Permissions: Eagle Vision
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theflyingoneEagle Vision is a hereditary sixth sense that can be activated while standing still and uninjured. This intuition shows people's true intentions at that moment, in the form of auras, and color-codes them. Thus, it can see auras through illusions and disguises (but not walls). If there is a specific target he's looking for, the ~murmuring background voices~ will come from that direction. When he moves or gets hurt, it deactivates, but there's still a residual glowing aura about people for a short bit. Video 1m 47s in. Wiki, riddled with spoilers.
Red = Hostile or potentially hostile to Altaïr. Everyone from active guards, police, and soldiers, to slavers, tyrants, those who'd use power to control or suppress freedom, even in the name of peace.
Blue = Altaïr's allies. Assassins, those who would fight for free will, willing to break the law for this belief.
White = informants, sources of information, hiding places (people sitting on benches can be hiding places too, though for some reason the game marks them blue)
Gold = Altaïr's temporary leads, persons of interest, assassination targets
Nothing = civilians, neutral-minded people.
To an uninformed character, this looks like an uncanny intuition. Though it uses broad generalizations in practice, they can be the deciding factor in whether or not Altaïr trusts someone when he meets or has to work with them. Comment below whether you want Altaïr to see your character's intent, regarding himself, at any given moment. Altaïr may also be able to see through your character's illusions, glamours, invisibility, etc. If your character can block scrying/chi sensing and the like, please mention it. It may or may not have an effect.
Also try to guess what color your character would be to him most of the time, if any. I realize this may be difficult, considering people's colors change even in canon according to what role they play in different situations. It's not general allegiance, it's specific circumstantial intent. For example, someone can switch from being an ally (blue) to an informant (white) and vice versa, or an ally (blue) could switch to being a lead (gold) when leading Altaïr somewhere. Even people in the role of guards have been known to switch from red to blue when defecting to join Altaïr. Frenemies are also a thing, as are "allies" who show as blue because they are working with Altaïr, but only as long as he's useful.
added 2013 sep 22: Now with a form!
Red = Hostile or potentially hostile to Altaïr. Everyone from active guards, police, and soldiers, to slavers, tyrants, those who'd use power to control or suppress freedom, even in the name of peace.
Blue = Altaïr's allies. Assassins, those who would fight for free will, willing to break the law for this belief.
White = informants, sources of information, hiding places (people sitting on benches can be hiding places too, though for some reason the game marks them blue)
Gold = Altaïr's temporary leads, persons of interest, assassination targets
Nothing = civilians, neutral-minded people.
To an uninformed character, this looks like an uncanny intuition. Though it uses broad generalizations in practice, they can be the deciding factor in whether or not Altaïr trusts someone when he meets or has to work with them. Comment below whether you want Altaïr to see your character's intent, regarding himself, at any given moment. Altaïr may also be able to see through your character's illusions, glamours, invisibility, etc. If your character can block scrying/chi sensing and the like, please mention it. It may or may not have an effect.
Also try to guess what color your character would be to him most of the time, if any. I realize this may be difficult, considering people's colors change even in canon according to what role they play in different situations. It's not general allegiance, it's specific circumstantial intent. For example, someone can switch from being an ally (blue) to an informant (white) and vice versa, or an ally (blue) could switch to being a lead (gold) when leading Altaïr somewhere. Even people in the role of guards have been known to switch from red to blue when defecting to join Altaïr. Frenemies are also a thing, as are "allies" who show as blue because they are working with Altaïr, but only as long as he's useful.
added 2013 sep 22: Now with a form!
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Date: 2012-09-01 02:44 am (UTC)Lan Fan is an Imperial retainer... so she's either going to come up red (guard) or... maybe white? for informant? since... ninja/spy/intel/etc.
idk man. But Altair is free to see her if she isn't deliberately masking her chi.
/goes to finally write tag now
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Date: 2012-09-01 04:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-02 07:40 am (UTC)As long as she's not a guard belonging to the country he's infiltrating (e.g. The Country), she won't show as red. He's got no beef with her Imperial dude, because he hasn't met him.
She would only show white if she already had info to give him specifically. If she generally fights in favor of free will of the people, she may even show as blue.
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Date: 2012-10-05 07:33 am (UTC)* Except it will be blocked when he's in ESPer Mode.
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Date: 2012-10-05 08:32 am (UTC)*SPOILERS* Here's the wiki
It looks like a mix between empaths and seeing auras. He can turn it on and off at will. I doubt it's a sending-out-waves rader thing; more like a receptive-to-nearby-energy thing.
But since Accel can move real fast in that mode, it's almost moot. Hey look, blurs! Altair would be more likely to use it while scoping shit out rather than during fighting, since he has to stand still to activate it. He usually does it when he first meets people and doesn't trust them, or needs to collab with strangers in some way, and needs to know they won't stab him in the back.
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Date: 2012-10-08 10:06 pm (UTC)Tatsuki -- who would most likely be blue.
Miranda -- who would be blue as well.
And Roxy, who is like Equius and would be doing the ~Voidy~ thing. I'll leave it up to you as to whether you'd rather have it be a civilian? or a LITERAL void.
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Date: 2013-10-02 02:38 am (UTC)eagle vision: sure why not
color: uh he's a soldier for the Malkuth Empire but his Emperor is way rad (no seriously he's the sufer hipster cosplay emperor) and also he first appears in the game fighting for peace and he ends it fighting for peace and free will so. He's just deeply Lawful personally because he has no moral code otherwise, so he knows he needs Lawful as a guide. Soooo. Blue?
notes: One day he might turn white with info but good luck getting him to spill it HE COULD HAVE SAVED US A LOT OF TROUBLE IF HE ACTUALLY GAVE INFORMATION OUT.
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Date: 2013-10-02 03:01 am (UTC)Altaïr gets on the wrong side of the law at times, e.g. stabbing people and stealing shit for world peace, HOPEFULLY JADE WON'T CATCH HIM AT IT but if he does... uh... things may change? But usually i play that by ear anyway because CR is a wily thing. Thanks for hitting this up!
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Date: 2013-10-02 03:10 am (UTC)sigh youngsters and their murdering people outside the bounds of the law. though it's cool by Auldrantine law if Altaïr stabs someone outside a town as long as he can prove it's not for reasons of personal malice! c'mon altair it's not that hard to follow the law! JUST TAKE YOUR TARGETS OUTSIDE THE CITY. I look forward to seeing the CR develop majestically.
there can never be enough icons of him leaping on people i swear
Date: 2013-10-02 03:21 am (UTC)Omg yes, that CR would be majestic indeed. Majestic and horrible. I'm... i'm not sorry.
CAN HE JUST SIT DOWN PLEASE
Date: 2013-10-02 03:28 am (UTC)LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY
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Date: 2013-10-02 03:17 pm (UTC)eagle vision: Yes!
color: uhhh it's complicated. see below.
notes: Charlie's a detective, so inevitably she's going to get her hands on information! She's more than happy to give it in a concise manner, unless it's something top secret (like a case or what have you). She's vehement in defending people and has actually gone to battle to ... how did she put it ... put "dark deeds" into the "harsh light of justice" --? Yes. Without much prompting other than her own curiosity.
Her being a detective also falls within in the lines of if you do something illegal and she knows about it, you're going on her shitlist. Paris is no more, but she'll be joining up with what ... little police force Exsilium might have around now. If it's in the name of the greater good, like turning the tides, she'll be more lenient, but still: a crime is a crime.
Also she looks like a young boy I think this is very important to note.
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Date: 2013-10-02 05:37 pm (UTC)character name(s) & journals(s): Teshigawara Naoya (
eagle vision: Y!
color: He's so normal it's sad, man, but I'm guessing most of the Transports would be some color or other so I think...... blue/white?? With an emphasis on white atm I'm not sure if you can have mixtures of colors or maybe he just switches around depending on situation. (Cracking up at people on benches yo.)
notes: \o/!!
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Date: 2013-10-02 10:18 pm (UTC)eagle vision: always yes
color: Raphael is a bright young man, sure, but he's mainly a civilian so will be none. But as Phantom R - and I promise he'll come later on, provided I'm here long enough - he's more like an informant since that's his real Business Mode. Unless otherwise noted. Or see below--
notes: Phantom R is his paper thin disguise to us but in canon no one know who the hell he is because Raphael's very unassuming and a quiet presence like Assassin's Creed assassins actually. Phantom R's actually a thief who does it for Really Good Reasons, but since he doesn't have that in Exsilium he'll mainly be around for stealing intel purposes which is why he's more of an informant. Or a person of interest. Whichever suits your needs more.
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Date: 2013-10-05 02:11 pm (UTC)If they actively stick their neck out for freedom etc., they could possibly show up as blue.
And white is when they've got some information for him, or are even just his eavesdropping target lmfaooo (and yes, benches. It's canon.)