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[h3]Character Description[/h3]
[list]Name: Steven (Steve) Hammersmith
Nationality: American
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Appearance: 6'1'', fairly pale with dark hair and a small goatee.  Dark eyes and quite muscular [/list] [hider=or...][img]https://i.ibb.co/gFG9hsy/d2q9usp-cd5d960b-02e1-49c9-9b72-7bd1cc0d9cb3.jpg[/img][/hider]
[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
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Speciality: Defence
Any Unique Spell: Electric charge - Steve can send a bolt of electricity shooting from his wand.  This can, potentially, be used to hurt people, but it also can be used to make electrical items work, like his amp.
Screwing this one up can lead to electrical equipment exploding, accidental fires and electrocution.
Non-Magical Skills: Can play the bass guitar better than most and has decent stage presence.  Is also quite strong and goes to a boxing gymn where he has learned (no surprises for guessing this one) how to box.  Also knows how to do stage magic reasonably well.
Misc. Weaknesses: Smokes.  A lot.  Also lazy (Cs get degrees).
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[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Major: English Literature
Backstory: Steven Hammersmith, or Steve as everyone calls him, is originally from a well-to-do wizarding family in New York who (probably) used some kind of magic to manipulate the stock market, though nobody can prove it for sure.  As such, Steve had the best education money could buy and the very finest of magical tutors to teach him how to master the arcane arts.  Which he did, though without any particular passion.  Steve was very much going through the motions.

Until he discovered 'Lordi' and the fact that both his parents, and most of his class mates hated 'Lordi'.  Partly out of spite, partly out of a desire to claim his own image and partly out of a genuine love of the genre, Steve immersed himself in heavy metal.  Picking up the guitar briefly before switching to the bass.

His grades slipped but Steve still managed to get through High School with good enough grades to get into Arizona State (after first taking a year to 'discover himself' in the Netherlands) and while his parents were deeply frustrated he insisted on doing English literature rather than Finance, continued to pay for Steve's education though they cut off his allowance, assuming this would bring him back into line.

Much to their irritation, Steve got a couple of recurring gigs with a metal band called 'Murderboss' and as a stage magician, using actual magic to impress small children who assume it is all an illusion.

Usually, Steve keeps his wand inside the neck of his base, which is great when you are trying to make lightning shoot out of it and pretend it's pyrotechnics.

Steve is in Phi Mu Lambda because joining required minimum effort.
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