Replacement for Steve, who will fade into being an NPC for anyone to use. Since he rarely emerges from his room, there's no real point keeping him, I just made it for fun to do with this ability.
I ran out of time while writing this, but I wanted to get the ability down before I forgot any of it.
Name: Astra
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Description of powers:
Songweaver
Songweaver is an inaccurate name for the ability, but serves to describe it well enough. Songweaver can speak song lyrics (no need to do so as actual song, just the words are enough). When she does so, the thing those lyrics describe, or the thing they metaphorically refer to, will occur. This also is true for rhymes and poems. For example, if she were to say "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall", then a target that was in an elevated position, such as on top of a wall or floating in the air, would fall to the ground. Another example might be "Ring-a ring-a roses, a pocket full of posies. Atishoo Atishoo, we all fall down!" If she were to say this, then everyone in the immediate area would die. This does however, include herself, so she tends to avoid things like that. If she sings instead of speaks, the lyrics will have a greater magnitude. Humpty Dumpty would fall faster, and the Black Death would kill in a wider area. She cannot create songs or rhymes herself - they have to already exist. She may speak in another language, and the effect will still take place provided that the lyrics have specific concepts assigned to them, for example "mada yoru wa tabekake yo" (meaning "The night is yet only half eaten") would reverse time to midnight of the previous night (astronomically. The people and objects would remain as they were, it would simply be nighttime now)
This ability was really fun to come up with. You don't usually think too much about the meaning of lyrics and nursery rhymes, but this ability lets me be really philosophical about them :D Naturally, I won't use abilities that would cause instant death or direct damage. That'd be too easy, and no fun cos she's just use the same song over and over.
Personality: Astra is typically a bright and excitable person, but since gaining her ability has calmed down somewhat. She does not speak, and instead magically conjures words on a notepad (so as to be able to keep up with the conversation). Though she wants to speak, she cannot, for she does not know when she might accidentally say something that's also the lyrics of some ancient song (which was the problem occurring when she first gained the ability - she used to be a singer for a light music club, but quit speaking all together when she realised that every song she sang mysteriously became reality.)
