Profile

- PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Brandon
AGE: 23
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: male
EMAIL ADDRESS: startiger86@gmail.com
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: Anzila86/startiger86@gmail.com
OTHER CHARACTERS: None

- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden

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SERIES/SOURCE: The Dresden Files
AGE: 18
GENDER: Male
ROLE: Student

BACKGROUND: Harry was born the son of stage magician Malcolm Dresden and Margaret LeFay, who unknown to both Harry and Malcolm was actually a powerful mutant. Sadly, Margaret died in childbirth under mysterious circumstances, and Malcolm was left to raise Harry alone as they drove all over America performing Malcolm’s act at increasingly smaller venues. Money was tight, and life on the road was always unstable, but Malcolm was a dedicated and loving father, and for the first six years of Harry’s life the young boy was happy and content.

Unfortunately the good times were not to last, as when Harry was six Malcolm died of a brain aneurysm, leaving the boy to become a ward of the state. Harry bounced from orphanage to orphanage for several years, never really finding a place where he belonged. He was often bullied by the older kids, and the orphanage staff was distant at best and neglectful at worst. During this time Harry began to develop his sarcastic nature as a defense mechanism, as well as a deep loathing of bullies.

Shortly after his 10th birthday Harry was finally adopted by a man named Justin DeMourn, along with another orphan named Elaine. Justin promptly informed both children of their true nature; both of them were mutants, as was he, and because of that heritage would be faced with a world that feared and didn’t understand them. He began training the both of them in the use of their powers, putting them through grueling and brutal daily practice and special exercises that pushed the two children to their limits. Still, Harry didn’t mind the harsh conditions too much, because for the first time since his father’s death, he had a family. Eventually he even began to fall in love with Elaine, and upon discovering she felt the same way the two soon became intimate.

It seemed as if life would continue this way forever, until one day when Harry was 16 his whole world once again came crashing down around him. He discovered the truth about Justin, and the real reason he had adopted the two young mutants. Justin was a vicious and devious anti-human terrorist who had claimed countless lives, many under the guise of working as a member of various law enforcement agencies. What was more, he had taken in the two young mutants with the express hope of twisting them into being his enforcers. Indeed, he was just weeks away from enslaving Harry as his mental thrall when Harry stumbled upon what was really happening.

The young mutant fled the place he had called home for six years, and raced off into the countryside, followed by a strange assassin summoned by Justin and called He Who Walks Behind. Despite his young age, Harry defeated the strange creature with the aid of an even stranger woman who called herself the Leanansidhe, and claimed to be, of all things, Harry’s fairy godmother. What she actually is remains unknown, but what is known is that Harry owes her, and she means to collect.

At this point Harry could have simply run away and never looked back, but there was one thing binding him to Justin; Elaine. He refused to leave her in their foster father’s clutches, and so he returned to settle matters with the man who had raised him once and for all. When he returned home, however, it was to heartbreak as Elaine promptly betrayed Harry and trapped him for Justin. Harry barely broke free, and engaged Justin in a brutal battle that only ended when Harry killed Justin and fled his burning home, unable to find Elaine in the flames. Assuming everything he loved had been burned to ashes in that fire, Harry wandered off lost and alone, with only Justin’s former research assistant Bob, a small sentient AI built into a fake skull, for company.

Harry was quickly picked up by the government, who promptly put him on trial for the murder of two people. While there was more than enough evidence to suggest that Harry had acted solely in self defense, his status as a mutant and the desire of certain government agencies to cover the fact that Justin had worked for them led to Harry coming within a hairsbreadth of being imprisoned for life with no chance of parole, and probably a secret execution. He was saved at the last moment, however, but Ebenezer McCoy, a influential member of the international intelligence community, and unknown to most a incredibly powerful mutant. Ebenezer convinced them to release Harry on probation into his custody.

Ebenezer then proceeded to spend the next two years training Harry as best he could, before deciding that the boy had learned all he could from him, and needed more of a general education. Thus he contacted his old friend Charles Xavier about arraigning a transfer.

PERSONALITY:
For most of his life, Harry has been a shy kid who compensates by being something of a sarcastic pain in the ass. He dealt with the death of his father and the subsequent loneliness of his years of state care by cultivating a persona of easy humor, always quick with a snarky remark or a caustic comeback. This attitude also resulted in a deep hatred of bullies, as he was beaten up. A lot.

Under his attitude, however, Harry is a rather sensitive kid. He empathizes with others on a deep level, and when he sees someone in trouble he can’t help but feel like he has to step in and help, especially if the person in trouble is a woman or child. He looks out for the little guy, no matter the odds. His father raised him to be a gentleman, and he took those lessons to heart. He has a great deal of courage, though some would call it insanity, and won’t back down if he thinks the cause is right.

More recently, however, he’s been through a great deal of trauma that has left him sullen and withdrawn, wracked by guilt for the lives he took, and the pain of losing his second family. He tends to sit off to the side, trying to keep from attracting attention. He is a bit shy about social contact, both because he’s never had much experience with large crowds or children his own age, and because he’s afraid of being hurt again. He is, however, starting to come out of his shell after two years, and is starting to open up.

APPEARANCE:
Harry is a tall lanky kid, (6’6” and still growing), wiry instead of muscular, and with long legs that eat up ground when he runs. He has dark messy hair and deep brown eyes that somehow seem both tired and amused. He’s started to grow facial hair in earnest, and so he sometimes has a five o’clock shadow, though only if he really doesn’t pay attention. His features aren’t classically handsome, but he’s got a rugged charm to him, and while he may not be the kind of guy who turns heads, there is a sense of compassion and humor about him, yet at the same time he can have an intimidating aura to him that can drive off people who don’t know him.

POWERS: Harry has psychic powers which have manifested themselves in some very strange ways. The most basic is his ability to generate blasts of force that knock people back or smash them into walls. These attacks are blunt, but effective and hard to dodge. Secondly, he can use his powers to trace the psychic connection between objects or people. For example, if he had a strand of a person’s hair, he could use it to find them, as long as it hadn’t been separate from them for too long. Similarly if he had a car part, he could use it to find the car it originated from.

Harry also has a dangerous manifestation of his power in the form of the Sight, which allows him to see through illusions and perceive things as they actually are. Unfortunately, Harry’s brain interprets what he sees in a highly symbolic way, and furthermore he can never forget anything he sees while using it. Therefore, if he were to gaze upon something truly horrible, like an ancient horror or mass murderer, he would risk driving himself insane. Needless to say, he doesn’t use this power often or lightly.

Finally, Harry has another unique manifestation of his Sight, which he cannot control at all. Whenever he makes eye contact with someone for more than a few seconds, both he and the other person experience a strange vision in which they look into each other’s souls, and Harry sees what kind of person they are, was, and could become, and they see the same of him. Of course, everything is shown through a great deal of symbolism, so the actual vision can be difficult to interpret. This vision is one time only and whatever you see is burned into your brain and you never forget it.

One unintended side effect of Harry’s power is that he emits a constant low level psychic static that interferes in the functioning of any machines not specifically modified to deal with it. Basically the more advanced the technology is, the less time it takes before it breaks down simply from being near him. Any technology made after WWII will eventually fail, again unless the tech has been modified to account for Harry. He can’t turn this effect off, though he can strengthen it by focusing.