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Out of Character Information
Name: Kai
Username: kaichan
Are you over the age of eighteen? y
Current characters in Baedal: Clark, Youko

In Character Information
Basics
Character Name: Billy Kaplan / Wiccan
Username: hareapparent
Fandom: Marvel comics
Played By: none
Icon: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/111745839/37021854

Canon Character Section
Physical Description: Billy is 5'8" with a comparatively slender build, though he's in good shape rather than skinny or gangly, with some muscles on him - he bikes to school on most days, so he has that generally athletic physique, he's just not as buff as Eli or Teddy. He has brown eyes and slightly curly black hair which he keeps cut fairly short. He tends to wear jeans and t-shirts or hoodies, and his costume is mostly black leather with some patterned ornamentation, a ragged red cape, and a metal headband. The headband used to feature white feathery wings, but those were removed after he stopped calling himself Asgardian and patterning his power use after Thor.

Sexuality: Billy is gay, and dating Teddy Altman, a fellow Young Avenger and alien. He has been bullied over his sexuality, and accidentally came out to his parents when he was trying to tell them he was a superhero, which was awkward, but they accepted him - and his boyfriend - happily. At one point, during Dark Reign, the second Empress from the Young Masters of Evil gets him alone for magic lessons and attempts to hit on him, to which he responds that he's gay. Really gay, and hasn't he been making that clear enough, um please stop taking off your clothes, Empress, he's just not interested in girls.

History: Essentially, Billy's history will be matching canon, as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan_(comics) However, for the purposes of Baedal, these events are delayed by a little over a year because of other events involving Galactus and so on. This is so that Billy is in fact 18 by the canon point I am taking him from - just before he breaks into Doom's castle to speak to Wanda. He will end up teleporting to Baedal instead and thinking something went wrong with his spell.

Also the events of Civil War were slightly less dumb, like Cap was actually captured and thus the resistance ran underground rather than him suddenly surrendering GOD I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START ON THIS MESS but definitely, when Sally Floyd made her whole speech about Cap not knowing modern America because he hadn't watched Nascar or been on Myspace, she got a proper rebuttal about how pop culture trends are irrelevant to the basic principles and morality of the nation, and she should realise that the implementation of the legislation was essentially and overtly facist, goddamn.

Powers: Billy has extremely powerful magic and possibly reality warping powers, which are potentially limitless and based on his imagination and willpower. His magic has been shown to be powerful enough to start undoing one of Lady Loki's disguises when she was distracted in battle. He has used these powers to create lightning, fire, forcefields, fly, teleport himself and others, create discs of energy to transport people, let people fly under their own direction, create or change clothing and the furniture and furnishings in a room, and track down missing people. He can also cast spells by chanting "I want..." over and over, for example "I want Iron Lad to forget," a technique he learned from self-help books. These spells only work if he can hear himself say them, but some of his other powers don't share that weakness, and some seem to take very little effort to use. He says in Children's Crusade that saying it aloud helps him to focus, so it is also possible that he can learn to cast easier spells without speaking over time.

Talents/Abilities: As a general fan boy of superheroes, from before he became one himself, Billy knows a few of the more obscure facts about heroes in the Marvel universe, particularly the Avengers. WHICH IS GREAT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW MUCH SO THIS WILL BASICALLY INVOLVE A PERMISSIONS POST. He's also a bit of a geek about Norse mythology, enough to recognise fallen Asgardians during Siege, and has been researching magic when he has the chance.

Personality: Billy is an intelligent, free-thinking teenager raised by two intelligent, free-thinking professionals - a doctor and a psychologist. His father used to read him stories from Norse mythology when he was little, and he's always been a geek, about Norse mythology and superheroes. He's also known since he was relatively young that he's gay. None of these are bad things, but they didn't exactly win him any friends at school - instead, he was bullied repeatedly. While he mostly tried to avoid the bullies and didn't stand up for himself even after he discovered he had powers, becoming quiet and sticking mostly to himself, when he saw another boy being bullied - by the worst of his tormentors, a boy called Kessler - he lashed out with his powers to defend him. This is what's important to him - not protecting himself, he knows he can handle himself, but protecting others, that's the most important thing. This is displayed again when, during their first real conflict with a supervillain, he, Teddy, Eli and Iron Lad are faced with a choice between chasing Electro, or saving people from a burning building. They choose to save the people.

Billy was, it seems, fairly lonely in school, and his team mates on the Young Avengers may be some of his first real friends. They're important to him, like a family, and he trusts them with his life and will do anything to protect them, especially Teddy. In fact, when Teddy is in significant danger, Billy can really lash out and almost lose control. It's in situations more serious than the usual superhero fighting, though - it takes having to watch the Warden of the Cube repeatedly cut into and attempt to vivisect an unconscious Teddy over a prolonged period of time for Billy to yell that he wants him to die, and it takes Teddy being held hostage by a madman with nuclear device for Billy to completely lose control and take out all twenty extremists in a blinding flash of magic that also knocks the Avengers and his team mates off their feet - but the extremists are put into comatose states from which they wake up, not killed. Despite the fact Billy can't remember what happened, that he blacked out when his powers went off, he didn't kill anyone, and he contends that he never would. This is true, speaking intentionally, and it seems unconsciously as well - the men survived, and Billy has always been a hero fan boy, trying to do the right thing without killing people. However, at times his powers scare even him, and as much as he tries to reassure everyone, he did end up agreeing to let Doctor Strange test his powers (before his team decided to rescue him anyway). Part of why it's so important to him to find Wanda may be because, deep inside, he wants to know why she did what she did, why she lost control, so he can stop it happening to him as well. But the main reason really is to help her, and to be family if they can - family is important to him, going back to his loneliness and the importance of all the people he cares for, real family and friends. This might be why he was so quick to accept the possibility that he and Tommy were really twin brothers, whose souls had transmigrated into other babies. For his part, Tommy insists he's the older brother even though they don't know who really is, and they call each other brothers (or Thomas and William, when teasing each other a little) and Wanda their mother with relative ease.

Billy has a fairly dry sense of humour with a side order of geek, saying that Norman Osborn had "crazy sauce" on his face, and suggesting that if Eli and Iron Lad were gay nerds they'd be perfect for each other, after they had spent a conversation talking about unified field theory. He also tries to be the voice of reason at times, but in spite of this he can also have his times for doing reckless or even stupid things. Like going to Latveria to look for Wanda and then sneaking out on his team to try infiltrating the castle by himself because he doesn't want anyone else getting hurt, or for Doom to take it as a full scale super-powered invasion. He wrote a note for Teddy saying that he intended for it to be a simple recon mission, but it really didn't end up that way, since another thing he has a knack for is getting himself in over his head. He also doesn't run when Doctor Strange tells him to during his battle with the Hood when he is possessed by a powerful demon - instead, he zaps the Hood with lightning that provides them both a chance to escape, and, Doctor Strange implies, got him out of a battle he might not otherwise have won.

Billy sincerely wants to help and protect people by using his powers to be a hero, and under most circumstances, considers his own safety to be less important than others. Though he has a very insistent boyfriend to remind him that it is, actually, important that he stay in one piece.

Object: A "Cap Was Right" t-shirt.

Reason for playing: To bounce him off Wanda and Magneto in particular, and other Marvel characters he might recognise as well as meeting people he's completely unfamiliar with for a change. And to get him involved in a world where heroics are pretty different and he doesn't have the Avengers looking over his shoulder.

Gods: Shada, since he's a powerful mage type. Gediron and Eliandre since he's a hero, not afraid of a fight, and always tries to do the right thing. And maybe a little of interest to Ceith, since he needs to rely on speaking for his spells.

4. Original Character Section N/A

Writing Samples
Players may choose to write three of the four writing samples. Additionally, for two of the three samples applicants may substitute links to previously written roleplaying threads of no less than eight substantial replies. We reserve the right to ask for an additional sample if more information is required.

First-Person Network Post: [The video comes on, and lo and behold, there's a dark-haired teenager looking slightly stressed-out. He has a big metal headband with some swirly patterning on it, and what looks like a red scarf wrapped around his neck.]

Um, this isn't where I meant to end up. Unless this is one of Doom's traps, and my teleportation spell got redirected to... a tiny green room. That I can't get out of. Yeah, this could be a trap. Good going, Kaplan. But from the booklet, it doesn't look like I'm in Latveria. ... Am I? ... Who am I even talking to on this thing.

First-Person Journal Post: A few sentences written by the character, something they intend only for themselves to read. A look into how they think of themselves and how they are when no one is looking.

Third-Person Arrival Post: He was doing the right thing. He was. That was why he was telling himself that it was the right thing to do as he finished writing his note and changing into his uniform. He just needed to stay silent this time, although it would take more effort to concentrate. But he could do it, and then he could go do the right thing all by himself. As long as Teddy didn't wake up and catch him again, but he thought he had his awesome and protective and - did he mention awesome? - slightly mad at him already boyfriend reasonably convinced that he wasn't going to go off by himself again. It was the right thing to do, though - to go to Doom's castle all by himself, in the dead of night, and do some reconnaissance, all alone, to try and find out where the Scarlet Witch was being held, in a castle belonging to one of the most powerful supervillains around and probably full of traps and magic wards and doombots.

Okay, so when he said it like that, it sounded kind of insane. And stupid. Definitely stupid.

But it was the right thing to do (yes, he was going to say that again). This whole thing was his idea, tracking down the Scarlet Witch to try and find out what had happened to her, to try and let her know her children were alive - kind of - and hope that it would stop her from being crazy with grief. He knew Cassie was hoping it would mean she could undo the things she'd done, maybe bring her father back to life, and honestly it would be good if she could - it would be really, really good. But there's a big part of this that is selfish, just him wanting to find his mother - to find out if it was grief that drove her crazy, or the powers, like the Avengers keep saying. He wants them to be wrong, he wants... he wants to do this without getting anyone else hurt. He promised Teddy in his note that this was just recon, that he'd take a look around and then come back and burn the note and it'd all be fine, but if he sees her... if he sees the Scarlet Witch, he's not sure he can just leave her to get reinforcements, as much as that would be the smart thing to do.

And he's getting ahead of himself. He's not even there yet, he doesn't even know if he'll be able to get close to Doom's castle, let alone find the Scarlet Witch. Only one way to find out, and - yeah, it's time he was going. He takes a breath and closes his eyes, knowing that the magical energy he can feel gathering about him is letting off a blue glow in the darkness of the room. Hopefully there isn't enough getting through the crack in the door to the next room to wake Teddy. This time, he thinks instead of saying - I want to go to Latveria I want to go to Latveria I want-

With a familiar feeling of unreal movement, he teleports. But when he opens his eyes, he's not where he expected - the sight that greets him isn't the starry night time sky and countryside of Latveria with Doom's castle standing over it, but a simple, green-tiled room. No Doctor Doom, no castle, just a table and no windows and a locked door and - a t-shirt? He takes a look at the design and can't help smiling.

"Cute."

Third-Person Action Post: He remembers how it happened. They were in LA, near the Runaways' hideout, just hanging around outside to warm up after the witch girl - Nico? - after she'd covered them all in ice. A spell gone a little wrong, and he'd made a note to talk to her about magic, but the resident skrull on the team had wanted to talk to Teddy, so there they were. Just talking. And then he showed up - Billy still had no idea who or what he was, he'd just appeared in a blur snapping Xavin's neck. And before they'd had a chance to really react, to do more than yell, he'd moved again, so fast, and Billy had felt a pain in his neck stopping him from speaking, and then blackness. He'd been knocked unconscious.

He remembers there was a time that was all blackness and that weird feeling that meant he was hanging upside down, his feet trapped and his hands caught behind his back in some kind of shackles. He couldn't see, couldn't speak, because there was something pressed over his face, tight and restricting and black, making it hard to breathe. He thinks they must have been moving then, being taken away from their friends, and he could hear people talking and machines beeping but all he'd wanted to do was scream, and he couldn't even do that. Couldn't even mouth his mouth, some kind of metal framework holding his whole face like a cage, and he'd thought that was the limit of his panic, that feeling like his heart was going fast enough to burst out of his chest and his stomach wanted to join it. He'd thought that was the worst he was ever going to feel, helpless and trapped in darkness.

It wasn't.

Because this time, when he woke up, he could see. There was pain in his ears and he was still tied up, restrained against the wall with a mixture of metal and leather straps in some kind of laboratory - in the Cube, he found out. But that wasn't important. What was important was that he could see, and he could see Teddy tied up against the other wall, still asleep. He could see a scientist - a monster, the Warden - cutting into Teddy's flesh with a scalpel.

He screamed.

He knows he screamed, this time, but he couldn't hear it. And the Warden smiled and explained that the pain in his ears was something they'd implanted to stop his spells working, because he had to hear himself speak for them to work. And now he could hear everything but himself. He could hear every word as the Warden cut into Teddy, and cut and cut and marvelled over how his alien physiology shifted even while he was unconscious, protecting vital organs in subconscious self-preservation. He could hear Karolina crying for Xavin, who lay discarded on the floor with a broken neck, a gruesome trophy set aside for later. He could hear Teddy breathing, sleeping, unaware of the knife going into him again and again.

He couldn't hear himself, but he knew what he was saying, over and over again, desperate, reaching out for powers that just weren't there any more, blocked out of reach by technology stuck under and through his skin while he slept.

I want him to stop I want him to stop I want him to stop I want him to stop

And it didn't work. The Warden left, and came back, and turned off the security cameras.

I want him to go to sleep I want him to go to sleep I want him to go to sleep I want him to go to sleep

And it didn't work. The Warden called him idealistic, asked him if he didn't want to hurt him, punish him. And kept cutting, and cutting, trying new tools, making Teddy bleed.

"And you get to watch. Isn't that grand?"

I want him to go to sleep...

"Come now... surely you have something to say to me."

"I want you to die!" He'd never wished anything harder, in that moment.

And it didn't work.

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