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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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Questions
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And any thoughts on the other stuff? How do you think the Profiling might come up for them? I'm good to spitball!
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Any thoughts?
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I would like to talk some OOC to work out what your objectives would be on that, like what truths could get gleaned from it, before we thread.
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All My Guys (Neal, Edwin, Willa, David)
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Jedao: there's no illusions, he looks like he looks! However, feel free to have Saga get occasional corner-of-the-eye flickers of any of the following:
- his shadow being shaped like a nine-tailed fox with nine yellow eyes
- a crown/halo of nine yellow eyes over his head
- shadows of a giant moth's wings
- for a moment his shape full of vantablack/void/light from the other side of gatespace. if doors are in neither room and both, Jedao is something from 'outside' the house entirely
a moth got in- the fact that he's a double: grown from a ghost, grown from a seed of broken glass. confusing because the double is ALSO Jedao (but Shuos Jedao)
- the double might have bloody hands, or ALSO be made of eyes and darkness, or be a nine-tailed fox made entirely of fire
Kahl:
- she can definitely tell that he's a god, although he's very much a god from Within One World, who arises from it rather than the world arising from him (in his canon's terms, a 'godling' - which is fully divine but a descendant of the Big Three, not a demigod/part human
- he also looks how he looks! the boy form is a true form. the tiger form is also a true form. the cat form is an illusion that the tiger is small and cute
- he doesn't have them visibly, but it could be cool if Saga could See, like, a thin ring of tiny mandelbrot-rorschach-distortion chaos scars outlining his face where he put the maelstrom-linked God Mask on that would have churned him through primordial chaos and transformed him into something else completely if he hadn't been killed before the process was complete
Everything else I don't have any particular thoughts on but we can roll with it as it comes up!
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Also (after doing some rewatching/replaying) I realize she's got a deeper connection with the tides of reality so could play with that maybe!
And I'm down for the stuff with Kahl. I've been lore diving and I think I have a better idea of some stuff!
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OK so now that I've thought a little more on this, some Meta thanks to how the narrative of the show/book works!
Now the twins are arguably at hella OP levels of skill and power until the show decides they aren't. They both are stuck at the age they were during the height of their power/the tail end of an apocalypse world in the middle of rebuilding from what is a nuclear winter fallout from giant meteor cracking open the world. They are affected by the "scientifically" built Hallows ( because the show slants everything to sci-fi even though these are technically symbols of deities in the original text ). What that means is she will probably notice the Hallows effect on him, namely the "Prisoner" aspect where they had stripped him of a physical form and encased him in stone. He freed himself through force - consuming energy
souls of people in essenceand rebuilding his body using pieces of his prison and said energy. So he will look stuck in time and also like he's somehow crystallized to mimic a human body and maybe at certain times there's other shadows besides his behind him.no subject
On top of him also being an oracle:
- He's a devil, and therefore an Outsider
- I think it'd be cool if she could see his passive paladin abilities, ie the
tenthirty foot radius of Aura of Protection and Aura of Courage (which will make how he places himself in any tense situation Very Clear)- Isn't generally lying himself, but is very much bound eternally to the Father of Lies so that could be interesting
- He's an avatar of peace serving a god of war and I've got to believe that's causing existential stress on a spiritual level, which possibly looks...concerning?
Meanwhile, Madelyne:
- A reflection of Jean Grey and an echo of the Phoenix Force, which is also supposed to exist in all realities
- Is as much a cosmic flaming raptor as she is a woman
- Ruler of a pocket universe that may or may not be part of the Nexus Of All Realities, but definitely can have parallel timelines meeting within itself
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- Profiling? YES. This is awesome.
- True Sight/Truth Seeing: Yes, I'd love to rock her world with coexisting incarnations.
- Empowered Art: Yes, I love Sweeney being able to be shaped by other characters.
- Multiverse Shenanigans: Yes. Incarnations are default options, but I'm open to talking about other stuff, too.
- Narrative Breaking: Maybe. I'd like to learn more.
- Heroic Timing Assistance: Yes!
- Crazy Heroic Battle: Yes!
ps. Has canon baggage about Norse gods.no subject
And yes, we should talk about narrative breaking.
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Lahabrea:
-is old as fuck; canon never states numbers but his people were functional immortal and seem to operate on a timescale where casually living for multiple centuries is perfectly normal
-is a ridiculously powerful mage even under Barge caps (this is not a secret, but he has not shown off the full depths of it)
-has a whole lot of trauma related to stuff in canon that he has not talked about
-also tore his soul in half at one point, and while he's reintegrated that half of his soul again there might still be signs of it depending on how her sight works
Xigbar:
-is also old as fuck
-is very definitely not in his original body anymore
-is real damned cagey when it comes to personal information half the time if she wants to go poking for secrets/the honest truth
-is tied up in some weird prophecy/telling the future bullshit
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One of Moira's passive abilities is a fae-like glamour: magic that makes other people perceive her as fully human. She doesn't control it; it's just something her body/brain/magical aura/whatever does on automatic. Without it Moira still looks mostly human, but she has big, dark eyes more like a seal than a human, and claws instead of finger- and toenails--it's enough to be uncanny and mark her as something Other.
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This is mostly me filling out the form because I have no idea which aspect of Nana's backstory Saga's powers would best tie into, but because of Saga's everything, I think it would be a fun point for her to eventually find out/pick up on. Nana wants to desperately control her own narrative. She wants to control it so much that she takes all her friends and traps them in a time loop, repeating a year of school dozens of times. (She gets the time loop by winning Theater Kid Fight Club which runs on symbolism and metaphor and commentary on the nature of the stage, which would also be fun to interact with in it's own way). At this point in canon, she is perfectly fine continuing the time loop for the rest of eternity, but a few new players have been introduced, which leads her to desperately cling to and try to regain control of the narrative.
so yeah! Shove that wherever you see fit!
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What was supposed to happen is that they would've died and become a vampire, and it would've seeded in them and taken them over, assimilating Ashton Carver into itself. She would've been its new avatar to work through, and it would've worn her body like a glove or a mask after consuming her soul. This didn't happen! It has continued not to happen! But it is still very much something that could happen if Ash doesn't work to prevent it. She's desperate to kill the Eldest and make her body truly, and only, her own. (It's a pipe dream anyway. If she wants to remove its vectors, make it so it can't escape... she's a vector too. Killing it will kill her.)
Basically: he's not an active aspect of it, but he was supposed to be, and in the right (wrong) circumstances it could still win. Until then his body is still devouring itself from the inside.
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I am interested in:
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I am always open to people being able to do THE COOL SHIT their character is capable of, just involve me in the conversation of what you'd like to do with it any time and we'll make some fun plans. Saga deserves to be the bad ass she is!
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Her sort of multiverse shenaniganry is always associated with mirrors and breaking glass.
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