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( History )
Conor, although commonly addressed as a "he," was born intersex, having a female's genitalia. While Alexander wanted to raise him as a boy, Diana saw and knew the fate which awaited Conor, and so she raised him to embrace his ambiguity, so she would let him try on girl clothes such a dresses and skirts - he likes skirts, not so much dresses - when he was still young and his sex was a bit indistinguishable. She did not wanting him to fall into the practice of supporting gender roles.
When Conor began going to school, he was picked on because he was scrawny and deemed a nerd. He was constantly bullied and came home bruised and beaten up on an almost daily basis. When his bully witnessed him going to the girl's bathroom, he soon found out Conor was intersex. He was then bombarded with insults such as "fag," "homo," "tranny," "sissy," "girlyboy," "shemale," and "cuntboy." After coming close to death in sixth grade, his powers finally came in. Without knowing what was happening or how to correctly channel them, fueled by his hate, he nearly killed his bully. The bullies were left with sever mental trauma. Conor's first taste of witchcraft was dark magic.
Conor's coven elders - his paternal grandmother and grandfather, and his maternal great uncle and great aunt - told his parents that it was time to reveal to him what he was. Diana and Alexander taught him magic, Alexander taught him how to fight, and Diana taught him how to play music. His siblings were kept in the dark due to their young age. By the time he was fifteen, he wanted to use magic to help others. Eventually, S.H.I.E.L.D. heard of an all-too-young boy trying to stop bank robberies with incantations, and stepped in to stop the child from being harmed.
His siblings also possessed magic, as did his parents. His father had power over nether, darkness, and death-force. His mother had power over aether, light, and life-force. Freya had power over stone, wood, and metal. Zephyr had power over air, lighting, and sound. Isis had power over water, ice, and vapour. Aedus had power over fire, heat, and magma. Conor himself has power over the mind, memories, emotions, dreams, and illusions. There is a prophecy tied to Conor, he is said to become a hermaphrodite, a more fitting embodiment of the element of spirit, and will become one with his religion's androgynous creator god and source of magic.
( family )
Diana Gardner nee Bonewits | Mother | 36
Alexander Gardner | Father | 38
Freya Gardner | Sister | 14
Zephyr Gardner | Brother | 12
Isis Gardner | Sister | 10
Aedus Gardner | Brother | 8
Ross Gardner | Paternal Great Uncle | 78, Deceased
Gerald Gardner | Paternal Grandfather | 72
Edith Gardner nee Woods | Paternal Grandmother | 88
Doreen Woods | Paternal Great Aunt| 77, Deceased
Jack Jarlson | Maternal Great Uncle | 87
Eleanor Jarlson | Maternal Great Aunt | 90
Cora Bonewits nee Jarlson | Maternal Grandmother | 93, Deceased
Victor Bonewits | Maternal Grandfather | 84, Deceased
Patricia Bonewits | Maternal Great Aunt | 88, Deceased
( pets )
Thelema, pet cat and familiar
( Equipment )
( weapons )
A boline and athame are tied at the left hip, a small grimoire at right hip. These never leave Conor's side. He also wear a metal ring, it grounds his energy and recycles any excess quintessence that is released when he use his powers. He carries a flask of holy water in his back pocket to cleanse his hands before going into battle. His staff is often held in left hand, and is used for close combat. His wand in held in the right hand and is used for long-ranged combat. These weapons are not always on hand. Conor also uses a bow and arrow as well. Potions, in various physical forms, are also used - from bombs that disperses gas to powdered drugs to slip into drinks.
( fighting style )
The staff he uses can also be used as a bo staff, not only to channel magic. He knows basic martial arts and general parkour skills.
( Powers )
Magic
↳ User has access to Magic, the use of rituals, symbols, actions, gestures and language to exploit supernatural forces to varying degrees, with only their skill, personal power-level, imagination/knowledge, and/or morality to define the borders. Given the flexibility of magic, they have essentially unlimited possibilities for what to do.Spell CastingMind Manipulation
↳ User can cast spells, an action that allows one to magically alter reality to varying extents. It is often a series of words that take effect when spoken, though others are able to cast spells merely by thinking, with gestures, with magical objects or through a ritual of some sort. Incorrect pronunciation of a spell may have negative effects (such as the spell being thrown back at the user, or producing a different effect than expected).
Potion Brewing
↳ User can create potions: substances with magical properties such as enhancing physical and mental abilities, healing, granting powers, chancing shape, or bewitching someone depending on the kind of potion that is made. Some potions come in different forms of liquid, such as jelly, stew, brew, or even soup. They can also be made into solid form, often pills, powder, candy, and possibly drugs. Incorrect brewing may cause backfiring. Effects are temporary, unless they are specifically made to be permanent.
↳ The user can manipulate, modify and control the thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions, allowing the ability to render others unconscious, suppress their memories, and negate the use of abilities, increase/decrease mental capacity, modify minds to be agreeable, sway sensations to induce altered perception, bestow mental disorders or break down mental barriers. They can make others think what they want, control thinking processes, cause the lose their line of thought, induce confusion, or completely shut down thinking processes. Mind control requires a lot of concentration.Memory Manipulation( Spiritual Beliefs )
↳ User can control memories of oneself and others, allowing them to modify, fabricate, suppress, influence, repair, restore, erase, detect, and view them. They can change memories to confuse, wipe away certain memories to cause amnesia, discern and provoke nostalgia, and enter the victim into a psychic vision, replaying their memory. May confuse the user's memories with someone else's. Manipulated memories can be undone by conflicting historical evidence or Retrocognition.
Emotion Manipulation
↳ User can sense and manipulate the emotions, including feelings, moods and their affects, of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions. Some applications may cause emotional backlash.
Dream Manipulation
↳ User can create, shape, enter and manipulate the dreams of oneself and others, including modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, manifesting, sensing, and observing dreams as well as nightmares, daydreams, etc. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming, entrap people in REM, and promote spiritual/emotional healing within dreams. The user can only affect sleeping subjects. This may be rectified by using "daydreams" or inducing sleep. User needs to be asleep themselves to use this power, leaving their body defenseless.
Illusion Manipulation
↳ User can create, shape and manipulate illusions, causing targets to see, hear, touch, smell and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are. Some users can create complex and detailed worlds, others may be able to only alter the way they or the target are perceived. User may be unable to create accurate illusions, such as making things that don't exist or situations that would never happen in a million years. One common mistake is misplacing a feature on a person, or forgetting to add shadows to their forms.
( religion )
Conor's family, starting from his grandparents, are wiccan, influenced mainly the Nordic and Celtic mythologies. They believe that the creator is neither male nor female, but, in the narrative allegories told, it is often depicted as being split into two halves, the god and the goddess, which can be split further into different faces to represent the gods of different, specific things. These aspects can be misinterpreted as the relatives - siblings or progeny - of the 'main' god and goddess of the religion, as if there were multiple gods, when in actually, they worship a single god through masculine and feminine aspects.
On Yule, the Goddess births the God. At Imbolc, the Goddess recovers from the birth. At Ostara, they fall in love. On Beltane, they are engaged. At Litha, they are married. On Lughnasadh, the God is aging, yet the Goddess is pregnant. At Mabon, the God is on his death bed, preparing to die. On Samhain, he dies, and the cycle begins anew.
The God is sometimes represented in the twins the Holly King of Darkness and the Oak King of Light. They fight to marry the Goddess. At Ostara, the two Kings battle. On Beltane, the Holly King falls. At Litha, the Oak King reigns. On Lughnasadh, the Holly King rises. At Mabon, they battle once more. On Samhain, the Oak King falls. At Yule, the Holly King reigns. On Imbolc, the Oak King rises. And so the cycle starts all over. The goddess is sometimes seen as the Breech Queen of Light and the Ivy Queen of Darkness.
( Other )
The surname Gardner is inspired by Gardnerian Wicca, founded by Gerald Gardner, the Father of Wicca. The name Alexander is inspired by Alexandrian Wicca, founded by Alex Sanders. Diana comes from Dianic Wicca, which is a feminist tradition. The fornames and surnames of his great aunts, uncles, and grandparents are references to various early neo-pagans, druids, and wiccans as well.
Conor's siblings' names tie in the four major mythologies that inspire neopagans - Norse, Greek, Egyptian, and Celtic respectively. They also, more or less, tie into their individual element, with the exception of his sister Isis.
Being intersex, Conor has a male physique but an female's genitalia. He is fated to become a hermaphrodite, having both male and female reproductive systems as a representation of the androgynous element of spirit.
Born on November first, on the Sabbat of Samhain. It is pronounced SOW-in or SAH-vin, but many mispronounce it as SAM-hayne, so people call him Sam, Sammy, and Samantha. This is also why he is called November.
_gynandrous_ is his handle for every form of social media. It is the plant form of androgynous and is meant to refer to his sex and gender.
Spells are said in reverse. Such as "Etaerc a elbbub fo elbisivni ruomalg!" meaning "Create a bubble of invisible glamour!" which causes whatever is in the bubble to be unseen. Mispronunciation, especially in a lengthy incantation, can be disastrous.
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