Phoebe Tenqwil aka Oneirocritic


Name Phoebe Tenqwil / Oneriocritic (heroic name is more often used, because she gets tired of having to explain how she has such a human-sounding normal name? she's not human!)
Age Immortal, unknown, as old as dreaming
Species Humanoid Dream Figment, presents female and is very clearly picky about her partners
Post Instructor
Tenure Newish, less than 20 years
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Smarts/GM 7
Bod/Feets 5
RWS 3
Luck 6
Drive 1
Looks 5
Cool/Mouth 5
Bonk 6^
Powers

Figment Of Your Imagination - with 'your' being important only to those who first developed brains capable of dreaming, she's very real now. Having manifested herself outside of any ethereal or fleeting dreamscape, she walks (in heels) gracefully through real worlds and lives rather than just in their dreams. That said, she's still able to produce herself new bodies based on what species or expectation the dreamers around her have. She can maintain an appearance physically but more often than not overrides visual centers in brains around her such that 'whatever she looked like' in their dreams would be what they actually see. Nothing can stop this process, it's absolutely natural but she can alter that imagined as well as physical appearance with concentration at will

Dreaming Is Her Domain - she knows just who is sleeping or dreaming, including day-dreaming (in her classes that's sort of important, she'd never mark anyone down because they're daydreaming!). She can detect minds at up to 10 miles and sleeping minds at 20, though these days she tends to focus on smaller groups and up close examination such as in classrooms and on campus. She quickly assesses moods, dominant ideas, and can detect very strong power users

Knows More Than You About Yourself - since her origins include being formed as a thought or idea, she learned early on about what makes people want her to be a specific way or look like a specific person. Her name, 'Oneirocritic' absolutely does mean that she will also add critique to that asssessment. Your dreams didn't necessarily start out as her playground, but she definitely plays in them and learns about the dreamer based on the roles or environment. Over the millennia she's existed, she has aggregated quite a bit of understanding of minds, moods, and patterns, and uses these with accuracy to focus ideas or point out flaws. So the moment she peeks into a dream, she can tell deep needs from superficial desires, and gently forgotten moments distinguished from suppressed issues

Superheroic Guise Powers - "Illusion / Kinetics Controller"
While in Paragon City Oneirocritic is licensed as a hero, mainly using illusions and dream-like summons to defeat enemies with their own minds. Stealing power and speed from an enemy to bestow it upon her allies, or increasing their resistance and damage by transferring it directly from those enemies, and even ignoring gravity entirely for a short time, she makes a fun team mate. Her ability to create nightmare like phantasms and terrors can freeze enemies in place or cause them to think they're being pummeled or shot at, with them eventually passing out and recovering in the prison nearby. She can fly at all times regardless of the locale or setting, drifting gently or moving with purpose across campus or the City

Clusters

Psychology In Action +5 Using all of her experiences comes natural, and she has a good grasp of how to actually convey ways to tweak, change, mitigate, or examine the minds of other people or themselves. Typically she does like to let things ride for a while before intervening, but when she does it's decisively and to a directed solution

Dream Critique +3 After millennia of residing in, participating as an 'npc', observing, and analyzing the dreams of people across different dimensions, planets, and eras... She grew bored and started actively comparing them to other experiences. She's not always completely kind about it, but tries not to be cruel either. But if you've ever woken up thinking 'that last dialog was absolute bunk I could have said other things' (even without knowing quite what was said, as it was a dream after all) that's likely her nudging a mind

Aggregate Information +3 While watching and assessing dreamers - and daydreamers at school - she can tuck away everything about their abilities in addition to their personality traits. Meaning when she starts making lists about who could benefit from therapy or who would make a good football player, she's got all the right information

Skills

Instruction +3 While she's still reasonably new at being a teacher, Phoebe is pretty good about applying her critique to herself, and caters to a group as easily as tutoring a single child. She is exceptionally well organized even if her overall subject matter might be very far-flung

Sleep Aids +3 If she brings you tea and tells you it's relaxing, be prepared to take a nap; likewise she also has ways of rousing sleepers or creating specific effects while asleep, given the right ingredients. In fact she might not actually need physical tea, but she does like to actually brew it and serve it carefully

Has A Map Of Reality +3 You won't want to look at it. She keeps it in the Admin Torus for a reason. It might actually be the Admin Torus; knows where to be, if she's been there or has been in the mind of a dreamer who lives in an unusual location and can reach those locales with a little concentration. This also applies to local areas, on-world geography and the like, and allows her to fly around complicated areas easily

Knacks Style +2 She knows she's lovely and likes it when people compliment her outfits or hair, and participates in plenty of costume contests in Paragon's lounges... Yes she has a hair care tutorial would you like to dream it?
Period Class Teaching
1 Careers In Meta-Logistics
2 Careers In Meta-Logistics
3 Oneiromancy
4 Oneiromancy
5 Careers In Meta-Logistics
6  
7 Oneiromancy
8 Oneiromancy
Song: F
Dragon Ayaurem
Pets?  
Partners? Known to have dallied with Virus, has thought about various Sangers, enjoys her brief flings or extended relationships with the same passion but does require a bit of upkeep
Children? Lethe Lamentation

 

Oneirocritic - also known as Phoebe Tenqwil, having arrived through several unusual dream sessions, and now picking up some courses to help those with her powers learn how best to apply them. Teaching Careers In Meta-Logistics (nonstandard checklists and multidimensional group dynamics) 1, 2, 5; Oneiromancy (the theory and use of dreams) 3, 4, 7, 8.

 

 

 

Dragon

Name: Ayaurem (eye YAW rem)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Large 22' s / 90' l / 60' ws x2
Colors: Black with Rainbow-Tinted Gold spotting, black stripes, yellow eyes, cool light grey horns
Features: Unicorn-Hydra mutt; furry long noodlebody with added floof at tails; four legs with paws(?); four boxy, feline-like heads with external ears and a single unicorn-like horn on forehead, vertical pupils; two pairs of insect-like wings; three tails splitting directly after legs
Powers: Winged Flight, though poor because of size concerns, Ayaurem can still slip through the air with a bit of difficulty, unless it's quite windy where he can simply glide a bit
Teleportation, imagine being a mass of heads, tails, and fur and just showing up somewhere? Well, you don't have to imagine, there he is. Doesn't matter where, he's excellent at being right at a point in space-time.
Shapeshifting (any form) Usually he teleports where there is enough room, but even if there isn't enough for his full sized shape, he will sometimes shrink himself to a more modest size with the same features (though he's been learning how to fly at a small size by keeping his wings rather large!) He does like keeping multiple heads so that he can keep more eyes and ears on 'everything' around him and his bond. He can shift into a biped, usually looking a bit like a worm on a string... Huh, there's a worm on a string dragon here somewhere in Carramba who would have thought.
Telepathy and Verbal Speech, Ayaurem doesn't speak often and when he does use his voice it's rather spooky since all his mouths speak at the same time. Usually with the same words, but at slightly different moments so it's always with his own echo. Telepathically however his mind is slightly more focused but no less intimidating, since it is again four brains aiming at things. While he can think at different people or minds, he does tend to filter down to one or two at a time to avoid accidentally alerting others to his presence. Ayaurem can certainly attract that attention if he does mentally blurt things out, which occasionally he does while dreaming in order to get a party rolling...
Illusion Magic and Invisibility, since he can shapeshift he doesn't really need to 'disguise' his real form, as it can be whatever is needed. However he does have the ability to just 'not show up' in visible lighting situations (or to eyes which see a fairly narrow spectrum). This works best in dark or dim lighting conditions but he can be out and about in broad daylight (ew) and still maintain this effect. He can cast illusions of images, which aid Phoebe's suggestions, effectively projecting dream images everywhere that people can see even if they're not asleep
Free Willed - he does not have any form of his sire's curse, though he's sometimes wondered about it, obviously he can't ask and get a straight answer out of his half-siblings or other relatives that may have this weird knowledge. He doesn't think he'd like having too much knowledge, residing at a school that would just make him seem like a know-it-all
While others in his clutch may have Fire Magic he does not use this ability, it might appear in any offspring however
Parentage: Opal Tandem, Wild Ivory Verem
Origin: Rainbow Glitz Gather / Nomi 4.14.2023
Other Info: Ayaurem hangs out with Phoebe both in and out of her private realm, and enjoys watching all the activities of Carramba - as well as when she heads back East to Paragon City, but does remain hidden while she's dancing at Pocket D. He is of most use to everyone at Carramba because of his multiple directional senses - he can perch on one of the (sturdy) dragon roosts on the higher buildings, and detect the various classes, kids ditching, science room disasters, and the like. But he definitely shines when the sun goes down and most of the students and surrounding city are sleeping, just like his bond he prefers their dreaming minds since they're less guarded and also more easily nudged or manipulated

(yes he's a large boi!)