Wiccan

Michael Johnston as William "Billy" Kaplan

GENERAL Name: William "Billy" Kaplan Birthdate: {$birthdate} Faction: TBD Codename: Wiccan Position: … Hometown: … FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: 5'8" Father: NA Weight: 140lbs Mother: NA Hair Color: Black Siblings: NA Eye Color: Black Children: NA

Background

He is… out of time. Or, maybe, in the wrong world entirely. He remembers (vaguely) a world that hasn't happened yet— a life there, a boyfriend there, a world there that he belonged to. But something happened. He isn't sure what, exactly: he was doing something, something that mattered. He was trying to save the world.

He is Billy Kaplan, and… he is here. He has parents here, a family, friends, a school— all of this makes sense and is real to everyone but him. These parents are his parents, he remembers their life, but in remembering it, something is off, wrong, strange. This world is…. it's like he's in a Back to the Future film, only he knows for the fact he didn't ride in a Delorean, and that movie won't be released for like two decades. What the hell?! They make references that mean nothing to him, but if he mentions Dungeons & Dragons, they stare at him blankly.

Something is wrong with this world. And… more importantly, there is someone he desperately needs to get back to. His love, his heart, his other half. The strong one, really. But he's… not here, he's in the future, in another world, somewhere.

Billy has to find a way home.

IC Events

Traits

Powers

• Reality Warping: Billy is a mage of great potential, but he doesn't really understand the nature of his power yet. All of his powers come not from the study of mystical texts or traditions, but instead the innate ability to warp reality to his will. Except for certain abilities that he internalized (through a mechanism he does not understand), he has to cast spells. These spells are almost always improvised and made up on the spot, usually by repeating a short phrase. To work, he has to be able to speak and hear his own words. Although his spells are made up on the fly, some common ones are enhancement to strength, clairvoyance, telepathy, astral projection, illusions, healing, conjuring items, and various sorts of energy bolts.
• Electrokinesis: One of Aether's internalized spells (thus needing no words), he can generate lightning or electricity from his body. He can also control and manipulate electricity around him. When used as an attack, these bolts can vary in strength, but at its maximum it is roughly equivelent to a lightning bolt, which can be but are not usually fatal to normal humans (but they cause major damage). Weaker bolts can stun or temporarily incapacitate.
• Telekinesis: Without using a spell, he can lift and manipulate up to two tons of matter with a fine degree of control. This can be used for flight as well: in fact he has a hard time turning it off in that case. He tends to float without really thinking about it.
• Teleportation: Without a vocalized spell, he can transport himself over large distances (anywhere in New York, we'll say). It takes a spell to take anyone else, open a gate or portal or do similar group movement.

Skills

• Fighting: Let's be honest, Billy is better at running away then fighting. When it comes to hand to hand combat, he's got a lot more experience getting beat up then laying in the punches. And all he knows how to do with anything sharp is cut a steak. That said, he is fairly adept at using his telekinesis in close combat to augment this lack.
• Education: He has a high school education— from something like at least a couple decades in the future. He doesn't remember it all, but he remembers enough that it puts him at an advantage for certain fields. Science, math. He pointedly (for reasons he doesn't know or understand) doesn't remember recent history, he can't predict anything that happens in the future.
• Artist: What Billy does not lack is imagination and creativity, and when he's not trying to save the world, he's drawing. And coloring. What? A comic book, of course, about a team of superheros.
• Research: Billy is a reader, an avid reader, of all sorts of genres. Besides fiction, though, this makes him really very good at all things research and studying.

Advantages

• Family: They… aren't right, but they love him, and he supposes he loves them. He currently lives with them and as he's going to start attending college, he's got an allowance still, which keeps him in the room and board.

Flaws

• Reality Warping: In theory, there is little that Billy's reality warping can't do— but that doesn't mean its not without limits. The primary limitation is belief: he has to believe he really can do it before it will work, and merely wanting to is not enough. His confidence in his own power is limited. Then there is will: choosing to do the thing is not the same as truly wanting it, and if he doesn't truly want to, he might work a spell, but it will be substantially weaker. Finally, there is the strain: the greater the effect, the more his mind must focus on not just the words but the will, and this puts considerable strain on him. Too much strain, and strain is cumulative, and the spells are likely to backfire in some fashion. Finally, if for any reason he can not personally hear his own words when casting a spell, the spell has no effect. (It doesn't matter if anyone else can hear it: its hearing his own invocations that trigger the spell)
• Gay: He's totally, completely gay, and this isn't the time or place, not like the last time (world?) he was in, and the jarring differences in attitudes makes this even more difficult.
• Hesitant: He's really new at superheroing, and he's still basically a kid (if technically an adult), and he has a lot of growing up to do before he really has the confidence to be great. That said, he's pretty okay at faking it. Usually.
• Out of Place: This isn't his place, and he knows it. He's somewhat lost in the past, not getting current cultural references, not quite knowing normal social cues and norms.

Gallery

Logs

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1965-08-10 - Of Gods and Pastries (log: asgard billy danielle kai loki rogue social)

1965-08-02 - Philosophy A Mile High (log: asgard billy bucky kai social)

1965-07-31 - An Apple A Day (log: billy kai social)

1965-07-15 - A Wiccan in Asgard, oh my! (log: billy kai lambert social)

1965-06-30 - Do You Even Lift (log: billy kellan social teddy-altman)

1965-06-28 - Foiled! (log: billy keith plot victor-mancha)

1965-06-24 - Even Nerds Are Safe Here (log: billy kai lambert riley social teddy-altman)

1965-06-20 - Candy and Scream (log: billy kai social teddy-altman)

1965-05-21 - Agent Billy Kaplan's Omega File (log: billy peggy shield social)

1965-05-19 - Planning the Next Assault (log: beware-the-leader billy contingency kaleb kellan noh-varr plot teddy-altman vic)

1965-05-18 - Have Wormhole Will Travel (log: billy noh-varr social)

1965-05-17 - Fuel Part 2: When In Rome (log: billy coulson kitty man-march-weapon plot shield teddy-altman)

1965-05-16 - Ethiopian Philosophy (log: billy kaleb social)

1965-05-14 - Street Fight (log: billy lambert social vic)

1965-05-12 - Site Beta Investigation (log: beware-the-leader billy contingency kaleb kellan noh-varr plot teddy-altman)

1965-05-12 - In the Aftermath of Bouncy Robots (log: beware-the-leader billy contingency kaleb kellan noh-varr plot social teddy-altman)

1965-05-06 - Up On The Roof (log: billy keith noh-varr social)

1965-05-04 - Site Alpha is explored (log: beware-the-leader billy contingency harper noh-varr plot)

1965-05-01 - There and Back Again (log: billy coulson fitz flash flash-thompson shield social thea)

1965-04-25 - Spycraft Pays Off (log: beware-the-leader billy contingency leader plot teddy-altman)

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