OOC: General request for plotting and organization

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Hey, all!

So, in an effort to keep things a little more organized for plottishness and so on, we're going to ask a quick favor of you all.

Could you please reply to each appropriate comment below, and let us know what kind of powers/abilities/etc your character possesses? This is for all characters - students/alumni, teachers and townies - and covers everything including especially good researching/support skills, magic, skill with weaponry, mutations, etc.

Anything that is a canon power or ability of your character and could be used in a plot in some way, please list below in the correct thread.

Thank you so much for indulging my OCD your participation.

(And naturally, there will be threads, so please to be waiting for them and they're up!)

Comments

Re: Inherent powers

[stykera]

Stark is a Banik (yay alien) and also a Stykera (see also: "walking Farscape plot device").

So he's not entirely corporeal, and in canon once survived being disintegrated because he could transfer most of himself to another plane of existence. That's what the whole glowy face thing is about, that's the non-corporeal part of him shining (ha. I'm not even a little funny, am I?) through.

The Stykera thing essentially means he deals with the dead. Crossing souls over to "the other side," and occasionally seeing people who are dead but got stuck for some reason. He also absorbs a little bit of the people he's crossed over, so he (if plot requires it) can know things that crossed over souls knew. He can also sense deaths. Sometimes that makes him crazy, though he's much better while he's here (so far...). Part of the Stykera thing also allows him to give thoughts to others, generally nice happy thoughts to comfort them while they're dying or injured, although one time in canon he threatened to show someone things that would make them cry forever because he was pissed off. The giving happy thoughts may help in healing people, it's unclear, but at the very least it helps them rest. Related to that, he can "take your pain," which means share it so it isn't so bad for you. We think.

He's also done a couple really wacky things with time in canon. One time he opened up a tear in time and pulled himself and a few others into the past, and the other time he helped Zhaan unfreeze time but I can't even begin to explain most of that episode, so. See? plot device!

And, being a Farscape alien, he has those nifty translator microbes living in his brain so he can understand most languages. Yet another plot device that works in mysterious and inconsistent ways.