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Doc Scratch ([personal profile] docfoul) wrote2030-07-22 06:28 pm
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Permissions Post 2: Omniscient Boogaloo

In canon, Doc Scratch is nearly omniscient, save for some "dark pockets" that obscure his knowledge. These dark pockets are, more often than not, temporary, and sometimes he can just deduce what's going on because he is, unfortunately, a pretty intelligent man.

That's why this post exists.Just tell me the extent to which Doc Scratch is allowed to know about your character  - I'll organise this in levels from 0 to 3 because it's convenient and because I've decided it just now. However, keep in mind (especially for 2 and 3) that Scratch will NOT spoil your character on events they don't know about yet. He will tease and prod and allude and be generally infuriating, but he will never outright say anything like "hey this is when you're doing to die." Anyway, here:

Level 0: Nothing at all. Scratch will only know what any ordinary human being would know. Even if your character doesn't have any sorts of powers to protect them from, say, psychics and the like, the community itself will create a dark pocket around them. That means Scratch cannot, and will never be able to see what's going on around your character, quite possibly even if he's standing 2 feet away from them.

Level 1: Basic knowledge; things like your character's name and what they do in life. Acquaintance-level knowledge, pretty much. Let's chalk this level up to, er, holey dark pockets. Yes.

Level 2: Intermediate knowledge; this includes more details about your character's life, past, present and, with a bit more difficulty, future. Feel free to specify exactly what Scratch is allowed to know!

Level 3: Advanced, near-complete knowledge - just as it would be in canon (in most circumstances). If you're going to go with this, first, I thank you for it, and second, it'd be super-nice if you left me a way to know stuff about your character that can't be easily found with a Google search! Maybe a link to a character survey meme, or a headcanon dump, or anything, really. I promise to make good use of it.

If you have any questions or anything to add at all, go ahead and say it! I know I'm not the best at explaining things sometimes, a-ahahaha.
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[personal profile] blanched 2012-06-16 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
OK AS FOR SHIA: He can feel free to hint that he knows exactly what she is and what she's searching for (a demon, and she's searching for her memory, basically-- years and years that she's lost) and he can KNOW and mention to other members about her, should the subject somehow come up, about the fact that she used to have a family-- a husband named Taro and two children-- and that she's at least like 130 years old, but I would really prefer it if details of her family were kept from her for now. She's not supposed to hear the name "Taro" until a certain point in her canon, because it's the key that unlocks her missing memories. It's a hugely important plot point in her canon!

SO BASICALLY he can go on about what she is and what she's on earth doing, and that her next-door neighbor holds the key. I LOVE DOC SCRATCH BY THE WAY...
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[personal profile] blanched 2012-06-22 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I forgot to say, he's also permitted to know that she's dying and all that. Her need to feed and her refusal of it is all fair game.