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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:
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Is your character especially logical or creative (or a complete lunatic)? He's probably more on the logical side of the spectrum. He generally takes the logical approach to things and tries to reason his way through most situations... but on the other hand, he can also be pretty impulsive to the point of acting irrational under the right circumstances, and he's from a fantasy RPG world, so. Logical, but not to a point where she'd have an extremely hard time staying near him, I guess?
Does your character have any echoes that Katie can see/interact with? Oh, definitely. In terms of positive echoes, he probably has a pretty solid echo of Estelle following him around. Slightly less prominent would be echoes of his old family - that is, Leonhardt and his sister Karin. She'd probably be able to hear this song fairly often, too. These would all be more prominent when he's doing fine.
On the negative end of the spectrum... is a lot of white text due to spoilers. :| For one, she'd probably notice both the sound and smell of fire around him... and quite likely the dying screams of a large number of people. If that echo of Karin is visible, she'll be missing her shawl, the front of her shirt would be torn slightly as if someone tried to tear it open, and her back would be riddled with still bleeding slash wounds.
...oh, and this guy would probably show up a fair bit around him. Occasionally, he'd look fairly harmless, even friendly, other times... not so much. These would likely be more prevalent if he's stressed or if there's something on his mind.
Does Katie have permission to flick your character to a different part of Luceti? Yup. Just give me a heads up first. :|b
Anything else you think I should know? I don't think so! But if there's anything you think I should clarify a bit more, just let me know.
Character: Nu (
Is your character especially logical or creative (or a complete lunatic)? Logical in Murakumo mode, complete lunatic in yandere mode.
Does your character have any echoes that Katie can see/interact with? Yup. She probably still has a pretty solid Ragna echo following her around - though less solid than it would've been in the past.
...there's probably a fairly solid Yuber echo by now, too, given how much she still cares about him despite him not being around anymore.Aside from that, there's still her desire to destroy the world, though I'm not entirely sure how that would manifest... plus her recurring nightmares of the deaths of her first two bodies (the first being destroyed in an explosion, the second by more or less being brutally maimed by Ragna in an Azure-induced frenzy). Also, nearly being killed by Mu and being left on her own while still more or less bleeding to death. :|bOn a slightly more positive note than the above, she'd probably hear this song somewhat frequently around her. It's something she heard back when people were seeing and hearing things that weren't actually there back before the earthquake, and since then it's sort of been stuck in her head,,, and she's grown pretty fond of it, so yeah.
Does Katie have permission to flick your character to a different part of Luceti? Yup.
Anything else you think I should know? Iiiii... don't think so? Unless there's anything you'd like me to clarify, anyway. In that case, just let me know.