powers & permissions

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POWERS

THE MOST POWERFUL PRACTITIONER OF PSYCHOKINESIS AND TELEPATHY IN THE WOoOoORLD While Psycho Mantis' particular skillset seems to mostly be "whatever would be the most annoying to deal with from a gameplay perspective," for the sake of consistency, he's variously shown to be able to: read minds — emotions, thoughts, memories, etc. psychically control people temporarily implant false memories and brainwash people create apparitions and illusions teleport, at a fairly close range throw fire around move objects up to the size of giant robots, apparently create psychic barriers hover around like a weird spooky jerk break the fourth wall like it's his job In MGSV, his range is said to be around three miles, and in MGS1, he has an entire base full of soldiers brainwashed and still has time to float around his lushly decorated office yelling about the save files on your PlayStation memory card. Wow! But he's a video game midboss and destined to lose important fights anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In terms of weaknesses to all this bullshit, characters with strong wills or other types of psychic shielding (implants, canonically, but anything goes in a jamjar) can resist what he does, and I'm willing to play pretty fast and loose with this for the sake of not being a complete godmoding asshole here.

PERMISSIONS

The fun part! Anything deeper than a quick read of surface thoughts/emotions will, of course, be handled on a case by case basis and coordinated OOC! But I'd appreciate it if you could fill in a really quick opt-in/opt-out for basic stuff. <b>Character Name / Journal:</b> <b>Preferred Contact:</b> Plurk/PM/Discord? <b>Can Mantis read your MIND and/or FEELINGS?:</b> Yes / No / It's Complicated And I'll Explain <b>Fourthwalling?:</b> Y/N. This probably won't come up much, but MGS is a very meta franchise. This is TOTALLY OPTIONAL and FOR FUN. <b>Anything Else?:</b> Anything in particular a psychic might notice on first glance, especially strong negative emotions. Alternately: a full opt-out! MGS deals with some heavy themes (war! child soldiers! torture! human experimentation! et cetera!), and Mantis himself is a pretty unpleasant person. If you'd like to opt out of being tagged entirely, either fill this out or send me a PM! <b>Character Name / Journal:</b> don't tag me bro

Comments

[petridish]

Character Name / Journal: Clone Shepard (on the network as Jane Shepard, introduces herself as other things) / petridish + Nathan Drake / ascendit
Preferred Contact: pohutukaryl
Can Mantis read your MIND and/or FEELINGS?: Yes
Fourthwalling?: N
Anything Else?: Cloney is basically always in a state of low level frustration :|;;; Nate has a second, non-human presence in his mind, but muted to the point that he'll probably just be able to feel that it's there, not its own mind/feelings - it's a JRPG summon living in his head, but I don't NPC it.

[tearsinajar]

Character Name / Journal: Elena Fisher (tearsinajar) / Bull (pubcrawl)
Preferred Contact: PM is fastest
Can Mantis read your MIND and/or FEELINGS?: Elena: Read mind: Y / Feelings: Y - Bull: Read mind/feelings: He can be strong willed, it might take a bit, which I'm cool with playing out or having Psycho prod.
Fourthwalling?: N
Anything Else?: Elena: she's always got Nate on her mind, lately it'll be about her death and really about him, broken promises and abandonment crap / Bull: there ain't much

[shashka]

Character Name / Journal: Pistol Bobcat
Preferred Contact: roflskate
Can Mantis read your MIND and/or FEELINGS?: Yes... he's been trying to convince everyone that psychics are totally a thing and invest in psychic resistance training/psychic gear and stuff. But people were initially reluctant until they saw the floating kid I WONDER WHO THAT WAS.
Fourthwalling?: This is mgs who am I to say no.
Anything Else?: He thinks about John a lot. But do you need a psychic to tell you that?