Insanity Loss – a primer and permissions

[lord_wizard]

Starting later today, Felix will re-emerge from his ritual completely insane. This will replicate the same magical affliction he endured during the majority of the first book. Obviously it’s difficult to put down exact rules for insanity, but Felix’s madness has a few basic guidelines:

-He will rarely recognize people as who they are. Often they will appear with the heads of monsters, or people from his past, or even only as vague shapes or colors
-He will sometimes be unable to comprehend speech, or hear only horrific booming noises instead
-Similarly, he will sometimes forget how or be unable to speak himself
-He will sometimes see colors around people which correspond to their mood
-He appears to lack the ability to filter his dreams and have more frequent and very vivid nightmares
-Canonically he can see and hear ghosts (though I’m not sure there are any in Paradisa to actually see)
-He will also experience various other visual hallucinations
-He is extremely sensitive to magic and any magic being done to him/around him will only make his condition worsen rather than improve. Given the castle’s nature, he’ll rarely be very lucid, unless anyone puts this together and removes him from it)
-He will not remember a lot of what happens once it’s over
-His magic will also not function for the duration

It should be mentioned that there is an intuitive nature to Felix’s hallucinations due to the fact that the affliction is magical rather than mental. When he sees people as animals, they are reflections of that person’s true personality or nature (the short-spoken and imposing Lord Protector appears as bear, his brother appears as a fox even before he knows his nickname, etc). The colors he interprets as feelings are entirely accurate and often can be read even when a person’s face or voice cannot as easily be so. The ghosts he sees are real, and he actually sees a curse attached to someone he would not have known was there otherwise.

To aid me as I write Felix for the duration of this loss, I’d be appreciative if anyone threading with him in person fill out this form to give me inspiration, especially if I am not familiar enough with the character to make it up myself.

<b>Character:</b> NAME | <user name=JOURNAL NAME HERE><br /><b>What Felix might see this character as:</b> [Any animal – real or mythical – that you might associate with this character. Alternatively, pick a color or something more abstract (he sees a few characters, for example, as living statues)]<br /><b>Reading auras?</b> [May Felix interpret mood and intentions from your character in this way?]<br /><b>Other magical affects:</b> [Is there any magical affects or supernatural natures about your character that Felix might pick up on (curses/illusions, being a demon/ghost/angel/thing)? Any suggestions on how to interpret this visually/symbolically is welcome.<br /><b>Would you like Felix to remember any of this post-loss?</b> [Yes or No. If no, the information here will only be used for my reference during the loss]

If there are spoilery or sensitive subjects in your permissions that you wish to keep private, please feel free to PM the form to me instead. Post here with completed permissions, questions, or plotting. The loss will end sometime shortly before Halloween, though I have yet to settle on a date. This is as vulnerable as Felix is ever likely to get. He will also be very bad at functioning like a person and will likely need supervision like a five-year old to make sure he eats/bathes/dresses, not to mention the random wandering off for reasons he won’t quite be able to articulate to people. Enjoy that. I know I will. :3

EDIT: First post is here.