Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2012 19:30:30 GMT -5
[/color][/font][/size]"The Telephone Rang. I Answered. After That...It's Complicated."
"I Created The Sound Of Madness, Wrote The Book On Pain
Somehow I'm Still Here To Explain
That The Darkest Hour Never Comes In The Night
You Can Sleep With A Gun
When You Gonna Wake Up And Fight For Yourself?"
Anime / Manga / Video Game / Comic / Film / TV Series:[/color]
The Matthew Swift Series
Book Series
Full Name:[/color]
Matthew Swift
Nicknames:[/u]
Sorcerer
Angel
Midnight Mayor
Mayor
Ethnicity / Race:
English / Human
Blue Electric Angel
Birthday:
28 Years Old
Exact Date Is Unknown
As Old As The Telephone Lines, Land And Air
Gender:[/u]
Male
Height:
Tallish, around 6'
Weight:
Lightish, around 150lbs
Orientation / Position:
Straight / Switch
Lover/Spouse:[/color]
None
Occupation:
Urban Sorcerer
Midnight Mayor, London's Guardian
Blue Electric Angel
"I'm Not Tough, I'm Lucky."
[/font][/size][/center]Personality:
”When You’re a Sorcerer, And Midnight Mayor, And Burning Fire Runs Through Your Veins, You’ve Only Really Got Two Modes. You’ve Got Diplomatically Passive, And You’ve Got Apocalyptically Destructive. Finding That Middle Ground – You Know, Breaking Someone’s Kneecaps Without Actually Causing Them To Spontaneously Combust –Can Be A Delicate Business.”
Once upon a time, he used to be a skittish, run from danger sort of fellow. Although, becoming Midnight Mayor gave him just the shove he needed to man up and not go running at the first sign of danger. He never lies, always offering the full truth regardless of if the recipient is going to understand or not. He doesn’t have a problem flaunting his position and state when shit hits the fan. He’s generally pretty amiable, but he’ll snap under pressure and doesn’t take well to people who greet him by holding him at gunpoint. He gets irritable when people don’t use his name and merely call him sorcerer. He also dislikes being referred to as Mr. Mayor. He uses humor as often as possible, and is often flippant when in stressful situations. Flippancy is his defense mechanism. In a nutshell, he’s a great guy as long as you aren't some force of darkness or sorcerer killer.
He also likes Thai food. A lot.
Appearance:[/u]
”But After A Few Years, Bakker Tried To Summon The Electric Angels Again, Tried To Suck Us Out Of The Wire. But He Got It Wrong. He Tried To Summon Us And Instead He Got Me. I Am Us And We Are Me, For Ever One. One Blood, One Mind, One Soul.”
“But 2 Voices”
I Shrugged. “It’s Not A Conscious Thing”
“R U Possessed?”
“Nah.”
“R U Human?”
“Sure.”
“But Ur Blood Burns Blue.”
“Only When We’re Really, Really Frustrated.”
Faceclaim: Andy Whitfield
Specifically from the movie Gabriel
Swift is of a medium height; not the tallest guy around, but not the shortest either. He has short brown hair of a midtone shade that's spiked up slightly in the middle. His most striking feature, is his eyes. Before he became one with the blue electric angels, he had brown eyes that were the same shade as his hair. Now, he has bright blue eyes that are the color of the summer sky, and they are reflective...exactly like the eyes of a cat.
He has a tattered coat that has spells sewn into it, and he rarely doesn't wear it...even though it's bloodstained and torn up. He also, from time to time, wears a newer black coat. He doesn't wear it all that much though, seeing as he's still sewing the spells into it.
On his right hand, he has a cross cut into the palm, a smaller cross in the upper left part of the larger cross. The injury signifies him as the Midnight Mayor, protector of London.
Pets/Weapons:[/u]
Pets:
Swift does not own any actual pets. However, he does employ the use of Familiars. Familiars are animals that he can communicate with especially well, and often help him. Foxes are his preferred type of Familiar. He can also talk to any other kind of animal.
Weapons:
"Sorcerers Bind A Different Kind Of Magic: Ours Is The Power Of Seeing Power In The Most Ordinary Thing And Binding It To Our Will...Teaching Control Is The Most Vital Lesson."
Being a sorcerer, Swift has plenty of 'weapons' at his disposal. His magic comes from the 'life' and 'heartbeat' of the city. Life is magic, and an urban sorcerer gets his power from the rhythms of the city. Though, since coming to AMU, Swift has been having to acquaint himself with the life and rhythms of the AMU Complex, seeing as he's so far from his home city of London. The effectiveness of his magic depends on the time of day, and if he has the proper materials in some cases. If it's late at night, then willing someone to go to sleep is easier than if it was the middle of the day. He has the ability to control surveillance cameras. He can store magic in his jacket, but the only downside of that ability is that he gets 'drunk' on the energy and can barely keep himself from exploding into a pile off confetti. But he loves the rush of energy, and his paranoid nature makes him prefer to always have as much energy as possible in his disposal.
Some Of His Abilities:
Sleep
Trapping Benevolent Spirits
Scrying
Conversing With Inanimate Objects To Make Them Do Something
Such as telling a door to unlock.
Controlling Neon Light
Controlling Surveillance Cameras
Shattering Glass With Sound/Energy
Swift also has the abilities of the blue electric angels, seeing as that is what half of his being is. At any given time, he can take the electrical power of any electrical source, such as lights or outlets, to control and use as a light or attack method. The general use of electricity takes on the color of its source. In time of extreme danger, such as his potential death, he can completely open himself up to the angels and their power. Upon doing so, his blood turns to electric blue, raging energy, all electricity he takes control of changes color to a bright blue, and he can generate his own electricity to use...even if he isn't around a power source. The electrical control granted to Swift by the angels can be used at any time, as can his internal electricity.
"Still Not Dead. That's Me. It's My Big Party Trick, Still Not Being Dead, Gets Them Every Time."
[/font][/size][/right]History:[/u]
In a nutshell, Swift's life has been rough.
First, he was killed by his mentor because he wouldn't pull the Blue Electric Angels out of the telephone lines. When he died, the Angels pulled him into the telephone lines, and that's where his being stayed.
After being dead for two years, someone else tried to summon the Angels, and so Swift was brought back to life, his consciousness fused with the angels.
He went on a fantastic revenge spree against his mentor, and ended up killing him.
After that, he ended up becoming the Midnight Mayor, magical guardian of London, and had to stop the Death of Cities.
Oh, he also picked up a new apprentice along the way.
After that, there was some nasty "Chosen One" business, and he had to stop a war and prevent London from being plunged into eternal darkness and out of time.
Another successful job, while done messily, done by Matthew Swift, Midnight fucking Mayor.
His final adventure, before getting stuck in this place, was taking down a magical drug ring that dealt Fairy Dust.
That's how he found out that drugs were bad for him, and really bad for the Angels.
"To Quote Classic American Foreign Policy – Stuff Happens."
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