Amortentia Dolorosa

Basic Information

• Name: Frank Mills
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birthdate: 1943.03.23
  
• Age: 31
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• Species: Human
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Appearance

• Skin Colour: Desert-dweller tan
  
• Hair Colour: Dark brown
  
• Eye Colour: Dark brown
  
• Height: 5'10"
  
• Weight: 178
  
• Tattoos: A coyote's head in a sage wreath on his left shoulder.
  
• Scars: A wide, winding scar from his right wrist, to the elbow; an assortment of bite scars on his hands, arms, and lower legs

Wizard Traits

• Describe your wand.
  
  • Length: 10"
    
  • Core: Ashwinder Ash
    
  • Wood: Alder
• Familiar: Raven
  
• Patronus: Coyote
  
• Bloodline: Mixed
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• Animagus?: N
  
• Parseltongue?: N
  
• Other?: N
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Personality

• Type: ISTP
  
• Likes: Dos Equis, Jules Verne, electricity, trickster gods, invention, money, pirate stories, peyote, Mormon tea, Catholics
  
• Dislikes: Inadvertently electrocuting himself, getting bitten by rattlesnakes, hospitals, Muggle medicine, laws meant to protect man from himself, power in the hands of the few
  
• Fears: Blowing himself up, getting arrested without his wand, pissing off the Pueblo elders, skinwalkers, tent revivals
  
• Greatest Desire: To boldly violate the laws of reality, in a way that cannot be ignored.
  
• Worst Fear: Skinwalkers disguised as hunting hyenas.
  
• How would your friends describe you?
  They'd call me a mean old coot. Then they'd laugh at you and get me another beer.
  
  
• What do you like best about yourself?
  I'm inventive, and I've got the magic and the technology to do something about it. D'you know what kind of research they're doing down in White Sands? D'you know what I could do with that?
  
  
• What do you like least about yourself?
  I'm not indestructible, as I keep getting reminded. (He kicks a rusty metal contraption, on the edge of the porch, which sparks and sprays flaming doves that then vanish.)
  

Background

• Hometown: Gallup, NM, USA
  
• Academy: Acoma Academy (Technoshaman)
  
• Profession: Smuggler
  
• Pets: A barn full of half-coyote dogs
  
• Family:
  - Mother: Mariana Vallejos
  - Father: Joe Mills
  - Brother: Jesse Mills
  - Godfather: Atsidi Yazzie
  
• Significant Other: Yolanda Begay
  
• History:
  Once upon a time, there lived a white man, in the desert, and his name was Joe. He doctored cows, for a living, which was the kind of thing one did, in the middle of the desert, in the mid-1930s. His best friend was a wise-ass Navajo blacksmith, and he took, for his wife, the witch from the bar they both drank at. In time, a son was born to him, and he named that son Jesse. In more time, another son was born to him -- this one slightly less expected, and showing all the signs of two parents living on the Elders' lands. That son was named Frank.
  
  Growing up, Frank Mills was a fairly normal boy, for the time and place. He went to school with his father's people and played games with his uncle Atsidi's nephews and nieces. From time to time, movie crews would come to town to film, and Joe would take his sons out to watch. On rarer occasions, Frank would do things that made his Navajo friends laugh and his white friends afraid -- like the time he fell off the cliff and bounced, walked away without a scratch. Slowly, the parents of his white friends started to suggest they not hang around the Mills boys, any more, but Joe and Mariana remained unshaken. Their boy just had a talent for weird things, and in a weird town like Gallup, how could anyone expect things to remain normal? It wasn't as though Mariana's brothers hadn't been much the same, although being a girl, her own introduction to magic had been much more restrained and appropriate to indoor activities.
  
  Sure enough, in time, both sons were called upon by the Elders' children, and invited to study at the Acoma Academy -- Jesse first, and then Frank. Jesse chose to study as a Naturalist -- learning to get the most from the land, but Frank was a wild child, choosing to study in the emerging discipline of Technoshamanism.
  
  After he graduated, Frank set up shop, in Gallup, as an electrician. There was no man in town who could get your television working faster than old Frank, and his former detractors came back around, saying that boarding school his parents sent him to must've straightened him out... Except it really hadn't. They just didn't have to know he was enchanting their electronics, to keep them working. Sometimes it really was just a matter of making sure that one piece stayed where it should, in a house full of screaming lunatic children, who shook the walls, running up and down the stairs. It was easier and cheaper to just put a spell on it that fed off the house electricity, than it was to try to fix some things, the traditional way.
  
  In time, he learned that other Wizarding communities had restrictions on the kinds of work that he did, so he set about smuggling harmless, but useful, tools into those places. This year, the work has brought him to London.

Other Notes:

• Are you playing any other characters here? Yes.
• Two types of 'elders' are referenced, here. With a lowercase 'e', it means the folks in charge on the reservation. With a capital 'E', it means the gods of the region.

You say he's mixed blood, but both parents act like extremely tolerant Muggles. More explanation? Reconsider his lineage?

Also, I know what you mean, but more distinction between the elders and the Elders?

Better. Thanks. I like the way the blending of culture comes through in Mariana's flippant disregard for magical talent as anything other than 'boys are like that'.

Arcturus should be through, soon, with the second round.

Thank you for the clarifications. Especially as regards his mother's status as a witch. Previously, it read more ambiguously, leaving me uncertain as to whether she was a squib.

In other regards, I heartily approve of this character, and am glad to see one one from the region.