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universalmelody) wrote2037-12-25 12:00 pm
universalmelody) wrote2037-12-25 12:00 pm
Seasons 🌟 Permissions & Opt-Ins
Miyuni has the ability to hear the Universal Melody, the magical symphony made up of … everything. Every single thing (and most non-things) has a song or sound of its own. Atoms! Dirt! The elements! The sky! Weather conditions! Void! Gravity! Time! The concept of dance! Emotions! People, animals, robots, and so on and so forth.
Powercap is A Thing so it won't always work — fully, partially, whatever! — in Ellipsa, but here are some ideas for what it could tell her:
✨ What someone is (i.e. regular human; magical being; artificial being created under xyz condition; werewolf pretending to be a mermaid pretending to be a human; soulless husk; ratatouille)
✨ Age
✨ How powerful they are and in what ways, physically, magically, etc
✨ Affinities and associations
✨ What condition their soul is in
✨ Their nature — important personality traits, character arcs
✨ If they're particularly closely intertwined with someone or something, their songs might harmonise, overlap, or otherwise connect with or call back to each other in some way
What I need to know: Can she sense any of this? All of it? Some of it but not others? What does it tell her? Does she just get the music, or general vibes, or can she discern details and context?
You're very welcome to give as much or as little as you'd like! If you have one or more Cool Themes you associate with your character (or, more generally, types of musical instruments, arrangements, or genres) please feel free to link to it or describe it.
Powercap is A Thing so it won't always work — fully, partially, whatever! — in Ellipsa, but here are some ideas for what it could tell her:
✨ What someone is (i.e. regular human; magical being; artificial being created under xyz condition; werewolf pretending to be a mermaid pretending to be a human; soulless husk; ratatouille)
✨ Age
✨ How powerful they are and in what ways, physically, magically, etc
✨ Affinities and associations
✨ What condition their soul is in
✨ Their nature — important personality traits, character arcs
✨ If they're particularly closely intertwined with someone or something, their songs might harmonise, overlap, or otherwise connect with or call back to each other in some way
What I need to know: Can she sense any of this? All of it? Some of it but not others? What does it tell her? Does she just get the music, or general vibes, or can she discern details and context?
You're very welcome to give as much or as little as you'd like! If you have one or more Cool Themes you associate with your character (or, more generally, types of musical instruments, arrangements, or genres) please feel free to link to it or describe it.
TOTK SPOILERS FOR ANY OTHER FOLKS READING THIS
✨ A powerful but detached spirit of light (and to a lesser extent time) in the shape of a dragon, who was once just a girl with much lesser versions of those powers. Her core is the girl + a powerful magical nuclear reactor, basically. (If she's in a humanish form it is a separate magical construct that the true derg body is puppeting.)
✨ At least 10,124 years old. Almost certainly older, but probably not by more than a hundred years or so.
✨ Technically extremely powerful, but it's very self-contained— mostly in the process of making up/fueling her immortal and completely self-sustaining body, but enough is left over to infuse into objects if she chooses. (Destruction of another one of her kind released enough magic to cause a mushroom cloud, though, as an example of how much power is bound up in there.)
✨ Holy (evil and illusion-banishing) light, time (particularly the rewinding thereof), healing as an extension of both (light to purify, time to rewind wounds).
✨ Her soul has, uh. Been completely burnt and melted by the immense power comprising her self, and molded into something largely new and dangerously close to a mere beast's. There are fragments that escaped destruction, but they're disjointed and can't function the way they used to.
✨ Self-sacrificing, fiercely protective and loving of what's hers. More than a little spacey and disjointed thanks to the soul/mental damage, but what's there is both intensely curious and a little disdainful of the average human life. ...Meanwhile, the part of her that was once a girl went through a pretty awful character arc where she beat herself up for years for not being what was expected of her and lost nearly everyone she loved for that failure, before willingly turning herself into a human seal on a calamitous evil for 100 years to save the rest of her kingdom. AND THEN SEVEN YEARS LATER DELETED HER PERSONHOOD FOR BASICALLY THE SAKE OF DOING IT AGAIN. she may have been punishing herself just a little.
✨ Her song leaves distinct spaces for two other melodies.
SONG SPECIFICS BECAUSE TOTK DID REALLY GOOD SHIT WITH THIS: her main melody is ethereal, with the the primary instrument being an erhu, but after the first few notes of one melody it slips, confused, before sliding into something else.
In other words, the sound of someone who has lost most of herself in the process of becoming something other, but refuses to be completely subsumed.
Miyuni is free to sense all of this in varying amounts, but probably not all at once? The light dragon's nowhere near her power level, but is enough of a pure distillation of what she is that her song is like. The audio equivalent of staring directly into blinding light and trying to pick out the details of something. (maybe the gong in her theme bonks her concentration, idk how to convert the experience lmao)