Mask or Menace - Permissions

[mousquetaire]

General

OOC Permissions

■ PLAYER: Kerry
■ PREFERRED CONTACT: Plurk: halfbloodly. I can also be found on AIM as mysterytourist.
■ BACKTAGGING: I'm happy to! Though if we've been backtagging the same thread for months, I may eventually have to ask you to wrap it up in order to keep CR consistent.
■ THREADHOPPING: Please do, I encourage that.
■ FOURTHWALLING: Go ahead, it won't bother him. It may make him think you're not all there, though.
■ ACTION VS PROSE: I'll do either, but I would prefer action if pushed.
■ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Please warn me first if you're going to talk about either excessive gore/body horror/torture, or animal cruelty. Other than that, I'm cool with most things.

IC Permissions

■ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Go ahead - if he doesn't like it, he won't be slow about letting you know! He tends to be tactile with his friends.

■ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure! But please plot it out with me first. He won't hesitate to fight back and could be goaded into striking first if you annoyed him enough. He is naturally quite violent - he'll threaten to kill you if you hurt his friends, he'll be reactive to challenges and depending on how angry it's made him, he may find it hard to back down. If he's not angry he's a lot more reasonable. If he is, he'll act before he thinks, and it could as easily get him in trouble as you!

■ RELATIONSHIPS: He'll be friendly as a default unless he has a reason to dislike you. If you become close to him he will literally defend you with his life. Flirtation is fine - he'll be courteous about it, unless he dislikes you. Anything more romantic than that isn't going to happen, unless you happen to be Constance, his wife. As a general rule, he is loyal and highly protective towards his friends, and if they're hurt he won't stop until he avenges them. He tends to hold grudges against people that he perceives have 'wronged' him, or someone he cares about.

■ MENTAL INFORMATION: He has no telepathic resistance of any kind, so if you're psychic, he'll be easy to infiltrate. What you'll get from him is a very clear sense of honour and duty, and a strong belief in loyalty and chivalry. Justice is important to him, but he has a vengeful spirit and he's protective by nature. He has a tendency to follow his heart rather than his head, meaning that his temper can get him in trouble. He's very brave and confident, but also reckless and kind of arrogant. If you need anything more specific than that, please ask!

■ MEDICAL INFORMATION: No known medical problems. He's usually in good physical condition, very athletic and fit. He has a small scar from a blade on his right cheekbone, and another caused by a pistol shot to his left rib cage. His reckless approach to battle often leads to him picking up minor injuries like cuts, bruises and the occasional cracked rib after a fight.

In-Game Powers

One of d'Artagnan's Porter-given powers is Empathic Inducement. What this means is that he is able to induce the emotions that he is feeling on anyone that is close to him. In theory, he can induce any emotion - so he could promote a feeling of happiness when a person is sad, he could project a sense of calm when they were panicking, and so on. When he gets angry (which is often, especially during a fight), he will tend to radiate it, which in theory will temporarily rouse the anger of those around him as well.

That could mean you, if you'd like it to.

This power has the following limitations:

• It is active rather than passive; it does not work unless d'Artagnan purposely uses it. Examples of when he might do this would be during battle - he could project anger to give strength and courage to his allies, or project fear onto his enemies. He may also use it to try and calm down someone who was panicked or afraid. However, he needs to be doing it deliberately, he won't be projecting angry thoughts all the time.
  
• D'Artagnan will have personal limitations on how much he is willing to use this power - he would consider it morally wrong to influence someone without a good reason, so he would not use it lightly.
  
• Some characters may be naturally resistant, while others may be naturally susceptible; it's up to you how much you want your characters to be affected, if at all.
  
• The effects are temporary. The exact length of time any one emotional 'push' would last would be up to you, but the effects should wear off quickly once d'Artagnan stops actively using the power.
  
• D'Artagnan cannot feel what your character feels, or read their emotions or thoughts in any respect. Rather, he is able to empathically radiate emotion, which will induce that emotion in other people. He's not reading or manipulating your own feelings - he's giving you some of his own.
  
• He will not be able to affect anyone who is resistant to psychic or empathic abilities. He would have no way to 'break' a mental shield.

Regardless of all of this, I will always plot it out with you before having him use his power in a thread!

So, given all of that! I would be grateful if you could fill in the following form:

<span style="font-family:bell mt; font-size:15pt;"><i>Player Info</i></span> <b>Name:</b> What you would like me to call you. <b>Contact:</b> Your preferred method of contact; Plurk, AIM, PM, etc. Feel free to leave more than one if you like! <span style="font-family:bell mt; font-size:15pt;"><i>Character Info</i></span> <b>Which character(s) do you play?</b> Name | <user name="JOURNAL">. <b>Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)?</b> If they are immune, please let me know! Equally, if you'd prefer that he not use this power on your character(s) under any circumstances, please let me know that too. <b>Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)?</b> If you answered no to the question above, please put N/A here. <b>Anything else?</b> Is there anything else I should know?

Thank you for taking the time to answer! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here.

Comments

[shuckit]

Player Info
Name: Supreme Lord Jen Senpai
Contact: plark

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Tomtom | shuckit.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? telepathy/mental shield 8( idk i'd like to work a thing out tho???
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? eerrrr idk D:
Anything else? ilu

[mousquetaire]

That's not your real name I'm not calling you that wow.

WITH HIS SHIELD, is that always up? Because if it's not, maybe d'Art could influence him during a weak moment?

[shuckit]

wow how dare

nah not really! he's not as fly as emma frost, who taught him the shield SO YEAH THAT COULD WORK

[mousquetaire]

OKAY we can do a thing. He'll probably need to like practice how it works too, so maybe he could ask Thomas to help if he finds out he's psychic?

[shuckit]

sure! :3 lmao thomas will be interested in him either way becasue ermahgerd grey???? but talking????

[mousquetaire]

And with way better hair and 200% more clothes!

[grimreaping]

Player Info
Name: Li
Contact: sojourney

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Death the Kid | grimreaping.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Sure.
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? Just give me a heads up beforehand.
Anything else? Nope!

[mousquetaire]

Okay, noted! Thank you :)

[bokator]

Player Info
Name: Zee
Contact: inasinglebound

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Rose Wilson | vigilis.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Sure, go ahead.
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? N/A
Anything else? angry swordpeople should be friends tbh

[mousquetaire]

Noted, thank you!

So she's an angry swordfighter, is she. They'll either be best friends or unable to stand each other!

[bokator]

they're both little scrappers this will end brilliantly either way >)

[goblinish]

Player Info
Name: Mordrid
Contact: PM this account

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Avinin Anasek | goblinish.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Avinin's got a solid mental shield, due to goblin thinking being really weird (aka he's too nuts)
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? N/A
Anything else? If someone tried to connect to Avinin's goblin-brain telepathically, they'd be in for a headache due to the why of his shield--but idk if that'd apply to reaching out with ~feelings~ rather than brainwaves, so ...idk?

[mousquetaire]

Noted, thank you! If his shield is solid, I think he would rebuff d'Artagnan automatically - he'd never get as far as experiencing goblin-thoughts!

[abduxel]

Player Info
Name: Anke
Contact: On plurk, notforked, or just PM this account

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Matthew Lin, secretly Abduxel | abduxel.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Yes
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? I don't have any particular ideas in mind since it really depends how much / what kind of CR they develop. But I am open to it! TBH you don't even need to bother asking with me, though you can if you want to, I'm a fan of just flying by the seat of my pants with RP. That said, Abduxel is a demon, and will absolutely retaliate in mean demonic ways if he was made to feel threatened somehow! On that note he has lots of anger to provoke & can do creepy and mean things with it.
Anything else? Nope.

[mousquetaire]

Okay, noted! Thank you.

[crapbearer]

Player Info
Name: Tsa
Contact: thepreciousthing, AIM/tsapaper, Skype/princessmettool

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Max | crapbearer, Baymax | dadroid
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Yes to Max; Baymax will not feel it as strongly but could be slightly influenced.
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? We'll see where the CR takes us if it ever comes up :D
Anything else? so Max is a giant literature nerd, and he's probably read the Three Musketeers. Is fourthwalling all right? (I say, having never read the book myself)

[mousquetaire]

You know, you've just reminded me that I didn't have preferences like that in here. I used to have it in another post, but never replaced it. I will fix that and add it here, thank you!

Fourthwalling is fine. It won't bother d'Artagnan, he'll just think it's strange. He may get wary/paranoid if you know a lot of detail, but in general, he'd just be pleased anyone remembered enough about his friends' exploits to record them.

[willinglychanged]

Player Info
Name: Best Francis family member u know in the greater NI area?? Or Matthew that will suffice its cool.
Contact: Either Plurk or AIM I do not mind (or carrier pigeon / sarah)

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Drew | willinglychanged.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? YES!!!
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? Anything and everything. Any great moment of sudden emotional explosion.
Anything else? Just that Drew, being a werewolf, is already prone to reacting quickly w/ emotions so I imagine this would be such an easy power to use on him!

[mousquetaire]

Are you listing Sarah as a mode of contact because I could just like

text you

or something I'M JUST SAYING.

Also yes, that would be easily done!

[willinglychanged]

WELL I SUDDENLY JUST REALIZED THAT OFTEN TIMES YOU HAVE TO TELL ME TO TELL HER TO GET ON AIM???

So she's kind of an awful point of contact...

[mousquetaire]

Yes that's true. You should actually be her mode of contact, she wouldn't even have come to this post if it wasn't for you tbh.

[desequilibre]

........ fight me.

[mousquetaire]

DO THE PERMISSIONS.

[desequilibre]

i dID.

[forcefulgift]

this is also true.... i forget how useless she can be

[whathawksdo]

Player Info
Name: LA
Contact: angrybears @ plurk

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Marian Hawke | whathawksdo.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Go ahead!
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? Whenever you feel like it, but feel free to ask about it first if you're unsure. o/
Anything else? May or may not end up with a punch to the nose if she figures it out.

[mousquetaire]

But what if he induces something nice. Like calm feelings when she's angry there's no way this isn't going to end with violence, is there.

[whathawksdo]

All roads lead to broken noses, my friend.

[whathawksdo]

...unless he makes her not angry about finding out on top of whatever else he did. hmm. :|a

[mousquetaire]

I like how you assume he did something wrong in the first place.

lbr he probably did.

[desequilibre]

are you going to make me do more paperwork?

[mousquetaire]

Yes. Why have you not completed this yet how long have I even had it?!

[desequilibre]

ugh.

[desequilibre]

Player Info
Name: Your Highness.
Contact: Why would I want you to contact me?

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Drunk | desequilibre.
Fighty | cupio.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Drunk: If he figures it out he's getting a punch.
Fighty: Sure.
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? IDK. Don't ask me things, I don't know the future.
Anything else? I DID THE FUCKING PAPERWORK.

[mousquetaire]

Thank u I appreciate your face.

[illuminescent]

Player Info
Name: Mici
Contact: plurk me you know the drill

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Billy "bad decision making engine" Kaplan | inmyothertights and Lucy "she's your queen but she's so smiley" Pevensie | illuminscent
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? Yesssssss please.
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? Any, really!
Anything else? Eh, you're smart, you know the deets.

[mousquetaire]

That's cool, thank you!

[excessivehubris]

Player Info
Name: Lae
Contact: Plurk, PM whichever is easiest!

Character Info
Which character(s) do you play? Charles Xavier | excessivehubris.
Can d'Artagnan induce emotions in your character(s)? He might be able to surprise him with them, at least once but once Charles figured it out, he would most likely block him. But he'd also be fascinated with D'Art's ability and be interested to talk to him about it. Ethics discussion anyone?
Under what circumstances would you want this power to affect your character(s)? At this point in canon, Charles is swinging to his more level headed, calm zen like personality. Still, if he started to back slide towards depression, having a helping hand that's not alcohol or Hank's drug could be useful.
Anything else? <333

[mousquetaire]

Okay, thank you!

Honestly ethics is the main reason d'Artagnan doesn't use this power often. He has A Problem with using it on anyone, and only tends to do so if they're in danger and he's trying to calm them down, etc. But if Charles needed that kind of help, we could definitely plot around it!

[excessivehubris]

Oooo this could be a really interesting conversation for them, then.

Honestly, I think Charles and D'Art could be a fun CR potential and I'm looking forward to them interacting. Also I just love your D'Art so there is that.