Reshki:  I am totally down with your character having some conflicts/problems with the other PCs.  I mean, I sort of tried to set it up in my background that she wouldn't trust my character, even if she didn't know he was capable of magic.  Which, umm, incidentally, I don't think she knows yet that he's an actual sorcerer*.  Occultist, yes, definitely involved in some hinky stuff, shouldn't trust him, but his capabilities are still somewhat mysterious.  So, yeah, I think it's appropriate, and I'm not going to complain (so long as it doesn't amount to getting another PC killed or something.)  Also, like Hikari said, weird bondage-themed exorcism rituals might be neat.<br/><br/><br/>*Incidentally, Matt might actually get offended at this label.  He is a<em>wizard,</em>thank you very much.  :D<br/><br/><br/>On to my own PC:  Matt has a lot of internal conflict.  He has, well, two more or less self-consistent but entirely contradictory worldviews going on at the same time in his head, and he can flip back and forth between them like a light-switch.  Ah, the joys of adolescence.  See, he's never met another actual wizard.  He's maybe known some occultists who could do a weird little trick or two, and he's met demons, but as far as he knows, he's the only guy out there who has pounded his head against the wall of arcane knowledge until he made a dent in it, and could start bending magic to his whims.  (There may be others out there, but he doesn't know about them.)  He's pretty sure that long ago in Atlantis or whatnot there were crazy-powerful magicians who could do all kinds of stuff.  He can't even turn invisible yet.<br/><br/>So, on the one hand, he thinks of himself as the last, pathetic, lingering scrap of magic.  Too much of a loser to live up to the example of his forebears, and no match for the true dark powers of the world.  He pretty much hates himself for this failure, and it drives him to cut himself off from others because he doesn't think he's worthy of friendship.  He's his own worst critic.  On the other hand, he's the last, and by definition the greatest Wizard he's ever met.  Nobody else has looked at what science ignores and searched long and hard enough to find the hidden treasures there.  When he looks at what he alone has, he can be sort of an egomaniac.  He thinks he's the smartest thing on two legs, even more than most teenagers do.  So, he's likely to do things like play people-chess, as mentioned before.  Because he's arrogant enough to think he should make decisions for people...that's a thought that can cause all kinds of problems in a game where consent and lack thereof is a big theme.<br/><br/>He also has weird conflicting ideas about duty and privilege. On the one hand, he has the capability to cause a shocking amount of damage if he wants to - the modern world doesn't have a lot of defenses against his tricks.  If he was underhanded, he could mostly have whatever he wanted.  Charm spells?  Nobody is going to see that one coming.  Mind Control?  Think about it.  He sort of, in his head, tends to think pretty highly of himself just for NOT giving in to all the desires he has and taking what he wants from the world.  In a sense, his own moral code is frustrating to him.  What's the good of not taking what he wants if it just means he isn't happy?  On the other hand, he does feel a duty to protect humanity from the OTHER predators out there.  Maybe because he's just jealous of their freedom, but that's what he does.<br/><br/>He also has trouble with friends.  He's been sent here without any family, he lives alone, and tends to isolate himself.  It's going to be a big deal to him when one of the PCs crosses the line from being a tool, associate, or ally and into the range of friendship.  And anything that seems like a betrayal of that could push him back over the edge (I view this as a positive, drama-producing thing, btw.)<br/><br/>As a side-note, I think he had a friend back in america.  Some kinda geeky-cute girl.  Her disappearance was maybe what drove him to stand up to his own version of Goroi.  And then, of course, he was sent away from her as a reward for standing up and doing what was necessary.  I'm just sort of theorizing about his background, here, but I think she gave him that hoodie before he left, as a sort of going-away present.  So, stuff that reminds him of that will be a big deal.<br/><br/>Any way, thanks again for listening and posting, guys.