PING SURVEY/PERMISSIONS

[ghostfromthemachine]

Goodness it's been a while since I've had to do one of these. Anyway, Kaiko gets some pretty specific pings that are not always easy for me as a player to work out, so if you plan on tagging her filling this out would be doing me a huge favor— particularly if you're not playing someone I can wiki or whatever!

If your character is a ghost or other kind of undead, artificial in some way (mechanical or biological. cyborgs also count), full of VENGEANCE or just unfairly wronged in general, bad at emotional honesty with themselves, or has a tragic backstory of the I HURT PEOPLE I LOOOOVED/shunned by the people around me type, let me know please! You don't have to go into detail; Kaiko is a baby so her ability to actually tell pings apart is next to nonexistent. They all just sort of strike her as "hey this person has something interesting going on!"

(If you want to go on for a while about what's up with your character anyway, though, I am not stopping you. I love juicy details, give them to me.)

ALTERNATELY: If your character has a history of murder or hurting other people for shitty reasons (enjoyment, making themselves feel powerful, etc.), particularly if it was tied up in other types of crime (theft, extortion, sexual assault, etc.), that is an entirely separate ping that will get her attention fast, though she won't necessarily do anything about it she isn't provoked. (Of course, if you would in fact like her to do something about it, give me a list of their crimes and we can work something out :)) Or, if you don't want her to noticing that your character has done unpleasant things, let me know! I don't want to ruin anybody's fun.

...I know this a lot of assorted fiddly stuff, so thank you!

Comments

[punchiest]

never apologize honestly someone please help him have better taste dantalion was his first crush he needs help,

MAYBE!11 we can at least try tho he's going to be so fucked up for a while

[cinnaponroll]

Tsuzuki's like 75% of those pings.

[cannonbeauty]

Jessica is a Servant and carries some regret over being unable to properly support her younger brother, but otherwise she's nothing else on this list.

[soulcarve]

RIGHT SO eight billion years later

you already know I'm hype for these interactions but I want to give you some more deets—

Because Keiko has such a strong connection to scars on her own, Kiri has a lot more to work with when it comes to working miracles on her ("miracles" being the term for basically any use of Nobilis powers); for starters, she will absolutely be able to sense that there is some kind of connection between herself and Keiko, even if (since she's beginning without her memories of being the Power of Scars) she won't initially understand why. Beyond that, one of her most easily accessed abilities allows her to literally inhabit the scars of others, which means she gets to learn all sorts of personal history stuff at the expense of literally living through the trauma of it (kind of via giant first-person flashback sequence). SO if you wanna play with that~

[giving100percent]

Mob is an esper child with a huge amount of power. Represses his emotions to an extent. And his tragic backstory is once i think i accidentally hurt my brother :(

[canyouhackit]

ADDING FOR QM

Sombra (canyouhackit) is a person who has cyberhacked her own body basically and is a top tier mega hacker and has a lot of cool powers cuz of it. SHE UPGRADED HERSELF TO BE A BETTER HACKER C:

Sandalphon (2000yeardestiny) is an angel. . . but he was an angel made with no purpose and cast aside and like locked up somewhere idk whatever forgotten and shoved aside and then went on a revenge bent that was basically YANKS PIGTAILS PAY ATTENTION TO ME LUCIFER except it was like im gonna destroy the world but really he just wanted to feel useful to someone :,] and he ripped off other angel wings to stick them to his own back so you know,

yeah,

[exiled_honor]

Alberich sort of has spiritual pings- your call on that point! Also remember that one time he was nearly burned alive? Pepperidge farm remembers.

[ghostfromthemachine]

YEAH I. betrayed by his country + Vague Guilt Issues + assorted Gifts etc means he does have her attention! Plus the thing with how he handles restlessness etc by getting into fights and a few other smaller things; mostly what gets her attention is "people like her," but since listing literally all the ways that's possible is hard I just went for the big ones to cover OCs/characters I don't know :')

[churchninja]

Link sacrificed himself to save someone's life and he's technically dead but still corporeal through Thusia magic?? So he would definitely give off 'deceased' pings but I'm not sure if you'd read him as a spirit or undead type. I'll roll with whatever you decide haha. He kind of betrayed his friends and killed tons of people by being an obedient underling and he has a lot of lingering guilt about that. He's also rly bad at that emotional honesty stuff.

[selfidentitytheft]

Now I have Kei at QM so, HIS DEETS: Kei is half-fox but spiritually he's a weak baby. His one good skill is shapeshifting, he can change his face to look like anyone else's but flipside of that he has very little control normally and his face will change without notice, PLUS he doesn't know what his own default original face looks like. So that's constantly fucking him up a little bit and he eels away from making real human connections. No history of vengeance, but HIGH POTENTIAL on his mom's side. Don't fuck with foxes they will eat you.

[ghostfromthemachine]

CUTE

"eels away from making real human connections" oh friend I have bad news for you :)c

[selfidentitytheft]

he hasn't even had any stand-out terrible experiences or gotten strong warnings from other spirits, he just decided to dodge this all by himself JUST IN CASE

skipped go and went straight to jail

[acts_her_age]

Ai could ping for both the shunned/hurt people I loved thing (she didn't, but she feels responsible.) It would probably be a small ping, because she wasn't totally ostracized or anything, but there all the same! She has also been very wronged but isn't really vengeful about it? Resentful, sure, but she'd rather distance herself from the people involved than seek revenge/justice. AND FINALLY she's uuuusually pretty honest with herself internally, but sometimes has a hard time actually behaving in a way that represents her true feelings, ranging from normal silly tsundere stuff to more serious things-- not sure if that would ping the same way!

[thirtypieces]

Alex has heavy, heavy spirtual pings from like. Reincarnating like 79 times in the last 2,000 years. And they remember every single incarnation, aren't they lucky. Anyhow they are the reincarnation of Judas Iscariot, so THAT'S A THING. Also, their life as Alex has been shitty for entirely separate reasons (abandoned by their mom, shitty abusive father with HEAVY RELIGIOUS [CATHOLIC] OVERTONES hahaha they hate their life).

Beyond the whole uh Jesus situation though, they don't have a history of murdering or hurting people, and even the Jesus thing was done out of cowardice more than anything else.

(Also for fun times, in their incarnation as Alex specifically, they have technomancy/electrokinesis powers.)

[artisticliberty]

Yusuke has two things of possible interest: one, he has a Persona, which spiritually is kind of wonky and weird to define, but my best answer is something like a strong metaphysical spirit that is attached to his soul. It gives him magic and combat abilities, but only under special circumstances. So it's there, but it's not doing anything unless he summons it.

The other thing is that while he's mostly cooled off on vengeance due to his former sensei now being in prison, "being unfairly wronged" by society and shitty adults is a theme for every Phantom Thief, and the desire for justice over wrongdoings still simmers deep down. So it's there, just low-key.

[ghostfromthemachine]

THANK YOU FOR POPPING IN also welp

nts Kaiko will want to latch on to like every P5 she runs into and also hello new friend, if you ever need hands-on help with that she's :) more than happy to be of assistance :) :) :)

[knowsgrowsnow]

47 is a living weapon mega trained assassin who was written into existence by an author who wants to control the world through assassination.

fingerguns

[ghostfromthemachine]

sorry Kaiko doesn't make the rules,

[beggarswouldride]

Ride is a cyborg with a self-aware ai installed in his brain

Hiyoko is an android with a human brain

Thor is a war God so like he did not always have great reasons for war tbh

[ghostfromthemachine]

marry ride, fuck Hiyoko, kill thor



wait,

anyway Thor gets some leeway in that he is a god and she's aware of what legends say about him, so as long as he doesn't like murder an innocent dude in cold blood in her vicinity she doesn't really care much. u do u bro. everyone else is getting draped on though

[cw_suicide]

Dazai was abused as a child, went on to join a mafia at like the tender age of idk Very Young (around 12? maybe younger?), was abused some more, took part in abuse as an abuser himself, mafia stuff involving murder and crime and shit--all of this because he was just looking for a reason to live because he is too soft and emotionally inept to survive on his own except like... rofl mafia made that worse BUT IT'S OK. HE IS FREE FROM THE MAFIA NOW!

... except y'know. his mentor basically set up his only friend to murder-suicide which is why he left the mafia in the first place and he is trying his goddamn best to Be A Good but also He's Just Bad? But also...

Anyway, he has a double in QM who did NOT leave the mafia and is in fact much worse off and they kind of hurt each other a lot because they're just both. very bad. at this.

... oh and uh. username is a thing. because yeah.

[ghostfromthemachine]

this dazai: probably the only member of the bsd mafiaish cast that Kaiko doesn't want to instantly murdertorture on sight lmao

sometimes you get killed by organized crime and just Never Forgive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ anyway dazai please take care of yourself?

[cw_suicide]

HE'S TRYING. HIS BEST????

... his best is very bad. not good.

reasons Orga is his boyfrando.

[flamingprick]

...I should have filled this out sooner whoops.

Rin is half-demon with a very short temper. In the past he has gotten very violent when he has lost his temper, not to the point of killing anyone but he has definitely put people in the hospital (including his own father). He also feels responsible for his father's death because his father died saving his life.

There's more stuff too but it's SUPER-spoilery, so the general feel of it is "he's got a lot on his plate and probably doesn't deserve half of the crap he gets." If you want more details I can fill you in though.

[ghostfromthemachine]

no worries, I only realized I should probably pass it around again like this morning haha

Anyway that should be more than enough to work with as far as figuring out how hard he pings her (high but not I NEED TO FIND OUT THIS PERSON'S DEAL IMMEDIATELY AND POSSIBLY ADOPT THEM? high since it's mostly the artificially made kids who get that), thanks!