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rubycitymods) wrote2013-09-03 06:38 pm
rubycitymods) wrote2013-09-03 06:38 pm
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Canon Update
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✧ N A V I G A T I O N ✧
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Canon: Chronicles of Elantra
Original Application: http://kaylinneya.dreamwidth.org/303.html
Current canon point: in the middle of Cast In Peril
Updating to: The end of Cast in Honor
Personality (if applicable):
Kaylin has experienced a lot more, by this point, and once again her prejudices and assumptions have been challenged. She's felt pity for the man who tried to assassinate her and destroyed her home, she's seen the Barrani at their most vulnerable, and at their strongest. She's met a creature of the Shadows that wasn't actual evil, she's found a new home, and learned to share it. And most importantly perhaps, to personality shifts, she's been forced to admit that she has friends and that she cares about them, to examine her own feelings and say the words. She's also learned a lot about she would... and would not... sacrifice to save the world. She is a bit more open now, a bit more willing to accept help, because for the first time she's been in a position of being able to offer it. She understands more now, about the true nature of her familiar, of Names, and of herself. She is still, and probably will always be, an angry young woman; but a few of the rougher edges have been smoothed.
Abilities (if applicable):
Some of the marks are gone, but she has so many and the ones that are gone were in the middle of others that unless someone could compare both past her and present her, it would be hard to tell. Doesn't affect her power overly much other than that she has a finite number and will eventually run out at some point. Theoretically.
big bada change: Her familiar is getting an upgrade, because between the two canon points, finally under standoing on a visceral level the meaning of a name to a familiar, she has finally named hers. She is embarrassed to use his name - Hope - and still calls him small and squwaky, but he has a name. Some of the changes to Hope are because he was able to do more once he had a name, and some is because the author hadn't made it clear by the time I apped her as to what he could and could not do. so it's a mix.
For one thing, he;s only transparent to Kaylin, and his wings are sometimes transparent when he wants them to be. Would have been nice to know that, but it isn't until Cast In Sorrow that Kaylin says something about looking through him because he's translucent, and someone else points out that he really isn't. He is sort of whiteish to everyone else.
As she sees him as translucent, Kaylin can see through him, mostly he will sit on his shoulder and plaster a wing over her face like an awkward mask. when she looks through the wing, she sees the truth behind illusions, magic, and other alterations on sight. For example, everyone else saw three corpses, she saw none until she removed the wing. Where everyone else saw blank walls, she saw the leavings of magic all over them like glowing graffiti. Through the wing she could see the trail of shadow on the ground leading her to Gilbert's lodgings, and looking through the creature's body she once saw that the "magical road" they were walking on was made of human bodies and ancient words. Everyone else saw a road.
Hope can speak, but very rarely can speak to Kaylin when in his small form. Much to her frustration, many people in her life can understand him now, and she is *** tired of the chorus of "Wait, you can't hear him?" that she's been getting lately. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme, reason, or consistency as to who can understand him and when. So for RP sake, sometimes some people will be able to, sometimes not.
Speaking of his small form, Hope DOES have a larger form, but he can't take it on a mortal plane of existence, not without feeding on a whole lot more power than Kaylin can provide without dying. (there is one exception, that will be covered below.) in inbetween places, like the realms of Chaos or the grey roads, or the space between Hallione, or time shifted space, he can become a full sized dragon, large enough for people to ride. Sometimes there is overlap between the in between space and the real space, enough for Kaylin and Hope to effect reality a little, but most of what she would want him to do, he can't (again, see below). So there are lots of scenarios in the book where this is useful, I've yet to see anything in any game (she's been in three) where it would come up. It might in the future, but so far has not.
Side stepping into inbetween space. It takes a lot out of him, and he vanishes visually from the real world, though his presence can still be felt. He can take Kaylin with him. this is exhausting, however, unless something is in that space already, so he does it at need, not just for a lark.
The huge freaking could be game breaking power that he now has that he has offered to Kaylin several times that she has NEVER accepted. He can actually do nearly anything. But everything has a cost that is as powerful as the request. They were fighting an ancient being that could have destroyed the city, possibly the world. Kaylin was stuck with Hope in the between world, watching as her friends fought, as people died. And she begged Hope to kill the ancient, to save them all. Nothing had been effective against the creature. Magic, might, wit, cunning, sheer numbers, all was failing. One of Kaylin's friends was readying herself for an attack that could well be suicidal. Kaylin begged Hope to end the battle, kill the ancient... save the City. And Hope said he could but there was a cost. Kaylin offered her arm, knowing that without it, she probably could never keep being a Hawk, that a chunk of her magic would go with the limb, and Hope told her that because she was willing to give up the limb, it wasn't cost enough. The cost would be the lives of all her friends that were fighting. If she paid that cost, if she said the word, they would all die, but so would the ancient. The City would be safe. If I ever have Hope offer her a deal for a miracle like ability at a cost she is willing to pay, I am playing it wrong (or new information has been offered, but I can't see that price ever being something Kaylin would consider acceptable. If something does change I will do my best to inform mods ASAP)
So basically, Hope got a massive power upgrade that will almost never be obvious. The primary things that will come up would be her seeing through the wing and that other people can sometimes understand him when he squwaks and trills.
She will no longer have the dress, or the basket that she arrived with, nor will she have the magical medallion. She will still have her uniform, her weapons, her hair stick, and the ring.
One thing I would like, if at all possible (and I understand that it might not be allowed.) is if the magical aspect of her home could come with her.
What this would mean IC:
Helen is a life tied to the house she was built into, written into the core of the house with ancient words. To protect herself and the first person she wanted to be a home for, she destroyed a number of the runes at her core. Kaylin was the one who had to replace the runes she lost, had to help her reform herself so that she could BE a home. What would happen IC is that Kaylin would have to find a house, not her apartment, a HOUSE as soon as she gets off the train, to put Helen into it. Kind of like rushing someone who is flatlining to an ICU and life support. Working in a dead panic, Kaylin will put the runes into the walls of the basement, carving some from imperfect mortal memory to bond Helen to the house, which will keep her "alive".
After that Helen will be the spirit of Kaylin's home in RC (abilities listed below) and Kaylin would be moving out of her small apartment into an actual house.
Powers of Helen/The house:
Like the Tardis, Helen can reshape the interior of her dimensions to her will. She will of course hide away the room that has at its core the words that define her. Because Kaylin is going to mess up, she won't be able to control the outside of the house beyond cosmetic changes. (so unlike in Elantra, she can't make the front door vanish) Nor will she be able to see anyone beyond arm's reach of her door, walls, or windows. But within the house she can make a room doorless, she can make a door lead to any other room, she can make a room as large or small as she pleases, she can make a room not look like a room. Moran's room looks like a cave with a terrace over land that doesn't actually exist in the city and is actually just part of the house.
She also can create things inside the house. Mainly - food. Things created in the house can be used in the house, but can't be taken out. So if she makes you a coat, you can wear the coat in the house but wear it out and it vanishes. But if she makes you food, you lose it if you carry it out, but if you eat it you are still full. So Kaylin, who refuses to barter for food given her skills are healing and protection and she wont charge individuals for that, won't be living on charity or starving herself half to death.
The primary reasons I want Helen are because this means Kaylin will actually eat and won't spend half her threads starving and waifish, and because part of what changes for Kaylin with the update is that she has learned to open her home to others. This would give her that opportunity.
Helen would not have any magical defenses outside of shielding individual rooms or groups of rooms, no weapons other than the walls and floors. she will be able to manifest her avatar within the house only, and like all sentient buildings in Kaylin's world, she can read the minds of people within her domain. (This will be discussed OOC before it happens IC, of course, and if sometimes she can't, whoops, Kaylin messed up a Word...)
Why I don't believe Helen could be played as a character on her own:
Even at her full abilities, Helen is tied to the house where her Words are written. Given AC, I don't think she could get enough activity as a character to stand on her own. Someone would have to enter her premises to have a conversation with her, and people rarely just enter houses in RC. Also, she is very narrow focused, as a character. EVERYTHING is "Find someone I want to be a home for, watch over them, protect them, and take care of them."
She also will have fits at Kaylin for using her watch, and as a character, played correctly, would not use one of her own, meaning she'd never be on the network. She and Kaylin have a row over the mirror network (which is a magical version of the watches, set in Elantra) as it is magic she can't trust or shield against being allowed into the safety of the home. At the end of the book I am grabbing Kaylin's update from, the world was almost destroyed via the mirror network, proving Helen right. So while I will agree she is a living sentient being, I believe that she is so restricted that she could not make AC, and could not stand on her own as a character in this setting.
That being said, I fully understand if the ruling is "NO" to Helen.
Thank you for considering my update. :: Bows::
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While we can approve the update in part, we do not feel that we can allow the addition of Helen as it sets a precedence that we are not comfortable with as a mod team.
Thank you for your understanding.
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