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.