Account Name: Alberio
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Character: Mortimer C. Graves
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Mortimer is an incredibly lazy person by nature. Given the option he would most likely sleep eighteen hours a day and then spend the rest reading either childrens books or texts of forgotten magical lore. Despite his laziness, poor work ethic, lethargy and near-narcoleptic sleeping pattern, Mortimer has an intense love for magic, spending hours at a time researching it even in his sleep. After years of being overworked and little sleep, Mortimer developed the amazing ability to obtain knowledge even while he slept. It is for this reason it is not uncommon to find Mortimer tucked away in some form of library or ancient tomb hunched over a desk with an open book and eyes half open. Despite appearing asleep, he is actually learning and (on more then one occasion) creating an intricate diorama of his findings. Although having an ability which students of any age would kill for, Mortimer is not aware of the precise method by which he came by this ability. Others have tried similar methods and have come up empty handed. The pervading theory is that his ability comes from a hyper-active subconscious who is possibly an autistic-genius in terms of logical-mathematical and linguistic intelligence. Conscious Mortimer however seems to be of only slightly higher than average in these regards.
Despite his laziness and oft-diversions into magical texts and children books, Mortimer also seems to posses an unnaturally high level of responsibility. To clarify, he feels that when problems or situations arise in his immediate vicinity he has some kind f compeling duty to fulfill them to the best of his ability. It is this drive to be responsible and “take care of” things that has resulted in his near inability to refuse a request. Indeed, Mortimer has a very difficult time saying “no” to anyone should they ask something of him. It is only with great difficulty that he manages to keep this a secret and an even greater difficulty that he can actually refuses a direct request.
Secretly Mortimer is actually a bit of a pervert and though he would never admit it and seems to hide it very well, he has a tendency to ogle girls he finds extremely attractive. However when he finds a girl he genuinely cares about and respects he tends to stop this behavior regardless of their radiance. Thankfully, given Mortimers general feelings of responsibility and self control he rarely lets these things get in his way, but any female who purposefully uses sex appeal to get his attention will undoubtedly obtain it.
Generally speaking, Mortimer remains calm and collected wearing a partial yet sleepy smile. He manages to remain unfazed in the strangest of situations yet can still somehow be flabbergasted at mundane things or acts of extreme insanity or stupidity. When something occurs that hi unconscious mind hasn’t thought of his typical response is “whodasaidawhatnow”, a statement of utter disbelief and requiring a brief rewrite of his schema to accomadate such a strange event. Thankfully, this rarely occurs given his genius of an id has expanded to such a point that it believes almost anything to be possible.
Mortimer remains keen in the face of setbacks or problems and on occasion comes up with “clever plans” to out-root himself and his comrades from harrowing situations. Still he is an inexperienced tactician and will often make mistakes much to his chagrin. He is error prone at times but does not seem to become depressed at these. It could simply be a desire to not look back and face his failings but Mortimer always looks ahead never asking “what should have been done” only “what can I do next time”. In this strange sense Mortimer is an individual driven to succeed and look out for those close to him.
Recently with his studies in shadow magic drifting into the realm of darkness he has obtained the ability to sense the amount of “darkness” inside of a persons soul. This has evolved to such a point that he can determine a persons alignment (light dark or neutral) from a great distance. Although he is capable of determining how many people how far away they are and who they are (if he has met them before) he cannot tell their exact locations or their true characters. In order to fully examine a persons soul, both Mortimer and the participant must be willing and allow Mortimer a vision into their soul. He tries not to use this ability on his friends as he can often tell the content of their characters from this. It has put strain on more than one of his relationships and he fears that over use of this ability could leave him isolated from the people he has grown to care for.
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