Post by ETITERUM on Jun 8, 2015 11:30:26 GMT -6
GHOSTS
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Ghosts are spirits of the deceased that cannot pass on, are trapped or otherwise hold some manner of unfinished business with the living world. Not all beings will be able to see them enough to believe that they even exist and this is why even though being one of the very first supernatural creatures present: they are still widely thought of as a figment of your imagination today. These are the more common ghosts you will come across. They may or may not be aware they are dead, they'll have some manner of unfinished business that's keeping them tied down here. Some will just go about their daily lives naturally without even noticing the change, ignoring those of the living around them. Others, will stick closely to the loved ones left behind, watching them from afar and even interfering in their lives if the choice presents itself. Ghosts tend to vary in personality as much as humans, they are still people after all.
» BECOMING A GHOST.
Ghosts generally present themselves when a person will not pass on to the other worlds peacefully for any manner of the reasons below. Mind you, not every ghost will even be aware of the reason they have not passed on and not every deceased individual will become a ghost.
» Wrongful and/or traumatic/sudden death
» Spirit is trapped within an object/container
» Does not accept death/Know they are dead
» Any manner of unfinished business
****NOTE: angels and demons CANNOT become ghosts once passed on. They are already spirits of a sort.
» APPEARANCE.
» General --//
Ghosts shall present themselves looking the very same age as they died, for they do not age any further. They'll often be wearing clothes they found themselves most comfortable in during their time frame and often even present themselves in the same mannerisms and/or customs from the time they are from. Some can choose to visually display wounds that accounted for their death but this isn't something forced of them. Others such as the deceased souls of Shifters or Weres can appear as their animal forms if chosen. This form looks little more than what you'd expect anyone to look like; natural, normal, they won't look any different than the living. ***THIS FORM CAN BE SEEN BY ANYONE THE SPIRIT DESIRES TO SHOW IT TO. ANYONE CAN SEE IT AND IF NO TARGET IS SPECIFIED EVERYONE IN NORMAL VIEWING AREA WILL BE ABLE TO SEE IT.***
» Lesser --//
This is the form most overall used and seen as a ghost does not have a physical body, their own will not appear as such. They'll appear as a flicker, a ghostly dark specter, a flash of light, or mostly just a very dim, see-through/transparent body of their natural state. Most will think it a trick of the eye, will look again and the ghost has gone invisible and they'll dismiss it entirely. A ghost can FORCEFULLY choose to manifest in this form to those that don't naturally see them at all with relative ease.
***THOSE THAT CAN SEE THEM IN THIS FORM INCLUDE:
Psychics, Weres, Vampires, Shifters, Dragons, Phoenixes, Sirens AND Humans should the spirit decide to show them. HUMANS MUST BE SPECIFICALLY TARGETED OR THEY WILL NOT SEE.
» ABILITIES.
» Telekinesis --// Ghosts have the ability to move objects around with their mind. They may find this ability first presenting itself via emotion, particularly anger and while it shall take a good bit to learn this ability for any of them, they really have nothing better to do other than test.
» Intangibility/Phasing --// Ghosts can walk through walls or any other manner of tangible surface. This is mostly due to their natural body not having a corporeal, a solid form. This ability comes naturally to them and often promotes a matter of upset, given they must practice and concentrate very hard not to pass through things, but to touch and to feel as well. Ghosts can touch one another however, it is unclear why exactly.
» Invisibility --// A ghost's more commonly seen form is NOT corporeal and the stronger they become/the more energy they use to manifest themselves into their full form: the more they can be seen. However, they can also choose to not be seen at all.
» Technopathy --// They can cause small interferences, however some older ghosts can demonstrate an impressive level of control over machinery and electricity or technology itself, a ghost has something of an ability to interfere with electrical devices. They can make a power surge or flicker or shut off entirely and the stronger the ghost may even be able to use a computer or electrical device to leave a message behind for others.
» Thermal Manipulation --// In the form of lowering the temperature around them. A ghost does so unconsciously and more often than not because they're trying to manifest themselves or other abilities and thereby taking the energy (or fear) in the area in order to do such. This will have the effect of lowering the temperatures around them.
» Teleportation --// A ghost has no need to move the natural way a mortal may move around in. They have no use for legs at all because they can't touch anything naturally without a lot of concentration. Therefor they generally flicker or move from place to place (even just from one part of the room to the next) via a form of teleportation. Note that this includes the ability to pass through other worlds at will however you won't find a ghost in the Demon or Heavenly Realm generally unless they are moving on to something else.
» Voice Manipulation --// You will largely see these in the trickster spirits or the vengeful ones in the fact that they can mimic other peoples voices, such as the ones responsible for their death and/or can make their voice BOOM or echo in a surrounding area as much as mimic the sounds of alarms or any such other form of sound. Some also use this to produce deafening screeches.
» Supernatural Perception --// A ghost is largely aware and able to sense those around them as much as able to perceive what a person is. Especially with that of Witches, Angels and Demons.
» Glamour --// Ghost's can change their natural form to look and/or hold the appearance of having the mortal wound of which sustained their death. They can also thereby make their appearance seem otherwise more traumatic or haunting to individuals. They can even glamour an entire room to look as though it did in the hours leading up to their death or generally just what it looked like when they were alive entirely. Some of the trickier spirits could make a room appear to you as being underwater or leading off to a cliff even. These are but illusions, mind you and casting them cause a great deal of stress and use of energy on a ghost that will leave them in their more illusory form, unable to manifest their natural looks.
» Sensation Manipulation --// A ghost can manipulate the senses of others and also gain some themselves, making them think they are feeling a particular pain and/or smelling a certain thing of their choosing. A form of this ability allows them to TOUCH the living or otherwise corporeal objects however it takes a lot of control to master and a considerable amount of energy to perform. As a ghost naturally has no body again, they will find themselves unable to FEEL things naturally without this said ability.
» Dream Walking --// A ghost can appear in someone's dreams in order to communicate with those that may not be able to see them otherwise and/or can do such to haunt others.
» Possession --// A ghost can possess another individual's body much like an angel or demon however not largely for the same amount of time as both those individual species are capable of. Their time possessing someone (mediums) is incredibly fleeting and wearing on their energies. This is usually only done so even to carry on a message to another person (especially if the other cannot see them). They shall find that people are most likely easier to succumb to forceful possession on their part if they are under a high emotional state (fear being the easiest choice), unconscious (sleeping even), or are in fact mediums (usually Witches) calling forth for their souls peacefully.
***A ghost will find they CANNOT possess the body of an Angel's or a Demon's given their bodies are ALREADY under a possession itself and a ghost will not have the strength to forcefully remove the current host of said body.
***A ghost CANNOT possess the body of an animal either, this includes that of Weres or Shifters given their animal senses make them largely more aware of them and incapable of allowing them possession due to natural immunities of a stronger (animal) soul fighting them off.
» WEAKNESSES.
» Salt --// A ghost cannot cross a salt line and/or circle. Salt is used to purify the body and/or in the art of purification and they are otherwise thought not to be of this sort given they are unnatural for not having passed on. If salt is thrown or used against them in any sort they shall find they are unable to manifest their form at all and will stay in an invisible state unable to touch or speak to the living world for a short time until they recover (some even describe the salt as having burned them). They can recover faster if they leave the area and get away from said salt.
» Intangible --// Unless a ghost physically wills for it to happen, they cannot interact physically with the world around them. They cannot touch things in the physical world, however they can touch other ghosts.
» Iron --// Iron is used in the art of protecting oneself from a ghost. It cannot harm them, however, if a body is wearing iron--a ghost cannot possess them.
» Demons --// Demons grow in power by eating the souls of others. Um, YOU ARE VERY TASTY SO HIDE FROM THEM IF YOU SEE ONE! They also might try to force ghosts into a familiarship with a witch as part of a deal.
» Angels/Reapers --// Angels, especially Reapers can help a ghost pass on forcefully by hitting them with their angel blades. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO THEN RUN AWAYYYYY. They may also try to forcibly bind a soul to a body and deliver them to a witch in need.
» PASSING ON.
A ghost has a few limited choices of what they can thereby do after becoming a ghost in order to pass on to the afterlife.
» Passing on Naturally by:
-- their body being purified and burned.
-- their death being avenged.
-- their unfinished business being settled (some long-term business can be as simple as their lover moving on).
-- accepting their death.
-- the object they are contained/trapped within being broken and/or purified.
-- their Witch captor releasing them from their familiar pact.
» Become an Angel
-- a ghost can become an Angel by performing multiple acts of selflessness to other souls and/or people. This is a rare happening but one that can easily come to pass just the same. People that naturally were living a selfless existence before their untimely demise may even be immediately visited by an Angel once killed and taken under their wing. Said Angel will help them through their selfless tasks ahead or even give them tasks to perform. Once completed, when they are struck by the Angel's blade, they will not pass on, but gain a heavenly attribute/presence that eventually full-on turns them into an Angel.
» Become a Demon
-- a ghost will become a Demon naturally if they are to continuously harm, destroy or limit the lives of the living. This happens mostly with vengeful spirits, apparitions and even poltergeists if they mischief too much and it gets out of hand. Slowly they will find that their natural form is gaining darker attributes that it thereby did not have previously: such as horns, fangs, talons and the like. An Angel can stop this transformation by forcing them to move on but otherwise a ghost will suddenly become banished to the Demon Realm when the final transformation is complete.
» Become a Familiar
-- a ghost will become a familiar if they are approached by an angel or demon, or approach one of those or a witch and try to work out some sort of deal with them to become one. The type of familiar has a lot to do with the ghost from the onset, but also a lot to do with the witch and how the two mesh together. A ghost's perspective and personality tend to morph to fit with their new witch companion.
» BECOMING A GHOST.
Ghosts generally present themselves when a person will not pass on to the other worlds peacefully for any manner of the reasons below. Mind you, not every ghost will even be aware of the reason they have not passed on and not every deceased individual will become a ghost.
» Wrongful and/or traumatic/sudden death
» Spirit is trapped within an object/container
» Does not accept death/Know they are dead
» Any manner of unfinished business
****NOTE: angels and demons CANNOT become ghosts once passed on. They are already spirits of a sort.
» APPEARANCE.
» General --//
Ghosts shall present themselves looking the very same age as they died, for they do not age any further. They'll often be wearing clothes they found themselves most comfortable in during their time frame and often even present themselves in the same mannerisms and/or customs from the time they are from. Some can choose to visually display wounds that accounted for their death but this isn't something forced of them. Others such as the deceased souls of Shifters or Weres can appear as their animal forms if chosen. This form looks little more than what you'd expect anyone to look like; natural, normal, they won't look any different than the living. ***THIS FORM CAN BE SEEN BY ANYONE THE SPIRIT DESIRES TO SHOW IT TO. ANYONE CAN SEE IT AND IF NO TARGET IS SPECIFIED EVERYONE IN NORMAL VIEWING AREA WILL BE ABLE TO SEE IT.***
» Lesser --//
This is the form most overall used and seen as a ghost does not have a physical body, their own will not appear as such. They'll appear as a flicker, a ghostly dark specter, a flash of light, or mostly just a very dim, see-through/transparent body of their natural state. Most will think it a trick of the eye, will look again and the ghost has gone invisible and they'll dismiss it entirely. A ghost can FORCEFULLY choose to manifest in this form to those that don't naturally see them at all with relative ease.
***THOSE THAT CAN SEE THEM IN THIS FORM INCLUDE:
Psychics, Weres, Vampires, Shifters, Dragons, Phoenixes, Sirens AND Humans should the spirit decide to show them. HUMANS MUST BE SPECIFICALLY TARGETED OR THEY WILL NOT SEE.
» ABILITIES.
» Telekinesis --// Ghosts have the ability to move objects around with their mind. They may find this ability first presenting itself via emotion, particularly anger and while it shall take a good bit to learn this ability for any of them, they really have nothing better to do other than test.
» Intangibility/Phasing --// Ghosts can walk through walls or any other manner of tangible surface. This is mostly due to their natural body not having a corporeal, a solid form. This ability comes naturally to them and often promotes a matter of upset, given they must practice and concentrate very hard not to pass through things, but to touch and to feel as well. Ghosts can touch one another however, it is unclear why exactly.
» Invisibility --// A ghost's more commonly seen form is NOT corporeal and the stronger they become/the more energy they use to manifest themselves into their full form: the more they can be seen. However, they can also choose to not be seen at all.
» Technopathy --// They can cause small interferences, however some older ghosts can demonstrate an impressive level of control over machinery and electricity or technology itself, a ghost has something of an ability to interfere with electrical devices. They can make a power surge or flicker or shut off entirely and the stronger the ghost may even be able to use a computer or electrical device to leave a message behind for others.
» Thermal Manipulation --// In the form of lowering the temperature around them. A ghost does so unconsciously and more often than not because they're trying to manifest themselves or other abilities and thereby taking the energy (or fear) in the area in order to do such. This will have the effect of lowering the temperatures around them.
» Teleportation --// A ghost has no need to move the natural way a mortal may move around in. They have no use for legs at all because they can't touch anything naturally without a lot of concentration. Therefor they generally flicker or move from place to place (even just from one part of the room to the next) via a form of teleportation. Note that this includes the ability to pass through other worlds at will however you won't find a ghost in the Demon or Heavenly Realm generally unless they are moving on to something else.
» Voice Manipulation --// You will largely see these in the trickster spirits or the vengeful ones in the fact that they can mimic other peoples voices, such as the ones responsible for their death and/or can make their voice BOOM or echo in a surrounding area as much as mimic the sounds of alarms or any such other form of sound. Some also use this to produce deafening screeches.
» Supernatural Perception --// A ghost is largely aware and able to sense those around them as much as able to perceive what a person is. Especially with that of Witches, Angels and Demons.
» Glamour --// Ghost's can change their natural form to look and/or hold the appearance of having the mortal wound of which sustained their death. They can also thereby make their appearance seem otherwise more traumatic or haunting to individuals. They can even glamour an entire room to look as though it did in the hours leading up to their death or generally just what it looked like when they were alive entirely. Some of the trickier spirits could make a room appear to you as being underwater or leading off to a cliff even. These are but illusions, mind you and casting them cause a great deal of stress and use of energy on a ghost that will leave them in their more illusory form, unable to manifest their natural looks.
» Sensation Manipulation --// A ghost can manipulate the senses of others and also gain some themselves, making them think they are feeling a particular pain and/or smelling a certain thing of their choosing. A form of this ability allows them to TOUCH the living or otherwise corporeal objects however it takes a lot of control to master and a considerable amount of energy to perform. As a ghost naturally has no body again, they will find themselves unable to FEEL things naturally without this said ability.
» Dream Walking --// A ghost can appear in someone's dreams in order to communicate with those that may not be able to see them otherwise and/or can do such to haunt others.
» Possession --// A ghost can possess another individual's body much like an angel or demon however not largely for the same amount of time as both those individual species are capable of. Their time possessing someone (mediums) is incredibly fleeting and wearing on their energies. This is usually only done so even to carry on a message to another person (especially if the other cannot see them). They shall find that people are most likely easier to succumb to forceful possession on their part if they are under a high emotional state (fear being the easiest choice), unconscious (sleeping even), or are in fact mediums (usually Witches) calling forth for their souls peacefully.
***A ghost will find they CANNOT possess the body of an Angel's or a Demon's given their bodies are ALREADY under a possession itself and a ghost will not have the strength to forcefully remove the current host of said body.
***A ghost CANNOT possess the body of an animal either, this includes that of Weres or Shifters given their animal senses make them largely more aware of them and incapable of allowing them possession due to natural immunities of a stronger (animal) soul fighting them off.
» WEAKNESSES.
» Salt --// A ghost cannot cross a salt line and/or circle. Salt is used to purify the body and/or in the art of purification and they are otherwise thought not to be of this sort given they are unnatural for not having passed on. If salt is thrown or used against them in any sort they shall find they are unable to manifest their form at all and will stay in an invisible state unable to touch or speak to the living world for a short time until they recover (some even describe the salt as having burned them). They can recover faster if they leave the area and get away from said salt.
» Intangible --// Unless a ghost physically wills for it to happen, they cannot interact physically with the world around them. They cannot touch things in the physical world, however they can touch other ghosts.
» Iron --// Iron is used in the art of protecting oneself from a ghost. It cannot harm them, however, if a body is wearing iron--a ghost cannot possess them.
» Demons --// Demons grow in power by eating the souls of others. Um, YOU ARE VERY TASTY SO HIDE FROM THEM IF YOU SEE ONE! They also might try to force ghosts into a familiarship with a witch as part of a deal.
» Angels/Reapers --// Angels, especially Reapers can help a ghost pass on forcefully by hitting them with their angel blades. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO THEN RUN AWAYYYYY. They may also try to forcibly bind a soul to a body and deliver them to a witch in need.
» PASSING ON.
A ghost has a few limited choices of what they can thereby do after becoming a ghost in order to pass on to the afterlife.
» Passing on Naturally by:
-- their body being purified and burned.
-- their death being avenged.
-- their unfinished business being settled (some long-term business can be as simple as their lover moving on).
-- accepting their death.
-- the object they are contained/trapped within being broken and/or purified.
-- their Witch captor releasing them from their familiar pact.
» Become an Angel
-- a ghost can become an Angel by performing multiple acts of selflessness to other souls and/or people. This is a rare happening but one that can easily come to pass just the same. People that naturally were living a selfless existence before their untimely demise may even be immediately visited by an Angel once killed and taken under their wing. Said Angel will help them through their selfless tasks ahead or even give them tasks to perform. Once completed, when they are struck by the Angel's blade, they will not pass on, but gain a heavenly attribute/presence that eventually full-on turns them into an Angel.
» Become a Demon
-- a ghost will become a Demon naturally if they are to continuously harm, destroy or limit the lives of the living. This happens mostly with vengeful spirits, apparitions and even poltergeists if they mischief too much and it gets out of hand. Slowly they will find that their natural form is gaining darker attributes that it thereby did not have previously: such as horns, fangs, talons and the like. An Angel can stop this transformation by forcing them to move on but otherwise a ghost will suddenly become banished to the Demon Realm when the final transformation is complete.
» Become a Familiar
-- a ghost will become a familiar if they are approached by an angel or demon, or approach one of those or a witch and try to work out some sort of deal with them to become one. The type of familiar has a lot to do with the ghost from the onset, but also a lot to do with the witch and how the two mesh together. A ghost's perspective and personality tend to morph to fit with their new witch companion.
