Harrison Graves
Harrison Graves is an overqualified librarian by day and a hound for the supernatural at night. Too resilient for his own good, or just unnaturally unlucky, he's come out more mean being among monsters, and when it comes down to the wire, he'll do what's right if it remains convenient.
➤ Quick Overviews
Male Human, 59 y/o.
Lightmarked Signer
6 ft. 5 in. / 279 lbs.
Librarian, Fixer
➤ Unique Abilities
Gravity Sign Language
Passive Danger-sense
Enhanced Endurance
Living Cricket Tattoo
➤ General Hobbies
Crossword Puzzles
Reading & Writing
Trying New Coffee
Watching Reruns
| ➤ NAME | Harrison Graves |
| ➤ ALIAS | Grimoire |
| ➤ SPECIES | Human |
| ➤ STATUS | Light-touched |
| ➤ GENDER | Male |
| ➤ HEIGHT | 6 ft. 5 in. |
| ➤ WEIGHT | 279 lbs. |
| ➤ AGE | 59 y/o. |
| ➤ D.O.B. | January 29 |
| ➤ HOMEWORLD | Earth-9X |
| ➤ CITIZENSHIP | Rowanwick |
| ➤ OCCUPATION | Library Guard |
| ➤ ALIGNMENT | True Neutral |
| ➤ THEME | "How Did You Love" |
➤ APPEARANCE (physique)
Harrison is a large man, well-proportioned and possessing an average amount of muscle, but also padded with a thick layer of fat. Even with grayish purple-tinted eyes and aging russet hair, his other notable trait, should he show it, is a cricket inside an hourglass tattooed on his left shoulder.
➤ APPEARANCE (clothing)
Harrison is almost never seen wearing short-sleeved clothing, instead favoring a gray turtleneck sweater, a beige overcoat with yellow trimming, black dress pants, brown work boots, and a purple scarf. Somewhat far-sighted, he will occasionally don a pair of rectangular reading glasses.
➤ PERSONALITY (positives)
Harrison is laid back, witty, and knows how to play around. As an avid lover of old movies, there’s nothing better than a quiet night with a bowl of snacks and some red wine while watching some of his favorite reruns, and while he doesn’t always know how, he tries his best to be a good person.
➤ PERSONALITY (negatives)
Harrison is aggressive, solitary, territorial, and lazy. Known for his mean streak, he has a terrible temper and just wants to be left alone most of the time. At his worst, he’s violent, cruel, unreasonable, and revels in the grief he brings upon others in order to feel better about his own petty problems.
➤ SPECIALTIES (gravity magic, danger-sense)
Harrison is a gravity mage. Using hand signals, he can envelop objects in a purple haze that allows their gravity to be manipulated. More mass is more difficult to manipulate, with his limit being a sizable streetcar. Beyond that, he also has a sixth sense that detects nearby threats.
➤ EXPERTISES (monsterology, emergency aid)
Harrison is knowledgeable in monsterology. Having lived among the supernatural, he's able to identify many different types of cryptids and their abilities, of which he knows how to efficiently combat. In addition, he's a former biomedical doctor qualified to do emergency first aid.
➤ ACCESSORIES (living tattoo, bulletproof coat)
Harrison is tattooed with a cricket that can come alive, although it mostly serves as the occasional reminder or party trick. Squishy on his own, he also wears an overcoat, which is enchanted to be bulletproof, and carries around an unlicensed handgun for when he's in a pinch.
➤ WEAKNESSES (arcane banes, injured knee)
Harrison is vulnerable against noble gold, which nullifies his magic when worn, and his hand signals are channeled through an arcane gemstone on his person. On the more mundane side of things, he suffers from an improperly-healed knee injury and is slow to recover from damage.
➤ BACKGROUND (child / teen)
Harrison Graves was born into a small town. Growing up, he had a mundane childhood with the exception of his mother's absence, who was deemed unfit for parenthood by a case involving the mistreatment of her children. Custody was given to their working dad who they were raised by from then on, and for the most part, he grew up a bit troubled, but happy.➤ BACKGROUND (young adult)
Harrison had always been a man for the sciences, especially medicine. After graduating from college early with a concentration in biomedical engineering, he pursued his master's degree to make a difference in the field, but when that didn't pan out, he settled for a job as a professor much like his father, and for a time, he was content with what he'd accomplished.➤ BACKGROUND (middle-aged)
Harrison transferred to the Los Lunares University where he and his coworkers pulled some shady, but well-intended research. Not wanting a bad streak among their ranks, they were exiled for their endeavors. Sometime after, he sent in an application for a magic license, and the governing powers of Ramsgate approved his request in return for indentured servitude.➤ BACKGROUND (recent times)
Harrison begrudgingly relocated to the adjacent backwoods town of Rowanwick to work as a library guardian on behalf of Ramsgate, and the few friends he had followed. After settling, they put their combined knowledge both mundane and magical to good use for the town, but the past had a way of catching up. This time, it came in the form of an unlikely commission.
