Permissions on magic.

[weekwizard]

Abilities overview
Patchouli is a magician youkai. As the name no doubt implies, she is rather adept at magic, her focus being the seven seven elements of wood, fire, water, metal, earth, sun, and moon, one for each day of the week. However, she has shown to be able to alter this element structure to the five Western elements of Earth, Fire, Wind,

Comments

[whoisthatchild]

Matthew Gravesend / whoisthatchild: Is Patchy allowed to learn your magic?Yes...and no! Comments / Questions:

Alright, to explain: there's nothing stopping Patchy from being able to copy the spells that Matthew uses. However, it's an established thing in his world that using any magic causes Stress. With a capital S. Stress comes in two varieties, Physical Stress and Emotional Stress, and all abilities (magic & superhuman skills) causes at least a little of both. Stress is built up over time in the person's Stress Meter, which is split into five sections. When the boundary of one section is breached, the user is inflicted with a Stress Break which causes a status condition, which is why Matthew falls asleep or becomes disabled as he over works himself-his other three are amnesia, endurance damage and petrification. Stress Breaks are always five things that most disrupt a person's personal style, so the always active, hard working Matthew has Stress Breaks that cause him to be unable to perform. Someone who needed a calm mind would probably have emotional based Stress Breaks (such as becoming depressed, going beserk, becoming paranoid, becoming filled with lust and so on), someone who focused on speed would have Stress Breaks that slowed or stopped them, etc.

So basically, since the Stress System is built into the spells, with Patchy's weak body, she'd probably suffer a Stress Break due to the Physical Stress with pretty much every spell. Which is so not worth it right now.

If. That made any sense.

[weekwizard]

I get it. Maybe, prehaps, Patchy could at least learn to use lower tier spells? She's frail, yes, but I'd imagine she's be able to at least use one without hurting herself.

[whoisthatchild]

Yeah, actually she probably could do some of the lower level stuff, since people keep normal human levels of endurance until they hit about level 15. Just keep in mind that Stress builds up, so using Matthew's spells in succession will be a problem.

But, she won't actually know that's what happens until she uses them and it happens. So oops.

[weekwizard]

...I would assume that studying Matthew's spells thoroughly would reveal the side effects of Stress, but whatever.