Name: Mickey Courig
Race: Human (Male Witch)
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Profession: New Age Pharmacist
Appearance: (I STILL don't know how to insert images like all you smart people T_T) Mickey stands 5'8 tall with sandy blond hair, green eyes and a face full of freckles. On the street he's often wearing a pair of hip-hugger jeans, sleeveless shirts and carrying his satchel bag while he goes from one farmers market to the next for ingredients.
Equipment: Herbologist's pouch, wand, hunting knife.
Implants: None. Mickey is all natural as tech doesn't mix well with his particular brand of magic.
Magic: Forces - Mickey can tap into major ley lines running through the area to produce minor gravitational shifts that affect objects up to 45kg/100lbs in weight. If no ley lines are within one mile of his position, Mickey cannot tap into this ability.
Brewer - Societies have long held that natural herbs and spices are the true medicines that are good for the human body, not the pseudo-medicines being pumped out by the pharmaceutical companies coming to dominate Texas. While largely false (Mickey is completely caught up on his vaccines, after all) there is a grain of truth to this folklore. Hereditary witches have long been able to take basic ingredients that are healthy and nourishing to the human and supernatural body and add a little more zest to the good parts within, or insert small hex spells to meet specific purposes. Mickey is a mid-level potion brewer, having graduated from the Salem School of Witchcraft's program eight years ago. Supernaturals throughout Houston come to him for brews- largely to buy brews that will conceal their supernatural traits from hostile humans for a short while.
Personality: Mickey is a unique member of the supernatural community in Houston. He has no outward identifying markers of his magical nature, unlike elves, trolls or orcs. He likes to skirt under the radar and spends most of his time cultivating his garden or working with his "Special club" (See: Organizations).
Bio: Mickey Courig was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a pair of lesbian witches in the most pro-magic State in the Union. His moms, Alice and Cassie, made sure he grew up in a diverse and wholesome environment. While other kids were going to boy scout meetings and fishing trips, Mickey went to coven gatherings and werewolf festivals, all the while never batting an eye at the weird and wonderful things that filled the world. This idyllic life went on until he turned 10 years old, when Mickey got his first taste of what the outside world was like for a lot of magicals. On a family trip to Disney World in Florida, Mickey was kidnapped by a mentally disturbed woman in the park, a lady brainwashed by pro-human ideology who wanted to "rescue" him from the sinful witches raising him. The manhunt lasted less than an hour before park security was able to locate and return Mickey to his parents. The woman was arrested and charged by the Orlando prosecutor, but the incident had a profound impact on Mickey's life. His High School years were spent studying standard curriculum along with witchcraft, while his free time was spent on the internet learning what life was really like for Magicals outside his home city.
College brought him to Salem's School of Witchcraft, where he majored in potion brewery and minored in business management. He joined the Boston chapter of the Magic Underground as a way to meet new friends who were concerned for the welfare of their fellow magicals in the country, but quickly got swept up in helping a newly hatched dragonling fleeing from Arkansas to Canada. The incident, while fairly minor according to the other group members' stories, left him a little shaken but more determined to put his skills to use. Usually, witches would find their way out to California to help the rich and fabulous stay young and beautiful, but Mickey found purpose elsewhere. He graduated at the age of 23, cashed in the savings bonds his mothers had accumulated over the years, and moved south to Texas, where he opened a private pharmacy on the edges of Houston's Magic District. He's done well for himself so far, but Mickey knows there's a lot more money to be made in the area- if the rich and famous of Houston knew there was a signed-and-sealed witch in their presence, one who could make them look young, skinny or muscular with a few mixed drinks, he could quickly find himself faced with an offer he couldn't refuse...
Misc: Mickey owns an herbal pharmacy one block outside Houston's Magic District, "The Green Bottle." He is the primary caretaker, but there is a help-wanted sign on the front door requesting general help.
Company/Organization: The Magic Underground - Mickey is a member of The Magic Underground. After the Texas secession, the supernatural community there looked at some of the laws passed by the Governor along with others under consideration with a great deal of fear. The Magic Underground is an organization formed in Boston, Massachusetts with the express purpose of helping those who want to escape hostile regions of North America escape to "Pro-Magic" states or countries (mostly the Northeast or Canada). Texas was quick to label it a subversive terrorist group and being an official member carries a minimum 5 year jail sentence. Mickey has only helped a handful of Orcs and Trolls escape from dangerous situations in Texas, but is otherwise a low-level member of the group.
