permissions etc. - wip

[weekending]

PLAYER

NAME: Snarky
CONTACT: PM me. can provide plurk or discord on request.
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: variable due to health & life; i try for at least 1/day or two but sometimes migraines &/or flares from my stupid other health conditions knock me out for a bit. So if I go a few days without tagging, just assume that's probably why.
BRACKETS/PROSE: Will match you! I default to brackets out of habit, but I'm happy to do either. Also, just as a note both I can be kind of a yapper sometimes sorry, especially towards the start of a thread while I'm still like... mentally walking myself to like 'ok what's going on where's everyone at mentally' sjkldf
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: uh... if anything ever comes up, i will let you know

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: ✓ go for it - but expect a response commensurate with their relationship - i.e. he'll have no issue with Robin giving him a hug, for example, but if you're a perfect stranger he might react poorly
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: ✓ go for it - he's not particularly physically strong but he is reasonably durable and has a high pain tolerance
RELATIONSHIPS: ✓ in general, i personally am down to give just about anything a go esp if the chemistry's there, you know?
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: As a natural psychic, his thoughts will be difficult to read without him realizing and trying to block it. Halovians are a psychic species capable of communicating with each other via empathic telepathy, and Harmony powers are psychic in nature. He is sensitive to emotional frequencies, can read thoughts, and can fuck around with people's minds via Tuning.

SEE HERE FOR TUNING-SPECIFIC PERMISSIONS

Tuning is in essence a plot device power resonating with other minds. It can be used for all kinds of things, from relatively mild things like skimming surface thoughts or analyzing someone's mental state or even changing someone's state of mind (such as to, for example, help them feel more at ease) to much more complex things like moving someone's consciousness into a different mind space such as a dream pocket or a pocket inside your own mind to full on mind control in certain circumstances. It can be used therapeutically to do things like mend fractured consciousnesses or alleviate 'disharmonies' and 'distortions' caused by psychic ailments. You can compel someone to speak the truth. It can even be used to manipulate other's perceptions to a certain extent, either directly such as in a jedi-mind-trick kinda way or in a more projection-from-self disguise aura kind of way that causes other people to perceive you as something other than yourself. It can even be used to link perceptions together enabling people to share special sights and powers and whatnot in certain circumstances. basically tl;dr - psychic mental manipulation.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: He can materialize things like thorny vines out of imaginary energy for various purposes. Also he can summon several golden glowing echoes (little sprites basically) to either carry blessings to other people, light up places, help attack things, or idk whatever. They're evidently made from memories. Is this actually considered magic in his universe or just another manifestation of path energy? Who the fuck knows, man. I just decided to put it here b/c it's basically space magic. He's a psychic space wizard who buffs people and/or fucks with their minds.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Isn't human per se but rather a Halovian - a humanoid alien species characterized by halos and wings on their heads. They manifest additional ephemeral wings when channeling power, and although we only ever see Sunday with extra pairs of wings on his head, we do see his sister produce wings on her back. Ask me about my halovian wing headcanons sometime-- Also, the presence of an additional physical pair of hip wings is, sadly rejected by canon (they are, it seems, simply decorative accessories) but damn is it one I am forever down for. What's the point of weird bird angel aliens who use a lot of bird metaphors (especially clipped wings) to talk about themselves if you don't really lean into bird-and-angel-based xenobiology??? in this essay i will-
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: his backstory and the subject of The Harmony includes either directly or implicitly religious trauma (of a fantasy/sci-fi catholic-esque flavor), loss of a parent, pet/animal death, manipulation / non-sexual grooming, compulsions, suicidal ideation, mind control and other weird mind horror (including hallucinations, being reduced to just a mind without a body, being forcibly made part of a hive mind)

while not all of these are particularly likely to come up, just in case if there's ever anything specific you'd like me to definitely steer clear of, lmk

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING: ✓ i am generally ok to backtag fairly indefinitely, but sometimes if a thread goes too long between replies, i can lose steam for it or forget where it was going
THREADHOPPING: ✓ if other party is also ok with it
FOURTHWALLING: ✓ he comes from a planetary system with a dreamworld and is used to a lot of surreal weirdness, so i'm down to roll with it.
NOT INTERESTED IN: I'm not usually interested in smut for its own sake. It is, to me, more of a vehicle to further explore characters' psyches etc. than anything else.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL: [pic]
AURAL: You can listen to some of his voice lines here if you'd like. Imagine whatever language voice you please. Additionally, please enjoy my favorite part of his unhinged utopian proposal--
DEMEANOR: excellent posture like he has a stick up his ass, usually polite, soft-spoken, gentle. can be more authoritative and assertive if the situation calls for it, but he no longer is in any position of authority, so he does not choose to wear a demeanor appropriate to such a station.

☆ code by kimmiserate ☆

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Event #1 The Lost Pilgrim Living Tattoo info - wip

[weekending]

a plurk paste of my initial disorganized thoughts (subject to change; see below for more up to date and easier to read stuff with visuals)

Style: a cross between storybook illustration and stained glass window blocking; general line work & coloring style something like what you'd see in his myriad celestia trailer. Still examples: 01, 02, 03, 04
Head & Neck: vertically on his forehead (and thus hidden by bangs) an eye in parallel to the one at the top of his halo; the top of one of the thorny vines comes up his neck, peaking out of his shirt collar though the vine is broken at the top; markings like liquid trail from his eyes down his cheeks like tears -- this fanart gives something of an idea as well
Torso: while most stop around his hips, one or two thorny vines creep up around his torso and up to his neck, though they're cracked and splintering in spots; much of his chest is decorated with the dark mysterious depths of space full of rivers of stars; a train track winds from shoulder to shoulder but in a meandering way where it goes from point to point, visiting galaxies and planets and sometimes the train is traveling across it. usually it goes between a disc shaped world and a strange tiny infinity symbol shaped world, though it will travel elsewhere too. sometimes an eye blinks open on the chest to watch
Hands & Arms: hand references right hand stylized like a mechanical brass doll or puppet with a hole in the center exposing harp strings instead of bones and tendons; such stylization continues up his arm with exposed harp string tendons that eventually twist together to instead form a set of silver train tracks that twine up his upper arm and across his shoulder; sometimes a small locomotive can be seen traveling along it with several small representations of people sitting on each car (one red, one brown, one pink, one green, one grey, one purple, one smaller with floppy rabbit ears)
left hand is porcelain white with a purplespace thumb speckled in stardust; a golden eye much like the one on his halo is on the back, bleeding into stylized golden filigree that wraps around the wrist and at first become a cracked stained glass path along which dance mannequins before also eventually becomes train tracks that join with with the others across his back.
Legs: Blue and gold thorny vines wrap their way up his legs, the occasional raven feather caught in the brambles, and sometimes ravens with eyes on their chests perch on the vines, peering up into the space above but they never leave the thorns. there is a fallen possibly dead charmony dove caught within but it's very unlikely anyone will see it between his clothes and the vines. While the thorns are more disorderly further down, the further up the more they the brambles begin to take on an even latticework shape in some places and the shape of framework of stained glass windows in others, filled in with color

Other:
1. Important to note that two doves, one mainly white, purple, and cyan and one mainly blue and white with a bit of yellow tend to fly pretty much all over the tattooscape. The purple one sings more frequently, and the singing takes the form of musical notes on a staff ribbon winding away from her but sometimes the blue one joins her in music. (If you look closely sometimes when the purple one is turned just so, you can see a mark on her neck; a splotch like a stray ink mark or a scar.) The blue one has a clipped wing and doesn't fly as well but he's trying. The purple one is most often found flying around and often perches at the very top of the thorns above his collar as if she is watching what is happening. The blue one tends to stick close to the train or stay nestled in Sunday's hands but rarely it does also join the purple one up above his collar.

2. a psychadelic marbled wobbly haze often forms the borders between regions, and it constantly shifts slowly, undulating. it's a bit unsettling to stare at, and sometimes it creeps out further above his collar. another example of what it kinda looks like