App for empatheias

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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: AF
Contact: hotandcoldaf
Age: 25
Current Characters: Bols (out_of_the_kitchen)


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Yomiel
Age: Chronologically, mid-30's; physically, mid-20's.
Canon: Ghost Trick
Canon Point: After his deal's been finalized, so, like, a few months before the game starts

Background: Wiki link

Personality:
The most important thing to understand about Yomiel is that dying fucked him up bad. It cut him off from the world around him, both in terms of destroying his physical senses and isolating him from all social contact, and, well, there's a reason that kind of stuff gets used as methods for torture/punishment: it really messes with a person's head. And Yomiel's been stuck like this for a decade. Over time, his loneliness and despair over his death turned to anger and hatred, to jealousy and a desire for revenge. Topped off with the ability to control other people like they're oversized puppets, and his capacity for human empathy has degraded pretty severely over the years. To the point where he manipulated a grade-schooler to turn her birthday surprise for her mother into a murder surprise instead, and, y'know, that was fine!

It's pretty extreme, but extreme is kind of the name of the game with Yomiel. A decade of feeling nothing but his emotions means he feels them extremely deeply and having no normal, healthy outlets for his almost entirely negative feelings leads him to reacting disproportionately. His sense of perspective is deeply skewed and more than a little self-centered, and his temper is short and explosive. He's petty, he's vindictive, he wants everyone involved in his death to suffer like he has, including even the little girl he took hostage. His death and isolation created an intense negative feedback loop, compared in canon to sinking deeper and deeper into an unending darkness.

A darkness that made him hunger for any kind of light he could find. He wants a new life, even if it has to be a fake one, and he'll do anything he has to to get it. He doesn't care who he hurts or how badly he hurts them, as long as he can escape the hell he's lived in for the past decade, and he's convinced that by dragging these people down, he can climb his own way up to happiness. He has his cat, sure, and he loves that thing, it's his one and only friend, but a singular cat cannot provide him with all the social interactions he's missing. He wants to build a family, he wants to work again (and he really liked his job; programming was like a big puzzle to him and he enjoyed the challenge), he wants to just... be a normal guy again. He never asked for his powers and he never wanted them, especially not at the cost they came with.

What he really needs is some sympathy and compassion, but he doesn't expect to get anything like that. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that regard: because he believes himself to be unnatural, he figures he'll be rejected if he tries reaching out to people, so he avoids reaching out to anyone in the first place. He's too absorbed in his misery to actually address it productively instead of lashing out at people. Which is really what it comes down to. At his core, Yomiel is not actually a bad person (he was never any shining avatar of goodness, don't get me wrong, but he does not innately want to harm people), he's just lashing out in his pain and misery and going hella overboard with it.

When he comes to realize that that's what he's doing, which is admittedly after my canon point but a thing I'm covering here anyway because there's a fair chance of this character development repeating itself, he is quite frankly disgusted with himself. He gives up and sinks into a depressive funk, and even as the other characters are trying to prevent his death, he does nothing to help and simply hangs back, talking about how it's okay if he dies, how he can't ask for anything more than a natural death, how, essentially, he deserves punishment for what he's done. He feels very strongly about accountability, which is also part of why he went so hard on the revenge; the people he felt were responsible for his death faced no consequences for it otherwise. And he's even harder on himself. Of all his many wrongdoings, there's only one Yomiel ever apologizes for and it's the one thing he did on accident; it's not that he's not sorry for the things he did on purpose, but he feels he can't even begin to expect forgiveness for them (again with the self-fulfilling prophecies, though he kind of gets that forgiveness whether he wants it or not).

Abilities: Hoo boy...
Yomiel's Ghost
-Is a ghost, and thus effectively immortal—if his spirit is going to fade, it doesn't look like it'll be doing so anytime soon.
-Can travel a limited distance between possessable objects—no upper limit for Yomiel is defined in canon, but I'm going to say no more than about 3 meters?
-Can possess and manipulate objects—Yomiel's ability to do this is extremely advanced; while Sissel is pretty much limited to what objects are actually designed to do (turning lights on and off, opening and closing umbrellas, etc.), Yomiel can move objects freely, even in defiance of gravity.
-Can manipulate multiple objects at once—which also kind of implies that he doesn't have to be actively possessing an object to manipulate it, it just has to be within his range.
-Can possess and manipulate living (and ex-living) creatures—Most notably this ability allows him to continue to use his own body postmortem and to physically control the actions of other people. People controlled in this manner tend to have fuzzy at best memories of being controlled and while it can be resisted, it takes an extreme amount of willpower and it can't be resisted for long. He's limited to manipulating only one body at once, unlike manipulating objects, though he can manipulate a body and at least one object at the same time. THAT ALL SAID, this power really should be nerfed all to hell because he will use it if he can. My personal suggestion is that it be reduced down to the level it was at when he first died: small creatures with an exception made for his own corpse. Or in other words, making it so he can't possess other characters, but (with OOC permission, of course!) he could possess a pet/Digimon/similar hanger-on-type character, as well as, y'know. NPC animals, probably nothing larger than a big dog.
-Can travel through phone lines—Yomiel never actually demonstrates this ability, but Ray mentions he can do it. Presumably, this power works the same way it does for Sissel, and Yomiel can travel between any two phones as long as both are functional/connected and he knows the number for the receiving line. Probably irrelevant in this setting, but, y'know, for completeness's sake.

Yomiel's Body
-Is indeed a corpse—no pulse or nothing.
-Is frozen at the exact moment between life and death—any damage done to the body is healed all but instantaneously; knives and bullets enter with no more resistance than they would normally receive, but the wounds heal up right behind them with no bleeding or scarring. (Though if something like, say, a bullet makes it into the body cavity, it will stay there instead of being pushed out.) This also gives him the appearance of being only recently deceased, i.e. the blood hasn't drained from his face, his body temperature hasn't gone down, he hasn't entered rigor mortis, etc.
-Has a fragment of the Temsik meteorite lodged in his heart—anything that dies within 2 feet or so of the fragment also becomes a ghost with the powers of the dead. The Temsik fragment is also responsible for the body's healing factor and if it were removed, the healing would cease and the body would become a garden-variety corpse.

TL;DR: Ghost possessing his own corpse, does the typical spooky ghost thing of making objects do weird shit and also possessing people, please nerf the latter, p.s. the corpse has a healing factor.

Alignment: Aiada. This was a really difficult decision, but I eventually decided on Aiada because while he feels intense anger, hate, and grief, those are also all very focused on specific targets, but his envy is directed at all the living.

Other: He'll be bringing in his pet cat, Sissel, with him.


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: Thread from a mafia game, with more posted in his journal.


Questions: So, Yomiel's fairly likely to abandon his corpse for a while for any variety of reasons. My question is, what effect would separating his emotional center from his amulet like that likely have? I assume he obviously won't be able to accumulate any emotion drops while away from it, but how is it going to interact with the whole "world draining your emotions" thing? Is already being dead as hell going to grant him immunity to that particular concern or...?