#[★ . MAGPIE : ben noel ]

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MAGPIE // BEN NOEL ... he/him aroace nineteen

BORN ... september 16th, on earth (casus)

ABILITIES ... none/human/non-augmented

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Ben lives in the city of Helcin, a city with a dystopian government built ontop of the remains of New York City, after an alien invasion nearly wiped out all of humanity. On the outskirts of Helcin lies the Wastelands, an irradiated area populated by stragglers (aliens that survived Earth's retaliation.)

The world was abandoned by its heroes years before the invasion, and suffered the invasion greatly without them. Forty years later, after Helcin rebuilt itself, Ben's father, a locally beloved engineer was assassinated by Helcin's government. in a world without justice, Ben must make his own.

Ben became the vigilante Magpie, a snarky, precocious teenager with a chip on his shoulder and a stark distaste for authority. He is beloved by the impoverished civilians of Helcin and hated by Helcin's very own police force. He despises law enforcement and has no patience for what the press thinks of him, but Penelope 'Pepper' Holiday, the daughter of Mayor Charleston Holiday and esteemed journalist Carol Holiday, is not so willing to give up on him.

EXTRAS gallery magpie doodle one , magpie moodboard

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ravager and magpies first meeting is so fucking funny. magpie gets reports of someone meddling in his city and is like 'i swear to god if invictus sent more drones to my city im going to start cracking skulls...' and then he finds a 15 year old in a sloppily put together costume and has the most soulcrushingly potent moment of self reflection

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paracosm drabble, magpie sunflare & precipice, 308 words, mostly dialogue lol

"Wait. Oh no. Is that Magpie? Is he back already? Oh no. Precipice. Precipice, you have to hide me." "Who are we hiding from?" Magpie asked from behind him.

Sunflare froze. He looked to Precipice desperately, but she just shrugged at him. Traitor. Sunflare squeezed his eyes shut and slowly turned around. "Hi, Magpie. I've been informed you might bludgeon me with a pipe." "...Why would I do that." Magpie asked flatly, mask giving no indication to his current emotional state. "Ronan said you were mad." "He exaggerates," Magpie waved his hand dismissively, then tilted his head, considering Sunflare with his disturbingly perceptive gaze. "Are you hurt? Don't answer that. Precipice, hand me his medical report." "You think I have that on hand?" Precipice asked, which slightly redeems her. Sort of. Maybe. No, actually. He takes it back. He's still mad, he decides. "You knew I was coming." Sunflares muttered, "Traitor," goes unacknowledged. "Ugh. I did. I hate how you have all of us conditioned to have exactly what you need on hand," Precipice said, disgusted. "I did nothing," Magpie objected, offense leaking into his voice. She rolled her eyes and handed him Sunflare's medical report. This was a mutiny of the highest degree. He'd have to think of some dastardly plot to avenge himself. This cannot go unpunished. Magpie flipped through the pages of the report, skimming for a few moments before moving on. Eventually he looked up and pinned Sunflare into place with a glare he could feel behind the goggles. "Sit down. You have a fractured ankle," he commanded. Then, addressing Precipice, he asked, "Why is he standing up? Who allowed this? Where is Ronan."

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ben noel · the night we met

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✧ — imagining about karma and bens fights is kind of scary. LIKE ESPECIALLY WHEN BEN WAS YOUNGER AND UNTRAINED???? i feel like its a saying in-universe; 'nobody survives karma' and you know what? ben DIDNT. he just came BACK.

none of you know how overjoyed karma was when he realized that ben is immortal. he has one priority and one priority alone (torment ben noel in the most horrifying painful ways). and power or whatever. but mostly tormenting that One Guy in Particular. hes bens own reverse flash

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✧ — the karma & omen relationship is crazy. omen gets one hint of karma operating in his city and goes on a fucking warpath. he wants that fucker so, so dead. the feeling is very, very mutual

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✧ — btw ben used to go by magpie, to honor his mothers memory. but after everything with invictus, he felt like he tainted his mothers legacy, so he retired that costume for a new one; omen. so from now on when i refer to ben by magpie, that means its either pre-invictus arc or during-invictus arc. and omen is all that comes after (and his personas transition to something more dark and gritty)

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✧ — Ben has really strong empathy. He covers it up now, but when he was younger he'd cry about pretty much anything. Stepped on a beetle by accident? Tears. Read about a fictional character losing their father? His day was ruined. He could never stop himself from seeing it from their perspective, putting on their shoes. It's a trait he now covers up with a mask of indifference, aided by his usually disinterested tone of voice (which he can't control, for the record). It makes him more susceptible to mind control and manipulation, much to his dismay.

He also has a really strong imagination. Even before much of his trauma, he'd have nightmares on a nightly basis. He could never stop himself from picking at the horrible what-ifs, agonizing over catastrophes he couldn't stop himself from imagining. I bet he had a lot of monsters under his bed. Even moreso after his father passed.

It's just funny to me. Everyone sees him as a tightly controlled, emotionless vessel of dry wit and intelligence. When really, he's just a bleeding heart; bleeding for everyone that crosses his path.

divider cred

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ben, as a five year old child: i should be dead right now. thats the way that the world should be. the world is wrong because im alive. god is punishing the world for my mistakes. if i was dead everything would be better. ben: i need to be crucified.

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i thought of a really good superpower to give ben, but im not sure if that would take away from his character/message? because what im thinking right now is that hes completely powerless, just an average human, who makes tools and gadgets that leave him on the same level as his superpowered peers.

but also. the power i came up for him is really fucking cool and has its own potential for so much depth and angst. it also brings the general mood of the comic way down? which i like. that was something i was going for.

when he dies, the person closest in physical proximity to him dies-- and he is revived as a result. a life for a life. their life, for his. they also experience rapid decomposition and have superrrr fucked up corpses btw

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there is this selfish, starving piece of his soul that is never satisfied. he might actually be cursed now that i think about it. its what brings him back, time and time again. at the cost of someone elses life. mangled and bloody and broken, he comes to with a scream on his lips, covered in someone elses blood. isnt that a kind of birth?

this is why hes so determined to throw his safety down again and again. its why he hits harder and pushes further, because maybe, just maybe if he can save enough people, save enough lives, he can begin to repent for what hes taken.

his first breath was a breath that he had stolen from his mother. born premature, with so many complications-- he was not meant to survive it. but he did. and his mother didnt. that kind of set the precedent for the rest of his life.

he used to go to church as a child. his father wasnt particularly religious, but they went because there was free food. ben, i think, is agnostic. still, though. the imagery depicted there-- it stuck with him. in the worst way possible. hes been permanently guilty since the age of five years old.

thinking about him in the confessional...

no this is so fucked up seriously. the kindest, most selfless person you know has the literal fucking devil inside them.

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magpie doodle. btw

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paras

[★ . MAGPIE : ben noel ] [★ . RAVAGER : helen arrington ]

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