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[ooc] important things 2 no about amfortas
Apr. 1st, 2022 09:31 pm aka lark does some sh*tpost notes so people have an idea of what they're dealing with
who is amfortas thousand-griefs? an ancient Sleeper who has spent [centuries] in the Pthumerian ocean in the shape of a possibility-shifting leviathan that consumed all it encountered and added their shapes to its own. they were reborn when trench's newest Sleepers killed it, after paul atreides tore out its heart (and reminded it of who they had been).
who was amfortas thousand-griefs? an ancient Sleeper, a Hunter and ruler of Sleepers whose human Beloved died at the hands of sea-raiders before trench was more than a tiny coastal village. their grief over their loss drove them mad, twisting them into beasthood and driving them to haunt trench's shores and revisit their loss again and again and again on Sleeper and human alike.
important amfortas facts:
1. amfortas has no fixed face. they spent so long as leviathan they are more of a shifting archetype than a person, embodying the wounded king across a hundred thousand iterations. practically they have some shapes they favor appearing as but they cannot tell you which is their true shape. all of them are. they may hold their form fixed for the duration of a conversation, a day, a week, a month, or flow fluidly between many shapes with the force of their changing emotions over the course of a single sentence. (sorry bout the icon chaos)
2. amfortas has a porous sense of self. the closer they are to people, the more they identify that person as self instead of non-self. they do not tend to be pushy about the other parts of their self acting autonomously--that's normal--but any self-part (any other person) who acts in a wholly unpredictable way, doing something they would never do, might startle and upset them. if anything about their strange way of thinking and talking about other people as part of themself upsets you OOCly, please let me know so we can redirect things.
3. amfortas has poor apprehension for individuals in groups. they may think multiple people who are close to each other are all just instances of the same person. it's fine. this is normal.
4. amfortas has weird relationship-related powers. the two big ones are their limited prescience that allows them to predict the actions of those close to them up to a minute into the future, and their raveling--the ability to instinctively sense the connections between people. these of course operate by consent in RP!! but i would love to be fed all your information on your cr you want them to sense and maybe get weird about. C:
5. amfortas ate a bunch of people as leviathan. they kinda do and kinda don't feel bad about that, but definitely integrated some traits and properties from those people (by player consent). they might even end up wearing your face someday! that's also fine and normal.
who is amfortas thousand-griefs? an ancient Sleeper who has spent [centuries] in the Pthumerian ocean in the shape of a possibility-shifting leviathan that consumed all it encountered and added their shapes to its own. they were reborn when trench's newest Sleepers killed it, after paul atreides tore out its heart (and reminded it of who they had been).
who was amfortas thousand-griefs? an ancient Sleeper, a Hunter and ruler of Sleepers whose human Beloved died at the hands of sea-raiders before trench was more than a tiny coastal village. their grief over their loss drove them mad, twisting them into beasthood and driving them to haunt trench's shores and revisit their loss again and again and again on Sleeper and human alike.
important amfortas facts:
1. amfortas has no fixed face. they spent so long as leviathan they are more of a shifting archetype than a person, embodying the wounded king across a hundred thousand iterations. practically they have some shapes they favor appearing as but they cannot tell you which is their true shape. all of them are. they may hold their form fixed for the duration of a conversation, a day, a week, a month, or flow fluidly between many shapes with the force of their changing emotions over the course of a single sentence. (sorry bout the icon chaos)
2. amfortas has a porous sense of self. the closer they are to people, the more they identify that person as self instead of non-self. they do not tend to be pushy about the other parts of their self acting autonomously--that's normal--but any self-part (any other person) who acts in a wholly unpredictable way, doing something they would never do, might startle and upset them. if anything about their strange way of thinking and talking about other people as part of themself upsets you OOCly, please let me know so we can redirect things.
3. amfortas has poor apprehension for individuals in groups. they may think multiple people who are close to each other are all just instances of the same person. it's fine. this is normal.
4. amfortas has weird relationship-related powers. the two big ones are their limited prescience that allows them to predict the actions of those close to them up to a minute into the future, and their raveling--the ability to instinctively sense the connections between people. these of course operate by consent in RP!! but i would love to be fed all your information on your cr you want them to sense and maybe get weird about. C:
5. amfortas ate a bunch of people as leviathan. they kinda do and kinda don't feel bad about that, but definitely integrated some traits and properties from those people (by player consent). they might even end up wearing your face someday! that's also fine and normal.
