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newcombers2024-06-08 05:51 am
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Player Interests: currently I have reawoken a love for reading and am tearing through queer sff books like they're crack, I'm playing a Pokemon HGSS randomized run, I'm an avid Honkai: Star Rail and WoW player, I have two cats who follow me around everywhere, and mostly on plurk I just talk about rp (and books) (and hsr)!
Character Name: Holland Vosijk
Character Pronouns: he/him
Character Canon: the Shades of Magic series by V. E. Schwab
Intended Housing: Skolem Townhomes, number 3
Intended Position: Medical Staff at the Wellness Center
Summary of Character:
the Shades of Magic series is set in four connected worlds: Red London, White London, Grey London, and Black London, which all have varying levels of magic. Holland is an Antari magician, a very rare type of magic-user capable of elemental bending and various blood-triggered commands including the ability to travel between worlds, marked by an entirely black left eye. He's from White London, a world that use to be beautiful and peaceful, but its magic became corrupted and started to drain away, making White London faded and turning its people cruel and desperate.
holland had a troubled childhood in the slums, was often made a target because of his magic, but nonetheless grew up strong and confident. In his early twenties, he was captured by a sadistic pair of royals, and forcibly soul-bound because they wanted an Antari pet -- when he wasn't being made to murder their opposition, they delighted in torturing him extensively. Seven years later, they were killed, and Holland was almost killed by one of the protagonists, left for dead. He was then free to make the decision to ally with an entity of pure magic in the hopes of saving his world, only to get possessed and bound by yet another thing when it turns out to be chaotic and evil, though it later frees him. He's King of White London for a while, and helps it to heal. He then spends most of the third book in chains, making repeated attempts to sacrifice himself to save their worlds, and eventually succeeds: sacrificing his magic and therefore his life to seal away the magic entity that had threatened all their worlds.
(for a more detailed backstory, a bio is here! I'm taking him from after the end of the third book)
personality wise, Holland is a deeply broken man who shows little emotion, largely because he doesn't let himself feel much despite the few things he's super passionate about. His demeanor is mostly calm and unruffled, even in the midst of absolute chaos. I think he smiled maybe once in the entire trilogy. He expects everyone to treat him badly, and doesn't protest when they do. That being said, when he does feel strongly about something, he will offer himself up body and soul.
in Newcombe, Holland's going to be struggling with being away from the world he loved and so desperately wanted to save -- the one thing he still cared about -- and will be throwing himself into medical work at the Wellness Center. He can heal people magically, which he will be doing liberally, though it does have some limits in that he can't regenerate lost limbs or revive the dead. It also drains him significantly, but that'll just appeal to his self-sacrificial nature lmao
and after all of that -- hello! I'm cosmo, please feel absolutely free to hit me up for plots :D Holland is a real slowburn character who will be slow to trust and even slower to be friendly, but at the very least he'll be polite!
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In fact you have absolutely (no choice) in the matter, they are getting CR. Also Caleb is always drawn to the broken ones™! Must be because oh I don't know.. *stares at the scene of the crime*
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Like I could see Holland sitting in on a few of Caleb's classes here and there, because transmutation is very limited in his world (only from element to element, and only in a certain order), so the breadth of Caleb's magic will be so interesting to him
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But he's also been in the 'self-sacrificing healer' thing, which is why he's not a doctor, but will come by and assist during crises.
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Eventually he'll realize it's not a bad possession, but there will be much squinting and doubt until that happens. He'll also be happy for the help in the medical center! I get the feeling that crises with many injuries are going to happen semi-regularly here lmao
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And there isn't really a way to spot possession of this sort unless one is spiritually sensitive enough, though if Holland has that sense, he can not only tell that Penric is the one in control, but see when Penric lets Desdemona use his voice. (Also that Des is frighteningly powerful as one of her kind go.)