[OOC] The Academy: A School for Metahumans [Closed]

[Typical]

Sorry all, probably won't be able to post until I get home tonight :/
Feeel free to move on without me somehow

[Themerlinhawk]

@Dusksong no worries. I have work this evening so we should be on the same page

[Natsu]

Well, you've gone and made Zach interested now. Don't break him.

[Themerlinhawk]

Go ahead and respond but I'm going to wait on Dusk after this post just so that we can finish up this scene and progress to the next day. Which no doubt will be quite fun. I should be able to post again in like..meh 7ish hours unless Dusk gets back in the next three XD

@Dusksong@Thundercrash

[KiritoAsuna]

@Themerlinhawk I posted a reply but I need everyone's ability to respond lol. I am feeling some weird reactions coming from this one lol

[Thundercrash]

@KiritoAsuna And what, exactly, is "this one"?

[Themerlinhawk]

@KiritoAsuna So I hate putting on my GM pants cause i feel it distances me BUT, you need to discuss the implications of any abilities that aren't at least hinted at in you cs. Please pm with the general parameters otherwise I may have to ask you to edit your post. Sorry :/ but i do need a GENERAL idea about new things for the character. which is what the Restricted and Redacted abilities are for. stuff that you want to play with or make use of. Even discussing it in the OOC in passing is acceptable before introducing the ability however I cant have people springing totally new stuff on me ^^' gotta check it before I let people go forward.

Edit: also it may change whether the academy limits the character or not so for instance in Alister's case if he has the blanket ability to sometimes read EVERYONE. They would have ALWAYS limited him

[KiritoAsuna]

@Themerlinhawk oh shit my bad Merlin I totally forgot to run a bypass for my secrets. I am so sorry about that I will run you a pm ina minute

[Themerlinhawk]

@KiritoAsunaNp i figured it was just something like that lol

[KiritoAsuna]

@ThemerlinhawkI just shot you a pm. I was just too excited to wait to post it 0-o

[Stern Algorithm]

@Stern Algorithmhmmm. I will have to consider. It may have the opposite effect. Since spirits can't be read in the way you are suggesting she can't be. And they can't be physically harmed

@Themerlinhawk

No need to worry about it for now since it's way off into the potential future. Ultimately, Vedika's power was intended to be metaphysical, it has merely only manifested in a physical way for now. It is the 'terror' half of 'love and terror', where 'love' manifests physically as 'attractive force' and 'terror' manifests physically as 'repulsive force', which in physics is called Pauli's Exclusion Principle, simply stated, no two objects can occupy the same position at the same time. Entities cannot 'superimpose'. Individuals maintain sense of self and identity by defining and rejecting the non-self, the 'other'. In this sense, Vedika's concept of self cannot be violated, and it is this isolation and her comfort with this isolation that makes her so weird and sure of herself, that makes her lack a certain degree of empathy because empathy is love, empathy is putting yourself in someone else's head, to emotionally occupy a space that is already occupied.

Her attack takes advantage of the reaction a 'self' has when its sacred space is invaded by an 'other'. By attempting to superimpose her own aura on someone else through a punch, the victim's aura reacts with 'terror', that is, a body would rather destroy itself than occupy the same space as an 'other'. Occupying the same space as another object is terrifying because it embodies absolute 'love'. If love is an attractive force, like gravity, then absolute love is a black hole, where all matter occupies a singularity and becomes indistinguishable as individuals: loss of self, loss of identity, the fear of personal space invaded. It is this 'terror' that physically manifests as damage and destruction when Vedika punches.

Ironically, while Vedika's power embodies the physical manifestation of absolute 'terror', Ashleigh's power embodies the emotional manifestation of absolute 'love'. @Caits

[Hitman5455]

I'll post again once @Stern Algorithm replies

[Themerlinhawk]

@Stern Algorithm you know what's funny I was going to use the idea of a neutrino to explain spirits in a similar fashion. Beings with no mass, no energy but with a manifest effect on reality. Nice to know someone else has a solid grasp on physics although your ideas areally straying dangerously close to philosophy which tends to my area of general expertise. Besides psychology....God I sound arrogant XD

[Thundercrash]

God I sound arrogant XD

@Themerlinhawk

We're writers. It comes with the territory, cuz we're all jerks to some degree :)

[KiritoAsuna]

@Themerlinhawk no. No no no. Ghosts do have energy. Ita scientific fact energy cannot be created or destroyed therefore a spirit has energu

[Themerlinhawk]

@KiritoAsunanot neccisarily. They might be able to produce energy in the physical realm but that doesn't mean they are consistent of energy

Edit: also baring in mind I'm allowed to dictate the physics of this world or the metaphysics. Whatever we may be dealing in XD the spirt world exists tangential to the mortal one. I haven't detailed what ghosts are made up of. Or where they go. And I've done that on purpose

[Natsu]

@Themerlinhawk no. No no no. Ghosts do have energy. Ita scientific fact energy cannot be created or destroyed therefore a spirit has energu

@KiritoAsuna

Dude.
If you're allowing for ghosts, modern physics goes out the window.

[KiritoAsuna]

OK I understand now

[Themerlinhawk]

My point exactly lol.

[Thundercrash]

@Stern Algorithm something in your explanation has occurred to me.

Vedika's abilities are based on her inviolate sense of "self", separating her "self" from "other"s. But, in order for her to then pass on her power to protect someone else, she would then by necessity have to include them as being part of her "self", otherwise her power would repel them.

So then her sense of "self" isn't totally inviolate.