abilities .ᐟ
note
: apart from these abilities, pao is still pretty much an ordinary human!
she is definitely by no means all-powerful.
in fact, her luck is absolutely horrendous.
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undead life cycle +the soul .ᐟ
how does it work?
pao is able to loop between life and death, and her soul does not simply 'pass on' to the afterlife whenever her vessel dies. this curse
( should one think of it as such ) is a result of her final wish
before her true death:
I WANT TO BE KIND! I WANT MORE TIME TO LOVE THIS WORLD! I WISH TO MAKE A
DIFFERENCE
AND BRING
HAPPINESS
TO PEOPLE IN MY NEXT LIFE!
it is unknown which higher beings ( they are not a single entity
) have heard her plea and why. perhaps they are benevolent. or perhaps they find entertainment in a lost cause
. either way, pao was originally granted 07 LIVES
— 07 CHANCES to fulfill her intentions.
regardless if her purpose is met or not .. should pao die after the seventh death, she will not return
.
7 lives? how come she's died more than that?
paoʼs 7th death was something of an unfair scenario—thanks to a certain apex predator—and while the entities in charge of the undeadʼs fate could not care less
for fairness, a god who does intervenes.
lumen is a deity overseeing the dead and judging those who have passed accordingly, the latter being a significant responsibility for the god. his involvement has granted pao more lives at a cost
.
paoʼs soul has begun to weaken
the more it endures each death. in the past, it had the strength to manifest pao as a spirit—an instant ghost for when the vessel is kiIIed. however, following the seventh death
, her soul will have to enter a comatose state
. a recharge of sorts. the duration of this circumstance will grow longer the more deaths she encounters. if pao were to be too reckless, she could be asleep for decades.
however, lumen will also judge her in his domain by the end of each life. depending on how much good ( or bad ) sheʼs accomplished in that certain life, she would be granted a fair sentence. it is not past his capabilities to shorten the duration or grant penalties that would only lengthen her sleep ( which follows shortly after the godʼs verdict ).
after pao wakes up, lumen offers her all the time to prepare in his world before he can send her off to the land of the living again, a repaired vessel granted without cost. he will be waiting for the next death.
pao will only be able to pass on if the conditions of her wish are met, though she is currently unaware of this. she would need to make a significant amount of people happy—enough to make a difference. it is only then the soul is allowed peace.
lumen, art by moonlitrix!
it should also be said that lumen is not the munʼs oc, nor does he currently have an account! he belongs to kichi, writer behind #DARKFXNT4SY, and this has all been established beforehand. also heʼs pretty awesome and i love him. go check him out btw. or else.
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sixth sense .ᐟ
how does it work?
thanks to her odd circumstances, being not quite dead nor alive, pao is able to see things beyond the human eye! though the undead canʼt instantly tell or see if something is supernatural in nature, she often has no more than a premonition of whether something inhuman is in close proximity.
in return, pao unintentionally ( and unknowingly ) attracts their company too. nowadays sheʼs surrounded by more oddities than actual people.
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star warping .ᐟ
how does it work?
tl;dr think of kirbyʼs warp star!
as previously mentioned, pao technically doesnʼt have a concrete place in the world of living and dead. this meant she would sometimes blip into places and even to worlds no human should even have the means to access. it gets especially volatile when sheʼs a ghost, with the afterlife unable to take her soul, as though her spirit would glitch in and out without a vessel.
at one point in her several deaths, her ghost comes across lastar chaos, wizard of stars. he resolves her teleporting issue by granting her the 'guiding star', a star–shaped platform she can summon given very great concentration. this way pao can have a bit more control over where she goes.
sometimes she still phases into random places. not as often, though.