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Francine Peters ([personal profile] thatsamilkshake) wrote in [community profile] fhplotterywheel2009-09-26 03:01 pm
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Character Abilities Tally Version 2.0: Shorter But Size Doesn't Matter, Right?

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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!]

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[identity profile] iknowstuff.livejournal.com 2009-09-26 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] guardianborn.livejournal.com 2009-09-26 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] provostsdog.livejournal.com 2009-09-26 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
Edited 2009-09-26 21:05 (UTC)

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[identity profile] blondecanary.livejournal.com 2009-09-26 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
Edited 2009-09-26 22:51 (UTC)

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[identity profile] survivesplague.livejournal.com 2009-09-26 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com 2009-09-27 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Can you please add in Isabel's TK, molecular manipulation and shielding ability as well?
not_in_the_book: (Emo: Scary Blue Eyes)

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[personal profile] not_in_the_book 2009-09-27 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Ronan has some limited telepathic ability; he can't read thoughts or project to non-gifted, but he's able to communicate mentally with anyone else who has a degree of telepathic ability.

This is to some degree limited by the nature of the other person's abilities; while he's able to communicate effectively with River when her own abilities are limited to receptive telepathy, at the same time he can only speak on this level to Dinah while in physical contact, thanks to the nature of her touch telepathy.

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[identity profile] oops-mbad.livejournal.com 2009-09-27 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Diana has her thing where comments casually made by her are either very, very true or will become true very soon. Like "Claire, you sound like you're being chased by hell" she tells her sister who just ran away from discovering Hell in her basement. She also has some light precognitive abilities.