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

[KiritoAsuna]

The things that go on in the free role plays confuse me

[MarshiestMallow]

@KiritoAsunaIndeed

that post ended uop being longer then I expect

[KiritoAsuna]

Lol I noticed XD j like it though

[MarshiestMallow]

oh good.
i tried to do it in a way that would stay to Ashleighs character

and Ithink the only thing that wasn't was the bracelet

cooking now, Ill write a post shortly.

[KiritoAsuna]

@Caits it's OK. I'm probably going to be going to bed shortly so don't worry about it ^_^ but I will make sure to write back to you at my earliest convenience.

[Themerlinhawk]

@KiritoAsuna well for the empaths it's more of anew exposure to unique environments thing or even working on using their abilities to help the government of the Academy was to offer them a job but that's up to you. In order to graduate the Academy the students have to be able to prove they can function flawlessly in society

Hopefully we hear back from some of the other peeps.

[Thundercrash]

@Stern Algorithm Point of contention: the body's ability to feel its own movement and physical location is known as proprioception or kinesthetic sense, and is actually considered to be separate from the touch sense (though they are connected, just subtly). I'm not clear on how Vedika has managed to lose hers.

[Themerlinhawk]

She could have lost both. But I see what you're saying. @Thundercrash

[Thundercrash]

@Themerlinhawk Losing both doesn't make sense though.

If Vedika's powers are essentially the metaphysical concepts of "self vs other" given physical consequences, then the touch sense would be the body's ability to physically perceive the "other", whereas proprioception is the ability to physically perceive the "self".

My understanding of what is going on is that Vedika's subconscious perceived an invasion by the "other" and attempted to fight it off, but because she has apparently never been "invaded" in this way before, it couldn't understand what was going on and overcompensated by turning off her sense of touch (along with a couple other senses like pain and probably temperature, if Stern's post is any indication). Kind of like when your body tries to fight off a virus that it has never been exposed to before by increasing your internal temperature to literally burn out the invader.

If proprioception is the physical ability to perceive the "self", then by turning it off Vedika's subconscious is literally rejecting her own "self".

@Stern Algorithm

[KiritoAsuna]

Sorry to not have replied yet

[KiritoAsuna]

Busy work day

[Themerlinhawk]

@ThundercrashOOoooh Okay I do see your point. Sorry I've been on a tear today. Idiots have been causing me problems since early this morning so this is the first time ive had to sit down and think about this RP today ^^

[Stern Algorithm]

@Stern Algorithm Point of contention: the body's ability to feel its own movement and physical location is known as proprioception or kinesthetic sense, and is actually considered to be separate from the touch sense (though they are connected, just subtly). I'm not clear on how Vedika has managed to lose hers.

@Thundercrash

I did not know that. I was basing it off of something that had happened to me once where my leg went numb and I fell. Let's say that she knows where her limbs are, but not being able to feel through them was disorienting enough for her to lose track of them for a moment. I didn't want to just make it so Vedika couldn't feel pain anymore because that's what's known as 'cursed with awesome' where a character's 'affliction' 'just so happens' to make them stronger, a perfect way to make an edgy but overpowered self-righteous Gary Stu. Let's say that metaphysically, her 'self' has retreated too deep into her mind, abandoning her extremities to a certain extent out of fear.

[Hitman5455]

So what's about to happen with the ghosties are they gonna spook us and possibly attack?
@themerlinhawk

[Thundercrash]

@Stern Algorithm Personally, I don't consider losing the sense of pain to be an example of "cursed with awesome". it's true that not feeling pain does allow one to fight longer in certain circumstances (because the body can be surprisingly difficult to kill), but the risks and costs outweigh the benefits. Pain tells you both the presence and severity of damage; without it, you could cause potentially serious or lethal damage to yourself and not be aware of it until it is probably too late.

I don't think you need to change much in your post, because it is true that the touch sense plays a significant role in allowing us to move. It's partially how we judge resistance to our muscles, telling us how much effort to actually use. This is more just constructive criticism on conveying what your idea is.

I used to have a character who had the power to completely control peoples senses, so I've thought about similar situations. I like to think of it like this: losing your sense of touch is like going to the dentist and being given Novacain. You have no sensation, so while you can still tell when you're touching something based on the physical impact and how difficult it is to move through it, you couldn't tell the difference between what one object feels like compared to another. Totally losing your proprioception would feel like you were having an out-of-body experience.

[Themerlinhawk]

@Hitman5455Id imagine that is about the extent of it. Although the academy is gonna jump in, in just a minute
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[KiritoAsuna]

I'm dying over here lol

[Themerlinhawk]

I wanted to give people time to response but given that it's been kinda quiet in gonna post today

[Thundercrash]

I have something in progress, just had a few other things I needed to do today.

[Themerlinhawk]

@ThundercrashNo worries!