Skill #0

[silkenfinetrammels]

✧ Telekinesis - Healing

Regained - Starting skill!

Notes - Okay, so some info about healing in Elfquest in general. This is essentially the ability to telekinetically manipulate living flesh to knit up wounds, purge sickness, etcetera. (Even grow hair. Canon!) Winnowill can also manipulate sensation, shapeshift, and a batch of other wacky stuff, but I've broken that out into other skills along this skill tree. So it's worth noting that, without her sensation manipulation, she won't be able to be a psychic painkiller while she does this. No soothing touch for the moment, just getting injured in reverse. She must have physical contact for this: it's laying on of hands, complete with a faint golden glow spreading from her palms as she works.

This is not RPG healing. It's not instantaneous. It might take her only a few moments to make a papercut go away, sure, but knitting up broken bones or massive internal injuries can take an hour or more of work. Winnowill is the most powerful healer in her canon, but she's also currently powercapped, and part of how I'm capping her, aside from simply limiting how much she can do in one day, is making her healing take longer. She can push to speed it up, but she'll exhaust herself much faster.

Like all of Winnowill's skills, this can be inverted. For most of her screentime in canon (as opposed to her past, before she went nuttyfucks), she's a healer in reverse: she hurts rather than heals. She can, in an emergency, cause injury, ripping bodies apart, pulverizing flesh. It's ugly. :) BUT this use of this skill is not going to be instinctive to her. How capable Winnowill is of either healing or reverse-healing depends upon her mental state. And given how late in the series she does this nasty trick, I'm guessing she has to be pretty far downhill to be even capable of it. So this is more a note for reference.

Onwards! Elves, in Elfquest, mostly deal with other elves, including healing and other such hijinks. There's one case where another, weaker (but still quite capable) healer tries to heal a human, and it takes her hours and completely wipes her out. Elves are flesh-and-blood creatures, but they are also intensely magical creatures, and trying to get mundane flesh to move itself around by your well is a lot harder than dealing with the magical variety. Obviously the only elf in Aather is Winnowill herself; she will find it easier to work on herself than on anyone else. This is, in a way, a non-Three-instituted powercap: a fair chunk of Aather's population is going to take more out of her to heal than she might expect. Basically, I will be doing my best to balance all this to make her an effective healer without going godmode.

So this is now going to turn into a permissions survey sort of thing...

If Winnowill is ever healing you (or doing other things to you, once she picks up more skills), I will need to ask this, so I might as well ask this now and have it on hand in case people feel like answering in advance. People who get injured a lot are especially encouraged to fill this out! To have some idea of how easy it will be to work on you, I need to know the following:

What is your body made of? Human-ish flesh and blood, wacky other flesh and blood, something else entirely? If you're made of magic, what kind of magic is it?

How maaaagical are you? Mundane? RPG character who wields some magic on the side? Dedicated mage? Cosmic macguffin in human form? (One more edited-in note: psychic counts as magic! (EQ magic is psionics, pretty much, it's just maaaagical~ enough psionics that I'm letting them be pretty compatible with magic for the sake of Aather RP.)

Also some notes from stuff I've already figured out!
- Dead people are a go. Come to my bosom, little magical girls.
- People made of something that isn't human or animal flesh and blood are not. Sorry Katou. :(
- People made entirely of magic/psychic energy/etcetera are...not a go at the moment. I sort of derped on that when I first wrote this post, possibly because I was tipsy at the time. This skill needs physical flesh and blood to manipulate. When she gets back her psychic/telepathic healing skill, she'll be able to work wonders with you adorable little magical constructs, but. Feel free to stick info down here anyway, I will come back to this for all healing reference as I go!

Comments

[twilight_boy]

From what I can tell, Roxas's body is made of magical energy, my bff KH. Specifically, elemental energy, if that helps any.

...I think that also answers the 'how magical are you?' question.

[antreegonist]

1. Mithos is made completely of magic! I, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CLASSIFY IT AS TYPE. It makes him 'inorganic' and it's powered by dead souls! Details are listed here if that will help. There is a flavor of light elemental to it because that seems to come with being an angel, but it is a pretty complicated thing.

2. Dedicated mage/bizarre magic thingamajibbet as mentioned in 1!

Fortunately I don't think we will have to go 'WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON HERE' too often because I don't think Mithos winds up needing healing from other parties that much.

[autorejoin]

Clue/Katou (autorejoin): His body is made of plants! The simplest way to put it is that it's basically a plant-bot. It looks realistically human, and even bleeds/reacts like a human body, but it's plants.

He himself is not particularly magical, but he is basically a deceased human with a touch of angel power.

Acheron (theriverlethe): His body appears to be generally a normal human body, except that he has a ridiculously good healing factor all on his own. However, he's actually a god. A really, really powerful god when he has his skills. Also a vampire...ish. Regardless, this boils down to yes, he is ridiculously magical. I can give extensively detailed explanations of anything, but those are the basics.

[blackjacked]

... KIT GETS HURT A LOT and I don't envision this changing anytime soon so \:D/;

1. Human flesh! Completely normal here.

2. Other than magical sleight-of-hand and illusions, not magical at all :|a

AND FOR ROSE

1. Also completely human.

2. As of right now, not magical at all, but once she earns her Persona back she'll ping for magic. It'll start off weak but with lots of potential, and as she grows more powerful the magic will grow with her. By the end of the game she's one of the more powerful magic users in the game, so! :|b Not RPG protag powerful, but still powerful.

[featherfetch]

Syaoran/Pascal is made completely of magic! He's someone else's creation, and magic in TRC is kind of this innate ability tied to the soul and doesn't have a specific "kind", per se... it just is. Also has a different person's magical signature all over his blind eye I guess :|a

He has no magic of his own.

Kyouko is idkmybff madoka. Uhm. She has her own magic based in her soul gem, it doesn't have a specific type either... though she's predisposed towards illusory magics, I guess. Also her soul isn't in her body anymore, it just controls it from the soul gem, so technically her body is just a lifeless shell (though otherwise it's human).

She is a magical girl :|a

[toolate]

Oh gosh. UM OKAY. For Drift, right now he is made of flesh and blood like any other person! However, he is not an actual "person;" he's literally a fictional character that cannot exist in reality -- I'm not really sure if that's magical or anti-magical, but he's definitely not human. So, I guess, closer to a concept idk.

Once he gets back the proper skills (labeled "Paper-thin" and "Role and rule as the White Rabbit" in my registry), his body will revert to what it is in canon to match the fact that he is a fictional character. I will edit this comment for more clarity when that happens, but basically he won't be able to sustain injuries unless under specific circumstances and his blood will be replaced with ink and I think he might basically be made of paper idk. W. WE'LL SEE.

[deadlyfurniture]

1. Human flesh and blood! Just medically dead human flesh and blood. Exactly how dead I'm not entirely sure but he doesn't heal on his own very well and he doesn't have a pulse. But he can still digest food, but he also can't starve so idk vampire magic. Anyway I guess it'd make him easier to work on rather than harder because you probably don't have to bother about attaching blood vessels and things back up properly?

2. Vampire! "Flesh and blood but intensely magical" is actually not a bad way of describing him, since vampires in Being Human do seem to be sort of... connected to magic? They have various otherworldly senses and are affected by the world in magical ways and stuff like that. So he's more than just a plain reanimated corpse that needs to feed on blood (which I would otherwise be inclined to say he is because BH is very firmly rooted in plain real life things for the most part).

I... think that makes sense :|a let me know if it doesn't

[ichtreteihrgesicht]

Asuka is technically 100% human. That said she's also been contaminated with bits from a supernatural being called an Angel and due to the canon updates she's had it's still there so.

Riful, OTOH, is not human at all, she's a handwave-supernatural voremonster called a yoma that definitely pings for magic of some kind and has supernatural regen abilities of its own. So. Let's go with 'wacky other flesh and blood' for $1000, Alex.

oh god it's a winnowill this is going to be safe

[yourmama]

Viola (yourmama:
> her body is made of human flesh and blood!
> she's magical enough that she pings in her world as something different than ordinary human. She's an RPG character who wields magic on the side, but her existence is also Not Human. She's a mush of god-dragon soul in there.

Rabbit/Ayame (scalesfromeyes:
> snake ayakashi flesh and blood…
> at the moment, decently-to-high magical? Hard to quantify. She has ~phenomenal cosmic powers~, sort of, hardly ever uses them, etc etc, and the powers come from the combination of her human soul and her ayakashi body.

[deadofknight]

Ace's body is possibly made of weird dream-dimension shadow...stuff...but I think for all intents it purposes it would ping as mostly human flesh and blood with a touch of strange magic to it.

[floorcandy]

Mikage is flesh and blood for all practical purposes! But he is also an illusionary contruct made by a magical babydragon. UP TO YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO TREAT HIM AS.

Obsidian is obviously not human, but he is not magical at all. Normal animal flesh here.

[orange_sun]

Replying to this for form's sake. |D As far as I know, Josh is fully human but enormously magical, so yeah. Watch me have to retcon this in May.

[h8ersgonnah8]

VRISKA IS MADE OF FLESH BUT... ALIEN FLESH? SHE'S ALIVE AND MOSTLY NON-MAGICAL BUT SHE'S ... A TROLL ... IDK.

[poker_face]

Both Judy and Emil are made of flesh and blood! So, no tricks there. :') Yet, for Emil at least.

Judy isn't very magical. She has the capability, but she chooses to rely on brute strength. Emil, however, is thousands of years old. As old as the length of the elves' stay on Aselia. And is basically a bundle of magic, though most of it is beyond his use/capabilities right now. Emil may ping her as a part of the whole-- and the whole is going to be Ratatosk. Ratatosk is very much semi-godlike creature. Sooooo take that as you will.

[glorious]

Van is made of flesh and blood. In canon though (spoilers), he had begun to fallen apart at what was essentially the molecular level and then was pieced together again by the sentient form of the Seventh Fonon and held together that way so...There's no Seventh Fonon here but presumably the Personae were the ones to piece him together again. Not sure how that would ping for Winnowill but she may notice that he's been torn apart and pieced together by powerful...sound magic.

As for how magical he is; he is an RPG boss that wields some fairly decent magic on the side.