World State Info
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magiheartNana is from a city surrounded by a dome. Here, people are relatively at peace and enjoy prosperity and security. Their only fear is witches, such as Nana. She trains for a time in secret to hone her abilities so that she might use them to help others. Unfortunately her kind are not looked upon too kindly. They are seen as defying the laws of nature, no better than demons in human flesh. When her mother discovers her healing an injured bird on accident, she is sent to the rehabilitation camps with others like her. These were built to keep away the thing that other humans fear most out of lack of understanding. Having grown up there at a young age, Nana knew only this sort of world for many years, retaining only foggy memories of her childhood with her parents.
That is - until she escaped.
Nana finds herself on the run from those who would keep her captive, to study and dissect her so that they might understand her abilities and even take them away to "rehabilitate" her and the others back into society. Her home is a highly oppressive and technologically evolved society. If you do not conform, you are either killed or shut away. Even those who oppose what is done to her kind are taken care of.
As a mark of her enslavement, Nana and other magical beings are branded with a barcode and a number, to make processing their data easier for research. It contains their DNA and other aspects of their physiology, all accessed with the flash of a scanner.
Others like her have tried to escape and failed. They are made an example of, one that Nana knows all too well. She is afraid of what will happen should she be caught, should she be found to be what she is. Her kind are called "witches" though abilities can take many forms. Nana's abilities change over time, though her staple abilities are as follows:
There are limitations to her abilities. Her projection ability has a time limit. If she is away from her body for too long, she begins to feel a pull tugging her back to it as her heart rate slows to dangerous levels the longer she is away. She also cannot move more than several feet from her body (for example she can phase to a room next to or adjacent to where her body is) and her body is susceptible to injury in this state.
Healing is limited. It can take her time to heal severe injuries upon herself and others. She cannot regrow limbs and she cannot regrow organs or other body parts. If her injuries are fatal enough she is capable of dying so it is not a get out of jail free card that she can heal herself. She is still susceptible to poisons or things that might enter her bloodstream (such as aphrodisiacs, medications etc.)
There are other known abilities that are divided into two categories: Invasive (the ability to read other's thoughts, control another person's motor functions/senses, or otherwise incapacitate them or alter another person in some way) or Non Invasive (Element control, abilities that might seem out of the realm of normal such as communicating with animals or being able to do something that does not involve another person). Nana's abilities are considered invasive purely because of her healing ability, even if it does not encroach on Life and Death. It is still considered invasive because she can heal wounds that are a natural part of the body's physical response to injury. Her other abilities are purely out of the ordinary for the most part, though not completely unheard of. When Nana heals another person it is akin to giving them a piece of her soul. That in itself can be invasive over time.
Nana's home is rather harsh and has a strong military faction - think a bit like Attack on Titan, only instead of killing Titans there are people who are tasked to kill escaped/"rogue" witches. It is run by a government system and consists of strong militaristic ideals, though no thought is ever given to manipulating Witches into being used to that end... yet. It is the abusive abilities of few Invasive Witches that the militaristic and antagonistic view of them even exists. Essentially some ruined it for all. This harsh life in captivity is often fraught with emotional torture and some physical torture in severe cases. Nana did her best to keep under the radar while there, in order to spare herself the brunt of it.
As for Nana's personal history, her relationship with her mother is distant and somewhat verbally abusive on her mother's part. Her mother felt scorned by her father's death, blaming her child for it due to her own mental issues. This never stopped Nana from keeping herself positive. Her want to help others earned her small odd jobs as a child and later in her adult life as an escapee, though discretely, and she is known to frequently play with children in her village. It is unfortunate that this quiet life she had growing up did not last, as her mother discovered her abilities and sent her away - leaving her in her previous situation (prior to escaping and her arrival at Proxima Beta). As an escapee it is likely that she will be the target of some serious opposition to her freedom.
That is - until she escaped.
Nana finds herself on the run from those who would keep her captive, to study and dissect her so that they might understand her abilities and even take them away to "rehabilitate" her and the others back into society. Her home is a highly oppressive and technologically evolved society. If you do not conform, you are either killed or shut away. Even those who oppose what is done to her kind are taken care of.
As a mark of her enslavement, Nana and other magical beings are branded with a barcode and a number, to make processing their data easier for research. It contains their DNA and other aspects of their physiology, all accessed with the flash of a scanner.
Others like her have tried to escape and failed. They are made an example of, one that Nana knows all too well. She is afraid of what will happen should she be caught, should she be found to be what she is. Her kind are called "witches" though abilities can take many forms. Nana's abilities change over time, though her staple abilities are as follows:
- Self Healing
- Healing of other living creatures
- Projecting herself outside of her body
- Occasional glamouring though this is undeveloped. She mostly just makes her fingers light up on accident... oops.
There are limitations to her abilities. Her projection ability has a time limit. If she is away from her body for too long, she begins to feel a pull tugging her back to it as her heart rate slows to dangerous levels the longer she is away. She also cannot move more than several feet from her body (for example she can phase to a room next to or adjacent to where her body is) and her body is susceptible to injury in this state.
Healing is limited. It can take her time to heal severe injuries upon herself and others. She cannot regrow limbs and she cannot regrow organs or other body parts. If her injuries are fatal enough she is capable of dying so it is not a get out of jail free card that she can heal herself. She is still susceptible to poisons or things that might enter her bloodstream (such as aphrodisiacs, medications etc.)
There are other known abilities that are divided into two categories: Invasive (the ability to read other's thoughts, control another person's motor functions/senses, or otherwise incapacitate them or alter another person in some way) or Non Invasive (Element control, abilities that might seem out of the realm of normal such as communicating with animals or being able to do something that does not involve another person). Nana's abilities are considered invasive purely because of her healing ability, even if it does not encroach on Life and Death. It is still considered invasive because she can heal wounds that are a natural part of the body's physical response to injury. Her other abilities are purely out of the ordinary for the most part, though not completely unheard of. When Nana heals another person it is akin to giving them a piece of her soul. That in itself can be invasive over time.
Nana's home is rather harsh and has a strong military faction - think a bit like Attack on Titan, only instead of killing Titans there are people who are tasked to kill escaped/"rogue" witches. It is run by a government system and consists of strong militaristic ideals, though no thought is ever given to manipulating Witches into being used to that end... yet. It is the abusive abilities of few Invasive Witches that the militaristic and antagonistic view of them even exists. Essentially some ruined it for all. This harsh life in captivity is often fraught with emotional torture and some physical torture in severe cases. Nana did her best to keep under the radar while there, in order to spare herself the brunt of it.
As for Nana's personal history, her relationship with her mother is distant and somewhat verbally abusive on her mother's part. Her mother felt scorned by her father's death, blaming her child for it due to her own mental issues. This never stopped Nana from keeping herself positive. Her want to help others earned her small odd jobs as a child and later in her adult life as an escapee, though discretely, and she is known to frequently play with children in her village. It is unfortunate that this quiet life she had growing up did not last, as her mother discovered her abilities and sent her away - leaving her in her previous situation (prior to escaping and her arrival at Proxima Beta). As an escapee it is likely that she will be the target of some serious opposition to her freedom.
