Character Ability Tally!! (because the memes weren't eating your afternoon enough)

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

WATCH ME SHAMELESSLY USE THE SAME POST AGAIN.

(I wrote it. I'm allowed to cannibalize it. Hush.)

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.

Please be as thorough as possible, as this will help everyone out with plots and knowing who can fill what roles.

Thank you so much in advance for taking the time to do this!

(And naturally, there will be threads, so please wait for the rather long OCD or I will have to kill something Done! Have at it.)

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 the last couple years and just want to C&P what you put in the post then, here are some shiny links for you.

Comments

Magic Abilities

[weefeetbigboots.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

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella is not inherently magic. However, in her world there are certain plants with magical abilities, and she could access those if needed. These include a truth spell plant and a love plant.

Re: Magic Abilities

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex is a wizard in training. She can perform all kinds of spells, (as she learns them, of course) both with a wand and without.

Here (http://wizardsofwaverlyplace.wikia.com/wiki/Spells) is a list of the spells that have been performed in canon.

Re: Magic Abilities

[absolutesnark]

Piper is a witch (a Charmed One specifically) and has the power of Molecular Manipulation. This comes in two forms: Temporal Stasis (slowing of molecules, causing things to freeze) and Molecular Combustion (speeding up molecules, causing things to explode). She can also cast spells and make potions.

Re: Magic Abilities

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve is well-versed at both witch magic, which is done through saying words, and sorcerer magic, which involves gestures. (No, not THOSE kinds of gestures!)

She's better at witch magic given that she IS a witch, but she's still pretty damn good with the sorcerer stuff.

Re: Magic Abilities

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

For Liir, I've got a few links:

Strictly Canon (http://new-to-liirness.livejournal.com/803.html)
Ozian magic (http://new-to-liirness.livejournal.com/9709.html) which never really has an explained system is discussed here with the whys and the theory and etc.
Tally (http://new-to-liirness.livejournal.com/profile) of major magical stuffities are here and will be updated continually with any new area explored.

Re: Magic Abilities

[brandyforapples.livejournal.com]

Abby Irene is a forensic sorceress as well as a Doctor of Thaumaturgy. As such, her knowledge on the subject is pretty damn good.

Her magic/etc works very much in line with older grimoires and alchemical text. There's no modern magical theory to this one; this one is the 'eye of newt, wing of bat' type, so to speak, with full ritual required for anything she'd need to do. She's a little unorthodox as she carries her ritual supplies in a carpet bag for easy carrying and has a few preprepared goodies on occasion, but that's more practical than anything else.

The only ability that doesn't match this would be her wand, which has a freezing charm which can freeze someone in time and space. Ie, she can stop someone running away to arrest them, but she can ALSO freeze someone to stop a poison from running it's course until she can figure out a solution.

Re: Magic Abilities

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

Millie is a powerful enchantress and can do pretty much anything she sets her mind to - heal, teleport, shapeshift, create things out of nothing.

She doesn't advertise her abilities much, though.

Re: Magic Abilities

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

In the book Helen is referred to as a "cleric and magic user".

She does have the ability to control insects, snakes, rats, etc. the limits of her ability to control other creatures isn't set out, but it's probably a pretty wide ranging ability.

Her right arm... well, that can be turned into pretty much anything - animate or inanimate. In the book she once turned it into a copy of a weird totem pole with vicious heads biting at each other till they drew blood. And of course, as the living blade - which looks like a bar of light - she can cut through the barriers to worlds and kill any demon of any size or level.

Re: Magic Abilities

[wantstodirect]

Tony's a wizard. Currently all he can do is call things to his hand. But he's also experimenting, so if you need magic to go wrong, he's a good candidate. More on his magic here.

He's also got a laptop full of spells, so he can learn stuff as needed. If you need something specific, ping me and I'll see if I can make him do it.

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

[needsaparrot]

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. (Whether any of these spells would work where he currently is, hanging in the PR universe, is anybody's guess.)

Re: Magic Abilities

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris is half witch/half white lighter.

His witch half gives him the ability to mix potions and say badly rhymed spells. He also has the power of telekinesis.

His white lighter half gives him the ability to orb (teleport in a shower of bluish-white lights) and some minor healing.

Re: Magic Abilities

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

The exact limits of what witches on the Disc are able to do haven't really been defined, and it's probably safe to say that theoretically, there are none. There are practical limits, however, because all magic has its cost. You can't just do something without paying the price, and if you try to, it'll catch up with you eventually. Agnes is just a beginner, anyway, so she can hardly do anything. She's had some instruction from Granny and Nanny -- mostly them yelling at her when she's doing it wrong -- and has a whole library of books and notes in the cottage to learn from, but she's only been at it for a few months. She knows some herb lore, can do some simple spells, that sort of thing. It doesn't matter much, anyway, because Diamanda had been right about one thing -- "real" witchery was about three quarters trickery, one quarter intimidation, and only the tiniest fraction of the time did they do any real, actual magic.

In addition to more normal sorts of things -- brewing potions, flying broomsticks, etc. -- Agnes's magic has enhanced her vocal talents. She can sing in harmony with herself, mimic anyone, throw her voice anywhere in the room, hit notes that only dogs can hear, and all sorts of other things. It's a pity she doesn't know very many songs, though. At least, not many she can sing in polite company. To her chagrin, she's discovered that she knows all the words to the hedgehog song.

Re: Magic Abilities

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

Viki is a teleportation magician. She's got very few limitations on this for how many people she can move at the same time, or how far. Most of her issues with it come from sneezing and winding up in the wrong time.

She'll also randomly wind up, by accident, somewhere she didn't mean to go.

And, of course, she uses teleportation to drop things on enemies heads.

...pretty much, if it's got to do with teleportation? Viki can do it.

Weaponry

[weefeetbigboots.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

[momslilassassin]

Ben is a Jedi who's also related to Mara Jade and is an officer in the Galactic Alliance Guard. Ben knows his weapons.

He's exceptional with a blaster (he'll pick up assassination-level sharpshooting in an afternoon, wtf canon), skilled with knives vibroblades, and the always-handy lightsaber.

His lightsaber skills could use work, though.

Fighting Abilities

[weefeetbigboots.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 Abilities

[momslilassassin]

Ben's very skilled in hand-to-hand combat, though he prefers to have a weapon in hand in close encounters. Most Jedi training is focused on one-on-one encounters and his mother was a former assassin. Ben knows his stuff.

However, he's also fourteen. Ben's certainly not unbeatable.

Mutations!

[weefeetbigboots.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!

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna go ahead and stick Ned's power here since it seems like he was born with it and just didn't discover it till later in his childhood.

Ned can bring dead people back to life with one touch. This power has a few strings attached:

1) The person can only be brought back for sixty seconds before Ned has to touch them again and re-kill them
2) Once he touches someone who he brought back to life, they will be dead forever.
3) If he fails to touch the person he brought back to life within sixty seconds, someone or something of a similar life value has to die.
4) He can never touch someone he's brought back to life or he'll kill them permanently.

Inherent Abilities

[weefeetbigboots.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

[momslilassassin]

Yay for the Jedi!

Like all Jedi, Ben has the enhanced reflexes, telekinesis and empathic thing. And Jedi healing techniques--but he's very, very rusty on those. He also has perfect recall.

He's still pretty young, though, so he's still learning.

Support Skills

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

If your character has a lot of experience in being a "sidekick" or has exceptional researching, language 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

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella's a linguistics sue -- in canon, it's explicitly stated that if she hears language once, she knows it forever. Right now she has Gnomish, Elfish, Ogrese, Ayorthian and some Al Bhed, and human languages are just around the corner.

Psychics

[weefeetbigboots.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

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi is a latent telepath, but she doesn't know that yet. If someone is projecting something telepathically, she may be able to subconsciously pick up on it.

Miscellaneous!

[weefeetbigboots.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 possesses, and their skill levels. This is kind of a catch-all for anything that could really be useful to anyone in a plot.

Re: Miscellaneous!

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee's a mechanical Sue. Give her something to fix, and provided that she has the equipment to do so, she'll do it faster and probably better than the average mechanic. She says in canon that machines just "talk to her," which I don't think is the presence of any sort of supernatural ability as much as it's just Kaylee having a sixth sense for what might be wrong and how to repair it.

Questions/Comments!

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

I'm running off to work in about an hour but rest assured someone will get to you!

Re: Questions/Comments!

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

*waves hand around*

Hinata's got a bloodline technique that's, literally, her eyes--she can see through things and obtain nearly 360 degree vision while using it. It was bred into her family generations ago.

Now, where do I put that? Under Mutations, or Inherent Ability? Or both?

Dirty Icons

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Because they fill me with glee. And I just made this one and wanted to show it off.

Re: Dirty Icons

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

This is about as dirty as Eve gets. Well, as dirty as her icons get, anyway.

OOC [09/05]

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

*saves the world*

Re: OOC [09/05]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Is it sad that I actually look forward to this post every time it's about due?