Character Info |

Name:  John Constantine
Age:  58   (born May 10, 1953)
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Family:  Parents; Thomas Constantine (deceased), Mary Anne Constantine (deceased)  Siblings; The Golden Boy (twin brother, deceased), Cheryl Masters   Brother-in-Law; Tony Masters  Niece; Gemma Masters    Half-demon children by Rosacarnis [deceased]; Saul (deceased), Adam (deceased), Maria   Biological child, though his body was possessed by Swamp Thing at conception; Tefe Holland
Profession:  Con-man / Working class magus /  Supernaturally enhanced gambler / Former punk singer of the band Mucous Membrane
Abilities: Limited telepathy, precognition, astral projection, the successful invocation of elementals, demons, and angels, hypnosis, curses and hexes, oclumency, creation of illusions, limited necromancy, scrying and anti-scrying, divination, psychic meditation, golemancy, synchronicity wave traveling (basically uncanny luck - he's always in the right place at the right time), sleight of hand, escape artistry, in-depth knowledge of the occult, wide net of contacts and resources, cunning, and an incredibly smart mouth.  Demon blood in his veins (don't ask), which has healing qualities.

RP Info |

Canon:  Hellblazer comics, as well as the two novels by John Shirley
Played at: Mostly dear_mun and amusebox  these days; open to journal RP too
Verses :  None, at the moment
Friending Policy:  Anyone is free to friend this journal for whatever reason, especially if we've interacted at all, and you're interested in interacting with John more.  If I've friended you, it's for that same reason - I liked playing Constantine against your character and hope to get a chance to do so again.  I'm fine with friending mulitiple versions of the same character, and the characters can be from any fandom, or even original.
Shipping Policy:  John's got a pretty terrible relationship history, given that most people who get too close to him wind up dead.  Either that, or his girlfriends/boyfriends get sick of all the trouble he brings to the doorstep, and leave.  Nevertheless, he has occasionally formed some attachments that have transcended this, at least for a little while.   New ships would get a new verse.  If your character's interested in snogging or shagging John, it's more than likely totally fine (he's pretty easy).  If I ship him with anyone in particular, it's Zatanna.  I'm not interested in any plots where John gets married/has babies/tries out the ol' picket fence approach to life, but attempted relationships, or even just flings are cool, with either gender, though he tends towards women. 
Tagging Speed:  I usually kick myself if I haven't tagged back in over 24 hours.  Feel free to poke or prod me if it goes over this and you haven't heard from me.  Feel free to backtag much older posts, if you got pulled away from them.  I won't care.
Plotting:  I'm definitely up for plotting, with anybody at all.  If you want to do so, please drop a comment here.  It doesn't matter if we've never talked.  You can introduce yourself there.
Concrit:  If you've got a bone to pick with the way I play John, you can tell me at my concrit post here.  Or, y'know, we'll also take positive comments.
Other:  If I didn't address something that you'd like to know, drop a comment on this post right here.  Yeah, the one you're looking at.

Constantine approaches Samuel, leaking out news about contact with Jessica's soul to get him to sit up and pay attention.

Meanwhile, he goes plane hopping to the Astral, seeking Jessica's actual soul, so that he can back up his bluff.

Constantine summons some demons to tap into all the gossip down south.

Namely Mephistopheles willwork4souls , Crowley vintagebentley , Cho darkenedcho , and Amon princeofwrath .  They fill him in that a lot of the trouble seems to be on account of angels going rogue.  Mephistopheles points him in the direction of Michael and Uriel, so he conjures up some angels as well:  Raguel unjustvengeance and Phanuel iam_phanuel .   They confirm his suspicions, and then he accidentally summons himself smokeandmagic from four years ago.  Oops. 

He also checks on the more earth-bound spirits by talking to the pagan Trickster spittingfoxfire . 

After Phanuel goes off to talk to Michael, and Raguel gets frustrated with John, Constantine calls up Michael himself stillasoldier and they have a frank discussion about the coming War.

Also, Z finds out about the Apocalypse that Constantine is in town to stop  investigate - it was only a matter of time, really.