hadley appleton

HADLEY APPLETON

"A person spends a lifetime trying to become someone when, in reality, the goal is to become himself."
-- Reverend Ryoshun Nakano

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Name: Hadley Appleton. -- stagename: The Great Fiore
Age: 26
Eye colour: DULL APPLE GREEN eyes
Hair: BROWN;; short enough to show some eyebrow
Body type: Surprisingly well-fed for someone so POOR. A little under average, but healthy.;; 5'10"/177.80 cm
Short personality: Quirky and GREAT WITH KIDS and ANIMALS. A pushover, but attempts to set good examples. STRONG MORALS. GREAT FRIEND. BAD BABYSITTER. ENGLISH NERD.
Distinguishing features: An overfed pigeon that sits on his left shoulder. SMILES A LOT. Capes and bowties.
Outfits: THINK CHILDREN'S MAGICIAN. He wears absurdly mismatched suits and vests and ties and capes. Have fun with colour.
Themesong: Funny Little Frog -- Belle and Sebastian
Universe: The Magic Man

DETAILED PERSONALITY.

Hadley is ridiculously into the English language, and is the sheer epitome of literature nerdery! As such, he’s insanely genre savvy, and tends to sort out happenings on his and Junie’s adventure using tropes and all that! He also has this habit of making rather obscure book references here and there without realizing it… LMAO.

Hadley is very obviously well-educated, having a master’s degree in English literature for one, and double minored in philosophy and education for another. It is partially due to his education that Hadley is a very wise, seemingly old and retired sort of spirit. He’s very passive and diplomatic in his dealings with people, almost NEVER using force. EVER.

In spite his intelligence and degrees, the jobs he was able to obtain were unfulfilling! So he quit and decided to live out his childhood dreams of becoming a warlock magician. Although he still corrects people’s grammars on the side, Hadley is more often seen cheerfully entertaining at birthday parties than reading libraries nowadays.

UHH WHAT ELSE. OH YEAH. If you asked for a dollar, Hadley’s the type of guy that’ll give you five (just in case.) Generous and morally-endowed to a FAULT, Mr. Appleton can thus be seen as either EXTREMELY amaterialistic… or an extremely bad businessman. Either way, however, he tends to put the welfare of others before himself.

He has a weak spot also for animals, and gets along swell with children. His pet/sidekick pigeon is named Humanity (because it makes everything he say sound “metaphorical” (i.e. “Humanity eats breadcrumbs from my hand”;; “Humanity sits upon my left shoulder”;; “Humanity flaps its wings in the mid-morning sun.”) and Hadley likes talking to Humanity when he is particularly lonely.

And, again, he is as I mentioned a rather old, and retired sort of spirit when you come down to it and would much rather back down or negotiate, and educate you in his polite, easy-going way than fight. LMAO LIKE IM GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN.

Abilities

Hadley is a rather completely human character, but does possess some magic that he received from the PRIOR FIORE as a small child. (SEE RELATIONSHIPS). The magic includes the ability to pull rabbits from hats, make confetti, sparkle and smoke bomb screens, and to pull random objects from his sleeves and make them disappear into his sleeves as well. He has absolutely no control over what objects come from his sleeves (they're usually tissues). And, of course, the ability to cross universes.
His cape can change colours HHAHAHA.
Mostly yeah. His powers are for the sake of juvenile entertainment and escaping places.

HADLEY'S PAST

Hadley grew up upper-middle class with a father, a mother, and an older sister by three years (HARLEY!). For as long as he could remember, he has always been sort of an odd duck. The family constantly pushed for him and his sister to succeed in school…

BUT. While they were both highly, highly intelligent his sister’s practicality would ensure that she would become the favourite of the household. Rather than looking towards the future/success, Hadley was much more preoccupied with finding TRUTH and FULFILLMENT. While Harley played lacrosse, and took courses in civics and calculus, he was much more content learning magic tricks and HIS ULTIMATE LOVE *~~**LITERATURE*~*~~*

SO YEAH. SUPER SMART, BUT IN DIFFERENT WAYS.

In high school and college, Hadley had a lot of girlfriends! But, he never found the ONE. Somewhere, along the way, he came to believe that he’d never find THE ONE, and focused his energies instead of finding new ways to live a fulfilling life.

LATERRR ONNNN, Harley became distract attorney! YAYYY! And Hadley got a job as a technical writer, making manuals and all that what. BOO… So, yeah as I mentioned, he quit! And he became a magician! And his parents were like WAIII.

EVEN MORE LATTERRR ON.

He meets a little girl named June when she was about 8 years old. Claiming to be an orphan, she took to following him to birthday parties, until, at last, he decided to informally “adopt” her (SHE REALLY ISN’T AN ORPHAN YOU GUYS. in actuality, she ran away from her grandparents’. and they’re still on the look out for her. OPS@NOT BEING IN THE SAME DIMENSION).

Basically, June uses Hadley's eternal pity to mooch off his paychecks, get free room and board, and attend every birthday party Hadley entertains. She sometimes acts as an assistant to his tricks… But, most of the time, she just eats the free food.
June is also REALLYYYYY smart (LMAO I THINK ERRYONE IN THIS VERSE IS), and she reminds Hadley a great deal of his older sister… Had his older sister too possessed an insanely uncanny knowledge of literature. June’s favourite subject is literature Hadley would find out, however she is a rather cynical little girl due to the KINDS. OF THINGS. SHE READS.

RELATIONSHIPS.

JUNE: at a park when she was about 8 years old. Claiming to be an orphan, she took to following him to birthday parties, until, at last, he decided to informally "adopt" her.

Aside from the fact that he makes June attend school on weekdays, Hadley seems like an outwardly BAD/weak-tempered "father." He usually grants her a lot of freedom, and never really disciplines her (treating her more like an adult/companion than anything else). Surprisingly enough, June cares for/respects Hadley very much even if she doesn't like to admit it. They're pretty much BFFs. (NOT A PAIRING.)
Harley is Hadley's older and much more grounded sister. For the most part, Harley looks down on her younger brother and still treats him as though he is nine years old. Hadley TRIES to not let the demeaning comments get to him...

...for the most part.
The Prior Fiore: (Which is a nickname Hadley coined to differentiate between the real wizard and himself). He is a fugitive wizard from another dimension. The reason for his escaping and the nature of his crimes is still unclear to Hadley, though they did meet once before when Hadley was about nine. The Prior Fiore imparted on the young boy a bit of his own magic (which is why Hadley is so good at doing magic tricks), and as Hadley would soon figure, apparent directions to finding him again. Hadley attributes their meeting to his success as a children’s magician! This is why his stage name pays tribute to the Prior Fiore.

Sadly enough, and through a series of unfortunate misunderstandings, those who were after the Prior Fiore believe that Hadley is their target in disguise. SO YEAH. ADVENTURE TO FIND THE PRIOR FIORE AND SHAKE THOSE WIZARDS OFF THEIR TAILS. ALSO. UNIVERSE HOPPING. omg crossovers yess…
Humanity: Though they are of different species, Hadley and Humanity are very close! Hadley originally sought out a dove for his magic tricks... But, as he was saving up some money for a few, found a squab near his apartment. Seeing no nest and not wanting to let the thing die, Hadley decided to name the bird Humanity (sometimes Huey for shorts), and spend his dove funds on pigeon care items. (with the help of google and a library textbooks!)

Humanity is very fond of Hadley and Hadley tends to talk to Humanity when he is particularly lonely. Hadley believes that Humanity understands perfectly the things he says! (which Humanity does! Humanity is a smart bird yeah.)

Hadley tends to overfeed Humanity as well, so Humanity is really fat HAHHAAH. YES I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT.

OTHER SHIT

Hadley doesn’t have alternate universe forms. When he crosses universes he is just himself. He is my only OC (aside from June and Humanity) that does this IT’S P. COOL.

under the perfect circumstances, hadley would’ve been an english teacher. the best english teacher

but HA. NONE OF MY OCs ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE GOOD LIVES.

HADLEY IS AN ETERNAL BACHELOR FOR HE DOESN’T BELIEVE ROMANTIC LOVE IS FOR HIM.

I FIND IT WEIRD TRYING TO SLASH HIM IN SPITE BEING A DUMBASS FANTARD. I’VE TRIED. AND FAILED. IT’S SO HARD.

His favourite colour is greeeeennn.

He enjoys music with meaningful lyrics. His favourite bands are The Cure and Belle&Sebastian.

Originally left-handed, but trained himself to use both.

Can write backwards as well as forwards

His birthday was March 15th. *____* THE IDES OF MARCH as he would say.

HE HAS MANY FAVOURITE BOOKS. The tops on his list are probably the Brothers Karamazov, Moby Dick, and Snow by Parmuk. — he can probably recite the first chapters to each novel he considers a “favourite.”

Also he has a rudimentary understanding of Latin. YES.

CREATOR INSIGHT.

again, shit you’d kno if you had my MSN.

Hadley is insanely close to my heart in spite having an underdeveloped home-universe! I think I said he was forth place in my kokoro? (above ridley, below simon) This is for several reasons.

ONE, I MADE HIM LIKE HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR YEAR, AND IS BASICALLY THE ACCUMULATION OF ALL THE GOOD FEELINGS OF MY FAVOURITE CLASS EVER (ap literature) EVER. when i think about him, i remember 1st period and sigh a happy little nostalgic sigh.

TWO, he is the kind of person I really really want to be, and strive to become. *____* He’s insanely well-read and is well-aware that the world can suck, but is still idealistic and kind! AND NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCE AND THE PEOPLE HE IS WITH, HE ALWAYS STRIVES TO BE. A GOOD PERSON. ALWAYS.

THREE, i naturally love my green-eyed babbies the most…

AND FOUR, i’ve always wanted a magician 8 u8

I think I should develop his story more LOL. He’s a personal OC (with no attachments whatsoever to anyone), so he tends to get ignored so I can work on co-universes with friends. POOR BABBY 8 n8

Thanks for reading!

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