I have power questions I would like to ask and I can hear the groans all the way over here, I'm sorry.
So first off. Mercedes is a legit fairy. Connected to her forest, flies around leaving a sparkly trail of pixie dust, and also a Vanir from Norse mythology which has it's own kettle of fish in regards to 'look at me I'm not human in the slightest.' I mostly bring this up due to that connection aspect. Since her home is kinda gone /spoilery vague handwave gestures/ is it possibly she can just connect to the wildlife of the island to root herself that way? Of course this has the pitfall that if she's connected then she likely is going to feel any effects to the piece of real estate she's claimed to anchor herself to.
Also her crossbow, I want to go the route of it using emotions to power it because I don't think sparkly motes of souls are actually around for it to suck up and power it. In this can I have it to where her emotions can trigger certain abilities of the bow? Like if she is panicking and wants someone to get away from her it will use her canon ability of 'Phozon Burst' to knock them away due to that emotion being dominate while she's holding the crossbow? Mostly because I don't want it to compete with her amulet in sucking up emotion drops since she's a dumb child that won't really figure out how to prioritize such until she suddenly needs to do so. (I also want to go this route as it opens up a hilarious cr potential of her having open threads of her trying to learn how reuse her bow and failing because she hasn't figured out which emotions will trigger which skill.)
In this same vein she has abilities where she summons the support of other creatures for a brief time to basically damage tank or dps for her. Would she still be able to summon such simple creatures or would those abilities get wonky since this world likely doesn't have Pixies or Mandragoras that she usually calls up.
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This one is more in how she's perceived by others who can sense supernatural things or such.
Mercedes is literally a tree. She's basically Yggdrasil and on her canon death grows into the tree whose roots hold the world together. Would this be sensed by anyone or make her give off vibes outside of the fact that holy crap she's a fairy? Because in canon when a fairy dies they give their true name, which is basically the name of a star, back to the heavens and their bodies disappear in motes of light. So there's a lot of play room with this since she doesn't really know this aspect and thus would be all /simple dog headtilt/ at anyone that told her she's a tree. She knows what her name means, but she just thinks it's more like a spiritual thing and Fate being horrible since The World Tree is the only thing that will stop the Inferno King from destroying the world in fire fully and everyone assumes that bit of prophecy means an actual tree at the time...and not a tiny fairy queen with a magical crossbow that becomes a tree after the fact...it's weird and complicated.
TL;DR could it be something that people in tune with supernatural things possibly pick up in a vague sense if we want? Like they feel with their ESP like they are standing underneath a large sheltering tree when they're literally likely towering over this 4'5 bratling?
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So first off. Mercedes is a legit fairy. Connected to her forest, flies around leaving a sparkly trail of pixie dust, and also a Vanir from Norse mythology which has it's own kettle of fish in regards to 'look at me I'm not human in the slightest.' I mostly bring this up due to that connection aspect. Since her home is kinda gone /spoilery vague handwave gestures/ is it possibly she can just connect to the wildlife of the island to root herself that way? Of course this has the pitfall that if she's connected then she likely is going to feel any effects to the piece of real estate she's claimed to anchor herself to.
Also her crossbow, I want to go the route of it using emotions to power it because I don't think sparkly motes of souls are actually around for it to suck up and power it. In this can I have it to where her emotions can trigger certain abilities of the bow? Like if she is panicking and wants someone to get away from her it will use her canon ability of 'Phozon Burst' to knock them away due to that emotion being dominate while she's holding the crossbow? Mostly because I don't want it to compete with her amulet in sucking up emotion drops since she's a dumb child that won't really figure out how to prioritize such until she suddenly needs to do so. (I also want to go this route as it opens up a hilarious cr potential of her having open threads of her trying to learn how reuse her bow and failing because she hasn't figured out which emotions will trigger which skill.)
In this same vein she has abilities where she summons the support of other creatures for a brief time to basically damage tank or dps for her. Would she still be able to summon such simple creatures or would those abilities get wonky since this world likely doesn't have Pixies or Mandragoras that she usually calls up.
This one is more in how she's perceived by others who can sense supernatural things or such.
Mercedes is literally a tree. She's basically Yggdrasil and on her canon death grows into the tree whose roots hold the world together. Would this be sensed by anyone or make her give off vibes outside of the fact that holy crap she's a fairy? Because in canon when a fairy dies they give their true name, which is basically the name of a star, back to the heavens and their bodies disappear in motes of light. So there's a lot of play room with this since she doesn't really know this aspect and thus would be all /simple dog headtilt/ at anyone that told her she's a tree. She knows what her name means, but she just thinks it's more like a spiritual thing and Fate being horrible since The World Tree is the only thing that will stop the Inferno King from destroying the world in fire fully and everyone assumes that bit of prophecy means an actual tree at the time...and not a tiny fairy queen with a magical crossbow that becomes a tree after the fact...it's weird and complicated.
TL;DR could it be something that people in tune with supernatural things possibly pick up in a vague sense if we want? Like they feel with their ESP like they are standing underneath a large sheltering tree when they're literally likely towering over this 4'5 bratling?
/rolls out before she gets bricked