oneirism: (You will watch the skies,you will wait)
Lapis Fathalla ([personal profile] oneirism) wrote in [personal profile] havenmods 2013-12-02 01:54 am (UTC)

Abilities/Powers: Lapis is a Ghost Master, a powerful spirit medium who has the unique capability to make spiritual energy links with spirits, so long as the spirit is not stronger than her. The 'contract' increases the power of the spirit, and also increases her own spiritual power. Lapis can also adjust how much energy the spirit gains, and can drain them of power if she so wishes to. However, this works both ways, and Lapis can be drained of power as well. When these 'contracts' are made, the spirits can either stay with her in the land of the living, or go rest in the spirit world until she needs to summon them. At this moment in time, Lapis has around twenty spirits resting in the spirit world, and two actively summoned with her, Mitchell and Peter. Though since only one of her ghosts can be brought to Haven, that ghost will be Mitchell. Mitchell is the ghost most protective of her and is likely to shield her from anything he perceives as a threat. He has the typical abilities of a spirit, such as draining heat from a surrounding area and can pick up physical objects. As a result of dying by fire, he is able to conjure up spiritual fire, which can hurt both humans and spirits, and is able to control fire, though only if it's with a radius of a few feet. He's also a jerk who doesn't like anyone but Lapis, and when seen, has the appearance of a horribly burned young man.

Being a Ghost Master also gives Lapis other abilities, such as;

Banishing Spirits: So long as a spirit isn't more powerful than her, Lapis can use her spiritual energy to basically using her energy to push a spirit into the spirit world. She may sometimes have to weaken a spirit to do this first, which is where the aid of her own ghosts come into play.

Seeing: Another power Lapis has as a Ghost Master is the ability to let other people 'see' the spirits. This is done via physical contact and by Lapis concentrating on opening up that persons part of their mind; all people have the ability to see ghosts, but only people like spirit mediums or Ghost Masters have that part 'active'. However, this process isn't exactly pleasant, as the person seeing will experience grainy vision and a loud, painful, thumping sound in their head similar to a heartbeat.

Spiritual Abilities: All Ghost Masters have the ability to shield against spiritual attacks, though each Master has their own unique ability. For Lapis, this is the ability to 'teleport', though she can only move a few meters at most and using this ability more than twice in a row tires her out. She's also able to walk or run abnormally fast for brief periods of time as well. This also extends to having a powerful sixth sense, and thus Lapis can easily identify if someone is human or not, though she will only get a ping of 'inhuman' or 'human' from them at most.

Weakness to Holy: All Ghost Masters are hurt by holy items, as a result of their links to the dead. Lapis herself is particularly damaged by them as a result of actually becoming dead herself, and thus holy water burns her, and items such as crosses harms her even if holds them directly. Exorcisms or items that have an exorcising effect will harm her greatly, to the point where it's almost fatal.


Lapis also holds some advanced knowledge of human anatomy, as a result of her interest in what humans can withstand and the information she learned from ghosts. She's also well-versed in dancing and singing, but she tends to only use these for rituals when required.

Items/Weapons:
1. Some more practical clothes
2. A bottle of holy water, wrapped in a protective cloth
3. A ceremonial dagger, also wrapped in a protective cloth

Sample Entry: Sample thread here!

Sample Entry Two: The building creaks when Lapis enters, and the first thing that hits her is the smell of rotting wood and paper, though the hallway is completely empty. Her sister enters the ruined house after her and stick close to her side, making no comment as Lapis instinctively moves to stand in front of her like always. While Lapis is the youngest, Laguna is the one being protected more often than not on excursions like these. But Lapis is at least aware that this will be an easy job, the spirit they were looking for seemed more fond of scaring people rather than hurting them. You could never be too sure with ghosts though, so she had made sure to have her spirits with her and prepared, and she could feel them hover around her sister and her, and see their maimed forms out of the corner of her eye.

“... Did you bring the wards?” The soft-spoken question is directed at Laguna, and gold eyes flicker over to her as she holds up the wards in question; there was no way Lapis could handle them, so that fell to Laguna. So, they were pretty much prepared and the job wasn't even a dangerous one, so this would be easy. But there was a certain uneasiness around the elder sister that Lapis could pick up, and she doesn't hesitate to reach out to hold her hand in a comforting motion, receiving a hand squeeze in return, as her eyes now look at the spirits gathered.

“... Mitchell, Peter, stay with us. Everyone else go scout the area...” There's a murmur of agreement from the group, and the spirits dart into the darkness of the house, now only leaving two with the young woman. However, they were trustworthy, and with this in mind, Lapis started to walk into the house, her sister right behind her and her attitude as calm as ever. She makes sure to stay aware though; ghosts, even the less malicious ones, can still cause a lot of trouble.

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