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Emerald Sustrai ([personal profile] unhappy) wrote2018-02-06 06:33 pm
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[community profile] empatheias permissions post

Emerald has a special ability called a semblance, except hers is one of the rare semblances that allows her to affect others rather than herself or the world around her. For this reason, permissions/opt out post!

What is a semblance and what is Emerald's?
In RWBY, semblances are special abilities that are unique to the individual, with a few exceptions (such as the Schnee family's genetic semblances). Emerald's semblance is of a rare variety in that it involves control over others’ perceptions and is one of the only known semblances to cause physical pain to the user. Her ability allows her to manipulate a person’s mind into seeing or hearing whatever she wants them to, with severe restrictions that make it difficult to use. A significant amount of concentration is required to make consistent and precise illusions, meaning that if she doesn’t catch something happening in the physical world like accidentally kicking up dust on a dirt road, she can’t compensate for it and it may make it possible for an observant victim to realize whatever they’re looking at isn’t real. Additionally, while she is capable of using it on more than one person at a time, two minds can give her an excruciating headache. More than that may cause unconsciousness, so unless she has no other choice she will not do more than two people at a time.

What does she mostly do with it?
Because of Emerald's semblance, she's an incredibly skilled thief. Emerald was, in the words of Roman Torchwick, a "street rat" for most of her life before Cinder took her in. She managed to survive by stealing from others, whether it was money or other items of value. Of course, that doesn't always mean she gets by without being caught, especially if there are multiple potential witnesses around. The most common thing she does with her semblance outside of battle is lift wallets.

In battle, she can create a number of illusions ranging from altering visibility to creating duplicate images of allies, enemies, weapons, and even dialogued scenarios if the recipient isn't aware of how to spot her illusions.

I'm in!
Cool, please reply to this post with the names of any characters you're down for something with and anything I should know about your character that this might interact with (like if they can detect if someone is messing with their mind because of special abilities or just about anything you can think of that would be relevant.

Hell no!
If you're not, you don't need to reply, but if for whatever reason you want to opt out of interaction with me completely, I won't ask questions or get upset about it, just let me know. But if you just don't want her to use them on your character, that's fine too and you don't have to reply, I won't have her use them or will work to avoid any situations that she would feel ICly compelled to use them with you to make sure that we don't have any issues. No hard feelings either way! (I know mind stuff isn't everyone's jam!)
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[personal profile] hamnation 2018-02-07 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm in! With both Gundam Tanaka and Steven Universe ([personal profile] jamminshield). Steven does have some mental abilities, but they shouldn't interfere with her powers.
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[personal profile] continuer 2018-02-13 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
ALL GOOD! Semblance him up anytime!
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[personal profile] yielded 2018-02-17 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Have at it!
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[personal profile] schmisse 2018-02-17 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
Go ahead!
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[personal profile] viasun 2018-02-17 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm in!
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[personal profile] nailed_it 2018-02-17 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Now Yang can continue to fail her perception checks in Empatheias. 8D

Oh, but just give me a heads up if Emerald is like, gonna summon an illusion of Adam or something that would definitely probably trigger a more extreme reaction (like a teammate being hurt/killed or idk if Emerald could make her think her arm is missing again but lol, things like that).

I'm totally not opposed to threading them out! I just wanna make sure I cover my bases since things like that could potentially prompt her PTSD to flare really bad and I don't want to make sure I warn people. XD;;;
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[personal profile] deadcenter 2018-02-24 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
IM IN
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[personal profile] vasilias 2018-04-15 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
YES.
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[personal profile] phantom6th 2018-06-28 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Count me in.

I play a few people so for possible future interactions, this goes for Kuroko ([personal profile] phantom6th), Tatsumi ([personal profile] rightfulassassin), Noctis ([personal profile] brotrips), and Leon ([personal profile] copforaday)
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[personal profile] hot_handed 2018-11-29 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Go for it!
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[personal profile] 21towin 2018-12-22 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably not in for Billy here. Going off of the description given, he was already an observant person in life (had to be as an outlaw and hired gun in the American West), while as a servant his feats have been raised to super human levels, and has given him a few extra skills to go along with those enhancements.

However! I am totes fine if you want to use it as a plot or moment of cr.
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[personal profile] inheirence 2018-12-27 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
When I was looking for your IC inbox I realized I never replied here..... I'm cool with whatever!
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[personal profile] priceofmagic 2019-01-18 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm in! It would be possible to mess with Satou's head. The only thing to keep in mind is that Satou's "empathy" lets her sense emotions. She'll notice when people aren't real and would usually notice if someone tries to sneak up on her.
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[personal profile] sobored 2019-02-19 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely cool with this being used on Junko!
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[personal profile] skews 2019-02-21 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
i'm sorry i apparently forgot to respond to this with ruby before gaksdlfg I'M IN for both ruby and akechi!
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[personal profile] earphoned 2019-03-21 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
refund time...do your worst with emerald to minato whenever you need to/feel like it!
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[personal profile] overcloaked 2019-04-09 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Go right ahead!