Post by Riven on Feb 10, 2024 3:03:50 GMT
Puck
Name: Robin Goodfellow
Nickname: Puck, Owen Burnett, Hobgoblin
Canon or OC: Canon
Fandom: Gargoyles
Age: Thousands of Years
Species: Fae/Third Race/Child of Oberon
Name of Homeworld: Earth
Sexuality: Bisexual as Puck, Asexual as Owen
Face Claim: Cartoon Stills, as well as Jack London for Owen Burnett
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Appearance:As Puck, he is short, about 5'3, and thin. He wears his silvery white hair long and slicked back, with some locks spilling over his long, pointed ears in order to frame his angular face. His eyes are a bright baby blue and his face is youthful, save for the ever-present smile lines. He wears a red and gold short-sleeved shirt beneath a royal purple toga, which is pinned by a scarfpin in the shape of a lyre. He wears dark blue trousers (or perhaps tights) and red-brown, cuffed knee-high soft-soled boots. The outfit would not be complete without his golden bracers. As Owen, he stands at 5'11, with short blonde hair that is never out of place. Round, silver-rimmed glasses perch upon his hooked nose. His mouth is almost always set in a grim line, and his brow his always drawn over his blue eyes. He wears a dark blue, double-breasted suit, complete with a white collared shirt with long sleeves, a red tie, and black dress shoes. A gold wristwatch is usually worn upon his right wrist, while his left hand is perpetually in a fist after having been turned to stone. Most people think his stone fist is an eccentric prosthesis.
Weapons: As Puck, he carries no weapons but his magic. As Owen, he tends to carry a Beretta in a side holster.
Powers/Magic: Flight, Transfiguration, Conjuration, and Illusions
Physical Abilities: (as Owen): martial arts (karate, taekwondo, jiu jitsu, judo), firearm proficiency, minor hacking capabilities, management, etc.
(as Puck): dancing, playing the flute, crafting wind instruments, trickery & deception
Weaknesses:
- Iron - iron, particularly cold iron, is the weakness of all Children of Oberon. It saps their magic, and, being creatures made of pure magic, this can and will kill them if exposed over prolonged periods. The sensation is described as burning, though no fae has ever caught on fire when coming into contact with it. Weapons fashioned from iron tend to leave wounds that magic cannot heal, iron chains or cages can bind a fae, and when an iron bell is rung, it causes all fae who hear it extreme anguish.
- Faerie Law - Puck is bound by faerie law, meaning that when a bargain is struck, he is compelled to abide by that bargain to the letter. This can be used to find loopholes, which is why it’s important to make sure to be precise with your words whenever making a deal with a fae. He is also unable to resist most commands decreed by Lord Oberon.
- Mixing Magic - While not necessarily a weakness, Puck cannot mix fae magic with human magic, or else bad things will happen (ie: explosions). This is not a fact limited to him, but all creatures from his universe. So if he was healed by human magic, using fae magic to help things along would make matters far worse.
- The Xanatos Family - Harming or threatening harm to those he cares about is one sure-fire way to bring him to heel, but good luck trying to do harm to the most powerful family in Manhattan.
- More than play-acting - When Puck is masquerading as Owen, he is effectively human, meaning that so long as he remains in that form, he is vulnerable to all the same things a normal human would be. A bullet can kill him, iron or not. He can be affected by drugs and chemicals in all the same ways a human would be. It is when he is at his most vulnerable.
Likes: As Puck, he enjoys dancing and music, pranks, puzzles, the theater, sweets, and animals. As Owen, he likes his coffee black with two lumps of sugar (though he'd much prefer tea), keeping himself busy with work, reading non-fiction, classical music, and tasteful art.
Dislikes: Being dismissed or having his services go unappreciated, boring people, boring places, following a predictable/repetitive schedule, people who are unkind to animals or children
Friends/Relatives: The Xanatos Family (David, Fox, and Alexander, mainly) are his closest friends and are like family for him. He will protect them with his life.
Significant Other/Love Interest: None (yet)
Personality:A trickster, Puck is a fun-loving sprite who’s just out to have a good time. He does what is entertaining for him, be it a wholesome prank or a mean-spirited hoax. He doesn’t really care who he hurts (provided it’s not someone he cares for), so long as he gets a laugh out of it. Most of his hijinks are harmless in the long-run, though, and while he is the most powerful of Oberon’s trickster children, he is the least likely to go out of his way to truly hurt someone (it’s much more fun to annoy and inconvenience them, anyhow). He does not have any grand designs or plans, does not clamber for power. All he wants is to have fun and to follow his sense of whimsy and adventure.
He loves children, animals, and music and is almost always smiling or finding a way to slip a joke into the conversation. That isn’t to say that his demeanor is not occasionally clouded by irritation or anger, though. Best not to piss of a trickster fae, or else you’ll find yourself on the receiving end of a particularly nasty curse designed with you in mind.
The character of Owen is in sharp contrast. Where Puck is sweet and energetic, Owen is sour and taciturn. Some might even call him boring, though he has been known to let loose a dry quip here and there. In truth, he says little because he is always thinking, calculating, listening. He served David Xanatos well in this way, gathering information by simply being silent and blending in with the wallpaper.
Owen is loyal to Xanatos, serving faithfully as his right-hand man for the past decade. He gets a lot of enjoyment out of assisting the billionair with his schemes, though he rarely shows it outwardly. In fact, he and David have become quite close over the years, and they trust each other completely.
History: Up until very recently, Puck served as Oberon’s jester and servant. His antics entertained the faerie king so much that Puck was his favorite of those he called his children. Because of this, the trickster was one of the more powerful fae, able to warp and bend reality as he saw fit.
Once, long ago, Oberon, Puck, and Titania were involved in some mischief outside of Athens (which was recorded in a certain play written by William Shakespeare). When Titania had taken up the task of raising a child as a favor to the boy’s mother who had died in childbirth and was a close friend, Oberon wished to claim the boy for himself. Oberon devised a plan to force his wife to give him up, and with Puck’s help, managed to take the child while Titania was busy fawning over a man with the head of an ass.
However, Oberon grew tired of the frivolousness of their arguments and divorced Titania. He then decreed that he, his ex-wife, and all members of the Third Race leave their home of Avalon and live among the humans to learn humility, until he called for them again.
For much of this time, Puck wandered, until he found himself in Manhattan, New York. There, he found Titania in human form (known as Anastasia), married to a human by the name of Halcyon Renard, no less! This intrigued the Puck and he had to understand what was so great about these humans that even their great queen would take their shape. So, he looked to Halcyon’s assistant, Preston Vogal for inspiration. The man was about as wooden and boring as they came, which was perfect–no one would suspect he was the Puck in disguise if he was as interesting as watching paint dry. And so born was Owen Burnett, the most uninteresting man you’ll ever meet.
He started working for Halcyon and Anastasia and quickly found them to be too dull to keep him occupied. But Halcyon’s daughter Janine–later to be known as Fox–and her then boyfriend David Xanatos were exactly what he was looking for. They were devious, their plans heinous and ludicrous. They were always up to something. So, he offered his services to Xanatos instead. They began working together and the Puck enjoyed himself so much that he eventually revealed the truth to his employer. He gave him a choice: one wish from the Puck, or a lifetime of servitude from Owen. Xanatos chose Owen.
From then on, Owen served him faithfully, and he, in turn, trusted the disguised fae with all of his secrets. The two became quite close as a result. Owen accompanied Xanatos practically everywhere, like a shadow, even as far as the Scottish highlands, where they bought Castle Wyvern and began the long and arduous process of moving it atop the Eyrie Building in Manhatten. He was there when the gargoyles awoke from their slumber, and for all of the times they came to blows with Xanatos. He was there for his employer’s wedding to Fox, and helped to subdue her when she was transformed into a beast by the Eye of Odin. He’d even gone so far to test the Cauldron of Life when no other option was available, its waters exacting their price by turning his left fist to stone. Even when things were at their most dangerous, he never turned his back. Not even once. It seemed as though nothing could separate the two.
But then Fox fell pregnant, and the time of the Gathering approached. Fox was unaware of her faerie heritage, but Puck knew well that the powers that had withered within her would be strong in her son. And there was a chance–a very strong chance–that Anastasia would try to take her grandchild to Avalon. He tried his best to find a way to remain with them, even going so far as to try to steal the Pheonix Gate (a powerful magical talisman that could transport the bearer through time) from the gargoyle Goliath. But when that failed, he knew he didn’t have long. He built up the Eyrie Building’s defenses as much as possible in the event of a faerie assault, praying that they would not need it. He warned David not to leave his wife and son alone with Anastasia, gave him the codes for the defenses and detailed instructions on how to use them, and, for the first time, left his friend to fight alone.
As he left David behind in the office, guilt weighed heavily upon Owen’s heart. He could not stay, or else he, too, would be dragged back to Avalon and punished for his defiance. But leaving now was also cowardly, a betrayal to the humans he’d come to care so deeply for. He hated himself for it. It was then that he wished things could have been different, that none of this had come to pass, that there was somewhere they could run to that was safe. He stepped into the elevator and, when the doors next opened, he found himself not on the Eyrie Building’s first floor, but somewhere entirely unfamiliar.
About you.
Rp Alias: Riven
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