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Lookism Discussion Thread

Wait why did it get removed lol

What justifies whether or not a character has or does not have fear inducing?
I don't really know that much in detail, but Ul Daniel's fear manipulation was more of fear instigating via social influence, since fear manipulation needs supernatural showcasing. The best example I can give is RQ's aura affecting its surroundings, even abiotic things like flickering lights, or Peter from KP,he just gazed at fodder and fodder hallucinated that he died like a thousand times.
 
Wait why did it get removed lol

What justifies whether or not a character has or does not have fear inducing?
There is a thread going on about Fear Hax, specifically fear-inducing abilities. Technically it hasn't been finished yet (more than likely will be accepted though) and I've seen some profiles switch their abilities already. Fear-Inducing abilities "is regularly just supernatural intimidation aka Social Influencing" and moreso based off the character's strength, looks, status, etc rather than actually being fear hax (which works regardless of strength typically). So more examples like this (i.e. UI Daniel's or Yu in Boxer) will be classified as Intimidation based off Social Influencing as they just scare/intimidate other's while other Fear Hax will be more "supernatural-ish" (I've seen stuff like if it effects the environment itself or can cause illusions, it counts as actual fear hax) and still be fine. This is also important as you can put "layers" on real Fear Hax but not on "Social Influencing". Did my best to explain this, not too heavily invested in Fear Hax stuff though and did my best to explain it seeing and reading how it's been changed.
 
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Normally, Fear Hax requires superhuman willpower. Fear induction via social influence is simply experiencing natural fear (more or less exaggerated in fiction) and requires only conventional or comparable willpower or effort to overcome.

In the case of Daniel UI, and generally throughout the verse, it's SI instead of Fear Hax. The curious thing is that Lookism's SI, although it doesn't have layers (which aren't allowed), due to things like mastery, might be able to overcome even those with superhuman willpower.
 
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