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ooc things

backtagging: generally fine! i can often be slow myself due to schedules and timezones.
threadjacking: have at it!
fourth walling: no, please, save for in world knowledge from people of the same setting.
friending: you can add my plurk at withpanache.

ic things

generally: unless i state otherwise below, i am oocly fine with whatever actions your character takes, so these are just mainly comments for ic receptiveness and consequence.
kissing/hugging: daenerys signals her interest levels pretty clearly, but she can be particular about her physical spaces, so waiting for a GO sign is advisable if you wish to avoid her ire.
fighting/violence: she isn't a physical fighter and, coming from a violent world, may or may not already have on hand people who do fighting for her.
hacking: go ahead, if you're tech savvy! dany is not. just let me know what you'd like to do.
injury/death: injury is cool, but let's stay in contact. killing is currently not on the table but i'd be open to it in the future in the course of a plot.

content warnings

game of thrones is a canon that deals with a lot of potentially triggery content, and daenerys' backstory features rape, abuse, murder, violence, incestuous themes, all of which she has been exposed to at a young age. she doesn't talk about her own experiences very much and has some progressive points of view, but may be blunt talking in these matters should they come up. if you would like me to avoid specific topics or not tag you, just let me know here and i'll do my best to respect this!

ability permissions

during her time in mask or menace, daenerys was granted the ability of dreamwalking. see below for a brief on how this ability works and its limitations.

Walking: The fundamental component to this powerset is entering the dreams of others. At first, this will be through random chance of anyone within the radius of the city she is in, and then once she is comfortable with the power, she will be able to target people specifically. In order to willingly enter someone's mind, she must know their name and something fundamental about them in terms of having gotten an impression of who they are as a person through interaction, whether that's a piece of dramatic backstory or even just the instinct that someone is more insecure than they let on. This means that outside of random chance, she can only break and enter into the heads of people she knows.

Stage managing: Daenerys' control over the dreaming is complicated, in that she cannot just alter dreams however she likes. That said, when she enters someone's dream, her lucidity immediately makes the dream more vivid, and prefers the summoning of memories rather than pure abstract fantasy. Often, these memories are a collage of many, stitched together and made strange and obscure through their overlapping. Neither Daenerys nor the dreamer have much conscious control over the dream's landscape, but through conversation and prying, Daenerys is able to trigger certain memories. For instance, if she knows someone suffered the loss of a loved one, bringing this up to them is likely to trigger an associated memory and play out in some way. While the character is not in control of this (unless they have special psychic powersof their own), clarity of this is at the discretion of the player.

Avatar: What Daenerys does have control over is how she appears. This may help disguise who she is when she visits people, although it isn't a guarantee. Those who know her well, especially those who have been visited by her before, may be able to identify her even if she conceals her appearance (usually in the form of an animal, or someone meaningful to her or the dreamer). It is through this avatar she can be most powerful, using her own image to cajole, manipulate, comfort, or frighten the dreamer.

Limitations: For random chance encounters, the dreamer must be in the same city. For those she visits wilfully, there is no distance limitation as long as they're in the same country. The subject must be asleep at the time for her to access their minds. While they will sleep deeply for as long as she is in there, they can be woken as if from a regular sleep. If they are interrupted, she will be thrown back into her own mind and become disoriented. While she is dream walking, she, in turn, cannot be woken by conventional means, only waking when she returns or is thrown back. This puts her sleeping body in some danger, as there is no way to contact her while she is dream walking.

This will definitely come with a permissions post, and the caveat that nothing will happen without communication with the other player. Dreams will never be handwaved unless with express permission and communication.

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