Power Permissions
Aug. 12th, 2019 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
needsaspirin"I just... I sense it. The darkness in people. The shit they've done, are doing, or... will do. The worst ones... they have no guilt. What I see, I feel... is a void, a lack of humanity. And the closer they are, the sharper the needle in the back of my eye."
Erik's powers can generally be boiled down to a very specific kind of empathy where he can sense evil in others. Proximity to people who trigger his ability gives him a headache that increases in intensity the more dark the person is and the closer they are. The ability is not telepathy. He doesn't read minds and cannot tell what they've done; only gauge the severity.
For general purposes, I'll use the 0 to 10 scale used in the show as a benchmark.
People on the higher end of the scale - say the 7 to 10 range, can cause Erik enough trauma that being in direct physical contact with them can cause him to bleed from the eyes, nose, and/or ears. Sexual contact initiated from anyone on this end of the scale will be considered non-consensual.
Conversely, people who do not register on the pain scale and could otherwise be considered especially good or heroic, can be marginally soothing for Erik to be around. It is possible to not register on the scale and not be a hero. The average person does not register to his ability.
So how does this scale work?
Largely the scale of headache Erik gets, their baseline if you will, is based on their level of evil diametrically opposed to their level of guilt.
0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------10
No Evil -----------------------------------------------------------------Most Evil
Most Guilty------------------------------------------------------------ Least Guilty
So, for example a 10 on the scale is a remorseless serial killer, while a 5 is someone starting down a dark path, and a 3 is someone shady but who feels conflicted about it.
But what is 'Evil'?
Evil here is a catch-all term but Erik's estimation of darkness is mostly unbound from morality. Having killed one person doesn't automatically put you on his radar, especially if you feel guilty about it. A lot of what he feels about a person is based on their intentions and motives. There is even evidence to suggest that a person's rating on the scale will spike when feeling especially angry or murderous in the moment. The way a person feels to Erik can change over time as well. In the end this is up you you, the player, to decide.
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Erik's powers can generally be boiled down to a very specific kind of empathy where he can sense evil in others. Proximity to people who trigger his ability gives him a headache that increases in intensity the more dark the person is and the closer they are. The ability is not telepathy. He doesn't read minds and cannot tell what they've done; only gauge the severity.
For general purposes, I'll use the 0 to 10 scale used in the show as a benchmark.
People on the higher end of the scale - say the 7 to 10 range, can cause Erik enough trauma that being in direct physical contact with them can cause him to bleed from the eyes, nose, and/or ears. Sexual contact initiated from anyone on this end of the scale will be considered non-consensual.
Conversely, people who do not register on the pain scale and could otherwise be considered especially good or heroic, can be marginally soothing for Erik to be around. It is possible to not register on the scale and not be a hero. The average person does not register to his ability.
So how does this scale work?
Largely the scale of headache Erik gets, their baseline if you will, is based on their level of evil diametrically opposed to their level of guilt.
0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------10
No Evil -----------------------------------------------------------------Most Evil
Most Guilty------------------------------------------------------------ Least Guilty
So, for example a 10 on the scale is a remorseless serial killer, while a 5 is someone starting down a dark path, and a 3 is someone shady but who feels conflicted about it.
But what is 'Evil'?
Evil here is a catch-all term but Erik's estimation of darkness is mostly unbound from morality. Having killed one person doesn't automatically put you on his radar, especially if you feel guilty about it. A lot of what he feels about a person is based on their intentions and motives. There is even evidence to suggest that a person's rating on the scale will spike when feeling especially angry or murderous in the moment. The way a person feels to Erik can change over time as well. In the end this is up you you, the player, to decide.
Please comment with the following form to opt-in:
Otherwise it will be assumed that the game settings are interfering with any read he can get on the character one way or another. If you feel there would be a change to this rating, kindly come back and edit your comment to reflect it. Thank you!
If you have any further questions, feel free to PM this journal, or contact me @
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Date: 2019-10-04 06:53 pm (UTC)If no, do they have a Hero Vibe? AHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
Conditional empathy: (Y/N?) Y
Anything else? He's basically one of Overwatch's Big Bad Evil Guys. Enjoy.