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eternity_8) wrote2012-07-06 02:04 am
eternity_8) wrote2012-07-06 02:04 am
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Since Tachibana's powers can be a bit invasive and can become a nuisance to people that wish to engage in a fight with him, think of this guy more like a psychic wizard than an Alter user.
His powers include:
Asuka has many abilities that are a branch off from his primary ability to summon eight jade balls that he can form from any matter around him. This is known as his Alter Power called Eternity 8. He can form up to 8 of these balls about the size of a softball in size or close to the size of grapefruits. He can condense the size to about that of golf balls. (Which, by the way, his power is the butt of many jokes concerning the balls themselves despite their uses.)
He can only use these balls to manipulate living things but it comes at a cost. The more spheres he summons, the quickly he tires. Despite the orbs versatility as tools, weapons, life-force manipulators and healing, they do drain his physical body since he has to use his body and mind to control them.
- Mind Control: Tachibana can control as many as eight individuals, coinciding with the number of orbs he can summon, at one time. However, the greater the number, the greater the mental drain that he will suffer from. They have to be living in order for this to work. He can use unconscious individuals much the same way as a puppeteer can use puppets. However, if a person exhibits a stronger mental fortitude, he can use more than one to break down their wall and only for as long as Tachibana can maintain that hold.
Controlling minds of individuals does greatly restrict him in combat and therefore he is forced to hide while he performs Mind Control. He could use the mind-slaves for combat purposes but there's a catch. The mind-slaves would perform the same action which would make them appear as if they are mirroring each other than acting as individuals would in a combat situation.
- Ring Platform: Tachibana can transmute the Eternity 8 into a high energy ring that would allow him to levitate in order to perform "tactical retreats". He can also use this ring to cut down obstacles that pose a threat to him, but prefers not to use it for that purpose against living things. When he has the ring in use, he can't summon any orbs. This flying "disk" can travel at high speeds and last as long as Tachibana can control it which is generally for short distances.
- Luminance: This is a very low powered ability that he can use to on the summoned orbs. He can make the spheres glow as long as he remains conscious. In combat, they can remain glowing, but it will drain him a bit faster since he would have to use three abilities at once; keeping the spheres tangible, making them glow and using them for combat.
- Healing Boost: He can heal up to eight individuals at one time, but the cost to his body depends up on the injuries sustained and it drains him considerably. The concentration used to heal is taxing. In the series, he healed up to 40 people and passed out shortly after healing these people fully. These orbs can also heal fatigue, mental exhaustion, serious wounds, broken bones, coma, poison, intoxication, drug overdose, frost bite, burns, internal bleeding, and illness. As long as the subject has a pulse, he can heal them dramatically. However, it cannot heal mental illness, possession or intelligence issues. He can heal the pain associated with these issues but nothing more.
- Eternity 8 Ring: Tachibana can create a ring that would allow him to lift an individual about the ground either to prevent attack or to get a person out of a dangerous situation. This is also called Eternity Arrest. The binding ring is nearly impossible to break free unless the individual captured has greater than the strength of the ring itself and that depends greatly upon Tachibana's physical condition. In good health, the ring has the same tensile strength as a steel ring one inch thick. At his weakest, it has the strength of balsam wood.
- Eternity 8 Shield: Tachibana has the ability to create a shield using the eight Treasure Balls and he can make this shield as condensed or as wide as he chooses by controlling the orbit and speed of the Treasure Balls. The more condensed the shield, the more powerful the attack it can repel. However, the condensed shield is only as strong as his body can sustain. Meaning, if the attack is powerful enough to tear chunks from the ground, as long as his body isn't fatigued he can hold up against this attack. The wider the shield, the weaker it becomes.
- Eternity 8 Sword: By aligning the eight Treasure Balls in a straight line, he can manipulate the energy into a semi-plasma state that can cut through virtually anything. However, like the shield, if he's too taxed, the sword may not be as strong or last as long against an attack if his body is taxed.
- Eternity Extra Shot: Tachibana can reconstruct more material to create a bow that attaches to his left wrist. With this bow, he can align the Treasure Balls in a straight line like an arrow. Aiming for the head of his target primarily, he can erase memories, break mental conditions or wipe the mind completely which leaves the victim a drooling, and rather unintelligent creature that can be re-conditioned into someone else. He could also read thoughts from this attack depending on the mental fortitude of the target.
If you have a character that is psychic in comparison, it's a good idea to talk it over some pretty interesting side-effects on both ends.
Considering that his mind control can become an issue, if he succeeds in pulling it off on your character, what would he see and would it last long in his mind? Is he able to use your character as a puppet should the situation become necessary? Can he use his mind control to get your character out of a dangerous situation or to prevent an escalated conflict?
I thank you ahead of time for your cooperation.
His powers include:
Asuka has many abilities that are a branch off from his primary ability to summon eight jade balls that he can form from any matter around him. This is known as his Alter Power called Eternity 8. He can form up to 8 of these balls about the size of a softball in size or close to the size of grapefruits. He can condense the size to about that of golf balls. (Which, by the way, his power is the butt of many jokes concerning the balls themselves despite their uses.)
He can only use these balls to manipulate living things but it comes at a cost. The more spheres he summons, the quickly he tires. Despite the orbs versatility as tools, weapons, life-force manipulators and healing, they do drain his physical body since he has to use his body and mind to control them.
- Mind Control: Tachibana can control as many as eight individuals, coinciding with the number of orbs he can summon, at one time. However, the greater the number, the greater the mental drain that he will suffer from. They have to be living in order for this to work. He can use unconscious individuals much the same way as a puppeteer can use puppets. However, if a person exhibits a stronger mental fortitude, he can use more than one to break down their wall and only for as long as Tachibana can maintain that hold.
Controlling minds of individuals does greatly restrict him in combat and therefore he is forced to hide while he performs Mind Control. He could use the mind-slaves for combat purposes but there's a catch. The mind-slaves would perform the same action which would make them appear as if they are mirroring each other than acting as individuals would in a combat situation.
- Ring Platform: Tachibana can transmute the Eternity 8 into a high energy ring that would allow him to levitate in order to perform "tactical retreats". He can also use this ring to cut down obstacles that pose a threat to him, but prefers not to use it for that purpose against living things. When he has the ring in use, he can't summon any orbs. This flying "disk" can travel at high speeds and last as long as Tachibana can control it which is generally for short distances.
- Luminance: This is a very low powered ability that he can use to on the summoned orbs. He can make the spheres glow as long as he remains conscious. In combat, they can remain glowing, but it will drain him a bit faster since he would have to use three abilities at once; keeping the spheres tangible, making them glow and using them for combat.
- Healing Boost: He can heal up to eight individuals at one time, but the cost to his body depends up on the injuries sustained and it drains him considerably. The concentration used to heal is taxing. In the series, he healed up to 40 people and passed out shortly after healing these people fully. These orbs can also heal fatigue, mental exhaustion, serious wounds, broken bones, coma, poison, intoxication, drug overdose, frost bite, burns, internal bleeding, and illness. As long as the subject has a pulse, he can heal them dramatically. However, it cannot heal mental illness, possession or intelligence issues. He can heal the pain associated with these issues but nothing more.
- Eternity 8 Ring: Tachibana can create a ring that would allow him to lift an individual about the ground either to prevent attack or to get a person out of a dangerous situation. This is also called Eternity Arrest. The binding ring is nearly impossible to break free unless the individual captured has greater than the strength of the ring itself and that depends greatly upon Tachibana's physical condition. In good health, the ring has the same tensile strength as a steel ring one inch thick. At his weakest, it has the strength of balsam wood.
- Eternity 8 Shield: Tachibana has the ability to create a shield using the eight Treasure Balls and he can make this shield as condensed or as wide as he chooses by controlling the orbit and speed of the Treasure Balls. The more condensed the shield, the more powerful the attack it can repel. However, the condensed shield is only as strong as his body can sustain. Meaning, if the attack is powerful enough to tear chunks from the ground, as long as his body isn't fatigued he can hold up against this attack. The wider the shield, the weaker it becomes.
- Eternity 8 Sword: By aligning the eight Treasure Balls in a straight line, he can manipulate the energy into a semi-plasma state that can cut through virtually anything. However, like the shield, if he's too taxed, the sword may not be as strong or last as long against an attack if his body is taxed.
- Eternity Extra Shot: Tachibana can reconstruct more material to create a bow that attaches to his left wrist. With this bow, he can align the Treasure Balls in a straight line like an arrow. Aiming for the head of his target primarily, he can erase memories, break mental conditions or wipe the mind completely which leaves the victim a drooling, and rather unintelligent creature that can be re-conditioned into someone else. He could also read thoughts from this attack depending on the mental fortitude of the target.
If you have a character that is psychic in comparison, it's a good idea to talk it over some pretty interesting side-effects on both ends.
Considering that his mind control can become an issue, if he succeeds in pulling it off on your character, what would he see and would it last long in his mind? Is he able to use your character as a puppet should the situation become necessary? Can he use his mind control to get your character out of a dangerous situation or to prevent an escalated conflict?
I thank you ahead of time for your cooperation.
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Poking through Liz's mind (
Poking through Vekk's mind (
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Liz: This is a memory that he would love to hold on to and use to draw that positive energy from. He doesn't encounter something like that often and with those from his world leaving him behind, he needs that strength.
Vekk: Yeah, he's not that tech savvy and might reflect on that stormy relationship with his father. He had the same issue with his mother who left him and his father behind in the Lost Ground because she saw Asuka as nothing more than a hindrance and was ashamed of him because of his power. Asuka will definitely be impacted in a negative way.
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Lord Death: Most head-poking will find memories of the past when he personally hunted down the souls of the damned. (Aka when Death was truly a terrifying person to be around. They were called the "Grim Times" for a reason.) He'd also find memories of sealing away Asura at the end of that period: joyous memories of Asura's feasting on the souls of the innocent and Death punishing him by ripping off all his skin, draining his body of blood, and then sealing up Asura's exsanguinated body and soul into a bag made of aforementioned ripped-off skin. JOYOUS, RIGHT?
However, those memories will be balanced with an equal number of positive memories. Building the school. Watching Death City grow and thrive. The friends he made and ultimately lost over the centuries though he remembers them with fondness. Raising a son of his own. On and on. There's 800 years worth of good memories to balance out just as many if not more of bad ones.
Not sure how Asuka will deal with that.
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As far as the blood is concerned, if it happens that he senses an anomaly during the healing process and if he feels threatened, he'll back off immediately to save himself. It's not a decision that he'll make lightly and most likely if it's psychic in nature, he'll sense it quickly to prevent himself from becoming a victim.
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What he'll "see" is generally memories once he uses the Treasure Balls to start healing. What these will be are surface ones and not necessarily deep conscious ones. He's actually a lot better about keeping what he sees a secret unless he feels that the person he's healing and sees the memories from are an immediate threat.
It's certainly very understandable why she would be super careful about her blood. It's not something that can be taken lightly.
So, with that, the mind control thing is really something that he doesn't perform unless the person is A) destructive to the point of carelessness against others B) he needs to "see" something that he can't physically be present to see and usually he prefers animals for that kind of work C) he feels that the person is going to be in immediate danger and should be redirected D) he needs someone to do a task that he can't perform himself due to injury to protect himself or E) he can't move a person physically and needs to get them to safety quickly.
All of these, of course, are last ditch efforts. Again, through this feat, he'll only see surface memories and nothing that he'll use for blackmail. He's not that sort of touch telepath. I hope that helps. (I know it's weird. His canon is nothing but weird.)
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I read up a little about Rosalia's condition and ouch! I can see why she's protective of herself. Yeah, he won't be able to see the virus but he'll know that something is there if he ever uses the Treasure Balls to "see" it for himself. As far as healing it, since it's a part of her, he won't be able to get rid of it for her, but he can suppress it some unless he finds the source. That's if you want to go that route, of course.
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Still, it's there if you're looking for a temporary solution. :D
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Anyway, yes! I'm not sure if plots actually will happen, but one of my concerns for the possibility that they do is that the virus will be hard to deal with if it gets out. This is very good!