opt-in/out

[kobes]

OPT-IN/OUT

now that everyone's favorite twink marine has awakened his haki, here's a handy-dandy opt-in/out! succinctly, "haki" is the ability to harness one's own energy/willpower/spiritual strength to do weird anime shit. at this point koby has "awakened" his haki, which eventually leads to said godtier abilities, but will primarily manifest itself in salt as:

extrasensory perception: the ability to sense people's presences (slightly warped by the house being the house, but if someone's approaching him, he'll feel it before he hears or sees them). this will also allow koby to locate people/check in on them without having to contact them any other way.

empathy/emotion transfer: if koby's close by/the emotions are strong enough, he'll be able to feel them very intensely.

aura-reading: people will appear in koby's mind as blobs of color/light, which is cute and fun~ he'll have a better time recognizing people sight-unseen if he's already familiar with their aura. this will also tell him their current status (health, stamina, whether they're injured/dying/dead) and emotional state.

basically: everything on the kenbunshoku haki wiki page, minus the precognitive abilities (for now).

also: horny hot haki (because oda said i could).

please fill out this little box if you wanna -- if not, no worries, i'll default to assuming koby can't pick up anything unless specified in-thread~

<span style="font-size:12px; font-family:baskerville;"><b>player name:</b> <b>character name/journal:</b> <b>opt-in/out of koby's powers? (optional: if your character would be able to block his haki, but you don't wanna entirely opt-out, let me know here!):</b> <b>IF OPT-IN:</b> what would koby be able to sense about your character (magical abilities, telepathy/empathy in return, power level, even just the color/appearance of their aura, go nuts)

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[peasant]

player name: ellie!
character name/journal: alina starkov, peasant
opt-in/out of koby's powers?: in!
IF OPT-IN: aura-wise, alina's resembles pure, searing white light in a general sense — depending on her mood, emotions, and their intensity, her aura may flicker like the colors of sunlight, ranging from buttery gold to deep blue at the edges, to blazing red. alina's counterpart, the darkling, has the scent of a cold winter night — alina's power likely smells the exact opposite. think cutting into fresh, ripe peaches on a warm summer day. overall, alina's power feels contradictory; there's an inherent comfort to sensing it, but the overwhelming enormity of it — and the volatile nature of it, like someone tried to keep lightning in a glass bottle — makes it feel otherworldly, almost terrifyingly so.

important to note that alina's spiritually connected to a shadow summoner in her own world, who has extensively used abomination magic, and has even dabbled in abomination magic here herself — it will look like a spool of black around her aura. one thread leads to an entity that cannot be seen (unless someone apps the darkling, then feel free to have koby notice it leads to him) and the other leads to paul atreides.

other passengers attached to her that koby might be able to sense is a sea whip (sea ice dragon) and morozova's white stag. both feel like ancient guardians carried with alina, that give off two very different vibes — the anger of a predatory animal for the sea whip, and a sense of calm wisdom from the stag itself.

lmk if you need anything else ♥