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[badfeyth]

✦✦✦✦✦ GHOST

TRUE NAME: Unknown

ALIAS: Ghost

CANON: Original ("The Agency")

AGE: 27

GENDER: Female

OCCUPATION: Fantasy Lawyer

Elevator Pitch

You know all those fairy tale problems with christenings and fae dealings and genie wishes that make you think, "This could all have been avoided if that character had just hired a good lawyer?" That's Ghost.

Personality

✦ INTROVERTED
✦ INTELLECTUAL
✦ REALIST
✦ DEADPAN
✦ OBSERVANT
✦ CALCULATING
✦ CLEVER
✦ NEGOTIATOR
✦ WORDSMITH

Permissions

PERMISSIONS

✦ THREAD PREFERENCES: SEE BELOW
✦ BACKTAGGING: SEE BELOW
✦ THREADJACKING: YES
✦ MINDREADING: SEE BELOW
✦ TOUCHING: YES
✦ SHIPPING: YES, PREFS BELOW
✦ SMUT: PM TO ASK FIRST
✦ FIGHTING/INJURY: PM TO ASK FIRST
✦ CHARACTER DEATH: NO

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

ADDITIONAL DETAILS BELOW

THREAD PREFERENCES:
• Brackets preferred over prose, but either is fine.
• Present-tense preferred over past-tense, but either is fine.
• Tagging speed is typically daily with occasional boomeranging.

ON BACKTAGGING:
• I'm happy to continue tagging an existing thread so long as it continues to progress at a steady pace. Otherwise, I usually prefer to keep threads current and may drop older ones. Please feel free to PM me if you'd like to continue a thread, or start a new one in place of an existing one!

ON MINDREADING:
• Sure, just make it clear that it's happening so that I can include information about Ghost's thoughts in my narration for you to play off of.

ON SHIPPING:
• M/F ships preferred, 21+ characters only (unless we're playing a pre-negotiated AU where both characters are younger, in which case my limit is 18+). Generally I'm open to pretty much anything if the chemistry is right. Feel free to throw ideas at me and it seems like they'll hit it off, let's give it a go!

History

EXTENDED HISTORY BELOW

Ghost's history originates with an extradimensional organization known only as "The Agency", whose function is the "care, preservation, maintenance, and redirection of literature" — an institution that is part library, part architect, and part special ops unit. Their duty is to repair and protect the continuity of other universes within their multiverse, which are referred to in Agency vernacular as "Books". Much like pruning a bonsai to ensure the appropriate growth of the plant, the Agency monitors the universes under their supervision, identifies offshoot choices and undesirable outcomes that could potentially get out of hand, and steps in to rectify them before they can threaten the integrity of the original timeline. Operatives within the Agency are divided into two groups — the field operatives who investigate disruptions and gather information about the cause of a breach, and the "writers", who through the power of the written word (augmented by Agency technology) are able to remedy the defects and complete the "pruning".

Ghost is one such "writer"; she has no memory of where she was born, who her parents are, or even what universe in the multiverse she originates from. However, the Agency identified her early on as a potential candidate and consequently "retrieved" her to their extradimensional facility in order to have her trained in the rare and unique art that forms the foundation of the Agency's operations at its core. As such, her earliest memories are all of the Agency's facility, and she considers the personnel who resided in that facility during her formative years as her family, including her tutor Nym, her fellow "writer" candidate Meta, and the artificial intelligence tasked with the everyday running of the Agency facility, named Arche.

Unfortunately, Ghost never came remotely close to mastering the art of "writing" as the Agency had hoped she would, much less attaining any sort of reliable competence in it. In a classic case of great power necessitating more great responsibility than its practitioners gave it, a tragic accident occurred when Ghost was in her late teens: her fellow "writer" Meta inadvertently caused the death of their mentor after writing into being a construct that he ultimately was unable to control. In the ensuing chaos, Ghost was forced to flee from the construct's rampage and, with the help of Arche, escaped blindly into the pages of one of the many continuities overseen by the Agency. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to Ghost, the bridge between the Agency and the continuity she chose was irreparably damaged as the construct's rampage continued, severing any possibility of using it as a route to return to the only home she'd ever known.

Abruptly stranded in an unfamiliar universe with no friends, no assets, and no knowledge of how even to begin trying to return home, Ghost was forced to fend for herself in the only way she knew how: by drawing on what training and skills the Agency had cultivated in her to try to make her way in the world around her. A path forward ultimately revealed itself when, upon coming across an enchanted kingdom straight out of a typical fairy tale, Ghost was able to leverage her familiarity with genre and specificity of phrase to find a loophole in the curse and free the residents from their bedevilment. And, as is often the case in such such circumstances, word traveled fast: could the wise sage who had broken that kingdom's curse lend her insights into the problems of another? A witch's curse, a faerie's geas; as the requests began to pile up, Ghost had found her means of carving out a niche for herself in the world.

After ten years of life in (what she eventually came to learn was called) the magical universe of Ennalore, Ghost has made a name for herself as the resident authority and subject matter expert of Fantasy Legal Bullshit™, being called upon by kings and peasants alike to help them navigate the tumultous waters of which fairies to invite to an infant princess's christening (all of them), how to circumvent a seemingly ironclad prophecy (creative word interpretation), and the like. She maintains a comfortable home and office in the resident city of Gilliyam with her pet dragon Perry and frequently gets up to magical misadventures in the course of discovering more about herself, her talents, and the future she wants to pursue — and what role, if any, a return to the Agency might play in it.

Essentially, she's a little bit Chosen One, a little bit isekai protagonist, and a little bit Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, all in one sassy redheaded package!

Abilities

WRITING

Ghost's primary special ability is that she's a reality-manipulator whose abilities are exercised through writing. Theoretically, Ghost is an individual capable both of creating gateways and bridges throughout the multiverse, and once connected to a particular universe, working a sort of reality-manipulation magic upon it. This is a skill tied directly to the use of ink that includes her blood as a component, and it only works if she has a medium to physically write on — think a combination of Rohan Kishibe's Heaven's Door and Atrus from Myst. How skilled Ghost actually is in her ability to warp reality by writing is dependent on her "canonpoint" and can be modified to a thread partner's liking!

GENRE SAVVY

A major part of Ghost's education into the magical aspects of "writing" was a heavy front-load of theory. As a consequence of this, she's had rigorous training in the things that make a story "work". She's essentially a walking encyclopedia of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index and specializes in things like finding workarounds for curses and loopholes in prophecies. Of significant note is that she is not a fourth-waller, and her genre savviness extends only to generic tropes, folklore, myths, and so on; in other words, though she might be able to look at a story and guess from its themes and foreshadowing, "Oh, I'll bet the protagonist was dead all along, wasn't he", she would not have any actual knowledge of the fact that said trope shows up in The Sixth Sense.

SUPERNATURAL AFFINITY

You don't spend ten years in the figurative Feymarch without making some friends along the way. As a consequence of her work in Ennalore, Ghost has had a variety of supernatural wards and blessings placed on her over the years. She is attuned to the supernatural in the form of a sort of psychic radar (think similar in nature to a Spidey Sense but operating mostly on nonspecific Vibes™) and has relationships with a variety of supernatural institutions that afford her a level of protection — though she is not immune from the trickery of the Fae or of getting a spell cast on her by a witch or having a fuath try to drown her, she carries something not unlike Fantasy Diplomatic Immunity™ with many of the more common varieties, and has had their respective acknowledgements of that fact placed upon her as a result.

POLYGLOT

She is at least conversationally fluent in a variety of fantasy languages and is familiar with common courtesies and customs of a variety of supernatural creatures that she has had dealings with in Ennalore.

Thread Ideas

WORLDHOPPING (GHOST VISITS YOU):

Because the multiverse is real in Ghost's "canon", it's theoretically possible for her to connect with and travel to any canon fairly seamlessly! While she might be a bit "fish out of water" at first, the Agency has strict Prime Directive-esque guidelines about not disrupting the natural flow of a universe, and their inhabitants are not seen as "fictional", but as real people occupying a universe. Ghost connecting with a different canon is significantly more like the Enterprise landing on an uncharted planet than someone fourth-walling a work of fiction!

THE AGENCY (YOU VISIT GHOST)

Ghost's own "home canon", a mysterious administrative agency located in a pocket dimension from which the operations of "universe oversight and maintenance" are conducted. As one might expect of a questionable entity with ambiguous morality and no legal oversight, there's Some Shit going on within the facility (including but not limited to how they acquire resources like Ghost). It is theoretically possible for Ghost to bring people back across one of her bridges into her own Agency! Of course, that's strictly forbidden in terms of the Agency's rules and regulations, but...

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