parthas application

[dartheliot]

OOC
Player Name: Remedy
Age: 35+
Timezone: EST
What Other Characters Do You Play In This Game? Orion
Also bringing in Shiori this cycle

IC
Character Name: Eliot Waugh / Nameless
Apparent Age: 30
Actual Age: 30 / 1000+
Canon: The Magicians
Canon Point: Post Series
Which Deity Brought Them Here? Cuiristeach / Ceannasach
History: Here & Here
Personality: Eliot | Nameless
Appearance:
How Do You Think They'll React to Being In Parthas? His immediate reaction is probably going to be frustrated with being upended from his life, yet again. Though, he'll take it infinitely better finding himself reunited with Margo. An entire place devoted to sex sounds like a sort of paradise for him, but it will likely enable him to lean on that aspect as more of a crutch when not wanting to face his other problems. The monster will just be happy for another chance at life, for now, and Eliot's going to be understandably miserable to find that he was brought along.
Sample(s)? Here
Abilities: Eliot | Nameless

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PERSONALITY

[dartheliot]

On the surface, Eliot is a very shallow person. He puts on an arrogant front and mocks students who don't fit in with the popular kids, going so far as to make Todd use his middle name. He throws amazing parties and mixes drinks at a professional level, teaching the Cottage's "signature cocktail" as a rule of conduct among the physical kids.

He's dramatic and flamboyant, projecting the demeanor of 'someone who summered with the Kennedys' and cracking jokes about a family fortune lost to gambling by 'grandmama'.

He's performative, witty, and quick with a joke or jab at others. Despite this, in serious matters, he almost always faces things head-on with confidence and maturity that contrasts with his college party kid demeanor. Eliot thinks carefully about things and faces conflict with logic rather than emotion. He's a problem solver, even if he doesn't always have the best answers, and sometimes leaps into things without taking time to think about them first.

The reality is that Eliot is hiding a darker side. A past full of homophobia and trauma, growing up on a farm in Indiana, though he will not speak of it. He uses alcohol, drugs, and the party life to gloss over his pain. In truth, Eliot is full of disappointment and resentment, he feels like a failure and covers up his self-hatred with the party-planning persona that keeps him going, every day.

Eliot is very sensitive and keeps others at arm's length to prevent any closeness. The one exception to this is Margo, as they endured The Trials together as Secrets partners, enabling her to know his deeper truths. When he does care about someone it is an all-consuming vulnerability, he and Margo are practically twin flames.

His love for Margo is unconditional, even in Fillory when they're at political odds, he's still shown to care - and even regret the actions taken against her. Later in the series when she's crowned High King, beating both Eliot and Tick, he immediately kneels to pledge his allegiance to her. Earlier, when he's getting to know Mike, he specifically says he wants him with them, because he views himself and Margo as a united front, more than just friends.

He opens up with Mike in ways he hasn't with anyone else, quickly becoming obsessed with impressing him and turning down the trip he and Margo had been planning to go on because Mike wasn't interested in going. Eliot tries to save Rupert despite all signs that there was no other option. It's no wonder he protects his heart when it leaves him so open to suffering every time everything goes wrong. Which it does, repeatedly, making his protective distance a pragmatic and logical decision, for survival.

Eliot is empathetic and intuitive, understanding the heart of the people he cares about. He knows Margo's inner workings so well that he goes against her wishes to save Josh and Fen when she was ready to sacrifice them, in order to restore her kingdom. The fact that finding Mike's book demonstrates how little he knew him, and the life he had, makes Eliot's grief that much more intense and his behavior even more reckless in the aftermath.

After the traumatic and abrupt ending of Mike's life, Eliot leans even harder into his addictions, becoming a bit of an adventure seeker. Learning that Alice and Q are going to London, he decides to accompany them, hearing that someone's plan is illegal, he jumps at the chance to join in, anything to distract from his own inner turmoil. Going so far as to agree to become the High King of Fillory just to give his life some purpose and direction outside of constant intoxication. Effectively trapping himself there to deal with those problems, which he approaches head-on.

Later in the series, he does become more open and vulnerable with other members of the cast over time. In particular, Q, right before he dies. Despite all the growth he goes through, even then, he keeps his walls up. Lying to Julia, being short with Alice in his grief, and outright rejecting Quentin's proposal that they have practical evidence showing they work together - claiming it only really made sense when they had no other option. Something he's later shown to regret when facing his inner secrets and suppressed trauma, in order to escape the control of the monster long enough to communicate with Quentin.

NAMELESS PERSONALITY

[dartheliot]

The monster is introduced as a naive childlike creature who loathes boredom or being alone, possessing the body of a host (later revealed to be Charlton.) He is capable of such unforgivable acts and so impossible to kill that he was imprisoned in Castle Blackspire, his sister was killed and dismantled and this experience was so traumatic for him that he repressed the memory until he didn't know what he was even searching for, in order to be whole again. He's shown to stave off boredom with a variety of acts, ranging from an innocent interest in having an ice cream cone to having murdered the other residents of Backspire to keep himself entertained. This is also shown in his excitement for new playmates when Ora introduces him to Q, as he asks if he's there to play with him.

Having lost his identity and memories, Nameless is single-minded in his goals. He wants to be whole again and recover what he's lost, even though he doesn't originally know what that is. In doing so, he wants revenge against the Librarians that worked together to imprison him and shows no signs of empathy or understanding of emotions outside of his own selfish needs. Before being shot by Eliot, Nameless witnessed Quentin doing a card trick, making him the new focus of the monster's interest for entertainment. After possessing Eliot's body, with his devotion to getting whatever he wants, he hunts Quentin down, finding him despite being under a 'witness protection' spell that protected Q's identity from detection, even to himself.

Once he gets his memories back, his main goal was to bring his sister back, and he was willing to kill anyone who interfered with his plan, especially the gods responsible for destroying her body in the first place. He initially showed little care for human life, killing people on a whim and over minor inconveniences or misunderstandings, and he disregarded the safety of his host's body as he "played" with new sensations and experiences along the way.

His mindset is also demonstrated in the way that he questions people in a straightforward and simplistic manner, expecting them to explain things to him that he can no longer remember. The monster takes no issue with torturing people to get the answers he wants, splitting them open in search of the pieces of himself that he believes to be missing. Although Nameless is satisfied just to get his sister back, she convinces him that they should continue on their quest for revenge, going so far as to want to kill the Old Gods for how they were treated. Showing that she was the more driven of the two when he was satisfied with restoring her.

Over time, it becomes apparent that he's changed a bit from his time spent with the humans. He understands more of the human world, inquires about emotions, and wants to be coached to be more like them. In his mind, Nameless wants to be friends with people, he wants to be taught how to behave more like Eliot and display the empathy that he is naturally lacking. He likes to explore with sensations, goes to a bar, and apparently learns about Starbucks before reviving his sister, showing that he has the potential to learn and grow (to some degree) in the company of humans.

ABILITIES

[dartheliot]

Magic:

A classically trained magician that learned at Brakebills University. Magic in the series is sourced from a Wellspring located in Fillory - a previously believed to be fictional world - that all magicians draw energy from. Spells are typically cast using a combination of spoken words and hand tutting but can have varying levels of complexity, difficulty, rules, and limits.

As one of the Physical Kids, Eliot is known to possess telekinesis, which first manifested for him when he accidentally killed his high school bully. Physical Kids are capable of a wide array of talents, as the magical discipline is centered around the ability to manipulate the nature and properties of matter and energy. The many disciplines that branch from this group allow Magicians to manipulate heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, gravity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms.

Abilities:

Eliot is a natural diplomatic leader, patient and even-tempered. He's a skilled negotiator and knows how to talk people into giving him what he wants, as demonstrated several times throughout the series. He talks himself out of a duel with King Idri, in which they agree on a compromise. He's naturally charismatic, impressing a number of characters throughout the series, including the Dark King, to become his confidant.

He has skills in agriculture due to his farmland upbringing.

Even without combat training, Eliot is capable of shooting off battle magic under duress. Later, using emotion bottling, he's able to fine-tune that skill into something more focused and controlled thanks to the help of Kady and lots of training.

Skilled Swordsman: An offhand comment is made later in the series that Eliot has actually become proficient with a broadsword after his duel with King Idri.

Mixologist: Of course, the skill Eliot is most famous for is creating the best cocktails at Brakebills University, inventing the Physical Kids signature cocktail.

NAMELESS ABILITIES

[dartheliot]

Divine Physiology: The Monster was a creation of the Old Gods, and he possessed the strength of multiple gods.

Immortality: The Monster was an unaging being that had lived since the time of the Old Gods. His immortality surpasses that of normal gods like Bacchus, Iris, Persephone or Hades. He survived a shot from a bullet that would otherwise have killed a god. According to the Binder, the Monster and his sister couldn’t die.

Possession: The Monster was able to inhabit the bodies of other creatures, through which he could perform basic actions, and he relied on possessing others after his own body was destroyed. The Monster would trap his host's mind within his own consciousness, where they would remain until their bodies died; however, his hosts could momentarily break free of his control by finding a specific door in his mindscape. Due to his hosts being mortal, the Monster needed to feed and protect their bodies, or else they would become too damaged and he would need a new vessel.

Telekinesis: The Monster was able to move and otherwise manipulate objects to his will to an immense degree. His precision with his power was enough to allow him to cleanly slice open Corybant's stomach, as well as snap Quentin Coldwater's arm with a single motion. Alice Quinn noted that Quentin's book foretold that the Monster would kill him with a single thought. When Quentin stopped the Monster from killing Eliot Waugh's body, he threw Quentin back with a simple motion.

Conjuration: The Monster summoned a knife in his hand, which he used to cut open Bacchus' chest and kill him.

Teleportation: The Monster was able to teleport himself and others to different parts of the Multiverse, even into warded facilities. After Quentin Coldwater and his friends restored the Wellspring, the Monster was able to travel from Castle Blackspire to Earth to recruit Quentin in his search for the gods that imprisoned him and stole his memories. He was able to enter Marina Andrieski's Apartment despite the various active wards and shields, and he later took Margo Hanson and Josh Hoberman to Fillory to trap and kill Bacchus. The Monster couldn’t teleport while he was in close proximity to a structure of Living Stones or if he came into direct contact with the blood of a Living Stone.

Resurrection: He effortlessly revives a mummy to obtain information while searching out the gods responsible for what happened to him.