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High King Margo | T h e C r e a t o r ([personal profile] ibiza) wrote2018-02-18 12:54 am

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OOC:

Player Name: Bridget
Age: 33
Contact: bridgetvanzandt@gmail.com

IC:

Name: Margo Hanson
Canon: The Magicians
Canon Point: Post The Rattening
Age: 24

Spoken language(s): English, very limited Spanish, very limited French
Username: bonnie
To the Mods: Margo is coming in with CRAU. Margo is a witch with magical abilities. They are far from game breaking. She can cast simple spells and mix potions if she has the ingredients. Margo also has access to battle magic, which basically means she can send invisible and silent blasts at attackers that will land them flat on their asses if she’s quick enough to catch them.

History: Margo learned of her talent for magic sometime during adolescence. In canon she has admitted to having issues around this time, and we’re talking serious issues. Margo was so ill-adjusted that she wound up as the mastermind behind a magical bank heist in her senior year of high school. As far as we know, it went off without a hitch.

She attended UCLA where she majored in theater, but the real story begins in grad school. Having passed the nearly impossible entrance exam, Margo found herself as a student at Brakebills University, pegged as a specialist in physical magic. There she got to know Eliot Waugh who would become the best friend she’d ever had. The two of them would be partners in crime throwing parties, dabbling in the illegal, and participating in orgies together.

Their lives would change with the arrival of a younger student named Quentin. With him came a lot of trouble and plenty of near death experiences, but also the opportunity to travel to another world named Fillory.

In Fillory, Eliot learned that he had royal blood and was crowned High King. He chose none other than his Bambi, Margo, to rule as High Queen next to him, and for Quentin and another of their friends to fill out other positions in the royal court. It wasn’t smooth at first, but that was only a taste of what was to come.

The source of all magic in all worlds, the Fillorian Wellspring, had been tainted, and therefore magic in every world was experiencing brownouts. Spells were temperamental and a solution needed to be found. That responsibility now fell on Eliot and Margo’s shoulders.

In addition to that, after being duped and deeply offended by a Crown Prince, Margo declared war on a neighboring kingdom in the heat of the moment – A war, as it turned out, that Fillory could not afford to fight. Once more, Margo had to return to Earth to pull off another magical bank heist to steal enough gold bars to fund the war she had caused. Even then, it wasn’t so easy. Problems kept mounting up until Eliot decided to solve their problem by challenging the king of the neighboring kingdom to a sword fight. He believed that, with magic, he could become an expert swordfighter. It was true – A magic spell had him fighting even more impressively than the other king, but the Wellspring was fickle. Fearing that Eliot would die due to a magical brownout, Margo bargained with the only beings in Fillory that could help ensure the magic wouldn’t run out – the fairies. They agreed to fix the Wellspring in exchange for a child and Margo was willing to have a child for them, but they wanted the child carried by Eliot’s pregnant wife. Desperate, Margo bargained off Eliot’s unborn child thinking it would save his life. The Wellspring was fixed, but the bargain was for naught. Eliot returned to the castle declaring to Margo that he had ended the war by agreeing to marry the king of the other kingdom. She kept her bargain with the fairies a secret.

This was around the time Margo took some time to travel back to Earth, New York City to be specific. That was where she met the Gecko brothers and Kate. Margo quickly grew fond of them, especially the elder Gecko brother, Seth, and she charmed him rather quickly, too. They became an item and he provided her with a nice place to stay in the city, but soon enough they were on the road. They robbed a bank together and crossed the border into Mexico for some down time on the beach. That was when she showed up in Reims.

Personality: One quality that definitely defines Margo and all that happens in her life is her craftiness or cunning. She is not always straightforward in trying to achieve what she wants. For instance, she has drugged a friend to get him to participate in a test and she has carefully chosen her words in a conversation to get a girl to bargain away her unborn child to fairies to save Margo’s best friend’s life. There is no doubt that there is a great deal of intelligence behind her machinations, but they are usually less than honest.

Another important facet of Margo is her loyalty to those who are important to her. In canon, she has risked her life, sacrificed one of her eyes, and done despicable things all in the name of protecting her friends. She would likely lay down her own life before letting anyone harm her best friend Eliot who is undoubtedly the one person she truly lets in past her rough exterior. Another character in her character once commented that she didn’t have any friends, but Margo has a handful of them and she treats the bond of friendship as if it was something sacred. Margo would never willingly betray her friends.

You will not be able to miss Margo’s confidence. It might very well be her most obvious attribute. Well before she was crowned High Queen of Fillory, Margo walked around the campus of Brakebills University like she was a queen from birth. That self-esteem runs deep in her veins and it is even visible in the way she walks. It takes a hell of a lot to shake up her confidence. In canon she even lost an eye and still didn’t feel all that bad about her appearance. Oddly enough, the one thing that seemed to rock her to her core was a casually made comment that she didn’t have any friends, only people who were afraid of her.

Lastly, Margo is extremely tough. She is physically very small, being short and of a slight build, but you would be wise not to mess around with her. Not a lot has been said about Margo’s childhood, but it was unhappy and she had “issues.” Surviving an unhappy childhood and said issues, I suspect, helped build the thick skin she has now. She has become talented with magic and can defend herself and others with it well. When magic fails she has resorted to more conventional methods, like handguns. If physical violence is too dire a measure, Margo has one of the sharpest tongues around and she even use that like a weapon.

Abilities/Skills: Margo is an excellent strategist. She has planned out a literal war before along with a total of three successful bank robberies. Where she comes from, offerings are a common thing whether they be for gods or just for superior witches, so Margo has learned to cook and bake well and how to enchant booze so that it gives euphoric effects. Margo has obvious magical skills like spellcasting and potion brewing.

Samples: Log Sample: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/3961392.html?thread=1830295344#cmt1830295344

Network Sample: UN: bonnie
New here.
Anyone willing to trade fresh fruit/veggies for simple magical spells? I reserve the right to decline doing a spell based on morals or grossness.


Further samples?
https://duskofthegods.dreamwidth.org/9303.html?thread=390231#cmt390231
https://quietplacememes.dreamwidth.org/2011.html?thread=1000155#cmt1000155

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