- Name: Lawrence Sandviken Weiman
Nickname: Goes by the name Jan Larsson at the moment.
Gender: Male
Age and Birth Date: 41, 16th May 1974
Occupation:
APPEARANCE
Short (5 foot 5) and very very thin, Lawrence looks younger than his age and is used to dressing in very eccentric garb as part of his psychic persona. Often seen in the attire typical of those partaking in the new-age arts, he is no stranger to loud tie dyes, fancy medallions, necklaces and other tacky paraphernalia. He wears his brilliantly platinum blonde hair long, in a ponytail and sports a well-groomed goatee and a perfectly bleached white smile. His cheekbones are sharp and his eyes a cold and almost /too/ pale blue with an unblinking quality which sometimes does not quite seem to line up with the aforementioned smile. He wears a wedding ring and many many bangles which make a bit of a racket when he gestures, they hide his rolex.
He favours purples in his clothing, considering it the colour of enlightenment (alongside gold of course) He's a lover and not really a fighter, with little muscle to speak of but an enormous amount of slight of hand. His complexion is scandinavian, and so is his accent, swinging between an American accent and a Swedish one depending on how hard he is concentrating at any given time.
Facially I imagine him closest to David Bowie with the angular cheekbones, if that is any help at all.
PERSONALITY
Lawrence is a creature of dualities. All smiles and friendliness to people he meets and often capable of acts of great care and concern there is something of a disconnect in how deep these actions run. Prone to lechery and temptation, he has a litany of failed marriages behind him (and careers) and sought what thrills a normal life denied him in a profession full of risk and subterfuge, using the abilities he'd always had to reap the most benefit he could from his "little" emotional problems..
On the positive side of things, he is a great epicurean and thrives on creature comforts (and the pleasures of the flesh) and can at times show tremendous patience and generosity (in certain areas) when it comes to getting people on his side. He wants to be liked, he wants to be trusted and these things are often eased by the grease that makes the wheels turn. People at the end of the day are tools to be used, though he does rather like animals, or he wouldn't have become a vet.
Alas though, it is difficult to find positive traits to describe Lawrence with, at least in a truly positive sense, he is talented certainly, but squanders many of these for ulterior ends. If one doesn't mind being used and know what one wants, it is possible to deal with him in a positive light. His strong reliance on logic can leave him vulnerable to those more emotionally canny than he is, given a good enough reason for something he will theoretically do anything and has a tendency to latch onto individuals he perceives as vulnerable whether or not they truly are or not.
From a negative perspective though, he's cold, brutal and calculating as one needs to be to prey on the grief and pain of others and when it comes to con-artistry, he has always been a stone-cold natural.
DEITY
Lawrence is a chosen of Hermes because he is a con artist by trade and birth, used to pretending he is who he is not in pursuit of some sense of fulfilment. From his upbringing in Manchester, England where he felt entirely out of place with his interests, home culture and lack of masculinity, he learned to pretend to be what people wanted him to be and from there moved onto living a sequence of family lies, going as far as to have a daughter, son and a profession as a vet. Leaving it all to become a con artist in another country felt as natural to him as any of the other masks he'd worn in his life and when asked to don yet another in the name of a cause which may or may not promise power in the end, he is bored enough to say yes.
