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Resonance Permissions
Mikleo is a seraph, a spiritual being that resembles a human but cannot be seen, heard, or touched by humans without a sufficient level of resonance. Resonance basically means their level of instinctive or spiritual power, depending on species.
Most people cannot interact with seraphim, and go about their lives without even noticing them. To combat this, his ability to manifest (which is normally limited to mirrors with enough focus) has been boosted. So he's, you know, playable.
Those who can see and/or hear seraphim in canon are:
For roleplaying purposes, anyone's resonance with Mikleo will increase the more they are around him, eventually making it so he can be at first heard, and then seen. Whichever CR he has who don't fall in the above categories, for example, ought to start hearing him within a couple of weeks or months depending on how much they interact. Visibility follows sometime after.
Mikleo will never be visible in photos or on the communicator, but his voice will always work on it regardless of resonance.
In Songerein, dreamotion can be used to sense Mikleo's presence, give him a visible 'shape', or boost resonance to see or hear him faster. The degree to which it can help is up to the person using it, and I'm happy to roll with whatever you prefer. It can be fun to play with the communication limits! I had a blast with it in prior games. But I will never dictate a) how strong your character's magic or spiritual senses are or b) what counts as a fun thread for you. Pick what works best for you!
To help me out, please let me know on this post if Mikleo is able to interact with your character in person! And if you're not sure, we can sort it out here.
ALSO ALSO- Mikleo has the same ability to sense malevolence as Sorey. So if you can fill out Sorey's permissions as well, it would help us both out!
Thank you!!
ORIGINAL RESONANCE PERMISSIONS HERE and HERE
Most people cannot interact with seraphim, and go about their lives without even noticing them. To combat this, his ability to manifest (which is normally limited to mirrors with enough focus) has been boosted. So he's, you know, playable.
Those who can see and/or hear seraphim in canon are:
- Animals (or those with animal senses or instincts)
- Spiritual or supernatural beings
- Monsters/demons/hellions
- Humans with exceptionally high spiritual resonance (those who can naturally see ghosts or spirits, those who can 'sense' the weird stuff)
- People with magic or unusual/supernatural powers
For roleplaying purposes, anyone's resonance with Mikleo will increase the more they are around him, eventually making it so he can be at first heard, and then seen. Whichever CR he has who don't fall in the above categories, for example, ought to start hearing him within a couple of weeks or months depending on how much they interact. Visibility follows sometime after.
Mikleo will never be visible in photos or on the communicator, but his voice will always work on it regardless of resonance.
In Songerein, dreamotion can be used to sense Mikleo's presence, give him a visible 'shape', or boost resonance to see or hear him faster. The degree to which it can help is up to the person using it, and I'm happy to roll with whatever you prefer. It can be fun to play with the communication limits! I had a blast with it in prior games. But I will never dictate a) how strong your character's magic or spiritual senses are or b) what counts as a fun thread for you. Pick what works best for you!
To help me out, please let me know on this post if Mikleo is able to interact with your character in person! And if you're not sure, we can sort it out here.
ALSO ALSO- Mikleo has the same ability to sense malevolence as Sorey. So if you can fill out Sorey's permissions as well, it would help us both out!
Thank you!!
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Species: Elezen
What's their resonance like?
Does it count if she's attempted to summon carbuncles before but decided it should was more practical to summon aetherial vlades?Being a spirit herself in the First might count as something I think and she's also exceptionally perceptive and a prodigy of some kind. I think it makes sense she would be able to see spirits or sense spirits? We can discuss more too if you like. I'm pretty chill.Would they have malevolence? I guess it would be more like No. But I'm pretty open for discussing. Gonna say no for now. Lol
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wants to say no just to annoy her if bro showed up and it worked faster for himI think that's fair! We can roll with whatever you'd prefer.
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That's first class trolling there my dude! lol. That would be infuriating!Sounds good! Feel free to poke me if anything! :D TY
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Species: Hylian
What's their resonance like? Zelda is descended from a goddess who shed her divinity to take a mortal form. A portion of the goddess's divine powers (and, possibly, her memories) have been passed down matrilineally to her female descendants for eons. I feel like these powers would allow her to perceive Mikleo to some extent. Also, there's this little lore tidbit that Hylians' long ears allow them to hear the voices of the gods, so supposedly Hylians are a little more spiritually sensitive than the average human.
Would they have malevolence? I believe that Zelda might have some malevolence about her. Although she is generally a lawful-good kind of person, there are a couple of external factors that kinda sorta add malevolence to her.
Firstly, Zelda's physical body in the real world is sealed away using her powers to contain an evil force called Calamity Ganon. This sometimes impacts her dream form, since her dreamotion magic sometimes takes the form of Malice (a physical byproduct of Ganon's evil).
Secondly, Zelda formed a soul binding pact with her bff, who happened to be a demon, before he left Song. She has a mark on her left shoulder that represents the pact. It's possible Mikleo could sense that in some way if you wanted. (the demon wasn't necessarily evil, per say, but he was a Judeo-Christian demon.)
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And oh man I did not even consider Zelda having malevolence, but that's a super legit reason for it. Very interesting! I feel like the Ganon link is plenty for her to have some. I'm not sure about the demon connection causing malevolence, since it's more internal conflict-based than a strict "this person is a monster/demon so they must have it" so it really depends on the connected character!
Really though, it wouldn't matter too much since she'll have enough with Ganon to keep Mikleo occupied lol.
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Species: Human
What's their resonance like? Kor's a normal human at first glance, but he's got an extremely powerful sense for emotions and a naturally strong affinity for dreamotion. So while he might not immediately be able to see Mikleo, he would pick up on his presence pretty quickly. Like a weird ghost, and would develop that "resonance" for him after a while.
Would they have malevolence? He wouldn't have any active malevolence, but it's possible that some lingering traces could be sensed, akin to smoke of a fire that's long been put out.
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Species: Hylian
What's their resonance like? Being able to see spirits doesn't seem terribly uncommon in BOTW's Hyrule -- Link interacts with several of them over a period of time, and like Jen said, there's some lore about Hylian ears. I imagine he'd have decent resonance.
Would they have malevolence? At present, no; I've got some stuff planned for the summer that might change that, and if it does, I'll update this.
Side note: I put this in Sorey's permissions too, but there's a certain sentience to Link's sword that Mikleo might be able to pick up on, since Fi dwells within the sword (and on one occasion speaks to Zelda)
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Thank you for the reminder about Fi! I'm aware of it but SS is the one I haven't played so I forget it's a thing often. Considering a big part of seraphim is their ability to dwell within people or objects they deem to be their 'vessel' Mikleo is pretty attuned to that being a thing around him. He'll certainly give the sword a side-eye.