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Powers and Abilities
Luke, like most characters in PJO, has a wild variety of abilities.
Demigod: Demigods in PJO have both universally shared traits and inherited aspects from their godly parents.
Demigod body: Universally, all demigods are born battle-ready. They are strong, fast, and really, really hard to kill.
Battle Ready: They have extremely sharp instincts and reflexes in battle, at the expense of being mildly-to-extensively ADHD outside of battle.
Ancient Greek: They can speak and read Ancient Greek naturally, but it makes reading in English rather difficult, manifesting as a rather severe dyslexia.
Super healing: Instead of being burned alive by ambrosia and nectar they are healed by it, as long as they don't eat or drink too much. Video game level mega potion heal.
Delicious!: All demigods are cursed to have a smell to monsters that lets monsters hunt them down and find them easily.
Like most demigods, Luke has a variety of little traits he inherited from Hermes. Hermes has a millions spheres of influence but very few overtly powerful or super useful.
Alchemy: Given a recipe, he's a natural at potion making, though he can't come up with his own or instinctively know a potion. Nor will he have any magical ingredients. Mostly, it'll probably mean he's a really good cook here.
Travel: He's got good navigation sense, even in magical labyrinths.
Thrift: He's good with money in general and have a decent gambling sense.
Communications: He will have innate skill using communication devices and the internet.
Swordplay: Like his father, Luke is an incredibly skilled swordsman. He's had over a decade of combat experience and training on top of natural talent. But that's more affinity and hard work than a supernatural skill.
Master Thief: Luke has some pretty strong magic when it comes to the larcenous side of things.
Trap Manipulation: He can sense traps, and with concentration, can tell exactly the nature of the trap, magical or otherwise. With an enormous amount of concentration and energy, especially for very complicated ones, he can telekinetically disarm the traps. This is not guaranteed, as Luke himself has expressed the ability to fail, but he's pretty good.
Lock Manipulation: He can do the same with locks; he holds his hand over them, concentrates, visualizing the pins and tumblers, and telekinetically opens the lock. The more complicated the lock, the more effort this takes. Locks seem to be MUCH easier for him than traps are.
Stealth: When he wants to be unnoticed, quiet and stealthy he can. He will blend into the shadows and be otherwise difficult to see clearly. He's stolen lightning from Zeus and a helm of darkness from Hades, right from their sides, in front of all 12 Olympian gods. More impressively, he's claimed to steal from the Camp store, which has to be VERY used to the children of Hermes and their tendency to liberate items (while the gods are kind of oblivious to everything but themselves).
Pickpocketing: Enhanced by magic, it's unlikely the victim can feel him taking things from a pocket or purse. He is somewhat hard to notice while he's doing this, but not impossibly so.
Saboteur: Given time and knowledge of where a battle will take place, he will be be very capable at setting up traps and sabotaging machinery. Sons of Hermes have been known to steal live landmines and replant them where they want.
Basically, he's a high level AD&D rogue. He doesn't LIKE these skills, but they are easily the ones he's the most powerful in.
Speed of Hermes:
Teleportation: Luke can simply disappear in a ripple of darkness and reappear somewhere else. I'll be playing it as an extremely fast form of air travel. This is a seriously draining skill and will be very limited in how often he can do this without risking his life. He can only take himself and what he's wearing/holding. It only works for short distances only. He probably needs to eat like a monster to recover. Calorie burn and all that.
Winged shoes - While wearing winged shoes, Luke is extremely fast (not quite superhero speedster but definitely well above human) and can fly. Given away in canon, he has them back for the RP. For now, they will NOT work well for him for a good while, if at all. Because the shoes do have a personality of their own and WILL NOT APPRECIATE HAVING BEEN SENT TO HELL. DESTROYED
(Questionably Canon/Non Canon) Acceleration - Luke has the ability to drastically increase the top speed of a vehicle he's in. This would be a tiring and time limited power.
Demigod: Demigods in PJO have both universally shared traits and inherited aspects from their godly parents.
Demigod body: Universally, all demigods are born battle-ready. They are strong, fast, and really, really hard to kill.
Battle Ready: They have extremely sharp instincts and reflexes in battle, at the expense of being mildly-to-extensively ADHD outside of battle.
Ancient Greek: They can speak and read Ancient Greek naturally, but it makes reading in English rather difficult, manifesting as a rather severe dyslexia.
Super healing: Instead of being burned alive by ambrosia and nectar they are healed by it, as long as they don't eat or drink too much. Video game level mega potion heal.
Delicious!: All demigods are cursed to have a smell to monsters that lets monsters hunt them down and find them easily.
Like most demigods, Luke has a variety of little traits he inherited from Hermes. Hermes has a millions spheres of influence but very few overtly powerful or super useful.
Alchemy: Given a recipe, he's a natural at potion making, though he can't come up with his own or instinctively know a potion. Nor will he have any magical ingredients. Mostly, it'll probably mean he's a really good cook here.
Travel: He's got good navigation sense, even in magical labyrinths.
Thrift: He's good with money in general and have a decent gambling sense.
Communications: He will have innate skill using communication devices and the internet.
Swordplay: Like his father, Luke is an incredibly skilled swordsman. He's had over a decade of combat experience and training on top of natural talent. But that's more affinity and hard work than a supernatural skill.
Master Thief: Luke has some pretty strong magic when it comes to the larcenous side of things.
Trap Manipulation: He can sense traps, and with concentration, can tell exactly the nature of the trap, magical or otherwise. With an enormous amount of concentration and energy, especially for very complicated ones, he can telekinetically disarm the traps. This is not guaranteed, as Luke himself has expressed the ability to fail, but he's pretty good.
Lock Manipulation: He can do the same with locks; he holds his hand over them, concentrates, visualizing the pins and tumblers, and telekinetically opens the lock. The more complicated the lock, the more effort this takes. Locks seem to be MUCH easier for him than traps are.
Stealth: When he wants to be unnoticed, quiet and stealthy he can. He will blend into the shadows and be otherwise difficult to see clearly. He's stolen lightning from Zeus and a helm of darkness from Hades, right from their sides, in front of all 12 Olympian gods. More impressively, he's claimed to steal from the Camp store, which has to be VERY used to the children of Hermes and their tendency to liberate items (while the gods are kind of oblivious to everything but themselves).
Pickpocketing: Enhanced by magic, it's unlikely the victim can feel him taking things from a pocket or purse. He is somewhat hard to notice while he's doing this, but not impossibly so.
Saboteur: Given time and knowledge of where a battle will take place, he will be be very capable at setting up traps and sabotaging machinery. Sons of Hermes have been known to steal live landmines and replant them where they want.
Basically, he's a high level AD&D rogue. He doesn't LIKE these skills, but they are easily the ones he's the most powerful in.
Speed of Hermes:
Teleportation: Luke can simply disappear in a ripple of darkness and reappear somewhere else. I'll be playing it as an extremely fast form of air travel. This is a seriously draining skill and will be very limited in how often he can do this without risking his life. He can only take himself and what he's wearing/holding. It only works for short distances only. He probably needs to eat like a monster to recover. Calorie burn and all that.
(Questionably Canon/Non Canon) Acceleration - Luke has the ability to drastically increase the top speed of a vehicle he's in. This would be a tiring and time limited power.
OOC/IC Stats and Permissions
CHARACTER NAME: Luke Castellan
CHARACTER SERIES: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
[OOC]
Backtagging: PLEASE! I'm a somewhat slow threader, so I will thread into the sunset with you. Picking up days or weeks late is happily accepted.
Threadhopping: DO IT! I love that sort of thing.
Fourthwalling: There's very little that a PJO character can't take in stride. Anything you want to play with is on the table if you're playing a forthwalling type of character and know the canon.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): None come to mind! If something edges out of my comfort zone I'll give you a tap.
[IC]
Hugging this character: Feel free! He'll roll with it.
Kissing this character: Please examine your life choi- I mean. Yes, absolutely. He will foster any romantic inclinations that come towards him. They're really useful.
Flirting with this character: He will totally flirt back.
Fighting with this character: YES! You don't even need to ask. If you want to punch him he probably deserves it. COMEDIC VIOLENCE ESPECIALLY WILL AUTOMATICALLY HIT.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Sure! The typical RP injuries are on the table, maiming sort of things would be case by case.
Killing this character: Yep. Talk to me for plotting.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Sure! Drop me a clue your character is tuning in and I'll give you the line of thought going on. He's got no shield or defenses on that sort of thing.
Warnings: No major warnings!
[Appearance]
Height: 6'1"
Weight: Skinny, but healthy for his height.
Hair color: Sandy blond
Eye color: Blue
General Notes: He has the sly, foxish face of a natural troublemaker. He'll have an easy smile or a grin on most of the time that wont make that impression any better. Open, easy posture and a muscular, runner's build.
Medical Info: He has died twice, one sticking way more than the other. He'll have a deep, jagged white scar down one side of his face (WHICH SIDE? WHO KNOWS. CANON DOESN'T. It's on the left in one book, the right in the other, same with official art. KANYE SHRUGGING GOES HERE.) The palms of his hands will be scarred from a burn. A deep scar on his left side under the arm, most of his back and some claw marks here and there. He's Seen Some Shit.
CHARACTER SERIES: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
[OOC]
Backtagging: PLEASE! I'm a somewhat slow threader, so I will thread into the sunset with you. Picking up days or weeks late is happily accepted.
Threadhopping: DO IT! I love that sort of thing.
Fourthwalling: There's very little that a PJO character can't take in stride. Anything you want to play with is on the table if you're playing a forthwalling type of character and know the canon.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): None come to mind! If something edges out of my comfort zone I'll give you a tap.
[IC]
Hugging this character: Feel free! He'll roll with it.
Kissing this character: Please examine your life choi- I mean. Yes, absolutely. He will foster any romantic inclinations that come towards him. They're really useful.
Flirting with this character: He will totally flirt back.
Fighting with this character: YES! You don't even need to ask. If you want to punch him he probably deserves it. COMEDIC VIOLENCE ESPECIALLY WILL AUTOMATICALLY HIT.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Sure! The typical RP injuries are on the table, maiming sort of things would be case by case.
Killing this character: Yep. Talk to me for plotting.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Sure! Drop me a clue your character is tuning in and I'll give you the line of thought going on. He's got no shield or defenses on that sort of thing.
Warnings: No major warnings!
[Appearance]
Height: 6'1"
Weight: Skinny, but healthy for his height.
Hair color: Sandy blond
Eye color: Blue
General Notes: He has the sly, foxish face of a natural troublemaker. He'll have an easy smile or a grin on most of the time that wont make that impression any better. Open, easy posture and a muscular, runner's build.
Medical Info: He has died twice, one sticking way more than the other. He'll have a deep, jagged white scar down one side of his face (WHICH SIDE? WHO KNOWS. CANON DOESN'T. It's on the left in one book, the right in the other, same with official art. KANYE SHRUGGING GOES HERE.) The palms of his hands will be scarred from a burn. A deep scar on his left side under the arm, most of his back and some claw marks here and there. He's Seen Some Shit.
Permissions
So! Luke is a pickpocket among all of his thiefy skills. Like most children of Hermes, checking out what you've got is an idle habit. In most cases, he'll put things right back or hand it back to the victim cheekily.
He's pretty damn good at it, but I also really enjoy fallout. If he's going to try, I'll leave a note in the text somewhere if you want to catch him or go harass him later about your empty pockets.
As he'll be pretty careful with imPorts, he probably wont be doing it unless really annoyed or really interested. But it's always good to know who I can mess with!
So here's the goodies:
Can Luke steal your character's stuff?
What does your character usually carry on them? (IE, communicator, wallet, pocket lint, HOW DOES A BAZOOKA EVEN FIT IN THERE? etc)
Is anything off limits/trapped/will automatically return to your character?
He's pretty damn good at it, but I also really enjoy fallout. If he's going to try, I'll leave a note in the text somewhere if you want to catch him or go harass him later about your empty pockets.
As he'll be pretty careful with imPorts, he probably wont be doing it unless really annoyed or really interested. But it's always good to know who I can mess with!
So here's the goodies:
Can Luke steal your character's stuff?
What does your character usually carry on them? (IE, communicator, wallet, pocket lint, HOW DOES A BAZOOKA EVEN FIT IN THERE? etc)
Is anything off limits/trapped/will automatically return to your character?
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As for concrit? I welcome it; however, anon commenting is off.
Lemmie 'splain. No, there is too much. Lemmie sum up:
I absolutely promise you that if you step up to talk to me, I will treat you with decency, consideration and probably respect you a whole lot more than even before we started. I consider good constructive criticism to be like telling me my fly's down. YEAH it's embarrassing but it's better than to continue skipping down the road with everything ugly hanging out.
We all have bad days, and heck, I may have missed something, or we just may see the character or canon in very different ways. I'd love to talk about it. I'm the very first to admit I'm not perfect OR EVEN CLOSE. I need to devour at least ten more souls for that upgrade.
I adore talking canon, and I can say that if for any reason I don't make changes based on our conversation, I will give you a very thorough, well-ruminated on reason why not.
As for concrit? I welcome it; however, anon commenting is off.
Lemmie 'splain. No, there is too much. Lemmie sum up:
I absolutely promise you that if you step up to talk to me, I will treat you with decency, consideration and probably respect you a whole lot more than even before we started. I consider good constructive criticism to be like telling me my fly's down. YEAH it's embarrassing but it's better than to continue skipping down the road with everything ugly hanging out.
We all have bad days, and heck, I may have missed something, or we just may see the character or canon in very different ways. I'd love to talk about it. I'm the very first to admit I'm not perfect OR EVEN CLOSE. I need to devour at least ten more souls for that upgrade.
I adore talking canon, and I can say that if for any reason I don't make changes based on our conversation, I will give you a very thorough, well-ruminated on reason why not.
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