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hotshot_momma ([personal profile] hotshot_momma) wrote in [community profile] entangleme2012-01-10 11:13 pm

Just gonna crosspost this particular teal deer here... [PERMISSIONS]

Anna Lin is the pilot of an ANIMa, a psionic construct that exists in both dreams and the waking world at the same time. An active ANIMa will read as being made out of benevolent spirits or as magical/psionic to anyone with the ability to detect that. Hers looks like the icon, a variable fighter.

She needs to sleep in order to use it, and it requires someone at her ANIMa Creche to watch over her sleeping body and wake her up if something goes wrong. This person is called an Anchor, and also serves as a navigator by relaying sensor information through guided imagery and other hypnotic techniques.

Most importantly, it's made entirely out of love. That's right, love. Each major weapon or subsystem on this sucker is a weaponized dream symbol of someone that Anna is close to. Intimate relationships are more powerful, and trusting ones are more reliable and probably some kind of defensive system.


In general:
Mere recognition is a weapon so weak that Anna won't bother, unless she trusts you enough from your name to make it worthwhile as a defense.
Distant friendships grant civilian weapons.
Close friendships or rivalries grant standard-issue military weapons.
Chaste romance, raw lust, or something that leaves one of you bleeding grant superior military weapons.
Sexual romantic relationships grant cinematic weaponry.

She has the following weapons available to her from her canon:

- The ability to switch between Phoenix (Jet), Dragon (hybrid) and Warrior (walker) forms, from her ex-anchor Meredith at home. Absurdly useful and versatile. And, yes, this is a cinematic weapon, and feel free to point out those implications to her.
- A Chinese repeating crossbow that uses a pair of Tesla coils to fire ferrous bolts of metal at relativistic speeds. This is also an Int 5 weapon, her mother-son bond with Archer Lin, who was named for a god of war Hou Yi, the Archer that shot the Sun.
- A staff with the ability to change it's form to any melee weapon with roughly the same mass, from his protege Joshua Preston.
- A cockpit-mounted laser turret with low stopping power, from co-pilot Sara Smith.
- Unguided cluster flak bombs, from her foul-mouthed ex-gangbanger friend Laura.

So, post here with:

1: Permission for Anna to weaponize her CR with you. A suggestion of a weapon that's appropriately symbolic of the relationships would be appreciated. It can be 'upgraded,' changing form, but a weapon never changes function.

2: Permission for Anna's relationship with you to suffer battle damage. This means that she'll be snappish, bitter and slightly paranoid with you after using a relationship with you in combat, and is basically just an excuse for IC drama. If you allow use of the weapon but disallow the damage, I will narrate that part escaping from battle relatively undamaged.
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[personal profile] birdhousesoul 2012-01-11 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Permission granted for both, of course, especially with Anders serving as Anchor. (Note: If Anna develops strong CR with another character such that they'd make a better and/or more logical Anchor, neither I OOCly nor Anders ICly will feel slighted at all by displacement; in fact, if she doesn't say anything, but he knows something of that nature is up, he's likely to be nosy encourage her to do something about the new situation. FOR THE REVOLUTION. at least she won't get kissing lessons like poor Jinto

I like the blue fire idea that was tossed around in chat. Because, as you've written, Intimate relationships are more powerful, and trusting ones are more reliable and probably some kind of defensive system, it makes sense for this to be a defensive system and/or armor. Perhaps an aura/armor/surrounding of blue fire a la Justice (example at 0:23-0:24 here, obvious spoiler for the Legacy DLC if that matters), with the ability to shoot said blue fire as a weapon? I'm thinking of the kind of fire-out-of-hands effect that we see here in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening (the first scene where you encounter Anders, actually - the fire thing is in the first three or four seconds of the clip).

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[personal profile] birdhousesoul 2012-01-11 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
One letter off from fromage...
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[personal profile] questionablewit 2012-01-11 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
God damn this sounds awesome.

1) Granted, though I imagine they need to interact and form a bond first. I think they'll get along though (hope so!), both being smart-assed fighter types with a dry sense of humor.

2) Granted again.
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[personal profile] questionablewit 2012-01-16 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds terrific to me =)
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[personal profile] prideofabh 2012-01-11 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Granted for both, for Lafiel. I think hers is more trust than liking so it's probably more of a defensive systems. Given their status as comrades-in-arms, possibly increased armor/shields or anti-missile lasers (aka weapons designed more to shoot down incoming projectiles than to hit enemies). (The latter seems to fit the image of a wingman type thing...)

Moreover, given the explanation, Lafiel will probably insist on spending some of her off-duty time with Anna to maintain/strengthen their relationship. Lafiel is... well, not the best at social skills, so it may be unintentionally hilarious. And probably good of her to make friends (who are not Jinto).

(Also, if Anna meets Ai or Georgia, also granted.)
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[personal profile] prideofabh 2012-01-12 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, he'll probably consider it good that Lafiel is trying to make friends. Even if it'll be painful to watch.
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[personal profile] poorduck 2012-01-12 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Full permission for both my characters, although I have no idea what form any potential CR would take. I will probably figure it out when it becomes necessary.
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[personal profile] kingoflobsters 2012-01-13 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaaaaa, going to backtag that pronto
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[personal profile] firstandonly 2012-01-13 02:39 am (UTC)(link)

1: Permission for Anna to weaponize her CR with you. Oh yes... May I recommend thematically some kind of badass stealth cloak for Gaunt? He's the commander of a regiment of irish/scottish space ninjas. (I love you Dan Abnett)




2: Permission for Anna's relationship with you to suffer battle damage.

Oh yes. gaunt dealing with angry psychics. Always fun.
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[personal profile] firstandonly 2012-01-13 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
That or a massively badass blade. Gaunt's personal trademarks are his bolt pistol and power blade, but the Sniper is another of the Tanith Regiment trademark. If so, it'd be a sniper laser of some variety, since they use Long-Lases.
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[personal profile] firstandonly 2012-01-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, btw, Gaunt is a recurring villain on Freedom Deliverer robin. The honorable badguy stereotype.
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[personal profile] the_burnt_one 2012-01-16 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
Permission is granted for all my characters.

Jinnto: Additional fuel/ammo tanks, less chance of an ammo explosion (like CASE in Battletech) and a more efficient, better organized cockpit. Yes, he's boring sometimes.

Sheeana: Some kindof acoustic weapon? A crysknife?

Sah'ot: Full underwater movement system with inbuilt sonar. And, I dunno, maybe a dildo or some dirty magazines in the cockpit.

Therru: Additional, extremely ugly armor along the right side, from the cockpit down to the hand. Bonus to all stats in dragon mode.
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[personal profile] the_burnt_one 2012-01-16 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Jinto: Oh and maybe something that makes you a cup of some kind of refreshment because that is basically his role on the bridge.

Sheeana: By her canon point Holtzman shields are no longer in common use. How about a crysknife and strengthened myomer fibers/actuators, granting a bonus in physical combat?

Sah'ot: Perfect.

Therru: that works.
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/so bad at reading the OOC comm. So bad.

[personal profile] wwrathofangels 2012-01-19 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Permission granted for both, though I have no idea what form the weapon would be in. (Also he may try to shooshpap her if she gets too snarky with him over the battle damage. Feelings jam totally optional. XD )