Patterns and Visions Permissions Post

[patternprophet]

One of the unique aspects of Leoben in Battlestar Galactica, is that he has the ability to see "patterns". In simpler terms, he has the ability to see the future, in one of two ways.

The first is through the patterns, which appears to work as, if you were having a conversation with him, he'd know what you were going to say before you say it. The second is through a full-out vision, which usually correctly predicts future events. The first seems to be constant thing, whereas the second is more rare. Because of these patterns, Leoben tends to know a lot about people just from looking at them. He can't read your mind, but he can know your past, and possibly your future, basically.

Canonically, Leoben hasn't been wrong, but he has been known to interpret things incorrectly, either to suit his own agenda or just because. Please keep that in mind for any plottings.

To avoid any accidental god-modding or anything like that, please answer the following questions.

1. How much can Leoben know about your character?
In other words, how far back in your character's history can Leoben see? How far forward? Is there some traumatic event you don't want brought up or anything like that?
*Please note that how much your canon is touched upon in a conversation is dependent on how well I know the canon.

2. What are some things that Leoben can tell right off the bat? Anything that you want to remain hidden?
Is your character human or not? Do they have some special powers? Anything like that.

3. Is your character some kind of chosen one and is it alright if Leoben picks up on that?
Leoben tends to notice people with destinies. If spotted he will try to help you complete it. His methods aren't perfect however.

4. Is it okay for Leoben to predict your character's future through the patterns?
He might predict that your character will trip on something, or something along those lines.

5. Going with that, would you be interested in a full-out vision at some point?
We'd discuss and plot of course.

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Hah, Luke post right after Asch. XD

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(You got your Luke It will probably be incredibly useful to take this particular permissions post in relation to the one above this one, to try to avoid redundancy...)

1. How much can Leoben know about your character?
As with Asch, anything from the game is fair game - the sensitive topics for Luke, however - include Akzeriuth and the Tower of Rem and its aftermath - the former is where he was deceived by his idol into a destroying a city of 10,000 people, as well as learned he was only a replica. Meanwhile the latter is when he forced himself to (attempt to) sacrifice himself for both Asch's and the world's sake and though he somehow managed to survive, he learned shortly afterwards that he is eventually going to die from an equivalent to a terminal illness spawning from the attempted sacrifice. Being Asch's replica is also a bit of a touchy topic for him - though not as much as it used to be. I'm fine with any of this coming up in private, but give me a heads up before any of the big items are brought up in public channels.

2. What are some things that Leoben can tell right off the bat? Anything that you want to remain hidden?
Well... for all intents and purposes, replicas in Tales of the Abyss function like clones, except for the fact that they are the age of the person from whom the data was taken at the time it was taken (for instance, Luke is seven years old [thus the username hehe], but he looks seventeen, because Asch was replicated at age ten), so if Leoben would pick up on something like that, then there. Also, like Asch, he has the power of hyperresonance, and some magic swordsman abilities, though the "magic" part isn't nearly as developed in his case.

3. Is your character some kind of chosen one and is it alright if Leoben picks up on that?
Asch was the original "chosen one". Luke was created as a perfect copy in every way, in order to replace Asch's role in the prophecy of their world. Essentially, said destiny also fortold that Asch would have died in the process, and the person who had Luke created wanted to use Asch's power after he would have died. To that end, Luke actually does use the "forbidden power" to destroy the city as mentioned in the prophecy - which has sown a hell of a lot of guilt into Luke (despite him being deceived into thinking he was actually saving the city). His existence, however, was used as the wedge to prove that the religion of prophecy in his own world was false (important in that the prophecy eventually foretold the destruction of the world). Like Asch, he has an aversion to fulfilling prophcies, but honestly wants what's best for humanity - it's just that on Auldrant, following the prophecy is not it.

4. Is it okay for Leoben to predict your character's future through the patterns?
I don't see any problem with it.

5. Going with that, would you be interested in a full-out vision at some point?
For the record, I love plots. As it is, I'm fine with this.

Hope that wasn't tl;dr. @_@