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⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Yes, although he might not be receptive if he's not close to the person. Permission to touch each other is a sign of great trust in his culture, and it'll take adjusting for him to adapt to more casual attitudes about it. When he is comfortable with someone, though, Paul is surprisingly physically affectionate.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yes, just be aware Paul is an excellent fighter and always wearing his shield generator unless noted otherwise. It's usually not on, and I will note when it's activated. It can only be penetrated by physical objects moving at a slow speed, making Paul much harder to hurt if you don't know the trick of it.

(Canonically, shooting a shield with a laser causes a nuclear explosion. I'm going to go ahead and say the setting will intervene to prevent that from doing widespread damage, although Paul will still definitely personally explode and die. He doesn't know this yet!)

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Yes, but expect Paul to be awkward about it if it's sincere and glib about it if it's not. Paul will only genuinely reciprocate in the case of someone about his own age (aka also a teenager).

SEXUAL CONTENT: No explicit, fade to black yes.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Technically speaking Paul doesn't have 'psychic' abilities. Practically speaking, yes he does. His baseline perceptiveness of other people's emotional states and motives is high (but imperfect and subject to his own biased interpretations), and he also has the power of the Voice, an ability that allows him to compel people to do his bidding. These skills only work on people who are recognizably physiologically human or human-like, and the Voice only works in person on people who can physically hear and understand him. He also can't reliably use the Voice yet, and I will never use it without permission on any player character. He can also see the future in his dreams and his waking visions, but this is a passive ability he doesn't control. I also will never use his precognition to spoil plots/secrets/etc without permission, and I'm more interested in using it to cause problems than solve them.

As for using psychic abilities on Paul, he doesn't have any special defenses against them except willpower. Depending on your preference, your character might be able to accidentally or purposefully fall into the terrifying bridge between time and space forming in his mind and the weirdness it leads to. If you don't want them to encounter that, it is deeply buried and obviously dangerous, so they can either miss it or avoid it purposely.

MAGIC/POWERS: Paul has no magic powers of his own aside from the shared properties of blood magic in Deer Country. Any magic abilities will likely work on Paul the same way they would work on an average baseline human.

NOTES FOR INFORMATION GAINED VIA ABILITIES: Paul is like a chrysalis for a high level of psychic/extrasensory potential, and your character will be able to perceive that if you would like them to. Telepaths/empaths/other type of mind/emotion readers will be able to tell Paul has training in controlling his thoughts and emotions. If there's anything specific you'd like your character to pick up, please go ahead and ask, as I'll probably say yes.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Paul is extraordinarily healthy.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Paul's history involves parental death, violence, eugenic theory, drug use, colonialism, and religious extremism/religious manipulation. Paul's moral system is also skewed due to his upbringing as a duke's son in an oppressive feudal-colonial society.

As for what Paul finds offensive, there isn't anything specific to him that isn't true of most people: acts of unnecessary cruelty and harm to people he cares about will make him angry, but that's about it.

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: Yes.

FOURTH WALLING: Yes, Paul will just assume it's Time Weirdness/a lie to manipulate him. Does Paul really believe someone would fabricate an entire book series and multiple media adaptations to trick him? Yes, and it's not a bad idea, he'll take notes.

THREADHOPPING: Yes in network, please ask first for logs.

TYPOS: I have a touch of the dyslexia, so while I do what I can to avoid it sometimes I will miss a typo or my spellcheck corrects a word incorrectly. If there's anything confusing in my tags, that may be why, so don't hesitate to reach out if you spot something!

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Sexual harassment/violence, although I prefer not to explore that with this character; torture.

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: None, and if I need to I will discuss anything unexpected that makes me uncomfortable.

CONTACT: Here or via DM.

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