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Rin said
...Yeah, I know GS and she's not going to let anything described as "reality warping" get in, and I would agree with her. Sorry.

My character won't be doing any. The Spiral Energy knockoff I'll be writing in will have the potential to warp reality. Y'know, like the source material. This is the reason I wantes to discuss this beforehand.

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Rin said
As long as it's based more on the first half of the series than the second half, it should be fine I guess.

It'll be something like... second half outside of a mecha, Parallel Works 8 inside a mecha. Difficult to describe. Just forewarning before anyone freaks out at the sight of the phrase "reality warping."

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Drafting up my character. Just a forewarning, if my character seems needlessly powerful, they're meant to be a TTGL/Spiral Warrior expy.

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Yyyyep, I'm here. Where do you draw the line on drawing inspiration from pre-existing mecha/pilots/etc. I'd imagine that outright transplants are out, but how are you on expies or functional copies?

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VitaVitaAR said
Magi only use mana. There isn't any such thing as ki in this setting.Mana is present in all living things, but it's not usable. Usable mana and ambient mana are two very different things in terms of this setting.

Doesn't literally have to be ki, I was just trying to get my point across. Attacks using "spirit energy/pressure," or what have you. If such a thing isn't feasible, perhaps these are just pure mana attacks, but in a kinetic, tactile sense rather than, like, energy beams or something.

Think of the affinity as being "Spirit," but in the sense of the user's spirit, not entities known as spirits.

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Hurm. Let's maybe go with "Aura" then? Spirit energy, ki, etc? Distinct from mana as being the energy of living things, rather than magic/reality/whatever it is in this setting.

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Should add onto the list: "Souls, Space, Dimensions," for Affinities that have also been rejected, and I get the feeling that it would also be necessary to preemptively tack on, "Time, Mind, Life, Force, Fate, Matter, Void."

Going back, I still feel that an "Ephemera" Affinity would probably work best for what I'm trying to achieve within the boundaries of the setting. Spells relating to spirits/ghosts without directly correlating to either. It's not necromancy, and it isn't "an entire class of beings," though honestly that parameter is kind of vague.

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VitaVitaAR said
@Dead Cruiser: Well, I wasn't sure if to bring this up since it's not entirely fleshed out, but necromantic spells in my setting are "colorless". They don't involve an affinity and, well... they're not like you seem to think. They can summon and communicate with ghosts and spirits, but not control them, and reanimate dead flesh.

If necromancy isn't totally fleshed out yet, why is it seemingly impossible to make a character that can do ghosty stuff? I don't feel like I'm asking for terribly much, here.

It feels kind of strange that if I were to make my character primarily a necromancer, that he could have a totally unrelated Affinity. Are there any Affinities that I could use to actually relate to my character's theme? While we're at it, can we make a list of off-limits Affinities? I seem to be stumbling upon them one after another.

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VitaVitaAR said
@Dead Cruiser: I think you misunderstood, I wasn't suggesting an affinity for youkai as an idea, I was using it to say "Spirit" as an affinity is a bad idea. It would basically be an affinity dealing with an entire class of widely differing beings and I really have no idea how it would function when applied in the same way other affinities are. And there is actually onmyodo in this but I didn't think it was immediately relevant to the RP.And, well... there's really no "over-dimension" for spirits? ^^; There a different plane of existence but that won't conceivably be appearing in this RP. Ki in an of itself I never really considered to exist in this setting, I guess astral projection might be a thing, I'm not actually sure what the "aura" would be other than a mana signature that's possible to pick up on if you know what to do for this though.

Perhaps we can call it an "Ephemeral" Affinity, then. Purely dealing with normally incorporeal entities, such as specific spirits and ghosts, and their related phenomena.

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VitaVitaAR said
@Dead Cruiser: My issue is more how such an affinity would function in terms of the setting. As I'm seeing it now, it kind of seems like having an affinity for "youkai" or something.

Something like that seems a little too specific, and also not really what I'm trying to do. He's really not very Eastern-themed in terms of his powers; I honestly threw in the onmyoudou thing because I thought it would be a neat supplement.

I was thinking of it in kind of World of Darkness terms; just animistic, vaguely sentient spirits relating to concepts and fundamental ideas that exist in a naturalistic over-dimension from which they can be summoned. But moreso than that, I suppose I could work his powers to deal more with his own spirit. As I said, ki attacks, astral projection, aura dampening, that sort of thing.