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[perfectlyhuman]

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Skree/Cat
AGE: Both older and younger than you probably think
JOURNAL: You can contact me through DW PM on this account
IM / EMAIL: -
PLURK: skree
RETURNING: Nope

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Adam Young (The Antichrist, the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan and Lord of Darkness)
CHARACTER AGE: 11
CANON ORIGIN: Good Omens (tv show version)
CHRONOLOGY: Post-canon
CLASS: Huuuuh hero? Anti-hero?? He has really good intentions but that doesn’t always work out ha ha ha
HOUSING: Alone (with Dog) at first, probably going to move in with Aziraphale and Crowley?

BACKGROUND: >> Fandom wiki article

PERSONALITY:
Adam is, for all intents and purposes, a normal young boy. Except, not really. But also, yes, he is, and the fact that he is very much a normal young boy is exactly what saved the world from total destruction, and the supposed unstoppable Armaggedon.

Up until his 11th birthday, Adam grew up in a small town with his parents and his friends. So he likes basically all things a small child likes: toys, games, make-believe, and sparking up trouble with the particularly grumpy neighborhood watch. For all that he seems like a calm child, he’s very much a trouble-maker where it counts. And it counts when there’s an old man who keeps branding children as troublemakers. It’s only logic.

He’s considered the leader of The Them, a name given to himself and his friends, and takes upon him the task of making up games to keep them entertained. He takes this task pretty seriously, as it comes up in some very Intense situations later on in the story. They also share a deep bond, as they are the ones that truly help him center himself and remember who he is, when he starts to come upon his power and unwittingly initiating the Armaggedon.

He’s a kid with good intentions, and a naive vision that’s entirely justified for his age. As he starts coming into his power and being able to change reality (at first without being entirely aware), most of his changes are made with good intentions: as he learns about pollution, radioactivity, and other of the nastier parts of human activity, he seems to genuinely be set on a path to try and fix everything the way a child would. He’s also easily influenced by information provided to him at the time, in the form of conspiracy theorist magazines, which directly influences his view of the world - a corrupted, broken place, ruined by adults, which he decides to change and make it so he and his friends can rule it and make it better.

Of what we see, a lot of this more aggressive and drastic behavior is a direct influence of his existence as the Antichrist - voices that tell him to change things, that whisper him about his power, that push him to take matters into his own hands and twist the world to his whim. And it almost works, until his friends, hurt and betrayed by his actions (again, as children, not entirely fully aware of the scope of all things), force him to see the better path.

As soon as he’s “brought back”, we once again see his genuine good intentions, and a growing (if still very incomplete) knowledge, at least of balance. He stops everything what was in place, and, in fact, tries his best to change everything back to how it was, after the conclusion of the story. He even accepts being grounded by his father, even if his father didn’t quite understood the situation, which shows remorse.

While influenciable, he is loyal, and he believes in what’s right. He is emotional, he is curious, he loves and hates like anyone else, he is smart and imaginative, and has now to live with the dichotomy of being a normal young boy, and a creature with untold power that was destined to bring on the end of times.

What saves the world, in the end, is his humanity, him being a normal child. Which, of course, does not mean that he’s still the exact same after all that happened - learning who he is, even if he renounced it, his powers and abilities, and learning part of the true workings of the world (both the man-made influence and the ethereal workings) is something he won’t soon forget. So he may feel the urge to fix things, as much as he may worry losing himself to that side of him on the way again; he might take particular offense to large scale destruction and injustices; but such concepts are a whole lot for a child to handle, and he’d very much prefer to grab an ice cream and go on a bike ride with his friends.

POWER:

CANON
Within the canon of Good Omens, Adam's powers can be summarized as total reality altering. As he comes into his power, he starts affecting the world around him, even without knowing. Things that he says and believes begin to come true (such as aliens coming to Earth to bring a message of peace, the Kraken emerging from the bottom of the ocean, weather being perfect for the season every day in his home). He can also consciously use it, and change even physical appearances of other people, or events that happened altogether. The limits of this power, beyond Adam's own mental and emotional states and morality, are unknown.

He is also able to float and instantly appear in any location, and has a "magical defense shield" of sorts (vaguely mentioned by the demon Crowley), which protects him from being found by other magic/supernatural beings.

At the end of the story, Crowley and Aziraphale seem to assume that he’s become a “normal” human child, having forfeit his reality as the child of Satan for simply being the son of regular human Arthur Young, after the boy undoes most of the damage done in the week prior. However, we’re shown that he clearly still has reality changing powers, and it’s unclear if they have diminished in any way, or if he’s simply choosing to not use them often and has simply rejected his role at the Antichrist.

IN-GAME
To put it simply, his powers are very nerfed. He still manages to do simple reality changes, such as moving/changing/replacing objects and locations in some way (for example, making so an item doesn’t work anymore, or causing them to appear somewhere else). The bigger the item or location is, he will begin to struggle. For example, he may alter the insides of a room (assuming that isn’t in any way affected by any other being), but he will not be able to change an entire building’s location without extreme effort, if at all. If an item is supernatural or magically affected in any way, that requires a bigger effort.

He also cannot affect the weather, but can affect the temperature and wind in a small area.

He cannot alter history/past events, his own or anyone/anything else’s.

He can still make himself float and appear in chosen locations.

His powers may sometimes be accidentally triggered by his emotional state, beliefs, or even when he’s sleeping. (Any major effects, of course, will be checked with other players and/or mods, should it be relevant).


POWER LIST: Reality altering; floating; teleportation

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉

COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:

[ Here we have a young boy, no more than 11 years old, blonde hair, blue eyes, apparently thinking really deeply about a certain important subject. He sits on a couch, and is bouncing a small ball from the floor, to the wall, and back to him. Thump, thump, catch.

On the floor, next to him, is a small dog, carefully watching that ball.]

Why do you think dogs chase cars?

[ Thump, thump, catch.]

There’s all that stuff about dogs chasing cars. But I’ve never seen a dog catch a car. [ Thump, thump, catch.] I bet they just want to ride in one. It’s better than walking.

[ Thump, thump, catch.]

I bet if there was a bus for dogs, they’d take it, and stop chasing cars. And they’d go to all sorts of far away places and come back when they’re done. Like when nobody else is home, and they’re bored.

[ Thump, thump, catch.]

I bet dogs don’t really chase cars. Only in cartoons.

[ Thump, thump, the sound of something crashing and breaking. The boy abruptly gets up, as does the Dog, and disappears off view.

Feed ends.]

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TDM threads

FINAL NOTES: Adam will be bringing his dog, Dog, with him! Dog will exhibit no apparent special powers. Except a strange red glint in his eyes sometimes.