Character Abilities Tally!

[thatsamilkshake]

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.]

Comments

Re: Psychic/Psionic Abilities

[pyromanyac.livejournal.com]

Charlie has a handful of mind powers.

First and foremost is her ability to create fire, usually called Pyrokinesis or PK. It goes from simply creating combustion on the air to make a flame, to actually making things that shouldn't go all fiery in fire, like rocks, metal, water...it's a complicated and taxing activity though. But making fire and setting things on fire? She can do it in apparent unlimited amounts. Charlie's PK is addictive, though, and the more she uses, the more she wants to use it, and the most she uses it, the best she feels, and so on. Also, the longer she goes without using, the more she will desire to use it, and she will start experimenting what you could call Psionic Abstinence Syndrome after a week or so of using her powers in a nice amount. Charlie's fire requires a completely conscious action, meaning it won't be triggered by surprise, fear, or even anger. Not if she doesn't want to, at least.

Charlie is also a powerful telekinetic, with enough raw power to lift several tons of whatever she wants. She has a hard time controlling small objects though, so while she can toss a car to you, she won't be able to lift a pencil from the floor without trouble and/or tearing a chunk of the floor with it.

She's also a powerful telepath, but highly untrained. While possessing mental shields, these are rudimentary and anyone with some skill will find a way to bypass them. She can read minds and project her thoughts -and she's likely to do so if someone speaks in her mind, like Jono-, and supposedly can do whatever a broad spectrum psi like, say, Kerrigan and Emma can.

A differienced part of her telepathy is the Push, which is a very concise form of Mind Manipulation. Charlie can issue a command, be spoken or thought to a target, which in turn will convince itself of said command/order/statement, making it work as a self-induction. Charlie can ask someone to react to certain words, forget things, act in a particular way, and just about anything she can express with clarity. Pushing too hard might cause damage to the brain of the target though, and Charlie can possitively kill someone if she Pushes too hard or too often.

Charlie, also, has a very convenient precognition/postcognition/awareness power which allows her to just 'know' things that are relevant and useful to her, like what happened in a place, what is going to happen around her sometime in the future, and even what is happening at the exact same time somewhere else. She can't control this power at all, but it usually manifests itself when needed, and she always gets all the information crystal clear. Fandom Island actively blocks this power, and all that Charlie gets at times is either "white noise" or a vague feeling that something is going to happen. Outside Fandom, it works just fine, but can't obtain information about the island.

She also has a low level empathy, allowing her to feel other people's emotions on a basic level, and her physiology is different, giving her a but of a healing factor (although this is wacky in canon and won't be brought upon unless there is a good reason).