OOC Permissions Post

[illicitresearch]

CHARACTER NAME: Zexion
CHARACTER SERIES: Kingdom Hearts

[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired.

Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: No (This goes for disney canon, too! Please remember that characters like Wonderland's Alice, Peter Pan, & Mickey Mouse are real people in his universe!)
Offensive subjects (elaborate): None that I can think of right now. Please avoid racist, ableist or homophobic slurs when speaking to me OOC, if your character would use them, I don't mind.

[IC]
This is the permissions list for IC (in-character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired. With IC permissions, it's a good idea to elaborate on what other players can expect from your character if they choose to do any of the following:

Hugging this character: Yes
Kissing this character: Yes
Flirting with this character: Yes
(All three of these will be met with mild disdain. Affectionate contact isn't something he's going to take to well without strongly developed CR. He likes a bit of intellectual banter, so if you plan to flirt with him seriously, your best bet is to tempt with riddles, avoid outright lewdness and mind your P's & Q's.)

Fighting with this character: Yes (Zexion would prefer NOT to fight, and will avoid combat whenever possible, but- yeah sure, we can fight scene.)
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Please clear injury with me before tagging a 'hit' that will do some long term damage. I don't plan to incapacity him.
Killing this character: Pre-plotted death only.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Sure. The mind is Zexion's sanctuary, and discovered violation of his privacy will be dealt with. Once he finds out he's likely to be the least of happy campers, and will want to give a full taster of his wrath.

Warnings:

Zexion can sense Darkness in Hearts This means that your negative emotions are detectable, as a distinct scent signature. Nearly every heart holds darkness- not only the obvious evilbadjuju of malicious intentions, but all negative emotions which cloud pure happiness and light. If you'd like to give me a little more information so this can be used in play, that would be great! If you'd like your character to remain undetectable for whatever reason, also let me know here, so I can distract him with something else in play.

Can Zexion Trap Your Character in a Hallucination? Are you open to illusion mindfuck? If so, let me know your boundaries and your plotting interests. Zexion can play with a broad palette of sensory manipulation. Looking directly at the content of his Lexicon can trap you in a whole 'dimensional' hallucination, where he holds near-complete control of reality. A strong willed character can fight their way out, but by getting into a full hallucination scenario, I'll assume that for permissions, you're handing all setting detailwork to me.


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Comments

[passed_torch]

I do allow the illusions for both! Haibara would probably be ridiculously easy...
Giotto might be a little harder, considering that he's both stronger willed and has some canon ability to sense something's off about illusions.

(Giotto)
On some levels, is kind of sickeningly light-sider. It's -POSSIBLE- to get him angry, but it's very hard, and even then as soon as you stop doing whatever got him angry, you'd have to be pretty ridiculously beyond the pale for any of that to be actual malice. He is fluffy and squishy and adopts everyone and is protective of everyone and hates seeing people hurt and wants people to be happy and gets strength from his friends and yeah.
However, there is this UNGODLY MASSIVE GUILT COMPLEX and a mess of self-doubt under there! :D Yeah there's a run of bad shit in his background that he blames himself for, including one of his best friends going bats and killing everyone off/turning on him. Bad shit happens to people around him here? He's probably got some mental run going trying to talk himself out of guilting over not having been able to stop it and worrying about them. He's managed to get guilt pangs over -getting murdered- and leaving his son without a father. He's special. :D

(Haibara)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OH GOD. Yeah if you can't guess taht she's not actually eight years old from this you're blind.
She's raised organized crime! :D She's lived her entire life under this kind of veil of paranoia where even "close comrades" could knife her in the back. She's -never- had a normal childhood or normal life except for what she's done under her alias. She's scared shitless of her former comrades catching up, she's got what might be an ex who's one of their best assassins and is NOT happy with her leaving, AND TO TOP IT OFF, her big crisis of conscience was that she's basically created a 99% lethal, untraceable chemical weapon -and- got to be party to human testing! Her current life back home hinges on the "see I"m a normal human worm baby" lampshade, so even without the House, she's got a GIGANTIC MASS of paranoid panicky twitches, guilt, occasional sociopathic/cutthroat moments, and her nerves getting made worse by the fact that the other people her life depends on are KIND OF RECKLESS and she's paranoid and pessimistic.
Also she's a scientist. She's currently having a bit of a nervous breakdown over the house not following those funny "rules of reality and logic", as well as one long background heart attack b/c it's been tipped that the Doctors/etc. know her old aliases.

[illicitresearch]

Yum. We love tempering guilt into something useful.

And Child Scientist high five!

Also, please induct Zexion into your paranoid-of-betrayal Organized Syndicate Club, Haibara. He's some similar underlying issues of trust, so this should go over WAY well if he decides to mess around with those feelings he's all too well aware of.

[ashes_for_sorrow]

At least Giotto's used to dealing with manipulative illusionists. (Granted, his track record with the one he knows is kind of dismal, but it's the thought.)

Will have to introduce them... though I apologize in advance, Haibs is going to be ... well..

Much more panicky and off-kilter than "Normal" for her. But hey! At least it's familiar triggers/groundwork! :D

[illicitresearch]

Awesome. People to give Zexion a rough time is overly welcome.

Wellwell. Better you off your game than me, dear. ;)

(lies. he's in rough shape and outofsorts too)

[mafiawife]

Feel free to do both to Chrome ^^

Her scent is that of loneliness, though it maybe a bit faint at this point of time.

She has some self-confident / self worth issue, so feel free to taunt her with saying stuffs like she's not needed by anyone, either verbally or telepathically, or having her experience an illusion where she's rejected by her friends and family members.

Although... the effectiveness of Zexion's illusion may depend on whether he is stronger than Chrome or not, so I need to ask you: do you think he's stronger, weaker, or on the same level as her?
At this age, she's pretty much a first class illusionist and able to differentiate which one is reality and which one is not like how she will differentiate the flavor of sugar and salt. She can nullify any attempts in breaching her mental / mind too, though of course there will be exceptions.

[illicitresearch]

She's probably stronger than he is, then, and will easily be able to see right though a full illusion right away, but possibly not some of the subtler single-sensory things, immediately? Can she dispel illusions so that other people can see through them also?

[mafiawife]

As far as I know, no, she can't.

[kirakirakujaku]

Jack kirakirakujaku
Sense ALL THE DARKNESS. Jack is uncaring for other people's feelings, cruel, self-centered. Yes, his heart is pretty dark.

And he can also get all the illusionary mindfuck ever. Jack does hallucinate on his own sometimes so it will be hard to surprise him xD

Kohaku dolleyed
His heart isn't nearly as dark as Jack's, but he's.. a pretty negative person. He is aggressive and does not care whether he hurts men, women or children. He has a problem with trust and figuring out what to live for and is pretty negative. He has killed lots of people and used to be a terrorist.

He can also be illusionized.

[vipassi]

DARKNESS: Sob. Okay, This is someone who, until fairly recently, was seriously working on long-term plans to start World War III to "reduce the world to a pure and beautiful sea of blood". He's wavered on that, but it's less that he's not misanthropic and paranoid, and more "...But there's like - five people I like and want to take care of, and I'm wondering if that was a good idea" than "maybe humans aren't so bad". He probably reads pretty damn dark.
The problem is that his powers and their source mean that, depending on what Path he's using, he's leaking being "something else" that might jag the reading false one way or another. He's usually wandering around in the Path of Heaven, which's channeling having been a deva (divine entity) - and probably jags it false towards more light.
The second most common Path is the Path of Hell, which's from being a Demon, and you know, at that point he probably looks like he's a few steps from Pure Darkness. *sob*

As for illusions: HI THERE FELLOW ILLUSIONIST.
Zexion can try; Mukuro's one of the more powerful illusionists in his canon (and the one who taught Chrome, although he's younger in his canon point than she is here), and has been through illusionist "who gets to control reality here" bitchfights several times in canon. Try to trap him and he will fight back, and "illusionist bitchfights" burn less of his reserves than trying to force an illusion on someone resistant, so he can DO more.

[self_replication]

He's free to sense Vexen's heart when it's not covered by the coat.

And he can trap him in illusions...given that Vexen will want to poke at that Lexion eventually >_>

[shiromadoushi]

Re: Darkness in the Heart: Bakura's a bit of a special case since his soul has been host to another personality (Yami Bakura) that has left its mark on him that would likely linger despite said personality not being in the game at the moment. I have no idea how much YGO cannon you know, but I can ramble on about it if you want to do something with that.

Related, Bakura very easily will fall prey to illusions unless there's something making it stand out or one of his friends is in danger [power of friendship overrides everything, shonen series and all]

[silver_lucifer]

Kuja's got a pretty decent amount of Darkness, and it would be visible.

And yes, he can play illusions! Kuja's stubborn/strong-willed, but he doesn't have any special resistances to it.

[illicitresearch]

Thank you for pinging the darkness radar! Noted!

[oushuuhittou]

Darkness: Despite all the self-confident appearance, family is a VERY sore spot for Masamune. He killed his own brother and ordered his army to kill his father, and those events fill him with guilt. His mother rejected him since he was a child, so deep down there are some self-worth issues. A part of his ambition of conquering the country could be seen as a way to prove to himself that he's not unworthy like his mother used to say.

Illusions: Feel free to play illusions on him! The only things he has in his advantage are stubbornness and some sense of danger that comes with a warrior's life, but no resistance or ability to dispel anything.

[but_i_am_not_your_savior]

David's got a kind of mess of depression, guilt, grief, and old hurt that's sort of "dull wound"; the big thing is a mass of helplessness - not "I do things and they go wrong/I'm too weak to do anything", but "I can't do anything/if I do something IT WILL BE HORRIBLE" anxiety.

He's a 400 year old empath with some defenses/a lot of practice, he might be harder to trap in an illusion than most even with his main powers sealed.

[nowherefast]

Dropping off notes cause I stalk around with people I thread with!

Laura's heart is very dark, very heavy with grief, sorrow, guilt and general hurt. She's a (supernatural) abuse case from an early age and this has left a lot of deep-seated scars. She canonically imagines her own heart as scarred up and small and black, with whatever light remaining in it hidden away for safekeeping. A sort of hopelessness about her, and she used to wish for death. She's gotten better in Portes and now sees reasons to stick around, but she still has a lot of issues particularly pertaining to her self worth and the many questionable things she's done and whatever she might have done to have deserved the abuse in the first case. If you'd like more in-depth information, feel free to check her app. c:

As far as illusions go, I am completely open for that to be a thing should it come up - mindfucks are awesome and also relevant to Laura and her canon. However, her whole spiel is that she's stubborn and strong-willed and also hates people getting into her head and messing with her that way, so know that he'll basically be distrusted forever if he pulls a stunt like that. Unless he'd like to use it for good or something. But yes, should this happen, you get all the reins (but would naturally like to talk about it some OOC if it touches on major themes).
Also noting that it's mostly a full-on hallucination that would make her bristle, but smaller things would depend a lot on how they're done and for what reason; she could be curious or frustrated or just altogether dismissive.

[humble_scholar]

Thancred's got some innate light-weighting....

And he's recovering from a nervous breakdown (guilt, taking on way too much responsibility, grief from losing his mentor and his homeland, and general overstress/overworking) and a possession by something on the opposite side of the line.

His current mental defenses are a MESS. He might figure out that he's trapped in an illusion, and he's got a fairly strong will, but he's kind of made of swiss cheese otherwise.

[illicitresearch]

Heh. Sounds like fun.

[poetryforfish]

Hoo boy...

Castiel has been struggling with his darkness pretty much since he arrived, and I highly encourage you to mess with him on that front. Basically he has an all-consuming need to protect his adoptive family (the Winchesters, most especially Dean) and will do anything to stop anyone who tries to harm/interfere with them. When he arrived in the house, he discovered that in his future, "anything" includes forging an alliance with Hell as well as crippling and murdering people he loves in the name of getting the present Big Bad out of the picture. Needless to say it's severely messing with his head and his biggest fear is now that he is evil/is slowly turning evil/has something evil inside him that he can't control. (Which, for an angel, is sickening and horrifying in the worst way.) He's already identified a couple individuals in the house who pose a specific threat to his family, so the fact that the temptation to let it get out of control here is already a factor is something Zexion could potentially play with as well.

His vessel, Jimmy, has more passive darkness; mostly it's grief over losing any chance to see wife and daughter ever again. While there is some amount of lingering resentment toward Castiel over their arrangement (since that's the whole reason he'll never see them again), it's not nearly as strong as it once was and he does his best to ignore it; for the most part they have a mutually caring relationship.

I am totally okay with you trapping either of them in various types of illusions/hallucinations. Cas might work out what is happening after a while simply because he grew up with a prankster illusionist for an older brother and has consequently been trapped in them before, but idk. As far as Jimmy goes, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by strong-willed--if it takes strength of character to get free, he'll probably manage; however he lacks Castiel's potential for giving reality and whatever odds there are against him the finger.

[illicitresearch]

Awesome-cool. If Zexion has an opportunity to gain something from Castiel's protectiveness, he'll probably consider means of taking advantage of it.

Yes, it essentially takes strength of character and (in the one canon example at least), a bit of an outside reminder of an interfering friend that there's a hopeful truth and reality stronger than the one he's (Riku's) being told.

So based on what you've said, both would probably be capable of breaking free from a full illusion.

[anticifate]

Darkness in hearts: A lot of this is tied up with Miyuki's best friend - he was killed recently, and due to this happening right in front of him Miyuki, on top of grief, has some guilt and self-blame over it. He channels a lot of this into anger - he tries to hide it, but it flares up easily. He also has a lot of hatred for: the monster who killed his friend (dead, Miyuki killed it); the person who injured his friend before that (Miyuki struggles with the temptation to kill him); and the person who caused the monster to go after his friend (untouchable and kind of scary; Miyuki opposes him out of spite).

Other than that... he's lonely, expects he'll die soon because of predictions, and has something of a controlling streak.

Illusions: I'm open to pretty much anything. Miyuki is fairly strong willed, but he has zero experience with illusions.