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abracadont) wrote2018-10-22 12:57 am
abracadont) wrote2018-10-22 12:57 am
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Name: Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange Door: Door Pass Canon: Marvel 616 Canon Point: End of Issue 14 in the 2015-2018 run of Doctor Strange (around the middle of the "Blood in the Aether" story arc). The last thing Stephen remembers is escaping from Satana's diner in hell. Age: Physically mid-thirties; probably actually somewhere in his forties or even fifties (the timeline is a mess, plus Stephen was granted immortality at one point) Appearance: Tonight he dines in hell!! Stephen is a lean 6'2" with gray eyes; he has black hair with white streaks he has lately been dyeing black. What once was a neatly trimmed goatee has recently grown out into a scraggly, unshaven beard. History: Wiki Personality: Stephen's undoing, time and time again, is his insistence on solving all of his problems himself, on his own terms. In a perverse way, this behavior relates to one of his more positive traits: his devotion to duty. As the Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen is Earth's primary magical defender; it really is up to him to protect the people of his world from all manner of mystical and extradimensional threats. Further, the title (and the additional powers that come with it) is conditional--should Stephen prove unworthy, he can be stripped of the title at any time (this has indeed happened on a number of occasions). Stephen can be spectacularly brave and self-sacrificing; as Sorcerer Supreme he must often place himself in harm's way to shield the people of Earth, and his overall poor physical condition is the result of absorbing the ill effects of all kinds of magic for years on end. On the flip side, however, Stephen's ego is an equally (if not more) powerful driver behind his loner act. He typically believes himself more knowledgeable and competent than the people around him; that it's at least sometimes true only fuels his arrogance. While he does sometimes work with other people, he does so only on his own terms, when he's the one calling the shots. He's vain, too, and enjoys showing off. Stephen constantly strives to gain more and more magical power. This, too, is linked to his need to be able to perform his duties, but Stephen has on many occasions taken his thirst for power too far. His practice of black magic and various deals with eldritch beings have likely damned his soul to some hell or another...assuming the devils and demons can ever work out who has first dibs. Years of indiscriminate magic use have left him with severe digestive problems and a number of metaphysical ailments, but if Stephen were to be healed of all of it he'd likely do the same to himself all over again. Stephen loves what he does, no matter how dangerous, uncomfortable, or flat-out disgusting it becomes. He enjoys a challenge perhaps as much as he enjoys his powers themselves, and he doesn't shy away from a fight. Rather, Stephen seems wholly unworried by the prospect of injury; he has been known to punch enemies despite the fact that the nerve damage in his hands makes it an extraordinarily painful prospect for him. He can be very impulsive both in terms of violence and affection--he's ready to throw down at any moment, but he's also ready to stop in the middle of even the most urgent situation to flirt with a pretty woman. Stephen struggles to maintain positive interpersonal relationships. Obviously enough, this is related to his emotional inability to rely on other people, but it also comes down to the fact that Stephen uses people. Sometimes he does so by manipulating them to take a particular action; other times he takes action himself without seeking consent. As an example: at some point in his history, Stephen gained access to the Exile of Singhsoon, a spell that would allow its user to wrest control of all of Earth's magic at once. Knowing he would be tempted to use it, Stephen chose to bind the spell into the soul of his apprentice, Zelma Stanton, knowing he would be unable to extract it again without tearing her soul apart. Though Stephen did truly care about Zelma (the point of the exercise was to put an obstacle in his way that he would be utterly unwilling to navigate), he did this without her knowledge or consent, using his friend as a tool for his own self-management. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about Stephen is that he's aware of many of his flaws, particularly as regards his mistreatment of his friends and loved ones. He knows that it's wrong to use people, and he knows that he can be prickly and argumentative to the point of driving others away. He's also aware that he's highly promiscuous and that his romantic relationships tend to go down in flames. Instead of learning from those mistakes and changing his behavior for the future, however, Stephen all too often wallows in self-loathing that verges on self-pity. He deserves to be friendless, he reasons, after the way he has treated everyone around him. He deserves to die alone because no one will help him defeat whatever evil has most recently come his way. Never mind that despite everything there are still people who would gladly stand beside Stephen, or at least offer forgiveness were he to seek it rather than assume the bridge has been burned. His self-flagellation allows him to feel a kind of penance for his actions without actually making good or growing from his experiences. There are some exceptions to this rule, but on the whole Stephen tends to blind himself to the fact that his guilt is largely self-serving. Powers and Abilities: Magic: Stephen's powers often seem to consist of whatever the current writers would like him to be able to do. That being said, he is currently nerfed at his canon point, and lack of access to magical artifacts or otherworldly beings will prevent him from becoming excessively powerful in this game. The powers he has retained include:
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