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unclassifiable) wrote2016-06-29 12:41 pm
unclassifiable) wrote2016-06-29 12:41 pm
Character Information/Stats
Name: Simon Illyan, Captain
Age: mid-thirties
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 150 lbs
Medical Info: Healthy and in good shape. Notable scar on his left arm, usually covered. Probably has other scars. Has a synthetic bio-chip in his head that artificially mimics an eidetic memory.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown, neat, professional cut.
Physical traits: Simon looks 100% perfectly ordinary, boring, and forgettable. Being a spy, this is both a natural and cultivated fact about him. His main descriptor is 'bland' (though Cordelia thinks he looks like a puppy.). From his canon:
Like most of the other Barrayarans, he speaks with a light Russian-sounding accent.
What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: Anything!
Abilities Various hand-to-hand combat techniques, judo, and karate. He's a competently trained agent who can hold his own in a fight but combat is not his specialty. Will be carrying at least one lethal and one non-lethal gun at all times, in addition to a knife.
Eidetic Memory Chip (canon): A bioelectronic chip that simulates an eidetic memory. It records audio/visual only. Simon can ‘search’ it and play memories back at will, though only for himself.
Animal transformation (non-canon): Can turn into a peregrine falcon! All or nothing, no half-form.
Liege link (non-canon): Has a telepathic connection with Aral and Gregor.
HYPNOSIS (non-canon): Simon will able to put someone in a trance-like state through a combination of tone of voice and eye contact. While the subject is under hypnosis, Simon has 3 options, all more or less interrelated:
Plant a suggestion: Basically, a command. It can be immediate, while the subject is still in a trance, like asking them to sign a piece of paper. It can also be long-term, for after the subject has awoken, like “When I snap my fingers, you will wake up and want to pet a duck.” In both cases the compulsion is not overwhelming or iron-clad. The subject CAN resist, regardless of how strongly Simon leans on them. The more complicated the suggestion or the more against the subject’s personality/desires the suggestion is, the more likely it is to be resisted.
Compel truth: In the hypnotic state, the subject will feel inclined to answer questions truthfully. This can also be resisted with silence or lies, to a point.
Alter memories: Simon will be able to manipulate memories though mental compulsion. He can command that the subject forget a particular time period (such as “the last hour” “yesterday” etc), a particular person or item (your mom, a magical sword), or he can plant a false memory. Like so: “When I snap my fingers you will think that we spent the last ten minutes talking about bananas.” In each case, the success of the alternation will be dependent on the mental disposition of the subject and the strength/volume of the memory Simon is trying to alter. Hours will be forgotten more easily than days; an emotionally charged memory will be more difficult to cover up, etc. The memories themselves will not disappear, simply recede from consciousness, so they can be tripped or re-remembered given sufficient stimulus or passage of time.
Notes for the Psychics/Magically or Spiritually sensitive: I have absolutely no idea how the eidetic memory chip will read; feel free to go with whatever's most entertaining. Canon indicates that Simon has both an organic memory and the chip memory, side by side, and this is quite a mental balancing act, which might be of interest to psychics. Given that he is a spy, it is very likely his mental/emotional state will not match his surface behavior, but it may not necessarily contradict it. Has a telepathic link with Aral and Gregor.
Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Yep.
Hugging/kissing/other non-violent physical contact: Go for it. Simon eats sleeps and breathes paranoia so this should be funny.
Maim/Murder/Death: I'm here for this. I can do fight threads on the fly but communication is always nice so everyone can get what they want out of a dramatic thread. No murder without planning.
OOC
Player: Lei at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Other Characters: Kazuma Mikura, Yuri Lowell, Roy Mustang
Contact Methods: Plurk or PM this journal!
Timezone and Scheduling Issues: CST, availability all over the place.
Back Tagging: I live on it.
Thread Jumping: Just tap me and let me know.
Comfort Levels: I'm basically comfortable with anything; sex drugs rock n roll violence bring it.
HYPNOSIS OPT-OUT
I will always ask first, but if you do not want Simon to use hypnosis on your character please comment here so we can plan accordingly if it ever comes up!
Age: mid-thirties
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 150 lbs
Medical Info: Healthy and in good shape. Notable scar on his left arm, usually covered. Probably has other scars. Has a synthetic bio-chip in his head that artificially mimics an eidetic memory.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown, neat, professional cut.
Physical traits: Simon looks 100% perfectly ordinary, boring, and forgettable. Being a spy, this is both a natural and cultivated fact about him. His main descriptor is 'bland' (though Cordelia thinks he looks like a puppy.). From his canon:
"Snub nose, bright eyes, and an open, mild expression gave the man a false air of youth, . . . He was slight of body, wore civilian clothes, and radiated no aura of menace, despite the corpsman's reaction. In fact, he had scarcely an aura at all. Work as a covert agent in his early days had given Simon Illyan, Chief of Barrayar's Imperial Security, a life-long habit of being inconspicuous."
Like most of the other Barrayarans, he speaks with a light Russian-sounding accent.
What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: Anything!
Abilities Various hand-to-hand combat techniques, judo, and karate. He's a competently trained agent who can hold his own in a fight but combat is not his specialty. Will be carrying at least one lethal and one non-lethal gun at all times, in addition to a knife.
Eidetic Memory Chip (canon): A bioelectronic chip that simulates an eidetic memory. It records audio/visual only. Simon can ‘search’ it and play memories back at will, though only for himself.
Animal transformation (non-canon): Can turn into a peregrine falcon! All or nothing, no half-form.
Liege link (non-canon): Has a telepathic connection with Aral and Gregor.
HYPNOSIS (non-canon): Simon will able to put someone in a trance-like state through a combination of tone of voice and eye contact. While the subject is under hypnosis, Simon has 3 options, all more or less interrelated:
Notes for the Psychics/Magically or Spiritually sensitive: I have absolutely no idea how the eidetic memory chip will read; feel free to go with whatever's most entertaining. Canon indicates that Simon has both an organic memory and the chip memory, side by side, and this is quite a mental balancing act, which might be of interest to psychics. Given that he is a spy, it is very likely his mental/emotional state will not match his surface behavior, but it may not necessarily contradict it. Has a telepathic link with Aral and Gregor.
Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Yep.
Hugging/kissing/other non-violent physical contact: Go for it. Simon eats sleeps and breathes paranoia so this should be funny.
Maim/Murder/Death: I'm here for this. I can do fight threads on the fly but communication is always nice so everyone can get what they want out of a dramatic thread. No murder without planning.
OOC
Player: Lei at
Other Characters: Kazuma Mikura, Yuri Lowell, Roy Mustang
Contact Methods: Plurk or PM this journal!
Timezone and Scheduling Issues: CST, availability all over the place.
Back Tagging: I live on it.
Thread Jumping: Just tap me and let me know.
Comfort Levels: I'm basically comfortable with anything; sex drugs rock n roll violence bring it.
HYPNOSIS OPT-OUT
I will always ask first, but if you do not want Simon to use hypnosis on your character please comment here so we can plan accordingly if it ever comes up!