What does Raistlin see?

[hourglass_twin]

Tell me what he sees when he sees your character! For most people, he'll see your character as a rotting corpse, but there are exceptions. Is your character something else that's just disguised as a human? Is your character a Time Lord or undead?

With something disguised as something else, he usually sees a blurry image of their true form as well as their disguised form. Is it okay if he knows what your character really is?

With Time Lords, I'm thinking he will see them unaging for a few minutes, then see their next regeneration. Once he gets to the last one, he'll see them die and rot. Is this okay? Does your time lord have future regenerations? How many? Who plays them?

Since the undead don't change, he'll see them how normal people see people.

Anything else that is questionable, please post here!

Comments

[acid_rayne]

Rayne seems to have... Stopped ageing, some time during the thirties. There's no canonical information on whether she'll always be like that and she's only half vampire. Difficult to say, really!

Morrigan can be seen for what she usually is, if ever an animal.

Aleera's a vampire.

The T-X, I'm not sure about! She/it can disguise, but as the T-X is literally a machine and not a living being, I don't know if one can technically say there's a 'true' shape! It could just as easily be said that any disguise the liquid metal 'skin' assumes is just as 'true' as any other. It does default to the blonde likeness (and associated clothing), but I assume that's simply a function to save on memory storage. And since the liquid metal stuff is as much a 'part' of the machine as the underlying endoskeleton... Also, it very much depends on whether your character's ability does this form of perception based on auras and magic and such, since the T-X doesn't really have a soul or anything along those lines. It's an animated object.

The process is depicted here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi1-DtGrJn4

There are still images of the liquid metal stuff and specific endoskeletal type here:
http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/T-X

[hourglass-twin.livejournal.com]

With Rayne, I'll figure she looks to him the same way as she'd look to anyone else, since in canon even if someone just ages very slowly he might not be able to perceive their aging, or would see it progress far less than a normal person.

As for T-X, I'm thinking he'll see any form she takes as her true form, since this is based on magic and she's a machine. I mean, if she's prone to rusting he might see that, but I don't get the impression liquid metal would be.

[acid_rayne]

Yeah, it's difficult for both of them... Rayne has so many unanswered questions. DX

As for the T-X, yes, I thought about that! But I'm sure there are coatings or types of alloys which don't rust and might have been used in the construction. Again, so many unanswered questions! Buuuuuuut, even the older models stated they could last for over a century on their existing power and, since the T-X had a more advanced reactor thing, she/it was probably designed to go even longer than that.

[hourglass-twin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so we can probably safely say that T-X looks to him the same as she looks to everyone else.

[acid_rayne]

Also, Whovian regenerations are a bit tricky now! :D

Up until very recently, the Doctor, for one, claimed her only had something like thirteen of them? But there was recently a 'Sarah Jane Adventures' episode where he came on and stated he had more than a thousand of them to go.

It's been a huge source of confusion in the fandom, for obvious reasons. :)

Some have concluded he was joking, but there wasn't really any humorous context when he spoke it... I'm disinclined to believe it was that, personally. Others have said that maybe it's something to do with the whole Time-Lords-now-ceasing-to-exist-in-our-reality thing, since maybe they imposed some sort of limit and perhaps that's now lifted.

In short, it's now unknown what sort of limits there are for them!

[hourglass-twin.livejournal.com]

That I might get around with a bit of handwaving, unless it's definite, since he'd have to look at the Doctor for pretty long to get through all the regenerations we *know* he has, anyway.

[acid_rayne]

Yeah, it's really strange. Even the writer alluded to it being a deliberate way to 'get around' the remaining regenerations thing, which means it was very like deliberate and serious. It's just frustrating that the episode didn't give any indication as to the reasons behind it!

Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9D-2HJMD9s

OVER NINE THOUSAND Five hundred and seven. D:

[hourglass-twin.livejournal.com]

Yes, so I'll just say his face keeps changing every so often and just give no detail on what those faces look like.

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

If you want him to be a green-boiled thing, I'm ok with it, otherwise, Omega goes invisible when he dies. And then comes back as young Doctor.

[hourglass-twin.livejournal.com]

Well, since he's already young Doctor, that would be the starting point. Unless you mean from here he goes invisible, then becomes young Doctor again?

[rass-bestie.livejournal.com]

From here.

[hourglass-twin.livejournal.com]

All right, he'll be disoriented by that one. He'll try to not let on that he can't see him, though.

[una_persson]

Una is an Eternal, and thus semi-immortal. She can be killed, but she doesn't age anything like a normal human being.

Up to you what he sees. He might see her completely unchanging, though perhaps growing increasingly cloudy over time, as if she's slowly discorporating rather than dying and rotting.

[hourglass-twin.livejournal.com]

*nods* That works.

[strangehistorian]

Oops. Can't believe I missed this post. :Ta

With Chromie he'll be able to see her gnome form as well as her as a HUGE DRAGON but she is sort of comfortably sitting outside of time, so he might not see her aging? Or he might see her get both older and younger or something confusing like that? Idk.

Arthas just won't change, because he's all undead and stuff.