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power permissions + plotting
So Ruka's got Some Ridiculous Powers! It's a trainwreck, but so is Yu-Gi-Oh, so let me have my garbage. The only one that really needs permissions is the Extreme fuckin Empathy, so we'll go down that list in stages. Empathy, in this case, means the supernatural ability to feel and experience someone else's feelings as if they were your own.
Click each header to reveal more details.
And if you're interested in Emotional Fuckery via Heart Room Trespass (even if not right now, but for the future), check this one out:
Thanks for reading all this nonsense!! and yo even if we don't have CR but you want in on this hot mess go ahead and sign up okay, let's have fun.
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❤︎ Proximity Empathy
Presence-based, aka the shitty kind! This is the empathy that just targets anyone in physical proximity. While not as strong as the direct link of psychometric, this power means that if your character is In A Mood or Experiences An Emotion around Ruka, she'll pick up on it! This can be as mild as "the lingering disappointment of a mediocre take-out lunch" or as extreme as "everyone I loved is dead and also I have 72 hours to live and I'm just going to hyperventilate in this janitorial closet." The scope of how much she can pick up from your character specifically is up to you!
So basically IF OUR CHARACTERS ARE TALKING TO EACH OTHER IN PERSON, PLEASE.... TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON.....
So basically IF OUR CHARACTERS ARE TALKING TO EACH OTHER IN PERSON, PLEASE.... TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON.....
❤︎ Psychometric Empathy
Touch-based! Basically, if somebody experiences intense emotion while in contact with an object, or directs/associates intense feeling with that object, that feeling is stored within the object. When Ruka touches that object, she feels that intense emotion as if she were that person. Examples: kid's playing baseball, and while he's holding the ball he finds out that SURPRISE HE GETS TO MEET HIS IDOL, then all the excitement and elation and holy shit would wind up in the ball. Woman has a wedding ring, and every time she catches sight of it on her hand she thinks about her husband (and smothers all the things she had to give up to make this relationship work, because she loves him), then all that love and conflict would reside in the ring. Or, you know, a dude gets stabbed to death, the experience of his death stays in the blade. Cool. This power can also extend to organic material separate from its source, if the emotion is significantly strong enough. Bloodstains at a crime scene, for instance, or blood collected as a liquid sample. The same concept would apply to tears, sweat, etc.
❤︎ Fuckin...... Heart Rooms....
Where the other two powers are Ruka reacting to others' emotions, this one is the active alteration of them. Heck yeah!!
How this works is: you know how everybody loves symbolic dreamscapes?? Like that, only any time. Characters would possess a literal-and-metaphoric realm within their psyche — a territory that would represent their mind, their emotions, their history, personality, etc, as communicated through symbolic imagery — that Ruka would be able to access. How this room and its contents are represented would be up to you! But the general idea to keep in mind is that the objects that exist in this room would represent aspects of your character's heart: what things they like, for instance, or the people they have strong feelings for (positive or negative), what they value, but also the things that have emotionally affected them, such as a trauma, or a great grief, or the Best Day Ever.
While in this room, Ruka would be able to interact with its contents, and the changes she makes would affect the character in the "real world." For example, if a character's ongoing despair over a betrayal is represented with a picture behind broken glass, then replacing the glass might encourage the character to forgive the betrayal and let go of those negative feelings, while discarding the picture might cause them to end the relationship entirely. This power could be used to help characters or fuck them up, accidentally or intentionally, depending on what actions were taken. More immediate/transitory emotions would be more prominent and easier to alter, while deep-seated issues or "defining traits" would be difficult perhaps even impossible to budge. Since this is your character, this would be up to you!!
Entering a heart's room would cause both Ruka and the person being trespassed to fall into a trance, so when she actually tries pulling this shit intentionally, she's going to avoid... doing it in front of an audience.......
How this works is: you know how everybody loves symbolic dreamscapes?? Like that, only any time. Characters would possess a literal-and-metaphoric realm within their psyche — a territory that would represent their mind, their emotions, their history, personality, etc, as communicated through symbolic imagery — that Ruka would be able to access. How this room and its contents are represented would be up to you! But the general idea to keep in mind is that the objects that exist in this room would represent aspects of your character's heart: what things they like, for instance, or the people they have strong feelings for (positive or negative), what they value, but also the things that have emotionally affected them, such as a trauma, or a great grief, or the Best Day Ever.
While in this room, Ruka would be able to interact with its contents, and the changes she makes would affect the character in the "real world." For example, if a character's ongoing despair over a betrayal is represented with a picture behind broken glass, then replacing the glass might encourage the character to forgive the betrayal and let go of those negative feelings, while discarding the picture might cause them to end the relationship entirely. This power could be used to help characters or fuck them up, accidentally or intentionally, depending on what actions were taken. More immediate/transitory emotions would be more prominent and easier to alter, while deep-seated issues or "defining traits" would be difficult perhaps even impossible to budge. Since this is your character, this would be up to you!!
Entering a heart's room would cause both Ruka and the person being trespassed to fall into a trance, so when she actually tries pulling this shit intentionally, she's going to avoid... doing it in front of an audience.......
And that's them! So now for forms. If our characters are interacting in person, please fill out this first one:
Name: new phone who dis
Can she??: Can Ruka sense/feel your character's feelings? If there's a reason why she wouldn't be able to — your character has no emotions, is trained to block out psychic interference so it's just the equivalent of hitting a brick wall — please feel free to list that here.
Baseline Mood: This is your character's usual, moderate state. For example, if your character is generally cheerful and has a good time all the time, their baseline "mood" could be contentment, positive, optimistic. If their life is falling apart and it's one fucking thing after another, their baseline mood is probably irritable, stressed, or frustrated. With no other stimulus, this is the state your character naturally returns to. (If our characters are in frequent proximity, this will be the go-to for what Ruka senses from them in the handwaved background.)
Current Emotion: Please mention what thread/event this refers to, and a quick rundown of any feelings that may not be readily apparent in your tags!
Additional: Anything else I should know going in!!
Can she??: Can Ruka sense/feel your character's feelings? If there's a reason why she wouldn't be able to — your character has no emotions, is trained to block out psychic interference so it's just the equivalent of hitting a brick wall — please feel free to list that here.
Baseline Mood: This is your character's usual, moderate state. For example, if your character is generally cheerful and has a good time all the time, their baseline "mood" could be contentment, positive, optimistic. If their life is falling apart and it's one fucking thing after another, their baseline mood is probably irritable, stressed, or frustrated. With no other stimulus, this is the state your character naturally returns to. (If our characters are in frequent proximity, this will be the go-to for what Ruka senses from them in the handwaved background.)
Current Emotion: Please mention what thread/event this refers to, and a quick rundown of any feelings that may not be readily apparent in your tags!
Additional: Anything else I should know going in!!
And if you're interested in Emotional Fuckery via Heart Room Trespass (even if not right now, but for the future), check this one out:
Name: who the fuck
When?: How far in advance are we planning this? If you want to get a log for this as soon as feasible (or if we're already getting started), "now" is a good answer! However, if you're interested in doing this at a later time — when your character is actively seeking her out, or to facilitate development in the future, or your plate is just too loaded this month — go ahead and give a future range. If you just know you want to but have no idea when, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ question marks are fine.
What do you want out of it? Is she going in to fuck up your character, or fix some damage previously done? Is it a great excuse for someone to have a go in your emotionally-constipated character's head to come out and go "please get therapy" ? How active do you want this encounter to be? What would you like the general end result to be for your character?
Additional: Anything else I should know??
When?: How far in advance are we planning this? If you want to get a log for this as soon as feasible (or if we're already getting started), "now" is a good answer! However, if you're interested in doing this at a later time — when your character is actively seeking her out, or to facilitate development in the future, or your plate is just too loaded this month — go ahead and give a future range. If you just know you want to but have no idea when, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ question marks are fine.
What do you want out of it? Is she going in to fuck up your character, or fix some damage previously done? Is it a great excuse for someone to have a go in your emotionally-constipated character's head to come out and go "please get therapy" ? How active do you want this encounter to be? What would you like the general end result to be for your character?
Additional: Anything else I should know??
Thanks for reading all this nonsense!! and yo even if we don't have CR but you want in on this hot mess go ahead and sign up okay, let's have fun.
questions;;
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Can she??: fuck yes she can
Baseline Mood: When he's not in full grief mode like now, he's usually a mix of pride and doubt, heavy on the pride, not enough doubt. he often has surges of affection toward the people he cares about. but honestly? boy ain't hard to read, even if you aren't an empath
Current Emotion: Poe is depressed as fuck, lost a bunch of the people closest to him,
Additional: don't worry i will give you plenty of fodder for her in the tags :T
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but nice this is all good shit, she has a sort of a love/hate with people who are very earnest and honest with their emotions in the sort of WHY ARE YOU (ALWAYS) LIKE THIS way
enjoy this completely redundant eavesdropping and probably really shitty pep talks
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poe is very earnest but also very emotionally stunted in a lot of respects so
WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS LIKE THIS is
very accurate
for him
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i'm pumped
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Can she??: yes
Baseline Mood: HONESTLY PRETTY CHILL I'm a brackettext ho so whatever he's feeling you will be 100% informed of
Current Emotion: also chill. he chill. he chillin. it's a thing.
Additional: if you want her to feel khaji you also can play with that. khaji is not chill. he is never chill. the chill-less. chill? never heard of her. he is always ready to fight, suspicious of everyone and loves jaime very very much.
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he needs friends too
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Can she??: y
Baseline Mood: haru is usually content. she's still building on her confidence, but it's not like... jfc i hate myself and i can't do anything right levels.
Current Emotion: it ranges from happy to relatively conflicted. there's some slight jealousy/resentment she harbors but it's miniscule for now and she's not 100% aware herself.
Additional: i don't know if she would be able to feel astarte/her persona. astarte doesn't really have a personality outside of being a ~mythological trickster~ in game, but personas are born from a rebellious spirit in p5, in haru's case her "betraying" her father and fiance. so maybe that?? idk.
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but yeah, that's okay! i wasn't sure if ruka's powers extended that far or not.
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Can she??: y
Baseline Mood: Amicable, curious, goal-oriented and stubborn
Current Emotion: Oh ull know
Additional: finger guns
Name: Martin Darkov
Can she??: y
Baseline Mood: Anxious, uncertain, often sad at his own expense
Current Emotion: Oh ull know
Additional: finger guns intensify
just yank my ear on disco if u need more whenever, u know me
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Can she??: Sure
Baseline Mood: Uncertainty because He Is Different From Other Kids, some loneliness, a baseline of grief because his best friend died in front of him right before he was ported in...but also some hope for the future and tentative friendliness and general sense that he's a good boy underneath it all.
Current Emotion: Pretty much the same as the above for now
Additional: He's a type of being who isn't even supposed to be able to HAVE feelings But He Do, dunno if she'd sense that at all.
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Can she??: yyyyy
Baseline Mood: When it's not the end of the world: Calm and coolly competent, self-assured, often warmly bemused. Exceedingly curious about new things.
Current Emotion: Will be in the thread, but more nervously excited and buzzing with anticipation!
Additional: I've also got some aura permissions for Anathema if u feel like filling those in BUT NO PRESSURE
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also do not worry about the time stuff I'VE BEEN AT A CON ALL WEEK ANYWAY.... my inbox is a trashfire
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Can she??: y
Baseline Mood: As of right now, Wally waffles between......kind of okay and absolutely crippling dread. He has dealt with approximately 0% of the highly traumatic stuff that happened to him just before coming here, and has resorted to putting on his 'old' personality as a way to hide that. Right now the dread is always there, waxing or waning.
Current Emotion: Aside from the usual dread, Wally probably feels kind of muted sometimes. Even when he's being loud, animated, etc, his real emotions probably don't quite sync up with what he's showing. If he appears ecstatic, then he's probably just pleased. If he seems absolutely gobsmacked, probably just a little confused. Infuriated is just annoyed, crushed is just mild disappointment, etc etc. The only one that seems different is his righteous anger, which appears muted, but underneath boils like a fucking volcano.
Additional: I'll do my best to make it obviously any differences between what he's showing and how he's feeling in our threads, especially right now since he's being very contrary and hiding a lot!!
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Can she??: yyyyyyyy
Baseline Mood: He's actually got his shit under control these days. He used to be a ball of fear and insecurity that would explode into rage at the smallest trigger, but since he won the fight against his literal demons, he's a cat-like (or raven-like??) sort of zen. Wary yet curious and even mischievous.
Current Emotion: He's secretly so, so happy. Butterflies giddy... Also scared, because having happiness means losing happiness. Things are too good to be true.
Additional: Take anything from my tags!
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also "happy but terrified of the future cost" is a feeling she knows VERY well