Strange Magic (ELO)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Strange Magic
Song/Album	"Strange Magic" / Face the Music
Act	Electric Light Orchestra (aka "ELO")
Writer	Jeff Lynne
Release Date	1975
ABILITIES
Powers	-Invulnerability to all electromagnetic radiation "You're sailing softly through the sun" -Time travel "in a broken stone age dawn" (may use suns as time-travel devices?) "You're... making waves across my time" -Flight "You fly so high" -Implant thoughts, including of himself, into others' sub/consciousness "You're walking meadows in my mind" "Sweet dream" -Can give others awareness of the time, place, and manner of their deaths "I’ve seen the way it’s got to end"
Skills	N/A
Attributes	Is "strange"
Vulnerabilities	tends to use telepathy instead of verbal communication
Formidability	Highly powerful, but seems limited to one interaction at a time
Attractiveness	Others do not seem to mind the telepathy (no pun intended)
Source	N/A
Goals	correct/improve the timeline by giving information
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A
Objects	N/A
Clothing	N/A
Vehicles	possibly a spaceship that can sail through suns
Dwelling	N/A
Milieu	Anywhere and any-"when"
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	N/A may not apply
Age	N/A but may also not apply
Physique	N/A
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	N/A
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	Time Lord? (cf Dr. Who)
Education	N/A
SES	N/A
Relationships	N/A
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	good, but it is unknown what the time-tinkering can cause
Intro/extrovert	Introvert. Prefers telepathy to verbal speech, but can talk if needed
Intelligence	genius, even if that only applies to what must have been observed
Emotions	N/A
Sanity	sane, surprisingly. Perhaps mental contact with sane people helps.
Enemies	N/A
Narrative Function	Catalyst
Other Notes	Scientists observing the Sun do so at such a distance that the appearance of one human-size entity emerging from it goes unnoticed. He, or she, lands on Earth and begins using a combination of time travel and mental telepathy to inform people of the way in which they will die. This information naturally leaves people altered: "I'll never be the same again/ Now I've seen the way it's got to end." His own ability to fly means he can easily make other see him as a ghost, angel, alien, superhero, etc. We have met Strange Magic before, possibly, in the story A Christmas Carol. What if Strange Magic were to appear to someone in Dickens' time? That person would have no concept of a space-alien, so it would use telepathy to make Scrooge see a familiar face, as a ghost (Jacob Marley, in this case). Then it would use time travel to take Scrooge to different points in his life, each time appearing as a contextually appropriate character (using Scrooge's own thoughts as a basis). In other words, all 4 ghosts were one entity, only appearing differently to Scrooge... who sees his own gravestone, and so returns to his own time and place a changed man. At another time, Strange Magic goes to Bedford Falls, USA and appears as an angel to one George Bailey...

Sweet dream