Archived-Beckett Shore

Template:PC Summary Awakening Born: November 15, 1986
Age: 28
Rank: 1st-Degree Adept
Consilium Titles: Hierarch
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 in 2010
• He was briefly turned part Tick-Tock Man to save the national speakers for each Order from accidentally being subjected to the same effect
• He, Derek Drako and Cuffs saved the universe one time

Rumours

• Beckett can do Mind magic without using supernal magic
• Beckett is fairly irreverent of Pentacle traditionalism, occasionally making light of certain overly formal practices mages sometimes indulge in
  • He made the previous Hierarch give him "Master of Bleach" as an official consilium position
• Beckett hates magic
  • Untrue, but he REALLY hates people who say he hates magic
• Ever since he stopped manifesting the Tick-Tock Man legacy, Beckett has started coming up with some very radical Supernal theories about the way the universe works, but maybe he's been coming up with more theories than he's been letting on and then hiding them somewhere?

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

"Pfft, Guardians aren't cops! We're very talented criminals thank you kindly. No wait, that's not quite right - make that secret agents. And the point of secret agents is to work for the powers-that-be to discreetly break the law in other countries."

- Beckett trying to recruit Sash

"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 sexy, independent, leadery 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

"I like my women like I like my coffee..."
"How Beckett? How do you like your women? Black? Strong? A tall flat white? Extra sugar? Painfully hot? Cream? Cheap and nasty? In a plastic cup? Ground up and in your freezer? First thing upon waking up? Delivered by hotel room service? Bought from a street vendor? Go on - how do you like your women?"
"Well I was going to say 'with two shots of Baileys in them' but you've just totally killed the mood."

- Beckett and Evelynne

Inspirations

• Now You See Me
• Welcome to Night Vale

"This is my job. And people always say you should do the right thing - but sometimes there is no right thing... and then, well then you just have to pick the sin you can live with."

- Ig Perrish (played by Daniel Radcliffe), Horns

♪ A sheep has left the fold
Hoofbeats go a-trotting, trotting
Up to Heaven bold
At the gates a-knocking, knocking
Sheep in wolfish clothes
Holy jaws are dropping
Up in Heaven's hold
Plant my hooves, my hooks, my books

Once upon a time
Heaven was a tower, tower
Tethered in its pride
Cast us grapes as sour, sour
Thought the ink was dried
But Hellish gardens flowered
Ivy to be climbed
Spread my filth, my wings, my weeds, my weeds ♫

- Grace for Sale - The Devil's Carnival

♪ 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