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C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Matthew Swift / The Blue Electric Angels
CANON: Matthew Swift & Magicals Anonymous novels
POINT IN CANON: Post The Glass God
AGE: mid 30s
APPEARANCE:
Matthew is described as having dark brown hair that looks a bit unkempt, with pale, freckled skin and a stick-like frame. He often wears an unremarkable, ordinary beige coat, which is rather less ordinary for all of the enchantments he's put on it. He tends to look perpetually scruffy, and he has a tendency to wear the same thing every single day.
But despite looking largely ordinary, Matthew does have a few notable, less-ordinary features. The first is his eyes - formerly a normal brown colour, they are now an unnatural "pale, brilliant albino blue", that reflect blue in the dark, like a cat's. The second is the scar on the palm of his right hand - two crosses, one within the other, like the ones on the crest for the City of London. Usually the scar isn't visible, as Matthew keeps it covered up under fingerless gloves.
Additionally, characters with magical sight or any kind of ability to see the 'truth' of things might be able to see him with a pair of blue flaming wings. These don't exist on any physical level (except in extreme circumstances), but are more metaphysical.
CANON HISTORY:
Here
CANON PERSONALITY:
Matthew's personality can be summed up as 'complicated'. Matthew shares his body with the Blue Electric Angels, the manifestation of the life left over in the telephone wires. 'Possessed' might be the closest term for describing their relationship with each other, but it's not really accurate as it's more of a symbiotic relationship than one controlling the other. They can and do regularly switch between one or the other, sometimes even in the middle of sentences. As a result, even though both of them have their own personality traits, the distinctions between the Matthew and the angels are not always clear. They also tend to regard themselves as one being, with any differences between them as irrelevant. But, for all that they claim that they are the same, Matthew and the angels do each have distinct personality traits and they're not as integrated as they see themselves. And while it might be rare, they can also disagree with each other.
Matthew is the human part of the equation, and he uses singular pronouns to refer to himself. If it weren't for the fact that he's a sorcerer and inhabited by the Blue Electric Angels, you'd probably call him pretty ordinary. Before dying he never made waves as a sorcerer, content to pretty much just do his own thing and get on with his life. Dying, obviously, had a big impact there - especially since the one responsible for his death was his own teacher. He became much more paranoid and less willing to trust others afterwards, treating those he meets with a waryness that he wouldn't have had before he died.
Dying also imbued Matthew with an extremely strong desire for revenge, and since Matthew also happens to possess extreme single-mindedness once he's locked onto a goal, he pursued revenge with, well, a vengeance. Once achieved though, revenge didn't really sit too well on Matthew's shoulders - he detests killing, thus leading him to often take the option of not killing more than you would think from someone who'd stated he was after revenge. He also feels a lot of guilt over others who end up dying in the crossfire, because Matthew had been too focused on his end goal to think about the consequences. After the bloodbath that was the battle at the Kingston Exchange, Matthew does make much more of an effort to not get other people hurt, but he can still at times get tunnel-vision as a result of his single-mindedness. In the end, Matthew believes in doing what is right over doing what is necessary, and on multiple occasions where killing is in fact the 'logical' option that would save many other lives, Matthew inevitably chooses not to kill and to try and find some other way around the problem.
Many other characters assumed that before he died, Matthew wasn't at all a powerful sorcerer, and that it's the presence of the Blue Electric Angels that made him powerful. This isn't strictly true - Matthew always had power, but he was also afraid of his own power and what he ultimately could be capable of. Sinclair describes Matthew as "smart enough to be afraid", and someone who "knows when a power shouldn't be used". He's essentially inclined to be more restrained with his power than other sorcerers. Quite often when he ends up slinging around massive amounts of power, it's really the angels that are leading the charge. In fact, Matthew is what holds the angels back most of the time.
Matthew is also someone who can end up irritating the hell out of other people. He's sarcastic, flippant, and irreverent, and takes way too much glee in annoying people and pushing their buttons. He has little regard for rules or authority, which admittedly becomes a bit of a problem when Matthew ends up becoming the authority. He'll avoid doing things like paperwork and is known to deal with the problems that he's not supposed to deal with while ignoring the ones that he is. People skills, really, are not his forte.
Matthew is also rather curious and inquisitive ("Never the kind of man who didn’t press the button"). He has no sense of style, and thus isn't inclined to go and give himself a more impressive name like many others. And he's scared of doctors and frightened by medicine, making him very much an impossible patient.
The angels, unlike Matthew, are anything but ordinary. They are a conglomerate being made up of countless numbers of leftover life left on the telephone wires, and as such they use plural pronouns to refer to themselves. They are inhuman, and very much child-like in their attitudes and view of the world. The angels are young, and they have the maturity to match. If you gave a child unimaginable power, without any restrictions or rules, you might get something like the angels.
At core, the angels are about freedom and delight in life. They love life, are fascinated by it, and they delight in just being able to experience the world. Sensations, new experiences - the angels will try anything once, and their curiosity is a trait that they share with Matthew. Especially when they are first summoned into the world with Matthew, the angels are basically high on life. If it weren't for the fact that there had been people trying to kill them, they probably would have spent all their time running around trying out every aspect of Life that they could think of. Time tempers them a little bit, but any new experience is something for them to savor.
But, while they love life and love being able to now experience it, they wouldn't have chosen to be resurrected with Matthew. Because having a body of flesh, while amazing, is still in the end not the freedom they experienced in the wire. And for the angels, freedom means freedom in all respects - freedom from rules and consequences as well as the freedom to do what you want. The angels don't think about consequences, and so they are quick to anger, often likely to react instantly, perhaps with violence. They'll toss out threats like there's no tomorrow, just because someone has angered them, without a care as to whether or not this is a good idea. They also love power, will get high on it, and there's been times where Matthew has had to basically drag them away from getting lost in it. There's a reason why many other characters have the view that if it weren't for the fact that the angels share a body with a sorcerer who holds them back, the angels would burn down the city just to watch the flames. In reality the angels aren't that bad - their love of life doesn't mean that they love destruction for destruction's sake, and they would much rather just experience life than wreak havoc upon it - but it's certainly true that they would be a mad, uncontrollable force without Matthew.
Being so enamored with life, and previously existing as immortal spirits of the wire that couldn't ever die, now that they are stuck in a flesh body the angels are completely terrified of death. Irrationally, utterly terrified - which often isn't a good combination for others, as they'll desperately try to burn anything that might kill them. They also don't deal at all well with pain, or bodily discomfort, so often it ends up being Matthew who has to make them keep going as opposed to just sitting down and doing nothing like they'd like to.
They also have certain compulsions relating to their nature as spirits of the telephone wire - if a phone rings in an empty street in the night, they have to answer it, because that is what they are. They are also soothed by the sounds of conversations in the wires.
Both Matthew and the angels personalities though, while still being distinct from each other, do also inevitably affect each other. The angels have made Matthew much more child-like, while Matthew has made the angels more human and restrained. And having been melded together like they are, separation is, while technically possible, a really bad idea. Later on in the series, when someone does manage to pull out Matthew's consciousness, it's extremely clear that the angels cannot cope with existing in a physical form without Matthew. It's less clear whether Matthew could exist on his own - it's likely he might, since unlike the angels Matthew has prior experience living as a human on his own - but at the very least since he regards the angels as a part of himself now, he wouldn't be happy about it.
POINT OF DEPARTURE:
Matthew has previously appeared in Synodiporia, where he participated in the following jaunts: Misericordia, Escape from Junkworld, Code of Dishonour, Belljar, Villains and Vigilantes, Lightside/Darkside, The Haunted Isle, Pogemon, Olympus Unended, Junkworld Shopping Trip, The Unquiet Dead, Night Falls on Yensid, A Liminal Carol, Ouroboros Retrograde, Triad Tourney, Digital Frontier: Legacy Mode, Red Dirt, and Purgatory
VETERAN?: NA
ABILITIES:
Matthew is an urban sorcerer, which means that he essentially derives his power from the city. Things like street lights, gas mains, power lines, water pipes, the traffic of the streets - these are the sorts of things that power Matthew's magic. On a deeper level, magic in Matthew's universe is comes from life. A city might not be alive biologically, but the routines and movement of living creatures within it imbue it with the trappings of life, and therefore power.
Sorcerers like Matthew differ from magicians in that magicians rely upon pre-written incantations, spells, and the invocation of powerful magical entities, while a sorcerer's magic relies on will, raw magic, and a more intuitive understanding of mystical forces. This gives sorcerers much greater power and flexibility, but it also means that they run the risk of getting lost in the magic of particularly powerful places.
Urban places aren't the only places that sorcerers can gain their power from - some sorcerers are more suited to drawing their power from nature, and things like blood and living creatures will always contain magic. As an urban sorcerer though, Matthew is naturally more suited to deriving his power from cities, and he's best with cities he's familiar with. Given enough time and motivation, he can adapt - but generally if you stick him in the forest he'll have very little that he can actually do.
As for what sorcerers actually do - quite a lot, and the limits are very fuzzy since it's a magic that is so dependent and changeable according to environment. But at it's core, sorcery is a manipulation of one's surroundings, and of the things which are already there.
Examples of what sorcerers have been seen to be able to do are:
As wide ranging as a sorcerer's abilities are, there are limits to them - since much of it is essentially a manipulation of what is already there, they can't pull things out of nowhere. In order for them to manipulate a gas main, it has to be there in the first place. It's easier to make someone fall asleep if it's the middle of the night and they are already tired, so they probably couldn't make someone who was wide awake fall asleep in the middle of the day. They can manipulate perceptions, but only by manipulating what people already expect - such as expecting that someone in a boring beige coat isn't someone they need to pay attention to.
In addition to his abilities as a sorcerer, Matthew is also sharing his body with the Blue Electric Angels. It’s more of a mind-merging than possession, though it does look an awful lot like possession. The angels are spirits of the telephone wire, who were born from the 'life' of people's conversations made over them. As such, they come with their own specific abilities.
As telephonic spirits, they can recall anything that people said into the phones, word for word (although presumably this only applies to things said before they were resurrected, and in their own universe). They can connect a mobile phone to a telephone switch-box and listen in on conversations on the wire. They also tend to know instantly whenever telephone conversations are happening nearby, and when they are close enough they can listen in without having to connect to a wire. They can also understand all of the languages that have been spoken on the telephone - but this is aural only, as they can't understand written language the same way.
The angels also have a very strong affinity for electricity and fire. They don't generate it out of nowhere, but they can draw upon the power of the city to create blue electric fire that burns across their skin. Manipulating electricity comes very naturally to them. And given enough power - enough meaning a hell of a lot - this can even manifest as a pair of blue electric wings that they can actually fly with. This is a dangerous move though, as the power to manifest the wings also means accessing so much power that they come extremely close to being lost in it, and it makes the angels dangerously high on the power.
Their blood also has unique properties, appearing as wriggling worms of bright blue light. (Their blood isn't always blue - often it's a normal red - but seems to become blue when they choose it to be so, or are doing particularly angely things.) They can set their blood on fire, and if their blood enters another person's bloodstream, they can use it both to curse that person or to keep them alive (although this isn't a very good way of healing, as it's extremely painful for the person being healed, and also can't completely heal someone).
As a returning Traveller, Matthew has also picked up a bunch of skills. These are detailed here.
INVENTORY:
The contents of Matthew's hammerspace inventory is listed here.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
In regards to Matthew's magic being derived from the environment, while he can adapt to different locations the length of a jaunt won't ever be enough for him to get used to a place that is radically different. If it's a more urban location, he'd have time to get the hang of it, but not in any kind of great detail. Basically, I'm running on the assumption that he'll never be able to get the same kind of power and ability that he has in his own London, purely because he'll never have the time to get that much of a hang of a place. At most, he'll get close if the location is similar enough.
For Liminal Space, I can just run on the assumption that him getting used to it just translates to the normal liminal skills, rather than having him have any kind of extra edge thanks to his magic.
M A R K S;
Matthew has already been marked by Death.
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Intel-gathering on the network
PROSE SAMPLE: Matthew curses a building, because why not
NAME: Blue
AGE: 18+
PLAYER JOURNAL:
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blueflowersOTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: NA
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Matthew Swift / The Blue Electric Angels
CANON: Matthew Swift & Magicals Anonymous novels
POINT IN CANON: Post The Glass God
AGE: mid 30s
APPEARANCE:
Matthew is described as having dark brown hair that looks a bit unkempt, with pale, freckled skin and a stick-like frame. He often wears an unremarkable, ordinary beige coat, which is rather less ordinary for all of the enchantments he's put on it. He tends to look perpetually scruffy, and he has a tendency to wear the same thing every single day.
But despite looking largely ordinary, Matthew does have a few notable, less-ordinary features. The first is his eyes - formerly a normal brown colour, they are now an unnatural "pale, brilliant albino blue", that reflect blue in the dark, like a cat's. The second is the scar on the palm of his right hand - two crosses, one within the other, like the ones on the crest for the City of London. Usually the scar isn't visible, as Matthew keeps it covered up under fingerless gloves.
Additionally, characters with magical sight or any kind of ability to see the 'truth' of things might be able to see him with a pair of blue flaming wings. These don't exist on any physical level (except in extreme circumstances), but are more metaphysical.
CANON HISTORY:
Here
CANON PERSONALITY:
Matthew's personality can be summed up as 'complicated'. Matthew shares his body with the Blue Electric Angels, the manifestation of the life left over in the telephone wires. 'Possessed' might be the closest term for describing their relationship with each other, but it's not really accurate as it's more of a symbiotic relationship than one controlling the other. They can and do regularly switch between one or the other, sometimes even in the middle of sentences. As a result, even though both of them have their own personality traits, the distinctions between the Matthew and the angels are not always clear. They also tend to regard themselves as one being, with any differences between them as irrelevant. But, for all that they claim that they are the same, Matthew and the angels do each have distinct personality traits and they're not as integrated as they see themselves. And while it might be rare, they can also disagree with each other.
Matthew is the human part of the equation, and he uses singular pronouns to refer to himself. If it weren't for the fact that he's a sorcerer and inhabited by the Blue Electric Angels, you'd probably call him pretty ordinary. Before dying he never made waves as a sorcerer, content to pretty much just do his own thing and get on with his life. Dying, obviously, had a big impact there - especially since the one responsible for his death was his own teacher. He became much more paranoid and less willing to trust others afterwards, treating those he meets with a waryness that he wouldn't have had before he died.
Dying also imbued Matthew with an extremely strong desire for revenge, and since Matthew also happens to possess extreme single-mindedness once he's locked onto a goal, he pursued revenge with, well, a vengeance. Once achieved though, revenge didn't really sit too well on Matthew's shoulders - he detests killing, thus leading him to often take the option of not killing more than you would think from someone who'd stated he was after revenge. He also feels a lot of guilt over others who end up dying in the crossfire, because Matthew had been too focused on his end goal to think about the consequences. After the bloodbath that was the battle at the Kingston Exchange, Matthew does make much more of an effort to not get other people hurt, but he can still at times get tunnel-vision as a result of his single-mindedness. In the end, Matthew believes in doing what is right over doing what is necessary, and on multiple occasions where killing is in fact the 'logical' option that would save many other lives, Matthew inevitably chooses not to kill and to try and find some other way around the problem.
Many other characters assumed that before he died, Matthew wasn't at all a powerful sorcerer, and that it's the presence of the Blue Electric Angels that made him powerful. This isn't strictly true - Matthew always had power, but he was also afraid of his own power and what he ultimately could be capable of. Sinclair describes Matthew as "smart enough to be afraid", and someone who "knows when a power shouldn't be used". He's essentially inclined to be more restrained with his power than other sorcerers. Quite often when he ends up slinging around massive amounts of power, it's really the angels that are leading the charge. In fact, Matthew is what holds the angels back most of the time.
Matthew is also someone who can end up irritating the hell out of other people. He's sarcastic, flippant, and irreverent, and takes way too much glee in annoying people and pushing their buttons. He has little regard for rules or authority, which admittedly becomes a bit of a problem when Matthew ends up becoming the authority. He'll avoid doing things like paperwork and is known to deal with the problems that he's not supposed to deal with while ignoring the ones that he is. People skills, really, are not his forte.
Matthew is also rather curious and inquisitive ("Never the kind of man who didn’t press the button"). He has no sense of style, and thus isn't inclined to go and give himself a more impressive name like many others. And he's scared of doctors and frightened by medicine, making him very much an impossible patient.
The angels, unlike Matthew, are anything but ordinary. They are a conglomerate being made up of countless numbers of leftover life left on the telephone wires, and as such they use plural pronouns to refer to themselves. They are inhuman, and very much child-like in their attitudes and view of the world. The angels are young, and they have the maturity to match. If you gave a child unimaginable power, without any restrictions or rules, you might get something like the angels.
At core, the angels are about freedom and delight in life. They love life, are fascinated by it, and they delight in just being able to experience the world. Sensations, new experiences - the angels will try anything once, and their curiosity is a trait that they share with Matthew. Especially when they are first summoned into the world with Matthew, the angels are basically high on life. If it weren't for the fact that there had been people trying to kill them, they probably would have spent all their time running around trying out every aspect of Life that they could think of. Time tempers them a little bit, but any new experience is something for them to savor.
But, while they love life and love being able to now experience it, they wouldn't have chosen to be resurrected with Matthew. Because having a body of flesh, while amazing, is still in the end not the freedom they experienced in the wire. And for the angels, freedom means freedom in all respects - freedom from rules and consequences as well as the freedom to do what you want. The angels don't think about consequences, and so they are quick to anger, often likely to react instantly, perhaps with violence. They'll toss out threats like there's no tomorrow, just because someone has angered them, without a care as to whether or not this is a good idea. They also love power, will get high on it, and there's been times where Matthew has had to basically drag them away from getting lost in it. There's a reason why many other characters have the view that if it weren't for the fact that the angels share a body with a sorcerer who holds them back, the angels would burn down the city just to watch the flames. In reality the angels aren't that bad - their love of life doesn't mean that they love destruction for destruction's sake, and they would much rather just experience life than wreak havoc upon it - but it's certainly true that they would be a mad, uncontrollable force without Matthew.
Being so enamored with life, and previously existing as immortal spirits of the wire that couldn't ever die, now that they are stuck in a flesh body the angels are completely terrified of death. Irrationally, utterly terrified - which often isn't a good combination for others, as they'll desperately try to burn anything that might kill them. They also don't deal at all well with pain, or bodily discomfort, so often it ends up being Matthew who has to make them keep going as opposed to just sitting down and doing nothing like they'd like to.
They also have certain compulsions relating to their nature as spirits of the telephone wire - if a phone rings in an empty street in the night, they have to answer it, because that is what they are. They are also soothed by the sounds of conversations in the wires.
Both Matthew and the angels personalities though, while still being distinct from each other, do also inevitably affect each other. The angels have made Matthew much more child-like, while Matthew has made the angels more human and restrained. And having been melded together like they are, separation is, while technically possible, a really bad idea. Later on in the series, when someone does manage to pull out Matthew's consciousness, it's extremely clear that the angels cannot cope with existing in a physical form without Matthew. It's less clear whether Matthew could exist on his own - it's likely he might, since unlike the angels Matthew has prior experience living as a human on his own - but at the very least since he regards the angels as a part of himself now, he wouldn't be happy about it.
POINT OF DEPARTURE:
Matthew has previously appeared in Synodiporia, where he participated in the following jaunts: Misericordia, Escape from Junkworld, Code of Dishonour, Belljar, Villains and Vigilantes, Lightside/Darkside, The Haunted Isle, Pogemon, Olympus Unended, Junkworld Shopping Trip, The Unquiet Dead, Night Falls on Yensid, A Liminal Carol, Ouroboros Retrograde, Triad Tourney, Digital Frontier: Legacy Mode, Red Dirt, and Purgatory
VETERAN?: NA
ABILITIES:
Matthew is an urban sorcerer, which means that he essentially derives his power from the city. Things like street lights, gas mains, power lines, water pipes, the traffic of the streets - these are the sorts of things that power Matthew's magic. On a deeper level, magic in Matthew's universe is comes from life. A city might not be alive biologically, but the routines and movement of living creatures within it imbue it with the trappings of life, and therefore power.
Sorcerers like Matthew differ from magicians in that magicians rely upon pre-written incantations, spells, and the invocation of powerful magical entities, while a sorcerer's magic relies on will, raw magic, and a more intuitive understanding of mystical forces. This gives sorcerers much greater power and flexibility, but it also means that they run the risk of getting lost in the magic of particularly powerful places.
Urban places aren't the only places that sorcerers can gain their power from - some sorcerers are more suited to drawing their power from nature, and things like blood and living creatures will always contain magic. As an urban sorcerer though, Matthew is naturally more suited to deriving his power from cities, and he's best with cities he's familiar with. Given enough time and motivation, he can adapt - but generally if you stick him in the forest he'll have very little that he can actually do.
As for what sorcerers actually do - quite a lot, and the limits are very fuzzy since it's a magic that is so dependent and changeable according to environment. But at it's core, sorcery is a manipulation of one's surroundings, and of the things which are already there.
Examples of what sorcerers have been seen to be able to do are:
- Make wards, either through the use of circles or by spray painting symbols of the city (such as the London Underground symbol)
- Use spray paint to curse a building, which causes nylon chairs to give electric shocks, markers to squeak on the whiteboard, hinges to rust, glass to run, windows to stick shut, fans to whir, chairs to break, computers to crash, paper to crease, pens to smear, pipes to leak, cooler to drop, pictures to sag, phones to crackle, and wires to spark
- Manipulate vibrations to amplify a sound enough to burst people's eardrums, or pull sounds from the environment to release as thunder or force
- Control/manipulate parts of the environment, such as by pulling pipes or wires out of the walls and wrapping them around people, or warping concrete
- Pulling the light and heat out of lights, and then releasing/controlling that light
- Controlling the air, making it into walls of force, or using a fire extinguisher to make a small tornado from the gas
- Manipulating glass to shatter it, make it into a whirlwind of glass, or a protective barrier
- Draw strength and speed from electricity
- Transmutate objects, such as changing water into acid (although this is difficult and Matthew doesn't do it much)
- Change the shape of uncut keys to fit any lock
- Borrow the eyes of animals that live in the city, or communicating with them
- Hide from notice by enchanting the kind of coat that is ubiquitous to make people not notice you
- Manipulate the perception of objects, such as by making a quickly-flashed Oyster card look like official credentials
- Make someone unattentive or sleepy
- Manipulate machines, such as by tricking an ATM into thinking a business card is a bank card with unlimited balance, making CCTV cameras turn away, coaxing alarms into giving up their codes
- Scry someone from their belongings, or (with much more difficulty), from a phone connection after they've called
- Using city rules and regulations to create barriers - in London, the strongest ward you can create involves the Oyster card for the London Transport system
- Summon mystical entities such as the spirit of a railway line
- Sensing magic (which, due to the nature of their magic, also means sensing things like electrical and gas mains)
As wide ranging as a sorcerer's abilities are, there are limits to them - since much of it is essentially a manipulation of what is already there, they can't pull things out of nowhere. In order for them to manipulate a gas main, it has to be there in the first place. It's easier to make someone fall asleep if it's the middle of the night and they are already tired, so they probably couldn't make someone who was wide awake fall asleep in the middle of the day. They can manipulate perceptions, but only by manipulating what people already expect - such as expecting that someone in a boring beige coat isn't someone they need to pay attention to.
In addition to his abilities as a sorcerer, Matthew is also sharing his body with the Blue Electric Angels. It’s more of a mind-merging than possession, though it does look an awful lot like possession. The angels are spirits of the telephone wire, who were born from the 'life' of people's conversations made over them. As such, they come with their own specific abilities.
As telephonic spirits, they can recall anything that people said into the phones, word for word (although presumably this only applies to things said before they were resurrected, and in their own universe). They can connect a mobile phone to a telephone switch-box and listen in on conversations on the wire. They also tend to know instantly whenever telephone conversations are happening nearby, and when they are close enough they can listen in without having to connect to a wire. They can also understand all of the languages that have been spoken on the telephone - but this is aural only, as they can't understand written language the same way.
The angels also have a very strong affinity for electricity and fire. They don't generate it out of nowhere, but they can draw upon the power of the city to create blue electric fire that burns across their skin. Manipulating electricity comes very naturally to them. And given enough power - enough meaning a hell of a lot - this can even manifest as a pair of blue electric wings that they can actually fly with. This is a dangerous move though, as the power to manifest the wings also means accessing so much power that they come extremely close to being lost in it, and it makes the angels dangerously high on the power.
Their blood also has unique properties, appearing as wriggling worms of bright blue light. (Their blood isn't always blue - often it's a normal red - but seems to become blue when they choose it to be so, or are doing particularly angely things.) They can set their blood on fire, and if their blood enters another person's bloodstream, they can use it both to curse that person or to keep them alive (although this isn't a very good way of healing, as it's extremely painful for the person being healed, and also can't completely heal someone).
As a returning Traveller, Matthew has also picked up a bunch of skills. These are detailed here.
INVENTORY:
The contents of Matthew's hammerspace inventory is listed here.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
In regards to Matthew's magic being derived from the environment, while he can adapt to different locations the length of a jaunt won't ever be enough for him to get used to a place that is radically different. If it's a more urban location, he'd have time to get the hang of it, but not in any kind of great detail. Basically, I'm running on the assumption that he'll never be able to get the same kind of power and ability that he has in his own London, purely because he'll never have the time to get that much of a hang of a place. At most, he'll get close if the location is similar enough.
For Liminal Space, I can just run on the assumption that him getting used to it just translates to the normal liminal skills, rather than having him have any kind of extra edge thanks to his magic.
M A R K S;
Matthew has already been marked by Death.
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Intel-gathering on the network
PROSE SAMPLE: Matthew curses a building, because why not