#humans have auras

[carionto]

Humans are forged in fired so we always smell like ash to the aliens, and when we don't, its still always something earthy.

[24/09/23] Hmm... born of fire and earth, living with or through ash and dirt, ending in dust. There's something there. All Humanity makes is certainly with fire or force, everything we eat as well. Such... brutality, in a sense, is at the core of our being. A consequence of being from a world where peaceful continuation only happens artificially. Yet many if not most aliens are from far more accommodating planets, thus their natural existence, all the way down to their cellular make-up and baseline instincts, differs from Humans. Even to the point where they, and us as well, can sense that the other is fundamentally different, not just as a species, but something more fundamental that neither can fully convey or properly understand. (now how do I want to present it in the verse...)

[27/09/23] I'm just gonna reread the above once and let my brain run free tomorrow.

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As the first year since Humanities return to the Galaxy and beginning stages of integration into the Galactic Coalition draws to a close, some unofficial interactions between civilians from both ends are starting to occur. And subsequently - rumors and anecdotes start spreading, certain biases are in their early stages, as well as prejudices reemerging from the first time Humanity had its unsatisfying experience with the... Responsibility Barrier. We have since retired that policy.

One particular anecdote that is being reported by both Humans and other Coalition member species is a strange smell that envelops the other party.

We hear many say that Humans have this strange hint of burning, or fire, or metal, an in rarer cases of soil or dust. Likewise Humans have reported that many among us have a slight essence of a floral scent, a few of salt, and a small number of what Humans call "morning right after rain".

This phenomena persists even when both parties have undergone extra thorough and identical decontamination, save for any respective symbiotic microbial life on their surface. The "scent" seems to correlate somewhat with the origin world of the respective species and deviates according to their individual upbringing, though not always.

What's more is that Coalition species don't sense it from others, only from Humans, and Humans also don't notice anything of the sort from species whose origins are even a little closer to the hostile nature of Earth, though nowhere near such extremes.

The most peculiar aspect is that, while we call it a scent or say we smell it, there does not appear to be any physical connection with how smells work, as species whose olfactory senses are either incredibly dull or non-existent report a similar sensation when interacting with Humans.

When questioned, all diplomats who had dealings with Humans and the Human delegates admit they felt it too, but their training forbade them from speaking up about something as trivial as "how someone of a completely different species smells". Diplomacy 101.

In any case, a curios subject to investigate on ones own terms, but as it stands these "scents" don't particularly impact any interaction and may remain a mystery. Perhaps another entry in the infinite expanse of "Psychology and Brain Chemistry is wack".

#humans are weird #humans are space oddities #aliens are weird #smells #humans have auras #so do aliens #instincts are sharp #but what does it mean #who knows but it's a neat to explore less bombastic aspects #worldbuilding #carionto

[minthological]

hello, fwendy-wends!

i bring you my little painting of wiggog y'wrath because i am. not normal about him. haha

sketch + alt pics below the cut <3

the one above is before sealant, these ones are ~30 minutes after sealing! also tilted one a little so you can see the shinies better! highlights my beloved 💚

#npmd #starkid #nerdy prudes must die #wiggly #wiggog y'wrath #lords in black #art #artists on tumblr #painting #acrylic painting #fanart #starkid fanart #can you tell he's my fav..... #maybe pokey next! if uh. i have another smaller canvas 😭 this was my last 3.5 x 2.75 #his hair was the fun part. soooo many swoops and strands!! wiggly's got volume!!! #side note i do need his sweater. immediately #but yeah the whole summoning he had just the biggest “blowing you up with my fucking mind” aura #but he's in human form so i imagine he can't quite put that across. hence his eyes filled with hate behind him :) #i love how completely done he was the whole time. and his dynamic with pokey? ugh. massive tired big brother energy #i am RANTING okay hope you all like bye bye!! 👋👋

[lazycranberrydoodles]

COME ON GUYS DON'T LET DIANXIA DOWN

#images i drew on my phone approximately 90 seconds before class started #tma vs tgcf is pitting two bad bitches against each other but #from the other guys propaganda he is apparently a beloved side character #which i totally understand. #BUT HUA CHENG IS THE DEUTERANTAGONIST WHO LOVED XIE LIAN SO MUCH IT UNDOOMED HIM FROM THE NARRATIVE #HE DIDNT CLAW HIS WAY OUT OF TONGLU TO BE BEATEN LIKE THIS #also tma has gay people that dont undoom each other from the narrative. L + ratio (/j/j/j/j we all love tragedies here) #hua cheng will never rest in peace and he doesn't want to because he has a smokin boyfriend #they are both angry goths but has gerry died THREE TIMES????? no. just once. lame. #gerry got his skin bound into a necromancy book that was eventually burned but hua cheng ripped out his eye to craft a sickass scimitar !!! #hua cheng haunts the narrative before he dies in a hundred tiny ways and then HEAVILY after he dies a second time #he's an awesome city owner and has violent beef with HEAVEN. and he carves statues and paints and builds temples #and is also a self conscious loser <3 #his gay awakening was intensely traumatic and religious for everybody involved. and he's had the same life mission since he was 10 #he is actively fighting ghost discrimination and getting dangerous magical items off of the normal human market #also he is always bedecked in elaborate silver and chains and eyeliner and ALWAYS in blood red clothes #HE CAN MAKE IT RAIN BLOOD!!???!?!? ALSO #he stick and poked his god's name on himself but his handwriting is so bad it's unrecognizable and the signs he puts up have evil auras #this has ceased to be propaganda. now im just gushing. only tgcf fans will see this anyway. whatever youre getting blorbo rant #tgcf #art #poll #hua cheng #lmao #my art #tian guan ci fu #hualian #xie lian #hob #heaven official's blessing

[anon-by-design]

there are bets on when they'll realize

#ghost: man i must have made some GAINZ last night #soap: :((( did i lost 30 pounds and 2 inches wtf #price: *considering retiring* #gaz has bet 100$ on them not realizing until someone tells them #(hes right) #soapghost #ghostsoap #soap cod #ghost cod #call of duty mw2 #call of duty #people are more alarmed by ghost touching soap willingly than the other thing #ghost doesnt even realize hes done it til hes walking away like #“oh no... theyre gonna know... i cant let them know i love soap” #too late bud #their size difference.... #hngnngm #(its a little exaggerate but im only human) #ghost gives off an evil aura 24/7 #and soap is like “you make me feel like youre a bomb ! 😁 i love it” #and thats why theyre in love #soaps throat mic is holding me hostage

[a-s-levynn]

(source)

#sleep token #here is a thing #there are certain moments when Vessel looks.. no he rather feels.. small #i mean his.. aura? presence? but not in the non-captivating way but as in an emotionally vulnerable way #i don't really have the words to describe this but just like on this picture #bear with me for a minute because this is either gonna sound completely unhinged or make some sort of sense #it's probably just me having a little more time on my hand than i should and just want to see things but.. #sometimes he feels so present in a here-i-am as-i-am take-me-as-you-will this-is-all-i-am i-can't-give-more-nor-less it's-just-me sorta way #he feels so human in the rawest sense possible and yet so deep in character maybe even more so than when he creatures or teefs and all #like.. he is just vessel in it's simplicity and without the 'divine' if you will.. simply just vessel #in his barest of existance #a shadow of someone who used to be but not quite anymore #he is in pieces and it is willingly laid bare under the mask and all that bodypaint oh so clear to see for anyone #and that is not the outstreched hand of you-are-not-alone but the outstreched soul that cries you-can-find-yourself-in-me #and that is what i find so heartbreaking about him #this kind if raw openness because the lore says vessel is a conduit for sleep #for us vessel (and the the others) is the conduit of our emotions #and he is there somewhere inbetween the truths #just him a simple human being who sometimes seems to wish not to be human which makes him more human than anything #and that is what i can't describe better than 'sometimes he feels small' and at time even maybe makes me cry a little

[aha-chuu]

Can't decide whether I prefer Neuvillette looking like an old man (white hair + grandpa demeanour + dad vibes for all the melusine) or if I like him looking like a pretty, youthful model (super young by dragon years + in game model baby-face + actually very inexperienced in human conduct = immature?)

All the fanart I see kind of just picks one but idkkkk,,, I sort of enjoy the idea that he's kinda young looking but talks and acts very very old because, you know, in human terms he is very old. And everyone in Fontaine is used to it cos they all know he's not human and appearance ≠ reality. But people usually see him from pretty far away in the Opera house, so they can only see the white hair and hear his old man voice. So when he rarely does show up in person the public has a jumpscare of "oh not literally a grandpa huh uh oh".

And he definitely doesn't look like teenage or twenties, even youthful Neuvillette has gotta be like late thirties earliest. Mature but not actually as old as anyone would expect.

#neuvillette #genshin impact #i hc Zhongli looks older than Neuvillette btw #like i think Zhongli would pick a more middle aged form #idk if Neuvillette picked his form?? dragon power level is wacky #Furina has like an unnerving babyface in my hc btw #like she wanted to look good and also young and she over corrected #like Neuvillette looks effortlessly divine cos of magical eminence or whatever #same for Raiden for example #and Furina could have had that but she thought too hard about ot #looked at too many magazines #can't capture the archon magic anymore #might as well list my other archon appearance hcs now #Nahida doesn't look human #ofc the ears but i think she has a green tint to her skin #and she doesn't look unhealthy and it isn't obvious #but you can tell it's not quite human #raiden could be mistaken as human just looks wise #but i think that she has this aura of energy that prickles you #she probably looks like early 30s #Venti copied his friend so he just looks the Most human #tiny bit of acne #teeth aren't quite straight #he looks late teens/early twenties

[strqyr]

idk what it is but salem going "no. you can't leave! you can't leave!! come back!!" to the gods, to which dark replied "still demanding things of your creators" while light tells ozma that if humanity continues to demand their blessings, they will be found irredeemable and the world will be wiped from existence, and then, in her message—to which salem reacts to with a smile!!—ruby tells the world: "i hope amity tower will help bring us together. because in the end, that's how we'll win—", before it cuts short, before tai's "no! no, come back!"

the final story of the fairy tale book being the gift of the moon, a story about humans demanding things from the sun (light's creation), causing it to break, and everyone in the world coming together to fix it, using its spilled light to make a new sun while the old became the broken moon, not only replacing the god of light's creation, but improving upon it through their own ingenuity:

"you can't put the moon back together" is a well-known phrase that usually means something broken cannot be fixed. however, its original meaning, as traced back to this age-old fable, is this: if something cannot be fixed, you should start over.

it's all giving me something.

#rwby #the gods are fallible #they left the world they created behind as a remnant #broken pieces made into something new #magic that is now dust aura and semblances #it is not for the gods to come back and make humanity whole again #it is for everyone on remnant to come together to 'start over' away from the gods #( which they have done already. only the gods' threat that remains must be deal with. )

[saturnisfallingdown]

a big part of the queer online kid to queer online young adult progression for me was losing all interest in labels. not in a distasteful way!! just. losing interest .....

#ive got a big post in the drafts about how ive found it impossible to exist outside of the queer identity structure these days #and the pros and cons of that #and i havent published it because i fear it giving off some anti-labeling-for-anyone-ever aura. which is not the vibe !!! #but talking entirely personally. yeah nowadays i feel weird even calling myself genderqueer!! listing a pronoun preference. #advertising myself as a lesbian at the forefront of my general human identity #because i am those things and people can refer to me in those ways!! absolutely #but ultimately my queerness is a lot more fluid than i gave it credit for as a kid/teen #and i think it defines less of me than i thought it did #or at least its such an intrinsic part of me that i can afford to look at a lot of other aspects of what makes me me #and this is all just my personal very privileged experience!! this isnt universal queerhood 101. but that makes it interesting!! #i dont know im having a very coming of age moment this year and im thinking a lot about identity. this is my diary welcome internet

[eggbagelz]

the mark vs the roots

#artists on tumblr #neleus lavellan #lavellan oc #dragon age inquistor #dragon age inquisition #the branches behind him are a reference both to his vallaslin and his elvish history- which is being threatened #so to speak #by the fact hes essentially become the fantasy equivalent of a christian prophet #i do think that neleus is half human #but hes very strongly tied to his elvish roots and so being in a position where both his people and his body are no longer his own is #especially terrifying for him #it's also why the branches look fainter in comparison to the pulse of the anchor and its aura- #the cries of the people who have become dependant on the inquisition and what the herald of andraste symbolizes #basically is drowning out who neleus actually is

[carnation-damnation]

I have sooo many thoughts about Rouge. Of all the main Sonic cast we know the least about her. She's a stealthy spy. She worked for the president despite being a thief and probably a double agent in that case?? She's extremely cunning. She's capable of detecting the emeralds despite not having that innate connection with them like Knuckles can.

In her theme there's a persistent sense that she doesn't like to be helped or controlled, possibly. She's searching for something she can call her own and that can only be hers. Nobody else can take it from her.

There's this sense in sa2 that she doesn't trust who she's working with, exactly. She doesn't show it by being cold like Shadow would, for instance, but she puts on this air of professionalism despite sometimes not thinking ahead (Giving herself 5 minutes to find 3 chaos emeralds despite it originally being fifteen and getting her locked in a vault as a result.) And this shows in her empathy and compassion. She doesn't show it as openly as somebody like Amy but she clearly cares and finds herself affected by the relationships she's gained since her introduction. She's probably told herself that she doesn't need anybody, that she can do everything by herself, she doesn't need to lean on anybody for help but she forms Team Dark herself.

#longpost #going bonkers. Love u guys <3 #Shes seen as the most mature of the sonic cast despite being a teenage girl (18) and so clearly silly. Look into her eyes the silly #Is in there. #Anyway yeah. #da aura of mystery around rouge t bat <3333333333 #be nice to me I dont usually talk abt sth lore bc its so. everything #but I LOVE coming up with backstories for characters that dont have one <3 #I also think white jungle is the turning point in her character for sa2. as I always do #This little weird bioweapon kid risked everything to save your life off an island set to blow up #Despite the circumstances being your fault #sure he needed the emeralds. but something about rouge reminded him of maria. his best friend. his family. #Rouge may not know that exactly. but at the end the first thing she says when sonic comes back after the boss? #'wheres shadow?' #she doubts the perception of his original purpose. to destroy humanity. because thats not what shes known of him.

[keeps-ache]

HEY

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #oc #pink space #i really like the subtract glitch i've been doing recently - so here's some of that again lol :3 #the way it interacts with their palettes is so fun i like it a lot ehegh :33 #//anyway do you ever consider just tossing out any part the human body you've learned to draw and just drawing dumb little guys with arms #like pipecleaners forever or what hfhs #//oh this is was doobled in traditional originally #i need to digitize more of these. Because #though aura's hair was more extreme in the second panel in that version - i'm tired though and 3 days ago it was the same so no feelings to #change that lol :) #also i didn't shrink the noise enough so it didn't look right - and i was not going to reimport it so Bon Voyage my dude hfhs #was Supposed to fit on a 900x900 canvas but i made the panels a liiiiitle bit too big so it's 950x950 #which is Fine it's a round number but it's not a Round-Round number so [gesturing] #1000x1000 was way too big for this little thing so she sits at a pleasant halfway point :> #//anyway i was also up til 3 a.m. last night doing ?? something ?? i genuinely don't even know what lmfhsbvh #nice though maybe my brain'll get a reset lol :3 #stay up really late some random nights and jumpstart your brain!! it's foolproof!! never fails!! [<- these statements have not been reviewe #by the FDA or the Center for Sleep Control] #//ANywho now i'm going to be on my way #/oh i also forgot to post the oath n aura refs i made for artfight lol- #i'll prolly put those up w/ the kira and hid ones though :>> #i like to have the whole ensemble :D i Do feel bad when one of them gets left out hghsfh - like forgetting a stuffed animal somewhere #even though they're all together for small portion of the story it still feels off lol #i should prolly introduce the rest of the cast at some point. .... ......... ..........hm yea prolly. maybe one day hfhs #//anyway NOW i'm going i've run out of tag space i think hfhs - toodles !! :>

[honestlyvan]

(Now on DW!)

One of the joys of a dormant fandom is that I can just show up and prop my feet on the table and start talking about divine horror and how sometimes a computer program is an angel and how humans are obsessed with taking the power of the heavens and putting it in a box for themselves to use.

Like.

God exists and she's a nice girl and she worked hard to be born, but she also has a temper and humans keep trying to put her in a box so she got fed up with it and hid from them. From her mother, she inherited eight powerful champions, and as a reward for their service she left them to roam as they pleased, but when humans couldn't trap her, they chose to trap those champions instead, and put them in a box, except now that box was a human, and that human was meant to take the power of the god that the humans couldn't steal, because humans made the divine realm that god and her angels inhabit and want to control it (as humans do).

And now you've got a bunch of humans who don't know they're being given a box with an angel in it and putting that box in their own bodies, and nobody can really figure out why these angel bodies keep going out of control and driving their hosts to madness, and oh, hey, the mother of god made these champions for a purpose and the humans in the driver seat don't know about that, either, even though the humans who gave them the angel bodies do know about that, because they want to use those angel bodies to make another god.

So congratulations! You're a prophet now! You are being called to do battle for your god, because you've been granted a divine body that has an angel in it, that is an angel. You're being called to do as your nature as an angel requires of you! And the entire time you're just a human, and the thing in your head feels too big for your mortal body, it feels too big for your divine body, and you're just watching things spiral out of control, wondering why you feel like you'd bleed mercury if they scratched you too deep.

#fannish #dothack #.hack//g.u. #GU spoilers #The way I talk about Aura tends towards the relentlessly silly #because the story is pretty blatant about how joy and love and connection are the things that make her what she is #The whole point of the Cursed Wave was that she didn't want to be born as something that only arises from humanity's darkest emotions #she couldn't have been born without humans loving each other #the ability to love and having free will are intrinsically linked #but while the AIs in .hack may be human-created in the strictest sense #(and even then both vagrant AIs and AIDA emerge without human interference) #by the time the story starts they're flatly beyond human comprehension for the most part #Aura and Morganna *are* The World as much as they *are* their own person #and the Phases -- especially post-salvaging -- are at least entities with their own wills even if they lack that essential person Aura has #And it's pretty blatantly stated that the Phases have *preferences* for who they consider 'qualified' to be their host #and if I choose to phrase it as 'among other things being an Epitaph user means you're constantly battling succumbing to divine madness' #that is *also* me getting silly with it #You can't put a vebatim deus ex machina in your story and expect me to not run with that

[timeskip]

Gon having endless potential. This meaning that Gon is Ging's son. Gon giving up all his potential and all his power he'll ever have before meeting Ging. Him meeting Ging not as Ging's prodigy son who will increase in power for the rest of his life but as a talented but powerless boy. The type of boy who Ging should have met from the start. Ging still left a mark on Gon, sending him on this path, sending him with the ability to reach this potential, but he gave it up and even as powerless as he was he still met Ging

#lies on the floor. ohhhhhh my god. god. aughhhh... aaaaa.... gon.... #i have so many thoughts on ging and gon and what hxh says about the legacy therein #and how ging affects gon both directly and indirectly. in his words and actions and the idea of him #that makes gon push himself so far to the brink that he (in this dodgeball match) passes out from using too much aura #this self destruction. a need to prove himself. to be worthy of meeting ging #and then. well. caa is a whole different story. a story almost disconnected from the idea of ging #but gon has been building these habits. he can't stop. and even so... even so he still manages to meet ging. he failed and he STILL met gin #and it was an ACCIDENT when he met ging but it was still meaningful #and suddenly ging isn't this amazing figure that gon has to live up to. suddenly he's just man. a talented and powerful one #but just a man! kite's teacher! #and gon has destroyed himself and. god. gon is so HUMAN. stares at the ceiling forever #hunter x hunter #gon freecss #hxh spoilers #hxh

[xchdraws]

i got to play this fucker in an actual vtm game on top of the table <3

#agrippa #ventrue #vtm #1) impatient 2) have unusually vivid aura 3) prone to lose humanity just bc they're bored af rich kid #he would benefit from some lethal damage i think #original #blood cw

[aoitakumi8148]

...I’d make you look, I’d make you lie, I’d take the coldness from your eyes...

𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒯𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝑀𝑒: ‘𝓘𝓯 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓜𝓮, 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓘𝓽 𝓓𝓲𝓮’.

[v.1-v.6] Some gaps left to fill ✏/✏ The answers would not have any weight on the LO𝓟 content.

The Law 𝟘. I thought I'd somehow learn something that'd drastically change the way I feel about... quite the oposite. More questions now to Venigni, Sofia and Manus, rather than to...

What Is The Principle Of ‘Communication Through Ergo Wave Lengths’?

What Is The ‘Ergo Amplification’ Effect?

Is Romeo's ‘Deal With The Devil’ About Becoming A Puppet?

What Is The Interval Between The ‘Deal’ & The ‘Experiment’?

Does The Creator Still Work With The Organization? 𝒫.𝒮. It Is Coherent On A Short-Term Basis, ‘Former Colleagues’ [+ Before The KD]. Systematically? Doubtful. Why Would He? If Not Only As A ‘Compulsory Measure’. ✒ The Creator And Manus' Goals/Views Are Fundamentally Conflicting. ✒ & His Sceptical Attitude is Plausible, Persuasive. ✒ Not To Mention The Leader Of [The Alchemists] Almost ‘Praise[s]’ The PD. 𝒫.𝒮. Which Exactly Causes Carlo's Death.

Rhetorical Question. Why Admonish 𝓟? ‘Read’ Geppetto's Mind? Think You Know? Leave It Be.

A plan that is complicated to proceed, a combination of provoked events and ‹fortunate› circumstances, generating one genius technician's intention growing stronger each day... or all at once. It matters not.

Despite everything he observes, discovers, hears from others, the boy is eager to be with Geppetto, to reconcile x make him happy. Even at the cost of his life, even if that happiness will not be theirs. 𝓟's Creator, his Trigger, his Father gave him the reason to. The reason to feel like a real human. Because of the man's craft, he regrettably missed the time for Carlo in the past, but it's 𝓟's present that does define him… Our crippling, gentle, disorienting, astonishing present.

LO𝓟 is a great writer's philosophically fond tale taken by great minds & implemented in the form of melodius x glamorous ideality, NOT destined to burn the ‹core› of this tale to dust. Something that intense cannot be an illusion.

...With the full force of a dying star ~ I will find you, If you’re near or far, wherever you are...

#Aoi Takumi #blog #my gifs #NEOWIZ #ROUND8 STUDIO #Lies Of P 2023 #Lies Of P #2023 #game #NG+ #Winter Holiday Edition #license version #v.5 #PC #/ #𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 #everyone [but not literaly] in Krat lie to 𝓟 one way or another... #his secrets are -fed- by the extraordinary love towards Carlo... his guilt x anguish eventually driving the man... #to choose x overconcentrate x exaggerate x ignore the obstacles around him... bottle up the feelings for his 𝓟uppet at some stage... #because this die is cast... / only in the effort to shield his gone son's ♡ ~ he is able to behold the will x realness of his alive 1's ~ #the same human form but a different substance / geniuses have their -gaps- too... #*𝕒𝕤 𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕤 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦��𝕕... 𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖 #𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼 #-pouring fuel on the fire- x persistently vilifying your -best friend-'s family ain't quite smart ~ tell me 𝕀'𝕞 𝕨𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘 #𝗣𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘀 #a -world without lies- is the man's -grandiose moralistic performance- / #though what he demonstrates is basically how to -play- with Ergo/the Arm of God x hold the object of your obsession captive [...] #doesn't know from personal experience about care [fatherly care included] and consequently... #has no clear notion of what it is like... to bear the same burden with someone you love most... to -breathe- that someone's aura... #*𝕝𝕚𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 & 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕥𝕙 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘

[diaryofamadsunwukongfan]

Semblances

"All Faunus and Humans are not created equal" or some variation of is a saying that has been passed down by Renment 'traditionalists' for generations. When asked for proof, the first thing they point to are the nuemerous animal traits Faunus have. The second thing they point to is the Semblance: a unique power Human warriors have that Faunus don't.

When a human obtains 1000 AP (Aura Points), their Aura not only becomes strong enough to protect themselves, but they also gain the ability to develop a Semblance. Just like how max AP levels increase in deadly situations, Semblances can only be created by Aura during a secnario where if a semblance hadn't developed, something will die.

Three rules of Semblances to keep in mind:

1. Semblances are unique, but not unprecedented - Just like human personalities, each semblance is completely unique. Also just like human personalities, most semblances can be very similar to another person's semblance. The key here is that no matter how similar, two semblances always have at least one difference between each other. [SDC Advertisement: The Schnee family is the first family in the world to have the exact same Semblance, wow! Buy Weiss Schnee's new album, Mirror on the Wall, at a music store near you! Avalible now!]

2. Semblances drain Aura reserves - The price to activate a semblance is measured in AP, and all Semblances pay the price no matter what they do. Some semblances pay this price more than others.

3. Semblances cannot create matter - The most important rule for understanding Semblances as a scientific concept, everything created by Semblances is made of Aura, not matter. Because using a Semblance drains Aura, everything created by a semblance eventually fades away into nothingness after being created.

Semblances are divided into two main catergories: Active Semblances and Passive Semblances.

Active Semblance types

Active Semblances are by far the most common catergory of semblance and the most typical. Renment's scientist define active semblances by what they do, not by what they are used for. Also, the categories are less hard rules and more like guidelines, which is why most semblances are hybrids.

Transportation - A formerly outdated but now revived semblance subclassification that describes semblances that are used to get from point A to point B. They do this by using the Aura shield as a vehicle to move at superhuman speeds. Associated with temperamental and breezy personalites.

Generation - A semblance that produces either an Aura construct or uses Aura to produce a type of energy. Associated with creative personalites.

Deception - An outdated semblance classification that describes semblances used to deceive humans, animals, and Grimm. No longer used in official Aura studies because it describes how the semblance is used instead of what it does, however there is a certain stigma against people with the semblance type in the modern day. Associated with criminal behavior.

Empowerment - A semblance that grants the users body or another object an beneficial ability that they would normally be physical unable to perform. The ability needing to be beneficial is a cause for much discussion in Aura studies. Is the most common type of semblance.

Disempowerment - A Empowerment semblance subtype that grants a harmful affect to the user or to others.

Domination - A semblance that controls real world phenomena (matter, energy) by using Aura to puppet it. Associated with commanding personalities.

Redistribution - An outdated category that describes a semblance that activates in response to absorbing a type of energy. It stopped being used officially because all semblances in this category are a hybrid with one in another category. Associated with aggressive personalites.

Mental - A semblance that directly interacts with and changes the brains functions. Debated if this should be a main category or a sub-category of Domination. Associated with introspection.

Passive Semblances

Every 1 in 100 hundred people are naturally born with a Passive Semblance, a specialized variation of the regular Active Semblances that various warriors learn to unlock.

As the name implies, a Passive Semblance is always active, beginning from birth, and the user has zero control over it. This fact is confusing for most people that are aware semblances drain the users aura, however, Passive Semblances are the exact same. Passive Semblances do drain Aura, but the rate at which they do so is so slow that the Semblance itself will never be able to fully drain a users owner by itself.

Because of their rarity and power, Passive Semblances have captured the imagination of all cultures of Renment far and wide. Children born with a PS that have a helpful affect, like removing pain and bring joy, are said to be Blessed. Likewise, those with PS that naturally hurt the people around them are said to be hexed and are seen as inherently evil. Worst of all are the Cursed: children born with PS that hurt both themselves and the people around them. Said to be bad omens, many cultures across Renment have gone as far as to leave Cursed children to die. The ones that avoid this fate are the real unlucky ones...

#im working overtime to make rwby humans unique and to make Qrow's semblance make sense and to make all semblances make sense #for those wondering #I deleted faunus having semblances because I headcanoned that was the way the show worked before Blake started talking about her semblance #I liked my stupid idea better #btw shadow clones are an aura technique now #rwde #rwby rewrite #rwby fix it fic