Mandolin Man (Donovan)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Mandolin Man
Song/Album	"The Mandolin Man and His Secret"/ A Gift From a Flower to a Garden
Act	Donovan
Writer	Donovan
Release Date	1967
ABILITIES
Powers	Hypnosis "The children of the town then came to him/ Magically called with his mandolin... Their eyes, like his, were sparkling"
Skills	Mandolin playing
Attributes	has a "funny grin"
Vulnerabilities	Affect does not seem to work on adults
Formidability	Moderate
Attractiveness	Low, to adults: "They laughed at him... they left him there" High, to children
Source	"Magic"
Goals	"I want to hear all that's pretty/ I want to hear all that's nice."
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A
Objects	Magical mandolin
Clothing	N/A. Does not seem to be "pied" like the similarly-powered Piper
Vehicles	N/A
Dwelling	Travels:"He came to town..."
Milieu	Public places
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Physique	N/A
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	N/A
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	Musician
Education	Knows at least some music, and some magic
SES	Low, but seems self-supporting
Relationships	The children he hypnotizes into following him
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	Frighteningly moral
Intro/extrovert	Extrovert: "Calling all the people and they came to him"
Intelligence	Above average
Emotions	Insistently cheerful, to a dangerous degree
Sanity	Likely a psychopath
Enemies	Parents, non-conformists, realists, cynics
Narrative Function	Antagonist
Other Notes	What's wrong with wanting to hear "all that's pretty"? Nothing, unless you also want to know if someone is sick or hurt or in danger... The scenario in which only happy thoughts may be expressed becomes a tyrannical situation fairly quickly. What began with an impromptu concert went Twilight Zone. What happened to Mandolin Man that he snapped, and became obsessed with happiness? Perhaps he fell under the spell of the mandolin when he was young himself. His inability to process negative thoughts causes him to be ostracized by adults. Now he travels around bewitching children, and then seemingly leaving them there (none accompany him to this town... perhaps they tried to follow but were abandoned on the road since they could not express that they were tired, cold or hungry. They couldn't because they were told only to say what was pretty and nice. And those feelings are not, are they?)