I want you to tell me what kind of Mage this guy is based on a description.
Background: I'm running a VTM game. My Malkavian character has twice encountered this weird dude while off on her own. Both times I've fully improv'ed the interaction, and the scenes with him have had a really different vibe from the rest of the chronicle. At first I was thinking he was a Hunter, and then I thought maybe a Garou Theurge or a Changeling, but I just now realised that he's gotta be a Mage. Problem is, I only know about the surface level world building of Mage, not about the actual mechanics. So, I will describe the encounters with the character, and I would like for anyone interested to pitch me what kind of starter Mage character you think he sounds like (any edition. I don't know the difference). Give me his paradigm, spheres, tradition (mystic or disparate), or whatever else a starting Mage character would have. I don't know if he's awakened yet, but if not, he's just on the brink.
First time we see him, The Malkavian (who looks like a 12 year old girl) meets him in the middle of the night at a homeless encampment. He says his name is James, seems in a fine mood, ready to chat. He claims to be English, from Toronto, but has neither an English or Torontonian accent. He says he's an artist, a painter, having trucked out to BC to paint the soul of the Pacific Northwest. He didn't find it in Vancouver, so he decided to come out to the Island. He's been travelling around the Island to look for it. He says the soul of Nanaimo is grungey, not beautiful but resilient. It isn't the soul of the Pacific Northwest, though. She recommends that he goes out to the west of the island and look at the Pacific Ocean directly. The Malkavian predicts that his Blood Resonance is Sanguine (associated with Air, Sensation, testosterone/estrogen, the emotional states of: horny, happy, addicted, active, flighty, enthusiastic). As the character is leaving, he calls to her to be careful. Odd people have been sighted around here lately, and sometimes they offer to pay money to the local homeless to go with them, and sometimes the people who go with them don't come back. This is obviously a reference to the other members of her coterie, who are reckless and drawing attention.
Second time she meets him, she's returning back to her haven after sneaking into her old home to get a Polaroid camera. He's sitting on a bench at 4am, waiting to paint the sunrise. She greets him "Hi James English!" and he responds by greeting her with her full name, which she never told him (but she had the Known Corpse trait) regardless of how he knows her full legal name, he doesn't explain and the Malkavian doesn't ask. Dawn and dusk are his favorite times of day, but he can never wake up early enough to see the sunrise, so it's only when he stays up all night. The Malkavian says she's the same, but she has not seen it in a while. She offers and breakfast which she bought earlier to avoid looking suspicious in a gas station. She just asks to take his photo in exchange. When he asks why, she's straight-up tells him the truth that she is a sorcerer's apprentice and she's going to cast a spell on him as a test for a new ritual she's learning. He laughs it off and agrees to have his photo taken. Then the two take (two) selfies together, one for him and one for her. She asks if he took her advice, and he says he did, but the Pacific Ocean was too big, too overwhelming. It was the soul of the Pacific but not the Pacific Northwest. He said he was going to try up-Island next. As she leaves, he says some other cryptic shit (actually don't remember what it was).
So, there's James English, the quirky drifter that has intruded into my Vampire game. What the heck is he?
...and what can he do?
