Application for Labyrinthium

[amicustenebris]

OOC INFORMATION

Player Name: Jaq

Pronoun Preferences: She/They

Contact: jacqui dot larson84 at gmail dot com

Are you over the age of 18?: Yes

Invitation Link: https://labyrinmods.dreamwidth.org/6704.html?thread=1313328#cmt1313328

Current Characters: None

Link to Permissions: http://amicustenebris.dreamwidth.org/516.html

 

IC INFORMATION

Character Name: Rumpelstiltskin/Mister Gold

Species: Human

Canon: Once Upon a Time

Canon Point: Before the final episode of season 3

Character Age: 250+

CRAU: No

CRAU Explanation: N/A

Character Appearance: Appears to be late 40s to early/mid 50s. Mr. Gold stands a not-so-towering 5'6" and is almost always wearing dark suits and shirts, with the occasional pop of color on the tie or the pocket square. (Blue when he's behaving himself. Red when he's not. Purple when he could go in any direction, some say.) He wears a moonstone ring on one hand and is never seen walking without a gold-handled cane. He has brown, shoulder-length hair with shocks of salt and pepper throughout and large, expressive brown eyes; there's often a sad look to him. He speaks in an accent that will clock to most people as Scottish despite never having been there, and the smell of old books and floral perfumes permeate in his presence. In terms of bearing, he walks with a slight limp and is rarely seen without a cane..

Powers and Abilities: In his canon, magic differs on every world, so it takes the Dark One a while to figure out how his magic will work in this setting -- he will therefore not be thrown as he could be to find his magic missing/inaccessible at first. As the Dark One and a long-lived practitioner of magic, he is an expert in many forms with vast knowledge. What he can perform as one who has studied how it works versus the power he has as the Dark One lies largely in how it is applied: Dark One deals require consent -- it can be dubious, not his fault if you don't fully read the contracts you sign -- and those spells can be a great deal more powerful.

A forewarning, though: All magic has a price. All of it. Casting a spell is like dropping a pebble in a pond -- it creates ripples, and however small, the world around it has to displace itself to make room for that pebble. The bigger the spell -- the more change you are enacting in the world -- the more you pay because of the amount of rebalancing reality has to do to accommodate the change you made. Some are flat impossible (like restoring someone to life). Now, did you throw a pebble in, or an entire boulder? As a broker of this knowledge, The Dark One has shown he can do each of the following, in various capacities:

Wards/Potions/Charms - These are usually complicated and require specific objects or ingredients to do so, and said ingredients can and often do operate on fairy tale logic. For example: Rumpelstiltskin can cast a protective ward around an area, but it requires using special chalk. That chalk would have had to have been fortified in some way -- perhaps imbued in Holy Water or carved out by a craftsman who never told lies. He managed to bottle the essence of magic by getting a hair each from a couple in true love, which creates its own magic, thus allowing himself to access his powers again in the world without magic. He can track a person if he has an object that belonged to them, provided they're on the same plane and/or not dead (at the time). He could create a specific ward or charm against or for a person if he has a possession of theirs or something as simple as a hair. Even their name, if he uses it correctly, can be put into a spell. (He used Emma Swan's birth name, for instance, as a trigger to reawaken himself from the first curse in the series.) What's important, and what probably limits these things the most, is that he can't take any of these things without permission. They have to be given freely or won fairly by someone.

Heart Removal/Control - The Dark One can remove a person's heart without killing them, holding it allows him complete control over that person and until their heart is returned, they are compelled to obey. Crushing it will kill them.

Telekinesis/Immobilization - Gold can throw invisible force, lift people and objects, and also paralyze people to stop them interfering with him or running away. It lasts for as long as he's concentrating on it.

Healing - He can heal virtually any injury provided the person in question is still alive.

Fireballs - He can make balls of fire in his hands, and he can throw them.

Teleportation - Gold has shown the ability to teleport to places that he knows. He would not be able to go behind locked doors if he's never been on the other side before or places that otherwise he might be warded from.

Transformation/Polymorph - He can transform people and objects -- he can't grant immortality, but he can make you younger, or age you. He can transform people into different animals, or into different people. He spins straw and wool into gold -- he's kinda known for that! He turned a man into a snail just so he could step on him once.

Youth Eternal - Gold is also incapable of being killed, save by the Dark One's dagger, which didn't come with him. He will heal from virtually any injury or sickness unless he is cut off from his magic. (Example: being sent out into a world with no magic at all, beyond the borders of Storybrooke, would render him powerless and capable of being killed or poisoned. The latter is effective in that any poison or sickness he incurs, if allowed to run their course long enough to weaken him too much, even if returned his powers won't heal him and another means to cure him must be found.) Note: The dagger will not appear ingame unless for agreed-upon, plot reasons, because its holder can also command him.

What Did Your Character Wish For?: To have the murder of his son undone, even if it means returning to being dead himself.

What Potion Did They Receive? The Golden Potion (naturally). He transforms into a red fox.

Did They Drink It? With his understanding that he is NOT in Wonderland (never ingest anything in Wonderland with clearly written directions on it) and that it will take him time to acclimate to the magic here, he will take what advantages that he can going in. And if it manifested as it does in the TDM, then the Holly absolutely gave him the gremlin-brain to make him drink it on impulse. There was an initial feeling of panic, then understanding he knew this was magic and how to use it. (New Magic? F*ck yeah, New Magic!) It took him more than one try to fully transform back though. He might have initially had a bushy tail that wouldn't go away at first. Sometimes sharp teeth. Maybe retractable claws and whiskers.

Character Questions: Keep this section to a maximum of 1000 words, give or take.

1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon? Or who is someone they miss the most? Most bonded with would be Belle -- they were going to get married, after all, but she's the one he trusts the most. Who he misses the most would be his son, Neal/Baelfire: Gold died to protect his family (the woman he loved, his son, and his grandchild), and someone tricked Neal into paying with his life to bring him back.

2. What are they most afraid of? Being enslaved again.

3. What is their weakness? Emotionally, mentally and physically? Before he was the Dark One, Gold was a very bullied person and even when all-powerful his first instinct is to take almost any opposition like he's still being bullied, and he will become defensive.

4. What would make them happiest? To be home with his family, with his son alive. He will settle for going back to being dead if it means Neal gets to live, though.

5. What’s their type for a lover? Kind. Thoughtful and with depth. Patient, especially since he is not always that, even toward himself. Loves him in return.

Samples: Link to 1 sample with at least 5 comments from you in a singular thread with one other character. This is also what we require for AC. https://buttrinthum.dreamwidth.org/11937.html?thread=8077729#cmt8077729 The first thread has 5 comments from him. I can provide more samples from PSLs if need be.

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