Ho. Apparently when it comes to stuff like these I tend to make things either potentially OP or UP. Page claimed by wall of text. ============================== -Name: Clarisse Lorelei -Age: 16 -Gender: F -Gift: [Eye of the Otherworld] --- Clarisse can ‘see’ what the ‘normal eye’ is not supposed to be able to ‘see’, a potentially frightening ability currently concentrated on her left eye. As of now, whenever she looks only through her left eye, her ability activates, causing her to perceive the world as a potentially surreal and/or nightmarish landscape; she ‘sees’ normal living beings as white, featureless mannequins, the surrounding area becoming simple and monochrome. However, she becomes open to much more things at once – amongst the things she can ‘see’ currently include rays outside the spectrum of visible light, things that are otherwise cloaked/invisible, ghosts/phantoms and embodiments of strong feelings of sentient beings, no matter if said ‘sentient being’ was alive or otherwise. And they’re all technicolor to boot. That’s on her good days. On her bad days, well, to quote her, ‘It looks like something H.P. Lovecraft would’ve thought of’. Fortunately enough, she’s learned to ‘filter out’ the things she doesn’t want to ‘see’, but it’s still far from foolproof. Additionally, her Gift reacts with other Gifts, enabling her to see objects with powers – natural, Synth or Artifact – as a colorful something that usually has a connection to the power in question, only adding to the weirdness of the sight, and potentially allowing her to discern a person’s Gift by looking at them hard enough. This works even if the person has yet to realize their Gift, but only as an amorphous form of energy inside the normal white mannequin. This includes herself, by the way; incidentally, mirrors and other reflective surfaces are the only objects that are never warped by her ‘Eye’, and are the best mediums for her to ‘normalize’ her ‘vision’. Her gift is still steadily growing, in at least two ways; it’s very much possible that her ability would extend past her left eye, allowing her to activate and deactivate the ‘Eye’ at will, and it’s also quite possible that she would be able to ‘see’ more things, maybe even peoples’ conscious minds. -Weaknesses and Limits: Quite obviously, Clarisse’s Gift is limited to her vision alone in range, and she apparently still needs visible light to ‘see’ anything. She can’t ‘see’ through walls or mirrors, either. Using her ability also puts strain in the eye(s) she uses, automatically ‘shutting down’ whenever she uses it too much, leaving her with a temporarily blind and a really sore eye. There’s also the problem of interpreting the things she ‘sees’, as many things are not supposed to be understood with sight alone, often requiring some mind-wrenching on her part to understand anything. As stated before, her ability is partially dependent on her mental state; when she is mentally distraught, using her ability causes her to ‘see’ such a nightmarish, eldritch landscape it might even cause the weak-willed to lose their sanity, and is very liable to cause a ‘chain reaction’ eventually culminating in her power going so haywire they activate on both her eyes on a permanent ‘on’ state until – if – she manages to calm down. Also quite obviously, this ability is nearly useless in a fight. -Appearance: Clarisse generally looks like the usual 16-year-old, besides a rather petite figure that barely breaks five feet in height. She has light skin and waist-length black hair kept tidy with a simple hairband. Her eyes are a natural green hue in normal circumstances, but when her power activates (as of now, it’s permanently active on her left eye) they turn an unnaturally deep azure blue. As far as fashion goes, she has a fondness for one-piece dresses, and prefers to not have gaudy decorations like gold and/or jewelry. Some frills and ribbons are fine though. She also usually keeps her problematic left eye covered with an eyepatch. -Personality: Clarisse is normally quite polite and soft-spoken, overall a kind and relatively ladylike ‘nice girl’, though her occasional casual use of slang might be rather off-putting at times. She hates animal-based milk, though, and may respond in an uncharacteristically violent way to a mention of the stuff. She also dislikes people poking fun at her height, and doubly so if they dare to make the connection between ‘short’ and ‘lack of milk’. -History: Clarisse had a quite a pleasant childhood. She was the first child born to a relatively wealthy family, and a relatively harmonious one at that. Fortunately for her, her parents were neither too strict, nor were they too lenient, and she lived a relatively normal life. She had friends, she had decent grades (aside from P.E.), and all in all, she was looking at a brighter future than most. Her gift first made itself known at a certain winter break, when she accidentally closed her right eye during a small sporting event. She almost completely lost it at the bizarre sight she was suddenly subject to, but as her right eye opened the image went away just as fast. When she went home and went to take a bath, however, she was surprised at how her left eye suddenly turn an unnatural azure blue, and accidentally looked through only that left eye for a moment – a moment long enough to ‘see’ her own reflection, the shock and eventual realization of her oddity practically giving her a mental breakdown, and said mental breakdown causing her powers to go completely haywire as she inevitably sees (almost) everything as a Lovecraftian nightmare with seemingly no way to make it stop. She was never as grateful she had such gentle and kind-hearted parents as she was that day. Days passed by, and she eventually managed to cope with her new-found ability. She learned how her mental state influences the world she sees through her new blue eye, she learned how her mind can alter how she sees through her new blue eye, she learned a bit behind the things she could see through her new blue eye, she learned how to calm herself down… And she honestly didn’t need too much effort to keep her Gift hidden, too. Sure, she was bombarded with questions when she came back from winter break with an eyepatch, but human as they are, they eventually got used to it and didn’t bother anymore. She did take a newfound liking to the cyberworld during this time, though, as she didn’t need to bother about anyone asking about said eyepatch over the web. She eventually learned about Derika, and after a bit of talking and a longer period of preparation, decided to take a trip to the mysterious continent, if only to learn more about her power. -Equipment: -A suitcase, containing several changes of clothes, the necessities, a small sleeping bag and bivy sack. -A bag packed with some food, some water, and writing implements as well as blank notebooks. -A standard first aid kit, plus general medicine, sunblock and mosquito repellent -$50 -A flashlight -A waterproof lighter -A smartphone, portable battery and charging implements -A taser (she still has near-to-no idea how to use it)
I gonna start reworking Winter, ie- new name, slight appearance change, and maybe some personality differences. Expect an app soon
Yeeeeeeeessssssss. Finally My chance to freak someone out with Gwen If you get accepted of course. But I'm pretty sure you will ^_^ Also haii Hexite!
I'm probably going to be less active over the next 2-3 weeks due to family staying over. I'll try to post here and there when I can though.
You know, I'm thinking that there's a chance the freak-out can actually go both ways if Gwen decides to switch to Clarisse's power and use it. It took her weeks if not months to be able to control her ability to a manageable level just so she won't see everything like she was on an acid trip. It took her a shorter time to not get freaked out by the stuff that she can see with the power on, probably since getting freaked out starts to turn said acid trip into something that 'H.P. Lovecraft would think of'. I dunno. Double-edged powers like that are fun to play against a power copier/switcher. Also, who was Stu's latest IC post referring to, I wonder?
Actually, Gwen steals Gifts. It requires physical contact and also usually for the subject to be dead/unconscious because her thievery feels like your soul being ripped out of your body. So yeah. Unfortunately, one way scare. Oh yeah and my iPod lock screen is a lovecraftesque horror. G'loglyb is best horrorterror.
Azathoth and Nyarlahotep began their laughing ritual, which killed all life with an IQ of 70 or above, and drove the rest into a coma
At this, G'loyglyb released the Vast Glub, killing all trolls in the universe, excepting those with fuchsia blood.
I have no idea what I'm implying. I'm not very awake Maybe G'loglyb wanted to kill the trolls herself?? Idk
No, no, hold on. Azathoth and Nyarlahotep, both assholes, killed everyone with an IQ of 70 or higher Any one/thing with an IQ below that is in a coma, or insane
