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Template:PC Summary Awakening Born: November 15, 1986
Age: 28
Rank: 2nd-degree Disciple
Consilium Titles: Sentinel, Herald
Guardian Titles: Neophyte Emissary
Physical Description: Almost always dressed in a t-shirt and hoodie or an open shirt over a t-shirt, Beckett is a paragon of casual attire and laziness.
Nimbus: A dolly zoom/Hitchcock zoom which distorts the viewer’s perspective and makes Beckett appear larger while the background drops away. Simultaneously, the same effect applies to his eyes - they appear larger still and Beckett himself almost seems to drop away.

Guiding Principle: "So my job is manipulation. Here's the thing - you can drop an idea in someone's head, play around with their emotions, trick their senses and generally mislead them but at the end of the day they're still a person with their own needs and desires. The moment that stops being true, you're not manipulating anymore... you're doing something else and that isn't what I do."

About

Beckett is a slightly famous local stage hypnotist. In his spare time he's slowly working on having a fully stocked tass bar at home. His three favourite things are alcohol, women and glib sarcastic remarks.

Beckett would like nothing more than to have an easy life where he doesn't have much to do, but events almost always conspire against him and force him into roles of responsibility (or at least, he thinks so). When relating to mages from other cities Beckett generally assumes a kind of cheery fatalism, just to brighten their day. He's not really that concerned about living under the threat of annihilation at the hands of the Banishers - he's more concerned about whether or not he gets the immediate tasks in front of him sorted, so he can take a break.

Noteworthy Deeds

His Awakening occurred after his major claim to fame - performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival
He was briefly turned part Tick-Tock Man to save the national speakers for each Order from accidentally being subject to the same effect
He, Derek Drako and Cuffs saved the universe one time

Rumours

He can do Mind magic without using supernal magic
He hates magic
- Untrue, but he REALLY hates people who say he hates magic
He may be compiling some very radical Supernal theories about the way the universe works and hiding them somewhere people won't find them

Quotes By

"Sexy cop with a fast car. I'd vote for her."

- After meeting Cuffs

"If you see something
Say nothing
And drink to forget"

- Beckett's motto (taken from his favourite t-shirt)

"Hey guys. Hey guys. Hey guys. HEY GUYS!"
*points to the mobile phone in his hand*
"This is currently being tracked by the Banishers. We probably have about five minutes to flee."

- Beckett having real trouble trying to save people's lives over them arguing with each other

"Hrm, so I'm a Scorpio. And under the Chinese astrological calendar I'm a Fire Tiger. That's three separate astrological measures which all say the exact same thing. Am... am I the Mastigossiah?"

- Random observation

Quotes About

"BECKETT! HOW DID YOU INFILTRATE THE ENTIRE FRICKEN ARROW?!"

- Princess Pwnage after a national Adamantine Arrow meeting where the Arrow unanimously told her she should listen to him

"I know you want to give me the book. You're a guardian of the Veil, a good one, and you know that you don't want that book."

-I. P. Smith, reminding Beckett who he is

"I trust you. You've got to have some professional ethics, right?"

- Sash, giving Beckett her hand and allowing him into her mind

Conversations

"But you have made me realise that when I become a Space master, I just need a blue box to pick up chicks..."
"Oh, man, you could just show up to generic geekery conventions and be drowning in it. No, bad Mastigos! It is unfair to prey on lonely geeky girls. ...I think.
Actually, they'd probably love that. Carry on."

- Beckett and Sash at the end of a serious discussion of how quantum mechanics, c-space and temporal theory, vulgar magic, alternate world lines and the Abyss all possibly tie together

Inspirations

♪ I got so sick of being on my own,
Now the Devil won't leave me alone...
It's almost like I've found a friend
Who's in it for the bitter end.
[...]
I've got my heavy heart to hold me down,
Once it falls apart my head's in the clouds.
So I'm taking every chance I've got
Like the man I know I'm not. ♫

- Turn Off The Lights - Panic! At the Disco

♪ This is gospel for the vagabonds,
Ne'er-do-wells and insufferable bastards
Confessing their apostasies
Led away by imperfect imposters.

Don't try to sleep through the end of the world
And bury me alive
'Cause I won't give up without a fight.
If you love me, let me go. ♫

- This Is Gospel - Panic! At the Disco

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 * He hates magic
 ** Untrue, but he REALLY hates people who say he hates magic
+* He may be compiling some very radical Supernal theories about the way the universe works and hiding them somewhere people won't find them
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+== Beckett's Pet Theories ==
+=== The Abyss, Time and C-Space ===
+Configuration Space is a tool is classical mechanics that is used to define the configuration of a system using "generalised coordinates" - effectively, it reduces all points of variance within a system to various axes upon which coordinates can be measured.  A c-space chart for the universe would be an n-th dimensional manifold in which all possibly configurations of the universe - even ones which are fundamentally incompatible with the progression of this particular universe - are capable of being charted.  Time effectively becomes a very complex equation describing the point-to-point changes that occur in the universe.  This is an important concept, because Supernal magic causes willful deviations in the c-space configuration of the universe - some are small, like nudging forces that already exist, some are large, like bringing wholely new things that didn't exist before into reality.  A significant enough deviation is what causes paradox - because you are changing what is effectively the inertia of reality.
+This theory is both important and relevant because of what it predicts - for example the July 17, 1997 conflict between the Mysterium Time mages and Seer Time mages which caused the birth of the Cult of the Doomsday cult.  Most people who are aware of this incident cannot explain it, but the application of c-space can.  A significant enough application of Time magic on a particular region of space can deviate its history to a level where its fundamental physical laws become incompatible with any universe approximating the configuration of our own.  This directly explains why that location winked out of existence.  It also gives us more clues about regions of c-space that do not correspond to anything like our universe - they are either part of, or reside in, the Abyss.
+In theory then, it may be possible to recover people removed from our history, or to recover people who have died in this universe but not necessarily in another universe.  Possible risks: excessive paradox or the person may be an abyssal manifestation.
+=== Timescales and Hidden Things ===
+Set an unmoving camera recording a particular stretch of road.  Cars pass at regular intervals.  If one played back that footage fast enough, the cars would become an indistinguishable blur.  Faster still and the cars would disappear entirely.  This is how most mundane things work - people operate on small timescales.
+But what if there are things that are not visible on short timescales which are visible on long timescales?  Maybe their existence is segmented so that it is not visible to those in the normal flow of time, but if much larger scales of time are sped up fast enough, the "frames" of their existence come together as something visible.  Could such beings influence our existence in ways we cannot see?
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