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Player Information

Name: Nic
Age: 30
Contact details: gavemyleftarm
Other characters: Dyme Graydon

Character Information

Name: Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch though he goes by Basilton Pitch or just Baz
Canon: Simon Snow series
Canon Point: End of Wayward Son
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: 20

World Information:

The year is 2017. Everything modern and normal exists, but the world is also full of magic. There are magickal creatures and magicians all over the world, in every place, every country. In England there's a magickal school called Watford, where magician children are sent to learn. The school's headmaster/mistress is the most important person in magic (sort of like a magickal president). It is vitally important that normal people, generally referred to as Normals (or Talkers or Bleeders, depending on who you ask), not become aware of magic and the existence of magicians because magicians depend on their language for their magic. Basically, the phrases and words that become popular and are spoken a lot in places form the basis for magickal spells. Spells are also regional, IE British phrasing is far less effective in America, etc and so on. If magicians use their magic too much too often, they exhaust themselves and become incapable of using spells.

Handy glossary:

The Insidious Humdrum is what happened when Simon went off, IE used a massive amount of magickal power, in his first year at Watford. The Humdrum is a hole left behind in the magickal atmosphere, and looks like Simon because, well, it came from Simon. Over the years since then, the Humdrum has attacked Simon numerous times/sent magickal creatures after him in attempts to make him go off more, thus draining more magic from the world and making a bigger hole.

Vampires are seen as monsters, and a vampire that Speaks (IE, uses magic) is seen as an abomination. In other words, Baz. While vampires are magickal themselves, they don't have the ability to use spells like magicians do. Some vampires, like the NowNext, sought to 'fix' this by 'extracting' magic from magicians and figuring out how to implant that magic into other people. Vampire hunters exist, and there's a lot of very not safe for vampires areas in England, and while some vampires aren't killed for biting people, they do have their fangs pulled.

Quiet Zones happen when not a lot of people live in a certain area. Since magicians' magic comes from Normals, a lack of Normals means their magic doesn't work as well or not at all. A lot of people passing through the area can be enough to restore magic to it temporarily, though.

Dead Spots are created whenever Simon goes off. He's literally so strong that when he reaches for magic, he rips it from the magickal atmosphere around England, creating dead spots in said atmosphere that are bereft of magic. Which means no one can use magic in those spots because magic literally no longer exists there.

The Mage's Heir also the Mage's sword, with a magickal sword. Simon Snow. He was named the Mage's Heir to help him get into Watford, since he's a 'normal' who gained magic (no, both of his parents were magicians, hell, the Mage is his father, but no one knows that), and thus wouldn't normally be granted access into the school. Simon is also the Chosen One, the Greatest Mage told about in a prophecy that the Mage literally took upon himself to fulfill (literally. He read the prophecy, went 'I can do this' and then said to his significant other 'let's make a baby').

The Roommate's Anathema is a magickal spell in place all over Watford to stop roommates from fighting each other. If someone hurts their roommate, they're cast out of the school and can never return. It starts with warnings for the first two years. Trying to hurt your roommate will result in your hands going 'stiff and cold'.

Personal History: Buckle up, this is long. Also warning for suicidal ideation.

Baz was born on February 24th, 1997, to Natasha Grimm-Pitch and Malcolm Grimm. He's the oldest of five and has four half siblings; a seven year old sister named Mordelia, two much younger siblings (potentially twins), and a tiny baby sibling.

When Baz was five, Watford school was attacked by vampires. He was there in the nursery with his mother and other children. One of the vampires bit Baz and others attacked his mother. After also being bitten, his mother killed herself by setting herself and the other vampires on fire.

During their first year at Watford, Baz and Simon (the Chosen One, the Mage's Heir, the strongest magician to ever exist) were cast together as roommates by the Crucible. It's an actual crucible, very old, very magickal, and it decides which students room together. It's not actually sentient, but it decides these things somehow all the same. The whole event is an honored tradition at the school, and the students who are cast together are supposed to grow close and look out for each other.

In their third year, Baz would threaten Simon with a viking's funeral.

When he was fourteen, Baz's vampire nature started to manifest; the hunger, the abilities, and everything else.

During their fifth year, he fought a chimera alongside Simon after having lured Simon to said chimera, which Simon got rid of by going off, IE, using a great deal of magickal power. That year, Simon also caught Baz sneaking off to the chapel, and from there going down into the catacombs below the school. There, Simon confronted him about being a vampire and Baz laughed it off. Simon told him he was going to wait for him to 'make a mistake' aka kill someone, and then everyone would know that Baz was a vampire.

It was also during their fifth year that Baz realized he was hopelessly in love with Simon.

The following spring, in their sixth year, under orders from his aunt Fiona, Baz attempted to steal Simon's voice with a magickal device (which would have prevented him from performing magic). However, the attempt backfired when another student greeted them, and her voice was stolen instead, rendering her mute. Consequently, she had to leave the school. It was the last time that Baz ever tried to (permanently) hurt Simon.

In their final year, Baz was kidnapped by numpties (basically heat seeking trolls that're always cold), resulting in him being a grand total of eight weeks late returning to school. He was held in a coffin under a bridge for six weeks before being rescued by his aunt, then he spent two weeks at home recovering before going to Watford. In the future, it's revealed that the Mage had the numpties kidnap Baz so that he would miss his Visiting from his mother (when the Veil between life and death lifts and the dead can speak to the living) so that he wouldn't receive her message and know that the person responsible for her death was still alive. When she was unable to contact Baz, she contacted Simon instead and told him to give her son her message.

To clarify and rope in a lot of spoilers, the Mage is responsible for Baz's mother's death, only no one knows. He let in the vampires who attacked Watford, bit Baz, and attacked his mother, Natasha. He didn't necessarily intend for her to die, but he doesn't regret it, either. Having her out of the way helped him push his 'reforms' in the magickal world. But his idea of reform is to alienate the old Families, strip them of their power because he hates how purist and snobby they are (like the Pitchs), and replace all of them on the coven (the group who helps decide rules and laws). In the same vein, Baz's family hates the Mage because of his bias against the old Families and is using Baz as a spy against the Mage and his men, including Simon. This is why Fiona has Baz do things like try to take Simon's voice, because everyone in the old Families are worried that the Mage will use Simon against them and wipe them out.

And now, back to the plot. For a while at school, Baz had been flirting with Agatha, Simon's girlfriend of a few years, and Agatha was crushing on Baz. In reality, Baz had been trying to get Simon's attention and Agatha had been rebelling against what her parents wanted from her. Eventually, Simon and Agatha broke up.

Again under orders from Fiona, Baz sneaked into the Mage's office, which used to be his mother's office when she was headmistress of Watford, but was caught by Simon while attempting to steal a book. Afterward, Simon told Baz about his mother coming to visit him through the Veil and what she said (that her killer still walks, to find Nicodemus), which confused Baz because his mother killed the vampires who attacked her. Simon offered to help Baz find out what really happened to his mother, and Baz accepted, making Simon swear to a truce until they figured things out, IE, no more attacking each other, that kind of thing.

They set to work fairly fast on trying to figure things out, going over old newspaper clippings from the time of the attack and the months following.

A dragon attacked Watford. Well, 'attacked' might be a strong word; in the end, no one was injured and nothing was destroyed. It was more like 'a dragon was sent to Watford by the Humdrum'. Simon's first instinct was to kill it, but Baz, knowing that killing a dragon is a dark thing (reserved for summoning dark demons and the like), opted for trying to spell-sing it away. He wasn't powerful enough to do it on his own, but Simon discovered he could push his magic into other people, so he pushed magic into Baz, boosting Baz's power enough to force the dragon to leave.

Later, after trying to puzzle out more about who Nicodemus is, Simon tried an experiment with how pushing his magic into someone worked. For whatever reason, it didn't hurt Baz, though it hurt Simon's friend Penny when he tried to do it with her. Instead of that though, Baz cast a spell to let them see the stars, and he and Simon felt like they were actually up among the stars until Simon pulled back and took his magic with him.

Baz invited Simon to his family home for Christmas, since they were still working together to find his mother's true killer. Simon refused (because, um, what). Later, Baz told him about the day that Simon saw him and Agatha together near the Wood by Watford and that it wasn't what it looked like it was. That was, Baz wasn't trying to steal Simon's girlfriend because he was way more interested in Simon himself. That...actually made things worse, and they argued about Baz being terrible for flirting with Agatha anyway despite not actually being interested in her.

After everyone else went home for Christmas, Simon talked to Ebb the goatherd, who'd been at Watford for a long time, at least since Simon had been eleven. There, he discovered that Nicodemus was her twin brother and also a vampire, and went to take this news to Baz at his family home. At home, Baz was practicing violin when Simon arrived, but greeted him and introduced him to his stepmother before taking Simon up to his room to talk. Simon told him about Ebb's brother being Nicodemus, then stayed for dinner--stayed the night, actually. Baz and him discovered that Baz's aunt used to have a thing for Nicodemus when they were at Watford together, which gave Baz the idea to ask Fiona for information.

The next day, Baz visited his aunt to ask about Nicodemus and got exactly the information he needed from her; where Nicodemus was. Afterwards, Baz and Simon visited the British Museum where Baz stole a bunch of books 'for research'. After some reading, they headed to the area where the vampire bar was, which Baz literally sniffed out. They received limited information from Nicodemus, but discovered that someone tried to hire him to bring vampires into Watford, though he refused because his sister Ebb lives there.

With this frustratingly little amount of information, Baz and Simon left the vampire bar and the city itself, heading into the countryside. Baz was a mess; crying and angry. He parked the car on the side of the road before marching into the woods. Simon went after him, and Baz started setting the woods on fire, telling Simon that this is what his mother would have wanted for him if she hadn't died, that she would have killed him herself instead of letting him become a monster. Simon argued against this.

It can be said, for certain, that if Simon hadn't gone after Baz, Baz would have killed himself with the fire. Instead, Simon kissed him. The single kiss turned into a lot of kissing, and finally Baz, with Simon's help, put out all of the fires. After yet more kissing, Baz needed to hunt, because he was thirsty, and had Simon wait for him. Afterwards, they went back to Baz's home, where yet more kissing commenced.

The next morning they set to work on figuring more things out, and Baz invited Penny and Agatha over to convene and pool knowledge. Once they were there, Baz told them, finally, that he wasn't ill at the start of the school year but had been kidnapped by numpties while leaving the tennis club. The new information led Penny to conclude that whoever had Baz kidnapped was the same person who had hired vampires to attack Watford.

Once their meeting was over, Simon, Penny, and Agatha went on their way and Baz had a conversation with his father about the old Families and their plans to move against the Mage, double-checking that Baz wasn't making any plans of his own on that front (he wasn't). While Baz was preparing for dinner later, it turned out that Simon had returned instead of going to London with Penny and Agatha. Again, Simon stayed for dinner, and afterwards he and Baz talked about things, like Simon wanting to be his 'terrible boyfriend' (in his own words, Simon was terrible at being a boyfriend because he never did anything right with Agatha).

That night, the Humdrum visited Baz and Simon. Baz went out to the woods, and Simon followed afterward when he woke up. The Humdrum had, in Baz's words 'pushed a void into him' and left him feeling empty and starving--for blood and for magic. Simon managed to fix it before Baz hurt him by pushing his magic into him, filling him back up again. Unfortunately, afterward a dead spot had formed directly over Baz's house, sucking all of the magic out with it. Baz told Simon to run because he was responsible for this, and Simon did.

Simon went to Penny's (flying there, with wings and a tail he gave himself, of all things), and eventually Baz went there too, to check on him and make sure he was okay. The three of them started putting together facts, that every time Simon had gone off, a dead spot appeared. With this new information, Baz insisted that they go and talk to the numpties, still determined to find out who really killed his mother. The others don't agree to go with him, so Baz went alone. Things got a little dicey, the numpties got a little pushy, and of all people, Nicodemus came to Baz's aid. He also told Baz that it was the Mage who had the numpties kidnap him and who sent the vampires to Watford, also that the Mage had Ebb, which meant Nicodemus wanted to go with Baz to Watford (Baz refused to let him come on the basis that he was a vampire).

Simon was already on his way to see the Mage, alone, and Penny contacted Baz through a dog to tell him that she had a bad feeling about everything and that they couldn't let Simon see the Mage alone. Also, Baz absolutely intended to kill the mage when they got to Watford, for his mother.

While Baz and Penny were on their way to Watford, the Mage almost killed Agatha, who went there to tell him that she thought Baz was luring Simon into a trap with the numpties, and actually killed Ebb in the process of taking her magickal power. Simon arrived in time to see Ebb's death, unaware that the Mage himself killed her, and the Mage demanded all of his power. Simon would have given it to him, except the Humdrum arrived and instead Simon poured all of his power into that, filling the hole he'd created.

Baz and Penny arrived at Watford in time to run into Agatha, who was fleeing the White Chapel, where the Mage, Simon, and the Humdrum were. Simon's outflow of magic was overwhelming and made it a little difficult for the two of them to make it to the Chapel, but they ultimately succeeded. Inside the Chapel, Simon (who had magicked himself wings and a tail again) collapsed after giving all (literally all) of his magic to the Humdrum, effectively getting rid of it. Baz thought the worst, but Simon wasn't dead, and the Mage was losing his mind, furious that Simon didn't give him his power. Simon accidentally killed the Mage by telling him, with magic (thanks to Penny casting a 'Simon Says' spell), to stop hurting him. Baz comforted Simon in the aftermath, telling him that everything was going to be alright.

At his leavers ceremony at the end of the school year, Baz gave the same speech his mother did at her ceremony, and also finished top of his class. After the ceremony, Baz went down to the catacombs to 'talk' to his mother (because she didn't have a proper grave), and told her that he was going to live as he was, as a vampire, because he thought it was what she would have wanted, and that he was going to be alright.

Simon showed up at the leavers ball, despite being told by Baz that he shouldn't come (because without magic, and stuck with a tail and wings, it might be depressing for a former magician. But Penny spelled his wings and tail invisible, and Simon came anyway). They danced, Simon tried to tell Baz that he didn't have to be with him now that he wasn't a magician anymore, but Baz told him that none of that mattered. That he chose Simon, no matter if he was a magician or not, wings and tail or not. Reluctantly, Simon accepted this.

After everything else with the end of the school year is wrapped up, Penny and Simon moved into an apartment together, and Baz visited often.

In the months following the end of the school year, Baz's relationship with Simon had deteriorated. It'd been months since they'd been the same; they didn't talk like before, they weren't as close as before (they didn't kiss anymore, they barely even looked at each other), but it hadn't stopped Baz from being over at Simon and Penny's apartment all of the time when he wasn't in University. He didn't want to lose Simon, but it felt inevitable, all things considered.

Then, Penny suggested a vacation to America to brighten everyone's spirits and get Simon off the couch. Also to visit her boyfriend and check on Agatha, who'd gotten herself mixed up with some bad news. In a way, it worked; you can't lie on the couch while you're flying over the ocean to America.

After they landed in Chicago, they rented a car and went to visit Penny's boyfriend. While she talked to him (and discovered that their relationship was over, had been over for a while), Baz started teaching Simon how to drive. It actually wasn't too bad, despite a shaky start. Once they reunited with Penny, they started the long trek across America towards San Diego. Which was...really far. Like, a lot farther than any of them thought it was.

Baz managed to get a sunburn while they drove, thanks to them having a convertible, but Simon's driving skills improved in leaps and bounds. They stopped in Des Moines, Iowa, for dinner, and penny finally broke down over having been broken up with, having previously held herself together. Baz attempted to comfort her, until his hunger overwhelmed him (since he hadn't drank anything in a while due to the whole 'road trip in broad daylight' thing), and he needed to step out to 'eat' something. Like a bunch of cats in a back alley.

Continuing on with their trip, they eventually stopped in at a renaissance fair. It helped lift Penny's spirits, though she took it personally that everyone at the fair seemed to be mocking British people (they really weren't, they were just cosplaying and dressing in costumes and speaking in bad accents. Typical fair stuff), and Simon was perkier than he had been in ages, which delighted Baz. They had a good time, Baz and Simon play sword fought, teased each other, flirted, and then things took a turn for the worse.

There were vampires at the fair. Actual, literal vampires, out to suck blood and leave behind corpses, definitely not friendly in the slightest. Simon, Baz, and Penny took it upon themselves to deal with the vampires to prevent anyone from getting hurt, and fighting ensued. Baz's magic kept going wonky because he used British phrases in America, when more American phrases would have worked much better, and all of the swords Simon tried to fight with were, well, flimsy prop swords, but they managed to get the job done. Not without drawing the attention of a large crowd though, who thought they were putting on a show, and one person who knew what they really were.

After making their exit from the fair, the three of them fled and took off in their convertible. They were followed by the one person who knew what they were, and trying to evade him led to them ending up in a Quiet Zone in the middle of nowhere. While they were arguing with their pursuer, a young man named Shepard who hadn't actually intended to chase them for a few hours, they were besieged by a group of magickal creatures who don't like magicians in their Quiet Zone and are forced to fight them off. Baz was shot with buckshot in the process, but later made a full recovery thanks to being a vampire. Shepard helped them escape, though they were forced to leave their car and luggage behind. They ditched Shepard the first chance they got.

They stole another car and tried to magic their luggage back to them, while Baz killed a sheep to eat because he needed to, which ended up attracting the attention of a dragon who was very unhappy about the sheep thing because the land was 'hers'. Luckily, Shepard swooped in and talked to the dragon lady, who was apparently a friend of his, into not killing all three of them, and got them out of their predicament. He told the three that he could help them find out where Agatha was, they just needed to visit another friend of his, who turned out to be some kind of water spirit. So, they went and visited his friend, who gave them clues on where Agatha and the people who have her are.

When they finally got to a motel room for the night, Shepard told them that they're free to ditch him again, but he won't come back to bail them out of trouble again. Surprisingly, they don't ditch him again and instead accepted his help. The tip from the water spirit led them to Las Vegas, which was home to a lot of vampires. Like, a lot. As in, they considered the city to be theirs. Considering that, and that the vampires could help them find the NowNext (who are also vampires), the people who had Agatha, the best person to send in for information was Baz.

So, in Baz went, with his phone in his pocket and on call with Penny's phone so that the others could listen to everything. He joined a vampire party and met a man (vampire) named Lamb. Lamb was immediately onto Baz and knew he was lying about a lot of things, but didn't reveal that at first. Baz talked to him about vampires, mostly, and then left the party with him to receive a tour of the Las Vegas strip, which was crawling with vampires. Lamb told him about the history of the places, the architecture, etc.

Then they had milkshakes, Lamb got Baz a little drunk, and tried to get him to drink from a human. Baz refused--he'd never drank from a human and he didn't plan on changing that--and Lamb cornered him. He demanded to know what Baz was really doing there, who he really was, and Baz told him that he was there looking for Agatha and the NowNext. Lamb was disappointed, thinking that Baz wanted to join the NowNext, but Baz attempted to assure him that he didn't. Lamb gave him the benefit of the doubt and told Baz to meet him the next day at a Thai food restaurant to talk.

Baz reconvened with the others, Simon wasn't happy because Baz's phone died while he was out and he was sure Baz was for serious flirting with Lamb instead of just playing along for show. Baz was ridiculously hungry, so Penny spelled in a bunch of birds and Baz drained each and every one of them. Then cleaned up the mess and took a bath.

The next day, Baz met Lamb as requested and turned off his phone (on Lamb's request), thus shutting the others out. Their food arrived and Baz's fangs dropped. Lamb was sympathetic and attempted to teach Baz how to control his fangs and pull them back in. It was a success, though a constant effort the entire time, and the first meal Baz had had in years without his fangs crowding his mouth. They again talked about the NowNext and Baz's refusal to drink from a human, and he decided to show Lamb how he actually eats. By bringing him to a petstore, buying a rabbit, and draining it in a back alley. Lamb took pity on him and agreed to help him.

They went back to Lamb's place, which happened to be at the same vampire hotel the party took place, and where Simon, Penny, and Shepard were staying, to talk. Except the other three burst in, thinking Baz was in trouble and needed rescuing because of the lack of communication. Despite being threatened and faced with angry mages, Lamb still agreed to help them reach the NowNext building/attack it.

The next day, Lamb gathered a small army and took the four of them to the NowNext out in the desert, where he insisted that Simon and Penny go first, being magicians (no one had told him that Simon didn't have any magic, or that Baz was also a magician). It turned out that the whole thing was a trap. the NowNext building was in a Quiet Zone and they were looking for magicians to 'extract' their power so that vampires could speak (IE, use magic). Lamb and his vampires had a treaty with them, where they delivered magicians to NowNext and were in turn left alone.

Baz was furious, Penny was taken along with Shepard, and Simon was shot. He feared the worst, that Simon was dead, and took the first opportunity that arose to attack the leader of NowNext, ripping him apart. That opportunity turned out to be 'Shepard killed a vampire by the vampire just biting him, and startling everyone'. Simon was indeed not dead, Penny and Agatha escaped with the help of Shepard and the Burning Man festival that passed by close enough to restore their magic, and fighting broke out between all of the vampires, with a lot of casualties for NowNext, if not all of them.

Shepard drove the five of them (himself, Agatha, Penny, Simon, and Baz) to San Diego, while Penny spelled Simon better with his wounds and Baz spelled the car to make it harder to see. Everybody made a full recovery and Agatha decided to return with them to England. Shepard revealed that he accidentally made a deal with a demon, so his soul technically belonged to said demon, which was why the vampire who tried to bite him died. Simon and Baz sat on the beach and started to have a maybe actual conversation about their relationship when Penny interrupted them to tell them something terrible was happening at Watford.

Personality:

Baz projects a persona of being cool, calm, and collected, of not letting anyone know what he's thinking and keeping his emotions to himself (seriously, his father does the same thing and Baz has practiced his look in the mirror hundreds of times to perfect it). In reality, there's a lot going on beneath the surface. While he's not necessarily a bad person, he has a sharp wit and a sharper tongue. He doesn't shy away from the truth (unless someone is well and truly upset, like when he was comforting Penny after her breakup), no matter how cruel it is.

However, since the time he was at Watford to the time after he graduated, he has softened up a little. While in school he was all porcupine quills and the cruelest wit, bitter about what he perceived as his inevitable fate to die at the hands of Simon Snow. He knew he would never be able to beat Simon in a fair fight, and the Roommate's Anathema wouldn't be able to protect him after they graduated. From their first year to their final year at Watford, Baz and Simon were always butting heads, at each other's throats, spurred on by Baz's family and their disagreeance with the Mage. Everyone assumed they hated each other, and the both of them assumed that they would end up seriously trying to kill each other after school was over.

When their final year came and went and everything changed, so too did Baz's demeanor. Not having inevitable death looming over you, sure that you would die at the hands of the person you loved more than anything, does a lot to change a person. So does having what you've wanted since the time you were eleven (but didn't realize it until you were fifteen); that person you loved more than anything. Baz still has cruel wit and that calm and collected look, but he lashes out less often. At least, when it comes to Simon and his friends. He treats them more like, well, friends, and Simon...he would do anything for Simon.

Simon is the single most important person in Baz's life, the person he loves more than anything and anyone else. True, they used to hate each other, and Baz had tried countless times to get Simon killed or hurt him, but eventually it became more about keeping up appearances than it was about really wanting to hurt him. When everything changed, first with the truce and then with Simon kissing him, it was all too good for Baz to believe it was true. He was sure that there would be a catch, the other shoe would drop. That once the truce was over, they would go back to hating each other. But no such thing happened.

Since he was fifteen, Baz has been hopelessly in love with Simon. Simon is the only person he's ever loved romantically, the only person he's ever been interested in. Baz would do anything for him, give up anything for him, anything to keep him safe and happy and in his arms. When Simon became withdrawn after losing his magic, Baz was scared of losing him all together. He treated Simon like glass, like something fragile that would break. He was kind and patient and held on to every moment they had that felt normal; teaching Simon how to drive, fighting vampires with him at the ren fair. Any time when Simon would actually look at him, touch him, kiss him. Simon is the sun and Baz orbits around him. And yet, despite this love, neither of them have actually told each other 'I love you'.

Things weren't always sunshine and happiness, though. Back when Baz was convinced that Simon would kill him one day, he also kind of wanted to die. He had a lot of complicated feelings related to his hate-mance with Simon and with being a vampire. His mother killed herself instead of becoming one, and he always thought that she would want the same thing for him, that she would have killed him too when he was bitten. He's always viewed himself as a monster, and believed he deserved to die just for existing. The night he visited Nicodemus and then went into the woods, he was fully prepared to die if Simon hadn't been there. He would have let the fire burn him up, but not Simon. He couldn't let Simon die with him, and that coupled with the kiss changed his mind. It took a while for the suicidal ideation to completely go away though. It lingered, probably, up until the time his mother's true murderer was killed. Then he could freely reflect on the message his mother had given Simon, and decided that his mother would have wanted him to live, that she wouldn't have wanted him to die. So, he promised her that he would be all right.

Now, about Baz's feelings on vampires. Up until he met Lamb, he thought of all vampires as monsters who hurt others to survive, who took life to gain their own. He's never bitten a single human being, and he's vowed that he never will, because he always kills everything he bites. Besides that, he's pretty sure his father would kill him if he ever bit a person. The short of it is, Baz hates himself for being a vampire, even though it's completely out of his control and wasn't his fault. He also hates other vampires. His views started to change a little when he met Lamb, who introduced him to a world where vampires don't have to kill people they bite, and they don't Turn them either, which is something that Baz had never considered possible before. He trusted Lamb even, thought he was a good person as far as vampires went who was looking out for him, who wanted to teach him things, until Lamb betrayed him. The betrayal can't be forgiven because it almost got Simon killed, but Lamb was the first vampire to show him genuine sympathy and care.

Baz is something of a purist when it comes to magic, thanks to the way his family raised him. The old Families (especially the Pitchs, who are the closest the magickal world has to royalty) believe that magic should be kept pure, that Normal borns shouldn't be allowed in Watford, that half-breeds like minotaurs or centaurs shouldn't be allowed in, even something as simple as a lisp could be a disqualifier. Baz isn't much different. While he shows respect to teachers that are half-breeds, he isn't afraid of voicing his opinion in different ways, like writing an essay for class that more or less called for the Mage to step down from his role as headmaster of Watford. Baz's family also believes that only the richest and most powerful should attend Watford, no one poor or magicians who barely have any power.

It's clear that Baz's mother is very important to him, and he's never managed to get over her death (until the Mage's death, at least), though he was only five when she died. He gets along fine with his step-mother and father, of course, though they don't really...communicate properly, as a family. For instance, no one told him about his mother's death, they didn't talk about it (they talk about his mother, but not her death), and they've never talked about Baz being a vampire. He's not entirely sure how his father feels about it, but he knows his father is definitely more disappointed in Baz being gay than he is about Baz being a vampire. His younger siblings, like any, are a source of annoyance to him, barging into his room, pestering him, etc. There's a large age gap between Baz and his next oldest sister (about eleven years of a gap) and even more with the twins and the baby, so he's not particularly close with them.

While Baz generally comes off as cool and calm, there are certain times when he completely loses his cool, like both of the times that he thought Simon was dead. Grief and stress bring him to shouting and pulling at his hair, and then immediately targeting whoever is responsible for hurting Simon and attacking them. Now, while Baz has never killed a human being, there is, seemingly, only one way to drive him to murder, and that is, again, hurting Simon. Thinking Simon is dead. He attacked both the Mage and Brayden (the leader of the NowNext vampires), and though he did no real harm to the Mage, he ripped Braden apart. Otherwise, he doesn't let himself be goaded into giving into his anger, or divulging information he shouldn't be talking about.

CRAU developments: N/A

Key themes: Self-acceptance, love

Main Motivation: Simon Snow. Also, school.

Skills:
Positives:

Magic: this is a broad subject. While there isn't a spell for everything, there's a spell for a lot of things. Causing fires, putting out fires, levitating, flying, beheading people, lots and lots of things. Of course, it all relies on context, intent, and the presence of Normals around to fuel the magic (magic can't be cast in a Quiet Zone or dead spot), and it's a lot better if the same phrasing is used and same language is spoken. Also spells like compulsion things are banned (and he wouldn't use them anyway), so don't worry about him manipulating others/forcing them to tell the truth/that sort of thing.

Vampire abilities: Baz has enhanced speed, strength, and senses, especially smell. He's also immortal in the sense that at some point he'll stop aging physically, and also he can recover from wounds that would be fatal for a human, like taking a chest full of buckshot.

Musical instruments: he plays violin, presumably quite well

Sports: He plays football (soccer) and tennis, also presumably quite well, because he's kind of good at everything he does

Multilingual: he speaks French, Latin, and Greek in addition to English

Neutrals:

Elocution: his elocution (ability to speak clearly, especially when reciting spells) is flawless, and he's generally well spoken and easy to understand

Reflection: he has one

Sunlight: he isn't burned by sunlight, but it stings a little

Normal food: he needs to eat normal food in addition to drinking blood, just like a regular person, except he doesn't have to eat as much

Negatives:

Crosses: burn him if he touches them, repel him a little, dampens his desire to bite someone (but probably wouldn't stop him if he was desperately hungry)

Silver: apparently makes his nose run, not sure what else it does to him

Blood drinking: he needs to drink blood every day to feel his best, and every other day to keep his sanity. Also we're talking like, a lot of blood here. A deer's worth at a time; a cow's worth; nine housecats; a dozen birds; the list goes on.

Item: His wand

Sample: On the TDM

Notes:
1) I assume his magic will be a little spotty while on the train because of everyone coming from such different worlds and phrasing and languages having a lot of variation.

2) It would be awesome if the train could stock animal blood for him instead of human (even though human would probably be better for him) because he might refuse to drink human blood in any form.