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flickerflash) wrote2012-01-07 01:26 pm
flickerflash) wrote2012-01-07 01:26 pm
>_>
PERMISSIONS. This is possibly long-ish, bear with me.
Katie has several talents/gifts that are intrinsic to her character but either a) need info from other players or b) need permission ahead of time.
Love of glamour:
Glamour and banality are two concepts that have a lot of driving force in Katie's life. Glamour is what keeps her going; banality makes her uncomfortable and ...can sometimes be seriously detrimental to her continued wellbeing. If you're playing a highly creative, highly gullible, highly escapist or highly insane character, you're the sort of person Katie will love because you'll practically be bleeding glamour. Around such people, magic becomes easier to cast and is nowhere near as tiring. And let's face it, they're more fun.
At the other end of the scale are the skeptics, the all too rational, and the ones who hide behind logic and methodism for everything they do. Scientists, lawyers, accountants, tax officials ... yeah, you all suck B|. Katie will avoid you like the plague because you guys have the opposite effect.
Just as an example from the app for opposing ends of the spectrum:
She’d cling to someone like Luffy, who isPeter Pan simple minded and will believe anything, and believes he can do anything. Someone like Luffy just bleeds glamour all over the place. ...Robert, she’d probably run from the second she saw him.
So yeah, I kinda need to know where you think your character falls on that scale. |D If you're not sure, we can work something out. /o/
Dream echoes:
Katie has a deep and abiding connection to the Dreaming, which means she sees the world in a different light to most. If a character has recurring dreams and/or nightmares, fantasies, obsessions, or anything that really registers very strongly with them, Katie will be able to see echoes of it surrounding that character. If she chooses to interact with it, it'll interact right back, because to her, it's a very real distraction/threat whatever. (As an example, Brook has echoes of his old crew and Laboon, a baby whale, and Katie has happily held conversations with them on a regular basis.) Or if Cookie Monster were still around, she could probably smell freshly baked cookies. An echo can impact on any or all of the five senses.)
Just what those echoes are - and whether they exist or not for your character - is entirely up to you. |D
Hopscotch, or the power of the flick.
Most of Katie's magic is defensive, and the one thing I should really doublecheck permissions for is this small trick: she can target a person or an object and fling it far, far away from her. The only targeting she requires is line of sight. If she can see you (or your sword, or that fridge over there, or your underwear) she can flick you away; there is no defence against it, which is why I'm asking permissions. She can't hurt people this way - anything targeted like this is guaranteed a safe landing, so at most you may find your character on a roof somewhere wondering what the hell just happened, or splashing down in the lake. She can only hurt people with this trick if she uses it to, say, fling a fridge in your general direction, at which point it's up to you whether you can dodge or not. It's not something that Katie would probably do unless you were (a) attacking her or (b) she was trying to save your life by relocating you, but ... because it's something that can't be dodged, I'm asking permission of players first.
Other things of note:
Secret keepers
Katie is a pooka, and the pooka are the confidants and secret keepers of the Dreaming. People who spend more than a minute or so talking to her are generally inclined to confide in her, even if it's something they've never done before. Everything from confessing your crushes to who you've killed to your dreams and aspirations in life. Unless it's highly IC and your character wanted someone to confide in, or wishes someone understood them or the like, it's unlikely that you'll actually confide in her unless she asks the right sorts of questions. And pooka are also geased to never tell the clear truth, and hence it's rather hard for her to pass on those secrets. A pooka can tell the truth, but it hurts them - and if they do it too often, it undoes them. Hence, most of your secrets are perfectly safe with her.
Exceptions: if you've promised someone you will never tell and you meant it, you won't break your promise. (Oaths are very important.) And I'm not about to insist on dragging secrets out of people. I don't really need people to list permissions for this, because ... if this happens in game, it's entirely up to you if you want to start confiding in the small child. Sheer willpower will stop a person blathering everything, after all.
That girl is kinda shiny.
I don't know if anyone could ever pick this up, but Katie actually has two souls; a human one and a fae one. The fae one is overlaid over the human one, both kind of mingling together, and she has the memories of both.
What some people can definitely pick up is that she is a highly magical creature. If you have a Detect Magic style spell, can see auras, or any other kind of magical sensory perception, that will definitely register. Trying to dispel that magic won't work as it's ...well, it's one of her souls and kind of a permanent fixture.
I-I think that covers most major things? Anything else, I'll bring up IC. Sorry for all the reading material |D;; But here, for the sake of simplicity:
Katie has several talents/gifts that are intrinsic to her character but either a) need info from other players or b) need permission ahead of time.
Love of glamour:
Glamour and banality are two concepts that have a lot of driving force in Katie's life. Glamour is what keeps her going; banality makes her uncomfortable and ...can sometimes be seriously detrimental to her continued wellbeing. If you're playing a highly creative, highly gullible, highly escapist or highly insane character, you're the sort of person Katie will love because you'll practically be bleeding glamour. Around such people, magic becomes easier to cast and is nowhere near as tiring. And let's face it, they're more fun.
At the other end of the scale are the skeptics, the all too rational, and the ones who hide behind logic and methodism for everything they do. Scientists, lawyers, accountants, tax officials ... yeah, you all suck B|. Katie will avoid you like the plague because you guys have the opposite effect.
Just as an example from the app for opposing ends of the spectrum:
She’d cling to someone like Luffy, who is
So yeah, I kinda need to know where you think your character falls on that scale. |D If you're not sure, we can work something out. /o/
Dream echoes:
Katie has a deep and abiding connection to the Dreaming, which means she sees the world in a different light to most. If a character has recurring dreams and/or nightmares, fantasies, obsessions, or anything that really registers very strongly with them, Katie will be able to see echoes of it surrounding that character. If she chooses to interact with it, it'll interact right back, because to her, it's a very real distraction/threat whatever. (As an example, Brook has echoes of his old crew and Laboon, a baby whale, and Katie has happily held conversations with them on a regular basis.) Or if Cookie Monster were still around, she could probably smell freshly baked cookies. An echo can impact on any or all of the five senses.)
Just what those echoes are - and whether they exist or not for your character - is entirely up to you. |D
Hopscotch, or the power of the flick.
Most of Katie's magic is defensive, and the one thing I should really doublecheck permissions for is this small trick: she can target a person or an object and fling it far, far away from her. The only targeting she requires is line of sight. If she can see you (or your sword, or that fridge over there, or your underwear) she can flick you away; there is no defence against it, which is why I'm asking permissions. She can't hurt people this way - anything targeted like this is guaranteed a safe landing, so at most you may find your character on a roof somewhere wondering what the hell just happened, or splashing down in the lake. She can only hurt people with this trick if she uses it to, say, fling a fridge in your general direction, at which point it's up to you whether you can dodge or not. It's not something that Katie would probably do unless you were (a) attacking her or (b) she was trying to save your life by relocating you, but ... because it's something that can't be dodged, I'm asking permission of players first.
Other things of note:
Secret keepers
Katie is a pooka, and the pooka are the confidants and secret keepers of the Dreaming. People who spend more than a minute or so talking to her are generally inclined to confide in her, even if it's something they've never done before. Everything from confessing your crushes to who you've killed to your dreams and aspirations in life. Unless it's highly IC and your character wanted someone to confide in, or wishes someone understood them or the like, it's unlikely that you'll actually confide in her unless she asks the right sorts of questions. And pooka are also geased to never tell the clear truth, and hence it's rather hard for her to pass on those secrets. A pooka can tell the truth, but it hurts them - and if they do it too often, it undoes them. Hence, most of your secrets are perfectly safe with her.
Exceptions: if you've promised someone you will never tell and you meant it, you won't break your promise. (Oaths are very important.) And I'm not about to insist on dragging secrets out of people. I don't really need people to list permissions for this, because ... if this happens in game, it's entirely up to you if you want to start confiding in the small child. Sheer willpower will stop a person blathering everything, after all.
That girl is kinda shiny.
I don't know if anyone could ever pick this up, but Katie actually has two souls; a human one and a fae one. The fae one is overlaid over the human one, both kind of mingling together, and she has the memories of both.
What some people can definitely pick up is that she is a highly magical creature. If you have a Detect Magic style spell, can see auras, or any other kind of magical sensory perception, that will definitely register. Trying to dispel that magic won't work as it's ...well, it's one of her souls and kind of a permanent fixture.
I-I think that covers most major things? Anything else, I'll bring up IC. Sorry for all the reading material |D;; But here, for the sake of simplicity:
HI KJ I'M ABOUT TO TAG THE HECK OUTTA YO POST
Is your character especially logical or creative (or a complete lunatic)? UHHH that's actually. Well he's very logical because his emotions are dulled (what with him being an angel and such) but at the same time he doesn't quite. Get a lot of human things or like, why people lie? So in a sense he's a bit gullible as well. I leave it up to your discretion how she'd feel about him but he's definitely more logical than gullible.
Does your character have any echoes that Katie can see/interact with? Uhhh well right now his super laser-like focus is on finding God. Unfortunately he doesn't know what God looks like or feels like, so basically he's chasing after a dream of a Father he thinks is caring and just. Not sure how that'd show up.
As for general shit, he thinks quite a bit about his friends Dean and Sam Winchester, and probably thinks every so often about Jimmy Novak (his vessel) and Raphael (the archangel who killed him).
Does Katie have permission to flick your character to a different part of Luceti? Sure, though Cas would probably just fly right back and be like WHAT NO.
Anything else you think I should know?
Uhhh Cas is an angel? He can definitely see her double-soul thing going on and will be like "wtf are you" interested for a little while, at least. I'm not sure how Cas would show up on her radar, but I imagine because he's a creature made to be mindlessly obedient and logical (despite him desperately fighting against that and making his own decisions and feeling his own feelings) she would be a little wary of him. WHATEVER YOU WANT BABY ILU
ALSO I dunno if this matters at all, but Cas is a being of light inside of another dude's body, and he's kind of vast and old and strong so maybe she'd pick up on his vessel's echoes too? DUDE IDEK
Re: HI KJ I'M ABOUT TO TAG THE HECK OUTTA YO POST
UH LET'S SEE
I don't follow SPN so...how long has he been in other dude's body? is the other dude's mind still there and consciously dreaming? If not there might be incredibly faded things there but probably she'd see Cas's echoes drowning them out and all.
Also she'd probably be okay with him but slightly WTF at the way he deals with things at times, huhuhu. I will enjoy this thread.
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I imagine Cas would probably drown him out like WHAT.
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