IC Info and Permissions (Kaisou)
Mar. 21st, 2023 01:52 pmThe Basics
Name: Shio Takahata
Age: 23
Occupation: College student (general studies atm), worker at Gen, a soba restaurant in the University District.
The AU in a Nutshell: Former delinquent from the next town over who grew up in the foster system. Following a certain incident that ended in his best friend's death, he was adopted by a family in Kaisou. Currently attending Kaisou U. Teaches a cooking class at Cygnus Academy. Currently roommates with Kunikaki (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
threebetrayals) and is fretfully looking out for his younger brother, Yugo (oneracetrackmind).
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Regains/Acquired Things
🔥 Feathers (Partial): Patches of feathers cover part of your body. (x)
🔥 Talons (Large): Large talons. (x)
🔥 Speed Boost (Low): Can move 1.5x faster than the average person. (x)
🔥 Animal Call: Capable of making harpy eagle sounds. (x)
🔥 Homing Instinct: Can always tell which direction is north. (x)
🔥 Full Transformation: Can fully transform into your monster/animal form. (x)
🔥 Animal Tail: Harpy eagle tail. (x)
🔥 Animal Love: Animals love Shio. This effect is permanent. (x)
🔥 Wings (High): Wings with normal flying or high-speed gliding ability. (x)
🔥 Stealth (Master): You can go undetected by any electronic security systems or magical detection unless plot says otherwise (1 hour). (x)
🔥 Projectile Feathers (Master): Can fire a barrage of sharp feathers at targets. (x)
🔥 Firebending (Advanced): Capable of using firebending at an advanced level. (x, upgrade, upgrade)
🔥 Animal Communication (Empathy): Understand what an animal is feeling. (x)
🔥 Soundproofing (Master): Can make a house sized area soundproof. (x, upgrade)
🔥 Fall Damage Reduction (High): Can withstand falls from any height. (x, upgrade, upgrade)
🔥 Musical Healing (Medium): Singing or instrument playing will heal minor injuries. (x)
🔥 Fire Immunity: Immune to ordinary fire. (x)
🔥 Crafting Skill: Magically acquired crafting abilities--due to these, Shio has acquired sewing, woodcarving, and knitting.
🔥 Conjure Lightning (Small): Create sparks of electricity. (x)
🔥 Wind Manipulation (Low): You can control the wind so it feels like a paper fan is waving at you, keeping you cool. (x)
🔥 Powerful Bite: You have an incredibly powerful bite. (x)
🔥 Earthbending (Beginner): Capable of using earthending at a beginner's level. Someone's halfway on his way to becoming the Avatar. (x)
🔥 Telekinesis (High): Move objects you can reasonably carry with your mind. (x)
🔥 Glide (Low): Glide at normal speeds. (x)
🔥 Elemental Imbuement (Extreme): Imbue a weapon or item with your element permanently. You can imbue up to 3 items permently per month as part of the crafting system. (x)
🔥 Magical Item Crafting: Allows you to create permanently magical items that are not elemental based in their power. (x)
🔥 Air Pressure Attack (High): You can increase the air pressure greatly when you attack to increase the force of the hit by a large amount. (x)
🔥 Ice Barrier: Regardless of your element, you can now create barriers of ice. (x)
🔥 Perfect Hair: Don't need hairspray to make hairstyle wind resistant. (x)
🔥 Earth Wind (High): If there is loose earth nearby, you can use the wind to adeptly control the movement of earth, almost on par with someone with earth manipulation ability of this point level so long as it's something that could be reasonably picked up by the wind. (x)
🔥 Water Wind (High): If there is water nearby, you can use the wind to adeptly control the movement of water, almost on par with someone with water manipulation ability of this point level. (x)
🔥 Wind Message (High): Can send brief messages (tweet length) on the wind to be heard by anyone within a city block. Wind must be blowing. (x)
🔥 Levitation: You can now float a foot off the ground. (x)
🔥 Gifted Leather Bracelet: A leather bracelet gifted to him by Yuuki for Christmas in 2023. Attuned to light, the bracelet gives him a temporary speed boost and lets him teleport short distances. (x)
🔥 Bluetooth System: A birthday gift from Yasuho in 2024. It's specifically made for those wearing helmets on their motorcycles. (x)
🔥 Motorcycle Helmet: A gift from the Birthday Skeleton in 2024. Has an adorable decal of some sort on it. (x)
🔥 Gifted Bluespirit Earrings: A pair of Bluespirit earrings gifted to him by Yuuki for Christmas in 2024. Attuned to water, these earrings bless him with constant luck and let him withstand temperatures as low as 32F/0C without a coat. (x)
🔥 Soul Device: Shio's greatsword Soul Device, Vorpal Weapon with its default Master Core, Beowulf. Current capabilities are here. (x)
🔥 Yarn of Ariadne: Magic yarn that cannot be broken and if used to make a trail through a maze, in the real world or the spirit realm, it will not be moved by anyone but the owner. (x)
🔥 Dressphere: When this special orb is activated, it'll change Shio's outfit into something befitting the "class" it's for, and grant him relevant abilities and a weapon. When deactivated, Shio will be left in his normal clothes, with the outfit, abilities, and weapon all disappearing. The ones in Shio's possession are detailed here. (x)
🔥 Fireball Jellies: A jar of red jelly candies that are actually fire pellets. If you eat one, it will burst into flames in your mouth. If you drop the jar, all of them will detonate at once. Thankfully, Shio's smart enough to read the warning label. (x)
🔥 Fiery Whetstone: A whetstone that when used on a blade, it will make it become a fireblade for an hour. (x)
🔥 Homeward Compass: A compass that will always point to your home, no matter where you are. (x)
🔥 Glove of Babel: A glove that will translate the writings of dead languages when it touches the text, making it readable to the wearer. Must be a dead language to work. Latin reads like it's been put through google translate. (x)
🔥 Turtle Shell Backpack: Carry your house on your back! A backpack that can fit a small studio apartment amount of stuff, but it looks like a turtle shell. (x)
🔥 Midnight Channel TV: A TV that acts like a TV most of the time, but on rainy nights at midnight it will show a weird channel that reflects the state of the spirit realm. If you touch the TV, you can use it as a gateway to either the event log's Spirit Realm, A Stable Spirit Realm, or the Spirit Realm that belonged to an OU when they joined the game (the OU MUST be in the thread for this to work).
🔥 Serenitea Pot: A teapot that houses a personalized spirit realm within that you can treat as your own personal estate. There is a two story home within the pot. Shio's treating his as extra room for the Gen safehouse. (x)
🔥 Magic Armchair: A magic armchair that moves around and listens to what Shio says. It was used in the Serenitea Pot for a while, but has since been moved back into Shio's home. (x)
🔥 XRC Photo: A framed photo of the XRC, gifted to him by Jun for Christmas in 2023. It's currently being kept in on his desk in his room. (x)
🔥 Misc. Christmas Gifts, 2023: Found here.
🔥 Warming Teacup: A tea cup that always feels warm when you hold it. (x)
🔥 Bowl of Cooling: A bowl that will always keep your ice cream cold and won't melt. (x)
🔥 Endless Ball of Yarn: A ball of yarn that never runs out of yarn. Great for big knitting projects. (x)
🔥 Magic Drink Tap: A fountain tap that contains an unlimited amount of any particular drink. Shio's dispenses Pocari Sweat. (x)
🔥 Acepron: An apron made for the aces. (x)
🔥 Knitting Needles: An ordinary pair of knitting needles. (x)
🔥 Magic Car: A car with a will of its own and can transform its appearance into other types of cars. Its usual form is a dark blue Subaru Outback, but will transform into anything Shio needs on a given day, usually a van or a truck. (x)
🔥 Misc. Christmas Gifts, 2024: Found here.
🔥 Ekans: An unnamed Ekans that Shio got from the Gacha Goodwill. (x)
🔥 Fidough: An unnamed Fidough that Shio got from the Gacha Goodwill. (x)
🔥 Ghost Cat x2: It is like a normal cat in every way but it's also a ghost. It is prone to going invisible and knock things off your table and walk on your keyboard. Shio has two! Which works out just fine for him, they can keep each other company. (x, x)
🔥 Thesaurus: A little dinosaur companion that acts as a living thesaurus and dictionary. It's like clippy but actually useful and cute. (x)
Flaws
🔥 Vengeance - Low: If someone wrongs Shio, he feels an urge to get back at them. (x)
🔥 Hunting Instinct - Low: Shio gets an urge to hunt something once a month. It doesn't go away until he successfully hunts something. (x)
OOC Permissions
🔥 Backtagging: Willing to keep threads going as long as you are! Feel free to poke me if I'm taking a while.
🔥 Threadhopping: If it's fine with everyone else involved in the thread, go for it
🔥 Fourth-walling: Please don't.
🔥 Offensive Subjects: OOCly, I'm uncomfortable with extensive discussions of alcohol and drugs, sorry!
IC Permissions
🔥 General Affection: Yeah, sure. Unless Shio knows you, however, he's gonna be pretty weirded out.
🔥 Flirting and Romance: Go ahead and flirt with him! If things go in a shippy direction, we can work something out.
🔥 Fighting/Injury/Death: I'm not great at threading out fights, but we can talk this out. Run injury by me first, and I'd like to avoid death.
🔥 Telepathy/Mind-reading/Etc.: Yeah, go for it, he doesn't really have any way to block it.
🔥 Anything Else?: Nope! We're good.
Name: Shio Takahata
Age: 23
Occupation: College student (general studies atm), worker at Gen, a soba restaurant in the University District.
The AU in a Nutshell: Former delinquent from the next town over who grew up in the foster system. Following a certain incident that ended in his best friend's death, he was adopted by a family in Kaisou. Currently attending Kaisou U. Teaches a cooking class at Cygnus Academy. Currently roommates with Kunikaki (
threebetrayals) and is fretfully looking out for his younger brother, Yugo (oneracetrackmind).IC Inbox
Regains/Acquired Things
Appearance, Monster Changes, Traits, etc.
🔥 Monster Types: Harpy (Avian) + Elf🔥 Feathers (Partial): Patches of feathers cover part of your body. (x)
🔥 Talons (Large): Large talons. (x)
🔥 Speed Boost (Low): Can move 1.5x faster than the average person. (x)
🔥 Animal Call: Capable of making harpy eagle sounds. (x)
🔥 Homing Instinct: Can always tell which direction is north. (x)
🔥 Full Transformation: Can fully transform into your monster/animal form. (x)
🔥 Animal Tail: Harpy eagle tail. (x)
🔥 Animal Love: Animals love Shio. This effect is permanent. (x)
🔥 Wings (High): Wings with normal flying or high-speed gliding ability. (x)
🔥 Stealth (Master): You can go undetected by any electronic security systems or magical detection unless plot says otherwise (1 hour). (x)
🔥 Projectile Feathers (Master): Can fire a barrage of sharp feathers at targets. (x)
Powers
🔥 Conjure Wind (Large): Conjure a strong gust of wind (strong enough to knock people over). (x)🔥 Firebending (Advanced): Capable of using firebending at an advanced level. (x, upgrade, upgrade)
🔥 Animal Communication (Empathy): Understand what an animal is feeling. (x)
🔥 Soundproofing (Master): Can make a house sized area soundproof. (x, upgrade)
🔥 Fall Damage Reduction (High): Can withstand falls from any height. (x, upgrade, upgrade)
🔥 Musical Healing (Medium): Singing or instrument playing will heal minor injuries. (x)
🔥 Fire Immunity: Immune to ordinary fire. (x)
🔥 Crafting Skill: Magically acquired crafting abilities--due to these, Shio has acquired sewing, woodcarving, and knitting.
🔥 Conjure Lightning (Small): Create sparks of electricity. (x)
🔥 Wind Manipulation (Low): You can control the wind so it feels like a paper fan is waving at you, keeping you cool. (x)
🔥 Powerful Bite: You have an incredibly powerful bite. (x)
🔥 Earthbending (Beginner): Capable of using earthending at a beginner's level. Someone's halfway on his way to becoming the Avatar. (x)
🔥 Telekinesis (High): Move objects you can reasonably carry with your mind. (x)
🔥 Glide (Low): Glide at normal speeds. (x)
🔥 Elemental Imbuement (Extreme): Imbue a weapon or item with your element permanently. You can imbue up to 3 items permently per month as part of the crafting system. (x)
🔥 Magical Item Crafting: Allows you to create permanently magical items that are not elemental based in their power. (x)
🔥 Air Pressure Attack (High): You can increase the air pressure greatly when you attack to increase the force of the hit by a large amount. (x)
🔥 Ice Barrier: Regardless of your element, you can now create barriers of ice. (x)
🔥 Perfect Hair: Don't need hairspray to make hairstyle wind resistant. (x)
🔥 Earth Wind (High): If there is loose earth nearby, you can use the wind to adeptly control the movement of earth, almost on par with someone with earth manipulation ability of this point level so long as it's something that could be reasonably picked up by the wind. (x)
🔥 Water Wind (High): If there is water nearby, you can use the wind to adeptly control the movement of water, almost on par with someone with water manipulation ability of this point level. (x)
🔥 Wind Message (High): Can send brief messages (tweet length) on the wind to be heard by anyone within a city block. Wind must be blowing. (x)
🔥 Levitation: You can now float a foot off the ground. (x)
Items - Day to Day Inventory
🔥 MP3 Player: An ordinary MP3 player. (x)🔥 Gifted Leather Bracelet: A leather bracelet gifted to him by Yuuki for Christmas in 2023. Attuned to light, the bracelet gives him a temporary speed boost and lets him teleport short distances. (x)
🔥 Bluetooth System: A birthday gift from Yasuho in 2024. It's specifically made for those wearing helmets on their motorcycles. (x)
🔥 Motorcycle Helmet: A gift from the Birthday Skeleton in 2024. Has an adorable decal of some sort on it. (x)
🔥 Gifted Bluespirit Earrings: A pair of Bluespirit earrings gifted to him by Yuuki for Christmas in 2024. Attuned to water, these earrings bless him with constant luck and let him withstand temperatures as low as 32F/0C without a coat. (x)
Items - Spirit Realm Missions
🔥 Knife: A normal, but high-quality hunting knife given to him by Jun. (x)🔥 Soul Device: Shio's greatsword Soul Device, Vorpal Weapon with its default Master Core, Beowulf. Current capabilities are here. (x)
🔥 Yarn of Ariadne: Magic yarn that cannot be broken and if used to make a trail through a maze, in the real world or the spirit realm, it will not be moved by anyone but the owner. (x)
🔥 Dressphere: When this special orb is activated, it'll change Shio's outfit into something befitting the "class" it's for, and grant him relevant abilities and a weapon. When deactivated, Shio will be left in his normal clothes, with the outfit, abilities, and weapon all disappearing. The ones in Shio's possession are detailed here. (x)
🔥 Fireball Jellies: A jar of red jelly candies that are actually fire pellets. If you eat one, it will burst into flames in your mouth. If you drop the jar, all of them will detonate at once. Thankfully, Shio's smart enough to read the warning label. (x)
🔥 Fiery Whetstone: A whetstone that when used on a blade, it will make it become a fireblade for an hour. (x)
🔥 Homeward Compass: A compass that will always point to your home, no matter where you are. (x)
🔥 Glove of Babel: A glove that will translate the writings of dead languages when it touches the text, making it readable to the wearer. Must be a dead language to work. Latin reads like it's been put through google translate. (x)
🔥 Turtle Shell Backpack: Carry your house on your back! A backpack that can fit a small studio apartment amount of stuff, but it looks like a turtle shell. (x)
Items - Around the Home/Other
🔥 Insulting Tarot Cards: A beautiful set of tarot cards, but whenever Shio does a reading, words will appear that'll insult the person the reading is for. It's a good thing Shio doesn't know shit about doing tarot readings and has decided to just display these, huh... (x)🔥 Midnight Channel TV: A TV that acts like a TV most of the time, but on rainy nights at midnight it will show a weird channel that reflects the state of the spirit realm. If you touch the TV, you can use it as a gateway to either the event log's Spirit Realm, A Stable Spirit Realm, or the Spirit Realm that belonged to an OU when they joined the game (the OU MUST be in the thread for this to work).
🔥 Serenitea Pot: A teapot that houses a personalized spirit realm within that you can treat as your own personal estate. There is a two story home within the pot. Shio's treating his as extra room for the Gen safehouse. (x)
🔥 Magic Armchair: A magic armchair that moves around and listens to what Shio says. It was used in the Serenitea Pot for a while, but has since been moved back into Shio's home. (x)
🔥 XRC Photo: A framed photo of the XRC, gifted to him by Jun for Christmas in 2023. It's currently being kept in on his desk in his room. (x)
🔥 Misc. Christmas Gifts, 2023: Found here.
🔥 Warming Teacup: A tea cup that always feels warm when you hold it. (x)
🔥 Bowl of Cooling: A bowl that will always keep your ice cream cold and won't melt. (x)
🔥 Endless Ball of Yarn: A ball of yarn that never runs out of yarn. Great for big knitting projects. (x)
🔥 Magic Drink Tap: A fountain tap that contains an unlimited amount of any particular drink. Shio's dispenses Pocari Sweat. (x)
🔥 Acepron: An apron made for the aces. (x)
🔥 Knitting Needles: An ordinary pair of knitting needles. (x)
🔥 Magic Car: A car with a will of its own and can transform its appearance into other types of cars. Its usual form is a dark blue Subaru Outback, but will transform into anything Shio needs on a given day, usually a van or a truck. (x)
🔥 Misc. Christmas Gifts, 2024: Found here.
Pets and Other Companions
🔥 Cinder the Litten: Caught when Shio first visited Kanto with Viv.🔥 Ekans: An unnamed Ekans that Shio got from the Gacha Goodwill. (x)
🔥 Fidough: An unnamed Fidough that Shio got from the Gacha Goodwill. (x)
🔥 Ghost Cat x2: It is like a normal cat in every way but it's also a ghost. It is prone to going invisible and knock things off your table and walk on your keyboard. Shio has two! Which works out just fine for him, they can keep each other company. (x, x)
🔥 Thesaurus: A little dinosaur companion that acts as a living thesaurus and dictionary. It's like clippy but actually useful and cute. (x)
Flaws
🔥 Vengeance - Low: If someone wrongs Shio, he feels an urge to get back at them. (x)
🔥 Hunting Instinct - Low: Shio gets an urge to hunt something once a month. It doesn't go away until he successfully hunts something. (x)
OOC Permissions
🔥 Backtagging: Willing to keep threads going as long as you are! Feel free to poke me if I'm taking a while.
🔥 Threadhopping: If it's fine with everyone else involved in the thread, go for it
🔥 Fourth-walling: Please don't.
🔥 Offensive Subjects: OOCly, I'm uncomfortable with extensive discussions of alcohol and drugs, sorry!
IC Permissions
🔥 General Affection: Yeah, sure. Unless Shio knows you, however, he's gonna be pretty weirded out.
🔥 Flirting and Romance: Go ahead and flirt with him! If things go in a shippy direction, we can work something out.
🔥 Fighting/Injury/Death: I'm not great at threading out fights, but we can talk this out. Run injury by me first, and I'd like to avoid death.
🔥 Telepathy/Mind-reading/Etc.: Yeah, go for it, he doesn't really have any way to block it.
🔥 Anything Else?: Nope! We're good.
