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[misrememberance]

Cole is a spirit of Compassion. As such, he has a few abilities, a lot of which require other players' cooperation in pulling off. Luckily, it's also one hell of a CR starter! Cole's kit itself is a little difficult to pin down, but I'd tired to summarize it as much as I can.

1. Mind Wipe: After helping people, Cole often omits himself from their mind. By putting his hand out and saying 'forget,' he is able to erase the memory of his target to make it seem like he was never there.

2. Invisibility: As a spirit, Cole doesn't just have stealth at his disposal - he has the ability to become completely invisible. People walking towards him while invisible will automatically walk around him without realizing they're doing so in the first place.

3. Empathy: The big one. Similar to telepathy, Cole being a compassion spirit means he can tap into someone's specific moments, memories, and thoughts that involve high emotion from their perspective. For example, he might be able to recount someone's favourite birthday word for word with all senses intact, or he could view the moment a parent or relative passed away with absolute clarity despite not ever meeting them, almost like he experienced it himself.

An example of Empathy can be found here.

Please go ahead and fill this out to let me know what's what! Please note that I will approach you via pm or message or I'll talk it through if I feel like Cole would use any of these abilities:

<b>Character name</b>: <b>Character journal</b>: <b>1. Mind Wipe</b>: Is it alright for Cole to erase your character's memory of him helping you? <b>2. Invisibility</b>: Is it alright if Cole uses his invisibility powers near you? <b>3. Empathy</b>: Can Cole sense important/key moments/emotional memories from your character? If yes, please be as detailed as possible and try to cover all of the senses (smell, taste, touch, sight, etc), but focus specifically on what your character feels. Links to those moments in canon are definitely appreciated to give me something to go off of!

Comments

[afullmoon]

Character name: Jeremyah "Chika" Washington
Character journal: afullmoon
1. Mind Wipe: Yes, but if Chika finds out he's going to be upset; he had most of his memories taken in rokkr.
2. Invisibility: Completely!
3. Empathy: He can, but currently he has no access to his memories. However, when he does recover those memories, I'll either note them here or in the main comms because it's pretty likely to punch him hard in the gut, even if he doesn't talk about it.

Currently then it would be when he first walked to the Shadowed Village. The Ruins that tried to take him down, the people that he met, led him to this place. It could be home. It could be safe. A place that he could build up again.

There's hope. Even with the soreness of his body, the bruises and the flat taste in his mouth, the strange smells-this could be the place that he can become whole again.

Under that is the dread that he will never know or remember who he is.

[misremembrance]

This is great, thank you! I'll be sure to let you know ahead of time/plot with you if this ever does happen, but I'm really excited. :)

[afullmoon]

Excellent! I'm looking forward to having these two interact :)

[warfares]

Character name: Kylo Ren
Character journal: warfares
1. Mind Wipe: OOCly, sure. ICly there might be some negative reaction to it.
2. Invisibility: Yes.
3. Empathy: Yes. Brace yourself, this is about to get lengthy:

- emotions: might be specific to the situation but off-hand he'd pick up on anger, frustration, and an underlying churning uncertainty and confusion.

- general facts:
1. his conflict, a sort of constant psychic pain that made moderating his emotions properly difficult; it's a bit like someone that's learned to live with a terrible toothache, he's unable to imagine a life without the pain and in a sense takes a solace in its being there.
2. he believes himself to be a disappointment, though in a way that's difficult to specifically pin down.
3. anger and guilt over his father's death; Han's death was meant to bring him peace but instead it made things so much worse, while also giving him a kind of a clarity.
4. a sense of betrayal and hurt directed toward his parents and his uncle; he had been close to his uncle for a long time but there had been a gradual distancing over time. on some level there is also still a tremendous fear of Luke.
5. immense relief over killing Snoke, and a kind of almost glee at killing the creature that had tormented him for years. he still hasn't quite processed this and is struggling to settle in the wake of their death.

- memories: (some of these are currently missing/hazed over through the in-game mechanic so I'll bold those.)

1. being sent away to train with his uncle.
2. the revelation about his grandfather being Darth Vader, the sense of anger and hurt he experienced because it was kept from him for years (he wound up learning of it on a public broadcast when one of his mother's political rivals outed the secret to the Senate) and because it would have given him context to his struggles with finding balance.
3. Luke trying to kill him; he takes several of the apprentices with him and the ones that stood against him were killed.
4. going to Snoke soon after the destruction of the Jedi academy; the sense of defeat, fear and desperation that would prompt him to seek Snoke out.
5. meeting Rey and the failed interrogation; he'd been caught off-guard by her but intrigued.
6. killing his father; he intended to go with Han right up until the moment turned, his resolve set, and he killed him. in that moment he believes he's come too far and done too much to be saved.
7. the humiliating defeat on Starkiller.
8. further humiliation when he goes to speak with Snoke; he begins to consider ways to remove Snoke.
9. the deepening bond with Rey; he's unsure of what to make of this and of her but wants to dig deeper into it since she seems to understand him.
10. Rey's rejection; anger, betrayal, confusion. he offers her everything (as he sees it) and she spurns him just like everyone else. he has nothing left but his anger.
11. killing Snoke; a calm resolve and focus he's only experienced intermittently over the course of his life. he's still in shock over it.
12. facing down Luke on Crait; similar feelings to seeing Han for the first time, Luke's death in particular sparks a similar sense of resignation and sadness.



NOTE: It goes without saying that if you need any further information, hit me up and I'll be happy to give you more.

[misremembrance]

This is absolutely perfect, thank you! Would you mind if I link this as an example?

[warfares]

not at all.

[vermillon]

Character name: X'rhun
Character journal: vermillon
1. Mind Wipe: Y
2. Invisibility: Y
3. Empathy: Y. Key/highly emotional moments of his life are the civil war in Ala Mhigo (why no vid of this), the day the Fire Nation attacked invasion of Garlemald (no vid too 8{), coming back from patrol to find all the other Crimson Duelists dead (sigh game, why you no give context), dueling Lambard and getting injured, and fighting Lilith. Lots of stress, adrenaline, fear and grief going on in all of them. With the ones that happened way before canon, I'm probably going to fudge some things so please let me know if you want Cole to see those!

His senses are dulled right now, real dulled because he lacks his Miqo'te biology, but his eyesight is always naturally terrible in dim light. Save for his eyesight, his senses are now baseline human, but X'rhun personally is put off by this and is constantly anxious about this since he's a sitting duck most of the time. Lots and lots of worry, tbh.

[misremembrance]

I do play Final fantasy XIV, but I'm not canon savvy to Miqo'te or to all of the canon--so if something does come up and Cole peaks into his mind, I'll definitely hit you up in advance. :) Thanks for filling this out!

[scepterschild]

Character name: Wanda Maximoff
Character journal: scepterschild
1. Mind Wipe: Wanda still has all of her mental powers so I'm not sure he'll be able to without meeting resistance. On an OOC note, I'm cool with it but I think it might be fun to explore the mental crash. Wanda is not okay with people messing with her head.
2. Invisibility: Yes, again, if Wanda focuses, I think she'd be able to tell someone is there because she has mental awareness but we can blur that if you'd prefer.
3. Empathy: OMG, totally yes. Here's the thing about Wanda. She's been brought here with CRAU from another game.It might be easier on a case by case basis. Of course all canon things are available and summarized nicely online but her time in Pathema was a lot more traumatic than her canon. It was a sex game, I don't know if that bothers you, but she had a collar around her throat and it would tighten if she didn't have sex. So there are a handful of really messed up situations as well as fun ones because Wanda totally helped rob a bank in that game lol. She also locked that particular memory away because the gods of her last game could read minds and therefore guilt.

Otherwise I have a lot of head canon about the experiments that her and her brother went through and that might be fun to explore. I like being really detailed so I don't want to list it all here because it'll take forever and might not be used.

One thing we can do, is if a memory is triggered in one of their threads. I can go into excruciating detail about it and then you can decide what Cole picks up? If it doesn't need to be triggered then I can think of a list of events in Wanda's life. It's sort of, what events would Cole be interested in? There are just so many and I'd rather pick things that might further their CR or be interesting.

I didn't meant to answer your permissions with questions but let me know! I am SO EXCITED FOR THIS.

[misremembrance]

I'm absolutely here for the mental clash! It would be really interesting. Same with invisibility.

I may not have Cole look into Pathema stuff, but I'll hit you up for some of the other stuff. I think it would be fun to hash it out, and because of Wanda's powers/mental strength, I'm also completely fine with her being able to tell Cole's looking around! Either way I'll be sure to hit you up.

[scepterschild]

Sounds good :3 I'm game with looking into anything that interestes you.

[possidetur]

Character name: Vanessa Ives
Character journal: possidetur
1. Mind Wipe: Yes though if she learned of it she would question him and ask if he could restore it.
2. Invisibility: Yes, however as Vanessa is clairvoyant is able to see spirits/'things' that others cannot. But we can work with it in a thread that perhaps it doesn't always work
3. Empathy: Yes, though I'm going to place a giant in advance content warning on her past for mental illness, possession, some very dubious consent.

BETRAYAL. Vanessa betrayed her best friend by seducing her fiance, something that she feels intense guilt for (both for betraying Mina but also because Vanessa believes this led to her death and thus is indirectly responsible for Mina's death)
POSSESSION. Sex leads to demonic possession, thus with Vanessa experienced five months in a Victorian mental hospital. She describes it as torture and (though most of her memories of it are repressed) wanted to die. She felt cursed and evil, ever guilty and unworthy.
DAYWALKER. Following her release, some time at home (and a very dubcon situation with Lucifer) Vanessa "recovered". Seeing a vision of Mina led her to seek out a witch who explained why Vanessa could see what she did and that Vanessa was also a witch (specifically a Daywalker). Here is where Vanessa learned more about Lucifer and that she would be hunted for the rest of her days. Her witch friend also ended up being burned alive, leaving Vanessa with grief and anger.
DEMIMONDE. Deciding to use what she could do to find Mina, knowing that she had been taken by a vampire, Vanessa ventured into the demimonde. tl;dr it ends with Vanessa getting possessed (again), exorcised and finding Mina (and her death). Insert more guilt
LUCIFER. With the vampires temporarily squashed Lucifer returned in full force. tl;dr witches stalked her, mentally assaulted her, Vanessa revenge murdered someone and then faced off and defeated Lucifer. This, along with every one of her friends leaving, pushed Vanessa into a dark place. She should have felt free but after months of being mentally assaulted and worn down by her life Vanessa felt abandoned, without knowing what to do, and unloved. Vanessa was pulled from canon before she could really sink into her depression but it's there.
QUIET PLACE. She's also a crau from quietplace. Not too much happened but she made some good bonds which are here and in rokkr she has temporarily found a purpose and a little self-worth. Her guilt has been pushed down but is still present, she doesn't hope but is focused, and there's a low-level fear over the monsters from both quiet place and rokkr (though it serves more to keep her alert than truly afraid).

I tried to keep it brief from tl;dr but I can expand on anything when it comes up thread-wise.

vanessa has permissions too which might affect cole

[misremembrance]

This is perfect! I've only seen the first season of Penny Dreadful, so I'm roughly canon familiar and I can't wait. If Vanessa could see spirits, I think it's safe to say Vanessa can see Cole without a problem.

I'll hit you up when this (inevitably) happens. Thanks for linking your permissions and giving me all of this info, I'll hop on over there to figure it out!