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Schmendrick the Magician [1/2]
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Character: Schmendrick the Magician
Fandom: The Last Unicorn
Character Notes:
History: As a child, Schmendrick served as the apprentice of the magician Nikos, who was the mightiest magician in the world. Unfortunately for Schmendrick, he was incredibly incompetent when it came to magic. Though he could perform tricks and spells, Schmendrick had no real control over his magic and therefore would fail to do just about anything properly. Nikos was certain, however, that Schmendrick had immense power. He decided that, since he could not help Schmendrick realize and control his power, the only person left in the world who could was Schmendrick himself. And so, he cast a spell on his apprentice, making it so that he would be immortal until he came to understand and command his power as he should.
This was, as immortality usually works, a very unfortunate thing for Schmendrick. The magician was unable to understand himself at all, and therefore was doomed to wander the Earth on the off chance that he might stumble into understanding. After an indeterminate period of time, Schmendrick joined up with Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where the witch Fortuna disguised simple animals as mythological beasts. Schmendrick tried his best to use this time with Mommy Fortuna to gain some experience and hopefully some guidance, but all of that changed the night the carnival picked up a real unicorn.
Unable to see the unicorn caged in Fortuna's cheap horrorshow, Schmendrick helped free her and then followed her on her quest to find the Red Bull and free the other unicorns of the land. On their way, Schmendrick had his first brush with real magic as he summoned up the images of Robin Hood to distract a band of thieves so he could escape them. One woman who lived with the thieves, Molly Grue, joined Schmendrick and the unicorn on their quest. Once they reached the land ruled by King Haggard, the Red Bull appeared to try and chase the unicorn down the way it had done to the others. Schmendrick, prodded by Molly, attempted to disguise the unicorn as something else with his magic so that the Red Bull would leave them be. This was his second brush with real magic, which allowed him to change the unicorn into a human girl.
This attempt at magic left Schmendrick feeling desperately angry at the fact that he couldn't hold the magic like other wizards could, and he became more certain that he was never going to shed his immortality. The unicorn, disguised as Lady Almalthea, managed to enter Haggard's castle with Schmendrick and Molly; however, as time passed, she began to forget who she was and why she was there. Schmendrick managed to use his abilities to find the way down to the lair of the Red Bull, but by then, he was certain that he'd never be able to summon the magic to change the unicorn back, as she had fallen in love with Prince Lir and had experienced things that no immortal being should experience. However, as she faced the Red Bull, Schmendrick managed to summon and handle the magic needed to return her to her previous form; more than that, he managed to understand how the magic worked, and managed to keep hold of it after he had summoned it for the spell. The spell placed on him was broken, and he became mortal once more.
After the unicorn rescued the other unicorns from the Red Bull, Schmendrick used his new-found power and all of his experience to guide Lir towards his duty as a king, and then left the kingdom to travel the world with Molly Grue as a true magician.
Schmendrick the Magician [2/2]
Other: Because the film version of The Last Unicorn was adapted from the novel by the author, I'm using a little of the book's back-story when it comes to Schmendrick, who got a little bit of a short stick in the movie. I'll also be taking him from before the story begins, while he's still with Mommy Fortuna and they are sans a unicorn.
Additional Links: Schmendrick's finest hour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvEL41kIQg). Also, the Schmendrick fanlisting (http://fangirlisms.com/fls/schmendrick/about.php).
First Person (entry type):
I'm always in a predicament when I think I need to write something down, because whenever I get to my pen and paper, the thing I wanted to write down isn't in my head any more. It's a daft, dumb thing of mine. What I was going to write down, that is. They were some words for the summoning of beasts. Nikos never once had to write a thing down, not when it came to magic. He could just say the words, and they'd do exactly what he wanted them to. Me, I can't even turn an acorn into a tree. I can do the illusions, sure, but I can never remember the words.
Last night, I tried to pull a rabbit from my hat, mispronounced a word and ended up with a Gila monster instead. Those sorts of things are easy to play off to a crowd but they certainly don't help me any, do they? I'm this much closer to convince the magic to work, but by this much I mean there's a whole world between us. "Etu belarius vinu," those were the words. Or maybe "venue." Better try both.
Third Person:
The rain that day was even more terrible than the day before. It was the sort of rain you usually only received in warmer, more equatorial areas of the world, where the air was hot and humid while the rain itself barely rose above blisteringly cold, and it came down thicker than bedsheets. Schmendrick was forced to take cover under the overhang of one of the cages of Mommy Fortuna's carnival, hat hanging miserably low as he listened to the dog-turned-hellhound whine and bark at the animals rushing from the shelter of one tree to another. Mommy Fortuna hardly noticed the rain, nor Ruhk; they were both well used to the repugnant weather, while Schmendrick still had the naivety necessary to dislike heat, humidity, hail and the like.
"If you're so miserable," Fortuna shouted suddenly, drawing Schmendrick away from his attempt to turn a palmful of raindrops into wine, "Why don't you make it stop?"
Ruhk and Fortuna both laughed uproariously at the idea of Schmendrick being able to stop anything at all, which only served to aggravate the wizard. "Maybe I will," he responded, before holding his hands out and saying a few words in a stern, fatherly voice. Around him, the rain heated and the sky cooled, and briefly he imagined that the rain altogether halted its fall, fighting gravity for a moment because he, Schmendrick the Magician, had commanded it.
It was such an exhilarating feeling that Schmendrick whooped for joy - he had stopped the rain! Unfortunately, his excitement ruined his concentration and the rain, which had been building above him, let loose and dropped on top of him like a twenty-pound weight. Ruhk laughed louder than ever; however, the sulking magician noticed that Fortuna had fallen silent, and was looking backwards at him with such an intense gaze that, for a moment, Schmendrick regretted using his power at all. For if Fortuna ever figured out just what he was capable of... Well. He would end up like the dog in the cage. And a cage, Schmendrick knew, was no place for an immortal.
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