#breathaspect

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breathtenby: a gender related to being breath-bound/a hero of breath, and a tenby/trans enby/trans nonbinary.

breathtneu: a gender related to being breath-bound/a hero of breath, and tneu/transneutral.

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I think something to keep in mind is that we are avoidants often see rejection where it isn’t. Neutral situations are read as negative, and we quickly retreat at the first sign of danger. It’s easy for our minds to spiral into catastrophic thought processes, especially when there is a lack of communication. 

If you say all you’ve found is that you are talking less, losing them sounds a bit pre-emptive. Maybe try and ask them if they have been busy or stressed. If their lack of conversation has nothing to do with you, and you’ve done nothing wrong, it would probably make you feel a lot better!

But if you are losing your safe person, I think the best way to cope would be a mix of distractions and perspective taking. Sometimes people just drift and it’s no one’s fault; I think us dealing with AvPD would tend to blame ourselves for even the most genuine of partings between people, and coping with that would be to try and understand that someone isn’t always to blame. I think trying to rationalize the situation (maybe with the help of others) and keeping yourself busy would be the best ways to deal with the loss.

I hope everything works out for you! Take care of yourself.

Requested by Anonymous

1) Freedom

Breath meaning freedom, the Witch would probably be able to, to a certain extent, control people’s freedom and have them as her own personal slaves. I’m not saying they would be like zombies, but she would probably be able to manipulate their free will and have them unable to say no or refuse to do something. She could use this for personal use, if she just fancied having somebody do everything for her, which would probably be a negative thing. However, she could also use her powers if there was a player who was doing things that were badly effecting the session or others, and she could have them stop doing it, at least for a brief period of time. This means that, depending on her alignment, she could use these powers either for good or evil. However, for evil is more likely as there’s more opportunity.

2) Physical wind/breath

As the Witch of Breath, she would be able to control wind and breath. This would basically mean that she could control physical air, Avatar-style. She could use air and wind as a weapon, and possibly also as protection. Also, she could whip all the breath out of a person, and leave them unable to breathe, effectively killing them. These abilities could be used either to harm those working against the team and their session, or those in her game, if she was working against it. Alternatively, she could use this to protect herself and teammates from harm.

3) Movement

By manipulating a person’s movement, she may be able to puppeteer them. Similarly to controlling their freedom, I’m not saying that she would be able to throw them about the room or anything, but she would probably have the ability to manipulate exactly what they could do or where they went, which would be very effective generally, but especially in a close-combat fight. Being able to make them overbalance and whatnot could end up with you winning the fight. This one doesn’t need much explanation really so I’ll round it up here.

Requested by retnahpyrake.

I like the idea of a Sylph of Breath. It has some very interesting potential. That being said, it was a bitch to analyse.

1) Breath

Healing a person's breath could be used in simple terms: helping a person to breathe easier. If a person is having difficulty breathing for any reason - like an asthma or panic attack, or they've had the wind knocked out of them - the Sylph would be able to help them to breathe again. This would be an invaluable resource if you have an asthmatic player, and provided the Sylph liked them, they could be very helpful. This ability probably wouldn't be able to be used for evil purposes, unless the Sylph was helping a bad guy to breathe. This ability could be pushed further though, and for a person who is recently dead and has merely stopped breathing (as opposed to having a serious physical wound), she might be able to heal their breath, thus effectively bringing them back to life (although this might be a tad unrealistic).

2) Freedom

By healing a person's freedom, I essentially mean that, if somebody suffered the effect of some kind of mind control, the Sylph would probably be able to restore their mind to its original state, allowing them back their freedom. The only way I can think of that this could be used evilly would be if the mind-controlled person was a bad guy and the Sylph was letting them get away. However, this is much more likely to be used the other way around, with her releasing a teammate of hers from somebody else's control.

3) Movement 

By healing movement I mean that essentially, if a person were unable to move for whatever reason - exhaustion, etc. - the Sylph may be able to restore their movement to an extent. I'm not saying that they'd be able to make the disabled walk again (sorry, Tavros) by removing their paralysis, but if, say, a teammate couldn't walk because they were so tired, the Sylph would probably be able to get them going again. 

4) Spirit

Now, I probably don't mean spirit in the way you think I mean spirit. By spirit, I mean more the psyche, which is often seen as a combination of the mind and soul. By healing a person's spirit, she would probably be able to keep them spiritually as well as mentally stable. Should a person start to lose their faith or sense of being, the Sylph would keep them on the right track and help them to feel less lost.