Character Abilities Tally Version 2.0: Shorter But Size Doesn't Matter, Right?

[thatsamilkshake]

Hey, guys!

For everybody's convenience in plotting, we try to keep a running list of the various abilities possessed by FH characters. If you ever find yourself saying, "Hey, I need a magic user/archer/person who can whistle Dixie while eating crackers and covering one eye," that list of powers is meant to be there for you to take a look at.

It's been a while since we did this, but we've made some changes we hope you'll like, in the interim:

• All of the previous posts have been compiled into a spreadsheet that you can always head over to check (it'll be linked on the FH community info page)
  
  
• From now on, we only need people to fill this out for new characters, or if you have an update or correction for your older ones. If your stuff is listed over on the spreadsheet, don't worry about this!
  
  
• We've streamlined the categories a bit to focus on "what can you do" instead of worrying about whether that's a magic or mutant or inherent ability. So the wacky powers are now just broken into spellcasting, psionic powers, and superhuman physical attributes. (Thanks to puppy_fair for that suggestion.)
  
  

Anything that is a canon power or ability of your character (including those developed at FH) and could be used in a plot in some way, please list below in the correct thread. This is for all character types - students/alumni, teachers and townies - and covers everything, not just the wacky powers. We also appreciate yer fighting, research, weapons, support skills and Dixie whistling, baby.

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

[Wait for the OCD or every radio broadcast from now until December will contain a hidden rick-roll. OCD up! Have at it!]

Comments

Spellcasting Abilities

[thatsamilkshake]

Witches, wizards - people who use magic in any form, basically. Please reply with a detailed explanation of how your ability works.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[whos-got-spirit.livejournal.com]

He doesn't cast spells or anything but Adrian uses elemental magic. Even if the only kind we see him use in canon is spirit. He can read auras so if someone has something supernatural going on with their character he should be able to tell something's up easily and can tell moods from it. He can also dreamwalk, setting up and walking right into another person's dream to talk to them like he would if they were sitting right next to each other. He uses compulsion too, which is like a Jedi mind trick but less obvious without the hand flail.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[living_endless]

As a mortal, Didi's magic powers are limited to the (slight and far from infallible) tendency of the universe to want to take care of her; in other words, she's lucky.

As an Endless (which she isn't, technically, at the moment), she can bend perceptions and shift the world to make it suit what she wants. Her siblings tend to do this a lot more than Death does.

Also as Death, she's there when creatures are born and when they die, and seems to have very limited precognition in that she knows how things will die. (But not other details.)

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

*sticks this here*

Mat wears a medallion that repels magic--at least if cast by women. His medallion goes cold and the threads they are weaving just disappear. Since the magic-wielding women at home don't like him much, he never ever takes it off.

This doesn't mean they can't use magic to throw things at him, and it doesn't work against men wielding magic either.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[heartflames.livejournal.com]

Eleanor is an Elemental Mage, specifically a Fire Mage. Basically, this means her power is based in fire. As such, she can do nearly anything with fire from controlling it to creating from thin air. It also means that she cannot be burned by ordinary flames.

She is able to create shields and has some skill at spells. She would be able to do a simple love charm, for example.

But being based in fire, her magic isn't as affective against water. Unless she was using fire, she wouldn't be able to counteract water directly. No stopping tidal waves on her watch.

Eleanor can also call upon Fire Elementals, supernatural beings that are a living essence of fire. Most commonly for her, these are Salamanders. They tend to be small, but can be larger if given more power. They will fight for her (and anyone with her) against enemies.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

With the same criteria as her previous entries, Leda can also create illusions. Visual and audible. Both or either.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[carpe_demon]

Drake's got a passing knowledge in spellcasting.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan's wizardry relies on using the Speech, the language which was used to speak his universe into being, to convince the universe to do what the wizard wants. More or less.

Basically, if you can think of something, Ronan can probably write a spell to do it, if there's not one already written; however, the more complicated the idea, the more power it will require, and while Ronan's still young enough that he's not quite dropped to his adult power levels yet, he's not at the levels he used to be, either. (In Ronan's universe, wizards essentially trade off power for experience as they age; you have less to work with, but you know better how to make use of it.)

As for things Ronan can and will have access to on a regular basis, he's developed something of a specialty for healing wizardry, more specifically with injuries (although he can certainly handle illness as well); he's had a fair bit of experience with battle wizardry, and has a fondness for fire; he'll use transport-wizardries (what his friends fondly call the 'Beam me up, Scotty' spell in canon, although I'll avoid that name for meta reasons) to get around rather than using Portalocity; and, thanks to Fandom, he's had experience with clothing-making spells, and with spells to change the way that molecules reflect light. Mostly to make things glittery.

He can also make a spell-thing called a mochteroof, which is essentially a way to 'skin' yourself to look, feel, smell, and sound like someone or something else. In canon, they were used to make a group of wizards seem to be members of an alien race; in Fandom, Ronan's also made ones that look like other people.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[mistressofblack.livejournal.com]

Lulu is a black mage, which means she has access to an array of destructive spells; primarily these are elemental in nature (fire, water, ice, and electricity), although she also has spells to cause poison, spells that will instantly kill, spells that affect gravity in a local area, and non-elemental spells of pure destruction.

She's also learned some high-level white magic, namely Curaga, Esuna, and Holy; Curaga will heal injuries, Esuna will heal status-ailments, and Holy is 'light'-elemental attack spell.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana can access the magical potential in objects around her and twist possibilities and patch up holes in the fabric of reality. Seriously, when it comes to magic like powers, there is very little she can't do. She also has a very literal interpretation of narrative. She also has a very interesting relationship with the fourth wall in that she's kind of aware of it in a 'don't mention Jedi because that's copyright infringement' kind of way. And a good part of her powers comes from a very literal interpretation of narrative.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[siriuslyscarred.livejournal.com]

Sirius Black is a fully trained Potterverse wizard. He uses a wand to cast spells. Spells (in Latin-ish) can be cast non-verbally, but seem to be stronger when said aloud.

Re: Spellcasting Abilities

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

I think I missed the last post for this, so none of mine seem to be on the spreadsheet. My fault there, but that's why I'm going to be posting people who aren't technically new.

Max's powers fall roughly into the category of 'magic', but they're really all Jedi-y. This is a pretty ridiculous list, so please bear with me. Using his awesome powers of furycrafting, Antillar Maximus can: sense emotions, magically heal people, influence emotions, give himself super-strength, influence peoples' libidos, give himself super-endurance (going without sleep for days on end, drinking a whole lot without getting drunk, ignoring pain), sense metal around him and also feel whatever metal is touching, give himself super-speed, make things invisible by bending light around them, make himself invisible by making people just ignore his presence. And if that weren't enough Max can directly manipulate the elements of fire, water, air, earth, metal, and wood which means he can shape them and move them around and stuff. And on top of that he can sense things through them. He can tell who's walking on a piece of ground that's connected to the one he's walking on (up to a certain range), and similar things for the other elements.

Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[thatsamilkshake]

This is a bit of a blanket thread for anyone who can do anything exceptional with their mind - empaths, telepaths, telekinetics, mediums, etc. If you can do it with just the power of your braaaaaaaaain, it goes here.

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Layla Miller "Knows Stuff" which means she has "Quantum Precognition".

And I'm taking this directly from the Marvel Wiki:

With this power, Layla has the ability to see paths of causality to their ultimate conclusion, which allows her to alter events to prevent or cause certain occurrences; this gives her a sense of apparent omniscience. All she has to do is do one thing at one end, and it makes things turn out the way they should at the other end. Able to see the true reality. She is even able to view a person's real history at a detailed level. Ability to know very detailed sequences of events that will occur in her immediate area, causing her to say she "knows stuff." Whether her ability extends globally as well is still unknown.

Presumably (according to her) if she tells anyone exactly how her power works she will be struck down dead on the spot.

However there have been a few times has exhibited 'blind spots'. Her abilities apparently do not work as well on Quicksilver, due to a chaotic influence, possibly caused by Quicksilver's relation to the Scarlet Witch, or those related to Singularity Investigations (like her brainwashed teammate Strong Guy), especially CEO Damian Tryp, whom she cannot read at all.

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Apparently I fail or totally missed the summer post cause I don't see Rose in there. So!

Rose is shadow-kissed - which means she was brought back from the dead. She has a psychic bond with Lissa (her BFF who did the bringing) which allows her to read Lissa's mind, feel her emotions, and generally see through her eyes and experience everything Liss does. The bond doesn't translate to anyone else.

It also means that because she's touched death, she's going to develop an attraction for ghosts and other dead things as well as an early warning system (mm, nausea) for nasty bad vampires. (But none of this is until the winter so la)

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Beka has the Air Gift. It means that she's able to hear ghosts (who ride on the back of pigeons). She seems to be able to let other people here them too when she has direct contact with the other person. Sometimes she can even talk to them, but she's uncertain on how to make this work.

She can also communicate with dust-spinners. Since Fandom has none, it doesn't really matter here.

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Improvements:

Dinah's air-walking is steady now, and starting to be more than half a foot off the ground. It's going to continue to improve. So has her touch-telepathy, through much more practice with Jak.

She's also started water and earth-bending classes with Azula; she doesn't sense water or earth the way real benders do, but she'd beginning to learn how to manipulate them that way with her TK, and the fighting stances and moves that go with them (sort of kung-fu and karate extras). That, plus Azula's putting her through a Marine-level endurance/flexibility/strength regimen.

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[survivesplague.livejournal.com]

Kyle has the standard Jedi package of telekinesis, telepathy, mind tricks, precognition, etc. He was pretty powerful to begin with, but he recently absorbed Force energy from the Valley of the Jedi, which really puts him over the top into Skywalker territory.

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Can you please add in Isabel's TK, molecular manipulation and shielding ability as well?

Superhuman Physical Attributes

[thatsamilkshake]

Super-strength, super-jump if you hold down A and press B really fast at the same time, growth, shrinkage (not the cold shower kind), tentacles, regeneration, healing by laying on of hands not dirty --- unusual stuff that you can do with your body goes here.

Re: Superhuman Physical Attributes

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire has just learned that an injection of her blood will heal someone else.

Weaponry

[thatsamilkshake]

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

Re: Weaponry

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

Gibbs is an expert marksmen with a rifle and handgun. He used to be a damn good sniper though his eyesight has dropped a level or two since his younger days.

Still doesn't stop him from taking out a caf-pow addicted terrorist from over a mile away though.

Fighting

[thatsamilkshake]

For those trained in combat, hand-to-hand or otherwise. (The weaponry thread is about tools; this is about actual fighting skills.) Please reply with a detailed explanation of what abilities in this range your character possesses, and their skill level/s.

Re: Fighting

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

Gibbs is well-verse in hand-to-hand combat and keeps in regular practice even though he is older than dirt compared to most people on the island.

He can also smack the back of anyone's head when they need sense smacked into them.

Support Skills

[thatsamilkshake]

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

[likeababyduck.livejournal.com]

Booth refers to Sweets as a "portable lie detector". He is excellent at reading body language and knowing if someone is lying.

Miscellaneous

[thatsamilkshake]

Anything else that could come in handy that we didn't specifically mention above! (This is where you whistle Dixie.)

Re: Miscellaneous

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

Yakko can whistle Dixie.

Questions/Comments/Bananas?

[thatsamilkshake]

What it says.

Re: Questions/Comments/Bananas?

[likeababyduck.livejournal.com]

ILU

Spreadsheets are my kink. Shh.