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OOC:
backtagging: ALWAYS AND FOREVER
threadhopping: if it makes sense, go for it!
fourth walling: within reason, sure thing.
IC:
hugging/kissing/flirting: YES, DO IT. ALL OF IT. I just want to see his reaction tbh. It'd be so, so awkward.
mind reading: with Subaru's extensive spiritual training, it'd be pretty difficult to read anything more than surface thoughts without his permission to go further.
fighting: haha...well, Subaru's kind of a pacifist, so he won't start a fight unless given very good reason to, i.e. to protect someone else. but if you want to, go for it? I'd read up on his powers first though, just to be informed, before you decide to do so.
injury: totally open to it! we'll just have to discuss it first.
killing: I'd rather this not happen, actually, because honestly that's getting off way too easily for him. also, he works so closely with death and spirits that it would be strange to play him after coming back from the other side of it. injuring to the point of death, however, is fine! just don't actually kill poor Subaru.
powers: copy-pasted directly from my app because I am lazy as fuck and also this is really tl;dr, I apologize. it's also really spoiler-heavy. if you want the whole story, his app is here. but that's even more tl;dr.
Subaru is one of the two most powerful practitioners of onmyōdō in modern-day Japan—although, with Seishirou dead and his powers belonging to him, it’s safe to say that he is the most powerful. As such, he has extensive knowledge of the occult, as well as the spiritual practices of a variety of different religions, particularly Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and he is shown to know great deal about other religions and their practices as well, though he does not utilize them. Onmyōji have a wide variety of magical skills, including divination, mediumship, and exorcism, which rely heavily on ritual. (Subaru personally makes a living by being a medium/exorcist.) They also know about spells and curses, both how to create and deflect them. In addition, they control shikigami, which act as something of a familiar which appears each time they call for it. Subaru’s takes the form of a three-headed white crow. They're also just really sensitive to magical/spiritual presences and powers in general. In the Tokyo Babylon/X universe, onmyōji are known to be able to enter another person’s mind while they are asleep, though it is at great personal risk to themselves, and they must also put themselves into something of a dreaming trance before they do so.
As far as combat goes, in X the onmyōji typically use talismans such as ofuda—slips of paper bearing a spell on them—to attack. These ofuda do any number of things depending on the spell, but most of the time explode, or transform into a flock of magical birds. Subaru is also able to create a shield in front of himself with them by positioning these ofuda in the shape of a pentagram—a traditional symbol commonly used by the Sumeragi—in the air. Likewise, by positioning these ofuda at strategic point around an area, he can effectively create a star-shaped barrier in which everything inside basically explodes.
But those are only his powers as the Sumeragi. As Sakurazukamori, having inherited Seishirou’s powers, he can assumedly do all of the things that Seishirou was capable of doing, as well—albeit likely not as well, as he did not have years of training specifically with dark onmyōdō as Seishirou did. Seishirou had this nifty teleportation trick wherein his body would essentially dissolve into cherry blossom petals (how intimidating!) and he would reappear somewhere else—usually relatively close by, so assumedly this wouldn’t work over long distances. This, I think, would be a trick that Subaru could master easily enough to use it himself. Most importantly, though, is an infamous skill of the Sakurazukamori: the ability to create intricate and powerful illusions—spaces separate from the world itself, it seems, as nothing which happens within them affects the world outside—which can encompass an entire area; on a few occasions, Seishirou created illusions in which giant boulders rained from the sky to crush his opponents, though the illusion Seishirou favored most often is one of a simple cherry tree, always in full bloom despite the season, with deep pink petals—so likely, replacing and imitating Seishirou as he is, this would be Subaru’s typical fare as well. But as Seishirou was a master illusionist, and Subaru has no experience with such things at all, he likely wouldn't be very good at it, and these illusions not hard to break free of. In fact, I doubt he would even have any reason to use them at all in Vatheon—which goes for a lot of the powers here, actually. (Anyway, these things would be used with player permission only, and even then, very rarely, if at all.)
Lastly, there are also the general Dragon powers: accelerated healing, and being able to leap long distances, such as across rooftops and buildings. Much easier to get around Tokyo that way than by public transportation.
so what does this mean?
if your character can sense people with magical/spiritual powers, or people who are closely connected to death, it's safe to say that they would get a really damn strong reading from Subaru, who does absolutely nothing to mask or conceal his power from others. to those more sensitive, who could feel the nature of the power itself, Subaru would feel like a perfect balance between dark and light. onmyōji are yin-yang masters, but they typically only practice one side--either light or dark. subaru originally practiced the light side of onmyōdō, but when he killed seishirou and became sakurazukamori, he gained his powers as well--which means that he now has equal parts light and dark. since he and seishirou were/are the two most powerful onmyōji , he practically radiates both at once.
for me
some questions for you to answer! this is basically only applicable to characters with magical/spiritual powers or some other related oddity, so if your character does not have anything of the sort, feel free to skip it!
Does your character have magical/spiritual powers?
If so, can Subaru sense them, or are they very well hidden?
If he can sense them, what would they feel like?
Is your character dead/a spirit?
Can Subaru know this?
Anything else?
So, please fill out below!
<b>Character Name | <user name="JOURNAL"></b>
<b>Does your character have magical/spiritual powers?</b>
<b>If so, can Subaru sense them, or are they very well hidden?</b>
<b>If he can sense them, what would they feel like?</b>
<b>Is your character dead/a spirit?</b>
<b>Can Subaru know this?</b>
<b>Anything else?</b>
OOC:
backtagging: ALWAYS AND FOREVER
threadhopping: if it makes sense, go for it!
fourth walling: within reason, sure thing.
IC:
hugging/kissing/flirting: YES, DO IT. ALL OF IT. I just want to see his reaction tbh. It'd be so, so awkward.
mind reading: with Subaru's extensive spiritual training, it'd be pretty difficult to read anything more than surface thoughts without his permission to go further.
fighting: haha...well, Subaru's kind of a pacifist, so he won't start a fight unless given very good reason to, i.e. to protect someone else. but if you want to, go for it? I'd read up on his powers first though, just to be informed, before you decide to do so.
injury: totally open to it! we'll just have to discuss it first.
killing: I'd rather this not happen, actually, because honestly that's getting off way too easily for him. also, he works so closely with death and spirits that it would be strange to play him after coming back from the other side of it. injuring to the point of death, however, is fine! just don't actually kill poor Subaru.
powers: copy-pasted directly from my app because I am lazy as fuck and also this is really tl;dr, I apologize. it's also really spoiler-heavy. if you want the whole story, his app is here. but that's even more tl;dr.
Subaru is one of the two most powerful practitioners of onmyōdō in modern-day Japan—although, with Seishirou dead and his powers belonging to him, it’s safe to say that he is the most powerful. As such, he has extensive knowledge of the occult, as well as the spiritual practices of a variety of different religions, particularly Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and he is shown to know great deal about other religions and their practices as well, though he does not utilize them. Onmyōji have a wide variety of magical skills, including divination, mediumship, and exorcism, which rely heavily on ritual. (Subaru personally makes a living by being a medium/exorcist.) They also know about spells and curses, both how to create and deflect them. In addition, they control shikigami, which act as something of a familiar which appears each time they call for it. Subaru’s takes the form of a three-headed white crow. They're also just really sensitive to magical/spiritual presences and powers in general. In the Tokyo Babylon/X universe, onmyōji are known to be able to enter another person’s mind while they are asleep, though it is at great personal risk to themselves, and they must also put themselves into something of a dreaming trance before they do so.
As far as combat goes, in X the onmyōji typically use talismans such as ofuda—slips of paper bearing a spell on them—to attack. These ofuda do any number of things depending on the spell, but most of the time explode, or transform into a flock of magical birds. Subaru is also able to create a shield in front of himself with them by positioning these ofuda in the shape of a pentagram—a traditional symbol commonly used by the Sumeragi—in the air. Likewise, by positioning these ofuda at strategic point around an area, he can effectively create a star-shaped barrier in which everything inside basically explodes.
But those are only his powers as the Sumeragi. As Sakurazukamori, having inherited Seishirou’s powers, he can assumedly do all of the things that Seishirou was capable of doing, as well—albeit likely not as well, as he did not have years of training specifically with dark onmyōdō as Seishirou did. Seishirou had this nifty teleportation trick wherein his body would essentially dissolve into cherry blossom petals (how intimidating!) and he would reappear somewhere else—usually relatively close by, so assumedly this wouldn’t work over long distances. This, I think, would be a trick that Subaru could master easily enough to use it himself. Most importantly, though, is an infamous skill of the Sakurazukamori: the ability to create intricate and powerful illusions—spaces separate from the world itself, it seems, as nothing which happens within them affects the world outside—which can encompass an entire area; on a few occasions, Seishirou created illusions in which giant boulders rained from the sky to crush his opponents, though the illusion Seishirou favored most often is one of a simple cherry tree, always in full bloom despite the season, with deep pink petals—so likely, replacing and imitating Seishirou as he is, this would be Subaru’s typical fare as well. But as Seishirou was a master illusionist, and Subaru has no experience with such things at all, he likely wouldn't be very good at it, and these illusions not hard to break free of. In fact, I doubt he would even have any reason to use them at all in Vatheon—which goes for a lot of the powers here, actually. (Anyway, these things would be used with player permission only, and even then, very rarely, if at all.)
Lastly, there are also the general Dragon powers: accelerated healing, and being able to leap long distances, such as across rooftops and buildings. Much easier to get around Tokyo that way than by public transportation.
so what does this mean?
if your character can sense people with magical/spiritual powers, or people who are closely connected to death, it's safe to say that they would get a really damn strong reading from Subaru, who does absolutely nothing to mask or conceal his power from others. to those more sensitive, who could feel the nature of the power itself, Subaru would feel like a perfect balance between dark and light. onmyōji are yin-yang masters, but they typically only practice one side--either light or dark. subaru originally practiced the light side of onmyōdō, but when he killed seishirou and became sakurazukamori, he gained his powers as well--which means that he now has equal parts light and dark. since he and seishirou were/are the two most powerful onmyōji , he practically radiates both at once.
for me
some questions for you to answer! this is basically only applicable to characters with magical/spiritual powers or some other related oddity, so if your character does not have anything of the sort, feel free to skip it!
Does your character have magical/spiritual powers?
If so, can Subaru sense them, or are they very well hidden?
If he can sense them, what would they feel like?
Is your character dead/a spirit?
Can Subaru know this?
Anything else?
So, please fill out below!
<b>Character Name | <user name="JOURNAL"></b>
<b>Does your character have magical/spiritual powers?</b>
<b>If so, can Subaru sense them, or are they very well hidden?</b>
<b>If he can sense them, what would they feel like?</b>
<b>Is your character dead/a spirit?</b>
<b>Can Subaru know this?</b>
<b>Anything else?</b>