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hyperpotamous) wrote2023-03-21 06:06 pm
hyperpotamous) wrote2023-03-21 06:06 pm
「 kenos | opt-in post 」
As a very powerful necromancer, John has the ability to sense the thalergy (life energy), thanergy (death energy), and souls of any living thing.
So! What does this mean?
This means that John can sense just about everything that goes on with a person physiologically down to the chemical processes. In Kenos, he's been heavily nerfed, and most of his powers are affected in a general sense by all the fun new energies present, which is a convenient handwave-y way of explaining why he doesn't have turbo knowledge about everything and everyone at all times.
The purpose of this page is a general opt-in where you can optionally share any details about your character that John might recognise and whether or not you want them referred to, etc.
This is mostly a reference for me, so be as detailed as you like because it's definitely fun for me to sprinkle things in hehe.
As a note, it is acceptable to say that John outright can't sense something too! There are several characters where We Just Don't Know, or it's otherwise more interesting to leave question marks, so feel free to mention if you want John to perceive someone as Eldritch Static or a migraine or something!
Fill out the handy dandy form below and leave a comment!
PLAYER NAME:
CHARACTER NAME:
CANON:
WHAT CAN JOHN SENSE ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER?: Physical details? Interesting soul stuff? Weird eldritch mysteries?
ARE THERE ANY RESTRICTIONS?: Anything specific that shouldn't be mentioned (i.e. in case you want something kept secret longer, etc.)?
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT HIM TO NOTICE?: I am happy to use this ability to highlight something if you like!
So! What does this mean?
This means that John can sense just about everything that goes on with a person physiologically down to the chemical processes. In Kenos, he's been heavily nerfed, and most of his powers are affected in a general sense by all the fun new energies present, which is a convenient handwave-y way of explaining why he doesn't have turbo knowledge about everything and everyone at all times.
The purpose of this page is a general opt-in where you can optionally share any details about your character that John might recognise and whether or not you want them referred to, etc.
This is mostly a reference for me, so be as detailed as you like because it's definitely fun for me to sprinkle things in hehe.
As a note, it is acceptable to say that John outright can't sense something too! There are several characters where We Just Don't Know, or it's otherwise more interesting to leave question marks, so feel free to mention if you want John to perceive someone as Eldritch Static or a migraine or something!
Fill out the handy dandy form below and leave a comment!
PLAYER NAME:
CHARACTER NAME:
CANON:
WHAT CAN JOHN SENSE ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER?: Physical details? Interesting soul stuff? Weird eldritch mysteries?
ARE THERE ANY RESTRICTIONS?: Anything specific that shouldn't be mentioned (i.e. in case you want something kept secret longer, etc.)?
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT HIM TO NOTICE?: I am happy to use this ability to highlight something if you like!
slams both of my characters into one comment
CHARACTER NAME: Set
CANON: Ennead
WHAT CAN JOHN SENSE ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER?: HEHEHE,
Obviously, Set is a god. His divine power was sealed from him, leaving him at the level of a demigod, but he has been working to regain/retrieve his sealed divinity in Kenos. Recently, Meridian's upper echelon was able to reach into their timestream and basically pull the "thread" of his divinity into Kenos, in the form of his funky little mask! When he's wearing the mask, the sense of divinity coming from him is noticeably higher, but not overbearingly so. There's also a sense of, um, demon-ness in him. He's traditionally thought of as Ba'al/Beelzebub, but hasn't obtained that "domain". Yet.
We're working on that.
For the life/death energy, I guess the fact that he's not part of linear time/does not have a linear consciousness could apply? Because Ancient Egyptian myth was heavy on religious syncretism ( aka. "it's not contradictory, we just assimilated everything" ) and cyclical time/history, he has an innate sense that if someone says "oh you're the guy who fights apep", he won't have DONE that, but he will know on some intrinsic level that they're not wrong.
The last thing is that his soul is in shreds, with a flowering vine growing thickly through it! I'm sure John would be able to recognize this as some manner of accursed claim. The has the same spiritual signature as Set's soul itself, just. Fucked up in a horrible way, with the stain of the god of life upon it. ( There's a cute little dark flower in the middle of that mess that radiates Yima's energy and unique smell. ) EDIT: i guess john would sense the souls of thousands of agonized women worn in a curse around set's wrist too?? enjoy
ARE THERE ANY RESTRICTIONS?: NAH, go wild.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT HIM TO NOTICE?: Anything you want!
CHARACTER NAME: Bondrewd
CANON: Made in Abyss
WHAT CAN JOHN SENSE ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER?: Oh, the fun one.
Under all the armor, Bondrewd is organic. I ask that nobody be able to "see" what he actually looks like under his gear, since MIA has never published an official depiction of what he looks like, and technically it doesn't matter. Bondrewd is a ( former-ish ) human that offered his body/humanity to the Abyss, and has become a vagrant soul/consciousness as a result. In canon, he uses an Artifact called Zoaholic to basically body-surf by leaving portions of his soul in other bodies, then overtaking them, being reborn into their form and reassembling himself when his former body has been severely damaged or destroyed. His soul exists, it's just. Untethered? Eldritch? All the humanity was stripped out of it, which leaves him very Weird.
ARE THERE ANY RESTRICTIONS?: GO WILD X2, he's not bothered.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT HIM TO NOTICE?: all his gear is biologically bound to him, including his leezard tail :>