Character Abilities Tally

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Guess who gets to steal another post from Erin?

(Hint: It's me)

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 canon 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!

**Wait for the OCD omg or I will take you up on a roof and Chuck Bass you.** OCD up and nobody is getting molested. Huzzah!

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

[rocksthescarf.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

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna is Gifted. What this means is she has some, rather random, magical abilities. She can heal but nothing more complicated than a fracture. If the bone is broken, she can only heal it a little after it's been set, etc. Because of the way she's been taught magic (randomly) her spells are from all over the place. Canon has had her using thread magic, TK, turning objects into other objects, casting fire/engergy balls, casting illusions, and some defense and attack spells. Like I said, very very random. Oh, and using magic causes her fatigue. If she over extends herself, she can pass out or even die. Her magic is part of her. Her mind is blocked.

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

[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

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Minsc has a few minor magical abilities, restricted in their use to only once per day, in classic D&D tradition. His spells include: minor healing, animal charming, blessing water, a spiritual energy hammer, and bolstering the strength and constitution of his fighting companions.

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

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin is quite possibly the most powerful wizard in his world. And kinda lost as to what he can do until it comes up.

Just call him a big ball of plothole fixer.

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.

Re: Magic Abilities

[raspberryturk]

Reno is not, in the least bit, magical on his own. However, his world has little round spheres known as Materia that, when plugged into weapons and armor, allow a person to harness something that people refer to as magic for lack of a better title for it. Materia comes in many different states- elemental offensives, defensives, healing, summoning, and so on.

Reno likes to keep his Materia simple. When he's holding his weapon- and only when he's holding his weapon, he can do one of three things. He can electrocute a person using lightning-based attacks, he can trap a person in a miniature transparent pyramid that can only be broken from the outside, or he can toss fireball-like objects.

Theoretically, his Materia can be swapped out for other attacks and such, but he'd have to order it from his homeworld. It isn't that he doesn't have access to the stuff, it's that he doesn't have immediate access to the stuff.

Also, there are objects from his world that have other effects on people. Potions that heal injuries, remedies, which solve problems like being poisoned or turned into a frog, shrivels, which shrink people, impalers, which will turn you into a frog- Reno's world is a wealth of status ailments and the like. Reno usually has a few potions and remedies on hand, just in-case, but he isn't likely to have much of the other stuff handy. Again with the fact that he has access to it, but it takes time to get his grubby paws on the stuff.

Re: Magic Abilities

[needsaparrot]

Copypasta FTW!

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.)

Also sometimes when he thinks about two girls doing a spell together? He has to go do a spell by himself.

Re: Magic Abilities

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow is one of the most powerful witches in Buffyverse. Or, at the very least, she grows up to be. Right now she's still working on that 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. Though unlike before, I am playing her now with her spells working more often, since she's been practicing and researching. Just no dark veiny Willow type stuff. yet

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

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

[bluth-illusions.livejournal.com]

GOB has no magic abilities.

He has illusion abilities!

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.

Weaponry

[rocksthescarf.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

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

Robin's an extremely good by normal standards/not bad by Fandom standards shot with semiautomatic handguns. She's been using them since she was in her early teens, if not a little earlier than that. She has experience both with her own small semiautomatic, as well as Fraser's .38 RCMP issue.

Fighting Abilities

[rocksthescarf.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

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

While Chad isn't exactly trained, he's definitely a hand-to-hand combat fighter, when he stops being ridiculously pacifist. He has no style, but he can hit hard, will hit hard, wrestle, punch holes through crap....and also take just as much damage (if not more) that he can deal out. The guy's a freakin' tank.

Mutations!

[rocksthescarf.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!

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal doesn't exactly gain any exceptional abilities (except for the occasional bout of hormones), but he does have a messed up DNA mutation that gives him both boy bits and girl bits and I could not resist putting him in this category because of it. Because I'm mean.

Inherent Abilities

[rocksthescarf.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

[funnyways.livejournal.com]

Mina has immense superhuman strength, the ability to call bats to her and control them (such action can allow her to fly), and ridiculously powerful self regeneration.

Support Skills

[rocksthescarf.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

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

Robin speaks fluent French and some VERY basic Japanese. She's pretty good at picking up other languages when given some time, though.

Psychics

[rocksthescarf.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. Her canon never really explained this except to say that a creepy telepathic alien really liked Hoshi's unique mind and wanted her to stay with him. At the moment, all she's really been able to do is subconsciously pick up what another telepath is actively broadcasting.

Miscellaneous!

[rocksthescarf.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!

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

I suppose Chad's armour ability would go in here, as it is something he gains through spiritual energy rather than magic or anything psychic. Chad has the ability to use spiritual energy around him to encase his right arm in a super strong armour which allows him to hit even harder than he normally would, as well have the arm be virtually impervious to damage.

It's probably relevant to the game now to add that if he is around Ichigo Kurosaki a lot, his spirit energy is affected. Ichigo's is so powerful that it bolsters Chad's and makes his more powerful, as well.

OH, also? Chad can model til there's no tomorrow, just throwing that in there, and I guess that he can play bass guitar counts as a miscellaneous skill, too.

Questions/Comments!

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Answers may come slow during Gossip Girl but I will do my best to get to you quickly!

Re: Questions/Comments!

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

If someone's got an ability that they don't *know* they have, should it be listed? It's something that they won't find out until there's a big enough chunk of time for a canon catch up, FWIW.

Dirty Icons

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Because Chuck doesn't have anything shirtless and it makes me sad.

Re: Dirty Icons

[funnyways.livejournal.com]

Ta-da!

OOC

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

I loooooooooove being a thief.

Re: OOC

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

STOPPIT.