STEPHEN STRANGE.

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important.

       my stephen strange is not the marvel cinematic universe's version of stephen strange, nor is he from any of the comics. he is from another universe in the multiverse, that is very similar to the cinematic universe, but with a few differences here and there. for example, my strange only has a friendship with christine palmer, he never falls in love with her. by default, i will portray him mid-learning the mystic arts, so he knows how to open portals and do quite a few spells, but he's not fully trained yet and can struggle or fail to cast spells at times.

in other words, my stephen's universe's timeline does not align with the cinematic one, but is rather behind it. my stephen's hands are permanently damaged, so even in threads set after him finishing his training, he will still suffer from pain in them when using his hands too much and when using too much force, and they have a permanent light tremor that gets worse if he's used his hands a lot and / or used a lot of force. his magic cannot fix this. he has visible scars on his hands similar to his scars in the mcu. i also have not forgotten about the canon in the 2016 movie where it's mentioned that through usage of the mystic arts, they can travel through the multiverse, and i take this into my portrayal of strange. this means that i can easily throw my strange into your muse's universe, so if your muse is from the mcu, he will probably recognize some of them from an alternate version of them in his own universe. will add more to this as i can think of more things.       

biography.

stephen strange was born in new york city. he had a sister named donna, who drowned after falling into a frozen lake. unable to save his sister, stephen decided to become a doctor to save lives. he went to medical school at columbia university, and eventually graduated with an m.d. and ph.d. at the same time, using his photographic memory to learn all of the information incredibly quickly.

as an adult, stephen went on to become a neurolosurgeon and eventually successfully invented a laminectomy procedure along with his co-worker and friend, christine palmer. he quickly became one of the top surgeons in new york. however, stephen became more egotistical as his skills and craft increased. then, one night, stephen was going to attend a dinner, though while speeding in his sports car with little regard for his safety on his way over there, as he took his eyes off the road for a little too long to check his phone, he collided with another car. stephen's hands were crushed beyond repair by the impact. he was rushed to the hospital and underwent a surgery that lasted eleven hours, but although his life was saved, both of his hands suffered permanent nerve damage.

eventually, his bandages were removed and he attempted to part all his fingers, however, this proved almost impossible due to the pain it caused and the amount his hands shook. he was advised to allow his body to heal, but stephen accused them of ruining his body and his career as a neurosurgeon. after being released from the hospital, stephen focused his efforts on finding a way to cure his own hands, pushing for new experimental treatments. he had soon spent most of his money on seven different operations as well as other rehabilitation techniques, but all proved to be unsuccessful. with each new attempt, he was forced to sell up his lavish lifestyle and belongings to fund the operations, leaving him with little left to his name.

while undergoing physical therapy, stephen was instructed to open his fingers using a finger extension exerciser, something he still found to be almost impossible to do without causing himself great pain. while he expressed how unlikely it was that he would ever recover, the therapist gave an example of one patient he had treated who had seemingly cured himself of a paralyzed spine. later, stephen found a letter from his physical therapist with the documents on the patient, pangborn, who had regained the ability to walk again. he tracked him down and convinced pangborn to tell him the source of his healing, leading him to kamar-taj.

he was then cornered in an alley by three thugs who attempted to rob him, but was rescued by karl mordo, a student of the ancient one who led stephen to kamar-taj. inside, he was introduced to the sorcerer supreme. stephen began asking how she helped pangborn to heal his broken body. at first, stephen believed they were researching cell regeneration, but quickly became skeptical of her methods as she claimed she had healed pangborn through his spirit.

he became angry, declaring that she was wasting his time, noting that he had spent all his money to find her, claiming that he saw through her lies, before she pushed his astral form out his body to present him with his first experience of the astral dimension, much to his horror. stephen was shocked, but continued to deny what just happened. seeking to show him more of what she could offer, the ancient one then sent stephen through the multiverse, showing him the various realities. the ancient one challenged him to open his eyes to these possibilities and made stephen question who he was within this multiverse.

having experienced something unexplainable, stephen was then back in the room within kamar-taj where he fell to the feet of the ancient one. barely recovering from the revelations shown to him, strange remained on his knees and begged her to teach him, but she refused and then had him cast out because of his previous disrespect towards her and their ways.

thrown out on to the streets of nepal, stephen, seeing this as his last chance, charged back at the door and screamed out at the ancient one and mordo to let him back inside. he then spent the next five hours banging on the door and begging to be let back in, until finally, mordo changed the ancient one's mind. once back inside, stephen was shown into his room by mordo who advised strange to use his time to rest and meditate until the ancient one called for him in the morning.

strange sat down with the ancient one who began to explain how the masters of the mystic arts drew their power from other dimensions within the multiverse, which allowed them to shape reality, explaining how pangborn used his magic to move his body, and that she planned for him to learn how to do the same with his hands. seeking to better his understanding, stephen went to the library to take out several books on the concept of magic. there, he met the librarian wong, who he began mocking for his refusal to smile and his single name. as wong expressed his great surprise that stephen had read so many complex books on the mystic arts, he invited him to a deeper section of the library to study some of the more detailed books.

stephen asked if he could read the book of cagliostro, to which wong said that while no knowledge was off limits in kamar-taj, some was too dangerous for a new student and therefore stephen was not permitted to read it. stephen began his training with all of the other students under the watchful eye of karl mordo, but struggled, finding himself disappointingly unable to create a portal. becoming more frustrated as he continued to fail, stephen told the ancient one that he believed that the shaking in his hands was the cause. not accepting this excuse, the ancient one had master hamir, a man who had lost his hand, demonstrate his own skill.

the ancient one made it clear that stephen could do the same thing if given more practice and confidence in his own abilities as a sorcerer. deciding that stephen needed more pressure to improve his skills, the ancient one created her own portal and then took stephen to the top of mount everest where he was bewildered by his surroundings. wearing only thin clothing, the ancient one told him that the only way he would be able to return to kamar-taj before freezing to death was to successfully create a portal. she then left him behind, much to his horror. despite struggling at first, stephen was eventually able to concentrate hard enough to successfully create a portal and landed back at kamar-taj. with this achievement, he gained the confidence that he could have the skills to become a sorcerer.

this is about where his default verse is set. anything after this will mainly be for plotted threads and upon request.threads set after this can take place in his universe, or in your muse's universe in which strange accidentally opens a portal through the multiverse to your universe and ends up there.

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