In this AU, Jonathan Strange is a human mage, who's just turned 40 and is honestly just two steps away from a midlife crisis. He discovered his magic when he was a teenager, just before the Severing. He married Amanda Forrest when both were in their early twenties. Amanda has no abilities herself and took to the magical world terribly. She's a sweet woman, it's just that she has the misfortune of being thrown headfirst into magical bullshit with no warning and being married to a man who prioritizes magic over things like 'a healthy relationship.' A combination of magic being creepy, Strange being creepy, and Strange being an entirely neglectful husband led to the two of them having a very messy and very public divorce: Strange has been divorced for almost a year now. He currently lives in a small condo on the outskirts of the Pearl District because the wife took the house in the settlement.
Strange has taken a bit of an unhealthy interest in the fae and the Rose Queen's court, to the extent of interrogating changelings and other magical beings to tell him what they know about her. He's tailored his magic more towards summoning beings and binding them to his will, but he has gotten good at various miscellaneous spells such as scrying, location spells, and revealing illusions. Elemental magic is so far beneath him (it's CHANGELING magic, gross) but he knows the bare minimum. He's especially stuck up with regards to mage magic compared to other magic and can be a teensy bit prejudiced and dickish to other supernatural beings.
He's so up his own ass that and obsessed with finding out more information about the fae, that he bound John Childermass to be his faerie servant (well, changeling servant) and regularly sends him on dumb errands and bugs poor Childermass for information on the Rose Queen, faerie and, in a super pathetic manner, his ex-wife because Strange is a sad loser divorcee with no sense of boundaries. Surely Childermass is not taking advantage of this in the slightest, no sirree, why would he do something like that?
Strange is Not A Nice Man. He's a member of the Circle of Enlightenment, and has been for over ten or so years. He's been working his way up the Circle, kissing butt, practicing spells, and throwing as many people under the bus as he can (sorry Pearl) to gain access to even more powerful summoning spells and even more knowledge about what Faerie-the-realm and faerie-the-race were like before the Severing. Part of that kissing butt involves Strange being a terrible suck-up to Foster & Amethyst's mage parents and being forced to check up on Foster & Amethyst every now and then as a result. That being said, he's only about middle influence with the Circle and, because of his tendency to be a bit weird about faeries and look into creepy warlock-ish summoning spells, it's unlikely that he'll get any higher. He doesn't have many friends in the Circle, with the exception of the now dead Bob the Mage. They played pool together. He's pretty pissed at Elsa for Bob's murder because dude, he can literally count his actual friends on one hand, what the hell Elsa?!
Strange's day job is another middle influence job, but this time in politics. Unfortunately, he's just in accounting, helping to balance the budget of the justice department, but don't mind him as he casually suggests that someone launch a raid on Crossroads oh no wait you're not taking that suggestion are you, well shit. He thinks he has more influence than he actually does because Jonathan Strange being full of himself transcends universes.
On a needlessly pedantic note, Strange looks pretty much the same as he does in canon because he's a boring human. The main difference is that he's American, actually wears things that show his arms for once, is marginally more sane, and has a sensible, short haircut.
JONATHAN STRANGE
Strange has taken a bit of an unhealthy interest in the fae and the Rose Queen's court, to the extent of interrogating changelings and other magical beings to tell him what they know about her. He's tailored his magic more towards summoning beings and binding them to his will, but he has gotten good at various miscellaneous spells such as scrying, location spells, and revealing illusions. Elemental magic is so far beneath him (it's CHANGELING magic, gross) but he knows the bare minimum. He's especially stuck up with regards to mage magic compared to other magic and can be a teensy bit prejudiced and dickish to other supernatural beings.
He's so up his own ass that and obsessed with finding out more information about the fae, that he bound John Childermass to be his faerie servant (well, changeling servant) and regularly sends him on dumb errands and bugs poor Childermass for information on the Rose Queen, faerie and, in a super pathetic manner, his ex-wife because Strange is a sad loser divorcee with no sense of boundaries. Surely Childermass is not taking advantage of this in the slightest, no sirree, why would he do something like that?
Strange is Not A Nice Man. He's a member of the Circle of Enlightenment, and has been for over ten or so years. He's been working his way up the Circle, kissing butt, practicing spells, and throwing as many people under the bus as he can (sorry Pearl) to gain access to even more powerful summoning spells and even more knowledge about what Faerie-the-realm and faerie-the-race were like before the Severing. Part of that kissing butt involves Strange being a terrible suck-up to Foster & Amethyst's mage parents and being forced to check up on Foster & Amethyst every now and then as a result. That being said, he's only about middle influence with the Circle and, because of his tendency to be a bit weird about faeries and look into creepy warlock-ish summoning spells, it's unlikely that he'll get any higher. He doesn't have many friends in the Circle, with the exception of the now dead Bob the Mage. They played pool together. He's pretty pissed at Elsa for Bob's murder because dude, he can literally count his actual friends on one hand, what the hell Elsa?!
Strange's day job is another middle influence job, but this time in politics. Unfortunately, he's just in accounting, helping to balance the budget of the justice department, but don't mind him as he casually suggests that someone launch a raid on Crossroads oh no wait you're not taking that suggestion are you, well shit. He thinks he has more influence than he actually does because Jonathan Strange being full of himself transcends universes.
On a needlessly pedantic note, Strange looks pretty much the same as he does in canon because he's a boring human. The main difference is that he's American, actually wears things that show his arms for once, is marginally more sane, and has a sensible, short haircut.