for them to have her around. In short, she is hurt, grieving, and angry, and trying to deal with it by herself. She's not coping well.
Still, underneath that anger is the caring, young woman that Molly really is. She “mothered” Harry, his pets, and her younger siblings. In Harry's case, this took the form of trying to get him to eat more healthily, cut back on junk food, and making sure his pets were walked, watered, and fed. She looked after her younger siblings, too, keeping them safe, playing with them, and trying to make sure they were happy and healthy. She likes taking care of the people she cares about, and she hates that the best way to do that right now is to stay away from them, so she and her troubles won't be a danger to them.
She believes in taking responsibility for her actions. When she realized the harm she had done to her friends in manipulating their minds to try to remove their addictions, she chose to face the consequences of her actions, even though it meant that she was facing a death sentence. Harry gave her the opportunity to run or to deny her power, but she chose to face her punishment as a wizard, and so received a kind of probation. She would be allowed to live if she trained under Harry, and never made another mistake, or she and Harry would both be executed. Harry's death has left her with no mentor to vouch for her, and so she is subject to execution now... if the White Council catches her.
Beyond that, she has used psychomancy (the illegal form of magic that she was nearly executed for) at Harry's request, to help him arrange his own death. She has also been using magical illusions to cause Bad Guys (supernatural and not) to kill each other. She feels guilty about this, and sees her situation now as a kind of penance for what she's done, as well as simply the way things have to be to keep her family safe.
Just because things are difficult for her right now, though, doesn't mean that she's completely lost her sense of humor. She used to call Harry “boss” and tease him, and when she recently encountered his ghost, she fell back into the same pattern. Master and apprentice. “Boss” and “Grasshoppper.” Her sense of humor might have a bit more of a sarcastic bite to it now, but it's still there, and she still likes to laugh and play when she can. Even her mind fortress shows this playful side of her-it's the bridge of the Enterprise of Star Trek: the Original Series, complete with a Molly version of each other the characters, manning their positions.
Molly will probably believe that Limbo is some part of the Nevernever that she's become stuck in somehow, though the “shared dream” theory will be very intriguing to her. She'll want to know they think it's a dream, and if there's magic involved, and how something like that could even be done, because the idea is just so unbelievable to her-but not impossible to believe. She's seen a lot of weird stuff. Just because this place is near the top of the list doesn't mean she won't take it very seriously. The hardest part for her to comprehend will be that death doesn't stick.
History: Molly is the oldest of seven children, and she grew up watching her father, Michael Carpenter, fight with Harry Dresden against the forces of evil as one of the Knights of the Cross. When she grew into adolescence, she discovered that she had the ability to use magic, and began to use it-untrained-to become invisible, create illusions, and then-disastrously-to try to remove her friends' addiction from their minds when they were going to have a child. Harry Dresden discovered what had happened, and managed to contain the worst of the damage, but wasn't able to undo the damage to her friends' minds that Molly had already done. He gave her a choice to run, renounce her magic, or face the White Council and confess to her crime. She chose to face the White Council, and against the wishes of the Merlin (the leader of the White Council), they rulesdto put her under the Doom of Damocles. She would be allowed to live as long as Harry Dresden mentored her and she didn't break the law again. She became Harry's apprentice, and spent the next several years learning from him and becoming a better, stronger wizard until his death after the fall of the Red Court. She was injured in that battle and now walks with a cane while she continues to slowly heal.
Wikipedia
Dresden Files Wiki
3rd person sample: N/A
1st person sample: (A sample 5-10 sentences from 1st person POV to demonstrate chara
What the Hell? How... I... don't think we're in Kansas anymore Toto. Or Chicago. My best guess is that I somehow managed to slip into the Nevernever in my sleep, which should be impossible, or that this is a test.
This had better not be a test, Lea. I don't want to find myself trying to shield against... I don't know. Fire-breathing dragons, or something like that. You're supposed to be my mentor, which ideally means keeping me alive. My shields aren't that strong yet and you know it.