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PERMISSIONS.
in character
SHIPPING broadly speaking, not super interested, but if you're a canonmate (especially faquarl!), i'll probably be into it! bartimaeus's whole situation largely resists shipping for many reasons, but the main one is that his most favoured human form is a fourteen-year-old boy.
FIGHTING yes please! bartimaeus is a very good fighter who will improvise and use his surroundings to advantage. he's generally very powerful and hard to actually kill, though he's just as likely to make a run for it if he thinks he's going to lose. i'm happy for him to be injured too, since he has a number of weaknesses that could cause significant trouble for him. i'm not above someone locking him in a silver tureen full of clam chowder and letting him disintegrate into a muddled mass of slime. let's discuss it ooc!
MAGIC broadly yes! i'm up for anything you can throw at him, but generally speaking i'd prefer to chat about it ooc first.
MINDREADING generally speaking i'm happy for characters to read bart's mind! let me know if they're going to, though – his mind works quite differently to a human's, with lots of competing trains of thought happening at the same time, and there's also the seven planes to factor in.
CONTENT WARNING bartimaeus's canon deals pretty explicitly with slavery in the sense that bartimaeus considers himself a slave to magicians and will refer to himself as such. a key element of his backstory also involves the death of a child – a young teenager, to be specific. please let me know on this page if you want to avoid any of these topics or opt out of interacting with bartimaeus at all! no hard feelings, comments are screened.
out of character
THREADJACKING fine by me if it's on a network post, otherwise (in the case of log posts, etc.), please ask first.
BACKTAGGING i function by backtagging a lot of the time and can't always be around to tag back super quickly, so if something is dragging on too long for you, then please let me know and I'll prioritise the thread to get it to a place where it can be finished. handwaving threads that go on for too long is also an option.
FOURTHWALLING not super interested in 'fictional character' fourthwalling, but i'm happy to play within the margins here, especially because bartimaeus dabbles in a bit of fourthwalling himself!
info
ABOUT bobby, they/them, UK-based. you can reach me by PMing this journal, on plurk at ![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
crowders, or by asking for my discord, the latter two options preferably only if we have ongoing CR.
TRIGGERS i have no major triggers in terms of RP content, but i would really appreciate warnings for videos of car accidents (including in fiction), so please warn me if you're sending me something like that. this is mostly relegated to footage where a car or a pedestrian is sideswiped out of nowhere, e.g. the car crash scene in whiplash. i don't mind being shown stuff with this in it, just let me know first!
PIXIE LED » permissions.
Active Times/Pace GMT, usually more active on weekends and evenings. Slow to medium pace.
Brackets/Prose No preference. I default to brackets but I really don't mind either way.
Offensive Subjects & Triggers to Avoid No triggers in written stuff, but please generally warn for anything you feel is egregious or needs to be warned for and I will do the same. Please also warn me if you are going to send any footage (gifs, videos, etc.) with an unexpected car accident.
Physical Violence Yes, but Bartimaeus is a pretty formidable fighter, with magic and 5,000 years of experience on his side.
Relationships Friendships, yes. Everything else, probably not. It's weird. Let's talk OOC.
NPC Interaction Yes, always.
Psychic & Psionic Information I like to think that Bartimaeus's mind is a scary and hectic place. He can think on several different levels at once (this is represented with footnotes in the novels), so anyone who is capable of reading his mind would have a field day in there.
Magical Information Bartimaeus can view the Seven Planes, a thing from his world which basically means he can scan different layers of reality and see things that may otherwise be concealed on the layer that we can all see. There's an individual opt-in for this here if you would like to note anything your character in particular might display on other planes, otherwise I will default to him not being able to see anything out of the ordinary.
Medical Information Bartimaeus is basically allergic to iron and silver and, to a lesser degree, earth (mud, but also, like, The Earth). He is also a shapeshifter and when he's injured he bleeds something called essence, which is silvery and somewhere between a liquid and a gas.
Offensive Subjects & Triggers Associated with This Character Bartimaeus's canon deals pretty explicitly with slavery in the sense that he considers himself a slave to magicians and will refer to himself as such. A key element of his backstory also involves the death of a child with whom Bartimaeus was very close.
Threadhopping Sure, if it's a public network post, but if it's a log thread, no.
Fourthwalling Not super interested in 'fictional character' fourthwalling, but I'm happy to play outside the margins here, especially because Bartimaeus dabbles in a bit of fourthwalling himself (see: footnotes).
Not Interested In Shipping, really, unless there's a lot of OOC discussion. Bart is a difficult character to ship. I'm open to negative CR, but not just for the sake of it – I'd like to have a trajectory in mind.