Mission Update

[lucetimods]

Desert Survey - Begins February 21st
Selected Volunteers: Ginia, Saber (Blue), Mega Man, Daisy, Haruhi, Cho Hakkai, Aether, and Amelia

Deep Sea Salvage - Begins March 3rd
Now taking volunteers!

Feel free to discuss and ask questions here!

Comments

[halfremembered]

Since we're bringing up character-related quirks, I feel I should mention something. Aether is normally very secretive about his identity, but there are certain things about his abilities that will make the right person clue in on parts of it.

So here goes.

First of all, Aether talks to his weapon a lot. He always carries a black sheath on his person and paying attention to him will reveal that he tends to mutter things at it whenever he thinks no one would notice. He's especially prone to doing it whenever he's on edge. If there was a fight or a major problem during the day? You can bet that he's going to sit somewhere in the corner and hold entire conversations with his sword, often reacting as if it actually responds. ( It does, but that's not what we're here to talk about. )

If a fight does break down and a Shift won't keep him from using his weapon, someone might hear him address the weapon by name in order to activate it. The standard sword shape is named Arondight; while it's not the only one, it's the one Aether uses the most due to his affinity with it.

So far, Kida Masaomi is the only one who knows this bit about Aether's weapon. He didn't pay much attention to it, but I figured someone else might.

Another thing worth noting is that Aether will always prioritize his team's safety over anything else. He is pretty much obsessed with never leaving anyone behind and will move in to air or protect other party members even if the decision looks hopeless or suicidal, as well as terrify someone in the process.

[daisy023]

Daisy will probably listent to it at some point. Spartans have very keen senses when shifts aren't mucking her around, so she may get to hear Aether at one point or another -- and might worry her. She'll think he's either facing hallucinations, or was teamed up with someone with schizophrenia.

Still, I'd rather have your permission for it. Maybe the shifts of the desert muck her senses more than usual or she's just too focused on the problems ahead to pay attention to mutters.

[halfremembered]

Hallucinations wouldn't be an incorrect guess. While Aether can feel his weapon respond due to high affinity between them, anything he would actually see or hear from it is just his senses adjusting to the magic resonance. So he's essentially forcing hallucinations upon himself because he doesn't trust anyone in Luceti with who or what he really is, but he still needs some way to sort out his thoughts and feelings.

And yes, she's completely free to notice. Aether will act fairly dismissive if confronted about it and try to dismiss it as moments of stress, but Daisy is free to think different and research the sword's name once she's back in the village.