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[nighttemplar]

Alessandro is what his canon refers to as a Preternatural. He was born with the ability to neutralize supernatural abilities through maintained contact. Canonically, if he touches and maintains contact, he renders supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves to a fully human state. In short, he negates absolutely all supernatural abilities: genetic, magical, or otherwise and turns a supernatural creature into a baseline human (they would still maintain any skills or knowledge they possess. For example, if he grabs onto a skilled fighter, they are still a skilled fighter. They just don't have super strength or speed anymore.) For ghosts, touching their remains sends them off to the great beyond.

The theory behind the ability is that nearly all beings produce aether or soul. Those who produce a normal amount of aether are normal human beings. Those that have too much become werewolves, vampires, or ghosts. Those who don't produce any at all are preternatural. Basically, the amount of aether one produces is equal the amount of soul a person has. As someone who has no "soul", Alessandro basically removes the excess upon touch. It is an ability that requires direct physical contact that must stay connected. He can't just poke a supernatural creature and turn them into a person.

We don't know how this works on other beings (IE: Mutants/Super Heroes, Witches/Wizards with innate magic, Gods/Demons, Robots/Constructs), but we do know that being submerged in water inhibits the ability.

This is where the OPT IN/OPT OUT comes in. As a player, you are more than welcome to say that his ability doesn't work on your specific sort of vampire/werebeast/cthulhu monster/shounen protag/Alien. Or you can opt in and say that it does indeed work, or even if it only works for certain aspects

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Player:
Character:
OPTING IN TO HUMANIZATION | OPTING OUT
Additional: if Opting in, what abilities can he nullify.

<b>Player:</b><br /><b>Character:</b><br /><b>OPTING IN | OUT</b><br /><b>Additional:</b> if Opting in, what abilities can he nullify.

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[whatsina_name]

Player:Bookie
Character:Phillip Durand
OPTING IN
Additional: So this might be potential nonsense, but under the logic that magic potential = aether, Phillip probably has more of that than Sandy would have ever dealt with previously. Soooo I had the thought that maybe Sandy can cancel out some or all of his magic, but there might be a weird bleedover effect/it would just feel Strange to him or something. This absolutely does not need to happen but I thought it was fun to think about at least.

[nighttemplar]

Sandy's abilities are nonsense! But yeah. Phillip is probably on the level of the Queen of Cairo, or the Woosley Alpha in terms of HOLY FUCKBALLS. The Alpha killed him, so we know he can be overwhelmed. I'm definitely okay with him having some really weird bleedover. Sandy gets to enjoy what it's like to actually have a "soul" for as long as he's touching or something, because there's just so much that he can't turn it all off? Does that sound good to you?

[whatsina_name]

Phillip has SO MANY FEELINGS, Sandy gets to take some for a while Yeah, that sounds good! Any preference for whether or not Phillip keeps any powers when they touch? Inclined to have at least part of his control over his form be cancelled out just so marks can be left on him at least for a bit...

[nighttemplar]

THIS IS TERRIBLE. TAKE THEM BACK I have no preferences in powers he keeps/loses. I generally like to leave that up to those opting in/out for him. I definitely would like him to make him at least Human Bodied so enjoy those hickies and love bites.

[whatsina_name]

Sounds good~!

[compellingstatement]

Player: Terri
Character: The Archivist (Jonathan Sims) | compellingstatement
OPTING OUT
Additional: N/A

Character: Jonathan Reid | hungerneverfed
OPTING IN
Additional: Jonathan is a vampire with blood and shadow magic. This ability would turn him back into the human he once was!

[nighttemplar]

Noted. Jonathan with Sauron is no.

Other Jon. Welcome to being human again

[abracadont]

Player: Kathryn
Character: Stephen Strange (Marvel 616)
OPTING IN
Additional: He can revert Stephen to an entirely non-magical human...but I'm going to say that if Stephen realizes what's going to happen before he gets touched, he might turn himself into a conduit for all the latent magical energy around them and try to overload Alessandro.

Or he might just punch him.

[nighttemplar]

Noted! Also yes please punch him. He deserves it!

[indecent_butterfly]

Player:Kat
Character:Mad Hatter
OPTING IN
Additional: Fully with prolonged contact

He should make good use of it as it may be a one time only deal.

[mesmerizing]

Player:
Character: Armand
OPTING IN
Additional: Armand's powerful senses, vision and hearing, could be nullified as well as his mind reading.

[crassidy]

Player: Spam
Character:Proinsias Cassidy
OPTING IN | OUT In
Additional: See the bottom part of his app for a general run down on powers, but he can nullify all of it if wanted. If the vampirism is nullified, he is just standard garbage human man

[nighttemplar]

Then Hello Garbage Human Man. At least you're cute for a Trainwreck of a human being.

[crassidy]

aw, you're too kind

[kuroi_taiyo]

Player: Love
Character: Judar
OPTING IN
Additional: You can definitely nullify his use of magic, though Alessandro might have a bit of trouble, or fill up, before fully nullifying. Mostly because Judar has a 'special' connection to the world, where he has a link to it that allows the world to always be supplying him with the magical energy he needs. So I can definitely see him stifling down the link to a trickle, but trying any harder is like trying to stick fingers in a breaking dam; more places will find a way to trickle in.

But if it's something Alessandro feeds off of, I'm sure it'd be a wonderful meal on his end.

[nighttemplar]

A small trickle it is then. It's like one or two black butterflies for judar and those Rukh might avoid Sandy in general. If Judar can see souls, Alessandro is absolutely blank. He's a big old void. No ruhk at all, of any color

He doesn't eat it....though now I have ideas for crazy event shenanigans.

[vaineglorie]

Player: Sam
Character: Zoey Rurikid hemovoracious / Talia Rae vaineglorie
OPTING IN
Additional:
Zoey - she's a vampire, so he's welcome to nullify her vampiric side entirely. If he does, he might feel an innate magical rhythm to her try to rise up when she's humanized, but that'll also get nulled in the end.

Talia - just straight werewolf to human. nothing fancy here. she might be a bit grouchy though

[nighttemplar]

Noted! Thanks!

[demonicmiracle]

Player: justine
Character: crowley
OPTING OUT

[nighttemplar]

Noted!

[varnish]

Player: Koko
Character: Belial
OPTING IN
Additional: I'm gonna go ahead and fudge around with this for a bit, because... Belial's canon is complicated but I want to have some fun so lmao. Let's just say he can nullify everything listed in his abilities, but there could be a fair bit of difficulty and/or violent resistance once Belial catches on, because he does more or less carry godlike powers. And he likes those. His race also goes into a rampage when threatened enough, but he's typically good at restraining himself. If he feels like it.

[nighttemplar]

Noted! Have fun with that, Belial.

[thejusticiar]

Player: Kate
Character: Stephen Day thejusticiar
OPTING IN
Additional: Stephen is a practioner (a witch) who draws on the ether to do his magic. Ether is just this kind of energy that's out there and his ability to work with it comes from birth. However, in his world there is such a think as a "sink," a place or even person that makes using the ether difficult or impossible, so I figure Alessandro could be kind of like that?

[nighttemplar]

Noted. He's a sink for Stephen.

[varou]

Player: Sam
Character: Hunter Lawson
OPTING OUT
Additional: Definitely want to avoid this with Hunter for the time being, maybe in some event later? It might be a bit much early on, though!

[nighttemplar]

That's good with me. You can always be free to play or not play with his ability at your leisure.

[high_warlock]

Player:Kat / Evilsalmon
Character:Magnus Bane
OPTING IN
Additional: I'm okay with him nullifying Magnus' ability to actively cast spells. Which would also mean that his glamour fades and allows his warlock mark (cat eyes) to be seen. Also, Magnus' magic is entirely demonic, so if you want to play with that in some way, we can do that.

[bestofall]

Player: Kathryn
Character: Festival
OPTING IN
Additional: Festival's magic abilities are related to spellcasting and drawing upon magic through performance, so touching him would remove his ability to access his magic. Catfolk aren't inherently magical creatures, though, so he'd still look the same rather than becoming human.

[nighttemplar]

Noted. Enjoy having no magic but a lot of petting. Soft soft kitty.

[afterthefire]

Player:Mis
Character:Wolf
OPTING IN
Additional: Vampires in Wolf's world are walking corpses with very little soul left, so I would say that Alessandro's power would have less to "Grab onto" for Wolf? However, I am okay with the ability taking away some of Wolf's strength, agility, and healing and making him far less formidable.

[nighttemplar]

Noted. No turning human for Wolf, but a small drain on his powers works for me.

[afterthefire]

Perfect. :)

[boude]

Player: Bobby
Character: Louis de Pointe du Lac
OPTING IN
Additional: this is such a fun CR hook that i simply cannot pass up the opportunity for him to be able to nullify all of Louis's vampire abilities and make him a regular ol human

[nighttemplar]

Noted.

Handsome man, one day he will show you the sunrise.

[spectorspectator]

Player: Joss

Character: Steven Grant/Marc Spector

OPTING IN

Additional: Opting in OFFICIALLY - Steven and Marc are Avatars for the Egyptian god Khonshu, which allows them to summon a suit that gives them supernatural powers. In addition, they're currently bound through a blood bond to a vampire in game; this allows them to feel/be felt by said vampire all the time. All of that goes away with skin-to-skin contact.

[nighttemplar]

Awesome. Poor Mark/Steven's vampire though. Those strange moments when their boy goes off their radar.

[spectorspectator]

Don't worry- Steven will text him, so he knows it's not because they're dead!

[chrisisofaith]

Player:Lysoke
Character:Chris Sonom
OPTING OUT mostly
Additional: He'll keep his death connection with the Raven Queen, but absolutely here for any buffs or ambient magic that isn't from him he has going on turning off temporarily. This would include his ambient buffs to strength and dex in his earrings and the warding tattoo on his left shoulderblade that keeps him from dreaming!

[nighttemplar]

Noted! Debuffing non-cleric things. And unless Chris sleeps while Sandy is touching him, dreaming isn't going to be a problem.

[allyourfeels]

Player: Diana
Character: Caleb Michaels
OPTING IN
Additional: Caleb will not be an empath for as long as they're touching :B

Whether or not he can read or alter Alessandro's emotions when they're not touching is entirely up to you.

[nighttemplar]

For the fun of it, I'll say that from a distance, his feelings are very very muted. Like wearing noise canceling headphones. But the closer they get the quieter it gets until face to face, when it's just silence from him. As for altering his emotions, in water and thin air (like in the sky) yes (because of the whole water and soulless thing). On normal ground, probably not. Get him swimming! Make him feel all the feels!!

[vintsparkler]

Player: Tany
Character: Dorian Pavus
OPTING IN
Additional: prolonged touch can temporarily nullify his magic. Maybe like… the longer he’s touched, the longer it’s nullified? Like a lingering effect. Does that work?

[nighttemplar]

That absolutely works for me! I will leave it up to you how long it would linger.