death sensitivity and gem sensing permisisons

[aurokinetic]

ARU WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO PLAY AN UNDERWORLD KID?

Look good question! Especially playing an underworld kid who requires two different sets of permissions. Below I'm only going to include one form, but it's going to dual for two different permissions death sensitivity and gem sensing. Because you know, sometimes characters are just like that.

DEATH SENSITIVITY

As a child of Hades/Pluto, Hazel is capable of sensing something they call death aura. A death aura is essentially someone's physical life force. If they're fine and healthy it doesn't get pinged. However, if they're dying she's able to sense it - almost to the approximate of how close they are if she concentrates. She's also, by this nature, able to sense if someone has died, sense nearby ghosts/spirits, and if they have strong connections with death that would ping it.

How far away someone needs to be for her to know if someone dies is canonically kind of limitless since she and Nico could sense if people were dead in Tartarus. I guess(?) she also has the added bonus of having visions/nightmares of deaths of people she's particularly close to (this is not something I'll ever play with unless agreed upon). Essentially, if your character becomes closer CR to her, she could probably tell if they're in threat of death/dying even if they're some distance apart. Barring all plot interventions.

Please note, in this case, I'll always ask permission if a character does die if it can be used to alert others in the first place. I'll generally treat this as "someone died, Hazel doesn't know who" unless otherwise discussed. While I want to make sure to include that, this permissions is more for "does your character have a strong association with death/has died/is dying and are you okay with her reading it?"


Feel free to get creative with the sense of death. While a normal thing like an illness or dying and simply being reincarnated may feel a little more simple, Hazel does at one point describe what death normally feels like versus what an unsettling/creepy one for her was (an army of undead, specifically a lot of their friends being controlled). So since canons are so different if you feel it'll read as particularly weird/creepy/unsettling even for a kid of the underworld feel free to add depth!

GEM SENSING

Hazel has the ability to sense and control gems. In terms of Austice, she's capable of sensing other's soul gems but cannot control or summon them. As she gets to know more people and if they're personally carrying their gems, she may be able to identify them more personally by its composition than having seen it. In a way! This kind of makes her a living gps tracker for just identifying where someone else is.

While Hazel wouldn't use this for nefarious purposes and would need to really try/concentrate to learn it with everyone - she'd more naturally be able to recognize closer cr after a while - and I've no intention of using it without plotting... I still recognize this is something players may be uncomfortable with if their characters are hiding their gems or what not. So I'm happy to play with 'whoops even if she should feel a gemstone near by she doesn't!'

PERMISSIONS

I'm sorry if this a mess and hopefully, it makes sense! Ultimately, for deeper things, please know I'll never use it unless discussed or prompted. So if someone doesn't respond to this permissions post I'll assume she can neither read their aura or get any sense of their gemstone.

But please consider filling out this permissions post to let me know if you're okay with it!

<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> <B>DEAD/UNDEAD?:</b> Has your character died/is dead currently? Are they dying - as in a lasting illness? Can Hazel sense it? Is there anything weird/deep/particularly strange? (Get creative if you want! Hazel's said that there are some levels of this sense that creep even her out, so people can be ALL different spectrums of weird). <b>DYING:</B> If your character is actively dying in game due to events or <I>does</i> die in game, are you okay with her sensing this? (As mentioned she'll simply know/feel someone has died and not the exact who without permission from you when the situation arises!) <b>GEM SENSING:</b> Are you okay with her being able to sense your character's gem? If so, please feel free to give notes on what the gem's composition or general feel is - mostly inclined to physical details, but more is always okay !

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[finalbows]

PLAYER: Zazo
CHARACTER NAME: Kuja

DEAD/UNDEAD?: Kuja is extremely in the process of dying, a little more every day, and actually will in January, before resetting to his initial ingame state of "has a couple months left" and starting the process all over again. The cause of death is rooted in his soul; it is extremely fragile and essentially about to break apart.

His body is fine.

He also carries within his body the soul of a dead woman.

Kuja is very strongly thematically and symbolically linked with death, but.. idk if "narrative weight" is something Hazel would sense, eheh. There's a reason his true, forgotten title is "angel of death."

DYING: Feel free to sense it, as specifically as you want! For his planned "soul broke" deaths it will be impossible to tell Kuja has died from the outside -- other than uh, the fact that his body is going to be piloted by the dead woman instead until he comes back. The way he's dying feels like... Like someone very specifically made an incision in his soul, a long time ago, and that wound has slowly grown fatal as it was left there to fester.

GEM SENSING: Yup, go nuts! Kuja keeps his gem with him at all times, wrapped in soft cloth to keep it safe. I actually have an entry for tracking the state it's in overall. It's made of alexandrite, but seems to have an inclusion of quartz ever since he got his first fake memory.

After his soul breaks apart for the first time, his soul gem is going to take a significant bit of damage.

I'll just... do both of my boys to not spam

[prototype_heart]

PLAYER: Vesper
CHARACTER NAME: Vivi Ornitier

DEAD/UNDEAD?: Technically he's not dead yet but he may as well be
DYING: In case you aren't canonfamiliar, Black Mages like Vivi have an approximately year long lifespan by design Vivi's timer was essentially frozen at 00:01 so he is just... in a constant state of almost dead. She could definitely glean that from him, I don't mind.
GEM SENSING: I am fine with her gps tracking Vivi. He gets into shenanigans more than he should. I'm guessing the question is more or less what his soul feels like and the answer is that it feels like a bunch of different soul shards melded themselves together. She could potentially sense it slowly chipping away at itself only to reform due to the setting not letting him die.


PLAYER: Vesper
CHARACTER NAME: Rantaro Amami ( worldwise )

DEAD/UNDEAD?: Ranran is in fact very dead! He was killed by getting hit by a shot put ball in the back of the head. Depending on how much she can sense about it she could be able to tell that hmmmm two consecutive attacks on his life were made, but it was the second that got him.
DYING: if something happens to slowly kill him in game that's cool. Not sure how double death would ping to her
GEM SENSING: Sure! Ranran's a good guy and he genuinely just wants to help others. His soul likely reflects his ultimate talent in feeling a bit adventurous and warm. Kind big brother character.

[ribticklers]

PLAYER: Mel
CHARACTER NAME: Sans

DEAD/UNDEAD?: Sans is not undead, which I feel like is worth noting since he's a skeleton. He's a skeleton-shaped monster, which is different. That said, he has died in different timelines, and I'm not sure how that counts here. This Sans has never died, but other Sanses in other timelines have, and there's some vague overlap in terms of emotional memory and deja vu. If that's something she could sense, that's fine with me, though I imagine it would be faint since it doesn't apply to Sans on the current timeline.

Sans also has 1HP. I'm not sure if that would ping her, but while he's currently as healthy as he gets, he's still one hit away from dying at all times.

DYING: Fine with me!

GEM SENSING: Sure; Sans carries his in his cell phone which is basically a little mini bag of holding, so as long as she can sense things in very tiny pocket dimensions, it would basically work as a Sans GPS unless he leaves his phone somewhere. Sans's gemstone resembles a star sapphire, with the main gem body cyan and the star shape yellow. It's a perfect sphere except for the chipping, and looks like it needs polishing up. It has a chip in it with black edges like a lot of characters, since that appeared during the game. If I were to give Sans's gemstone a vibe, it's one that's been through some stuff. There was a time when it was shiny and unbroken, but something happened.

[hjadningavig]

PLAYER: Luminitrium
CHARACTER NAME: Dainsleif

DEAD/UNDEAD?: He's cursed to be immortal, so he's not dead, but if she can sense something like that, then feel free to have her detect something is up with him regarding that. :|b
DYING: No.
GEM SENSING: No.

[unfriendliest]

PLAYER: Ray
CHARACTER NAME: Ookurikara

DEAD/UNDEAD?: not dying, just immortal! mostly.
DYING: sure! this will come up if anything happens to his human form, or if his sword takes any damage, but as of now it's mostly normal, so no worries about dying for him yet.
GEM SENSING: yea! he has a fire opal in a plain, circular shape, mostly black and red. it had a scratch on the face upon arrival, with black edges (though it might be hard to tell), but that's been filled in with clear stone at this point.

additionally, this is a little (weighs hands) since hazel's metal-sensing powers are usually for precious metals, so i'm a little unsure if steel would fit with that. but since it's tied to his life i'll note it here anyway? the gem will seem to be tied to the sword he carries, since that is kara's true form. any damage to the sword will reflect on his human body, and vice versa - so if the sword is cracked, he'll basically be on the verge of death until it gets fixed. likewise, if he takes a bad wound on his human form, the sword will show cracks or signs of breaking until he heals or the sword is repaired. just wanted to note that too since she's shown some control over weaponry before!

[fortunepreserved]

PLAYER: Zazo
CHARACTER NAME: Qiqi

DEAD/UNDEAD?: Qiqi is undead. Qiqi is a Jiangshi. She was revived by the power of several immortal beings working together, and that power remains inside her now. So like.. undead with a little side dish of divine energies?

...As a fun little Death Bonus(tm), her name's meaning is actually an allusion to a Buddhist mourning period.

DYING: Dying would be very difficult for Qiqi and hopefully it does not happen. uh. Again. I will probably not write her dying to be frank I have enough of a wilting tuberculosis patient already for character the first and also she's a kid...

GEM SENSING: Feel free to sense Qiqi's gem! It's made of milky quartz.

[shouldbe]

PLAYER: Abi
CHARACTER NAME: Wave

DEAD/UNDEAD?: Nothing weird here!
DYING: Ye, absolutely good with Hazel sensing if Wave is dying or dead!
GEM SENSING: Yes but. Wave is pretty much always keeping her gem in the pouch at her waist, which is very much a hammerspace-type bag. Because of how I play that, her gem technically isn't on the same plane of existence unless she has it out for one reason or another and so I don't think Hazel would be able to sense it! But I'm fine with Hazel sensing it when she's got it out and it's in this plane.

Details on Wave's gem: It's a Portuguese-cut that looks blue-gray (like the ocean during rough weather, kind of) but flashes reflections of a more golden yellow when the light hits it right, I haven't decided on a size but if it ever comes up I'll figure that part out lsdkjfsd, the center facet is clouded right now and there's a black-edged chip on the outer edge that has not been filled in so far!

I don't remember too much about Hazel's gem sensing powers so feel free to ignore this if it's outside of what she'd feel but it probably reads as warmer? But there's a sharpness to it that isn't necessarily visible when just looking at it.

[tigrisfang]

PLAYER: Yew
CHARACTER NAME: Marcus

DEAD/UNDEAD?: So this is a weird one... Marcus, himself, is perfectly healthy. But his life is tethered to Phil's, and Phil has a lingering illness with an estimated ten years left. So however Hazel wants to detect the idea that he's totally fine until he suddenly stops existing ten years from now, if that's within her ability range.

DYING: Sure, if this comes up!

GEM SENSING: Yep! He usually has it on him. Marcus' is a light green jadeite with swirls of white, shaped like the decoration on Phil's monocle. Because I didn't give him a fake memory there's no clear stone filling in the chipped pieces on his.