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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
APPLICATIONS
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Character name: John H. Watson
Character canon: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes X Geist: The Sin-Eaters
Canon point: This is an AU in that Watson is a Sin-Eater, Holmes is a demon, Lestrade is a mage, and the rest is a goddamn mess. Early days, when they are just becoming famous. The century has not yet turned, gas lights still line the streets of London, and Queen Victoria sits proud on her throne.
Physical description: About 5’10”/11”, about thirty years old, five years dead. A robust, in that he still has his military build but hasn’t been training as regularly recently, white guy with receding brown hair and a mustache. If you look closely, you can see stitches where he’s had to reattach various bits of himself. Blue eyes.
About the Character: John Hamish Watson was born in Scotland during the latter part of the 19th century to parents he doesn’t talk about, with a brother who was an alcoholic and had little more than a watch to will him when he died. He was not born John Hamish Watson, but something more feminine, which he is not about to tell anyone. He is a man, by god, and if there is anything good about coming back from the dead is that he came back with a body a little bit more to his liking.
He is a doctor, first and foremost, and the life he now lives (or, well, lived until he ended up… wherever this is) with a defective AI pseudo-god doesn’t change that. He is quietly becoming famous in his universe for a highly fictionalized account of his adventures with said AI god, where he either tells the most mundane versions of those stories or just straight up makes things up.
What he has published about his past is mostly true: he was shot in Afganistan, and his body was retrieved by a fellow Fusilier. What he has not put to published pen and paper, for obvious reasons, is how that bullet killed him. As he lay dying, a being that took the form of a plague doctor, and which quite probably once was a plague doctor, struck a deal with the poor soul. In exchange for semi possession of Watson’s body, it would return the doctor to life, granting him new abilities and a new purpose.
His body, however, was not completely healed in this exchange, and he kept a sometimes limp and the need to continually repair himself. So, for the limp, if not for the falling limbs, he was invalided home, and spent a good while quite depressed, unable (or unwilling?) to do his duty.
It would be redundant to explain the entire rest of the opening of A Study in Scarlet so suffice it to say he met a strange man named Sherlock Holmes who, it turns out, was a demon guarded by a strange, not entirely loyal angel.
As a doctor, he knows how to heal, and to harm. As a sin-eater, he knows how to aid and maim, and feels no sympathy for those who abuse or harm or violate others, living or dead.
He is a man from 19th century London, but his time among other Sin-Eaters, his past as something other than a man, and his travels make him less likely to say something absolutely horrible than otherwise possible.
He has, and this is something he will not admit unless pressed by Sherlock Holmes himself, very little when it comes to intrinsic morals. They were lost somewhere in the sands of Afghanistan, as he lay bleeding out fighting a war he would come to believe was utterly bereft of good purpose. Instead, he sets himself by what Sherlock Holmes considers important, hence his focus on the innocent and the downtrodden.
While not as good as a detective as the man whose life he chronicles, his time spent at Holmes’s side has given him enough of an exposure to his methods that he can muddle through a mystery if necessary. He has formal medical training in a time when one could practice medicine without it, and his skill with the arts he has learned from the spirit riding around in his head are not to be underestimated.
Events in this universe have happened in a slightly compressed way, so Holmes’s return took less time in universe than it did out of universe for Doyle to get back to writing. Watson’s current relationship with his demonic companion is of a romantic nature, due both to previous feelings and Holmes’s temporary existence as Mary Morstan, whose life he borrowed during the Great Hiatus. They are blatant in supernatural company, secretive in mundane. He is friends with Lestrade (a mage), Tobias Gregson (a werewolf), and familiar with Mycroft Holmes (an angel).
Familiar information: Watson’s gheist is the spirit of those who died of plague while trying to cure it (a failed plague doctor, then). It manifests as the blurry outline of one of those once-common medicine men, holding a cane in one hand and a (is that a book??) in the other. It mostly does not speak, but can if needs must.
It has some remnants of its desire to help others, though any knowledge it retains is now centuries out of date. Beware the day it steals control of Watson’s body from him, though thankfully, it seems that day is a long way off.
(Note! The way Watson being a sin-eater works is slightly different than in most game canon. Because synergy isn’t exactly a thing in RP, he mostly sacrifices his own… bodily integrity? Think a Discworld Igor, covered in stitches and made of disparate parts)
Character abilities: Mundane: Trained with firearms + swordplay, along with the basics of hand to hand combat. Battlefield medic. Trained doctor.
Magical: Can shape his own body to his will (temporarily), including as attacks; can summon his Gheist.
The following are quotes from the White Wolf wiki
“Of all Manifestations discovered by Sin-Eaters, the Caul is among the more intimate. When a Sin-Eater dons the Caul, he invites his geist deep into his body, allowing its plasm to flow outwards through his every cell, filling him from the inside out. Sharing his body with his geist is an incredily intimate act, one that strengthens the ties between the Bound and the geist. Once it’s within his body, the Geist can change his flesh, molding it in ways defined by the Key used to unlock this Manifestation.”
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Caul_(GTSE)
This can be nerfed and changed as requested by GM
For the sake of narrative convenience, I’ve been treating the Gheist as a sort of summonable companion. There is the possibility that the Gheist will take over Watson’s body entirely, but that seems unlikely at present.
Inventory: (1) Sword-cane, (1) medical bag, cloak, shirt, jacket, trousers, underthings, dashing hat, pair of glasses, wallet with 2 pounds stirling, his card, and two tickets to an opera he was going to bring Holmes as a surprise.
Samples: Oversharing??
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For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
LED Lights: A three-meter string of LED lights. These ones are colour-change and cycle through the colours of the rainbow at a gentle, relaxed pace.
Feather Pillow: A comfy feather pillow, in a plain white case.