[GUIDE] Fear Mechanics

[Ephebe]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Leo
Character Race: Monster
Character Subspecie: Mare
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Mares are able to paralyze any creature by sitting on their chest; provided that they have one, of course. This tends to be an irresistible lure when passing by any person conveniently lying down, making for some very awkward sleep-overs.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Year One
Fear Ability Request: Leo manipulates the opponent's hair to cut them. (Unusable if the opponent does not have hair / the hair is simply too short to cut anything)
Proposed School Category the Fear is: Swift Strikes  

[its me debz]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Clerise
Character Race: Human
Character Subspecie: Hunter
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: n/a
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Intermediate
Fear Ability Request: Y3 Charge: Death Tolls - Clerise swings both scythes, one in each hand, at alarming speed, the blades cutting through the air as she then throws them like boomerangs.

Yeah, that's TOTALLY gonna end well.

Proposed School Category the Fear is: Year 3 Gambler's Chance  

[its me debz]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Henry Ashford Charles the Third
Character Race: Reaper
Character Subspecie: Pyramidkind
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Brute Strength
What Year Is Your Character Now?: 2
Fear Ability Request:

Y2: Battle Cry - Guilt Reap: Ashford uses his Great Knife in a wide swing, draining the life force of whatever it hits.

Y1: Tainted Fang - Sorrow Sown: Ashford infects the target with an inkling of guilt.

Proposed School Category the Fear is: Battle Cry & Tainted Fang  

[Sosiqui]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Anna Walpurgis
Character Race: Reaper
Character Subspecies: Witch of Despair
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Curse Magic (if approved); Illusions
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2
Fear Ability Request: Cursed Stranglehold: Blackthorn curse-vines coil out of the air, wrapping around the target and attempting to tear them apart. They do not have the strength to do so, but they can inflict some nasty damage...
Proposed School Category the Fear is:

Y2 (original) FEAR: The Mind

Y1 FEAR: Battle Cry  

[Sexy Cocaine]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Riyo
Character Race: Demon
Character Subspecie: Bakeneko
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Y1 - Minor Hex Magics, Y2 - Shapeshifting.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Technically Y3 but I haven't given her a Y2 FEAR yet. OTL
Fear Ability Request: Y2: Umbrage Claw - Riyo hones her miasma-like powers into a glove and attacks with sharp claws.

Y3: Outburst - Numerous spiked appendages tear out of Riyo's being and hurl towards the target. The aim is to make them swiss cheese, which also makes the user look like swiss cheese in the process.

Proposed School Category the Fear is:
Y2 Battle Cry
Y3 Gambler's Chance  

[Ravvlet]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Arcadia
Character Race: Student
Character Subspecie: n/a
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Manticore have evolved to swallow their prey whole, posessions and all. They have a jaw that unhinges like a snake, and a complex digestive system that can handle metal and most foreign objects. Modern materials like plastic, however, can sometimes cause problems.
2nd Year: Can store things in her stomach, and vomit them back up later.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2
Fear Ability Request: Y1: Frenzy - Cady's year in school haven't tempered the impulsive ghoul any, and this attack uses all of her unbridled energy to her best advantage. She throws herself at her opponent, attacking with claws, teeth, and tail all at once, generally hurting herself in the process.
Y2: Slow Strike (just upgrading her Y1 ability)
Proposed School Category the Fear is: Gambler's Chance/Headlights  

[Bronze Coffee]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Glasere Uller
Character Race: Monster
Character Subspecie: White Stag
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Shifting - In which Uller turns himself into his snow stag form. It's a huge stag with a pair of giant reindeer antlers. The same color as his humanoid form.
What Year Is Your Character Now?:
Fear Ability Request: Freezes the air around him into ice razors or shards and chunks them at his target(s).
Proposed School Category the Fear is: Swift Strikes  

[Baneful]

Fear Selection
Character Name: William Reid
Character Race: Human
Character Subspecie: Hunter
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: N/A
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Intermediate
Fear Ability Request: Year 2 - Penance- Shadowy energy pools around injuries to knit them up.
Proposed School Category the Fear is: The Chill Year 2

Fear Change Request
Character Name: William Reid
Character Race: Human
Character Subspecie: Hunter
Character's Current Fear Ability/Abilities: Battle Cry Year 2
Proposed New Fear Ability: Judgement - Runic energy gathers in runes along Tracey's blade and imbues a single swing with additional kick. Has a chance of being a little /too/ much kick though.
Proposed New Fear Category Type: Gamblers Chance Year 3
Reason: Because of Tracey's size increase and duration of lockdown making it more dangerous to wield Tracey's fear  

[medigel]

Fear Change Request
Character Name: Mortimer McNeal
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecie: Zombie
Character's Current Fear Ability/Abilities: Death Grip, Iiiit's Aliiiiive, y3 idk yet
Proposed New Fear Ability: Vengeful Bolts
Proposed New Fear Category Type: Swift Strikes
Reason: Fear developed and strengthened from Y1's original Tainted Fang to be able to do more concentrated damage in a shorter amount of time; energy is also being discharged more through his hands than directly from his brain now that he's in better control.

Fear Selection
Character Name: Mortimer McNeal
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecie: Zombie
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Death Grip, Iiiit's Aliiiiive, y3 idk yet
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y3
Fear Ability Request:
Y3: Vengeful Bolts - summons multiple z-shaped lightning bolts to barrage his opponent with
Y2: Upgrade - charges white electricity through himself to give him an extra edge in battle
Y1: Recharge - blue electricity stimulates a flagging body into continuing the fight
Proposed School Category the Fear is: Swift Strikes, The Eye, The Chill  

[DarkHeartedSorrows]

Fear Change Request
Character Name: Nyyrikki Synkka
Character Race: Reaper
Character Subspecie: Grim
Character's Current Fear Ability/Abilities:

Y2; As the Crow Flies; Rikki vomits up hundreds of crows in an illusion to startle his opponent. Previously his ability left him severely nauseous and weak, occasionally leading to black outs. Now he's gained more control and only suffers slight nausea and some dizziness.

Y1; Crow's Eye; Rikki channels his fear into his eyes, which turn entirely black, and is better able to see his opponents. It would appear that the fear channels much in the same way as his Y2 fear, as he begins to tilt his head back in forth curiously like a crow.

Proposed New Fear Ability:

Y1; Crow's Claws; Rikki channels his fear into his chains. More specifically, he channels it into the blades, and is able to dole out hits with them quicker than he previously could.

Proposed New Fear Category Type: Swift Strikes
Reason: I originally applied for Rikki's new FEAR before I had gotten his art, which was a mistake on my part because I didn't yet know if he would get the weapon upgrade to bladed chains. Trying to play it safe I made up a FEAR that didn't involve his chains, but I'm pretty sure I would never use it, so I'd like to change it to a mechanic that I can use more often (since I never use his other FEAR either).  

[Sexy Cocaine]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Lou C. Ferre
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecie: Vampire
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Shapeshifting: Flock of bats.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y1
Fear Ability Request: Hypnosis - Lou's eyes have the ability to temporarily allure and halt his enemies from attacking.
Proposed School Category the Fear is: Headlights  

[Seussi]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Alexander Van Rotte
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecie: Zombie
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Death Grip, Contagion Bite
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y3
Fear Ability Request: Undead Strength- Alexander's Fear lends him an extra boost in strength, allowing him to hit harder then he otherwise might have.
Proposed School Category the Fear is: Battle Cry  

[danse-hexe]

Fear Change Request
Character Name: Reine
Character Race:  Human
Character Subspecie: .. hunter?
Character's Current Fear Ability/Abilities: Y2 + Y3 swift strikes - hungering cold: basically a barrage of ice shards
Proposed New Fear Ability: howling blast; gust of cold wind inflicting frost damage over time
Proposed New Fear Category Type: Tainted Fang Y2
Reason:  Diversification of abilities; seems like a natural progression.  

[amicableAggressor]

Fear Selection
Character Name: Kwasi
Character Race: Monster
Character Subspecie: Adze
Character's Current Natural Ability/Abilities: Shapeshifting - Firefly
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y1
Fear Ability Request: Bad Influence - Kwasi can give people mild bouts of unluckiness, bad fortune, and things just not going their way. This causes them to have series of small bumbles during battles, hurting themselves through clumsy and unfortunate accidents.
Proposed School Category the Fear is: Tainted Fang