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[wewillwewill]

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Hugging this character: I'm sure there will be reasons. But do not expect a great reaction or any enjoyment from him.

Kissing this character: Pretty much the same as above.

Flirting with this character: Haha ha ha ha good luck. (Warning: Not likely to reciprocate. Ever.)

Fighting with this character: Certainly.

Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Yes. Limits and severity can be discussed. I'm not a major fan of the mental deviant power trip gore but I do like some drama. Also because of the character in question, a good dramatic injury may need a bit of discussion to arrange.

Killing this character: We can talk. Lots of people would have good reason to see Elidibus dead regardless of what his plans are on the train. But I like to discuss serious attempts at murder first. Plot deaths may unfold naturally though.

Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Sure! But this will likely need discussion due to the nature of the character. It is also a near certainty that he Will Know What You Did[tm].

Aethersight

Elidibus, like all Ascians, is capable of seeing the aether of the world around him, including magic, objects and living things. People tend to have unique aetherical signatures, often in the form of one or two colors, that are often unmistakable for another person. This FFXIV Job Quest is an example of an aetherical signature.

Those with VERY STRONG elemental leanings, tend to have a color associated with that element. A person with an affinity for fire might have a crimson color. While a robot running on electricity might have a strong purple for lightning aspect.

Earth: yellow/gold
Fire: shades of red
Lightning: purples
Water: Deeper Blues
Ice: Lighter Blues
Wind: Greens
"Light": white - Light's element is not 'goodness', it is stasis and passivity.
"Darkness": black - Darkness' element is not 'evil', it is activity and growth.


Elidibus will know the difference between a color of a strong elemental leaning and what is just the color of the aether signature. Questions and more in-depth discussion are always welcome!

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Aethersight - What does your magic/aether/life energy look like?

[wewillwewill]

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Ghost (Prey 2017 au)

[morganizedchaos]

Faintly electrical, and probably more inclined to Light than Dark, specifically due to the "stasis" aspect. Overall, just different enough from a 'normal' human to be noteworthy.

Re: Aethersight - What does your magic/aether/life energy look like?

[dragoonrouge]

Q'uila's aether is strongly aspected towards fire and lightning making the majority of it vermillion and purple. However, when examined more closely there is deep red and black staining on her aether from drawing on Nidhogg's aether (though to a far lesser extent than what Estinien's would look like).

Her aether also has that extra density thanks to merging with Ardbert.

Asch (tales of the abyss au/ywkon)

[oncedriven]

and here's the really funky one - Asch is from an element system that has all the same elements as FFXIV, though their light/dark are more literal than stasis/activity. Asch is aspected to every element except ice naturally (and currently has ice from a magic emotional bond with his AU's Jade). Usually darkness is most prominent, but that may shift if he's specifically using other elements (which will be noted in tags).

Additionally, Asch will probably seem odd because the vast majority of his body is an (a)ether construct around his core crystal - that is to say, he's physical in approximately the same way a primal is physical, except for a chunk of crystal in his chest that's actually a semi-organic supercomputer and an actual physical object. (The weapons he can summon are similarly (a)etherforms.) Technically Asch is fused out of parts of seven such crystals, which is why he's So Weird compared to other blades, but that's probably not a thing Elidibus would be able to tell without a close/intimate examination. he does have a single soul, though, if that's something you want to notice at all.

[zombiemessiah]

I don't imagine that any of mine would be SUPER STRONG but if they could be read this is what it sounds like from what I see. I'm linking to Permissions just in case something doesn't make sense and editing is needed.

Entrapta: yellow and purples, because Dryl was a mining kingdom and she has a strong affinity for metals and electrical stuff. It's never said what her Runestone would have let her control but all the magic left in her is in her hair.

Yondu: Edit: going to go with multiple colors here, whatever's visible of it. I'm not totally sure but in comic canon Centaurians are supposed to be very sensitive towards nature. Enough to find foreign bodies in a living thing by going with a sense for it. I basically treat Yondu like he never actually learned to do this because he was raised offworld but it could be there.

Murphy: I'm going to go with black right now because of his tendency to infect/the fact that he always wants to be moving or doing something.

Thanatos from Hades @ controlsthedie

[controlsthedie]

So, Thanatos is Death Incarnate/God of Death and the son of Nyx who is Night Incarnate. He's usually Darkness aligned or like a starry-night sky given his domain, heritage, and being chthonic.

However, Thanatos isn't really activity and growth, which to me speaks of Life instead of Death. Yet... he is constantly busy with his job and duty. It's important to him, and he's slowly starting to grow as a person, especially on the train.

He's also a bit of Light because he's collects the shades of those who have died "peaceful" deaths, but he's rather passive about it. He doesn't choose how or when people die. (That's up to the Three Fates or if he gets specific assignments from Lord Hades and Mother Nyx.) He's also stuck in his ways which is a bit like stasis...

Here's Than's app if that helps.

Jade (tales of the abyss au/ywkon)

[crimsonsnow]

(foolishly i thought this would be easy and then i read Asch's and i was like oh yeah. blades.)

Easy portion: Jade is hard and aggressively aspected to ice - his soul is as ice-blue as you could possibly imagine. He also consistently leaks ice (a)ether.

Addendum: due to being currently magic-emotion bonded to Asch, there are probably traces of all the other elements tied to him; though if you can't tell under all that ice, that's understandable.

Hard part: Like Asch, Jade is still primarily a being made of aether except the bits that aren't; namely his core crystal (semi-organic super computer and physical object), and unlike Asch, the literal human heart that he has for Reasons.

Complicated part: Probably no need to get into the nitty gritty but Jade is definitely more organic and less pure aether than Asch is (due to the heart) - this won't come up without close examination (or casting a healing spell on him), though, and considering how much Jade is constantly surrounded by ice aether, might be extremely hard to notice.

[helborn]

Yosuke Otoha (bakegarasu): Otoha doesn't really have an elemental leaning. If anything it'd be black, but that's not really a super strong association.

Also his soul is in his amulet that he carries with him at all times.

Ken Amada (AU) (miseris_socios): Purple/lightning. He does have light-based spells, I don't know how that'd show up. It's not static for him, light's just another element on the list in his canon.

His Persona might show up a bit weirdly since it's a part of him but he can summon it! So enjoy that weirdness.

Casper LeBlanc, Jr. (helborn): We discussed the death thing in chat, so otherwise it's very strongly ice. He has some other elements he can use (a little light, a few smatterings of other stuff) but his 'home' element is ice.

Also his soul is in his bird.

Caleb Widogast (katzenpfote): He uses a few elements in his spells but it's fire. It's very much fire.

[thawed_pride]

Light blue from a strong ice affinity, but with a foreign concentration of dark aether lodged inside it and snaking tendrils outward, like a seed taking root.

it has a fun swirl!

[mustknow]

Xehanort's aether is warm earthy reddish gold, a pleasant sunsetty blue-violet, and faintly silvery-blue in a bizarre tangle. They don't seem to fit together naturally, but it's definitely all 'him'. None of it seems to have an elemental alignment of its own, it's just the colors of his aether, like most people. However... he's ALSO got a RIDICULOUS almost tempered-level amount of Darkness going on - more corrupted and voidy than the pure umbral power, it just doesn't, for some reason, affect the base aethercolor. It has a Suspiciously Similar Color And Sense to that little shard of dark in Vexen's.

[cepicorpus]

Dio's aether is SUNSHINEY BRIGHT YELLOW. It has no elemental leanings at all, but boy is it vivid and bright! Sometimes it's even tangible and visible for anyone to see. It has no sense of being a mortal's aether, but also isn't particularly old by Ascian standards.

.... It's also the same color The World has. Exactly the same.

Wei Wuxian (MDZS, Slumscape crau) & Willow Amarina (OC)

[obliviouspatriarch]

Wei Wuxian | obliviouspatriarch

Since he has two spirits in his body, these are the two:
Kitsune - Earth (in the game he is crau'd from, the kitsune are aligned with the farm shrine which is the element of earth)
Wei Wuxian - I... Want to say Darkness but at the same time I'm sorta stumped by this because it's not a 1:1 thing in his canon. He uses darker cultivation ("magic") but I'm unsure how that translates exactly into ff14 despite canon familiarity vaguely "orz
There's probably a potential for fire with him as well, but not super duper bright red?

Willow Amarina | runicfeathers

EXTREMELY strong fire, so pretty darn strong reds here. She's a being of life and fire, but if there's ways to see others, there'd be wind and lightning, possibly light. Probably blinded by the fire tho.
She also has a soul fragment of someone back home which would register as earth, and it's notable enough to show up despite not having access to that element because it's someone else's soul.

I'm sorry for her probably kaleidoscope of colours Elidibus, she's alinged to 4 elements: fire, holy, lightning, and wind

[bodyoftheseus]

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V bodyoftheseus - Cyberpunk 2077
No elemental attunement, I've always associated navy with him.

For Q'uila I wrote some sort of aesthetic vibes you're welcome to also use:
The soft glow of city lights at night while you sit perched atop a water tower outside of the city. There is no breeze and the city lights are so bright you cannot see the stars above. There is the faint smell of ether that is in the air after a particularly big static shock. Initially, it feels of icy razor blade edges and knives, but if you push forward and through the cuts, it gives way into something soft and warm.

Siobahn "Cherry" Chereshei fightcreamsundae - FFXIV non-WOL
FFXIV monk so elemental attunement depends on her stance. Assume late SB TK rotation where fights start in fists of fire and end in fists of wind.

Her personal aether signature is definitely pink and sunshine yellow.

The aesthetic from Q'uila's:
The most lovely of summer days: sun shining bright, a wonderful freeing breeze, clouds in the sky to discover animals in. You can smell the grass and apple trees, sugar on the air from baking being done somewhere. You hear children's laughter. The biggest signifier it is her, of course, is the overwhelming joy you feel. She is light and bright and warm, the edges of it tinged with whatever element her aether is aligned with - fire, wind, earth. Rather than a feeling it is akin to freshly baked cream puffs just powdered and served.

[moontwin]

Does aethersight extend to artifacts or just living things? Because Selene carries with her a stone that allows her to use wind magic, but she herself will have a faint but noticeable signature that's... I'd say black.

Tani | Ni No Kuni 2

[windwhirl]

Tani's aether would be a mixture of greens and purples, as her major spell type in-game is Electric / Wind based. She's still your average human, just happens to have access to magic. Her personality is always energetic as well, going hand in hand with the electric / wind theming.

[almukhtar]

Atem almukhtar

I had to think really hard on this because his nature and what he represents are polar opposites. If it's possible to be both light and dark, then I would say that is what it looks like. If I have to choose one, then darkness. He has such radiant light about him but while he is a Sun Deity, he rose from the dark. So make of that what you will!!

Also, seeing someone ask about artifacts. Atem has a pendant with hekin' dark magic, like wow. Shit is real dark. So there is also that.

Re: Aethersight - What does your magic/aether/life energy look like?

[piercinggaze]

Auditi has no elemental associations, but her thematic color is blue.

[digatrauma]

Honestly, it's probably just Underworld's absolute nonsense. Which, uh. This is what the Stand looks like.

[dreamtamer]

Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom: Danny's ghost form is built around an ice core and he technically half-died through electrocution. So lets go with mostly light blue with some stains of purple. His ghost energy is neon green, if that would show up.

Conan Edogawa/Shinichi Kudo: 100% normal human, apart from being ten years younger than he should be. No elemental affiliation. If he had a color association it would be blue.

Takato Matsuda and Guilmon: Red and gold. The colors tend to bleed between the two of them, although Takato has more of the gold and Guilmon has more of the red. The red is from Guilmon's fire affinity. Takato does not have an elemental affinity but is associated with gold.

Re: Aethersight - What does your magic/aether/life energy look like?

[writerkick]

Kotoha's aether is going to look... weird. It's likely to be a rainbow, and would be on par with the Warrior of Light, though in a very different way.

Kotoha is a living story, rather than a person, and so she is bound to the laws and rules of a story as a result. She is also carrying around a second soul/story similar to herself (think a job crystal, but conscious and able to speak telepathically to her to judge her romantic choices).

Kotoha is defined by her story as 'the main character', with all of the associated good and bad, so it's entirely possible that Elidibus could simply look at her and the aether would simply just tell him 'important'.

If the meta nonsense is not something you'd like to play with, though, she'd ping as having no particular elemental alignment but a very strong aether signature.

Re: Aethersight - What does your magic/aether/life energy look like?

[acapriciousthing]

Death: Her signature probably reads very strangely since she's an embodied concept. I'd say there's probably a black elemental aspect to it (she explains herself as "the one who divides life from all that comes before and all that comes after" so activity and growth suits). She technically only has a body because she feels like it. I don't know the canon enough to know how an eons on being reads like...

Hera: Is a bog standard mortal with no elemental affiliation. For lack of that I'd say green and red just going on rebellion imagery.

[melodiouspacifist]

Demyx: Demyx's colour, perhaps obviously is going to be thinted very dark blue, almost as dark as it can get, for his magic. When it comes to his aura, or perhaps his aether, aside from dark blue, there's a lot of light there, except that this it's full of interruptions. If, like in the example, he's looking at three balls, they'd appear cracked and poorly formed. It's not an indication of his power, per se, but rather that his aether has been manipulated multiple times by an outside influence. His sitar on the other hand, is a very solid dark blue and tinged in darkness for growth and potential.

Senku: His growing magic/aether is likely a blue-green blend, but his aura is definitely darkness, he's constantly changing and growing and the activity is strong in Senku. His magic specialties are in the healing/defense spectrum, as opposed to being elemental and they're very new, there won't be much in the way of colour, but over time that will grow stronger. If he can see bonds, he shares a psychic link to Eva Iden'no.

Prompto: He is one lovely ball of light, with faint purple undertones. He doesn't have much by way of magic, or affinity, but a lot of what he can muster is sort of tangental to electricity. Elidibus may also be able to sense/see a connection to Noctis, as they are magically connected, and much of what he does is borrowed magic.

Rui: Her colours would be bright light and dark purple, as her affinity to lighting is strong, and so is her passivity, but looking deeper there is an undercurrent of darkness, as though activity has been there/is coming.

Can You Detect Spirits/Intangibles?

[wewillwewill]

Sometimes, Elidibus might wander about as one. He can definitely discern them even when he's not gone walkabout. Please respond here if you can perceive spirits/intangibles or are one (sometimes or always).

[morganizedchaos]

Since Ghost is a passive telepath, he can detect minds, regardless of their body/not-body state (see permissions on his journal for more details).

Spoilers Opt-Out

[wewillwewill]

Warning: Elidibus is a character who is ingrained in a lot of canon FFXIV, particularly the recent expac and patches. Inevitable spoilers are likely with regular interaction but I can try to keep it minimalized and avoid bullet topics.

If you would like to avoid spoilers as much as possible, please leave a note here!

[adregem]

Opting out of spoilers for myself/Roland, please! Still playing 4.0 so I'm nowhere near the current patch update yet :) If there's a topic we happen to touch upon that will inevitably lead to a minor spoiler for one reason or another, just send me a note on Discord or DM the journal for a quick heads up. Thank you!

[signseeker]

Hmmm, well Will's element is definitely Light, although how well that translates from one canon to another....

[wewillwewill]

It's mostly for a reference for Elidibus' perspective on it. I'd definitely say Will has a Light aspect because Old Ones, hahah. He may even get some peer-esque respect as far as this boy's attitude about most passengers (the mortal ones) goes. XD

Elidibus is thumbs up about keeping things in balance (you know so things don't go pear-shaped when it's acutally time to imbalance something for a Rejoining of a world) c.c But also balance in general is good. c:

Anything further we can chat about in DM for potential CR. <3