[Animus] OOC Permissions Post!

[toomanyeyes]

Pitch is the embodiment of fear itself. Under normal circumstances he can easily and instinctively know what the fears of those around him are, to better exploit for his own gain. He also uses this knowledge to "nudge" people in certain directions. For example, if there is a dark hallway and a character is afraid of the dark, Pitch will be able to pick up on that and tell them to find another way around, because that hallway is simply too dark. It is his way of enabling the survival of certain individuals, his original role in the grand scheme of things. However, as of late he's rather enjoyed tormenting people with their fears for his own amusement.

SO WITH THAT BEING SAID this is a handy permissions post for that!

Anything else (show of affection, injury, killing) I am usually a-ok with! Just in the case of any injury or killing situations I ask that you drop me a line first.

Post here with whether it's okay for Pitch to pick up on your character's fears, and if so, list them, or go into depth with them. Go crazy! Also specify if inflicting your character with nightmares is something that's allowed. <3

Comments

[warriorscribe]

Uh. Losing people and more broadly, and more powerfully, being completely alone and isolated is one of Enoch's worst fears, more so now that he's actually experienced it in his return to Meridian's ruins. Losing Lucifel, and the fact that he's lost Armaros with Meridian, are parts of this fear that are mostly subconscious, but they'll get the strongest reaction if they're brought up.

He's gained a strong fear of flaying/seeing others flayed during his stay here in Animus - from mild anxiety to nausea to screaming and fleeing or even collapsing depending on the situation: who's being skinned, by what, how much, basically.

Additionally, though it doesn't manifest as blatantly as the others, losing his free will again is a tower-earned fear as well.

OH and I nearly forgot, there's a fear in there relating to Earth being gone too, which includes Heaven which implies God is dead, but this is something that got caught in that little psychological protective trap that means he logically knows it but the full emotional impact never hits. Know what I mean? Well, if Pitch can get ahold of it, he can play with it too.

And since I know you know his canon, if you want Pitch to go after things I haven't said here, he can do so!

You know I'm open for whatever! Fears, nightmares, even daymares if Pitch can do those. (yes that is a thing that exists, whatever spellcheck says)

[alephbet]

Aleph alephbet: Aleph is mostly afraid of having to hurt people he cares about (again). He's afraid that he'll come into moral conflict with people he otherwise wouldn't have to fight and end up killing them, which has happened in the past. Yes for fear manipulation.

Katsuya Suou withak: Katsuya is afraid of being a failure as a brother, rejection by his brother Tatsuya, and generally sucking as a police officer. Yes for fear manipulation.

Ryuunosuke Uryuu kindofademon doesn't have any fears I can really think of, on account of being a very happy serial killer!

V/V heavenscorpse is afraid that she'll have to destroy humanity like she was supposed to originally. Yes for fear manipulation.

Zett Takajo scentofmakai is afraid of losing his friend permanently, since they haven't shown up in the tower... God scares him too, and God is a big yellow head. Yes for fear manipulation.

Nessiah grancenturio is afraid of emotions and ~friendship~ stopping him from completing his goals of destroying the gods forever. Yes for fear manipulation.

[primordial]

I ONLY HAVE SAM ERSTWHILE HERE so anyways, here is a quick outline of his fears!

The eldtritch horror side of him fears death, beyond anything else. Sam acts the way he does as to ensure his own survival in the long run, and living the way he does is something he cherishes greatly. That being said, that side of him is also horridly afraid of fire, as that is the only thing that could kill him for good. His human side fears being weak, or being put in a situation he can't squrim his way out of. He likes the way he is now because he's powerful and able to withstand things that a normal person wouldn't, and returning to the way he was, a mortal human being, would be terrifying for him. (Even though this is nigh near impossible, to separate his human and eldritch side, he still has that fear that he will eb as harmless as he was before.)

Also, he is deeply afraid that he's a lot like his nemesis and former boss, Y, and therefore hates him all the more for it. His boss went and killed his sister in cold blood and then later said that Sam and him were exactly the same, and Sam rebels against that like nothing else. It's kind of like the "YOU'RE NOT MEEEEE" mantra in Persona 4, for Sam knows he's very much like Y and hates to acknowledge it.

Other than that, he's pretty much fearless. Even though he may act like a coward that jumps at the slightest sound in the dark, it's all just an act to make himself seem more harmless than he really is. YES FOR ALL THE FEAR MANIPULATION

[semantating]

Commenting here foooor:

Link [AU1] | Zelda: Ocarina of Time (ocariness)
Xerxes Break [OU] | Pandora Hearts (semantating)

I'm going to try to put this in a way that makes sense hurrdurr

Link: A-OK to whatever you wanna do--she's WAAAAAY more susceptible to things than Break, but that said, despite how much she may fear something, Link's generally the type to head towards it stupidly and head-on even at the risk of her own death, even when she's terrified, because Triforce of Courage. Actually on that note, I'm not really sure if he'd... be able to do TOO much to her given that same Magical Triangle Bit? I'll leave that up to you since I am fine with him doing whatever. c:

Link is likelier to be pinged by her Weird Darkness Sensors though given her being sensitive to that sort of thing, and she might feel weird around Pitch and may or may not be defensive and, if he gets kinda creeperish on her, there's the possibility she might try to fight him, just as an aside.

Fears: Okay hmm... Link's biggest fears are definitely that she'll fail people, that she's not a very good hero at all, and, well, people finding out she's a girl and treating her inferior because of it, or that they'll suddenly hate her for it. Her worst fear, though, is that she'll lose the people she loves like Zelda or any of her close CR (England comes to mind) to Ganondorf, or that they'll be hurt beyond being okay by the administrators. Admittedly, she is scared of Ruana, as well. But again, all the things she fears she will mostly acknowledge and try to work past, sans the obvious Hiding Her Gender issue. :V

Break: This should be... interesting. Break has something called a Chain in him that's kiiiinda like what Pitch is, only it used to be human way upon a yesteryear and it's basically kinda wrapped up inside him all contracted like a demon or some shit. The Mad Hatter would quite easily allow him to sense things about Pitch, I think; Chains are good at that, and Break is far from stupid, but likewise, I think Pitch would probably pick up that this particular human is older than he looks, has stopped aging, and that he's... not exactly normal by any standard. He could affect Break with nightmares, though Break is very good at seeing past this sort of thing and would honestly not be all that bothered by it--he's been through worse than a few bad dreams.

Fears: Break's fears, I think, Pitch will have a harder time immediately finding. Unlike Link, Break is not an open book and easy to read; he has layers to him, and discovering these will take a bit of time around him and figuring him out... but... hm. His worst fears are already kind of manifest and he got over them damn quickly, but I'd have to say what he fears most is an odd one: that he might lose control or simply lose his battle against time before he can fix things and meet his goals, mostly. Otherwise, even then, this is something Break accepts and is fine with? Like he knows it's there and he's... honestly not very afraid of most things haha.

On a lesser level he'd never admit it but he's afraid he's lost the family he serves as well as his "friends" from back home completely: Alice (the one with black hair), Reim Lunettes, the Rainsworths whom he serves, and Gilbert Nightray. This one is a little harder to find, but it's there.

What else... he's afraid of attachments. As in, getting close to people. Break's life has sucked so attachments are not things he is fond of having; he lives a USE ME AND I SHALL USE YOU sort of life, and he's honest about that, too. If I think of anything else I'll drop it here I guess, but I doubt Break would get into any fights unwarranted, and I'd bug you if he might.

WHY HELLO THERE FELLOW CREEPER WHY DON'T YOU COME AND TALK TO THIS MAD OLD HATTER, FOR A HUMAN, HE'S AN ODDLY CHILL FELLOW... IF AN ANNOYING AND CLOWNY ONE.

[pitiedthefool]

[OU] Yu Narukami (pitiedthefool)

The fear of being alone. As one whose power derives from the bonds he forges and his dependency on the people who trust him, this should come as no surprise that he fears them becoming distant. Of those lights snuffing out one. by. one. Yet it isn't because he depends on the power that he's afraid, but because he has had enough of solitude and longs for lasting connections with others. Something that is rare in the Tower, yet when forged is irreplaceable.

Yet there is a real reason for him to fear this. He has been used and manipulated before by the administrators, has killed with his own two hands when his entire mission as the representation of hope in a god's little game was to save and grant a second chance at life to those who would have otherwise perished; to show them the Truth. What if those same people found out? Would they abandon him because he isn't the same due to their games? Would they accept this cruel truth? The uncertainty gnaws at him like a wild animal, yet his actions never betray it.

He fears not being able to keep his promises; that what he knows to be true will be tested time and time again and when the time comes, the bonds he's forged here won't be enough to bring him back like they had in the face of Death Herself. After all, he'd been wrong about one or two people... who's to say the impressions of the bonds he's made are right?

He also fears emptiness, being void of anything within his heart. Because while he knows that his Arcana means empty and limitless potential, Nothing's (the Reverse) isolating void and dead silence is something he couldn't live with again.

I give the YES for manipulation, but warn that he will be a difficult one to manipulate for he knows his fears and acknowledges them. He has to, lest his Persona revert into a Shadow and likely cause the deaths of many.

[OU] Ira (Riku Replica) (acceptedoblivon)

Powerlessness. Or more accurately, being unable to act. Having been modeled from Riku's darkness, memories, and data, he has a strong urge to protect the things that matter to him... even if it's all a lie.

Because he is fake; everything about him is borrowed even down to his code. Nothing of his is real and, even after finding a name of his own, he fears never escaping the real thing's shadow... not really. They've already taken even his borrowed face from him before, his ability to speak, and the ability to act. Who is to say they'd not make him their puppet because he can't stop them? He's never been able to, even when it was just Larxene and the Organization.

To this end, he fears being used again. Being rewritten again. Of being forced back into the shadow of the things he no longer wants to be as though that is his place and lot in life due to being created and not born. And what's more, he fears never fully understanding why he's like this; almost always angry and ruled by the fight or flight mechanism, afraid to let most close for one reason or another.

In other words, yes to the manipulation.

[tohko_amano]

Tohko Amano: Tohko has a few fears. For one, she has a fear of being abandoned and rejected, due to the fact that she can only eat books and, due to several stories and people that she's met, knows that not everyone will accept that fact so easily. She also has a fear of losing people she cares about and not being able to help them, since..she does easily care about people and is good at making friends.

She also has a small fear of angry or malevolent spirits, since she's read quite a few good ghost stories that have gotten to her. Pitch can throw all the nightmares he wants at Tohko.

chaos: chaos is scared of..not being able to save the universes or help in some way, as he is a failsafe for his universe in canon and does not like that role one iota. He also has a very small fear of losing those who he has long attachments to, but it's a bit dull now, since he keeps thinking that he'll be able to see the people he loses again in some way. Pitch can try to throw nightmares at chaos, but he might meet some resistance, due to chaos's high power levels.

Raphael: Raphael is afraid of not living up to his name again and letting someone else be horribly hurt emotionally when he could have done something to prevent it. Raphael is an Angel of healing, and since he failed somewhat before in his canon, he's trying to learn a bit more about human emotions and empathy so that he doesn't do it again. Pitch is free to fling all the nightmares he wants at Raphael.

Yotsuba Koiwai: Yotsuba is afraid of dying, since she wants to stay alive so that her Daddy will find her. Sadly, she doesn't know that her father is actually dead yet, so she keeps hoping. She's also afraid of bird eyes and anything looking like them, since they creep her out. Pitch is free to fling all the nightmares he wants at Yotsuba.

Jasmine: Jasmine is afraid of losing her friends..but since Pokemon are her main friends, nightmare-wise, this would probably translate to her seeing all her Pokemon companions die on her and not being able to help them. Pitch is free to fling all the nightmares he wants at Jasmine.

[the_other_path]

Oh, this could be fun. Mamoru here is an empath, so he has an interesting relationship with emotions to begin with. His own permissions post is over here which will explain things a bit better, but basically, he's not entirely sane and not at all one of the good guys, so he does the opposite of Pitch here, and projects good emotions to get people to trust him and do stupid things.

For his own fears... well, again, he's not entirely sane, although he hides it exceedingly well. So on the surface this means he's not exactly afraid of many things on his own, other people's fear will start getting to him after a while. Genuine emotions also tend to put him on edge, especially good ones like love and affection.

Once you dig down to his subconscious, though, nightmare levels for instance, there's a lovely fear of abandonment due to his being kidnapped at a young age, and a slew of minor fears having to do with going from being a normal boy with a (mostly) loving family to being trained as an empathic assassin. Nightmares would be wonderful. He hasn't had one in such a long time. XD

[half_elven]

Losing people, namely his children, Arwen, Elrohir and Elladan. But also Aragorn, any of his people in Rivendell, Gandalf, his in-laws.

Sauron gaining the One Ring again is a fear of his, for what it'd mean for Middle-Earth.

He still doesn't really believe that Arda is destroyed however at this point. Though that is apt to change if he's given a reasonable explanation why he and Legolas have survived its destruction.

Also he misses his wife, Celebrian, who departed for the Undying lands.

What happened to his wife is she was waylaid by orcs in the Redhorn Pass of the Misty Mountains (Caradhras), captured and tormented, receiving a poisoned wound. Her sons rescued her and she was healed by Elrond, but "after fear and torment" she no longer wished to stay in Middle-earth, and passed to the Grey Havens and over the Sea in the following year.

You can give the man nightmares, though elves don't actually sleep technically. Still, if possible he can cause him daymares.

[altitonant_emperor]

I have two characters to offer, Hidetoshi Odagiri (one of Pitch's roommates) here, and Avenger (destructiveprinciple)! One of them is a run-of-the-mill human. The other is a blackmud eldtritch abomination who is, more or less, the basis for humanity's idea of evil whose legend got buried under centuries of religion, but is actually just a scapegoat who was horribly tortured into insanity to prove everybody else's goodness by comparison.

Hidetoshi: He suffers from your standard range of fears that you would expect from a teenager! Such as being left alone or abandoned, a healthy dose of severe trust issues, and being doomed to never make a difference in his world, and being killed. Hidetoshi is internally slightly afraid of over half the people in the Tower because he knows they're stronger than him, and even if they can't really "die" here, getting physically hurt frightens him.

Also has two mild phobias that have no specific reason for them; pnigophobia (fear of choking) and pediculophobia (fear of headline). I give a YES for fear manipulation, and inflicting him with nightmares if you want. He doesn't have any mental defenses to speak of.

Avenger: Oh boy, I actually think Avenger has no real fears? He's... Hahah, he's kinda way past the point he's genuinely frightened by anything. He'll react to events like 'hey, w-whoa don't punch me in the face' or 'don't kill me please' and be cowed, but these are all surface reactions that don't exactly match his inner thoughts. If Pitch digs down in there a little, all he'll find is a gigantic, aching void where normally there's something like a self or personality. Oh, and lots of corruption.

It's not hard to notice the festering, unfathomable amounts of hatred or the "six billion" curses that are carved onto his body! He embodies everything that is wrong with people! He's unstable and crazy. Pitch is free to notice that, and also free to try the fear manipulation even if it probably wouldn't work. Nightmares can be thrown at him... But they wouldn't work.

[awfulsentimetal]

Do androids dream of electric sheep? Well, maybe, but in the case of this particular automaton dreams are more often about gigantic copper African elephants. Which conveniently leads me into one of his biggest fears: malfunctioning and killing people in the throes of an incorrectly opened file. 001-1897 seriously needs a better lock on it.

Other than that, his concerns are fairly standard: losing his family (in the case of Animus, Rabbit), being disassembled (particularly while online), and a deep-seated existential dilemma brought on by adaptive programming conflicting with his knowledge of his own creation. Is mimicry enough to pass as human? Smart money is on no. But he tries. Oh, how he tries. He fears that his efforts are doomed to failure.

Whether or not Pitch can read a robot's nightmares is up to you ;) AND IF HE CAN because I'm forgetful I'm totally all for nightmares being inflicted.

[chevalier_mal_fet]

In life, Sir Lancelot was a Knight renowned for his courage and bravery-- though he was more a human being raised by faeries to disregard normal human limits and a trained Berserker on the battlefield more than being anything so simple as "courageous" or "brave".

Of course, we all know that Lancelot betrayed his King, and went Mad, etc.-- these things don't change from the legend to the Fate/Zero universe. But what is a bit different is that now that he is a Spirit only, Lancelot serves a Master in a War for the Holy Grail. He'll eventually have to fight against Arthur, but that time hasn't yet come for him. Meanwhile he is the Servant of a broken-down Magus who is a study in body horror (he's full of horrible, magical worms)-- and being a Berserker is no longer a choice, but a permanent and magically sustained Madness that renders him insensible with Rage. In the Tower, he is sane. For the time being.

Lancelot fears most a confrontation with his King, for he desires vengeance and forgiveness from Her in equal parts. The idea of killing his King undoes him, but so does the idea of being forgiven.
He also fears his own emotions (tenderness, grief, regret, etc.), having grown used to his Madness insulating him from them.

Pitch is welcome to take a stab at whatever he likes! I've got no limitations to impose!

Lancelot's permissions are here!
Additional info can be found here!

[attheclocktower]

I only have OU Xion (attheclocktower) and since she's never heard of the Guardians or the legends pertaining to them this'll probably be fun.

Picking up on her fears is a-ok and so are nightmares! Just... make sure I know first in the latter case in particular so I can make sure she reacts accordingly.

As for Xion's fears... Her biggest fear right now is being alone or being left alone. A lot of her friends and closer CR have left the Tower lately so this fear is particularly pronounced. She still has a fair number of friends left, but there's still this underlying "Well what if they'll leave me next" and so on and so forth.

Hurting or betraying her friends, especially if she can't control it, is another fear of hers. Helplessness is a big part of the above fear. She's been used against her friends and she's attacked and nearly hurt people very important to her before because of tower events and she hates it a lot. Bad things happen, but not being able to fight them at all is the worst feeling.

Less strong but still present fears are a mild fear of heights and some claustrophobia. Early on she was nearly shoved of one of the then-tallest floors in the Tower, thus the fear of heights (though it's faded a little). More recently her first Tower death was a result of her own costume, leading to the claustrophobia, particularly in the form of tight-fitting clothing.

[savedbyasong]

This is for:

Shion (savedbyasong), Romeo (myblueskies), Taiki (notagiraffe), Suzaku Kururugi (swordofzero), Samwise Gamgee (undroppedeaves) and Nesir Aeser (culbutiri)

Sensing all their fears is fine as is using them against them. Also giving them nightmares is fine too. I'll give a brief summery of all their fears and if we were ever to plot anything I could give a longer list, just don't want to tl'dr all over your permissions.

Shion: His fears all stem from his friendships, he fears losing his friends, hurting them, them being hurt. He fears the darkness inside him because he knows it can hurt others. At the moment because of the loss of many close friends he fears being left alone.

Suzaku: He fears the future, or lack of it. He fears that if the world is gone than everything he did was for nothing then he is truly a monster.

For the most part he believes his fears have been realised. Another deep fear is of his Geass which forces him to live, he fears he will truly outlive everyone.

Taiki: Taiki fears a lot of things, loud noises, angry people, violence, the administrators, most the floors on the tower. (Pretty much Pitch will have a field day with him) Much deeper though is that Tai is gone, and Gyousou is lost forever and he will be forever alone without purpose.

Romeo: Romeo's biggest fear is that everyone in the tower will disappear and he will be left as the only one. He also fears his friends getting hurt, but as this is inevitable it just makes him sad rather than scared. The tower and events make him scared too and though he never shows it he often has nightmares or can't sleep.

Samwise: At the moment that the worlds are really gone, and that the ring will devour Frodo completely. Also a bunch of minor fears but they are the main ones.

Nesir Aeser: She has a almost crippling fear of fire, which she tries not to let get in the way. She has a healthy fear of magic and magic users. Also cold/ice/subzero temperatures.

Deeper she fears losing any control that she has over her life, of truly becoming a puppet and unable to fight back.

Also being useless and being forgotten.

[crouching_sin]

I need to get into this series aside from just the movie ANYWAY OKAY. It is okay for Pitch to pick up on any of my characters, btw. A nightmare is fine too.

Naoya crouching_sin

Naoya is uh. Super old. Like 5500 years old type of old. He's Cain - yep. That one. He has nightmares a lot - really memories of countless lives that have just ended horribly. His biggest fear, I guess, is never being able to break the curse that keeps him reincarnating with memories.

Ken Amada [AU1] miseris_socios

Ken's still a kid, so he might be more susceptible to Pitch's manipulation. ... That said he's likely to try to fight him if he figures it out. Pitch is, in essence, a Shadow - at least he'll see him as one. His biggest fear is not being able to be strong enough to protect the people he cares about - especially Minato, Jin, Chidori, and Nanako.

Dark Pit alae

Dark Pit is a copy, but he's an angel... I don't know if that'd give him some immunity. We'd have to figure it out. Anyway, his big fears are terrible things happening to Pit (his original)... he also has a lot of fear about "well if I'm a copy then what the hell am I doing?"

Allelujah/Hallelujah Haptism egotrigger

... Right okay the complicated one. Split personality, so...

Allelujah - would be very susceptible to anything from Pitch, really. He's afraid of being 'disposed of' again, of being helpless, and of horrible things happening to the people he cares about.

Hallelujah - can block himself off mentally... so idk. His main fears are "I'm only part of a person he makes me do all the shit he doesn't want to do I don't really have a personality outside of that".

[keybearer]

Riku has plenty of fears. One of the most significant fears is failing his friends, be it failure to protect them or failure to meet his expectations. He fears that his darkness may overtake him and often suppresses it as a result. Thanks to the tower, he worries that the worlds really are gone.

Oh, and fear manipulation is cool with me.

[prayed]

Kyoko Sakura (prayed)
Kyoko's fears are fairly standard for a girl of her age; fears being alone or seeing her friends (specifically, her fellow Puella Magi hurt.) Less typical is her fear of turning into a Witch (monsters that are born from a corrupt Puella Magi's soul, effectively,) or again, to see it happen to one of her fellow Puella Magi.

Presea Combatir (suppress)
Again, there's the standard things--being injured, dying, seeing something similar happen to her friends, but more importantly Presea fears being out of control of her body. For sixteen years she was unable to act independently due to her emotions being repressed and she has a strong fear of returning to that state of emptiness.

Ellen (funnystory)
Sickness. Ellen is deathly afraid of coming down with any kind of sickness, but in particular the idea of a disease that is both incurable, highly painful and/or debilitating in other ways is something that genuinely terrifies her.

Ennis (conservative)
Ennis has a strong fear of a permanent death; specifically, as an immortal who (in her canon setting) can't die through normal means, she fears dying by the hand of her master or that of another immortal (in the context of Baccano! this involves another immortal placing their hand on her head and wishing to eat, at which point they would devour her body, memories and knowledge.)

Fear manipulation is a-okay for all four of them.