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Dec. 16th, 2020 05:25 pmDue to power nerfing, Cole can't force anyone in Duplicity to forget him, and his invisibility only works with middling success - mostly he is very good at not being noticed as long as he doesn't speak or interact with anyone physically, the brain just kind of slides past recognizing him as something that should be acknowledged. If you want to get an idea of how they work under ideal circumstances I wrote up a permissions post detailing them all for Ataraxion here. The information also covers how his Possession powers work. Possession is mostly listed so if you want to use it for a plot you know how it works, but given he does not like it he has no intention of using it if there's another option. Hit me up if you'd like to plot with it but otherwise it's a non-issue.
The main power Cole will have in Duplicity is his Empathy/Compassion powers. It's not mind reading... exactly. As a spirit of Compassion or something that once was one he's mentally in-tune to the pain and suffering of others. There's no hiding your trauma with Cole. If it hurts, he knows it, and feels it as they would feel it. The stronger the despair that grips someone's heart, the easier it is for Cole to sense, even across great distance or obstruction. Tied to this as well is the sense of how to ease that pain - even if it's not something he himself can do. This comes across as something akin to mind reading but he can't control what it is exactly he sees/hears. (ex The Iron Bull asks him "What number am I thinking of?" and Cole instead reads off the train of thought Iron Bull had when he lost his eye. The Iron Bull gruffly says "Twelve. The answer was twelve.") At the point he's drawn from in canon he has no real control over what he hears even in the sense that he can't turn it off - he's always skimming surface thoughts from people he is around if their pain is loud enough. As an extension of this, he can also get vague readings off of people he's never met if their pain is tied to the pain of someone he has met. As he tells the Iron Bull when he comments on this, "Your hurt touches hers."
Since the potential godmode for this, it's an opt-in thing. I'm happy to say he is too overwhelmed by Duplicity in general to get a clear read on them. If you'd like him to sense things for your character, I have a form! Comments will be screened. When in doubt, assume I don't know a canon.
Cole is also incredibly brutal when it comes to how he deals with the cruel - people who put more suffering into the world than they have taken in, and given he senses pain this kind of does let him play judge and jury on it. I'm leaving it up to people to tell me whether they feel their PC has crossed the line into the arbitrary 'bad person' for him or not.
The main power Cole will have in Duplicity is his Empathy/Compassion powers. It's not mind reading... exactly. As a spirit of Compassion or something that once was one he's mentally in-tune to the pain and suffering of others. There's no hiding your trauma with Cole. If it hurts, he knows it, and feels it as they would feel it. The stronger the despair that grips someone's heart, the easier it is for Cole to sense, even across great distance or obstruction. Tied to this as well is the sense of how to ease that pain - even if it's not something he himself can do. This comes across as something akin to mind reading but he can't control what it is exactly he sees/hears. (ex The Iron Bull asks him "What number am I thinking of?" and Cole instead reads off the train of thought Iron Bull had when he lost his eye. The Iron Bull gruffly says "Twelve. The answer was twelve.") At the point he's drawn from in canon he has no real control over what he hears even in the sense that he can't turn it off - he's always skimming surface thoughts from people he is around if their pain is loud enough. As an extension of this, he can also get vague readings off of people he's never met if their pain is tied to the pain of someone he has met. As he tells the Iron Bull when he comments on this, "Your hurt touches hers."
Since the potential godmode for this, it's an opt-in thing. I'm happy to say he is too overwhelmed by Duplicity in general to get a clear read on them. If you'd like him to sense things for your character, I have a form! Comments will be screened. When in doubt, assume I don't know a canon.
Cole is also incredibly brutal when it comes to how he deals with the cruel - people who put more suffering into the world than they have taken in, and given he senses pain this kind of does let him play judge and jury on it. I'm leaving it up to people to tell me whether they feel their PC has crossed the line into the arbitrary 'bad person' for him or not.
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