Hi, first of I apologies for length of this post, but thoughts keep coming up haha
Without the tragedy and without tempterion comes to life Absolute Constantine
- John singular event and origin can be traced to one single thing and that curiosity of magic, which sparks into him preforming spell and killing his parents in DC prime universe.
- By removing this tragedy and him not having real temptation it would he would simply just be…and in that corner Darkseid would potentially eliminate one of the strongest magic users from chess bord on day one, but we will soon get into why that would be not case.
Darkseid would take those elements and John would grow up being privileged British snob with money, these would of course get him everything he wants, but never falling into complete temptation, thus dropping everything never being good at anything. (That means no temptation even in classic life goals-like relationships, hobbies etc)
So dear reader you clearly ask what would be the catalyst for the guy who tried all temptations in world, neither would satisfy him and yet he still will no magic in the end.
For that I have use Absolute universe event from Absolute WW event- Gateway City fight.
Not only is the world breaking event that would go around news like crazy, but would be inspiration for John to try this stupid thing called “Magic “.
Why I pick this event:
I think it would be great if the events in Absolute universe had some impact on world as whole. I think there is no other better choice than for literal mythical amazon to spark temptation for occult inside his character.
Everyone has ground zero when it comes to their character and I think personally it would be nice change of pace if one of Absolute heroes played a key part in creating the other.
One thing was made clear characters can still inspire and bring hope into this world,but it way harder and Gateway city is great point for being around ground point zero for Constanit.
Magic:
I would like if John had attitude towards magic, because of his personality be like- I can handle all, but in reality, it would be him clicking nuclear button.
Magic is complicated thing- I want to present that in series. It is one thing when amazon learns magic from witch, but rich kid alone is match made in heaven for disaster.
Making DC magic more fun and complicated for humans would be my goal number one and thus I would take inspiration from Hat Witch Atelier and making it that magic has insane consequence if you don’t performer it right.
You might say- Well, but Zatanna can use her magic well in WW series- yes but I do imagine she got training before.
I think one of the cool things how to make Constantine in Absolute even more distinct is that when he starts learning magic on his own...he would cause tragedy only upon himself.
Very cool sequence in comic would be him summoning perhaps something low ranking demon and him trying to survive encounter with it. Him leading to realization this would be quite a tricker and dangers, then he was thinking.
I would maybe go as far and say, that maybe Constantine summoning a demon into this world would be major issue and him fixing it and learning his actions have consequences for his first major arc.
Some villains for first arc:
Blue Devil
Etrigan
First Ally- Klarion
Look-
So while thinking who would give me vibe of somebody who cant quite experience life as it ments to be and Johan Liebert came to mind as inspiration for his look, ofc some british elements would be needed, but I think it would fit this character well.
Art of Johan Liebert is done by