I keep feeling that I should have run into this by now, but I'm looking for some good references for a character portrait (although I guess I'll just use the picture if its perfect), of a urban wizard type dude.
His thing is that he utterly idolises the classical starry blue robes, long flowing beard, wooden staff with a crystal on top kind of wizard, but obviously has to fit in modern times (and can't actually grow a glorious beard due to his young age), so he has analogues of all this stuff, like a tall beanie instead of a wizard hat etc.
Also, used to be a fat neckbeard, became gripped by a terrifyingly intense determination and lost all the weight until he got to bordering on 'The Machinist' territory.
So yeah, basically someone in the 20-30 range, physically frail, but looking like they could stare a truck in half, wizard-ness a plus.