<ul class="bbc_list"></ul><div class="floatright"><div align="center">(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a8/Constantine_Vol_1_1_Textless.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130612164926)</div>(http://withfriendship.com/images/h/36526/John-Constantine-image.jpg)(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11117/111171885/4429335-8845036903-42884.jpg)(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/0f/21/4f/0f214f4262876d7d936379501cfb991e.jpg)(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cq6yj2jiAvM/UMd93UiOYdI/AAAAAAAAGYo/gDi7YGS2juA/s1600/simon-bisley.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Personal Information==</strong></em></span><br/><strong>Legal Name:</strong>John Constantine<br/><strong>Alias(es):</strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Hellblazer</li><li>Hero of the Counterculture</li><li>Knight of Humanity</li><li>The Laughing Magician</li><li>Man for All Seasons</li><li>The Ultimate Con Man</li><li>The Magus</li><li>Constant One</li><li>Con Job</li><li>John Collier</li><li>England Leo</li><li>Sumner Connie</li><li>The Gutter Mage</li><li>The Saint of Last Resorts</li></ul><br/><strong>Age:</strong>62 (looks to be a very healthy mid 30’s)<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Bisexual<br/><strong>Gotham Residence:</strong>Grand Gotham Hotel<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Physical Description==</strong></em></span><br/><br/>John stands at about 6’0” and weighs roughly 205 lbs. He has short blond hair and blue eyes, and is a notably attractive man, a fact he has more than willingly used throughout his life. The years and hardships of his life hardly show on him, thanks to an infusion of demonic blood that has drastically slowed his aging process, and despite being a chain smoker his voice is clear and confident, and lacking of a typical smoker’s cough (due to tricking a few lords of hell into curing his cancer for him).<br/><br/>He always found wearing his trademark tan trenchcoat, and under that he tends to wear simple fashions of the day, typically a white dress shirt with a black tie, black slacks and shoes.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Persona==</strong></em></span><br/><br/>John Constantine is known for his unique personality as much as he is for his occult skills. A cynical, weathered magician with few real relationships, Constantine displays on occasion a compassionate, humanist side to his personality, and is not afraid of risking his life for a heroic cause.<br/>He finds making friends very easy, as well as establishing romantic links and relationships. However, a lot of people who are associated with Constantine end up dying, a fact that John is quite aware of.<br/><br/>He fully recognizes that he is no hero. Time and again he has proven himself to be selfish and self-centered, and all too willing to make the calls that proper heroes would never be able to make (such as sacrificing the lives of one hundred innocent people to save the lives of billions more. But, he shows little remorse or guilt for his actions—at one point in his life he enacted a spell to create a physical manifestation of all his guilt and regrets in the form of a baby, which he promptly threw off of a cliff.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Key Skills==</strong></em></span><br/><br/>Constantine is very much a "brains over brawn" character, while he has been known to engage in combat with someone he would much rather outsmart his opponents then beat them up. If he is in a physical confrontation he has been know to utilize magic or fight dirty. He is considered a master con artist and is expertly manipulative (even conning the Devil himself). His manipulation and cunning are how he prefers to win against his opponents. Though his manipulation is not drawn out over long periods; he prefers to make instant decisions, relying on his miraculous brain to get himself out of tight situations rather than preparing for things long in advance. A "power" as such of his is supernaturally good luck; referred to sometimes as "synchronicity wave travelling", it resembles a form of localized, low-level reality warping, granting him enormous luck and explaining how he has survived all that he has survived.<br/><br/>Constantine's blood is also tainted with demon blood, which gives an extended longevity (slowing his aging process but not stopping it) as well as a slight enhanced healing ability. It has also proved helpful when it came to fighting vampires (a sort of "bitter taste" defense).<br/><br/>Constantine is also famous for being a magical adept of very significant skill, able to hold his own, and even deceive and fool, the likes of those who would be considered his better, with his utilization of magic spells and sometimes potions. Some examples of the magic John has used are Divination, Demon Summoning, Cursing, Golemancy, Occlumency, Necromancy, Vivimancy, Illusion, and various stage magic tricks like hypnosis, sleight of hand, and escapology. Other magical powers at his command are mild teleportation, counter spells, elemental magic, telekinesis, and immobilisation. He can also use magic to reflect damages done to him unto his enemies.<br/><br/>While not enjoying the use of firearms, he is a talented marksman, and owns a .357 Magnum, which he has used on occasion. John also carries with him an arsenal of powerful magical artifacts to aid him in battle, such as The House of Mystery which also serves as his transport to different realms of the universe, and his trademark trench coat that also possesses powerful demonic powers.[75] Ever since tricking the Lords of Hell into curing his lung cancer, he was perpetually in good health and physicality. Constantine's blood is demonically tainted, initially by a blood transfusion from the demon Nergal, and later by sex with a succubus. His blood has been shown to have healing properties, and is noted to have an age-managing effect. It also acted as a defence mechanism when attacked by the King of the Vampires, as it is highly corrosive and poisonous.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Advantages==</strong></em></span><br/><br/>A mastery of all things occult and arcane, there are few that can match his knowledge of the worlds beyond the mortal plane. He is a powerful sorcerer (when he chooses to be), and there have been very, very few who have ever tricked or outsmarted him. After all, the man has pulled off cons and deceit over beings such as Satan and God themselves (and on more than one occasion he even manipulated the likes of Batman and Superman). When you can trick omniscient beings, you have a talent. He also carries with him various supernatural relics and items to aid him in his endeavors (it is a mystery how many pockets are inside that trench coat).<br/><br/>He also makes his own luck (noted above), and as such…things just tend to go his way, even if he doesn’t recognize it at the time.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Disadvantages==</strong></em></span><br/><br/>He is just human, and as such, what will kill a human will (maybe) kill John Constantine. Also, his horribly sarcastic and uncouth manner can tend to put him at odds with people, as he has no problem speaking his mind and spouting off insults and mocking those around him, and over the years has grown quite the list of powerful entities that really, really do not like him.<br/><br/>And while he makes his own luck, he seems to drain it from those around him, as…well, people who stick close to him just have a bad habit of dying or having bad things happen to them.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Background==</strong></em></span><br/>John’s origins are largely unknown, however the tale has been narrowed to three possibilities. A group of kids in Liverpool once managed to get their hands on an occult book and uses it to summon a magical creature called Legendbreaker to discover Constantine's true origin. Instead, the creature tells three conflicting stories: one featuring John's mother dead in childbirth, leaving him to his abusive father; another have John Constantine being born in a loving family with proud and doting parents; the last one is a John born in an unremarkable family, but his older sister is mad and (probably) possessed by a dark force. They all lead to the death of his entire family and set the path for John Constantine into the world of magic, to the fateful incident in Newcastle, albeit the actions and consequences are different. The creature tries to claim the souls of the young "mystics", but the real John Constantine shows up and chases it away. He tells the kids to go back home, forget what has just happened, and his true origins will forever remain unknown - but it does not matter. The best people have truly gotten was that John Constantine was born in Liverpool, Merseyside on 10 May 1953.<br/><br/>During the 1970s, John became involved in occult circles in London. He travelled other countries and visited San Francisco, where he met, and subsequently began a relationship with, the female magician Zatanna Zatara (after stealing her away from his mentor, Nick Necro, who had grown obsessed with the Books of Magic.). John and Zantanna were together for a time, studying the occult together, until a mishap led to the two watching her father be burned alive as a result of John’s mistake. The two thus seperated on less than good terms—however, throughout the years, they would continue to have an on-again off-again relationship.<br/><br/>He also became enamoured of punk rock; after seeing the Sex Pistols at the Roxy Club in London in 1977, John cut his long hair, called himself Johnny Con-Job, and formed his own band, Mucous Membrane, whose members included Chandler (as a roadie), a drummer named Beano and fellow Liverpudlian Gary Lester. They later released an album called Venus of the Hardsell. John also performed as a famous stage magician in the 1980s, where he became famous for predicting the assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan.<br/><br/>John's first venture into occult "heroism" was a disaster. On tour with Mucous Membrane at the Casa Nova Club in Newcastle, he found the aftermath of a magical orgy gone horribly wrong: an abused child, Astra, had conjured a hideous monster that took revenge on the adults who were tormenting her, and the monster refused to leave. With typical recklessness, John convinced some members of the band, along with several occultist friends, to try destroying the creature by summoning a demon of their own. Unfortunately, this demon was not under their control and after it had destroyed the child's monster, it tormented Constantine's friends and took the child to Hell. John suffered a nervous breakdown after this incident, and was committed to Ravenscar Psychiatric Hospital, which he drifted in and out of over the years.<br/>The guilt of Astra hung over him for many years until, in his mid-forties, he used some magic and con-artistry to free not only her, but also the souls of all the other children trapped in Hell. As for the rest of the "Newcastle Crew", the incident left the group both physically and psychologically scarred. After helping Dream retrieve his sands, Dream in turn relieves Constantine of the nightmares that had plagued him since the incident.<br/><br/>John is later freed from Ravenscar by London gangsters, threatening him to resurrect a mob boss's dead son whilst his sister's family pays the price. John organises a group and manages to resurrect the boy. Years later, John was able to persuade the same group to help with his investigation of the Brujería cult. The cult murdered most of them, including John's then-lover, Emma. These people, and others who have died due to John's carelessness, have continued to appear to him as silent, reproachful ghosts. Chas is the most prominent one of very few human friends to have survived a long-term association with John.<br/><br/>John first met Swamp Thing in 1985 after being interested in the creature. John later acts as the Swamp Thing's protector, guide, and voice of omen, even teaching the Thing to amplify his powers. Both would have further adventure with each other, such as John introducing the Thing to the Parliament of Trees, Thing using John's body to make love to his wife and father a child named Tefe, and fighting off the Damnation Army from summoning the Anti-Christ. Both carry a dull, but nevertheless fruitful friendship with each other. Constantine even invites Swamp Thing to his 40th birthday and assures the Thing he'll try not to bother him again. In 1991 while in his late thirties, John contracted terminal lung cancer. During this time, he sought the help of a dying friend, Brendan, who had sold his soul to the First of the Fallen, the most powerful lord of Hell. When the First came to collect the soul, John tricked him into drinking holy water, which rendered him helpless and prevented him from collecting the friend's soul at the appointed time.<br/><br/>For this, the First promised to make John suffer unprecedented torment in Hell when he dies. Slowly dying from cancer, John hatched a plan to save himself from eternal torment. He secretly sold his soul to the other two Lords of Hell. When they discovered Constantine's actions they realized that they could not allow him to die, or else they would be forced to go to all-out war over his soul, a war whose only winner would be "the Lord of the Hosts," i.e., God and his angels. They were also far too stubborn and proud, however, to enter anything resembling an alliance. As a result, they were forced to cure John of his cancer. This led to the First plotting a grand revenge on Constantine, who manipulated the demon via his ally Ellie, a succubus, into coming into a trap; the plan only barely succeeded, and while the First was temporarily defeated many of John's friends were killed.<br/><br/>Constantine then went on to have a series of adventures and misadventures playing the role of puppet and puppeteer with his signature style and profane sarcasm. He managed to free Astra and every other child in Hell, but at the cost of the First returning to power; also, as part of the scheme, John's worst attributes were given separate existence as "Demon Constantine" which meant he himself could not go to Hell. As part of an attempt to regain his nastier edge, he used Ellie, and this led to her taking out a revenge scheme in 1998 that forced him to turn to the First for help; Ellie ended up in Hell and several of John's oldest friends left him. John, being tired of all this, contacted God. God appears and the two converse in a campfire. John then tells him his reason for contacting Him. He warns God that if his soul is ever sent to Hell, he would easily take over, and do nasty things such as unleashing the demons and locking away Hell so that the damned cannot enter and have no resting place. John blackmails God to do his bidding, and that's to keep his soul away from Hell. God, knowing of John's abilities, does so. But warns him of what will come next.<br/>On return to Britain in 2003 and after reconciling with his sister (who believed he was dead), he went on to be involved in a magic war in London and was horrified to find his niece Gemma, whom he'd wanted to keep out of this life, had become a witch. He soon ended up organizing a counterstrike against a creature known as the Shadow Dog, having been warned of its coming and believing it was an entity that brought death and madness; instead, it was a guardian against the true enemy, the Beast, who was manipulating John into giving it free access to humanity. In the process, he was rendered an amnesiac, leaving him vulnerable to the schemes of the demon Rosacarnis. To get his memories back, he had to spend a day in her service, in which she had him father three demonic children, who went on to massacre anyone who knew Constantine, from friends to enemies to people who'd only briefly met him. Among them was his sister Cheryl; one of his sons had exploited her husband's religious fanaticism to make him see his wife as a witch — and thus a person to be killed. This forced Constantine to go on journey to Hell in the hopes to return his sister's soul. Accompanying him was Nergal, the demon he thought he had killed by sending him to the border of Heaven.<br/><br/>While in Hell, John and Nergal met the demon Constantine, who tried to kill the original one. John was forced to let Nergal enter his body in order to finish him. Later they also encountered Ellie, who seemed to have quite pardoned John for him selling her out to the First. She was not subject to any torture or punishment, either. The couple finally arrived at Rosacarnis' hall, where there was a feast with all three of Constantine's children, the First, and many demons from all Hell. Because of Nergal's earlier possession of his body, any damage done to John would be mirrored on Nergal. Nergal, however, calls the bluff, showing that the effect goes both ways by clawing at his chest slightly. John begs Rosacarnis to kill him to save his sister, but just as she's about to, the First of the Fallen intervenes and immediately kills Rosacarnis, since Constantine's soul is his by "right of insult" and will only be taken when he deems fit. The First also kills Rosacarnis' two sons, but spares the daughter, who had been dealing with issues of identity and had doubts about whether she wanted to continue to exist.<br/><br/>Following this, the First commands Nergal to release the soul he's holding. Cheryl's soul is pure and innocent and does not belong in Hell, but the First offers her a truly devilish deal. Informing her that her husband, Constantine's brother-in-law Tony, has killed himself with her blood still staining his hands, thus making him twice damned, and offering to fairly divide her husband's punishment between the two of them if she stays of her own free will. Constantine attempts in vain to argue that Tony murdered her and does not deserve that mercy. Despite all that has happened, Cheryl still loves her husband enough to accept the First's deal and decides to stay. Constantine can do nothing as the First gloats over his victory and then sends him back home. Unable to look at his niece Gemma's tear-filled eyes because of his failure, Constantine runs barefoot down the stairs and into the Liverpool night.<br/><br/>John later revisits Ravenscar Asylum, the place where he was thrown after being framed for Astra's murder. John remembers all the maltreatment he suffered, and remembers every suffering and guilt he had for the past years. At first it appears as though it is too much for him and that he will be overtaken by the images of the ones he has hurt, but the being turns into the form of a baby. This baby, who is the sum of all his guilt and self-hatred, is then promptly thrown off a cliff near the asylum and into the sea. After killing the creature, Constantine is now free, and becomes even a bit more cocky and picks back up his earlier style from the beginning of his book and his appearances from Swamp Thing: a double-breasted blue suit underneath his trench coat, and slicked-back gelled hair.<br/><br/>Later on, a Sudanese shaman who had first bound the hunger demon Mnemoth has been having dreams of Constantine and a war-mage named Mako who is coming to kill him and devour his being. The reason that Constantine is a specific target of the war-mage is because he is "The Laughing Magician" who is also known as "The Constant One." Mako wants to devour him so he can absorb that power and have his being made a fixture of the universe. To counter this attack to come, the African magus puts a dream of his into a tree root, with Constantine's true nature in those dreams. After doing this a young man is sent as a messenger to find John and deliver the message. Constantine later notices that something is wrong on the synchronicity lines and it seems that he is going head first against the traffic. Remembering that Mako mentioned Ravenscar when he found out about Constantine, he tries to summon his unborn brother, but instead is summoned to his brother. The soul of Constantine's brother tells John that he was not to be born and that it should have been he who had been born instead, as he is the Laughing Magician, he requests that he and John merge their souls so that they become one and can fix the world, they had previously attempted this but John was apparently too strong willed. John then makes the link that it was the soul of his unborn brother that caused him to get cancer and for his relationships to fail, and that anytime he tried to take control of his life, something bad would happen to make John weaker, so that the souls might be able to merge. After realizing this, John cuts the soul of his brother out of his own soul, so that he can control his life and live his way.<br/><br/>In the 2010s, John entangles himself in further adventures. Some of these include when he goes to India and fights a ghost of a British soldier of the Sepoy rebellion, fights a Babylonian shape shifter named Julian, gets his thumb cut off to contact Shade, The Changing Man, marrying a young girl named Epiphany Greaves who was also the daughter of an infamous gangster, looking for his lost trench coat that his niece sold, finding his sister's long lost son named Finn, and finally getting his sister's soul from Hell.<br/><br/>He even played a significant role during the Apokalips invasion that cost the Justice League their lives—however he has also enacted a massive spell wiping the memory of what exactly he did from everyone who knew what he did. Including himself.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Character Extras==</strong></em></span><br/><strong>Face Claim</strong>: Matt Ryan<div class="floatright">(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/Matt_Ryn_as_John_Constaintine.jpg/400px-Matt_Ryn_as_John_Constaintine.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Trivia</strong>:<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>He once (actually, several times) had sex with a succubus. He still summons her on occasion.</li><li>Smokes roughly thirty cigarettes a day.</li><li>Has his own little corner of Hell nice and picked out already for when he eventually dies.</li><li>Also has a corner of Heaven staked out for when he needs a break from Hell.</li><li>May or may not be the natural John Constantine of this world.</li></ul><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;"><em><strong>==Character Extras==</strong></em></span><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Inner Persona - The Burden</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_l4Ab5FRwM</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Inner Persona - The Cost</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwrAo1afVzc</div></div><br/><hr/><hr/><div align="center">==<strong><em>Relationships</em></strong>==</div><br/><strong><em>Friends and Acquaintances</em></strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>…Quite a few that are dead.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Rachel Roth (Raven)</span>: Met her when she was ruling over Hell and under her father’s control. They…butted  heads on more than one occasion in those years, as he conned her father and other prominent lords of Hell. He ultimate played a role in breaking her free and helping her escape, but she does not know this. They current have a tenuous, if more or less amicable, acquaintanceship.</li><li><span class="bbc_u">Francis "Chas" Chandler</span>: Constantine's oldest friend and staunch companion, who possesses powerful survival skills. He's currently away from Constantine working on some a special task or two for him.</li></ul><br/><strong><em>Lover(s)</em></strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Currently None in Gotham</li></ul><br/><strong><em>Important Moments</em></strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Quantum Magic Boogaloo (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=240517.0) - Captain Adam returns to base after a routine mission to find things...not ever routine, to say the least. Finding John Constantine doing his thing on military property, the two work together to halt a demon outbreak before things become too serious. Preferably while keeping Constantine out of military prison.</li></ul>[/list]