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Francine Peters ([personal profile] thatsamilkshake) wrote in [community profile] fhplotterywheel2011-01-18 02:13 pm
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Character Abilities Tally!

Hey, guys!

For everybody's convenience in plotting, we try to keep a running (ifyoudon'tcountlastsemestercough) list of the various abilities possessed by FH characters. If you ever find yourself saying, "Hey, I need a magic user/archer/ninja/person who can watch 48 straight hours of Zac Efron movies and still remain sane," that list of powers is meant to be there for you to take a look at. (It's not mandatory; it just gives everybody a better reference when they're looking for people to help out with plots, and hey, might get your character roped into something fun!)

Here's how we deal with updating this baby!


  • All of the previous posts have been compiled into a spreadsheet that you can always head over to check; it's linked on the FH community info page.

  • This post only needs to be filled out for new characters, or if you have a correction/update for your older ones. If your stuff is listed over on the spreadsheet and nothing's changed, there's no need to fill out that category again. (And my poor aging eyes will love you because it's one less cell to update on a seven-page spreadsheet.)

  • The categories focus on "what can you do" instead of worrying about whether that's a magic or mutant or species-specific ability. So wacky powers are just broken into spellcasting, psionic powers, and superhuman physical attributes.

  • 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, teachers, townies and alumni/expats - and covers everything, not just the wacky powers. We also appreciate yer fighting, research, weapons, support skills and Zefron-resistance.




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

[Wait for the OCD or NO AU KIDS FOR YOU. *keeps them all* OCD is up! Have at it.]

Re: Support Skills

[identity profile] thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com 2011-01-18 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Katniss is pretty good with field medicine. She has no formal training, but has had to patch things up more than once, both on herself and on other tributes/etc, and her mother and sister are both sort of the District 12 equivalent of doctors/nurses. She can use found objects/plants/fabrics to create salves and tourniquets, and can recognize poisonous plants vs. healing ones.

So, she's a pretty good stopgap if you can't get right to a doctor.
endsthegame: (at the computer)

Re: Support Skills

[personal profile] endsthegame 2011-01-18 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Ender is now in possession of Jane, which means that hypothetically, he could get access to just about any kind of computer system as long as it's wired up to some version of the internet. For consent reasons, Jane's a little low-power in comparison to her canon self, but theoretically speaking Ender can now pretty much hack into anything.

Re: Support Skills

[identity profile] wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com 2011-01-18 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Wes is a killer researcher, and he has a trunk full of demonology books to prove it. And he speaks and reads a ton of languages, some proficiently and some full-on fluently. If you ever need a prophecy translated or a spell discovered from the depths of some zillion-year-old text or whathaveyou, he's your guy.

Re: Support Skills

[identity profile] hoorayimrich.livejournal.com 2011-01-18 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you need something built? Odds are Tony can do it and then make it fly. He can also hack with l33t skillz. BOOYAH.

Re: Support Skills

[identity profile] talks-backwards.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks to her 'do-it-all' magic, Zatanna is good in:

Healing people, from little wounds to very big nasty ones, although the healing is one of the activities that drain her the most.

Contacting people. Her power level allows her to 'call' anyone within Fandom with relative ease by just saying that person's name backwards, establishing a mental link between the two of them, and possibly the people around Zatanna, too.

Moving around. She can teleport herself and others with relative ease at pretty much anywhere, as long as she knows where that anywhere is, has been there or can picture it somehow. She's still working on it though, and with time will be capable of doing the whole 'inter dimensional jump' gig, but yeah, still years away from that.

Re: Support Skills

[identity profile] swordsandsoccer.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
Dolf is a cunning linguist linguistically-inclined sort, and has bouncing around his brain the following languages: Dutch, German, French, Diets (Middle German), a reasonable amount of medieval Tuscan, and thanks to Triela, Italian. Oh, and English, of course.

Otherwise, he has experience as a 'field medic' of sorts, and can organise really, really well. As in 'organising an army of eight thousand children so that everyone gets food, water, a job to do and a place to sleep every night, for three months straight with only minimal casualties'.