Okay, then I'll remove some of those elements. Just limit to basic four?

I updated previous post in rp. Is that better?

Also, I'll be back later. I'm gonna log off and go eat and/or head home now.

That still feels damn powerful. Fire, air, water, and earth can still include metal, trees, volcanoes, toxins...

Most of those elements aren't even...things, here. It's, by definition, not magic. 90% of the stuff you want her to be able to do involves ALTERING REALITY which is the province of theurges calling on divine intervention. Psyke is manipulating matter with the mind, or interacting with other minds in some way. Anything she evokes has to be, by definition, physical in origin.

There's literally no circumstance I could think of wherein she would be able to apprehend the fundamental fabric of the universe and manipulate space-time, when even with all the super science, they haven't figured out what the hell time even *is* yet.

'Dark' is not an element. Necromancy is a thing, that theurges do by drawing on Sheol and using their own soul as a power source. It has nothing to do with psykosis.

Same with 'Light' it involves either drawing forth power from one's own soul (if the soul is strong enough) or drawing it straight from heaven (something rather dangerous).

'Fire' and 'Ice" are just telekinetic alterations to 'Air". Earth is telekinesis applied to the ground. Water is... either once again messing with the molecular structure of air, or telekinetically pushing molecules of H2O around.

And you're telling me she has a very special cerebral structure. Why. Why does she have this talent that no one else has? Where did it come from? Why can't it be replicated and mass-produced by cybernetics and neurosurgery? Why is she the first one to exhibit it? What sort of genetic mutation caused it, and what environmental factors influenced that mutation? Is it inherited? You've so far given no reason or justification for her having the abilities she does.

Hell, if you want to make her really overpowered, being able to visualize things so acutely would theoretically allow her to split atoms telekinetically -- PLEASE DON'T DO THAT.

Yeah, I'm fine if Ari calls it ice or whatever. Do keep in mind even psychically weak people have a subconscious will that's holding their in equilibrium; disintegrating someone into ash with a thought would be a hell of a lot harder than just setting their clothes and the air around them on fire.

And electromagnetic manipulation.... I ... am honestly not sure what one could even do with that. Been a while since Physics 101. She can apparently see x-rays? Or her mind projects x-rays that function sort of like echo-location and render a black and white image in her mind? Pretty sure Gamma radiation can disrupt cellular structure to the point of disintegration in high enough exposure. Alpha and beta are relatively harmless as far as I remember. I guess she could blind people with super-intense light? I forget if that was on her profile. I mean, it's all just accelerating or decelerating photons to some degree.

Probably lightning, as well, or rather, electrical charge manipulation.

Can I stress, though, that if this is her thing, she really shouldn't excel in any of the other areas? It's pretty much either be *okay* at everything, or specialize and fall behind in other areas.

Also, about learning to swordfight, it's physically impossible to learn how to react to someone trying to kill you with a bladed weapon, unless... you actually practice with someone simulating exactly that. All those in-close moves rely on having an understanding of how the human body reacts to applied force from certain directions and under specific leverage. She would *have* to have a sparring partner, at the least. Trees won't cut it. (pun not intended)

If you had to put it in parenthesis, it is 100% intended mate. Sorry sir, but I am going to call you out on that pun.

But it's so horrible! I don't think I can live with the shame!

Abaddon: Lo, the dead rise in their billions at my command! Kneel, and know terror!

Death: Mine arrow doth pierce the heavy hearts of gods, and layeth them low. None living, nor spirit ling'ring may withstand its bite.

Thanatos: Wheresoever I ride, all that breathes doth die.

Satan: I lie, never once more to rise, sighing out such blood from ruptured lungs, and innumerable terrors of my dir'st thought doth rise from the horrid pestilence I weep. And I so bleed eternally.

False Prophet: I have brought to heel the sacred sovr'nty of mighty Jerusalem, and armed my legions with such--

Zaccheus: No. Just, no. Shut up. You tried that gimmick back at Armageddon, 'Oh, look at me, I have 200 million men, I'm going to take over the world!' Remember how that turned out? You've got nothing.

False Prophet: But--

Abaddon: He hath, as they say, a point. Your pretense at war provides such endless amusement, and I am so very rarely amused.

False Prophet: Nonsense! I have laid low your wretched hordes in myriads!

Abaddon: And yet, they ever return. How very bewitching...

Seth: Hey, could you guys keep it down? Cherry here is trying to sleep.

Zaccheus: Cher...ry?

Death: Who?

Thanatos: What?

Abaddon: How...?

Satan: No.

False Prophet: Oh, this is rich. But, alas, these times doth try us all. Even the mighty Cherubim must needs find their place in this broken, battered world... I am sure he is honored to be... *snigger* your pet.

Seth: You bet he is, aren't you boy? WHO'SAGOODBOY?

Cherubim #3: What can it yet avail, though we feel such strength undiminished, and with Eternal being to undergo Eternal punishment?

Death: I've this dart... oh don't look so horrified! See how he suffers? And you would call us cruel, boy. More mad than either of your brothers. Lo, how fallen, these piteous Sons of Adam....

Zaccheus: *loading a shotgun* Seth, I think.... Cherry.... needs to go for a walk behind the barn. With me. Alone.

...That made my trudging endlessly through homework a bit more bearable.

That, and the fact that I just ran through four Submachine games. ...Suze, you should try those. They might interest you.

Okay, planning to move us ahead sometime Saturday, if anyone else is going to post, please get them in by then. Not that... there's anything really left to do out here.

It has begun.

Sorry, not the best post ever, but I wanted to post something and couldn't wait for lucidity. Least his confusion comes across pretty clearly? :P

Actually worked pretty well, Espy. In fact, could really use *someone* to notice that there's no souls being released as they burn them all and try and get them to stop.

Things are not what they seem here... :X

Wait, there aren't? Shit, I'll have to edit that, then -- I thought they were like Dybbuk.

EDIT: Also, I'm not sure to what extent he'd be able to figure out there aren't souls or what the massive...mass is in front of him if there...aren't...soul aura things. Oh boy. Words.

They *are* to all appearances, but normally the possessing soul would be freed after being shocked out of the body by that kind of violence. Granted, Thomas' theurgic fire would vaporize their spirits pretty fast, but there should still be some residue. But there isn't.

Weird....

Oh okay. So there ARE souls in there, they just for some reason don't exist after being...erm...purged.

Edited, so he's now panic-flailing his way towards Thomas.

Well, I'd say he sees *something* out there, but they don't seem to be behaving like any souls he's ever encountered. So, no need to edit anything else I don't think.

Oops. Just did. I can change it back if necessary.

WAIT NO

It's fine!

LEAVE IT!!!!!!

PLEASE

-keels over- Okay. ....That sounded rather desperate o.o;

HAHAHAHA WHAT IS HAPPINESS HAHAHA ...is basically this rp.

You act as though he's some kind of pyromaniac....

And, hey, Shealtiel was having a fairly good time of it. Can't let these things get you down!

Oh, he isn't? Guess you learn something new every day.

I was supposed to mention his face was contorted in raw ecstasy as the theurgy flows through him, but I sort of forgot. :P

...

......Okay then.

-grimaces- Fire devil.

Okay. Aside from having to work on assignments due in three weeks, I'll pretty much have time to due stuff here as next week is intersession/reading week and it is followed up by two block weeks. So yeah. :D

I...just need to catch up in here as I have no clue where I left off. D:

And apologies on me being semi away. I've had a few games that stole my time away.

And aye Suze, I'm going to have fun with this portion. And by that, Lev will have fun with the portions that he consumes.

Sweet meats indeed.

I had been meaning to post some music for Dante, and then I kind of forgot. I think I did mention a long time ago to someone that basically the whole A Thousand Suns album from Linkin Park fits him just fine, but here're a few more that obliquely reminded me of him.

Forsaker -- Katatonia
She Is My Sin -- Nightwish
Kinslayer -- Nightwish

'nother one for the overall setting. :X

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJpo7rK5Sdk

...or the entirety of Behemoth's Evangelion Heretika but I'm not linking to that. :P