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Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne ([personal profile] fulltimeoz) wrote in [community profile] luceti 2012-01-01 05:12 am (UTC)

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Character

Name: Daniel ‘Oz’ Osbourne

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Gender: Male

Age: 19/20

Time Period: Ep. 4x14, after he’s been traveling for about 3 months.

Wing Color: Midnight blue with silver tips

History: Character Wiki Entry

Personality:

Oz is the stalwart, steady Scooby. In the midst of Sunnydale’s willfully ignorant population, Oz is the quiet, unexpected observer who sees a great deal more than anyone realizes. It’s not that he avoids the limelight. As the lead guitarist for The Dingoes Ate My Baby, he has no trouble directing himself in front of an audience. But with his quiet, taciturn nature, Oz manages to field the attention without ever being the center of it. Incredibly hard to phase, he responds to the weird and the wacky (and the not-so-occasionally horrific) with a laconic calm that is nearly unshakeable.

Or, at least, that’s how it seems.

Oz is shot in the arm, witnesses the dusting of a vampire, discovers the existence of magic and all the many creatures that go bump in the night, and then finds out that he, himself, is one of them after his teething cousin bites him…and turns him into a werewolf. He faces the end of the world (multiple times), and any number of threats to himself and his friends, and he does so with an extraordinary level of calm. In fact, he rarely even raises an eyebrow as events unfold around him. Yet as his relationships with Willow and the other Scoobies grow, the depth of those still waters slowly becomes clear. Terrified of his own incredibly dangerous transformation and madly in love with Willow, Oz is in a constant state of conflict with himself. He masks it well, preferring to let the attention stay elsewhere, instead channeling it into careful, quiet self-control. He weighs every word before he speaks. He looks before he acts. And he locks himself up with every full moon in order to protect the people around him.

For Oz, it’s the people in his life that take the highest priority. Demons may come and apocalypse might loom, but he can be the stalwart stone if the people he cherishes are safe. Usually, any turbulence in his peace is demonstrated by quiet “dramatic gestures,” such as standing up from the couch in surprise when Willow tells him she wants to sleep with him, or starting to walk out of the room when the team worries that his wolfy self might be responsible for maulings going on in town. His protests or outbursts are generally as controlled as the rest of him. However, there are a few points where that laconic cool collapses, and it always involves Willow. When she’s captured by the mayor, he sends a table of supplies crashing to the floor when Wesley tries to argue that saving her is less important than keeping information that could be traded for her release. When Veruca threatens Willow’s life, Oz keeps enough of himself present to fight her even when he transforms into a wolf, ripping her throat out to keep Willow safe. And, once he’s learned to control his wolf form, it’s finding out that Willow is with someone else that breaks his willpower and ends up transforming him even without the full moon.

Whatever else she is to him, Willow is his anchor. Their relationship is far from perfect, but there’s a light in her that he cherishes. Chronically unambitious, it’s Willow who gives him the will and determination to be more. For her, he will strive to study, to learn, to protect, and to control, forcing his wolfish side into submission. For her, he would give up the world itself.

Strengths:

Physical - As a werewolf he has supernatural strength, speed and stamina. He also has heightened senses in both forms, which allows him to notice scents that a normal human would miss (like smelling Willow’s fearful scent from the highway when she was kidnapped by Spike, or smelling her on Tara after she and Tara were together).

Mental - Oz is a genius. During a high school career day, Willow is specially selected as a potential recruit for a highly secret and highly selective software company. Unlike the other Sunnydale students who were all sorted by the career day test, the recruiters explain that they’ve been watching her and her progress for some time. When she steps into the small room to wait for the company’s executive, she finds Oz snacking on hor dourves…the only other Sunnydale student who was qualified.

When his lack of ambition causes him to fail his senior year, he rejoins the rest of the scoobies for a second try. Once Willow comes to terms with this, she proudly declares that he’s, “…the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate!”

Emotional - Oz’s calm demeanor is almost completely unflappable. Despite the many strange things he experiences, he meets almost every one with ironic detachment. When shot in the arm, he is in shock, but he still manages to laugh it off with a kind of disbelieving calm. The first time he sees a vampire dusted, Willow starts to empathize, stating that she knows it’s hard to believe, but he only responds that “Actually, it explains a lot.” Even finding out that he’s a werewolf is met with quiet and measured changes to his lifestyle in order to protect those around him. When faced with the end of the world, Willow actually begs him to panic with her instead of being “ironic detachment guy.”

Weaknesses:

Physical - Unless it’s a night with a full moon, he’s your standard, fragile human. He can throw a punch, and he’s been known to cooperatively slay vampires with the team when Buffy is otherwise occupied, but he’s not much use against super-powered foes.

Mental - Oz is lazy. Or, well, not lazy so much as unambitious. Perfectly capable of succeeding in academic and mental endeavors, he has no desire to actually do so. With the recruiters, he explains that he tests well, but that he has no desire to get a job… at least, not unless it has something to do with his music. Later, when facing incompletes during his senior year, he skips the makeup classes he should have taken over the summer in order to graduate, landing him back in high school for another year.

Emotional - Despite his epic self-control over his emotions and (later) his wolfish transformations, his greatest motivator is also his main weakness. Willow gives him a reason to maintain control over himself, but it’s jealousy over her that can completely unwind him. When she cheats on him with Xander and, later, when he comes back from traveling for six months to find her romantically involved with Tara, he completely falls apart. He loves her completely, and this gives her the ability to both build him up and send him spiraling out of control.

Samples

First Person:
Can I have the Q&A, please?

Third Person: (Samples must be 300 words or above. Remember to write using proper grammar, verb tenses, and paragraphs.)

It felt strange to have his own place again. Strange to call one, singular space home after three months of traveling. It wasn’t comforting, really…not when he hadn’t achieved what he’d set out to do…but at least he wasn’t scrambling for a place to wait out the full moon. The cage had been ready and waiting when he’d arrived, already set up in Cordelia’s apartment. For Angel, but it worked well enough for him. One size fits all monsters.

His hand closed around one of the door’s bars, tightening until knuckles whitened. He hadn’t been sure if his body would obey the moon in this strange place, but he didn’t doubt it now. He could feel it thrumming under his skin as sunset approached. It felt like fire, ready to consume him from the inside out, and his heart raced with the excitement and apprehension it created. He would change, and this time there wasn’t any place he could run to to get away from it.

“…Oz?” Buffy’s voice sounded distant, pulling him back from his thoughts. “You okay there?”

“Hmm?” It was a hum, quietly voiced as he turned his distracted gaze back at the slayer. She was different, but the same, arms crossed as she watched him from the doorway. There was a delay as the question registered. “Just…thinking.”

“You gonna be okay with the whole lone wolf thing? The Malnosso have kindly provided us with the finest selection of Bollywood films for your movie-night-in pleasure.”

He gave her the briefest of lopsided smiles. “Not the Bollywood, Buffy. No one deserves that.”

“Laugh all you want. I’ll have you know Wi-“ her eyes widened just slightly as she caught herself and dodged the name. “-w…we killed many a night of boredom with those movies.”

His smile faded a little, but he kept it in his voice. “I don’t doubt that.”

“Fine.” She threw up her hands in mock resignation. “Movie free it is. But consider it an open invitation.”

“Thanks.”

She left him alone, then, with a backward glance over her shoulder before she closed the door behind her, and he turned his attention back to the cage. Close now. The heat of it was washing over his skin, overwhelming all of his senses and battling for control even as he tried to force it back.

They’d said there was a cure in Tibet. If only he could have gotten there-
But there was no point in if onlys.

Taking a deep breath, he stepped inside the cage and let it clang shut behind him, the lock clicking into place with cold finality. Leaning against the door, he pressed his forehead to the bars, the cool steel feeling icy against his skin. So, so close…

A few minutes later, the lonely, frustrated howl of a wolf would echo through the halls of Apartment Six and up to the full moon waiting overhead.

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