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[assguardian]

PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: danzy
AGE: 20+
CONTACT: pm me pls
CHARACTERS PLAYED: marco lorin, jon snow, bucky barnes

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: billy kaplan / wiccan
CANON: young avengers
AGE: 17 or 18
CANON POINT: Volume 2 / Gillen's run, just before Tommy reappears

BACKGROUND: a wiki
INCENTIVE: Being able to find his brother Tommy.

FIT: Billy is the closest to normal that can be found within the Young Avengers roster, in terms of healthy psychological development. He has no emotional damage compared Eli Bradley or Cassie Lang (prior to Volume 2 anyway), nor does he carry trauma like Kate Bishop, Teddy Altman and Tommy Shepherd do. For all intents and purposes, Billy just decided to follow his dream of becoming a hero. That aside, Billy is incapable of guile. Or at least, malicious intent. He'd sooner get hurt or hurt himself than let others be hurt in his place. Billy is optimistic about a lot of things, and doesn't give up on a line of thought if he thinks he has a chance of being right, but he is also self-aware enough to recognize that his views of the world can be painfully naive, and that despite having the power to actually dictate reality, he knows above all not to do so in respect to other people's rights to their own freedoms.

CONSENT: Long and short of it - Billy's been on the receiving end of accusations of breaking consent, which is terrifying for him as he himself isn't sure about the veracity of the statement. Because of Billy's powers of reality manipulation - realities manifest simply because he wished it - and the resulting shenanigans that followed just at the whiff of it (see Children's Crusade, where he's suggested he might follow Wanda's path and recreate another House of M type event), Billy's reached a point where he's considered disappearing for good for the sake of others, unable to deal with the idea that he has been - despite his own moral compass - unintentionally coercing people he cares about into roles that they didn't truly want to occupy.

(Volume 2 makes it clear that this isn't the case, by the end of it, and Billy and Teddy attempt to repair their relationship and maintain their friendship during their cool-off period. Prior to the wrap-up/NYE party, Teddy has doubts about their relationship being mutual, doubts justified by Billy's own powers of warping reality - I'd prefer to downplay the frankly depressing reaction Billy had as it involved suicidal ideation over the guilt brought on by such an accusation. On the other hand, the wrap-up itself is kinda iffy to me as a player - B and T essentially get back together with little resolution to the conflict, and I'd like to have my reservations for that particular development on record.

TL;DR: The later canon makes some very questionable decisions about the possibility of dubious consent presented in the series, despite the previous story arc directly contradicting said decisions.)

SAMPLES: text + prose

ANYTHING ELSE? Power caps! He's stupidly overpowered because comics, so his magic is getting capped right off the bat to restrict any potential damages.