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John Constantine

John Constantine is a member of the Order Magika.

Anita Lesnicki is John Constantine's muscle.

Demonologist(Fiend Slayer) L20 CN Human

John Constantine's character sheet

Character History

John's mother died during labour, leaving him to be raised by a father who resented him for simply having been born. Constantine's upbringing was a difficult one - bitter and broken over the loss of his wife, Thomas lost himself in drink and vented his anger upon his hapless young son. John's father hit perhaps his lowest ebb when he was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing women's underwear. John, and his older sister Cheryl, were sent to live with their Aunt Dolly and Uncle Harry. It was here that a still not yet ten years old John Constantine might have been responsible for a second death…

While out playing in a field, John stumbled across the half-buried remains of what he thought to be a dead boy. After Finding an odd-coloured stone lodged behind the exposed ribcage of the corpse, Constantine is convinced that his macabre discovery is a fossilized human heart. As time passes John notices a change in his behavior and mood, as he becomes more angry and violent to those around him. Following a harsh exchange with Cheryl, John decides that the 'heart' is cursed and lobs it into a nearby quarry. Constantine's aim proves poor however and it smashes loudly against the tin roof of a shack lived in by a deranged tramp. When the man fails to come outside to investigate the noise, John is sure that the heart has pierced the roof and killed the tramp inside.

By the age of fourteen, Constantine had developed an interest in the occult, immersing himself in any books he could find on the subject as a means of escaping the harsh reality of his childhood. Father and son reached a pivotal point in their relationship when John was expelled from school for starting a “Out Demons! Out!” chant at morning assembly. Furious with John's actions, Thomas started a blazing bonfire in their back garden and tossed all of his son's books onto it. So it was that John Constantine was first inspired to use magic to avenge an act of perceived wrong doing against his person.

Sifting through the embers of the burnt out bonfire, John was able to salvage a couple of charred, smoke damaged tomes - one of which offered up the perfect means of revenge against his father - a curse that would cause him to waste away and die. Constantine had to kill the next-door neighbour's cat in order to make the curse work, he also had to maim it to make it look like his one-armed father - so he took a razor blade to one of its legs. The deed done, John buried the remains and waited to see what would happen.

Much to his surprise, his father fell gravely ill and started to slowly waste away. With Thomas near death, John panicked and went in search of a way to stop the spell but there was none to be found. Finally, acting out of sheer desperation, Constantine exhumed the rotting corpse of the slain cat and stuck it in a jar of formaldehyde. John got lucky, with the corpse now preserved, his father's health stopped deteriorating and while Thomas never made a full recovery, he did survive the experience.

One evening during a thunderstorm, John was trying to grab some food from a local bodega, when he was struck by lightning. John up until this point has lead a harsh life and thought during this ill fated moment that it was his judgment day. In a sense it was. When John came to, we was no longer in the City of Angels ( Los Angeles), but in an open field, back dropped with mountains. There was no city, no city lights, no cars, no airplanes. It was an amazingly clear sky. And in looking at the sky, it looked familiar to some degree. He thought that he was in Limbo waiting for judgment. In fact he was in Arda. John through some, luck skill and very possibly some divine intervention eventually made his way to Nexus Prime. Agents at the gate could not understand him, but when an Imperia translator was dispatched it was discovered that he was from an unknown realm called Earth. Mica of the Nine had luckily looked over the reports for that day reading about this person from the realm of Earth and instantly sent for this person for an undisclosed reason.

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