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Aᴜɢᴜsᴛɪɴᴇ ᴛʜᴇ Fɪʀsᴛ, Sᴀɪɴᴛ ᴏғ Pᴀᴛɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ([personal profile] butnotyet) wrote2022-03-16 02:04 pm
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⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Yes. (Caveat: Only if he's expecting it IC; quick reaction times and moderate paranoia mean he's not likely to be unaware of someone getting close enough to touch him; he will react with avoidance/violence to physical touching from unnoticed parties, such as those somehow sneaking up on him despite a high level of situational awareness; if you're in the middle of a conversation with him and haven't been drawing weapons you'll probably be fine to go for whatever though!)

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yes, but please give me an OOC warning first — I'd like to have a sense of character power levels relative to each other. (Caveat: Feel free to slap him, whenever you need; comparable levels of violence for shock-instead-of-injury are also fine! The sort of violence that results in him being affronted instead of drawing a sword, in other words. For sword-drawing violence, again, just check in with me please!)

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: "10,000 slutty, slutty years" So he's a bit of a Casanova, shall we say... Flirt with him and he'll flirt back; actual feelings are a much, much more nonexistent complicated area.

SEXUAL CONTENT: No objections, although I'm more likely to keep it to an R rating or less, or fade to black as necessary (or just, you know, metaphorically Look At This Cute Butterfly of a Distraction! while they're doing their thing).

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Very good at cold-reading people; has a lot of Prior Samples for statistical predictions of what someone is thinking/about to do; has no actual psychic abilities, no matter how it might appear. However, please note that his thoughts also will not project, even if he were trying — canon repeatedly compares Lyctors to black holes, in that there is no way to read anything about them from any point further away than "direct physical contact", even by other Lyctors.

tl;dr:
  • if you're trying to read his mind, you'll need to maintain physical contact;
  • you can send thoughts at him if you trust your aim, and he'll be able to receive them, as he's never learned not to;
  • good at Fake Mind Reading, cannot Actually Read Minds.


MAGIC/POWERS: Locked Tomb-style necromancy.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Heals from virtually any injury short of decapitation almost immediately, as a result of becoming a Lyctor. Occasional exceptions have and may occur. No longer ages; is not, however, getting any younger.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Incredibly difficult to offend or trigger him, because he just doesn't care about almost anything. On the other hand, that lack-of-caring makes him prone to needling at people to see what makes them tick; the cold-reading-others ability makes him probably better than me at figuring out exactly how to be offensive. In a calmly-living-his-daily-life way, it will likely all be in line with his basic warnings (of gore, body horror, eldritch soul-devouring monsters, sex-as-weapon-and-also-he's-Old, calmly murdering people and planets, and a general disregard for bodily autonomy).

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: Keep it going till it's done; if you're going back to something that's been paused a while, maybe ping me so I don't miss it!

FOURTH WALLING: I would rather not be the first from the Locked Tomb to get hit, but I'm open to the possibility! If you've got an idea for something, let's talk!

THREADHOPPING: Go for it!

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Anything with insects, especially with photographs — please don't make me look at bugs. :( I'm okay with bug descriptions, just not... actually looking at them. (Except for moths of all sorts, which I'm actually fine with.)

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: No in-the-moment harm to cats or dogs; no "oh, huh, we seem to have happened upon the graphically tortured corpse of a cat/dog". Downgrade to warnings-make-it-bearable for non-graphic/non-tortured dead animals, because sometimes animals die, I just don't want them to be hurt.

ANYTHING ELSE: I do not have a Plurk; I do have pretty severe ADHD. Please PM me or hit me up on Discord if you have any questions, if you have any concerns, if I sent you a tag that makes no sense to you at all, or if you've been waiting more than a few days for a reply — I have lost my own head a few times, even though it's screwed on, so I may well have lost track of the thread. Gentle reminders are never out of place!

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