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GARRICK RUTHERFORD TINSDALE BLACKTHORN
Garrick Black | 40 | Heterosexual | Chaotic Neutral | Mage/ Arsonist & criminal for hire | Paul Blackthorn[/color][/font]
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[li]His magical abilities – As a Firestarter, fire recognizes Garrick as one of it's children. He can work lesser magics without trouble. Garrick can control small fires, and create small bursts of flames. You can not burn or otherwise harm Garrick with fire and he does not have trouble with heat.
Black magic Voodoo Practitioner - Mastery: Any black magic is workable. He can even curse others. Garrick can work more powerful spells, at the expense of blood forcibly taken from another.
[/li][li]Education - Garrick, being high born, English and well educated, is a master of many languages; Latin, Sumerian, French, Spanish and German as well as a few Chinese dialects. He can also read and write many ancient pictographic languages and is well versed in archeology, anthropology and history. He is also quite a good photojournalist.
[/li][li]Familiar – Garrick always has an ally in his black footed ferret called Phrenicos.
[/li][li]Passionate/Intense - Garrick is not big on causes, but when he finds one he tends to become scary serious about it. He is also a very hot blooded lover and it's a rare thing for him to have a "hit and run" as the girls in question usually come back looking for more. His passions also extend to his hobbies and his love of his element and magics.
[/li][li]Loyal - Family means EVERYTHING to Garrick's father, and therefore to Garrick, and he will do whatever it takes to protect them, and the family name. Sometimes, as he has seen, these two things conflict. The family name then takes precedence over the actual persons living under it.
[/li][li]Garrick is also a loyal friend and employee. He also expects loyalty in return, one cannot expect to be given loyalty if one cannot give it back.
[/li][li]Focused - Being task oriented makes him and incredibly focused person and he is able to prioritize jobs and events that have multiple parts to them without undo fuss.
[/li][li]Creative - Garrick's creative streak helps him in many things from decorating his room, to taking his photographs, to writing his spells and getting out of sticky situations.
WEAKNESSES
[/li][li]Hot-tempered - He has a short fuse and it doesn't really take too much to light it.
[/li][li]Violent - Garrick's reaction/response to anything that causes unhappiness or unpleasantness or anything that remotely bugs him his usually to hit, beat, kick, stab, or otherwise cause destructive harm to it, be it person or object. This behavior has landed him an overnight stay in a jail cell on more than one occasion and has even landed him in hospital at least once.
[/li][li]Arrogant - He is extremely confident in his skills. So confident, in fact, that he can be down right arrogant about it. Some people don't take too kindly to that.
[/li][li]Hydrophobia - He does not like water. He avoids it at all costs. He bathes by sponge, wash cloth and bucket in a dry tub. Under no circumstances will he allow running water over his head or face. He drinks water but only because he knows his body needs it and that it's not likely he will drowned or otherwise be harmed by an amount so small. He cannot swim and will not get onto boats of any kind.
[/li][li]Sadomasochism - He loves pain both the infliction of it on others and the receiving of if. His enjoyment from it is very much sexual in nature. This love of pain is dangerous for his well-being as well as that of the people around him.
[/li][li]Dependent - Garrick has become addicted to and depended on his black magics. Performing a black magic rite, ritual or spell is like a high that cannot be described. If he goes too long without preforming black magic of some kind he will start to experience migraine symptoms. He also gets "black eye". The longer he goes without once the pains and black eye have started the worse the pains get and the stronger the magic he performs must be. Currently he can go about a week between magics.
Garrick is also dependent on companionship. Too long without it and he becomes moody, melancholy and down-right depressed. This dependence has gotten easier since the arrival of Phrenicos, his familiar, but sometimes human companionship and intimacy is necessary.
[/li][li]Insomnia - Suffers from chronic and persistent insomnia. He will go for long stretches of time without being able to sleep. His body has adjusted to this illness for the most part however, the longer he goes without sleep past the 24 hour mark the less he is able to concentrate and the more irritable and unstable his mental state becomes. This makes him more dangerous to be around as well as increases the likelihood of magical backfire.
[/li][li]Family obligations: As the last male heir of the Blackthorn line Garrick is expected to marry and produce at least one male heir to carry on the family name and tradition. So far he has had little luck in that mission.
[/li][li]Homophobic - Gay men are about the only thing Garrick has trouble tolerating and he has even been arrested for putting "the beat down" on gay men who were "hitting" on him (in actuality they did nothing more than smile at him). This fear and hatred stems from what happened with his brother Winston.
[/li][li]Daddy issues: Kenneth Blackthorn is the only person on Earth that Garrick has truly ever feared. If his father says 'dance', Garrick will ask 'tango or lambada?'
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His brown hair is starting to gray slightly at the temples. He usually tries to remember to slick his hair back but there are times when he simply can't be bothered and he goes about with the oh so stylish "bed head". His chocolate brown eyes are set into an angular face under a high forehead and his plump lips are usually framed by a heavy five o'clock shadow.
PERSONALITY The person that Garrick presents to the world at large seems to go against the fact that he is a well educated, well born British Aristocrat of nearly noble lineage. That is just the way he likes it too. Garrick has a short fuse and it doesn't really take too much to light it. All that yelling and cursing, did we mention the foul mouth, doesn't go too far in earning him friends. In his mind he is who he is and he has no desire to pretend to be something else, unless it'll get him out of a tough situation that is, or if his father is around, or if he's getting paid. Violence breeds violence and with Garrick's upbringing it's no wonder that he enjoys indulging in his violent tendencies.
He has a classic "British" sense of humor, dry and sarcastic and he is oddly charismatic when he cares to be. Garrick rarely smiles, unless it's in a sarcastic way, and might even be described as dark and broody. He tries to be a man of few words but sometimes he's just too opinionated to stop himself. He likes bars and pubs and women and is seriously homophobic.
Garrick has kept his English accent but has taken to “dirtying it up” by using a far more lower class London dialect. His father would be appalled.
LIKES
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[/li][li]Using black magic
[/li][li]Women
[/li][li]Leather
[/li][li]Taking photographs
[/li][li]Beer
DISLIKES
[/li][li]Water
[/li][li]Gay men
[/li][li]being cheated
[/li][li]having magic used against him
[/li][li]Teenagers (unless she's hot)
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History: Garrick Rutherford Tinsdale Blackthorn was born the second son of his father and a part of an old British aristocratic family. Members of the Blackthorn line have been important members of the British Empire throughout it's history and have been Knights, Lords, Baronets, Royal Advisers and members of Parliament. The importance and value of his family name has been drummed into Garrick almost since the moment of his birth.
Prominence in, and importance to, British society is not the only thing of which the Blackthorn line can boast. The Blackthorn's are also a line of very potent born witches who can trace their magical heritage all the way back to the 14th century. There are also records of fire elemental Blackthorns dating back to the 17th century.
Both Garrick and his elder brother Winston proved to be firestarters, taking after their grandfather while his younger sister, Kelly, proved to be the first ever air elemental in the Blackthorn line.
The childrens' education and training in the ways of witchcraft and elemental abilities began at the very young age of around 4.
The Blackthorns had long since accepted and turned to their lines natural affinity for black and blood magic and so the boys' magical training followed the harsh rigors of that branch of magic as set forth by their father and grandfather. The boys also underwent elemental lessons and training with their grandfather.
Being an air elemental, a girl and daddy's little princess, it was decided that Kelly would be best suited to white and gray magics and was sent off to a relative for training. She would be gone for months at a time as if she were away at boarding school.
Garrick's grandfather, Morrison Blackthorn, was killed by some rather nasty backfire when Garrick was 15, however, by some way that Garrick never really understood, he returned to the family estate as a ghost and continued to guide the boys' elemental education.
Along with their magical and elemental training their father also brought in the best tutors for the boys and they were also expected to excel in standard forms of knowledge. Failure to meet the lofty standards set forth for them would result in harsh and abusive punishment of both a mental and physical nature.
While they were both beat and magically lashed and made ill on a fairly regular basis, it was their father's favorite form of punishment, water torture, that left the most lasting scars on Garrick.
This punishment saw Garrick bound to a large water pipe with a large open faucet above him. This pipe was enclosed in a glass tub, similar to a dunking booth. During the punishment the faucet would be opened to full and torrents of icy cold water would rain down over his head and he would be left there, like that, in the dark. Sometimes for so long with the water rising so high that he was certain he would drown. For a fire elemental this was akin to being burned at the stake.
In order to avoid this punishment Garrick pushed himself to his limits in order to meet his father's requirements and he excelled at both his abilities and his general education.
When Garrick was of university age he applied to and was accepted at Kings College of the University of Cambridge. There he earned post graduate degrees in Archeology & Anthropology, Linguistics and history.
When he returned home to the family estate he was put to work in the family business. The Blackthorn Corporation is a multi-pronged company with it's fingers in everything from art to politics to technology to designer clothing. Garrick was not a fan of the businessman's way of life but he had long since learned not to disappoint his father. A lesson his brother never picked up on.
Two years after his return and indoctrination into the family business Garrick was summoned to his father's private ritual room. That was something that had never happened before. His worry over the situation only increased when he arrived and found his mother and his sister huddled stoically together at the closed door. Neither would meet his eyes. When he entered the room he found his father and grandfather standing before the blood altar table. His grandfather was so angry that his form was ablaze with ghostly flame. His father was holding a long dagger, dripping with fresh blood, and when he turned his eyes on his son, Garrick could see the murder in them.
Even as his father explained that he had been called there because his brother had been caught in the act of having sex with another man, it had taken Garrick a moment to realize that the wriggling, gore laden mass on the altar was actually Winston. He had tarnished the family name. He was a traitor his father had said and as is tradition, all traitors must die.
Winston screamed through the gag and Garrick realized that his father was holding a voodoo doll painted with blood. He slammed the doll onto the smaller table and took Garrick's hand forcing it around the hilt of the dagger and then covering it with his own. The blade hovered over
the doll. Winston would be erased from the memory of history outside the walls of the estate. Only the family would recall him and then only as a cautionary tale. He screamed at Winston to Burn in the waters of hell and then, with Garrick's hand still clenched tightly under his own, drove the dagger down into the doll. Winston's eyes went wide and his body convulsed. The blade twisted and the movement ended, along with his brother's life.
Garrick was now the Eldest, and only, Blackthorn son.
When his father saw the tears staining Garrick's cheeks he raged, throttling the younger man to the floor and screaming at him not to weep for the disgusting abomination that his brother had become. This was the moment his deep resentment, fear and hatred of homosexual men was born.
True to his father's statements it seemed that none outside the immediate family remembered a second Blackthorn son. The spell had wiped Winston almost completely from existence.
A year after his brother's death, Kelly was married to Roger Terrance, the eldest son of another important old family line. The union has thus far yielded one son. It was at that wedding that his father introduced him to Amber Gardner. Although he did not really take to her, he knew what his father wanted and a year later they were married.
After nearly four long years of trying, it was discovered that Amber could not have children, a fact that Kenneth Blackthorn and surprisingly Garrick himself, did not take well. They were divorced within the month. He was never certain what Amber thought of him, or their marriage, but once they were divorced, he never saw her again.
About a year or so later there was company trouble in the New York division. Not caring to leave England, Kenneth sent his son to take care of setting to rights the families' American interests. Always his father's obedient son, Garrick spent the next 3 years in New York doing just that.
Once the framework had been set in place and the reins handed over to his father's stooges Garrick decided that he would like to stay in America, at least for a time, and discover what it had to offer. Miraculously, his father agreed to his plan, as long as Garrick agreed to support himself without aid of the family money. It seemed to Garrick that his unquestioning loyalty had finally paid off.
Moving as far away from New York, and his father's watchful eyes as possible Garrick took up the Research Curator position at the University of Miami's museums. Once he was settled Garrick Blackthorn was reborn. No longer tethered to his father's harsh will, Garrick traded in
his dapper suits and expensive shoes for the more rugged and comfortable jeans and boots. All in all Garrick was suddenly able to become the man he was instead of the man his father wanted him to be and he loved it.
It only took a few months for Garrick to start delving more fully into his darker side and putting his talents to use in criminal activities like arson, theft and even murder. The money that he made in his criminal life was more than enough for Garrick's tastes, which are, in a twist of irony, fairly simple but he continues to retain his "day" job as a cover.
He has been in Miami for four years.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT Garrick is an Ethan-like character with a nasty twist and with his abilities there is a lot of potential for a lot of different plots and story lines.
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