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OOC INFORMATION
NAME: Megan
AGE: 24
PREFERRED CONTACT: mercurialfelines!
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Rose Lalonde.

IC INFORMATION
NAME: Magnus Chase
AGE: 16
CANON: Magnus Chase series (which is just a part of the never ending Percy Jackson universe hellhole)
CANON POINT: Post-Sword of Summer.
CANON INFORMATION: Here!

PERSONALITY:

A few things are apparent when meeting Magnus Chase. Firstly, that 90% of what he says is sass. Just sass, sarcasm, and acrid snark. Secondly, that there's a level of bitterness in that sass sometimes. He was homeless for two years after his mother was killed, he has a right to be a bit sour. Thirdly, just let this boy have his falafel and maybe a nap.

Due to the combination of being a teenage boy street urchin and being in a Rick Riordan series, Magnus has a strong level of sarcasm. Unlike some protagonists, though, his is backed with some sour angst that is pretty easy to see through. And, well, he just doesn't know when to shut his mouth. It rarely matters how serious a conversation is, or what's happening-- if Magnus is opening his mouth, 9 times out of 10 it's with a snappy comeback. There are only a few cases during Sword of Summer where Magnus loses his will to snark (his "bravado" as Hel called it when he couldn't even manage a joke about her name) and those are when things are either at their most dire, or when he knows it'll get him killed. Again.

Living on the streets for two years, it's no surprise that Magnus has a thieving streak. He does have a moral code akin to Robin Hood in this, however. He only stole from "obnoxious jerks who have too much already". In his own words, "If you can afford five thousand dollars to blow your nose, you can afford to buy me dinner". Magnus is clearly not a fan of the wealthy, or at least judges them worthy of taking from. This is despite the fact that his mother's family was wealthy, and they lived nearby the family mansion, but Natalie Chase did not raise a rich boy in any way. Magnus is a very stark, basic boy. His favorite colors are beige and black, and he can't sleep in a room with clutter. Even when he finds himself in opulence in Hotel Valhalla he finds the bed "too soft" and ends up falling asleep in the grass of his living room. (Yeah, he has grass and trees and an open sky in his hotel room. Hotel Valhalla sure is a Thing.) This comes both from being raised by his outdoorsy, simplistic mother and living on the bare streets of Boston. He even finds his own funeral distasteful (well, the pre-funeral when he. had to search his dead body for a sword....) having wanted to simply be cremated, which is what his mother wanted as well.

Magnus is very chill, while somehow simultaneously having no chill. He's very calm-- or good at pretending he's calm when he's terrified, at least. He's the type of person who doesn't take shit from anyone. Or let people take his literal shit. "First rule of the streets: never let a bully take your stuff", as he pointed out when up against the head fire giant Surt (or "Satan's fashion consultant" as Magnus called him) for the first time. He is the type to, when first exposed to the absurdity of fiery monsters who can melt cars, flip the bad guy off and say things like "You're starting to aggravate me. I have to kill you now." For the son of a more peaceful deity, and having basically no fighting ability, Magnus really is the type of aggravating protagonist who picks a fight with things much bigger and scarier than he is. Somehow yelling "yo!" at giants who want to kill you just doesn't seem like a great idea, but by pure sass and the drive to not die more, Magnus pulls these feats off.

Apparently being homeless adjusts one to an extreme level of weird shit. Even for a character in a series full of weird things, Magnus has a high tolerance for what is weird and what is what the fuck weird. He accepts a "well-dressed Satanic male model who could melt cars" with ease. He decides that the goddess Ran and her net of junk and souls is just another bag lady. He goes through 16 years of life not questioning why he can sleep outside in a Boston winter without freezing, and hold matches under his hand without getting burned. He's not immune to weird, of course, and learning more about Norse myths certainly gives him enough material to be properly disturbed by. When first arriving in the courtyard of Hotel Valhalla, for example, he decides he's done with Boston and hitchhiking to Guatemala. Shockingly, he doesn't actually do this.

After his mother's death from Loki's wolves (fuck. wolves. oh my gods.) Magnus became a homeless high-school drop-out living on the streets of Boston. He went from a kid with a single mother who took him on camping trips, who told him he was smart enough to go to Harvard someday, to a kid fishing food out of trashcans. Part of this was Magnus' choice. He had a wealthy uncle just down the street, but because his mother told him to never go to Uncle Randolph, he didn't. (Which was actually a good thing, since Uncle Randolph is uh. Everything he is.) He became the kind of streetkid unable to accept help from anyone offering it, whether it was genuine or not-- not even from his cousin Annabeth, though that was in part because he didn't think he could explain all the weirdness of his life to her. He could barely accept the help of his two closest friends-- a pair of bums who people liked to joke were Magnus' mom and dad, and who later turned out to be a dwarf and an elf working for a severed head who ran casinos yeah life is weird. As Magnus pointed out, "nothing activated the flight instincts of a homeless kid faster than hearing" someone say I know a place where you'll be safe. And while Magnus doesn't always have the greatest flight tendencies in many situations (let's piCK A FIGHT WITH GIANTS) he does display them when it comes to his people skills. In fact, a lot of his problems in Sword of Summer could have been avoided if he'd just approached his cousin and non-rich jackass uncle in the first pages of the book. Good job, Magnus.

Magnus, tragically, suffers from teen angst. Or rather, justified angst since his mother died protecting him and then he lived two years mostly alone on the streets, a nobody thief who once broke a homeless shelter's radio for playing too much Christmas music (you're welcome, ok). It's clear through most of the book that he feels some measure of guilt for his mother's death, even noting that his funeral being everything he didn't want was fitting since he hadn't been able to fulfill his mother's wishes for after-death either. He doesn't feel worthy of Valhalla, and then he's offended that this place just swooped him up and gave him muscles (no, literally, he gets upset they messed with his body and punches through a wall). And, of course, is offended that he's not in the same afterlife as his mother (though when Hel offers him a deal that would give him this, he's smart enough to tell her to get wrecked). There's a cynical bitterness to Magnus Chase not found in the other demigod protagonists.

Magnus' social skills are what you'd expect from a street-wise homeless kid. For the most part, he's a stand-offish observer mostly offering quips in lieu of real information about himself. But he also knows how to be charming when he wants to, a skill only witnessed when it comes to getting free food from the food court. Specifically, free falafel. He knows how to be well-behaved, he just tends to be a snarkmaster general instead. He's not the most talkative kid-- sure, he throws a lot of barbs and quips this way and that, but he rarely really says anything. It takes some work for him to trust, to genuinely consider people his friends. But while he's not the most chatty, outgoing of kids, he is a loyal friend once you've got him. Even before he seems to consider Sam a friend, he's fine with letting Gunilla be eaten for getting Sam kicked out of the Valkyries, then only makes a half-hearted effort at preventing it at Sam's prodding. He later tells Sam, Hearth, and Blitz (his Valkyrie, deaf elf, and fashionable dwarf) that they're a family-- that they're all "empty cups", the rune Hearthstone identifies due to being treated like trash as a kid (something that made Magnus want to hug him and bake him cookies, not exactly things Magnus is known for). He risks his life for his hallmate Halfborn, he even feels broken over Gunilla's death. He even feels bad for not giving Jack the sword enough attention and credit, since his father gave the sword away so easily, giving the sword trust issues as well. Yes, this is a world where a sword has trust issues. And finally, when he has the choice to leave Hotel Valhalla and return to his mortal life, he turns it down-- because where his friends are is where he wants to be.

His occasional abilities in shutting up and knowing how to be not-a-jackass sometimes tie into just how smart Magnus Chase is. Like the rest of the Chase family seems to be, Magnus is an intelligent kid. He's strategic and quick-thinking, making up for his lack of battle prowess. He's also a huge nerd, noting that he liked to watch Doctor Who on public computers and enjoys reading genre fiction. Before dropping out of school, he supposedly had grades good enough that his mom thought he was smarter than either of his uncles (who are both. uber nerds. this family is all nerds.) and could go to Harvard someday. And while an eternity of earning doctorates like his hallmate Halfborn sounds like way too much, Magnus claims to have spent a lot of time at the public library reading.

ABILITIES:

• Magnus has a magical talking sword named Jack. Jack can be set lose to attack things on his own, but as soon as he returns to Magnus's hand, Magnus is immediately slammed with the effects as though he had been the one doing it...so if Jack does anything big fighting wise, Magnus is liable to pass out. Oops.

• He's got wilderness survival skills courtesy his mother's lessons and being alone and homeless for ages (and apparently he's capable of picking locks / pickpocketing / breaking and entering, but will that do him any good here?) and knows ASL. ASL is Alf Sign Language, by the way, not American Sign Language. Deaf elves use it. Well, the one deaf elf. Yeah.

• As the demigod son of Frey, Magnus has some ridiculous magical demigod abilities. The most prominent is his ability to use Elf Magic (Frey is the Lord of Alfheim; Alf Seidr is the technical term of this magic). So far this magic has been shown to include disarmament (disarming anyone in his surrounding area of their weapons) and healing (what it says on the tin: he can heal himself and others of wounds at top speed).

• His other Frey-son related abilities are related to Frey's aspect as the god of summer. Magnus can change the area around himself to summer-weather and generate sunlight. He also has extreme temperature insensitivity. Extreme colds and extreme hots usually don't bother him - he can even hold matches under his hand without getting burned.

• Also Magnus is kind of dead and is an Einherji (plural: einherjan). Thanks to this he gained the related abilities: enhanced strength (enough to punch a hole in a wall), enhanced agility, and immortality while within Hotel Valhalla. Which won't help much outside of it, but he's apparently still going to regenerate anyway. Whatever.

INVENTORY:

• Jack, his magical talking sword. When Jack isn't in sword form, he appears as a small Fehu runestone on a golden chain.
• A circular green shield.

MEMORY ALTERATION: He got off the elevator in Hotel Valhalla onto the base. When he tried to turn around to get back on the elevator and go to the correct floor, he found the elevator was gone. This is his life now.

SAMPLE: Here.