I’m making a story right now, and I forgot to add a way to control the in-universe super mode, called Calling of The Past (CoTP for short). CoTP is basically an avatar state, using knowledge of past lives, or in my story, past generations and also gaining extra elemental power.
There are 5 chosen people, with these elements: Wind, Lightning, Earth, Water, Fire
There chosen characters don’t know how to control CoTP because the last time the chosen people appeared was 1000 years ago, and all the records on how to activate are destroyed or lost. Learning how to control CoTP is locked behind reflexively/involuntarily activating it to talk to the past chosen.
The consequences for CoTP is that dying while having it active will “delete” all the memories of every past legend, meaning that future legends can’t access the past’s knowledge.
how should you learn to voluntarily activate CoTP
you don’t and never will be able to
freebie but you need to have reflexively activated it the first time
spiritual mediation shit/spiritual knowledge (please expound/give details for me)
just being good at your element/powers
other
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random side change: what should the INVOLUNTARY CoTP activation method be
same activation/trigger rules as adrenaline (storywise they’re still separate) [current method]
the chooser of the chosen activates it for you
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Note: I will only change the involuntary CoTP activation if “the chooser of the chosen activates it for you” choice is 69%+ vote AND the voluntary activation IS NOT freebie or being good at your element.
(forgot to add lol) watch these to know how the guardian angel would work
The chosen person is able to communicate with the previous chosen person for that element. They then teach the current chose person how to activate their CoTP.
if you make it able to be activated voluntarily then you’ll have to give it a huge nerf (think of legend of korra and how pathetic the avatar state was in there compared to the last airbender)
i think a nerf isnt gonna happen, the power difference between [normal chosen] vs [chosen with cotp active] is a bit larger than [korra] vs [korra (avatar state)]
the power difference doesnt take into account knowing past knowledge
the drawbacks of CoTP are if you die, the knowledge of every past chosen one (you were harnessing/using) at the time will become unavailable to future generations
you can use CoTP without harnessing the past generation’s knowledge but your power boost will be quite minimal
fuck it, you CAN deactivate CoTP but its kinda hard (the action is like: calming yourself down during stress + willpower of giving something powerful up)