[GUIDE] WTF IS A NATURAL ABILITY and more!

[danse-hexe]

Natural Ability Change Request
Character Name: Vieve
Character Race: Demon/Ghost/Monster/Reaper/Undead
Character Subspecie: Salamander
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Heat absorption - basically, flame doesn't hurt her, and she can absorb heat.
Proposed New Natural Ability: Ability to create fire! Or at least, generate heat, instead of just absorbing it from fire. I imagine she'd also be able to tolerate heat still, but if this is too OP, tell meee ; v ;
Reason: Considering Vee's natural form is fire, I feel like it'd suit her better!  

[elvyralani]

Marushii

What sort of things? Doors, walls? Solid objects, or does she need a crack in order to squeeze through? How long will it take her to phase through something? Specifics please! <3

Ep.
Solid objects (nothing entirely thick, like wall thickness about I guess), few seconds to phase out and back in.  

[Marushii]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Merope
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecie: Lost Fathoms Leviathan
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Merope can switch in/out new parts and use them much like a patchwork. However unlike a patchwork, Merope requires salt water to "fuse" the new part into its place. Upon being fused, the new part takes on Merope's coloration and pattern.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Knob! Y2~
Natural Ability Request:
Get Equipped: Merope can store several additional "parts" in an extra stomach. He can "shift" into these parts on the fly without the need of saltwater. The parts need to be small enough to fit in his second stomach, however. Ultimately, he can carry about four different parts at any one time currently.  

[Huni Pi]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Maritess (and Legs)
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecies: Vampire (Manananggal)
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Flight (she has wings)
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Year Two
Natural Ability Request: Sentience - this is a more "passive" thing for Legs. Legs is aware of her surroundings, can see, hear, smell, (maybe taste if stuff fell right into her stomach) and feel things that are happening to her. She can't feel what Tess feels but she can convey this to her upper half when they merge. If she sees incoming danger from below, she can warn Tess. Or run for the hills and hope her upper half notices she just GTFO :3  

[Sosiqui]

Huni Pi

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Maritess (and Legs)
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecies: Vampire (Manananggal)
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Flight (she has wings)
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Year Two
Natural Ability Request: Sentience - this is a more "passive" thing for Legs. Legs is aware of her surroundings, can see, hear, smell, (maybe taste if stuff fell right into her stomach) and feel things that are happening to her. She can't feel what Tess feels but she can convey this to her upper half when they merge. If she sees incoming danger from below, she can warn Tess. Or run for the hills and hope her upper half notices she just GTFO :3

I can't approve natural abilities BUT I can say this: You don't have to spend Tess' original natural ability on Flight! If she has wings capable of flight, then she can fly, period. Kinda like how people with legs don't have to take 'walk' as a natural ability. XD So she could have another natural ability if you want!  

[lizbot]

Rabid Ice Weasel

This is a reasonable natural ability for a chimera

danse-hexe

This is fine ~

Marushii

This is a reasonable upgrade ~

Huni Pi

~ sosos is correct in that tess having wings = flight by default. I'd recommend having sentient legs as her first year natural ability and giving tess another Y2 ability.  

[Marushii]

elvyralani

Marushii

What sort of things? Doors, walls? Solid objects, or does she need a crack in order to squeeze through? How long will it take her to phase through something? Specifics please! <3

Ep.
Solid objects (nothing entirely thick, like wall thickness about I guess), few seconds to phase out and back in.

This is fine~  

[Blade Kuroda]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Shun Kuroda
Character Race: Reaper
Character Subspecies: Grim
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities:
Shadow step - A short range teleportation skill; as Shun gets a better grasp of his FEAR in general he'll be able to teleport further and do it more often in a short period of time as well. Right now, as a first year, he's limited to about once every three minutes and within 50 feet.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2
Natural Ability Request: Shadow Step lv2 - Upgraded version of what he already has, shortening cooldown. Now he's able to do this once every two minutes.  

[Inu-Mitsu]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Mitsu Lupus
Character Race: Monster
Character Subspecies: Werewolf
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Shifting
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2
Natural Ability Request: Feral Strength - basically I want Mitsu to be able to tap into the strength that her natural form has in her sealed student form. I understand this won't effect battles at all, this is more for lawlz moments during rp since she won't always be able to control her strength. That and sometimes convenience. Strength can come in handy.  

[chiickadee]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Danny Fitz
Character Race: Demon
Character Subspecies: Flame Demon
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities:

y1

Natural Ability: Whew is it getting super hot in here? Fire demons can not only emit heat but also light, creating small fireballs in their hands without even the need to evoke their Fear.

What Year Is Your Character Now?: y2
Natural Ability Request: Heat Aura: It really is getting hot in here. A fire demon naturally emits an aura of heat, that raises the temperature quite a few degrees in the area around them (think a 5 foot radius). This doesn't apply to those who can't feel temperatures, and if near a cold being, will nullify.

(basically playing off the "Fire demons can not only emit heat but..." of the y1 natural ability?)

also, I wanted to just clarify, I've been rping Danny like she can naturally withstand heat. I assume this is okay since she is a flame demon but ... should I stop rping that way? I don't want to be too OP XD  

[Kaiyumi]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Xiu-Ying
Character Race: Demon
Character Subspecies: Baku
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities:
Bakus have the ability to enter and devour the dream of a sleeping target. They may interact with the dreamer in the dream world, but are unable to directly interact with any other characters or objects that may be present in the dream.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2
Natural Ability Request: Upgrade: Now that she is a second year, Xiu is do some minor dream manipuatlion. For example, she can unlock locked doors or make certain things/people disappear, but she is unable to warp the whole scene or make objects/people appear out of thin air.  

[Ice Queen]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Roch
Character Race: Reaper
Character Subspecies: Grim
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Sense Soul: A Grim Reaper has the ability to pin-point exactly when a soul ready to be reaped is. While in Halloweentown, this ability merely lets them pinpoint the exact location of ghosts -- there are no souls to be reaped in Halloweentown. (He can also switch his guitar from bass electric to regular electric)
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2
Natural Ability Request: Shadow step - A short range teleportation skill; as a first year level ability, he's limited to about once every three minutes and within 50 feet.  

[Reeshie Hack]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Julian Thanatos
Character Race:  Demon
Character Subspecies: Harbinger
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Good Omens: Harbingers can sense approaching doom/misfortune/death/bad things (Though only for other individuals, the harbinger cannot sense his/her own impending doom)
He can tell who only by process of elimination of who he's around and he only has a sooner/later judgement of when
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2
Natural Ability Request: Aura of Doom: Harbingers give off an aura of impending doom in those they stalk, causing agitation and paranoia.
As a basic ability, it just gives off a sense of unease and anxiety, the sort you have when you feel like you've forgotten something important and can't remember what it was.  

[nekoluch]

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Levis Coneseed
Character Race: Monster
Character Subspecies: Tatzelwurm
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Superman Jump: She jumps near-flight high. "Leaping tall buildings in a single bound" sort of thing by use of her tail.
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Y2 (Knob)
Natural Ability Request: Fog Breath: Her FEAR deals in poisonous breath, so along the way of learning it, she comes into a breath that don't emit poison, but fog. Not damaging, of course, but will interfere with visibility.  

[Huni Pi]

Wooo, let's do this again~
Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Maritess (and Legs)
Character Race: Undead
Character Subspecies: Vampire (Manananggal)
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Sentience
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Year Two
Natural Ability Request: Tongue Lash - Tess' specie has a long tongue that is prehensile. For this ability, her tongue that is normally just used to drink food can also lift objects and strike things. The limitation would be that the strength of her tongue is equal to one arm. If she can't lift something with one arm, she can't lift it with her tongue. How hard her tongue can strike something/someone is how hard she can throw a punch (or b***h-slap or backhand).

Natural Ability Addition Request
Character Name: Petro
Character Race: Monster
Character Subspecies: Tikbalang
Character's Natural Ability/Abilities: Shapeshifting
What Year Is Your Character Now?: Year Two
Natural Ability Request: Battering Ram - Petro's skull gets tougher that he can be used as a battering ram with little problem for him. The rest of his body doesn't share this level of endurance. Just his skull. So his body just has the usual monster toughness.