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[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!

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[dancingmd]

Name: Alice
Character & Journal: Beverly Crusher dancingmd
Species: Human
What's their resonance like? Beverly has no spiritual capacities whatsoever and very actively disbelieves in that sort of thing so it seems like it'll be a while before she can hear him



Character & Journal: Misty Day mistyday
Species: Human, Witch
What's their resonance like? Misty can definitely sense spirits and magical beings and the like, she has a particularly strong connection to death and the afterlife since her strongest power is Resurgence (which is basically American Horror Story's term for resurrection). I have no idea if this would effect their resonance or his reaction to her but Atroma took her directly out of Hell before bringing her here.

[save_the_souls]

Name: Yuff
Character & Journal: Allen Walker (save_the_souls)
Species: Human/Noah
What's their resonance like?: Allen has an ability to see trapped ghosts/souls and dark energies. Also most of his powers come his weapon (his arm) that only someone that's "chosen by God" can use and he's extremely adept at syncing with the weapon so...I'd imagine between both of those his spiritual level would be enough to see Mikleo in full HD (unless you have objections).

[mikangirl]

Name: Nami
Character & Journal: mikangirl
Species: Human
What's their resonance like? Nooope. She wouldn't be able to see him. She's incredibly sensitive to any changes in air pressure, though; is it possible that would cause a difference? But otherwise, she won't see him a long while.

Name: Katie McCoy
Character & Journal: flickerflash
Species: Changeling
What's their resonance like? Katie has animal senses and she's a supernatural being AND she can usually sense the weird stuff so... hello, Mr Seraphim? :D?

Name: Otono-Tachibana Makie
Character & Journal: therewerefifty
Species: Human
What's their resonance like? Makie would be...slightly faster than Nami to finally see/hear him, that's all I got. She's just more open to the idea of spirits blah blah blah.

Also I'm a loser who just realised my name is meant to go into the name field. Oh well YOU KNOW WHO I AM

[falconing]

Name: PR.
Character & Journal: Zuko [honorbends]
Species: Human! Firebender. Etc.
What's their resonance like? Spirits exist in Zuko's world and he believes in them per necessity, but he also doesn't have the ability to interact with most spirits like Aang does. It'd probably be awhile before he could see Mikleo, but he might be able to hear him. Vaguely.

Character & Journal: Han Solo [falconing]
Species: Human.
What's their resonance like? Lmao Han only just started believing in the Force he's never gonna see this poor nerd beeb god almighty.

Character & Journal: James Potter [misterprongs]
Species: Human! Wizard!
What's their resonance like? There are ghosts in James' world that he can see, and I'm sure he hangs out with Peeves quite a lot. He'd probably be the fastest of my boys to see Mikleo given his magical capabilities and whatnot.

Character & Journal: Hino Rei [flameandpassion]
Species: Human! And also space alien senshi fighter?
What's their resonance like? Rei has a high spiritual sense and can feel dark energy, spirits, and has future vision! She's naturally connected to the spirit world. She's a Shinto priestess. She'd definitely be able to see Mikleo. ENJOY YOUR NEW FRIEND.

[fedupwithyourbull]

Name:
Character & Journal: Nightingale / experiencepoints
Species: Human
What's their resonance like? She explicitly has a passive ability from her class that lets her see things formed of mana that are supposed to be invisible. It's usually used to see barriers and traps, but it would probably apply here. So, magic bullshit maximum resonance, she likely wouldn't realize that Mikleo isn't visible to other people.

Character & Journal: Blake Belladonna
Species: Faunus
What's their resonance like? I have no idea if or how the animal ears work. I'd say she can probably hear him through her animal ears, if nothing else.

[riku]

Name: Saffy
Character & Journal: Belthazar / arcanepower
Species: Blood elf
What's their resonance like? He's a gifted mage and can sense mana as well as tap it from other things. (Mana is a thing in this game, right?) So I think Belth could see him! On top of that, he has very good hearing because he's an elf.

Character & Journal: Varric / merchantprince
Species: Dwarf
What's their resonance like? Varric is like a non-practicing Catholic and he's about as magic as a clod of dirt, so nope.

Character & Journal: Undyne / fishwife
Species: Monster (... fish?)
What's their resonance like? She can use some magic and she's also literally a monster, but I can go either way depending on what you want!

[princessia]

Name: Joly
Character & Journal: Elize Lutus (princessia)
Species: Human (with mana lobes in her brain)
What's their resonance like? Gifted Rieze Maxian spirit channeler, woah! She can't see spirits naturally, but she's able to cast spells because of symbiosis with spirits from her world. Then there's that one cutscene where she saw lesser spirits flying away. I've always interpreted Teepo's few outbursts over the atmosphere as Elize picking up on a spirit's presence.

I think she'll be able to see him?! Or at least see/hear him much more quickly than others. Pretty sure you're canon familiar with Xillia... 1. I've never played Xillia 2. Oops.

[nerdeology]

Hmm... are there any lingering effects from her shenanigans in Hell, and/or is it possible to sense that connection, do you think? I'm totally fine with her seeing/hearing him, this is mostly so I know how to gauge his reaction. Seraphim are very sensitive to dark stuff like that.

[nerdeology]

No objections, thanks!

[nerdeology]

I sort of figured Blake would be fine based on the Faunus stuff, so I'm fine with her hearing him. She'd probably be able to see him faster than most people, too.

[nerdeology]

Undine would definitely qualify on the monster/animal front, she's fine.

[nerdeology]

Maybe we can go middle ground and have Elize hear him, and see him faster than most? She'd certainly have that natural potential.

[riku]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee nice!!!!!

[jamminshield]

Name: Gore
Character & Journal: Steven Universe (jamminshield)
Species: Half-human, half-gem
What's their resonance like? I am not completely sure! Steven hasn't shown specific signs of spiritual senses, but he has shown some signs of empathic powers. Once, he was able to sense the emotions of a gem that had turned into a monster, and on another occasion he was able to enter the mind of another gem through his dreams. So... I think maybe there could be some grounds for seeing him but I'm not sure?? Help me Akai-Wan Kenobi.

Character & Journal: Kurt Wagner (digthefuzz)
Species: Human (Mutant)
What's their resonance like? I don't think that Kurt really qualifies as having animal senses/instincts so I think that he might be a no-go for Resonance???

[huaaaaagh]

Hmm, tricky... what about hearing him from the get-go, but not seeing him until a bit later? Nice and easy. (I think it's my safe zone for characters that make me go "UHHHH ???" lol)

I definitely think Steven would be able to see him faster than regular humans.

[jamminshield]

Yes, that all sounds like stuff I can roll with! And it can probably be fun for Steven to have an invisible friend for a while. Thank you!

[stefanged]

Name: Zi
Character & Journal: Stefan Salvatore, stefanged
Species: Vampire
What's their resonance like? In canon, Stefan actually can't see spirits - they're invisible to him unless they've got a foothold in the physical world (and/or he's asked a witch to perform a ritual to make them visible). That said, he's got a high spiritual resonance thanks to his time in StE, and his blood is magical in nature.

I... think he can hear Mikleo, but seeing him may not be happening for a while.

[princessia]

OOPS I FORGOT TO REPLY BACK. But yes this works for me!!!

[neverknight]

Name: Masa
Character & Journal: Kanan Jarrus neverknight
Species: Human
What's their resonance like? He's a Jedi so he can probably sense a whole lot of whatever-ness existing in his general direction so you know. That's a thing. What with other Jedi weirdness powers, there'd be an easier direct link for communication.

Character & Journal: Greed/Ling avaricious
Species: Homunculus/Human
What's their resonance like? Greed doesn't have any special senses, but Ling can sense souls. Probably can't see or interact with Mikleo in any meaningful way, but he'd probably be aware he's there.

[killedwithlove]

Name: Jemi
Character & Journal: Cole @ [Bad username or unknown identity: killedwithlove"]
Species: Spirit
What's their resonance like? High. he's a spirit of Compassion that gave itself a physical form. He'll definitely be able to interact with Mikleo.

Character & Journal: Bigby Wolf @ bb_wolf
Species: Fable/Archetype of the Big Bad Wolf
What's their resonance like? He's a fairytale creature, powered by stories, belief and other undefinable things. I think he'd be able to interact with him.

[nerdeology]

i slowclap for you out of love

[nerdeology]

ngl, I am kind of outrageously interested in threading with Cole

but both of these sound fine by me! :|b

[killedwithlove]

Normally, Cole is super easy to find, because he wanders everywhere and parks the Pathstone to dock with other ships but he's having an existential crisis a teenaged sulk right now.

He also doesn't like the communicators >_>

But I would be super down with a thread. My carer and I are playing through Zestiria at the moment.

[dancingmd]

She doesn't have any lingering supernatural effects, just you know... emotional ones. Hell in Coven is very individualized: basically you experience your own worst fear over and over, so she didn't like... interact with Satan or anything like that.

[nerdeology]

So noted! Thanks /o/