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breakaleginhalf) wrote2017-05-20 06:05 pm
breakaleginhalf) wrote2017-05-20 06:05 pm
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Changeling Magic Permissions
The Mask
As a Changeling, Gil is no longer fully human. He's all but a shambling mess of a monster, with very little consistency or coherency between his body parts' theoretical sources. His general build is human enough, albeit jacked to hell and covered in an inch-short layer of thick, brown-black fur; but that's about where the similarity ends. Bulky gorilla-like arms hang down to his knees, not long enough to knuckle along but good for getting an astounding quadrupedal turn of speed. A wiry lupine tail hangs between solid hind legs, but doesn't quite reach the oil-black cloven hooves at their base. His eyes really are human, albeit with blood red irises, but his mouth and nose are a hyena's messy, scarred snout, with too-large fangs and a pronounced underbite, and his ears are bat-like and overlarge. He looks like he should have a thick mane, running from his head and shoulders, all the way down his spine and over most of his chest, but his fur is shaved hap-hazardously into submission (neater on his front than back, for obvious reasons).
He is, essentially, a fairy tale monster from a nightmare.
Normally, no one can see this: this is because he has that special Changeling illusion known as a Mask, that hides his changes completely and utterly from mundane eyes. Someone could touch him and feel skin instead of fur, be scratched by his claws and think they're just nail marks, be kicked by a hoof and the bruise, to mundane eyes, is shaped like a human footprint. It's very thorough, and persists in photos and even death.
Under certain circumstances, however, the Mask can be seen through. It can't be seen through with any kind of standard modern technology, but other Changelings see through it automatically. D&D skills such as True Seeing would work, but if you're not too sure then leave a comment and I'll think on it!
Fearmongering
As a member of the Autumn Court, Gil has the Contract Witches' Intuition and he's not afraid to use it. What this contract does is allows him to discern one of the subject's fears in exchange for telling them one of his own, and allows him to redirect their fears onto a different target for the length of the thread. This ability doesn't hurt anyone, but Gil will know what your character is scared of. This can end up giving highly situational results - if your character is already scared of something present or on high alert, Gil's gonna get a false positive.
The reason this skill is important is because Gil's court is represented by the emotion fear: a good way for him to recharge his Magic Bullshit is to scare people and siphon off the fear he's just caused. This doesn't hurt any persons involved or impact on the emotion in any way; it's just a Thing Gil Can Do. It doesn't necessarily have to be fear either; that's just the easiest and most refilling emotion for him to harvest, though deeper emotions give much better glamour than a moment's passion.
Permission questions!
As a Changeling, Gil is no longer fully human. He's all but a shambling mess of a monster, with very little consistency or coherency between his body parts' theoretical sources. His general build is human enough, albeit jacked to hell and covered in an inch-short layer of thick, brown-black fur; but that's about where the similarity ends. Bulky gorilla-like arms hang down to his knees, not long enough to knuckle along but good for getting an astounding quadrupedal turn of speed. A wiry lupine tail hangs between solid hind legs, but doesn't quite reach the oil-black cloven hooves at their base. His eyes really are human, albeit with blood red irises, but his mouth and nose are a hyena's messy, scarred snout, with too-large fangs and a pronounced underbite, and his ears are bat-like and overlarge. He looks like he should have a thick mane, running from his head and shoulders, all the way down his spine and over most of his chest, but his fur is shaved hap-hazardously into submission (neater on his front than back, for obvious reasons).
He is, essentially, a fairy tale monster from a nightmare.
Normally, no one can see this: this is because he has that special Changeling illusion known as a Mask, that hides his changes completely and utterly from mundane eyes. Someone could touch him and feel skin instead of fur, be scratched by his claws and think they're just nail marks, be kicked by a hoof and the bruise, to mundane eyes, is shaped like a human footprint. It's very thorough, and persists in photos and even death.
Under certain circumstances, however, the Mask can be seen through. It can't be seen through with any kind of standard modern technology, but other Changelings see through it automatically. D&D skills such as True Seeing would work, but if you're not too sure then leave a comment and I'll think on it!
Fearmongering
As a member of the Autumn Court, Gil has the Contract Witches' Intuition and he's not afraid to use it. What this contract does is allows him to discern one of the subject's fears in exchange for telling them one of his own, and allows him to redirect their fears onto a different target for the length of the thread. This ability doesn't hurt anyone, but Gil will know what your character is scared of. This can end up giving highly situational results - if your character is already scared of something present or on high alert, Gil's gonna get a false positive.
The reason this skill is important is because Gil's court is represented by the emotion fear: a good way for him to recharge his Magic Bullshit is to scare people and siphon off the fear he's just caused. This doesn't hurt any persons involved or impact on the emotion in any way; it's just a Thing Gil Can Do. It doesn't necessarily have to be fear either; that's just the easiest and most refilling emotion for him to harvest, though deeper emotions give much better glamour than a moment's passion.
Permission questions!
cw: forced captivity, gov experimentations, very traumatised Dirk
Would you be alright with Gil using Witches' Intuition on your character? Bring it on; this bab has no defenses against that.
What is your character scared of? Dirk has a really fucked up history. Tl;dr is he was 'given' to Blackwing by his mum and there as a kid underwent extensive questioning, endured experiments to test his abilities (that could not be quantified or explained) and lived in this facility for literally half his life. Oh and there was an especially nasty and sadistic sort named Priest and, uh. Their history together wasn't sunshine and rainbows. (links are to a moodboard and art where he calls Dirk "baby bird" because, y'know, Icarus, wings, etc). Dirk fears Blackwing, being forced to go back (which of course happens in S2), and especially Priest. He still deals with the psychological trauma from the experiments, along with memory loss and headaches from the forced electrocution.
Anything else? Permissions & Visuals for some actual rainbows (as palette cleanser)
Re: cw: forced captivity, gov experimentations, very traumatised Dirk
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The character learns a fear not currently concerning the target; The character learns a specific kind of fear; The character discovers a fear the target recognizes but generally keeps hidden; The character finds a fear the target hides even from herself.
So we can either like. Roll for the specific fear we wanna play with or just fuck around and grab something stupid and intense and Gil can feel bad about setting off an actual PTSD response later.
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oh by the by, I noticed in your post you say prose is easier for mobile tagging; would you like me to switch to that in our current thread? i'm good with either/or tbh, typing on keyboard :>
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at workat a laptop currently, and it's never been a huge issue for me so I'm not fussed either which way!And yes having Martin pop in and cockblock Gil trying to get his Glamour is fucking hilarious to me, Gil puts ALL THIS WORK into making Dirk scared and Martin just swoops in and takes it all first.
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OneThree and hates life forever. i love it. i love it so much.