Cirava's Psi Powers
16 August 2019 14:36![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moisturewave_aestheticThe best description I've ever seen of Cirava's current level of psychic powers is Telekinesis 1 in this skill tree:
You can move small objects that are within about twenty feet of you. Your maximum lifting load is roughly twenty pounds and the most force you can exert is equal to about a gentle toss. Your best bet in using this in combat is to throw sand in someone’s eyes. Your precision is enough for a lightswitch but insufficient to quite press the right TV remote button.
At the height of their power they were a low 2 on the linked scale, which is described as being able to exert about the amount of force psychically that a person can physically, but they no longer have access to that raw force without their second eye, and never really had more range than the distance across a large room (like a lecture hall, gymnasium, or building lobby rather than a sports stadium). They may still be able to achieve the precision necessary to press a small button or write legible words from across a room if they really strain themself.
They also have the ability to snap their fingers and put people to sleep. Since both Aradia and Sollux do it in Homestuck canon I've taken that as a universal part of the psionic package even for trolls who are mostly just telekinetic and whose mind-contact powers are marginal or specialised in another area entirely; neither one is really a proper telepath. (Vriska, Aranea, and some random adult ceruleanblood do it too, but they have full fledged mind control powers.) This feels like sudden, intense drowsiness and comes on over a few seconds. It behaves more or less like natural sleep once initiated: the target won't stay asleep for longer than a brief nap unless they already needed the rest, and can be forcibly awoken in the usual ways (pinching, splashing water, etc).
While I can't speak for the blueblood version of the ability, I'm going to say that as someone who is otherwise not a telepath and doesn't have much raw power, Cirava is not personally capable of forcing people to sleep if they're actively fighting to stay awake. Even more so if they saw it coming and braced themself for the sleepiness, or if they routinely push through exhaustion, or both. It also won't have any effect at all on beings who aren't able to sleep naturally, like some types of vampires or elves.
Using their powers in their current state is likely to result in feedback pain from their eye injury, but this is neither guaranteed nor insurmountable. However, it is the reason they stopped using telekinesis for household convenience purposes.
You can move small objects that are within about twenty feet of you. Your maximum lifting load is roughly twenty pounds and the most force you can exert is equal to about a gentle toss. Your best bet in using this in combat is to throw sand in someone’s eyes. Your precision is enough for a lightswitch but insufficient to quite press the right TV remote button.
At the height of their power they were a low 2 on the linked scale, which is described as being able to exert about the amount of force psychically that a person can physically, but they no longer have access to that raw force without their second eye, and never really had more range than the distance across a large room (like a lecture hall, gymnasium, or building lobby rather than a sports stadium). They may still be able to achieve the precision necessary to press a small button or write legible words from across a room if they really strain themself.
They also have the ability to snap their fingers and put people to sleep. Since both Aradia and Sollux do it in Homestuck canon I've taken that as a universal part of the psionic package even for trolls who are mostly just telekinetic and whose mind-contact powers are marginal or specialised in another area entirely; neither one is really a proper telepath. (Vriska, Aranea, and some random adult ceruleanblood do it too, but they have full fledged mind control powers.) This feels like sudden, intense drowsiness and comes on over a few seconds. It behaves more or less like natural sleep once initiated: the target won't stay asleep for longer than a brief nap unless they already needed the rest, and can be forcibly awoken in the usual ways (pinching, splashing water, etc).
While I can't speak for the blueblood version of the ability, I'm going to say that as someone who is otherwise not a telepath and doesn't have much raw power, Cirava is not personally capable of forcing people to sleep if they're actively fighting to stay awake. Even more so if they saw it coming and braced themself for the sleepiness, or if they routinely push through exhaustion, or both. It also won't have any effect at all on beings who aren't able to sleep naturally, like some types of vampires or elves.
Using their powers in their current state is likely to result in feedback pain from their eye injury, but this is neither guaranteed nor insurmountable. However, it is the reason they stopped using telekinesis for household convenience purposes.
