Warlock
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| Name: | Warlock | ||
| Superalias: | Warlock | ||
| Gender: | None | ||
| Species: | Mutant Technarch | ||
| Occupation: | Adventurer & Friend | ||
| Citizenship: | Technarch, Alien Refugee | ||
| Residence: | Xavier's | ||
| Education: | Always Learning | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (FC) | ||
| Groups: | Mutants, New Mutants, Xaviers | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 209 | Actual Age: | 209 |
| Date of Birth | 23 May 1815 | Played By | Fionn O'Shea (when human-appearing) |
| Height: | Variable | Weight: | Variable |
| Hair Color: | Variable | Eye Color: | Variable |
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| Theme Song: | Lateralus (Tool cover by Vitamin String Quartet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrr_Dcqnms | ||
Contents
Character Info
Profile
Self is a mostly pacifist technarch and alien refugee from Kvch who landed at Xavier's and ended up becoming an addition to the school. After several years of travel, Self is back to reconnect with soulfriend designation DouglasAaronRamseyCypher and other xfriends.
Timeline
Timeline:
* 1815 (Human Years): Born on Kvch to the creche's ruler, Magus.
* 1984: Warlock is challenged to combat against his father in the way of their people, and realizes Self doesn't have the urge to kill and consume that is typical of the Technarchy. Self exits, pursued by bear. (Father. Magus. Self has complex feelings about Patriarch.)
* 2016: Self lands at Xavier's School and meets soulfriend Douglas Ramsey.
* 2019-2020: Genosha. Doug (and Warlock - who is visiting Doug) seemingly die. Once Warlock is able to reform, his awareness of who Doug is has become so deep that he believes he has subsumed soulfriend in his efforts to stay alive. Devastated, he turns away from Westchester and the ruins of Genosha, deciding to travel the near corners of the universe and experience it for both of them.
*2020-2023: Initially, Warlock has a distinctly Doug-like appearance on his travels because of how sharp his awareness of Doug is. With time and distance, that starts to fade, and by 2023 Warlock is mostly back to Self, but with a few more Doug-esque quirks.
* 2023-2024: Self determines soulfriend is still alive (!!!) and zooms back to Westchester to reunite.
IC Journal
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Personality
Compassionate:
Warlock's compassion is an outlier among his species. Self does not enjoy taking Lifeglow from other sentient beings, and prefers peace to bloodshed. In the past, Warlock has relied on others to help determine what level of sentience should be avoided, but on their solo travels Self has come to see the compassion in assisting ill beings to a peaceful end. Self enjoys brightening the days of others in cheerful ways, whether it's transforming Self into companion size and playing games such as "fetch" or "catch", becoming a bouquet of bright flowers, or simply making increasingly ridiculous faces and formations until otherfriends are smiling or laughing.
Pacifist:
Despite the "war" in "Warlock", Self despises actual war and large-scale conflict. Self will fight, in protection of self, soulfriend, otherfriends, and against entities and things that try and deliver mass destruction, but Self would really rather not. It is a waste of perfectly good, beautiful, brilliant Lifeglow, and is also a threat to the health and safety of Self's soulfriend, designation DouglasAaronRamseyCypher.
That said, Warlock does engage in verbal conflict, and in physical conflict seen as "training" or "fun" - sparring, water balloons, and the like. When Warlock cannot participate in these, they will often become a rather odd formation of Self-cheers.
Query:
Warlock is the definition of curious. Query: What is that? Why does it exist? Can I lick it? How does it thrive? These are all things one might hear from Warlock on a regular basis. Sometimes the questions get uncomfortably personal. If you tell Warlock that (especially if you're willing to explain WHY), then Self will either find the answer elsewhere or drop the subject.
Unless you're Doug. Soulfriend gets all of the queries that others can't handle and the internet is a confusing resource for.
Character Sheet
Powers
Amorphous:
Warlock has no true form, and is theoretically capable of transforming into anything. However, shifting does require the consumption of Lifeglow, and as an immature part of his species, Warlock consumes Lifeglow for large, exceptional shifts (spacecraft, giant boats, larger aircraft, trains, etc) at a rate that makes maintaining them in a functional form effectively useless. That said, Warlock could shift into what LOOKS like a NASA rocket, and even imitate some of the panels and interior, but the parts that make it move would be missing, and the form wouldn't be able to hold for more than a few hours. It's a fun party trick.
He can approximate organic forms at will, including taking a realistic human form.
Interstellar:
Warlock can survive in the vacuum of space without extra assistance, and is also capable of entering hyperspace and traveling through it. Naturally, this means Self is perfectly capable of flight on Earth and generally prefers it for travel.
Superhuman Durability:
Warlock is not vulnerable to harm in the same way as humans, although he can be knocked out of his transformation or even killed with enough power. A lack of lifeglow consumption will also cause Self to revert to a shapeless being.
Superhuman Senses:
The sensors that a technarch possess allow them to interact with the world in ways that standard human senses do not. The spectrum of colors visible increase, the lowest tones and highest pitches become more accessible. (Self does not suggest blowing a dog whistle in the near vicinity.)
Superhuman Strength:
Warlock is stronger than a regular human. The upper limits of Warlock's strength have not been proven, but in a grapple with Colossus or similarly enhanced beings they'd likely come to some sort of stalemate rather than a clear victory.
Skills
Clever:
Warlock is young by Technarchy standards - just barely old enough to have been challenged when Self fled. However, Self picks up new things fairly quickly, particularly when merged with soulfriend. A topic's nuances affect how fast Warlock picks something up, and making an effort to learn - via books, lectures, hands-on, etc. speeds the process up. Your memes do not just belong to soulfriend, they also belong to Self.
Creative:
Warlock's shifting is limited by Lifeglow consumption and imagination... and Warlock's imagination is vast. Being exposed to humans has only increased Self's ability to picture new and exciting things, and Self loves to apply those mental images to the form and function of being.
Resources
Lifeglow:
There are three ways Self can obtain Lifeglow.
* 1: (preferred) Pure energy (usu. electricity). Self is the strangest bike at the EV charger!
* 2: Infect a mechanical object with the Techno-Organic virus to convert it into usable energy, then consume it.
* 3: (least preferred) Infect a sentient, organic object with the TO Virus, convert it into usable energy, and consume it. Self prefers to only use this in compassionate ways, and rarely even then.
Self's Soulfriend:
AKA Doug "Cypher" Ramsey, Warlock's best friend and platonic soulfriend. Doug helps Warlock understand the world around them from a human perspective, and in return Warlock is fiercely protective of the man.
Xavier's:
Once communication was established thanks to soulfriend, the mutants of Xavier's have largely been very welcoming to Warlock. Self is able to learn and grow with xfriends, and access some of the school's resources and accommodations as a student/all/friend/sheltered refugee.
Weaknesses
Gestalt Being:
Merging with soulfriend is... complex. Too long or too often, and the two risk permanent integration. Warlock likes Self and selfsoulfriend. Self does not want to permanently be DouglasWarlockAaronCypherRamsey codename Douglock!
It's a useful tool, but a dangerous one. Warlock and Doug have to be very aware of how close the tugs of permanence feel and adjust accordingly.
Lifeglow Dependence:
As much as Lifeglow is a fairly plentiful resource, it's also a weakness. When Warlock is denied access, Self reverts to the amorphous form and grows sluggish and prone to glitching - similar to a battery powered flashlight nearing depletion. If Warlock is fully depleted but quick to receive more Lifeglow, then there's no long-term harm. However, should Warlock stay depleted for an extended period (think days turning to weeks, not hours), then Self will effectively corrode - Survival instinct will overcome Self's compassion and distaste for snacking on healthy sentient beings, and should there be none in the area Self will die.
Young Technarch:
In terms of human years, Warlock is ancient, but in Technarchy terms Warlock is just barely an adult. This means Self is only just tapping into powers, and would have difficulty trying to overcome another technarch alone. This also affects Self's speech patterns to a point - Warlock always has a bit of a tell in speaking, but when stressed can devolve to the point that only Doug can decipher what Self is trying to say.
Role-Play
Logs
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Warlock has
7 finished logs.
| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Descent: To Catch The Man-Spider | August 12th, 2024 | The trap is set to try and finally bring the Man-Spider to heel and restore the trapped Peter Parker from within. |
| HUNGER: Blackest Nights - Vega: Hunger vs Greed | July 14th, 2024 | Morg and Terrax fight, and the heroes work together to bring down the Executioner. To the shock of no one, Terrax turns on them. To the shock of maybe some, the reason is Galactus' arrival on the planet. He offers Terrax his original deal, as he does every Herald, exchanging his world for service. But Big Purple is still hungry, and sets his sight on the other planet in the system that you've heard of. |
| HUNGER: BLACKEST NIGHTS - Vega: Lawless Space | July 7th, 2024 | The Milano travels to Okaara, as does Hal Jordan. Quill asks to be taken to their leader, and surprisingly, it works. On the planet, they meet the Warlord Tyros, formerly Terrax, a Herald of Galactus. He denies his role in the murder of the Green Lantern Corps in time for a different guy with a space axe to show up. At least one of them did it. Hal also finds out why the GLs are actually banned from the Vega system. |
| X(aviers)-Men: Eat, Explode, Splash | June 30th, 2024 | The Xavier's school plays host to music, fun, grilling, and fireworks courtesy of a particularly talented mutant with poor musical tastes. Plus Ellie's there. That means it's trending on something or another. |
| Surprise, surprise! | June 11th, 2024 | Marie invites Doug over to let him know Roulette's back in town, Doug brings out a long-lost friend of his own in Warlock! Bad luck discs go flying! It's chaos, pandemonium! |
| First We Take Manhattan | June 3rd, 2024 | ...Then we take Beto da Costa's platinum business card? |
| Soulfriend Reunion | May 31st, 2024 | Doug and Warlock are reunited at last. |
Cutscenes
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Warlock has
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Warlock has authored
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Gallery
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