Mordecai ==>>Non-Verbal Magic,Apparation and Legilimens approved, but for Seer i need much much bigger and detailed explanation!
And so you shall have it! *grins*
Ability: Seer
How Character Achieved this: The trait comes from his mother, or specifically his mother's lineage. His mum being a fifth generation Australian witch, Mordecai's great-great grandmother was an Aboriginal woman of some social standing in her tribe. It was said she could speak to the gods and to the earth, more of a shaman or medicine woman than prophetess. The elements and animals have always held a high standing in his mother's family. Most of his mother's relatives never inherited the full gift of a Seer, but many were sensitive to the world around them, picking up on things that even witches and wizards today brush off as either superstition or just plain nonsense.
Moredcai's mother was gifted in the ways of a Seer yet few knew of it. She lived during a time of great turmoil and with the threat of Dark Lord reaching as far as South Africa, his mother knew that it was best to keep under the radar and her thoughts to herself least someone unwanted showed up on her doorstep.
Now in Mordecai's case foreseeing the future is not something he does or can do on demand. Frankly he'd rather not know what the future holds because if he did he still couldn't do a damn thing about it. There have been times during his life where he witness or experienced forces beyond his ability to control and it is true he had foreseen things. What those things are he will never say. It's a burden he shoulders silently. If anyone ever found out he'd be called out as a Hack or a Cad or garner the wrong sort of attention. He'd rather keep his nose clean and free of any Death Eater muck and he doesn't want to have to keep looking over his shoulder for fear that someone will appear in some shadow and attack him for what he knows.
Other than that the Seer qualities he does constantly engage are his connections with nature. The wind guides him in everything he does so it was never a question of what he wanted to do with his life. The wind showed him and he went and did it. He relies a lot on instinct and preemptory feelings. The type of feelings that forewarns of danger or a deceitful person or some sort of wrong doing and harm. Whenever he gets the chance he goes Walkabout or spends days alone in a sweat lodge in order to receive messages from the spirits of the earth and those greater. If he never ended up being a Quidditch player chances are that Mordecai would have became a shaman.The Northern Albatross is more than just his Partronus, it’s his Spirit Guide as well.
(The angle I took on the Seer is one of many branches of foretelling the future. He's more of a fire scrying and a vision questing sort of guy rather than a crystal ball gazing tarot reading figure. Think Fireneze rather than Trelawney. I can go into further detail if you like.)
by James Wake Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:02 pm
