General Request for Plotting and Organization

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Hey, everyone. It's that special time of year again.

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 and so on. This is mandatory for all characters, and we would appreciate it ASAP though there is no specific deadline.

Anything that is a canon¹ power or ability of your character and could be used in a plot in some way, please list below in the correct thread. Temporary powers for specific plots do not need to be noted now.

Thank you so much for helping me out with this.

(And naturally, there will be threads, so please to be waiting for them and they are up.)

¹ In this instance, "canon" does refer to FH canon as well. If your character at this time has honed their fighting skills or anything like that, please do make sure to note that. For guidelines on characters picking up abilities, please see this post.

² For those of you who had characters around this summer and just want to C&P what you put in the post then, here is a shiny link. Why, yes, I did just C&P everything over.

Comments

Magic Abilities

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Witches, wizards - people who use magic in any form, basically.

Please reply with a detailed explanation of how your ability/ies works.

Re: Magic Abilities

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric's a wizard. His magic is strictly wand based which means he can't perform any spells without his wand. He's a pretty strong wizard for his age group. He can also fly on a broom.

Re: Magic Abilities

[notajar]

For magic-use in general, Door's canon seems to be one where certain magical items or charms can be used by anybody as long as they're a citizen of London Below (aka as long as they're someone capable of seeing and believing in magic), while other abilities are specific to individuals or families.

Re: Magic Abilities

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt is (will be) a powerful witch. He is the "twice blessed child" and will become one of the most powerful magical beings ever to walk the Earth. Someday. ;)

I'll put his Whitelighter powers under "Inherent" below. Magic-wise, he can generate a force field bubble to protect himself and has telekinesis. His future self was seen to blow stuff up (like Mom) and throw energy balls. He can do spells of an almost infinite variety from the Book of Shadows. He's conjured his dead grandmother and made her corporeal (as in alive, not a zombie), manifested a dragon he saw on TV, switched his parents' powers, and possessed some sort of firestarting power. He also is heir to the sword Excalibur (yes, THE Excalibur) and is supposedly the next King Arthur. He can use his power to summon Excalibur to his hand.

Right now he can only do stuff by instinctive reaction (projecting the force field when he's in danger), but he's learning.

Re: Magic Abilities

[smartestone]

Hermione is a witch, who while she should only be in her fifth year of schooling is working at at least a seventh-year level. Ask her just about anything magical in the HP-verse and she's probably read about it. I'm so not listing off all the spells she can do, but HP canon seems to have a spell for just about everything (within reason). She also needs her wand to do anything.

Re: Magic Abilities

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

I'm putting this under magic and psychics cause I would classify as psychic-ness, but Tortall canon speaks of it as a type of magical Gift.

Aly can see immediately whether the person she looked at had magic or godhood (good or evil); whether the person was ill, pregnant, or lying. It also revealed the presence of poison in water or food. Her power makes it possible for her to clearly discern the tiniest of details, things invisible to the normal eye, or to see far into the distance.

Re: Magic Abilities

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander comes from a universe where magic works, and he can do spells that any schmoe with the proper recipe book and spicerack can do, but he's got no inherent magical ability of his own, and no special talent for doing the recipe-style stuff.

Re: Magic Abilities

[absolutesnark]

Piper is a witch. She can cast pretty much any spell and she makes potions. She also has the power of molecular manipulation, meaning she can slow molecules down (freeze) or speed them up (blowing stuff up).

Re: Magic Abilities

[the_merriest]

Rikku knows four elemental spells: Fire, Ice, Water and Lightning.

They can be used offensively, but they're kind of weak. Less damage than punching someone. They're more suited to situations where you'd need that particular element for some reason.

In her canon, anyone can learn basic magic, so she could teach someone else Fire, Ice, Water and/or Lightning if they were so inclined.

Re: Magic Abilities

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

While having no inherent magic abilities of his own, Dean is familiar with protective charms, runes, rituals, etc. Generally he's left the Latin exorcisms to his brother, but probably could do them himself if he really needed to.

Re: Magic Abilities

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

While ha calls himself a "Necromancer" Byron's abilities are more broad then that. For the purposes of plotty he can be considered a Wizard.

For those familiar with such things, he's essentially Dr. Strange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Strange#Powers_and_abilities) before the death of The Ancient One (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Strange#Silver_Age_Strange). (Albeit, played for comedy, flighty, and with a bit of a Necromantic bent.)

Re: Magic Abilities

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

The only "active" magic Pippi does is with the crystal ball.

She could probably cast a spell with good instruction or she'd at least give it a try without much hesitation.

Re: Magic Abilities

[likethegun]

Sam comes from a place where magic consists of protective charms and symbols, rituals, etc. (Anything reality-based, really.) His abilities lie with spells in Latin, especially exorcisms.

Re: Magic Abilities

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Draco's a wizard. He can do magic as long as he uses a wand or if he's really scared or angry (but that type of thing usually doesn't happen). From what I gathered from the books he was probably second in his class, just behind Hermione.

He also learned how to block some telepathy.

Re: Magic Abilities

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna can do a lot. She can summon fire, heal, and cast whatever spell the author decided she needed to cast at that time. However, her powers are tied directly to her energy, so if she over uses, she can colapse or even die. Healing wise, she can take care of light fevers/colds, bruises, scrapes, etc. She also can help speed along the recover of broken bones. The magic that we see her do off the top of my head includes opening locks, transforming a shirt into fire wood, some TK ability, and a wall like thing that kept a god out. So pretty much? Random spells. She has no formal training, so it's very, very random.

Re: Magic Abilities

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Like any Buffyverse character, Angel can do whatever spell can be done by anybody who recites the words and puts the correct ingredients together.

Re: Magic Abilities

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow is one of the most Mary Sue powerful witches in Buffyverse. Or, at the very least, she grows up to be. Right now she's still learning but, unlike the other Buffyverse characters, she has the raw magical talent to do the real bad-ass spells.

Right now her two perfect spells are disinviting vampires and resouling Angel. (According to canon, the disinvitation spell needs a proper witch, but a beginning witch is fine. Angel's curse, however, is a powerful spell and Willow's the only known person in Buffyverse who can do it.)

She also has telekinesis which she can use to move small objects (pencils, stakes) around with some accuracy, and I've had her practicing to show her gaining the ability that lets her move bigger stuff.

Canon-wise her magic so works at the speed of the plot, but she's got locator spells, she's worked on an instant-sunlight spell, she's got some fire-starting, and later on in canon she gets things like teleportation spells into the mix as well as telepathy.

There are also more powerful magics that she uses in later seasons, but the implication is that she got them when she dipped into dark magic and her spells wouldn't have been the same if she'd stayed on the right path. OTOH in s7 there's the implication that she was always uber-powerful and just needed to know how to control her magic properly so... yeah. Here's me quite happy to play Willow back when her spells still did the wacky from time to time.

Oh, and she's also known to hack spells to make them bigger, better, yellow, faster, different.

Weaponry

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

If your character is familiar with any sort of weapon.

Please reply with a detailed explanation of which weapon/s your character is comfortable with and their skill level/s.

Re: Weaponry

[the-right-ray.livejournal.com]

Ray can handle handguns and rifles, most likely. Canonically, he becomes a cop so he's had some practice and, while he's not the best, he's more than capable.

Fighting

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

For those trained in hand-to-hand combat.

Please reply with a detailed explanation of what abilities in this range your character is possesses, and their skill level/s.

Re: Fighting

[the-right-ray.livejournal.com]

Ray's a canonical boxer and he's pretty damn good at it despite never going pro. He knows how to fight, where to punch for the maximum pain and how to protect himself during a fight.

Mutations

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Those who have exceptional abilities due to their DNA being all messed up!

Please reply with a detailed explanation of what abilities your character is possesses, and their skill level/s.

Re: Mutations

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly is near invulnerable and can lift at least 3 tons, probably much more (based on the fact that 3 tons is her canon limit at age 11 and a comment by Brian K. Vaughn, the writer and creator, says that her powers continue to increase as she ages). So, really strong.

Inherent Abilities

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Something that your character has based simply on being what they are - slayers, aliens, angels, demons, etc.

Please reply with a detailed explanation of what abilities your character is possesses, and their skill and damage level/s.

Re: Inherent Abilities

[agentthepaper]

Yomiko is 'The Paper.' Though I'm basing her solely on the movie, from what I've read about the TV series and manga, this is an inherited title/power. Sort of like the slayer, there's only one Paper at a time.

As The Paper, Yomiko has the ability to control, well, paper with her mind. In this she is limited only by two things: her imagination, and the forms paper can take. She can make a paper airplane that will fly and carry two people, but it still looks like a paper airplane. She can animate origami animals, but they still look like origami, not real animals made of paper.

She can do some pretty kick-ass things, though. She can make the paper razor-sharp, she can make it bulletproof, she can make small sheets stick together to form a wall. She can use a twist of paper as a lockpick. She doesn't have to be touching the paper for her gift to work, either (for example, in the movie, she sends a dollar bill flying through the air to slice up a guy who's trying to kill her up).

Support Skills

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

If your character has a lot of experience in being a "sidekick" or has exceptional researching or organizational skills that might be beneficial in a plot, this is the place to reply.

Additionally, this is the place to reply with medical experience if your character has any.

Please reply with a detailed explanation of what abilities your character is possesses, and their skill level/s.

Re: Support Skills

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John's kind of middle of the road. He can fight but he's not great at it. He's learned to fire a weapon but he'd rather not. He can run really fast away from bad guys.

Basically, with John, you get someone who will fight with you no matter what, keep getting up until he can't possibly get up anymore, and won't think of himself when jumping in.

He's been support in several plots already.

Psychics

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

This is a bit of a blanket thread for anyone who can do anything exceptional with their mind - empaths, telepaths, telekinetics, etc.

Please comment here with your character's abilities and how strong said abilities are.

Re: Psychics

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River can read minds and pick up emotions.

Anyone I Missed

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Anyone who, for some reason, does not fit in one of the categories above, please reply here with whatever I didn't give you a shiny thread for.

Please reply with a detailed explanation of what abilities your character is possesses, and their skill levels.

Re: Anyone I Missed

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana's smart, good at organizing things (ran a coffee shop at the same time she was getting straight A's in school), and she's learned a small amount of martial arts. Not enough to be useful in any way at this point, but...

And, um, she's nice. And thoughtful and kind. High skill levels in all of those. ;)

Oh, and she has a taser.

Other questions/concerns

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

I am so afraid of what my inbox is going to look like.

Re: Other questions/concerns

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

*eats your inbox*