Permissions & On Soullessness
Alexia's Preternatural state works as detailed below. The bottom line:
- Alexia's touch powers everything down to human so long as she retains physical contact.
- No magic, no supernatural effects, and no psychic/metahuman/mindreading powers will have any effect on her.
WHAT I NEED FROM YOU:
1. Is Alexia allowed to have physical contact with your character? Keep in mind that your character will return to normal directly after they stop touching her.
2. Is Alexia allowed to wander through shields/protection spells/barriers your characters have set up? I will never, ever do this without consulting a mun first. Consider this an opportunity to plot!
3. Will your character be able to spot Alexia for what she is without touching her? Those who can sense souls, energy, etc, will sense her as a negative space in the world. This is mostly for my personal reference.
Finally, do you have any questions? ♥
Details, directly from the Powers and Abilities section of Alexia's application:
Alexia was born without a soul. Rather than being a power, it is a state of living and requires no thought on her part to inflict the influence of her soullessness. Mere contact with her will cause her Preternatural abilities to take effect, even through thick clothing.
Alexia’s very soullessness acts as a black hole, or void. Vampires call her “soul-sucker” and werewolves call her “curse-breaker”. Because vampires, werewolves and ghosts in Alexia’s world are created through an excess of soul combined with the right metamorphosis, she is able to nullify them through touch.
Alexia’s physical touch to a supernatural or superhuman being of any ilk returns them instead to human form. The form they are returned to is fully functioning; in later books Conall, a werewolf, grows stubble overnight when he sleeps while touching her -- and they make a point to avoid contact while sleeping, because he will age, and potentially grow old and die.
In the case of ghosts, which are not alive and have mostly crossed over, Alexia must find their remains and touch them to enact her abilities. Her very touch breaks their tether to the world of the living and allows them to move on to the afterlife. Humans are seemingly unaffected by her touch.
Because Alexia’s ability nullifies the supernatural influence of soul matter, any abilities that rely on a soul’s influence to function (such as the powers of the shinigami, alchemy, etc) this would mean that through the duration of Alexia touching a character, their abilities and state would be returned to that of a ordinary human.
Magic, also being a supernatural ability, would either completely dissipate or bounce off of her, having a completely lack of effect. Though this means that she would be unable to be harmed by magic, this almost means she would be unable to be helped by it. Healing abilities and the like will be of no help to her.
Her soullessness creates almost a negative space. To anyone able to see/sense souls, she would appear as a void in the world.
To add, the Preternatural ability seems linked with Alexia’s physical form. Changeless, the second book of the series, describes the act of always completely cremating the body of a Preternatural after death. The body of a Preternatural, mummified and preserved, expanded the being’s influence to a radius of all of London and some surrounding countryside. Alexia keeps this particular knowledge secret, knowing that her very blood, skin, bones and innards could all potentially be used as a lethal weapon against the Supernatural community. As if anyone needed more of a reason to kill her.
Aside from being without a soul, Alexia is otherwise an athletic, healthy, but very ordinary human woman. She can swing a very mean parasol (as Lord Maccon can attest) but otherwise is generally not a threat.