Water cheerily burbled from the prim little fountain, nice and contained, and Katarina sat and listened with a slight smile as she sketched the idea of the means to commit genocide. The fountain was a touch of the wild constrained for human enjoyment, without any fear of getting wet or treks to where a waterfall may naturally occur. And the concept dreamed up by Katarina was still similarly bottled up. No danger of it getting out of the safely contained realm of imagination, at least for now. Somewhere there was probably someone with the power to make dreams, or perhaps nightmares, reality.
~Mmmm... Now lets just brainstorm the general idea without worrying about whether I can make it happen yet, or if it's a good idea.~ Katarina's hand pulled the pencil to the top of her notebook and produced forth a bundle of lightning bolts, drawn in the Assyrian style, three pronged bolts. It was an iconography that had just stuck in her head from long ago. One little high school book report had forced her to look outside of Wikipedia, and she had by chance grabbed a book of Mesopotamian Poetry. She felt it looked a little odd without Adad's hand holding it, but the novelty of something different charmed her. Or perhaps it was simple straightforward pretentiousness and latching onto something old and not frequently was what she desired.
~It will need to be far more advanced than any human virus. Than even our conceived diseases. The Prae have far superior technology and magic to our societies, which in turn exceeds my own. So my disease needs to be BETTER than I can make it.~ Katarina drew a simple figure. Not quite stick figure, but similar, still flat and two dimensional. Katarina took a moment to draw forth a red pencil, and add a flash of both hair and scarf that bled together. That hint of color felt right, that it made that image unequivocally represent her, despite the fact that she was stooped over an anvil with hammer in hand, not in a lab with beakers and vials. She felt a bit of a mythological theme to the drawing, and the anvil, the forge, the blacksmith, these felt associated in her mind to the idea of the creation of making a divine weapon in an ancient myth. Even though her weapon in mind was no sword.
~That means it needs to be able to grow. A disease that learns. Accelerated evolution? Or perhaps.. What if I made a learning disease, that could edit itself? Grow?~ From the anvil and hammer blows flowed smoke, getting bigger and bigger with each successive cloud drifting away until at last it gained eyes. The creation was the kind of spoooooky smog blob that is not all that scary. Angry eyes on a formless cloud just don't really do it. But in its own way, its blobiness reminded her of bacteria. Which was related somewhat to the idea of disease.
~Maybe if I gave the disease my communication ability that doesn't care a bout distance. Make it a.. self-replicating distributed computing network? Hmm... That sounds like a bio-magical grey goo scenario. Might have potential. But that link could be used to strike at the entire disease at once, there needs to be some distribution to prevent it from being targeted like that. Multiple strains competing over food to drive its evolution faster? Hmm, given I'd likely only have one shot at this before I get ganked by some super Prae, unleashing a whole bunch at once might be a good idea anyway.~ The smoke monster separated into many streams of color now, like dragons winding over each other in impossible streams, all nipping and biting at the same target while they jockeyed for position with each other.
~How should it transmit? Teleportation might work, creating wormholes even might be efficient for microscopic organisms. But they'd have to know where to go. Some sort of vis sight ability? I should look into that. Even if I never execute this plan, that might be fun to try and learn, even if I don't really have any more room in my head.~ Now Katarina gave the previously indistinct being that the smoke dragons had been biting at eyes. Large eyes, greater than the rest of the being. With a smirk, she chose heart pupils to represent life, which in turn represented Vis, at least in Katarina's chain of thought. A little touch of humorous whimsy, she assured herself. ~Because, of course, I'd never actually use it.~
As Chen rounded the corner, he found her right side up on the ground, as though her strange sideways ear peek into the room had never happened. "Heya Chen, good to see you're doing ok! Well, I heard that cookies were a good apology food, but not when they have peanut butter or chocolate for dogs. And I heard wine was a good apology food, so I brought both! Surely, one or the other will work, right?" Pink bounced eagerly as she explained herself, excited energy oozing from her. Literally, in the trail of sparkles that followed in her wake. A cookie nearly shook itself free from the overburdened plate laden with them. The bottle of wine was about half empty already, and the cork was lose, explaining the scent. At least, it seemed, Pink's understanding of the culinary arts wasn't so bad that she had mixed the oatmeal raisin cookies with the Reisling wine during the cooking phase. The cookies on the other hand seemed to range a variety from overcooked to undercooked, so, only about a third of them were actually cooked the right amount of time. There weren't any that were completely black or raw, but still, some were still gooey while others a bit hard. Pink seemed to have only achieved one decent batch by trial and error.
As Ruxen herself came close, Pink leaned to the side to see around Chen, a rather unusual lean where she simply angled herself, like a pole falling over, with none of the usual counterbalances or putting a leg out to stand on and such someone who had actual weight would have to do. "Ruxen, I came to apologize for earlier! I brought cookies and wine for you! And Chen and Deva if they'd like!" She held forth the bottle of wine and plate of cookies, leaning out a little further still to give a wink at Deva, her feet not quite touching the ground.
~"Oh? Aha.. Um, don’t mind me, I’m nobody in particular."~
Name: Katarina Gwendolyn Fielding Nicknames: Infrequently, Kat or Gwen Gender: Female Sexuality: Asexual Age: 24 Apparent Age: ^ Race: Human / Self-Tweaked Genetic Code Lineage/Nationality: American with British and Russian heritage… mostly in the cultural sense now.
Appearance:
Personality: ~"Ah? Yes, of course it’s dyed.. Aheh, heh.."~ Katarina is a little bit ashamed of the various frivolous cosmetic tweaks she’s made to herself. Here she is with the ability to probably cure every disease known to mankind, and potentially even death, and here she is giving herself ‘natural’ red hair. Yet nonetheless can’t bring herself to reverse the tweaks. There’s the excuse that it would be just as much a waste of time to do so as when she originally tweaked herself, but it’s still an excuse. The changes she made to herself as a teenager she still likes, even if she feels like it’s a bit of a guilty pleasure.
~"Uh, sorry, it’s not you, it’s me. I’m kinda burned out with relationships."~ Katarina did what every teenager with the ability to run simulations of their favorite porn material would do, and absolutely fucking wrecked herself. She learned the valuable lesson of “if you’re starting to get jaded after ten years of sim-time-fucking, do NOT try just amping up all the sensations”. If not for the inviolability of the mechanical parts of her brain network and her backups, she probably would have turned herself into braindead husk. In the aftermath, she tries to keep her uses of Sim-Time a little more restrained (and not the kinky type, already sim’d that). She finds most physical allure rather pointless. She’s already experienced sensation to the limit of literally destroying her mind, and most things shy of that don’t even phase her, whether pleasurable or painful.
~"I’m not racist, but…."~ Katarina is definitely a racist butt. No if and or but statements about it. Sure, there are some nice Prae and Licentia, Katarina will clarify, but some of them are literally the stuff of nightmares. Katarina finds it VERY hard to believe that some of the Licentia forms look EXACTLY like horribly creatures from human mythology out of sheer coincidence. She also finds the nature of their reproduction downright scary (there’s a reason she’s not in the zoology part of biology). Now that she’s mostly inured herself to disease, injury, and maybe even aging, getting spooked in the night by a Licentia feels to her like a more probable cause of death simply by removing other options. Prae have their own whole host of alien powers and abilities to be scared of. But perhaps more than that, the Prae in many ways appear like idealized humans, and Katarina sometimes fears that her path of optimizing humanity would simply lead to the recreation of a being something like them. There’s more than a small hint of jealousy coloring her view of them.
History: What does one do when one is simply trying to get your damn code to compile, when you suddenly discover you have the primary power of every isekai character ever, of learning shit retardedly fast (alright, for some it’s secondary to their power of being completely unlikable yet amassing massive harems). When you expected to become a hopefully become a doctor and maybe save a few hundred lives, and instead are bestowed with the power to potentially alter the evolution of the human race and make them immune or at least resistant to aging.
Katarina was just taking some dual credit biology classes, aiming to get good grades for entry into a nice college with an aim for pre-med, when she discovered the Omni-Informational Interface by accident, as well as her own magical talents. What was the point in going to college when she could hack into their systems and download the sum of their knowledge in mere days? Katarina very shortly dropped out of high school upon discovering this ability, to focus on exploring its full potential.
Some of these experiments were more self-indulgent than others, such as her own personal cosmetic tweaks, but all in all, Katarina had set herself on the goal of life extension and optimization for humanity. She sought to manipulate the genetic code to cure the root cause of diseases and undesirable traits such as hemophilia, and rocket forward human evolution.
And then Ominar came under the rule of the Prae, and that completely rewrote Katarina’s priority list. She figured she’d have an eternity to fix humanities’ ills and advance their cause, as long as the Prae didn’t take over humanity first. Determined to expose whatever scheme the Prae are up to, Katarina has been seeking whatever intelligence she can gather. She even considered teaming up with the nightmarish Licentia to defeat the Prae, for an individual monster is not as threatening to humanity as a whole as an organized threat. At least in Katarina’s mind. And Katarina’s mind is perhaps not the most wise of a judge, as she is one developing biological weapons to target the Prae “just in case”.
Belongings/Equipment: Cell Phone, purse, some lose cash, Katarina doesn’t travel very heavy.
Capabilities
Mental Katarina is more or less immune to the overwhelming effects of sensation, such as pain, except when it reaches such a point where it would effectively kill her anyway. And even then, her networked computers will still maintain a semblance of self. Katarina was always a fair shot with biology, focused on pre-med studies to become a doctor. She also was decent at writing up her own sims for schoolwork. She has far, far surpassed those studies since the discovery of her magical talent.
Physical Katarina is exceptionally healthy. With the ability to edit her gut bacteria and her immune system on the fly, she hasn’t been sick in years. Combined with tweaking to her genetic code both in its information and what parts are active, she’s not quite sure if she has developed clinical immortality. Katarina’s in great shape for a human. Not particularly superhuman though. She hasn’t made any breakthroughs to give herself obvious superpowers, finding that the human body is pretty great at what it does for the resources it has to work with. Sure, she has found ways to make little improvements here and there, or small optimizations to focus on what she prefers, but she’s not leaping over any tallest buildings in single bounds. While she is technically superhuman, she is not so to such a degree that the average person fed a diet of action hero movies would believe is superhuman. She’s just a little bit past the edge of normal human capability. Katarina is pretty sure she could completely sweep past that edge completely, if she was willing to make sacrifices in some areas instead of being well rounded, or if she was willing to make Vis or Technological components a more direct part of her physiology. Such measures as adopting parts of Liscentia biology into her own, or using advanced synthesized compounds. But she’s worried about the weaknesses that would introduce. And the possibility of horrible death if she slips up, however unlikely. For now, Katarina’s taking a relatively conservative approach.
Magical Omni-Informational Interface (Innate): Katarina’s breakthroughpower is to create informational interfaces where none existed before. Very fast and secure ones that don't care about language barriers or distance or even sentience. This includes interfacing computers into her mental capacity, as well as more relatively mundane mind networking with other sentient beings. Depending on the “bandwidth” of the connection made, this can range from telepathy, to making both beings one amalgamate mind, with all the resources, insight, and sensory input of both. This is how Katarina performs her Mind-Jacking and Sim-Time abilities.
Sim-Time (Learned, Application of OII): Thanks to it not caring about distance, Katarina can mount this power through her nervous system making her own nervous system insanely fast and improving her brain's processing power massively. She could easily react and dodge bullets, if her body was capable of doing so. It is not, though she can frequently dodge the arm raising the gun to fire the bullets. Similarly, using this power on computers has made insanely fast servers that produce far less heat, replacing electricity with vis. While doing so can give Katarina access to their computational power, frequently to run even further past the clock speed of ordinary humans with simulations, it also introduces Katarina's own errors to the computers. Mental attacks can work on machines that are part of Katarina's network. She can also cast on other people to enhance their own speed.
Mind-Jacking (Learned, Application of OII): Katarina has a number of tricks for messing with people’s heads. One of them is to record an image of their brain, tweak a few things, and then re-upload the new image of their brain. Allowing her to effectively “skip” that time from their perspective, say, making a security guard who’s being handed your identification believe he’s handing you back your identification after having verified it. She can also create “augmented” reality for people, while inducing a dreamlike state, to fool them into thinking that ‘it’s all a dream, that purple tiger moonwalking across the ceiling couldn’t possibly be real’. One of her few tricks that occasionally works without opening herself up too much is to create a bypass in the targets thoughts, skipping over their inhibitions and reason centers to get them to perform an act without thinking (though she has to cause the thought in the first place through real stimuli). In order to use this ability she has to create a psychic connection, that can be somewhat small. But generally, the more she is willing to make herself vulnerable by widening the connection, the more she can mess with someone else.
Optimal Physical Interface (Phone): Mostly a cocky name for a physical boost type ability, this is basically a Systemic Method enhanced “I am stronger and faster and tougher” with extreme efficiency. Stresses on the body are redirected to locations where that stress will be working with her motion rather than against. While this may not be the most efficient physical boost, Katarina’s extensive testing and effort is reasonably certain that it’s at least a local maximum in efficiency for this methodology. In order to activate this, Katarina uses Sim-Time on her phone to accelerate it's processing power and has it manage this spell, being too complicated for even Katarina's enhanced nervous system.
Medical Interface (Learned): A less cocky name for the exact same thing as physical interface only with medical treatment. The direct manipulation of the body at a cellular and even lower level for repair or modification. Given that this relates to Biology, which is something Katarina was already learning, she decided to store this information on her own nervous system. What may be overstepping her bounds is that Katarina is currently attempting to use this to develop a disease that specifically targets Prae. Her high concept is currently something that targets the higher concentrations of Vis that is present in the Prae homeworld.
Glazed Eyes (Phone): Katarina has also learned a fairly effective "don't notice me" aura. This is her preferred defensive measure. There’s no shield like not being a target. It's fairly subtle, so it's not going to let her sneak in anywhere she's obviously out of place, but if she's dressed to fit in, it usually makes her easily missable. While she has far more potent mental manipulations through Mind Jacking, those also open up her own defenses and is too invasive for her tastes, so she prefers this more standard spell. This spell is stored on her phone even though it's doesn't really need the phone's enhanced processing power, she just felt a bit stuffed.
The Systemic Method (Hybrid): Otherwise known as Formulaic magic, this magical methodology involves the creation of magical constructs which exploit and interact with physics. While most spells could be cast without it, most that do not use this form of magic tend to expend more energy to do less, whereas Systemic magic greatly expands both the possibilities and the subtle nuances of one's spellwork. It is a magic developed by Licentia and it is one of the few things they have shared with humanity, though that was oh so long ago by human standards. Katarina is alright at it, but compensates with her extreme mental speed and processing power while using Sim-Time. Despite her lack of genius she has a lot more "time" to think through things and cast her spell, and her phone part of her brain is very optimized for the calculations her brain brain isn't quite as good at. Her phone also stores some physics knowledge in the last vestiges of its available space to help out.
Phantom Casting (Still not actually learned): Katarina could pseudo-cast multiple spells at the same time due to her vast mental processing power at parallel tasks. However, just before committing the vis to make them happen, she could renege. This would allow her to say, phantom cast a powerful boost on each bullet she is firing from a gun, or each pellet from a mortar. But then only commit to casting on the ones that are about to hit, as judged by her absurd reaction time. We say “could” because she hasn’t actually conceived of or learned this yet, not as focused on martial applications with her powers yet as Cali would be.
Technological A nicely soupped up phone. Added memory.
Deva's audience chambers were the home of many extremely powerful individuals, certainly one of the grandest being the Imperator herself. It was a common trait of the superhuman to have similarly superhuman senses. But it would not have required them to detect the oncoming scent of cookies. Oatmeal raisin to be specific, fresh out of the oven. To have identified the scent of apples as instead Riesling wine, might require such said supernal senses as well at a depth of knowledge in the varieties of wine.
However, rather than their bearer to appear, the scent seemed to waft from just outside. Their source would be made clear when a set of pink ears slowly creeped into view, at an angle suggesting Sapphire was at a right angle to the floor. "Pssst. Chen. Hey, Chen." Was whispered from just beyond the threshhold, the bearer of the pink ears still not quite showing herself yet, save the telltale ears.
While the Nexus may endure war eternal, there were many beings, small or large, that instead readied themselves for the future battles, rather than the one of that particular day. For, rest was a form of preparation as well.
Sheena was sitting on a bench in front of a fountain, hat beside her as she had a bag of cookies next to her and was reading a book.
"Hmmm?" Pink's ears rose up from behind a perfectly trimmed bush, expertly placed to grant privacy to those who were appreciating the fountain. Or in this case, those spying on those appreciating the fountain. Her ears twitched a little in the wind before rising a little further, exposing her eyes. "Worth thilting about." Tilting her head, Pink openly stared at Sheena, seemingly unashamed of her brazen and obvious spying or her butchering of language.
Sheena's hat suddenly seemed to squirm and moved over to tap her hand, getting her attention before somehow pointing in Pink's location.
"Hello! Are you happy?" Pink asked with an innocent tone, emphasizing the word happy as though it were a little strange to her tongue. She seemed quite perplexed by the possibility.
"Umm...hello...yes, I'm quite happy.." Sheena remarked, caught a little off-guard by the girl's manner of speaking. "You might be?"
Pink perked up noticeably, her chin clearing the hedge as she energetically bounced up as her name was asked "Oh! I'm Sapphire Pink!" Pink weightlessly flipped forward over the hedge, shimmering sparkles adorning her feet like she was skating on an invisible loop-de-loop. She landed on the ground with no sound save for the crackle of more sparkles under her feet skittering out in all directions like a firework burst against the ground. She seemed quite pleased with her maneuver, chin and tail high.
"I was just asking because usually I can smell a lot of sorrow and anger and hatred on most people, but you don't have nearly as much." Pink zipped forward, a single step gliding her across the ground and swooping into the bench next to Sheena.
Sheena rose an eyebrow at this girl's antics but simply shrugged it off, "Nice to meet you, Miss Pink. I'm Sheena, and this is Shade," She gestured to her hat which briefly resumed its specter form to wave before reverting back to a hat.
"Oh cool!" Sapphire momentarily forgot to be polite as she brought her hands up to her cheeks and gushed about Shade. "You've got a friend who can turn into clothes too! That's one of my favorite things!"
"You're...familiar with that?"
"Yup, imagine something you want, and I can turn into it, likety split! Well, if it's not to big, or not too complex. Like, I don't really understand how guns work, so I can't turn into a functional gun, but I can LOOK like a gun. Or if you want a person, I can LOOK like how you imagine that person but I won't like get their memories or their powers or anything. So, well, there's a lot of things I can't turn into, but hey on the bright side there's a lot of things I can turn into!" Pink goes on and on, like an endless tide, ecstatic that someone was interested in her.
"Uhh..." Sheena was sweatdropping at how excitable this person was, "That's...great...hey, you want some cookies while we talk?"
"Oh, sure! I'd love to, is that what makes you happy? Or is it the hat friend? Deva never really seems happy. Maybe it's because no one brings her cookies!" Pink stopped as abruptly as she started on one topic, only to diverge onto another. She held her hands out like a bowl for Sheena to place a cookie in.
Sheena obliged and handed her a cookie. "So, I take it you hang out here in Heaven?"
"Yup! Specifically I hang out a lot near the Resurrectorium because there's a lot of negative emotions to eat. People usually still have lingering pain or anger from the battle. I eat that so that they that maybe they can be happier." Pink nods, and then sells a very positive spin of herself, before finishing with an honest addendum as she bit into her cookie. "And because it is delicious." She gives her tummy a little meaningful rub with her free hand, even as a few crumbs fall across it from her carelessness of talking and eating at the same time.
"But then one day, I decided to try and find the biggest unhappiness, but it wasn't there, it was in the throne room. Both Deva and Ruxen must have been very very sad, and the sadness was bigger than me and I couldn't eat it." Pink set the half eaten cookie in her mouth and spread her arms wide as she could, and looked as close to sad as Sheena had yet seen the perpetually energetic pup. "I did a bad job trying and I think they're even more unhappy with me, so I was trying to come up with a present to apologize with. These cookies are pretty good, so maybe that'll make them happy. Do dogs eat cookies?"
Sheena frowned a little, "I don't think so. Most cookies have some type of chocolate or nuts in them so I'm not sure how they may take it...but I still think it's sweet of you to want to help them."
"Ooooh... That's tricky.. No nuts or chocolate? Dogs can't eat those?" Pink pondered bringing up a finger to her lips in thought. Or to shove what remained of the cookie into her mouth. Then she turned her attention back to Sheena, beaming a little. "Aw thanks! I used to dream I could get so big I could eat all the sadness. But then I started to learn a little bit more about how really big things are! So, I'm going to have to supplement my appetite with other ways to make people happy. Because that's what makes me happy!"
"But what about you?" Pink tilted her head again, leaning in a little. "I just realized I latched onto cookies but you never said they were what made you happy! How silly of me, I'm sorry." Pink bounced a hand off the side of her own head in a self admonishing whack, that was rather energetic for true contrition.
"It's ok. To be honest, what makes me happy is a mix of being able to help people and learning all I can about the places I go to. The more I learn, the easier it is to deal with problems I run into." She decided this was a good chance to make Pink happy too so she went to give her a hug.
"Aah?" Pink was utterly astonished that someone other than her had wanted to hug her instead of the other way round. Amazing! Astonishing! Pink's tail wagged furiously as she returned the hug. "You're pretty great Sheena! You're awesome at making people happy. I got a cookie and a hug."
"Thanks, you're pretty cool too," Sheena giggled, "So, you get a lot of hugs?"
"Mmm... I give a lot, seeing that's how I eat, but I don't tend to get a lot. Maybe it's because I hang around too much with sad people, and sad people don't have enough happy to give hugs.. That must be it!" Pink resolved as though this was some amazing discovery. "I bet that once I make everyone happy, there'll be way more hugs!"
Sheena didn't really have the heart to bring reality into the situation so she smiled and hugged her tighter. "So, what else you do in your free time?"
"Mmm.. Well, I've been trying to learn how to sleep. It seems to make other people happy sometimes, but I can never sit still for long enough to try it." Pink let her chin rest against Sheena's shoulder, rubbing her cheek against Sheena's, luxuriating in the freely given touch. Pink's eyes were closed, as she focused entirely on tactile senses.
Sheena smiled and rubbed her cheek on Pink's in turn.
"So, what are these problems you were talking about? You said you had some? Can you think of anything that would help if you had? I'm trying to learn how to become an enchanter and general stuff maker."
"Eh, just general stuff on my travels. People who are in trouble or sick, or just those who cause problems in general." That was the abridged version as Sheena felt now was not a good time to bring up all the crazier stuff in her travels.
"Oh, hmm.. I don't know how to make medicine yet. That's a whole world of stuff I haven't explored!" Pink seemed happy enough with that. Curing the sick alone was a big thing.
"Well, I'm sure you can help a lot of people when you do."
"It wasn't really on the list for me, seeing most of the people I hang out with are really high ranking and if they ever got sick, if they couldn't cure themselves, they'd know somebody who could, or if that didn't work they could just go and die in battle and be resurrected. I hadn't really thought about people who get sick and then need help. Man, that's a whole nother big problem."
"Anything else you like to do?"
"Oh, hmm... Sometimes I birdwatch." Pink looks up at a passing harpy.
Name: Sapphire Pink Title: Persistant Nuisance Age: 36 Gender: Female Allegiance: Heaven Weight: None. The closest material analogue of what she's made out of is light. Race: Woof, also, bundle of woof shaped negative emotional energy.
History: Sapphire Pink arose spontaneously from the complex tangled emotions of the Nexus. And she hooked up with Heaven because of her natural alignment. She fought in a battle but wasn't strong enough, so she decided to do whatever she could to support from the sidelines. She may never have been anywhere else, but she's sure it's really great here and she wants to do her best to help out.
Powers:
Negative Emotion Eater- Sapphire is fueled by negative emotions. In that she consumes and destroys them to generate the magical energy which composes her being. Getting a hug from Pink will always make you feel better, because she will literally start eating any emotion that is making you feel bad just by touching you. Note, this is emotions that are making YOU feel bad, not some arbitrary universal standard, so if the emotion of say, happiness, causes you physiological pain, Sapphire will eat that right up.
Mirror of Desire- Sapphire can transform herself into whatever inanimate object or appearance someone else desires. So, if someone else wanted her to look like Juno (and that person knew what Juno looked like), Sapphire could use this to look like Juno. Similarly, if someone was like "Ack, I need a sword!" Pink could transform into a sword. However, she doesn't do both appearance and inanimate object at the same time. So, if you want a sword, and use Pink, it's going to be extremely pink. She can still use her magic while in object form, and can communicate telepathically with anyone touching her. Her limit is her apparent mass (she couldn't look like Jormundgar or tranform into a Longship) and for inanimate objects specifically, she has to understand how to transform into them, so she can't turn into a Chevalier suit for example. Sapphire, of course, does not count as someone else to be able to copy her own desires.
Negative Emotion Sensing- Pink can sense the general direction of nearby negative emotions. It seems to somehow be connected to her sense of smell.
Power of Heart- Sapphire primary attack is beams of intangible holy energy that harm demons and phase through anything else.
Lighter than a Feather- Quite literally. Sapphire doesn't have mass and is very very quick, and flies with just as much ease as she walks. She tends to create a cloud of sparkles to zip around on, but this is more or less purely aesthetic.
Glitter Magic- Illusion magic for people who just want to be showy rather than disguise anything. Being showered in illusionary glitter might be distracting, but she can't really disguise anything.
Resistances & Immunities: Things such as acceleration, dizziness, blindness, blood loss, or nerve gas don't tend to have any effect on something that is just a bundle of magical heaven aspected emotional energy that looks like a person. It requires magic damage (such as Machina weapons are equipped with) or demon corrosiveness to damage her (although it will have some difficulty getting through her angelic resistance) Just throwing a boulder at her will smush her but she can quickly reform, as none of the stuff that makes up her being has been harmed. Weaknesses: Does not have the usual superhuman physical capacity (baring speed, cause she cheats) and is in fact, sub average-human in that respect. This is due to the fact that her body has momentum but not mass, and her attempting to impart momentum on things is very very energy inefficient for her. Also, given her only attack harms only demons, and she can't eat most machines negative emotions, she's more or less entirely helpless in a direct fight against Machina, unless they have a highly visible off switch.
Skills: Crafting/Enchanting- In an effort to become more useful to Deva, Sapphire has been learning how to forge and enchant items. As a bit of a shortcut to the laborious process of learning that, her current method is to infuse her own energies and self into the material, and shift it into shape. This cannot be accomplished in battlefield time, but does help her get around her limitations. However, this means that the items she make can only be enchanted with her own powers, Shapeshifting, Negative Emotion Eating/Sensing, and pure holy energy that only damages demons. She still has much to learn about enchanting before she make anything she might be commissioned for, rather than what her natural talents gift her.
Weapons & Equipment: She is weapons and equipment. And can make weapons and equipment. But she does not wield weapons and equipment, as she would have trouble lifting them.
Sample Post: To be posted later. I've been gunning for Pink asking Chen some questions, and he doesn't have his laptop yet.
@GamerXZ If dimension hopping is key to the character, I'd suggest talking to the GMs about the various ways that could be incorporated. So, like, if you were in the Nexus, maybe your character has permission to use it, or maybe your character is trying to earn that permission. The Nexus has a very very very very strong barrier. You can't break in or out without permission.
@GamerXZ The Happyverse is a separate universe from the Nexus. Nexus is eternal war, and once you're inside, you can't leave. Happyverse is eternal peace, and ruled by cats.
So, if you go to the Happyverse, you basically have to make up your own SoL adventures, and don't get to interact with the Nexus. If you go to the Nexus, you're forever in the war that is the main focus of the RP, so you always have things to do.
It matters slightly because eventually the Happyverse and the Nexus will meet, and obviously, there will be some differences of opinion when eternal peace and eternal war meet. I only brought it up because you mentioned you're a dimension hopper, and if you go into the Nexus, you don't get to leave. You're stuck. If the concept of dimension hopping is key to the character rather than merely a reason to get to the Nexus, I figured you might want to know all the options.