Application for the RP Game tushanshu

[witchnotwarlock]

Player Information:
Name: Amy
Age: 23 years old
Contact: AIM: liljewishgoy | Email: psychopomphic@gmail.com | Plurk: psychopomphic
Game Cast: N/A

Character Information:
Name: William "Billy" Kaplan aka "Wiccan"
Canon: Marvel Comics: Young Avengers
Canon Point: During Children’s Crusade Issue 1, after he’s been broken out of the Avenger’s mansion by the Young Avengers.
Age: 17 years old
Reference: Marvel Wiki | Comicvine: Young Avengers | Comicvine: Wiccan

Setting:

The world that Billy lives in is based on our world. In the Marvel universe, many of the features of our Earth are the same; the same history, TV shows and movies, celebrities, politicians, current events, countries and cities. There are a few things added to the world, such as a few fictional countries (Latveria, Wakanda, as examples), but they are very small and so don’t disrupt much of the geography of the world. There are also fictional companies and organizations, like S.H.I.E.L.D, an espionage organization, and HYDRA, which is a group that they fought during World War II.

The biggest difference between our world and theirs is the fact that all sorts of different Sci-Fi and Fantasy elements are in this world. There are alien races, magic, gods, demons, advanced technology; anything you can think of. Alien races are a known entity in the Marvel universe, and are widely accepted as something that is just there, even if people don’t like it. The Kree and the Skrulls have been at war with each other for years, and this has sometime involved humans, with fighting happening on Earth as much as in space. There are a race of ‘non-humans’ called mutants, who are people with the X-gene, which gives them different powers and abilities that normal people don’t have. Supernatural creatures also exist, like gods and demons. Most of the gods, though, are from different legends that don’t have anything to do with Judeo-Christian myths (gods like Thor and Loki, for example). There is a Heaven and a Hell, but the Hell part is better known then the Heaven part, if only because some of the more powerful demonic forces are very much present in this world.

But the biggest difference between our world and the Marvel universe is the existence of superheroes and super-villains. You have groups like the X-Men, which are made up of mutants (the people with powers that are from genetics), who go around the world fighting bad guys. There are also groups like the Avengers, which have some people who have powers, but also have gods who work with them, as well as “normal” people with enhanced abilities (Captain America, the super soldier), and people like Tony Stark, who uses advanced technology to be Iron Man. There are all kinds of different super-villains, some who use advanced technology, some who also use their powers, or some that are super smart and control evil organizations.

The biggest out of all of this is the mutant population. Mutants are humans who have the X-Gene, which is a gene that mutates their DNA and gives them special abilities. These people are called mutants, and actually, one of the big issues in this universe is that there is a large group of people who don’t believe that mutants are people. And with the fact that these mutants can do all sorts of things, from reading minds, to flying, to running so fast they get to a place halfway around the world in a second, to bending metal or bending anything, whatever, there is always a mutant who has some kind of power. Seriously, there’s probably a mutant out there that can turn all food to chocolate, these powers are random and varied. And this is scary to people! Which it should be, since no one wants their mind read on a daily basis, or having the metal bridge they’re driving on suddenly become a pretzel. This is why a lot of people don’t accept mutants, since they know that they can use their powers for evil, and there is even a group that does so. You have mutants attacking humans, and humans attacking mutants, and it’s a never ending battle.

This is where Billy comes in. See, Billy has powers, which are magic powers, which makes him a mutant. He creates things just by wishing for them, which means he can do almost anything. He can bend reality, basically. But Billy didn’t suddenly gain these powers through nothing; he’s found out that he had them when he was being bullied by someone, and he almost killed the kid because of it. Ever since then, he wanted to figure out where they came from, and why he had them. When Iron Lad, a boy from the 30th century, showed up in their timeline and brought these group of boys together to form the Young Avengers (not what they called themselves at the time), it was because he did it to stop himself from becoming Kang the Conqueror, a time traveling warlord. Each of the Young Avengers was specifically picked because of their tie to an Avenger, and because of Billy’s powers, which were so much like the Scarlet Witch’s, that it made sense that he might feel an affinity for her. She was already his favorite Avenger, despite what she did.

See, the Scarlet Witch had such a strong desire for children that she created twin boys by using her reality altering powers to take souls from the demon, Mephisto, and turning them into her sons. Mephisto was obviously not happy about that, and so when he came and took back the souls, the babies died, much to the Scarlet Witch’s despair. Driven by her grief, she became insane, blaming the Avengers for her loss, and she came after them, and then she did the worst thing possible: she uttered the words “No more mutants”, which caused almost all of the world’s mutants to lose their abilities, making them just regular, normal human beings. M-Day happened after this, because the Scarlet Witch’s real name is Wanda Maximoff, and she is the daughter of Magneto, a mutant who leads the bad guys. The Avengers finally figured it out that the world they lived in was not their real one, and everything went back to normal, but the Scarlet Witch had disappeared. But it turns out that the souls of her boys weren’t lost forever! Instead, they were reincarnated, and Billy was born to a human couple in New York City, while his twin brother, Tommy (who looks identical to him except for the hair color), was born to a couple in New Jersey. This means that while biologically Billy and Tommy aren’t related, they actually are, because their mother is the Scarlet Witch. This is pretty crazy in a universe full of crazy. Billy only figured this out when the Young Avengers broke Tommy out of a juvenile detention center, and everyone saw how he looked exactly the same as Billy, while having powers much like the Scarlet Witch’s brother, Quicksilver, in that he’s a speedster.

After Tommy joined the Young Avengers after helping them out with the Skrull-Kree problem, where both alien races laid claim to Billy’s boyfriend, Teddy Altman, because he is half Skrull, half Kree, Billy and him went on a search for the Scarlet Witch. While they didn’t find her then, they did learn a little more about themselves. By this point, because of the lack of mutants left in the world, and most of them being some pretty bad guys, the government decided to make a registration act for all super-humans. This act meant that superheros would have all of their personal information given to the government, up to and including weaknesses and their home addresses. All the superheroes in the world were clearly divided on this subject, and there were two sides; the first was the pro-registration side being led by Iron Man, and the anti-registration being led by Captain America. This created the civil war among heroes, with one side thinking it was a good thing to be able to give superheroes proper training, and the ability to keep an eye on their superhero community, while the other side thought that it was pretty racist to register people with powers and not anyone else. The Young Avengers were on Captain America’s side, up until they had a fight with a man called the Warden, who experimented on a bunch of them. After this, two of the Young Avengers switched over to the pro-registration side. Captain America eventually surrendered to it, and the act passed; the remaining superheroes that were against the registration started to work undercover.

Then Billy went almost nuclear during a fight in which Teddy got hurt, and the Avengers, fearing another Scarlet Witch on their hands, had Billy detained and staying with them for awhile, while they figured out what to do about it. Billy went with them willingly, but then the Young Avengers broke him out, and they went on what is called the “Children’s Crusade”, where the group, led by Billy, and joined by Quicksilver and Magneto, went on a search for the Scarlet Witch.

Finally, there are three other fun differences in this universe versus other comic book type universes. The first is that everything happens pretty quickly. There are a lot of different comic books within the universe, and they’ve been going strong since the sixties, but you obviously can’t have Spiderman being 80 years old when he’s in recent stories. So everything big that happens takes place maybe minutes after the previous big event, which means there is rarely any downtime between saving the world and stopping the destruction of a major city. The second is that it is a well-known fact that there are multiple universes out there, and that time travel is a fairly regular occurrence. If a time traveler goes back into the past, intending to fix something that happened, they don’t really fix a problem. Instead, they create a divergent timeline. Basically, they just created a whole new universe, which coexists right alongside their own. Since there are so many universes, though, the one that Billy is from is what they call Earth 616, which is the main timeline for most of the stuff that takes place. The third is that within the Marvel universe, Marvel is a comic book company, just as they are in real life. They publish stories about the real superheroes in their world (omitting real identities), and that is how everyone knows who the different superheroes are. And this is how you get super fanboys like Billy.

Basically the world is crazy busy, people have superpowers, and everything else is like our own world.

Personality:

When it comes to Billy, his life is pretty complicated. He’s the twin son of the Scarlet Witch and the Vision, but his soul was transferred into becoming the biological, eldest son of Jeff and Rebecca Kaplan, a Reform Jewish couple living in New York City. It’s kind of crazy. More than a little crazy. But despite it all, Billy is a good, nice kid. He’s sweet, he can be incredibly charming when he needs to be, and he has a great sense of humor. He’s not all jokes, though; there are times when he can be almost too serious, but it’s not how he usually is. He’s a happy kid most of the time, especially when he’s around his friends and his family. Really, his friends are his family, and he’s very protective of them, especially since they’re not just his friends, they’re also his teammates. Billy is a part of the group called the Young Avengers, and they’re basically a group of teenage fanboys and girls trying to be superheroes, like the Avengers. They’re a mixed bag of kids, some with powers, and some without, but they all want to do the same thing: help people.

This is where Billy’s powers come into play. At first it seems like Billy can only generate electricity, hence his first code name of “Asguardian”, to mirror Thor. But then it’s shown that he can do a lot more than that, and in fact can actually cast spells, so long as he can hear himself say them. Billy didn’t know how to use his powers at first, but with the help of Teddy, his boyfriend, and his boyfriend’s mom’s self-help books, he figured it out. Now, he chants what he wants to happen, and then it happens, since his spells are created by his wishes. So, now that he knows how to use his powers as best as he can, he’s not afraid to use them, especially to protect his teammates and innocent people. He follows the moral code set down by the Avengers that they don’t kill, and it’s also something he believes in himself. He doesn’t threaten to kill people, and he makes sure not to kill, even in the name of self-defense. The one time that he threatens to kill someone really shook him up, because that’s just not who he is or what he does. He may not have done it, but he still thought and said the words out loud, and that bothers him. It’s what he keeps in the back of his mind during battle, which is a good thing, since Billy’s powers are some of the strongest out there. A good example is when he put twenty people in a coma, and stopped an explosion, just because he thought Teddy was hurt. He’s had a problem with his powers, too, when he accidentally used them against someone who was bullying him, and it almost killed the other kid.

He’s getting more confident as he gets older and has the support of his friends, and not just when it comes to his powers. Billy has a history of bullying and gay bashing from kids at his school, but if there’s one thing he’s never felt bad about, it’s who he is, and who he loves. He’s not a kid who’s easily intimidated, and it should be noted that while he may have gotten hurt multiple times, he didn’t back down. He’s not meek or mild, and he stands his ground, no matter what the odds are. As he’s said before, "I've never really had a problem with being different from other people. It's other people who have the problem with me." He looks up to the older superheroes, most especially the Scarlet Witch, even before he knew that he had powers, or that she was his mother. It’s thanks to her that Billy is the person he is now, because before he knew he had powers, he met the Scarlet Witch, who gave him the encouragement to never back down, no matter what.

Like it’s said, though, Billy looks up to the older superheroes; but much more than that, he is their biggest fan. He is the biggest fanboy in a group of kids that are fans, and every time he has a chance to interact with them, he’s always making comments about how he can’t believe this is really happening. He’s a geek, a huge geek, especially when it comes to superheroes, super-villains, and anything that has to do with the kind of stuff you’d see in comic books. He’s like a walking dictionary of superhero things, where he’s the one who will know who a villain is, despite the others not knowing about them. Then he’ll add in other facts about them that no one would even think to ask about, but he still knows them. This is something that comes in handy on more than one occasion, though, so while his friends might tease him a little bit about it, it’s still something that’s useful. Geeky things like that get him really passionate and excited, where usually he’s calmer, and more than a little sarcastic. It’s this nerdy side of him that also shows off that he’s a pretty sensitive guy. He cries, and he loves to touch people. He’s the first one to give an encouraging word, or a touch on the shoulder. He likes to get close to people, and loves sitting close to loved ones, and holding hands. He loves musicals (The Sound of Music is one of his favorites), and Broadway, and makes sure that he and Teddy always have date night. He’s emotionally supportive to people he meets, and as said before, he loves to touch people; if a situation calls for a hug, he won’t hesitate to give a hug. He bonds quickly and easily with people, such as when he figured out that Tommy was his twin brother. Even though Tommy wasn’t fully convinced, Billy was pretty accepting of it, and even liked the idea of having a twin brother. It took a little longer for him to actually accept Tommy, but the idea of it was easy to go along with.

Problem is, being sensitive has it’s downsides as well. Billy is easily offended, and he has a habit of taking things too personally. When the rest of his team showed concern about his powers, instead of hearing them out on the subject, Billy took it as a betrayal and left. When it comes to emotional issues, he’s not the most level-headed person. He doesn’t run into problems without thinking about them first, but he’ll also go at it alone if no one else agrees with him, like when he went looking for the Scarlet Witch, and telling everyone that she had to have been possessed or something like it to do what she did. When something is on his mind, he’s not going to stop until it’s settled. He may do what needs to be done in the moment, but he won’t leave it alone. To go back to the downsides of being sensitive, Billy has a problem with becoming depressed when something happens that upsets him, and it takes a lot to bring him out of that funk. He’ll spend a lot of time brooding, even when he’s not alone in a room. He thinks about things too much, especially the bad things that may have happened, and he sometimes takes a while to move on from an event that has hurt him in some way.

Being sensitive, though, doesn’t mean he can’t be insensitive. Billy can be selfish, and he sometimes makes careless remarks to people, or dismisses their feelings. He doesn’t always think about what he’s going to say before he says it, and can sometimes make sarcastic comments at times when he should really be keeping his mouth shut. Billy does have a temper, and he has been known to get angry really quickly when he’s told something he doesn’t want to hear. He understands, but depending on the situation, there is a point where he gets fed up and ends up making insensitive remarks. An example is when Teddy tries to save the Super Skrull; Billy gets so pissed off about it that he brings up the fact that the Skrull murdered Teddy’s mother. He even says at one point that the Skrulls aren’t even people, despite the fact that his boyfriend is half-Skrull himself. He’s not saying these things on purpose, they just end up slipping out before he can think if he should say it or not. Some people can get him to stop and think, and Teddy is one of those people.

If it hasn’t been clear till now, Teddy is Billy’s boyfriend, and he loves him more than anything. This makes Teddy one of Billy’s weaknesses; if anything happens to Teddy, Billy will do whatever he has to, to help him. He’ll also freak out; at the beginning of the Children’s Crusade, he sees Teddy get hurt by one of the Serpent’s Sons, and then whites out, stopping a nuclear explosion and putting twenty people in a coma. He just loses control, and because of that, his powers go out of control. The only thing that stopped him from killing those people was probably the fact that, deep down, Billy doesn’t believe in killing, and as it’s shown, whatever he wishes for comes true. It’s funny, the lengths that Billy will go to, to make sure Teddy is okay (and his teammates, as well, but especially Teddy), but he can be pretty careless when it comes to his own safety. He’s impatient, and has charged ahead into a dangerous situation despite the consequences, even if the consequence is injury, or just a talking to from his boyfriend. But this is only because he has such faith in his friends, and knows completely that they will come and rescue him if he gets in over his head. Of course, they would, but he trusts people a little too much sometimes. He just believes that some people are good; when he starts to defend the Scarlet Witch, it’s obvious that he thinks the best of her, even if she did commit genocide when it came to the mutants. When she says that she doesn’t remember her history or crimes, he believes her; she’s his favorite Avenger, and his mother, and he will always think the best of her, no matter what she does. On the other side, he refuses to believe that anything Dr. Doom is planning in regards of his mother is good; he thinks he brainwashed her, or put her under a spell, or anything other than the fact that he says he loves her. To Billy, the bad guys will only ever be bad, while good guys can do bad things, but can redeem themselves after.

In the end, Billy is still a small, gay, teenaged boy, if a super powered, costume wearing, gay, teenaged boy. He’s not faking who he is; he doesn’t pretend to be anything he’s not, besides not telling people he’s a superhero, which doesn’t count. But he speaks without pretense to his friends, not always filtering what he says, but always speaking the truth. He knows the differences between right and wrong, and he acts on that. He doesn’t offer any apologies for who or what he is, and the people around him have to respect him for that. He has secrets, of course, just like any other teenage boy, but if something comes to mind, he’ll say it. He’s even mouthed off to Captain America and Iron Man, despite them being his heroes. He doesn’t want to hurt anyone, and if he does in some way, he apologizes, even if it’s a bit belated. In sum, Billy is a geeky kid with magic who wants to help save the world. And he just might do that.

Tu Shanshu Bonus Round: Because of the world he lives in, Billy won’t be even a little bit surprised about this place. Alternate universes are standard with Billy, and so are alternate timelines, and time travel (which Billy has gone through himself); plus, his twin brother has been sent to Hell before and then was brought back, so, this is definitely not outside the realm of possibility. What Billy will have a problem with is that he can’t really leave, and he doesn’t know how he got there, since he didn’t wish it himself. When they explain that time has stopped back home for him, though, he’ll be both happy and sad about it. Happy, because he doesn’t have to worry about anything happening to his friends, and sad because that means his plans are put on hold. And something in his way of his plans is one of the things Billy hates the most, and he will ruminate on this for a long time. But, being on the back of a giant turtle, and getting to stay in a beautiful home? It’s not that bad of a downside! The last thing that he will be scared about, though, is that if this is a world between dreaming, life and death, well. The last time everything got suspended for a moment, and everything whited out for Billy, he put twenty people in a coma. That’s going to worry him, if he thinks he did that again back home, and that’s why he’s now here.

Appearance: Billy dressed as Wiccan | Billy's profile | Billy with Teddy

Billy is a small teenager with a slight build, shaggy black hair, and brown, slightly golden eyes. When he's not wearing his costume, he's usually in jeans, a t-shirt, which is probably a t-shirt with some kind of superhero logo on it, and a sweatshirt if it's cold enough out.

Abilities: Billy’s normal abilities are basic. He’s in shape, if a bit on the small side, and he’s smart in a nerdy kind of way. He’s not really big into sports, or many video games, but he likes certain ones, and he definitely likes watching them with his boyfriend.

Now onto magical powers. Billy is both a witch and a mutant, and since he’s also the son of the Scarlet Witch, Billy has some pretty awesome powers that are literally at the tips of his fingers. They’re magic powers that comes from wishing on stuff really hard, which is sort of like the Scarlet Witch’s reality-bending powers. Which Billy can also do. However, for him, Billy’s powerful spells require him to chant his wishes out loud, and this chanting can be short or lengthy. Billy has to be able to hear himself chant, as well, because when he can’t hear himself? He can’t do it. His magic looks like blue energy that forms around his hands and spreads. He has a lot of different things he can do with his magic:

Reality-altering: He can change things like people’s clothes, though this doesn’t really require chanting so much as wishing for different clothes for everyone.

Teleportation: "IwanttobeinGenosha" and bam, he’s in Genosha. He can also teleport other people as well, but he needs to chant for this to work.

Elemental-fighting: Billy prefers lighting strikes, but he can do fire, light, ice, darkness, you name it.

Flight: He can fly using his powers! And help other people fly as well, and he doesn’t even need to chant for this.

Other random ones: force fields, binding spells, location spells, changing a person's size, healing. Some of these need chanting, but sometimes they don’t. Billy is getting better using his powers, so at some point, he might not need to chant anymore.

When it comes to powers, Billy is up there with “god” type powers over reality, but since he’s one of the good guys, he’d never use it to hurt people. The one time he almost did, he was so ashamed of himself and was so depressed, he didn’t come out for days. By the way, the reason for all of this chanting? Teddy helped him learn to use and control his powers by going through his mother’s self help books, and now he chants.

Inventory: Billy will be showing up here in his Young Avenger’s uniform. It’s a black and gold leotard, black boots, a ragged red cape, gloves, and a silver hairband type thing. He'll also have his Iphone on him.

Suite: A two floor in the Fire Sector, please! Billy is from a wealthy family and lives in a beautiful brownstone apartment on the upper east side of NYC, so he’s used to having a lot of nice stuff around.

In-Character Samples:

Third Person:

He’d been here in this place for going on two weeks now, and Billy still wasn’t sure if he had it all figured out. No, he got most of it. The idea that he was still on the back of a giant turtle no matter where he stood was still a staggering idea to him. It was like being on a cruise ship, without the daily reminder that you were on something floating over the water. If ever Billy had to acknowledge his own non-significance in the world, this was the perfect place to do it. With it came a sense of peace he hadn’t had in a long time. He didn’t think he’d ever be able to explain it to anyone, not the way it felt in his head, and how it felt through his body. Feeling insignificant gave you peace? He knew plenty of people who would say, no, yell otherwise.

But it was close to how he used to feel back home, before his powers really manifested. New York City was huge, and there were so many people that you could be crushed and pressed into a corner. What didn’t change, though, was how you could be utterly and completely anonymous. No one knew your name, your age, your sexuality. And no one cared. That’s what he wanted to be, when those bullies came at him with their fists and even harsher words. He wanted to be anonymous, insignificant. But then those powers showed up, and Billy knew he was meant to do something. Be something more than he ever thought he could before.

As he walked along the streets of the marketplace, not really glancing at anything, since nothing caught his eye, he kept thinking about it all. Having powers meant he could now do things. Help people. He wasn’t a normal kid anymore, now he could be what every kid dreamed about: being a superhero. The Young Avengers was more than a group of kids, it was his family, and they made him feel good about himself. He never wanted to be insignificant again, when he was with them. Especially Teddy. Teddy made him feel like everything was right in the world, so long as this boy loved him. Just thinking about it now made him blush, and he hoped no one was looking at him.

He wished Teddy was here. They could go on and on at each other about how cool this turtle thing was, and how they hoped time was really frozen back home for them. Billy hoped it was frozen. He wanted everyone to be still, maybe be asleep, anything, so long as it wasn’t something he did. Hurting those Sons of Serpent guys really scared him, and it was one of the reasons why he wasn’t doing as much magic now as he had in the past. If something happened here, it wasn’t like the Avengers could squirrel him away in their headquarters, until they figured things out.

By the time he got around to picturing the police coming to knock down his door and drag him away (not like the Warden, please, please not like the Warden), he was at the end of the marketplace. He wanted to go home.

“IwanttogohomeIwanttogohomeIwanttogohome,” Billy started to chant softly, but apparently it was loud enough for some of the Keden to look at him. And then he was gone, arriving at the apartment they gave all of these newcomers. Not quite the home he wanted, but good enough.

Good enough.

Network:

[A kid with black hair and a sheepish grin takes off a silver headband, running his fingers through disheveled hair.]

That ride... how about that ride? I’ve never ridden on a cart like that before. I hope that’s not the normal way to get around here? I never thought I’d miss the subway, I mean, I know we can’t have one here, and I think the turtle would agree!

[He laughs.] You know, this place is the perfect setting for a fantasy video game! You can have the good guys grow up in the poorer part of the city, and they have to fight off a great evil that threatens to kill the turtle, so they literally need to save the world. You could have your mage come from the richer district, and she defects from her family to help the hero out, and they gather friends along the way who fight in your party, and they discover new things, and...

I would play a game like that. I would read a comic that was like that, that would be awesome.