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Age: Are you 18+?
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In Character
Name: Full name.
Canon: What canon are they from? Are they an original character?
Canon Point: What point in canon are you taking them from?
Age: How old are they as of their canon point?
Character Information: Please link to resources with information on your character and the canon they come from. If no suitable resource exists, you may write up a summary yourself.
For OCs, please write at least 3 paragraphs detailing the setting they come from as well as their own personal history.
For setting OCs, please go into detail about their school career, what house they were in, their career post-Hogwarts and anything else that may be relevant to your character.
Canon Powers: Your character will not keep any of their powers, but the power that they do have in canon may translate to additional powers, talent in relevant schools of magic or additional magical strength overall.
Power Request: Here you can make a case for your character to have HP canon-specific powers such as Animagus/Metamorphmagus, Lycanthropy and Vampirism, etc. If your character has shapeshifting abilities, is a werewolf in canon or you otherwise feel that one of these unique abilities fits your character, explain here.
Personality: Please write at least two or three paragraphs detailing the personality of your character. Delve into who they are, what motivates them, their fears, strengths, weaknesses, etc.
House Traits: Using the table on the application page, list any traits that apply to your character here. When you are accepted, your character will be sorted into one of the four houses. This knowledge isn't availably ICly until the sorting ceremony in-game.
Samples: A link or two is enough, using whichever format you prefer.
Crowley | Good Omens | Not Reserved
Name: Green Rivers
Age: 35
Pronouns: she/her or they/them
Contact:
In Character
Name: Anthony J. Crowley
Canon: Good Omens (TV)
Canon Point: Post series
Age: 6000+
Character Information: Good Omens Fan Wiki
Canon Powers:
Trickier things like passing through a wall of flames unscathed, and driving a burning car for 45 minutes without it falling apart takes a lot out of Crowley physically and requires a good imagination to maintain certain degree of denial for that long. So for miracles to be performed, the mindset of the one performing them is integral. For example, Crowley has an unplugged fridge stocked full of gourmet food that never goes off because (while we know that's not how any of that actually works) Crowley assumes that putting food in a fridge will keep it fresh indefinitely and so reality warps around that assumption.
Power Request: Given he's a giant demonic serpent with the capacity to commune with vermin, an Animagus and/or Parselmouth seems appropriate.
Also I know that while he will lose his canon powers, I'd love for him to retain his canon weaknesses such as consecrated things being harmful and holy water being able to kill him very very dead (because Crowley experiencing any form of inconvenience gives me life).
Personality:
Note: Provided it either supports or doesn't explicitly contradict show canon, I use stuff from the book to fill in any gaps since we don't really get to see Crowley's inner thoughts in the show.
On first impression, one would not peg Crowley for an Avatar of Evil, part of the Legions of the Damned, cast out of Heaven and Fallen from the Grace of God. This is because Crowley looks and acts more like an aging rock star than some hellion risen from damnation to wreak havoc on mortals. He struts around brazenly, he dresses in trendy styles, and he owns a cool, modern flat, dark as a tomb and just as minimalist, just like the kind of rich and callous human he's trying to ape would. There's not a lot one could glean about Crowley's actual personality from the outside. And that's exactly how he prefers it.
Crowley is a demon, yes, that will always be true. But he has, for the time being, resigned and retired from all that entails; the first, in fact, to do so.
We should start from the beginning; Crowley has always been an odd duck, never quite fitting in with his peers (both angelic and demonic). For starters, he's inquisitive to a fault; it's one of his most defining characteristics. He will fire off any number of questions and observations - from the perceptive and philosophically profound, to the utterly inane (do ducks really have ears?) - without much in ways of a filter. This has landed him in hot water (and hotter sulfur) a number of times from the (quite literally) very Beginning.
This brings us to Crowley's Fall; a sore spot of contention for Crowley (moreso in the show than the book). We don't know much about who he was as an angel, only that he helped build stars and nebulae and he was cast out for being too inquisitive. To this day though, he remains hurt and bewildered by God's rejection, not understanding why he was punished simply for being how She made him. He tends to project his own complicated feelings over his Fall whenever God's feeling a bit wroth; often describing Holy Retributions as 'a bit of an overreaction' or 'sounds more like something my lot would do'.
As a demon, Crowley has not just found ways to survive, but also thrive, even if the role as an arbiter of Evil doesn't quite feel like it fits any more than his former role as an angel. He never managed to climb the ranks as he never had any ambition beyond staying alive, but he managed to find that sweet spot where he wasn't necessarily important but he wasn't expendable either. His peculiar capacity for imagination (a rare trait among angels and demons) coupled with a solid work ethic and knack for efficiency with just that bit of flare for the dramatic made him great at temptations. He also knew when to obey and when to present the face of obedience and thus wound up with the cushy job as a demonic agent on Earth to find ways to secure souls for Satan.
Being left to his own devices was a very good position for Crowley. You see, if he had spent most of his time in Hell, it would become increasingly apparent that Crowley is not, in fact, fit for the job. He is many things - ornery, sarcastic, selfish, cowardly, and a shrewd opportunist when it comes to taking credit for atrocities entirely of humanity's own making - but he is neither sadistic nor malicious. In fact, according to Pratchett and Gaiman, his favourite demonic pastimes amount to little more than juvenile practical jokes, and being a public nuisance. Even with the whole temptation thing, Crowley's always had a sense of fair play about it. He knows how absurd this is; after all, nothing in his existence has been fair - not Heaven nor Hell, not life, and certainly not God Herself. But Crowley? Crowley is very fair. He always makes sure humans have a clear choice between Wrong and Right and that the choice to do Wrong is in their own hands.
Crowley doesn't bare humanity much in ways of ill will - if anything he's grown rather fond of Earth and the seven billion humans and one angel that inhabit it. Fond enough, in fact, that he was quite willing to risk everything to save it from the impending apocalypse.
This is because, despite his many failings and flash bastard facade, Crowley can be a genuinely kind, compassionate, and loyal person. And while he'd much sooner run than fight any day, Crowley is a pro at 'fake it until you make it' and can put on the face of bravado when he sincerely believes in something, even if he's certain there's no hope of a favourable outcome.
House Traits:
Brash
Daring
Proud
Reckless
Dedicated
Fair
Honest
Loyal
Patient
Cunning
Decisive
Initiative
Shrewd
Creative
Curious
Eccentric
Intellect
Wit
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Parselmouth ability granted.
Crowley will not start off with with Animagus abilities out of the gate, but should he choose to explore that path ICly, he will find that it comes more naturally to him. Where it takes some years, it will take Crowley far less, up to player discretion, but with at least six months of study.
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