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| User: | go_to_hell (102769) |
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| Name: | John Calvert | |||||||||
| E-mail: | bhoadley@gmail.com | |||||||||
| Bio: |  General Information Name: John Calvert Nicknames: Don't you fucking dare Age: 32 Birthday: Oct 31, 1974 Gender: Male Myth Name: John Constantine Myth: Hellblazer Section: Comic/Graphic Novels Special Powers: Magical Adept - which is a way of saying that he has a good deal of occult knowledge and with the right verbal, somatic, and material elements, he can make *things* happen. Limited telepathy, precognition, astral projection, and the successful invocation of elementals, demons, and angels. Retained/Acquired Powers: Precognition. The problem is: What's a vision and what's a hallucination. Appearance Height: 6'3" Eyes: Gray Hair: Blonde Build: Skinny - not wiry, not lithe - he looks unhealthy. Dress Style: Brown trench coat worn over a rumpled suit and loosened tie, most of the time. Skills Strength: 4 Dexterity: 7 Constitution: 4 Intelligence: 11 Wisdom:10 Charisma: 5 Psychology IQ: Well above average. Phobias/Fears: Hell. Heaven. Death. Life. Mental Health: Oh, he's not right. Paranoid, depressed, self-destructive, and occasionally psychotic (he's schizophrenic). Religious Beliefs: You have got to be kidding. (Oh, fuck no.) Extrovert/Introvert: Extrovert, kind of. Health Eyesight: Fine Hearing: Fine Left/Right/Ambi: Ambi Physical Health: Kinda shitty General Dexterity: Goodish Handicaps: His mental health? Special Abilities: He's a card shark. He's also really good at getting people close to him killed. Pissing people off. Personality Goals/Dreams: To stay out of hell - on his own, without the help of God. He's not asking anybody for forgiveness. Quirks/Habits Smokes like a fucking chimney. Curses with alarming frequency and fluidity. Lacks tact almost entirely. Likes: Music. Cigarette smoke. Guns. Alcohol. Fire. Dislikes: Current Family Parents: Thomas and Alice, both deceased. Siblings: A dead twin. Spouse/Serious Lover: No Children: Not a prayer. Close friends and other notable: Nope. Past Family Parents: Thomas Siblings: A dead twin Spouse/Serious Lover: Not really Children: Yeah. Sort of. Close friends and other notable: Known to many but probably the only person you could call a close friend is Chas. Present Background Occupation: Is "card shark" an occupation? Domain of: Shine Warded by: Despair. Green Education: Pft. No. Activities: Cards, smoking, drinking, occasionally dancing and fucking. Home: Efficiency apartment in an iffy part of town. Finance: He scrapes by. History: John was born in England, and his early life had a lot in common with Constantine's. He was born to a poor family, one of a set of twins. His twin and his mother both died in childbirth and his father blamed him. His father went to jail (but not for stealing underwear, thanks much) when he was a kid. He went to his father's sister and her husband. He began seeing and things that weren't there when he was a kid - 8 or 9 years old. They didn't much care for it or believe him, much less do anything about it. He stayed there until he was 15 and then struck out for London, and in London he stayed through his teens and 20s. John's mental health has never been exactly right. He's paranoid, he's depressed, he's self destructive and he's been known to have the odd psychotic episode. He had one of those in London when he was 26, was observed talking to a hallucination, and landed himself under monitoring. When he was 29 there was an accident while he was driving and a little girl was killed. Since he was already a known fruitcake he didn't go to jail- he went to a mental institution. He got drugged, he got therapy, and he didn't get out again for a couple of years. When he did get out he got all the way out and left Britain. He ended up in Florida a couple of years ago. He does some part time PI work - let's not discuss the wisdom of a paranoid man who sees shit that's not there carrying a gun. He kinda likes it. People, sun, ocean and if you know where to look for it, a whole lot of grit. Enough to keep it interesting for him, anyway. **John's Medication** Haldol, (Anti-psychotic) 4/Day Cogentin (Antiparkinsonian Agent) 2/Day Librium (Anxiolytic) 4/Day Past Background Occupation: Magus, Gambler. Education: Drop out. Activities: The Occult. Home: Portebello, London Finance: Modest. History: It was inevitable that John Constantine would get into magic - it was in his blood. As far back as the 6th century A.D. his ancestors have been dabbling in occult affairs, in many cases making quite a reputation for themselves - the 18th century Johanna Constantine got involved in espionage and intrigue, as well as encountering and even working for Dream of the Endless. As far back as when he was in the womb, John was drawn to magic. It's suggested that he had a hand in the death of his own twin, who was strangled with his own umbilical cord. When he was only a youth, he learned the burial site of Harry Constantine, an ancestor who had been part of Cromwell's army - John dug him up and awoke Harry's corpse, so that he could quiz him about the family tree - and then he reburied him without actually releasing the man's spirit, leaving Harry to spend the next twenty years aware of the worms eating his corpse. That incident was typical of the cocky lad that John was to begin with. The teenage John was a reckless tearaway, with dreams performing in his own punk rock band, Mucous Membrane. Time and experience eventually knocked some of the cockiness out of him, but John has always remained a bit of a bastard towards those he doesn't like. In spite of the hard bitten and cynical exterior he maintains, there remains a good man underneath. The loss of the soul of an innocent girl, condemned to Hell because John screwed up an exorcism, was probably the defining moment which got John to stop believing he was God's gift to magic. As a result, he stopped using his powers for selfish ends, and began to use them to try and reign back evil. After meeting and allying himself with the plant elemental known as the Swamp Thing, he broke into Arkham Asylum to visit the Floronic Man, impregnated Swamp Thing's girlfriend Abby while possessed by the plant being, battled demons playing the stock market, as well as the Damnation Army and the would-be holy warriors the Resurrection Crusaders, and executed the serial killer known as the Family Man. Things took a decided turn for the worse when John discovered his chain-smoking habit had caught up with him: he had developed terminal lung cancer. Refusing to go quietly, he tricked the Lords of Hell into healing him, earning the everlasting enmity of the First of the Fallen. Not content with having the most evil being in all creation gunning for him, he also faced off against the Lord of the Vampires, source of all the nosferatu in the world, and took on the British Royal Family. He lifted the curse that affected his family, so that he would be the last Constantine afflicted by magic, and soon afterwards turned forty. It was all downhill thereafter. Abandoned by his friends, John became homeless, though even in this state he managed to finish off the Lord of the Vampires when that old foe came for him. Eventually he managed to turn things around, used a succubus ally to seduce the archangel Gabriel, then blackmailed the angel into helping him end things with the First of the Fallen. From here. Romantic Marital Status: Single Sexual Preference: Omnisexual submissive masochist. He has the sex drive of a rock, though. Past Relationships:Some sexual relationships, but no romantic ones Present Relationships: None Past Life Romantic Marital Status: Single Sexual Preference: Omni Past Relationships: Lots of whores? Interesting Facts {O} PB is Paul Bettany {O} Player is Becky | |||||||||
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