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existencemisspentBecause there's absolutely no way I could let there be a Margo on this island without her platonic-life-partner-in-crime, meet Eliot Waugh:
it's pronounced "Wah". As in the noise you make when you look upon such beauty and weep
He's from Margo's canon and her timeline, following her to Fandom because while he's not totally nonfunctional without her, he's basically a ticking time bomb of poor coping mechanisms waiting to go off on a good day, of which his dependency on her is the least likely to get him or anyone else killed.
It's definitely the most fabulous of his coping mechanisms, too
Margo's info post did an excellent job of explaining the universe of The Magicians, so I won't get into that here. Suffice to say, Eliot comes from a world where magic is fueled by pain, and even by the point he's coming from (about midway through episode 3x01), that makes him a stupid powerful magician.
What do you mean that's not an appropriate emotional response?
Eliot is a tenderhearted little queer boy from rural Indiana, so his childhood very much sucked ass. He was bullied at school and at home, to the point where, when his magic first revealed itself, it was by telekinetically pushing his worst bully in front of a bus. He got the fuck out of there as soon as he could and never looked back, recreating himself from the ground up into the fabulously well-dressed, disaffected hedonist he is today.
I'm really annoyed I couldn't find a gif of this moment
Eliot has done such a great job building himself into a beautiful disaster, in fact, that Ember, chaotic god of the magical world Fillory, decided that he'd make a very entertaining High King. And considering that one of Eliot's very first High Kingly projects was to try to invent Fillorian champagne, well. He wasn't wrong. Unfortunately, Eliot happened to be in a moment of emotional crisis at the time, having recently had to murder his possessed boyfriend to save his magical mentor figure, so he had to go and take the job really seriously, even though it meant being stuck in Fillory indefinitely and marrying the daughter of a blacksmith on sight in a ceremony that magically ensured his fidelity to her. And he's not even that into women! He's like a 5 on the Kinsey scale! But goddammit, he was going try to fix Fillory and run the place well.
He even learned how to wield a broadsword in a duel! With or without singing "One Day More" to psych himself up for battle!
Oh, and also, thenthe love of Eliot's life Eliot's best friend bar Margo murdered the shit out of Ember, pissing off Ember's parents, the old gods, and getting magic shut down for the entire Magicians multiverse.
Oops.
The face of a god-killer
Our Margo managed to miss that bit, alas. She's probably going to be pissed.
Anyway. TL;DR, Eliot Waugh is a fabulously hot mess who likes to hide behind blase, ironic snark and can make all sorts of fascinating things happen when he wiggles his fingers in specific ways. He's never met an addiction he didn't go hog wild for (booze, drugs, sex, food. . . .), but all less-than-socially-acceptable levels of inebriation and casual drug use will go under cuts and be warned for. He doesn't curse quite as much like a sailor as his beloved Margo does, but he will absolutely casually drop all sorts of obscenities at the drop of a hat and potentially call your character something nasty if they get on his wrong side. (Nastiness is all Eliot, no Bella. He's snarky and can absolutely be cruel, especially if things in his personal life have gone even more to shit than usual and/or he's run out of cigarettes.) He is always decadently dressed and has a Thing for waist coats and guyliner, and we share the same hair type so I may well be absolutely obnoxious about his curls.
You've been warned.
As for my other peeps:
Duke Crocker
Travis Montgomery
Malia Tate
Bella the mun
Questions?
it's pronounced "Wah". As in the noise you make when you look upon such beauty and weep
He's from Margo's canon and her timeline, following her to Fandom because while he's not totally nonfunctional without her, he's basically a ticking time bomb of poor coping mechanisms waiting to go off on a good day, of which his dependency on her is the least likely to get him or anyone else killed.
It's definitely the most fabulous of his coping mechanisms, too
Margo's info post did an excellent job of explaining the universe of The Magicians, so I won't get into that here. Suffice to say, Eliot comes from a world where magic is fueled by pain, and even by the point he's coming from (about midway through episode 3x01), that makes him a stupid powerful magician.
What do you mean that's not an appropriate emotional response?
Eliot is a tenderhearted little queer boy from rural Indiana, so his childhood very much sucked ass. He was bullied at school and at home, to the point where, when his magic first revealed itself, it was by telekinetically pushing his worst bully in front of a bus. He got the fuck out of there as soon as he could and never looked back, recreating himself from the ground up into the fabulously well-dressed, disaffected hedonist he is today.
I'm really annoyed I couldn't find a gif of this moment
Eliot has done such a great job building himself into a beautiful disaster, in fact, that Ember, chaotic god of the magical world Fillory, decided that he'd make a very entertaining High King. And considering that one of Eliot's very first High Kingly projects was to try to invent Fillorian champagne, well. He wasn't wrong. Unfortunately, Eliot happened to be in a moment of emotional crisis at the time, having recently had to murder his possessed boyfriend to save his magical mentor figure, so he had to go and take the job really seriously, even though it meant being stuck in Fillory indefinitely and marrying the daughter of a blacksmith on sight in a ceremony that magically ensured his fidelity to her. And he's not even that into women! He's like a 5 on the Kinsey scale! But goddammit, he was going try to fix Fillory and run the place well.
He even learned how to wield a broadsword in a duel! With or without singing "One Day More" to psych himself up for battle!
Oh, and also, then
Oops.
The face of a god-killer
Our Margo managed to miss that bit, alas. She's probably going to be pissed.
Anyway. TL;DR, Eliot Waugh is a fabulously hot mess who likes to hide behind blase, ironic snark and can make all sorts of fascinating things happen when he wiggles his fingers in specific ways. He's never met an addiction he didn't go hog wild for (booze, drugs, sex, food. . . .), but all less-than-socially-acceptable levels of inebriation and casual drug use will go under cuts and be warned for. He doesn't curse quite as much like a sailor as his beloved Margo does, but he will absolutely casually drop all sorts of obscenities at the drop of a hat and potentially call your character something nasty if they get on his wrong side. (Nastiness is all Eliot, no Bella. He's snarky and can absolutely be cruel, especially if things in his personal life have gone even more to shit than usual and/or he's run out of cigarettes.) He is always decadently dressed and has a Thing for waist coats and guyliner, and we share the same hair type so I may well be absolutely obnoxious about his curls.
You've been warned.
As for my other peeps:
- Runs Luke's
- Lives on the big rusty boat in the port
- Is deeply in love with my_own_advocate and okteiviakom
- Just got back from running through Lucifer's canon to date
- Is going to take it easy for awhile before running through some of his own canon
- Poor tortured baby boy
- Runs the fire station
- Also lives there full time
- Is feeling very antisocial of late but hopefully will get out more
- Just
very handwavilyhad his old mentor figure come back from the dead and tell him he's not emotionally stable enough to handle his dead husband coming back from the dead - Probably does a fair amount of drinking about it
- I definitely have a "poor tortured baby boy" type lately, don't I
- Is a student
- Rooms with craickiller
- But spends most of her time out on the preserve
- Is a werecoyote
- And still annoyed not to just be a coyote full time
- But has
handwavilybeen working on her control - "Needs to get out more" is maybe also one of my types
- Is on the east coast
- stays up too late
- got nothing in my brain
- that's what people saaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaay
- Unironically loves that movie
- spends most of my time knitting or playing phone games, but at least that means my email's right there?
Questions?
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Date: 2021-08-29 03:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-08-29 03:57 pm (UTC)