ANIMa Combat And You
Anna Lin is the pilot of an ANIMa, a psionic construct that exists in both dreams and the waking world at the same time. An active ANIMa will read as being made out of benevolent spirits or as magical/psionic to anyone with the ability to detect that. Hers looks like the icon, a variable fighter.
She needs to sleep in order to use it, and it requires someone at her ANIMa Creche to watch over her sleeping body and wake her up if something goes wrong. This person is called an Anchor, and also serves as a navigator by relaying sensor information through guided imagery and other hypnotic techniques.
Most importantly, it's made entirely out of love. That's right, love. Each major weapon or subsystem on this sucker is a weaponized dream symbol of someone that Anna is close to. Intimate relationships are more powerful, and trusting ones are more reliable and probably some kind of defensive system.
In general:
Distant friendships grant civilian weapons.
Close friendships or rivalries grant standard-issue military weapons.
Chaste romance, raw lust or acts of violence grant superior military weapons.
Sexual romantic relationships grant cinematic weaponry.
She has the following weapons available to her from her canon:
- The ability to switch between Phoenix (Jet), Dragon (hybrid) and Warrior (walker) forms, from her ex-anchor at home. Absurdly useful and versatile. And, yes, this is a cinematic weapon, and feel free to point out those implications to her.
- A staff with the ability to change it's form to any melee weapon with roughly the same mass, from his protege Joshua Preston.
- A cockpit-mounted laser turret with low stopping power, from co-pilot Sara Smith.
- Unguided cluster flak bombs, from her foul-mouthed ex-gangbanger friend Laura.
So, post here with:
1: Permission for Anna to weaponize her CR with you. A suggestion of a weapon that's appropriately symbolic of the relationships would be appreciated. It can be 'upgraded,' changing form, but a weapon never changes function.
2: Permission for Anna's relationship with you to suffer battle damage. This means that she'll be snappish, bitter and slightly paranoid with you after using a relationship with you in combat, and is basically just an excuse for IC drama. If you allow use of the weapon but disallow the damage, I will narrate that part escaping from battle relatively undamaged.
She needs to sleep in order to use it, and it requires someone at her ANIMa Creche to watch over her sleeping body and wake her up if something goes wrong. This person is called an Anchor, and also serves as a navigator by relaying sensor information through guided imagery and other hypnotic techniques.
Most importantly, it's made entirely out of love. That's right, love. Each major weapon or subsystem on this sucker is a weaponized dream symbol of someone that Anna is close to. Intimate relationships are more powerful, and trusting ones are more reliable and probably some kind of defensive system.
In general:
Distant friendships grant civilian weapons.
Close friendships or rivalries grant standard-issue military weapons.
Chaste romance, raw lust or acts of violence grant superior military weapons.
Sexual romantic relationships grant cinematic weaponry.
She has the following weapons available to her from her canon:
- The ability to switch between Phoenix (Jet), Dragon (hybrid) and Warrior (walker) forms, from her ex-anchor at home. Absurdly useful and versatile. And, yes, this is a cinematic weapon, and feel free to point out those implications to her.
- A staff with the ability to change it's form to any melee weapon with roughly the same mass, from his protege Joshua Preston.
- A cockpit-mounted laser turret with low stopping power, from co-pilot Sara Smith.
- Unguided cluster flak bombs, from her foul-mouthed ex-gangbanger friend Laura.
So, post here with:
1: Permission for Anna to weaponize her CR with you. A suggestion of a weapon that's appropriately symbolic of the relationships would be appreciated. It can be 'upgraded,' changing form, but a weapon never changes function.
2: Permission for Anna's relationship with you to suffer battle damage. This means that she'll be snappish, bitter and slightly paranoid with you after using a relationship with you in combat, and is basically just an excuse for IC drama. If you allow use of the weapon but disallow the damage, I will narrate that part escaping from battle relatively undamaged.