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viking_seer) wrote2024-07-03 11:07 pm
viking_seer) wrote2024-07-03 11:07 pm
Powers Permissions / Interest
Saga Anderson comes off as a totally normal FBI agent.
She absolutely is not. Not even a little. Which is a surprise even to her.
Specifically, she's got three weird things going for her, all of which she's only become cognizant of recently due to her eye opening experiences at Cauldron Lake. As such, she is 100% a newbie to utilizing any of them beyond her profiling 'technique' and her general ability to read vibes/follow hunches. Despite the fact that the Remedyverse loves to roll on vibes alone, and that some of these overlap and interact weird, I'm going to try and explain and parse them and categorize them into active and passive parts for this post, which is subject to change when new canon comes out or Sam Lake explains himself. Then you get to tell me if you'd like to play with those things in our threads!
Please note: This is to give me a general guide and interest check; any and all use of these abilities will be checked with you, the player, before it shows up in thread. Example:
So moving right along, the three weird things are (click to expand) from most explained to least explained:
Please reply to this post and fill out this form for your characters if you're interested in engaging in the weirder parts of her powers. If you don't fill out this form, I will take it to mean you'd prefer those things don't really come up in threads with you; she's used to living her life relatively normally, after all, so this is perfectly doable.
Also feel free to tag in with 'I don't understand how X works, can you explain before I answer?' I'm going to put a spot for questions in here for that since I fully understand that with 1. all the vibes and 2. Sam Lake gaining sustenance from my screams as I connect things on a board with red string, not all of it is immediately clear.
She absolutely is not. Not even a little. Which is a surprise even to her.
Specifically, she's got three weird things going for her, all of which she's only become cognizant of recently due to her eye opening experiences at Cauldron Lake. As such, she is 100% a newbie to utilizing any of them beyond her profiling 'technique' and her general ability to read vibes/follow hunches. Despite the fact that the Remedyverse loves to roll on vibes alone, and that some of these overlap and interact weird, I'm going to try and explain and parse them and categorize them into active and passive parts for this post, which is subject to change when new canon comes out or Sam Lake explains himself. Then you get to tell me if you'd like to play with those things in our threads!
Please note: This is to give me a general guide and interest check; any and all use of these abilities will be checked with you, the player, before it shows up in thread. Example:
Hey, it's clear that he's keeping a secret here and fudging the truth. You good with her having an inkling that there's more to it? She isn't going to push but she might follow up later.Also, like, because she's still getting a hang of things, anything can be a little faulty or not work as needed or misfire! Cool? Cool. I kept it as spoiler free as I could!
So moving right along, the three weird things are (click to expand) from most explained to least explained:
[ Anderson heritage / Seer]aka ("my grandpa is an elder god") This comes in two parts: first part is that her grandfather Tor claims the title of the Norse God (Thor) and her great uncle that of Odin. Her mother's name, similarly, was Freya. Tor, so we've seen, has been able to call down lighting and wield his hammer in battle. Odin has lost his eye four times and before the Dark Presence took them, used to have ravens at his command. Plus Ahti, confirmed supernatural power, calls them his 'Swedish brothers'. (Her name, funny enough, just translates to 'Seer'.) What I'm saying is: it's more than just two old crackpots drinking moonshine and rocking out at Cauldron Lake. So she's got legitimate claim to 'god' or 'demigod' status, especially considering that she's gone through her own personal trial (including 'descending into the underworld' and 'accepting her shadow self' as the trope goes) and emerged. The other part is the Anderson family power, which seems to be entirely independent of Cauldron Lake, which is that of true sight: it allows her to see the world as it truly is (through illusions, shifts in reality, truth vs lies, etc.) and know of things in the past/present/future she'd have no way of knowing. Both Tor and Odin have this ability and it's assumed that Freya had it as well. Saga showed her gifts early as a child, but Freya taught her to ignore them and not speak of them and they faded back into 'hunches' and her mental profiling technique (where she questions people inside her own head, 'pretending' to interrogate them for information). A whole rundown of that last one can be found here. We've also seen her utilize her family's music to enact effects, up to and including using it to summon someone out of another dimension and to strengthen her own power, as well as make stories Work that otherwise would not (the Nursery Rhyme dolls, Alan's manuscript, Bullet of Light). So the TLDEER:
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[ Door heritage / Family of Doors ]("my dad is a multidimensional being") And here's where it gets weird. Her universe is an acknowledged multiverse: "many worlds, side by side, on top of each other, some inside of others." So there are multiple versions of the same person across timelines... and different sorts of powers and weirdness function differently across all those different versions of reality. This includes our reality: See here. The Remedyverse is meta as hell. And people have different versions of themselves in these different worlds. Except for Mr. Door. Mr. Door exists as himself in all versions of reality and technically, in none of them. The way it's put is that a door exists in both rooms at the same time while technically being in neither of them. Hence... his name. He can function inside of a world and allow the abilities there to affect him... or he can ignore it. He's not bound by the restrictions others are. The family of Doors have the power to shift between these realities. Here, and elsewhere. ...and we're like 99% sure Saga is his daughter. Between various bits of canon, Door's actions and comments, and Saga's own abilities in that area, it's pretty clear. So TLDEER:
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[ Hero of the Story ]("I am a Here's the weirdest one: she's the Hero of the Story. We see that in the Nursey Rhyme puppets, in Alan's narrative, etc. etc. It gives her powers that definitely bend reality (bullets that have homing on them, firepower beyond what the weapon she's using should be able to do, etc. etc.) and a certain Knack for showing up just in time etc, etc. Hero things. This is the most vibesy of vibes powers and it's the one that will mostly come into play for combat.
This will not so much be something you can opt in or out of so much as 'it felt wrong not to mention it and it should be expected'. I fully understand she is not the Hero of the Game (I'm not gonna go all Main Character Syndrome) but it is a part of her kit as much as anything. |
Please reply to this post and fill out this form for your characters if you're interested in engaging in the weirder parts of her powers. If you don't fill out this form, I will take it to mean you'd prefer those things don't really come up in threads with you; she's used to living her life relatively normally, after all, so this is perfectly doable.
I am interested in:
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