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HEALING: The Stranger is capable of healing physical wounds in people, animals, and other living beings, by resting his hands on their body. Depending on the severity of the injury, this can take significant time, focus, and energy. This likely applies to poisons, toxins, and possibly even magic, depending on your OOC preferences. Theoretically, even 'undead' entities may be affected, given the existence of Force ghosts, although it would be a significant stretch and up to your discretion.

ENERGY ABSORPTION: Defense against impacts. He appears capable of absorbing a blaster shot that, while partially dissipated by special equipment, also across his unarmored upper body. This protection is likely minimal, and would require him to be conscious to use it.

LIFE/PRESENCE DETECTION: Even—or especially—in a state of sensory deprivation, the Stranger has strong access to the Force, and can detect the presence of nearby entities and environmental factors, even in a fast-paced or life-threatening situation. This is a fairly short range ability, similar to vision and hearing, as opposed to something that can operate from miles away. In Saltburnt, the Force has some strange patterns and interference in it. He can have trouble detecting your character at our convenience.

TELEPATHY: The Stranger can detect thoughts and emotions, generally superficially. With more effort, he can look deeper into the minds around him, detecting motivations, nuanced emotional conflict, and active recall. He has some mental defenses, but minimally, his presence (i.e., the presence of his mind) can easily be detected by highly proficient mentalists, as seen in the season finale. He can also send thought 'messages' (i.e., his voice in your character's head) and manipulate others into being more amenable to suggestion.

TELEKINESIS: He can move objects with his mind, and has been able to throw around eight likewise telekinetic individuals at once. However, this is always mediated by hand gestures, at least small ones (e.g., the crook of a finger). He also apparently uses telekinesis to enhance his jumps, punches/strikes, and to soften his falls or appear to even 'float' in the air.

Opt In/Out Form

<b>Character Name(s)</b>: Names here <b>Healing</b>: Y/N do you want your character to/be able to receive healing? <b>Energy absorption</b>: Y/N do you want the Stranger to have some limited protection/Force armor against your character's attacks? <b>Life/presence detection</b>: Y/N do you want the Stranger to be able to detect your character's presence when they are nearby/in absence of distractions? <b>Telepathy</b>: Y/N can the Stranger hear/see some of your character's thoughts? What would you like him to see and/or not see? Will you allow him to talk to them in their mind? Do you want him to 'nudge'/suggest your character to do anything? Any cool side-effects for him to suffer? Feel free to note if you want to just discuss it in-scene. <b>Telekinesis</b>: Y/N can the Stranger use telekinesis on your character at some point? (e.g., sexy Force choke, helping to save them from falling, etc.) — feel free to impose restrictions or note future discussion <b>Other notes/requests</b>: Comments will be unscreened unless you request otherwise.

As a general note, even though he is clearly over-powered in some contexts, the Stranger is likely not on par with titular Star Wars characters, like Darth Vader, Rey, Ahsoka Tano, or Obi-Wan Kenobi. This is particularly true when he does not have access to his lightsaber and helmet. If you want to beat him up or kill him, I'm happy to work on it with you!

Please note that, even if you opt in, I will most likely check with you during scenes in the subject header or via Plurk/DM/PM. That being said, there's one more power that will only be used if you explicitly plot with me for it—

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Memory removal: In canon, he erases years of memories from a character's mind, so thoroughly that a powerful Jedi cannot undo it. This power requires extreme focus and is best done with a willing participant and explicit OOC cooperation, but it's listed here in case it's useful for plotting.

Comments

[dwelt]

Character Name(s): august, elias, yeko, saber

Healing: Y for all except elias bc he heals on his own ;)

Energy absorption:

august - y, but this could result in damage to the stranger and is up to you how much! august is made up of and has access to a ton of dark magical power that can be overwhelming to those around him.

elias - y! he's got a mean hook and intensive stamina but that's it.

yeko - y for psychic/magic & tk abilities, and we can talk about this more if it ever comes up. in her fox form, her powers are pretty intense and she might break through the stranger's absorption. in her human form she's still p powerful, but might struggle more. i'm here for what's fun, so we can hash things out! ♥

saber - he's gross and u never want to be in a fight with him ever. disgusting. will use his ability to get the upper hand. if the stranger absorbs an ability strike, it might become a gross recycling system. idk we can talk about this lmf

Life/presence detection: y for all w special flavor: august will sense this and knock back, elias will have a vague idea of this and the seraphim will be looking at u too stranger, and yeko might send an illusion or two his way with some version of an annoying "hello!"

Telepathy: y for all:

august - has little issues with telepaths but approaches them with the "you really don't want to be in here" deal. and they don't! there's a lot of feelings of guilt, death, and a sense of a ticking doomsday clock. lots of whispers in archaic languages, like there's something else inside of him that isn't him, having been someone to dabble with conjuring so much the portal to another space seems to stay open. parents. friends. he's a good example of you look into the dark and the dark looks back. the stranger might experience paranoia or nightmares if he spends too much time poking around

elias - a knock to enter deal, and even then it's like his mind is a stark one way path of opaque glass. the stranger would be granted access to next to nothing aside from basic two way communication. he'll notice "holes" in elias' memory if he looks hard enough. any suggestions will earn some neg cr if ever found out and a perma-block from headspace.

yeko - one thing he'll notice is she's around 100! lots of wisdom in her. she'll have so much fun with this and make this as difficult as possible. lots and lots and LOTS of imagery, organized but messy. think of howl's room in howl's moving castle. everything has its place but it makes zero sense and she's probably doing this on purpose. let's discuss this so i don't continue to tl;dr u

saber - ok. ex CIA sleeper spy in russia, now working for multidimensional cosmic horror entity. a big black hole, his memory is super unreliable, and it's not "missing" like elias, more like memories overlap so much they get confusing, or some were swapped into others. like yeko, he's 100ish years, but his sanity is questionable. the stranger will get feelings of insatiable hunger, bloodlust, and sex. he's trained against telepaths and consequences for the mind-reader are negative, visceral thoughts that he puts on repeat like a fucked up movie reel. this can be extra nauseating, but he's fine with two-way communication!

Telekinesis: y for all

Other notes/requests: sorry i tl;dr u