Eliot Waugh

Name: Eliot Waugh

Player: Violet

Canon:  The Magicians

Played By:  Hale Appleman

Age/Birthday: 30 / January 17

Appearance: Eliot is tall and thin, with dark, wavy, long-ish hair and deliberately cultivated scruff. He is always extremely well put together, with a good eye for fashion.

Powers: Eliot is a magician. He's best at physical magic (e.g., telekinesis) over illusion, though tthis includes, e.g., bending light. Most of his magic involves complicated hand gestures, but amazingly he can even do it while drunk. Battle magic is exceedingly difficult and often involves unpleasant preparations.

Talents: Eliot is also very good with potions, though he almost exclusively uses this ability to make amazing cocktails. He's also a reasonably good singer and dancer... he played Jean Val Jean in high school! And very good at styling other people.

Interests: Clothes. Drinking. Drugs. Trashy romance novels. Cigarettes. Beaches. Dancing. Shopping. Cities at night. Smoky clubs. Occasional self destruction. Magic.

History: Eliot grew up on a farm in rural Indiana, tormented by his own sexuality and his abusive, conservative father. He found out about his magical talent when he was a teenager and accidentally used telekinesis to cause his bully to be hit by a bus. Later, he was invited to become a student at Brakebills Academy for magicians, where he showed a great deal of talent and also completely reconstructed how he presented himself, letting everyone assume that he'd grown up wealthy and confident.

During his final year at Brakebills, he and his friends discovered that a magical world called Fillory (known previously only from a series of children's books) was real, and a powerful, evil being would go to great lengths to take control of it. In the course of trying to stop him, Eliot was forced to kill the man he thought was his boyfriend, while also finding out that this boyfriend been possessed the entire time. Afterwards he completely went off the rails and thanks to an inability to remain sober almost got his friends killed more than once. And somehow... it all ended with him becoming High King of Fillory.

His time ruling the country was complicated--including being forced to marry and be monogamous with a woman--and involved more near-death experiences than he could count, a lot of very bad decisions, and thanks to a time loop, living an entire lifetime with the friend he'd fallen in love with, only to watch him die later. And then he spent several months possessed by a god who rode his body around while Eliot screamed from inside.

In the end, he and his friends saved the worlds again--both of them. But somehow when things shook out, his friends were all gone, and Eliot was left behind. Not knowing what else to do, he went back to Brakebills, and started teaching there.

He's lonely, mostly, and bored. And could use a change.