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PLEASE LIKE ME [S4E2: PORRIDGE]

Please Like Me

Description:

Twenty-something Josh is going through a number of big changes as he navigates his first decade of adulthood. After being dumped by his girlfriend, he comes to the realisation that he is gay.

Title: Please Like Me

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Age Rating: 15

Release Date: 2013-2016

Relationships: MLM (Sub-plot)

Representation: Gay

Episodes: 32

Running Time: 25-27 minutes

Country of Origin: Australia

Language: English

Warnings: Sex, nudity, suicide, self-harm, profanity, anti-abrahamic language, alcohol consumption, drug use

Starring: Josh Thomas, Debra Lawrance, David Roberts, Judi Farr, Thomas Ward, Wade Briggs, Caitlin Stasey, Nikita Leigh-Pritchard, Renee Lim, Denise Drysdale, Hannah Gadsby, Charles Cottier, Keegan Joyce, Charlotte Nicdao, Bob Franklin, Emily Barclay

Cursed technique: Distant Shores

"A cursed technique with an unusually long range, Distant Shores allows the wielder to control vanishing points in the form of dark, all consuming water.  It's users are able to conjure portals and gateways to a realm known as The Undertow, a turbulent ocean mimicking the deepest trenches. Wielders use this immense preasure difference to trap, crush, or implode their enemies.

No sorceror is able to survive prolonged exposure to the Undertow, not even it's own users. With the sole exception of Satarou Gojo, of course. "

Mechanics

Distant Shores possess a comfortable range of 3 miles, roughly the distance of the horizon. What it lacks in speed and variability, it makes up for with raw power and range. Akin to a landmine or arillery cannon, it excels as a decisive first strike ability. Only the size of its portals cost cursed energy, its range does not tax the user in any way.

The user must perform a hand sign to open a gate. Each gate requires cursed energy to maintain. The larger the gate, the larger the cost. A 10 foot wide gate can be comfortably held for about 10 minutes while a 90 foot gate can only be held for about 10 seconds. Additional gateways divides this time accordingly. The size has no impact on their crushing power, each is a nearly unescapable trap of crushing darkness. Nobody has ever survived more than 3 minutes in the Undertow and no wielder of the technique has survived more than 6 minutes.

The Undertow does not exist permanently as another realm, instead being conjured briefly by the technique, akin to an incomplete or open domain. For this reason, Distant Shores can not be used rapidly or in quick succession, requiring a build up of a few seconds before activation. Even brushing against it can cause someone to be dragged in, so mainting it is usually preferable as a form of zone control if a surprise attack doesn't work.

Due to the preassure of the Undertow, areas where Distant Shores was used have a unique cursed energy residual, feeling physically much heavier or lighter. This remanant feature allows the technique to he used much quicker while in a recently affected area, within about 3 hours.

Distant Shores can open a flat circle or sphere of thick, heavy, lightless fresh water. These areas are linked through the Undertow, appearing as distant pinpricks of light, akin to stars.

The maximum size of these gateways is directly related to their distance to the user.

Generally speaking,

10 feet while within 100 feet

20 feet while within 1,000 feet

30 feet while within 1 mile

Up to 60 feet wide for anything between 1 mile and 2 miles, to a maximum of 90 feet acrpss for anything between 2 to 3 miles away

Shikigami: The Drowned God, The Lost Titan. Leviathan

Leviathan is a shikigami bound and sealed by the clan. It's pacts have allowed it to exist beyond a singular user, instead living on the collective users in the clan and passed down through generations.

Leviathan is a megaladon roughly the size of a bus with 3 rows of teeth and 3 sets of eyes. It acts as an engine of the Undertow, able to strengthen it's effects and as a dangerous predator in the watery otherworld.

Leviathan is summoned by ritual tattoos on the user and a blood sacrifice to 'chum the waters'. Due to it's unique pacts and unnaturally long life without ever being banished or dismissed, Levithan can only be dispelled if all users are unconsious and enters a blood frenzy if its summoner is knocked unconsious or killed.

Leviathan is a solitary predator, viewing its summoner as little more than a nuetral hunting party, like a schooling fish.

Domain expansion: Void Between Stars

The user immediatly drags the surrounding area into the Undertow without a means of escape. Not only that, but the user becomes immune to the crushing weight, darkness, and rushing water of the Undertow.

Cursed tool: Uncharted Atlas

A world catalog with splotches of ink. The atlas allows areas marked by the Undertow to be preserved indefinetly, collecting areas used over generations. In practice, it allows for preparation and past uses of Distant Shores to be borrowed to either quickly open past gateways or to maintain gateways for little cost.

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