Lost Carnival - IC Info

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Reira Akaba CARNIVAL JOB: Courier Animal Keeper/Thief
JOINED: Summerlands (Post-Portland)
TRAILER: #34 (Shared w. Eruka)
POINTS: 26

⇨ CHANGES
✧COMMON CHANGE: Violet Feathers along arms, Slightly Elongated Fingers/no fingernails. (During Space Olympics, side effect of Magic Practice) Compounded with limb elongation & added bulk in Eden, creating the illusion of odd wings- do not actually function as wings.
✧COMMON CHANGE: Vampire Bat Teeth (Obtained in Eden)
✧COMMON CHANGE: Nictating Membrane, akin to a bird's. (Heartstone Manor)
✧COMMON CHANGE: Small Gemstone Patches; 1 set representing the Four Dragons on her Left Arm, another on her Right Arm representing the En Card Bracelets (Begin in Heartstone Manor, Complete as of Wismuth)
✩UNCOMMON CHANGE: Functioning Fuchsia Axolotyl Gills (Space Olympics)
✩UNCOMMON CHANGE: Trails 'Dust' from her hair and tears. (Greysol)
✩UNCOMMON CHANGE: Large 'flower'-like appendages akin to antennae, hanging off the back/top of her head. (Wismuth)
✩UNCOMMON CHANGE: Basalt & Olivine based Moonrock covering much of the skin; includes a set of Olivine Crystal Rosettes at the left of her head, above the ear. (Heartstone Manor; Result of the Prince's Claim)
✵RARE CHANGE: NONE

⇨ CONTRACTS
1ST CONTRACT: Zarc's soul and existence spared, and given a new chance to reincarnate.

⇨ OTHER
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⇨ OOC INFO
PLAYER: Usagi
CONTACT: usagisquared

EMPATHY OPT IN/OPT OUT

Reira has what amounts to Typical Empathy; while it's a basic ability, it's still one that warrants some fair warning, so this post exists for those who wish to opt out (or in!) from it.

The ability works along the following points:

* Provided something is nearby (as in, speaking range), Reira can naturally pick up on the feelings of that something; while things as alien as plants, or similar, might as well just be Objects In Space, this means a nearby animal or person would be naturally 'readable'.

* While Reira is able to identify the emotions around her, she does not experience them herself-if asked to describe what she does feel, she'll actually be fairly stuck on how to explain it, as it's more along the lines of intuition-if someone was mad beside her, she wouldn't experience that anger-she would just realize they were angry themselves.

* In part due to this, and also due to her own struggle to re-learn how her own emotions function as it is, Reira cannot always describe the most of the exact feelings people experience. It's easy with simpler cases, such as animals; their emotions are typically not very complicated. With people however, it means that she not only needs to come up with her own words for what she's faced with, but she may even be wrong to an extent; describing a feeling as the closest thing she recognizes (Anxiety as 'a little scared' for example).

* Naturally, another's emotions do not cause her direct pain either; rather, any flinching motions or expressions of pain are likely to be from either shock (a sudden change of someone's emotions) or her own fear and stress (psychosomatic, in other words; Reira is a victim of war, and still carries a degree of residual trauma relating to this.) Thanks to her personal efforts, she has dulled this response down to the sort of flinching typically associated with loud noises.

That in mind, if you have specific points you feel will be worth noting when interacting with this ability, just fill the form below and leave a comment! (Additionally, if you would prefer certain aspects of her trauma not come up in future threads, feel free to leave a note for that!)

<b>Muse Name:</b> <b>State of General Being:</b> Are they typically optimistic? Perpetually irritated? Or do they even...NOT experience emotions at all? A key point to note here is that Reira catches the <i>actual</i> emotions; she won't read someone's forced smile, or even their well played 'act' unless the emotion beneath such things is in some way genuine. <b>Possible Tells/Barriers:</b> If your character has some sort of supernatural trait that either mutes emotion, or broadcasts it, or even just protects against such abilities, note as much here! You can either opt to play out whether or not Reira could catch what's underneath, or, we can discuss Reira possibly being entirely unable to read them!

Comments

[scientificist]

Muse Name: Herbert West
State of General Being: Herbert is generally feeling pretty vaguely intent about something. I know I just said pretty AND vaguely but like... He's always hyperfocused on whatever it is he's feeling or thinking about but it only switches on properly if the thing is there? Like a searchlight travelling around and then getting brighter when it finds the target. It's partially reagent influenced but he comes by it naturally as well. Sometimes he's focussing too hard to express it and his words come out scattered.
Possible Tells/Barriers: He's got nothing supernatural going on aside from the potential weirdness of the reagent. Honestly, he only technically keeps a blank face, his emotions are pretty obvious over it a lot of the time. The flat expression isn't an act so much as just a screensaver, essentially. It's just that he's feeling either smug or bitter a lot of the time.