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Jul 4, 2017 9:45:04 GMT -7
Post by Cadoc on Jul 4, 2017 9:45:04 GMT -7
Icy Calm
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: Having grown up on a diet of unnerving situations, user is particularly difficult to frighten.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User might not enjoy their own fear, but they have certainly grown used to it. User receives a +4 cultural bonus on all Saves against effects that induce or cause fear. In addition, the user that is shaken suffer only half of the normal effects.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: Having grown up on a diet of unnerving situations, user is particularly difficult to frighten.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User might not enjoy their own fear, but they have certainly grown used to it. User receives a +4 cultural bonus on all Saves against effects that induce or cause fear. In addition, the user that is shaken suffer only half of the normal effects.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.
Yoko had grown up in the Badlands, not a comfy ninja village. She had been exposed to terrors every day, and by now things these matters seemed rather trivial, or rather the fear factor had lost its edge with her. The sight of a wild lion no longer struck fear into her, it instead brought a feeling of bloodlust if anything emotional response at all. As such one could say that Yoko and various other members of her clan had developed an Icy Calm.
This was not to say that Yoko was fearless, in fact, the idea of being fearless as a positive boon was an absurd idea. Fear was a primal instinct in Yoko’s mind at least, so yes building up one's tolerance or resistance to the negative attributes of fear was a good thing, but to totally eliminate it was a foolish notion. Yoko’s aim was to avoid the negatives while still benefitting from the state of awareness that fear evoked.
This was better known as courage; the will do act even in the face of fear. So Yoko submitted herself to an extensive period of fear-evoking activities so that she was in a constant state of ‘shaken’ in doing so she could grow used to the feeling, she could come to grips with how she felt while shaken. After all, she was of the belief that one rarely rise to the occasion, instead, they devolve down to their most basic training.