alec (𝘩𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘶𝘥𝘦) brennan⚡ (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
striketwice) wrote2017-04-19 02:53 pm
striketwice) wrote2017-04-19 02:53 pm
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alec brennan
The product of a one night stand, Alec is the son of Thomas Brennan, a former wizarding mercenary, and Sabrina Cordell, a human debutante. After a misguided attempt to blackmail Sabrina over the existence of Alec, Thomas wound up dead, and Alec would have very nearly followed suit if not for the fact that he was faster on the draw with his magic than his would-be assailant was with his gun.
Not long after that, Alec fell in with his dad’s old merc group, and they taught him the tools of the trade.
Alec now makes a living as a hacker and an information broker, acting as a sort of deeply embittered Robin Hood who steals secrets from the rich, ruining their lives and their reputation for the benefit of the poor. He's cocky, abrasive, and certainly not out to make friends. He's just here to do his job.
Not long after that, Alec fell in with his dad’s old merc group, and they taught him the tools of the trade.
Alec now makes a living as a hacker and an information broker, acting as a sort of deeply embittered Robin Hood who steals secrets from the rich, ruining their lives and their reputation for the benefit of the poor. He's cocky, abrasive, and certainly not out to make friends. He's just here to do his job.
personality
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well-prepared . adaptable . intelligent . genre-savvy . pragmatic . sympathetic
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abrasive . selfish . ruthless . closed off . cocky . workaholic . self-loathing
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this storm's out for blood: a spotify playlist (the vibes are immaculate)
appearance
Alec strives to appear utterly, completely unremarkable. He’s just your average guy, with short hair, a bit of scruff, and a casual and probably boring sense of style. He tends to favor long sleeves in some fashion pretty much all of the time. His arms are covered in a series of solid black bands tattooed onto his skin. There are twelve in all in varying widths that start at his wrists and go up to his shoulders.
Otherwise, Alec has no shortage of scars from his life as a mercenary. Some are minor, others look more serious, like the wounds that left them were potentially deadly. They’re mostly peppered all over his torso.
Otherwise, Alec has no shortage of scars from his life as a mercenary. Some are minor, others look more serious, like the wounds that left them were potentially deadly. They’re mostly peppered all over his torso.
abilities
full background
Alec's world is little different from our own, aside from the presence of magic and the supernatural. The magical community at large takes care to stay under the radar and out of the public eye. For the most part, everyone keeps to their own- wizards have their own, self-contained society; psychics, lycanthropes, etc, etc, have their own, self-contained society, and so on and so forth.
Wizards in this world make use of a special runic alphabet to cast spells. This alphabet is extremely extensive, and it is common practice for wizards to choose a Specialization, a set of runes that serve a specific function, and devote their skill and studies to that. As such, wizards are given classifications based on their area of study; Mender, Destroyer, Illusionist, Enhancer, Defender, etc, etc. Wizards who pick and choose from Specializations without focusing on a single one are called Jacks, as in "Jack of all trades, master of none". This is highly frowned upon, thanks in no small part to the massive class divide between older "upperclass" wizarding families who hold their legacy above all else, and... literally everyone else. Jacks are considered little more than thugs or muscle for hire. A wizard's power is also solely passed down through the males of the family, from father to son. Girls born to a wizarding father usually possess a singular magic Talent, and cannot use the runes to do magic, as far as anyone is aware.
The product of a one night stand, Alec is the son of Thomas Brennan, a former wizarding mercenary, and Sabrina Cordell, a regular human and the daughter of one of Chicago's many crime families, with heavy ties in the drug trade. After he was born, Alec’s mother vanished from his life, leaving him with his dad, who had done his best to straighten out his act in order to provide for his son. He left his mercenary group and studied in earnest to become a Mender, a wizard whose focus is repairing broken objects. They lived and worked in a tiny mechanic shop, scraping to get by, very much on the bottom of the food chain in every way. Alec was always resentful of his absentee mother, who had more than enough money to easily provide for them both, but instead chose to act as though they didn’t exist.
It was probably Alec’s bitterness an unhappiness that prompted Thomas to make a misguided attempt to blackmail Sabrina over the existence of Alec. Thomas wound up dead, and Alec would have very nearly followed suit if not for the fact that he was faster on the draw with his magic than his would-be assailant was with his gun.
Not long after that, Alec fell in with his dad’s old merc group, and they taught him the tools of the trade. Where before, Alec was an Elementialist, a wizard whose focus lies in wielding the elements, he learned enough to be classified as a Jack. While his strengths still very much lie in Elemental magic, he learned spells to pick locks and to make himself invisible and to enhance his natural strength and speed. As technology began to evolve, he shifted his studies there, leaving behind his mercenary roots in order to become a hacker, an information dealer, and a man very adept in the art of manipulation.
With his newfound skills as an information broker and saboteur, he tracked down his mother, and effectively ruined her life by exposing her and her family’s misdeeds, destroying her reputation and her marriage to a well-to-do businessman. But he didn’t stop there. Alec keeps mostly to the shadows, working as an embittered sort of Robin Hood, and making a name for himself by pulling power and influence out from underneath those who had it, for the benefit of those who did not. He has no preference for whether or not his clients or victims are human or wizard. A rich asshole is a rich asshole, and he loves taking them down a peg or two or seven. Now and again, he’ll join forces with his old merc team, or they with him, but Alec is much more comfortable behind a monitor than he is out in the field, slinging magic around.
Wizards in this world make use of a special runic alphabet to cast spells. This alphabet is extremely extensive, and it is common practice for wizards to choose a Specialization, a set of runes that serve a specific function, and devote their skill and studies to that. As such, wizards are given classifications based on their area of study; Mender, Destroyer, Illusionist, Enhancer, Defender, etc, etc. Wizards who pick and choose from Specializations without focusing on a single one are called Jacks, as in "Jack of all trades, master of none". This is highly frowned upon, thanks in no small part to the massive class divide between older "upperclass" wizarding families who hold their legacy above all else, and... literally everyone else. Jacks are considered little more than thugs or muscle for hire. A wizard's power is also solely passed down through the males of the family, from father to son. Girls born to a wizarding father usually possess a singular magic Talent, and cannot use the runes to do magic, as far as anyone is aware.
The product of a one night stand, Alec is the son of Thomas Brennan, a former wizarding mercenary, and Sabrina Cordell, a regular human and the daughter of one of Chicago's many crime families, with heavy ties in the drug trade. After he was born, Alec’s mother vanished from his life, leaving him with his dad, who had done his best to straighten out his act in order to provide for his son. He left his mercenary group and studied in earnest to become a Mender, a wizard whose focus is repairing broken objects. They lived and worked in a tiny mechanic shop, scraping to get by, very much on the bottom of the food chain in every way. Alec was always resentful of his absentee mother, who had more than enough money to easily provide for them both, but instead chose to act as though they didn’t exist.
It was probably Alec’s bitterness an unhappiness that prompted Thomas to make a misguided attempt to blackmail Sabrina over the existence of Alec. Thomas wound up dead, and Alec would have very nearly followed suit if not for the fact that he was faster on the draw with his magic than his would-be assailant was with his gun.
Not long after that, Alec fell in with his dad’s old merc group, and they taught him the tools of the trade. Where before, Alec was an Elementialist, a wizard whose focus lies in wielding the elements, he learned enough to be classified as a Jack. While his strengths still very much lie in Elemental magic, he learned spells to pick locks and to make himself invisible and to enhance his natural strength and speed. As technology began to evolve, he shifted his studies there, leaving behind his mercenary roots in order to become a hacker, an information dealer, and a man very adept in the art of manipulation.
With his newfound skills as an information broker and saboteur, he tracked down his mother, and effectively ruined her life by exposing her and her family’s misdeeds, destroying her reputation and her marriage to a well-to-do businessman. But he didn’t stop there. Alec keeps mostly to the shadows, working as an embittered sort of Robin Hood, and making a name for himself by pulling power and influence out from underneath those who had it, for the benefit of those who did not. He has no preference for whether or not his clients or victims are human or wizard. A rich asshole is a rich asshole, and he loves taking them down a peg or two or seven. Now and again, he’ll join forces with his old merc team, or they with him, but Alec is much more comfortable behind a monitor than he is out in the field, slinging magic around.