Permissions

[nerdeology]

Mikleo is a seraph, a spiritual being that resembles a human but cannot be seen, heard, or touched by humans without a sufficient level of resonance. Resonance basically means their level of instinctive or spiritual power, depending on species.

Most people cannot interact with seraphim, and go about their lives without even noticing them. To combat this, his ability to manifest (which is normally limited to mirrors with enough focus) has been boosted. So he's, you know, playable.

There are a number of exceptions to the rules, of course. Those who can see and hear seraphim in canon are:

• Animals (or those with animal senses or instincts)
  
• Spiritual or supernatural beings
  
• Monsters
  
• Humans with exceptionally high spiritual resonance (those who can naturally see ghosts or spirits, those who can 'sense' the weird stuff)

For Drift Fleet purposes, anyone's resonance with Mikleo will increase the more they are around him, eventually making it so he can be at first heard, and then seen. Whichever crew members he has who don't fall in the above categories, for example, ought to start hearing him after a couple of months. Visibility follows some time after.

Mikleo will never be visible in photos or on the communicator, but his voice will always work on it regardless of resonance.

To help me out, please let me know on this post if Mikleo is able to interact with your character in person! And if you're not sure, we can sort it out here. /o/

<b>Name</b>: <b>Character & Journal</b>: <b>Species</b>: <b>What's their resonance like?</b> Basically how/why they'd see or hear Mikleo, if it isn't immediately obvious from their species.

ALSO ALSO BECAUSE I AM A FORGETFUL LOSER- Mikleo has the same ability to sense malevolence as Sorey, but I neglected to include this on his permissions. So if you can fill out Sorey's permissions as well, it would help us both out!

Comments

[discessum]

Name: Mei
Character & Journal: Alisaie Leveilleur (discessum)
Species: Elezen (elf)
What's their resonance like? Alisaie is an Arcanist which is a magic user that can sense the aether in things and actually draw it out into it's own ephemeral form. For example, she can pull the aether from jewels and make them into cute animals. So I think she's already well acquainted with this sort of thing.

and will probably try to offer to give him a visible form after a while because she's a huge nERD

[nerdeology]

Just so I'm clear on it, because I still know very little about the canon- does this mean she can see him from the get go, or can sense him and make him visible to her? Or am I totally wrong lmao

[discessum]

Yes, I was thinking she might unless you have a preference otherwise. I don't mind either way, just that Alisaie has a strong connection with ephemeral beings already. She's not (openly) religious but was raised in a scholar society that prides themselves on gathering information and research. So she's been raised to see what can't be seen.

[nerdeology]

Okay, I'm fine with that! Just wanted to check.