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worst_greatest_onePlayer Information
Name: Sarah/fahrbot
Age: 38
Contact: discord @ fahrbot#9239 and plurk @fahrbot
Other Characters: none
Character Information
Name: Simon Snow
Canon: Carry On (novel by Rainbow Rowell)
Canon Point: Simon leaves canon near the beginning of his eighth term at Watford, having just refused the Mage’s request that he leave for a secret, safe location until his time to fight the Humdrum arrived.
Age: 18
History:
(player note: The Carry On novel sprang from the novel Fangirl, which is a love story of sorts to the Harry Potter fandom and its fanfic writers. In many ways, Carry On is a Harry Potter pastiche, so if it gives you major deja vu, that's why! Superficially many broad elements of canon are the same, but Simon is a very different character than Harry Potter.)
No one knows where Simon Snow came from, including Simon Snow. He grew up an orphan, passed from care home to care home in Lancashire, and never had a clue that he might be extraordinary until he was eleven years old. One night he went to bed hungry and dreamed that his stomach was on fire. When he woke up, magic was pouring from his skin like an electric current, the care home was burnt to the ground, and everyone in it besides him woke up unharmed but several streets away.
That’s when the Mage came for him.
The Mage explained to Simon that Simon was a powerful mage, maybe the most powerful of their time. He told him that his birth was prophesied to fight the magic world’s greatest enemy, the Humdrum, an evil force that sucked up magic like a black hole and left magical deadspots in its wake. At eleven, Simon couldn't understand the severity of what that meant. What he did understand was that he now had a foster father, and that he got to go to a school for mages called Watford, where all his clothes would fit him, where he would be able to eat anything that he wanted, where he might actually have friends.
It wasn’t until he killed his first dragon that Simon began to realize how dangerous his new life would truly be. And it wasn’t until he’d spent a few years at Watford that he began to wonder, why me? But Simon isn’t one to run from a fight, and even as more dark forces conspired to kill him, their attacks bold enough to reach the very doors of Watford, every year he came back to Watford ready to grow strong enough to fight the Humdrum.
There’s just one problem - Simon’s not very good at using his magic. He’s filled to the brim with it, but he can’t control it. He doesn’t have the finesse to speak spells the way other, better mages can. He’s more magic bomb than soldier, a blunt instrument to be aimed in the right spot and fired, no matter the consequence to Simon himself.
By his eighth term at Watford, Simon has accepted that he probably won’t survive defeating the Humdrum, but he’s going to try anyway. He’s not a very good last, best hope, but he’s the only one the World of Mages has got.
Personality:
Simon doesn’t realize it, but he’s had very little time in his life to be his own person. When he was young and growing up in care homes, his only thought was to survive - to stay out from underfoot of the meaner caretakers, to avoid the more violent children, to manage to get his share of food at the table. And when he joined the world of Mages, he was immediately treated like their savior, the prophesied Chosen One when he was only eleven years old. To a young boy just discovering his place in a magical new world, this was exciting, but now that he’s older and has survived multiple attempts on his life, Simon has begun to feel weary. He has so little time to slow down, when he does have time to think about what he wants, he doesn’t - he falls back into the role he’s been prophesied to fulfill and lets that destiny dictate his life. This passiveness towards his fate is something the Mage has been only too happy to cultivate in Simon. Simon looks up to him like a father and he wants to please him, enough so that it’s easy for the Mage to manipulate Simon into the weapon he’s always dreamt of wielding.
Simon does his best to trust the Mage, but not only does Simon feel overwhelmed most of the time, he also feels like a failure. He knows he’s powerful, but he can’t control it. His magic is unpredictable at best, and he often prefers to use the Mage’s Sword he carries with him rather than chance his magic. He worries constantly that he won’t be strong enough to fight the Humdrum, but he does his best to believe the Mage when he says that Simon is their only hope.
Despite the burdens placed on him, when left to the company of his closest friends, Simon is able to be the youth he truly is. He’s quick to laugh and quick to care for others. He’s quick to anger, too, but like his magic his temper burns hot and dies away fast. He’s unrefined and brash but always well meaning. He loves sports, but he’s never around long enough to play for his school teams. He might even love danger and excitement, but the truth is, Simon’s never without them long enough to miss them. When a threat appears, he puts himself as the first thing in its path and does everything he can to stop it. Simon never stops to wonder if each new threat will be the end of him, because Simon accepted a long time ago that he won’t get to live to old age. In his paranoia and vigilance, he even believes that his roommate of eight years is plotting to kill him. Still, he faces every danger as courageously as he can. When the end comes for him, Simon hopes that his bravery and the raw magic inside of him will be enough, if not to save his own life, than at least to save everyone else’s.
Abilities & Skills: In his homeworld, Simon is immensely powerful in a way that he can’t control. In the World of Mages, mages use magic by speaking spells. The more use a common phrase has in the world, the more powerful the spell. For example, Up Up and Away! is a spell to make something levitate, but it only became a spell when the advent of Superman in pop culture made it a common phrase. In Simon’s world, there’s no spell more powerful than the phrases that everyone knows from childhood, making nursery rhymes some of the most powerful spells of all.
Simon can use magic by speaking spells, but not very well. The enormity of his power is something unseen anywhere else in the World of Mages, and the immensity of it makes it very difficult for him to control. When Simon is under real threat to his life, he does what everyone calls ‘going off,’ in which he literally goes off like a magical bomb, destroying every threat in the vicinity. He can also push his magic into other Mages, allowing them to wield his raw power with a finesse he himself isn’t capable of. Simon can also directly manifest his magic without a spell when under stress, which is not something a Mage is supposed to be able to do. For example, when desperate to escape a threat, he thought ‘I wish I could fly’ and suddenly had huge wings which he used to escape.
Inventory/Companions:
His Watford school uniform
The Mage's Sword
His wand
Choice: Monster - dragon
Reason: Simon Snow was born with too much magic inside him. He knows very well what it is to be incredibly powerful, so powerful that he can't control his power without help, so powerful that his body can barely contain it and his magic is literally eating him from within. He's lived with a fire in his belly all his life, both literal and figurative. He's passionate about doing good and Fighting Evil like the hero he's supposed to be, but all too often that desire leads him to make quick, destructive decisions that do more harm than good. Fire cleanses, but fire also destroys. All his life, he's been a weapon of mass destruction whether he wants to be or not, leaving craters of magically burnt and levelled land wherever he goes. In canon, Simon can only contain his magic when helped by other mages, which fits rather beautifully with the monster/mage relationships in this game. And, superficially, in canon he often sprouts a pair of leather wings and a forked tail when he wants to escape a situation, using them to fly away.
Sample: In which Simon Snow meets Doctor Strange and fanboys out.
Name: Sarah/fahrbot
Age: 38
Contact: discord @ fahrbot#9239 and plurk @fahrbot
Other Characters: none
Character Information
Name: Simon Snow
Canon: Carry On (novel by Rainbow Rowell)
Canon Point: Simon leaves canon near the beginning of his eighth term at Watford, having just refused the Mage’s request that he leave for a secret, safe location until his time to fight the Humdrum arrived.
Age: 18
History:
(player note: The Carry On novel sprang from the novel Fangirl, which is a love story of sorts to the Harry Potter fandom and its fanfic writers. In many ways, Carry On is a Harry Potter pastiche, so if it gives you major deja vu, that's why! Superficially many broad elements of canon are the same, but Simon is a very different character than Harry Potter.)
No one knows where Simon Snow came from, including Simon Snow. He grew up an orphan, passed from care home to care home in Lancashire, and never had a clue that he might be extraordinary until he was eleven years old. One night he went to bed hungry and dreamed that his stomach was on fire. When he woke up, magic was pouring from his skin like an electric current, the care home was burnt to the ground, and everyone in it besides him woke up unharmed but several streets away.
That’s when the Mage came for him.
The Mage explained to Simon that Simon was a powerful mage, maybe the most powerful of their time. He told him that his birth was prophesied to fight the magic world’s greatest enemy, the Humdrum, an evil force that sucked up magic like a black hole and left magical deadspots in its wake. At eleven, Simon couldn't understand the severity of what that meant. What he did understand was that he now had a foster father, and that he got to go to a school for mages called Watford, where all his clothes would fit him, where he would be able to eat anything that he wanted, where he might actually have friends.
It wasn’t until he killed his first dragon that Simon began to realize how dangerous his new life would truly be. And it wasn’t until he’d spent a few years at Watford that he began to wonder, why me? But Simon isn’t one to run from a fight, and even as more dark forces conspired to kill him, their attacks bold enough to reach the very doors of Watford, every year he came back to Watford ready to grow strong enough to fight the Humdrum.
There’s just one problem - Simon’s not very good at using his magic. He’s filled to the brim with it, but he can’t control it. He doesn’t have the finesse to speak spells the way other, better mages can. He’s more magic bomb than soldier, a blunt instrument to be aimed in the right spot and fired, no matter the consequence to Simon himself.
By his eighth term at Watford, Simon has accepted that he probably won’t survive defeating the Humdrum, but he’s going to try anyway. He’s not a very good last, best hope, but he’s the only one the World of Mages has got.
Personality:
Simon doesn’t realize it, but he’s had very little time in his life to be his own person. When he was young and growing up in care homes, his only thought was to survive - to stay out from underfoot of the meaner caretakers, to avoid the more violent children, to manage to get his share of food at the table. And when he joined the world of Mages, he was immediately treated like their savior, the prophesied Chosen One when he was only eleven years old. To a young boy just discovering his place in a magical new world, this was exciting, but now that he’s older and has survived multiple attempts on his life, Simon has begun to feel weary. He has so little time to slow down, when he does have time to think about what he wants, he doesn’t - he falls back into the role he’s been prophesied to fulfill and lets that destiny dictate his life. This passiveness towards his fate is something the Mage has been only too happy to cultivate in Simon. Simon looks up to him like a father and he wants to please him, enough so that it’s easy for the Mage to manipulate Simon into the weapon he’s always dreamt of wielding.
Simon does his best to trust the Mage, but not only does Simon feel overwhelmed most of the time, he also feels like a failure. He knows he’s powerful, but he can’t control it. His magic is unpredictable at best, and he often prefers to use the Mage’s Sword he carries with him rather than chance his magic. He worries constantly that he won’t be strong enough to fight the Humdrum, but he does his best to believe the Mage when he says that Simon is their only hope.
Despite the burdens placed on him, when left to the company of his closest friends, Simon is able to be the youth he truly is. He’s quick to laugh and quick to care for others. He’s quick to anger, too, but like his magic his temper burns hot and dies away fast. He’s unrefined and brash but always well meaning. He loves sports, but he’s never around long enough to play for his school teams. He might even love danger and excitement, but the truth is, Simon’s never without them long enough to miss them. When a threat appears, he puts himself as the first thing in its path and does everything he can to stop it. Simon never stops to wonder if each new threat will be the end of him, because Simon accepted a long time ago that he won’t get to live to old age. In his paranoia and vigilance, he even believes that his roommate of eight years is plotting to kill him. Still, he faces every danger as courageously as he can. When the end comes for him, Simon hopes that his bravery and the raw magic inside of him will be enough, if not to save his own life, than at least to save everyone else’s.
Abilities & Skills: In his homeworld, Simon is immensely powerful in a way that he can’t control. In the World of Mages, mages use magic by speaking spells. The more use a common phrase has in the world, the more powerful the spell. For example, Up Up and Away! is a spell to make something levitate, but it only became a spell when the advent of Superman in pop culture made it a common phrase. In Simon’s world, there’s no spell more powerful than the phrases that everyone knows from childhood, making nursery rhymes some of the most powerful spells of all.
Simon can use magic by speaking spells, but not very well. The enormity of his power is something unseen anywhere else in the World of Mages, and the immensity of it makes it very difficult for him to control. When Simon is under real threat to his life, he does what everyone calls ‘going off,’ in which he literally goes off like a magical bomb, destroying every threat in the vicinity. He can also push his magic into other Mages, allowing them to wield his raw power with a finesse he himself isn’t capable of. Simon can also directly manifest his magic without a spell when under stress, which is not something a Mage is supposed to be able to do. For example, when desperate to escape a threat, he thought ‘I wish I could fly’ and suddenly had huge wings which he used to escape.
Inventory/Companions:
His Watford school uniform
The Mage's Sword
His wand
Choice: Monster - dragon
Reason: Simon Snow was born with too much magic inside him. He knows very well what it is to be incredibly powerful, so powerful that he can't control his power without help, so powerful that his body can barely contain it and his magic is literally eating him from within. He's lived with a fire in his belly all his life, both literal and figurative. He's passionate about doing good and Fighting Evil like the hero he's supposed to be, but all too often that desire leads him to make quick, destructive decisions that do more harm than good. Fire cleanses, but fire also destroys. All his life, he's been a weapon of mass destruction whether he wants to be or not, leaving craters of magically burnt and levelled land wherever he goes. In canon, Simon can only contain his magic when helped by other mages, which fits rather beautifully with the monster/mage relationships in this game. And, superficially, in canon he often sprouts a pair of leather wings and a forked tail when he wants to escape a situation, using them to fly away.
Sample: In which Simon Snow meets Doctor Strange and fanboys out.
