Character

ENGAGEMENT PROTOCOLS

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Painful lies and blissful truths: Through illusion, Tick Tock channels both to suit their needs, be it to conceal either at once or reveal an entire different reality to whoever they subject them to. Sometimes they includes themselves as the target, as a lie is only as real as the one who believes it true.

Through trickery, they alters the perception of what is and what isn't, be it to display skills they never learned, powers they never wielded, objects that never existed, and life that they never created. The possibilities are massive, and often part of their showsmanship for everything they does, mundane or otherwise.

The very world to be shapeshifted at their whims.

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The Amalgam Core is an incomplete piece of technology that functions as both heart and catalyst, malformed by magic and clogged with biomass and flesh across the interior of the frame, a byproduct of magical leaks whenever damaged or pushed to it's very limits. Both twins carry one, built to house the most intensive and chaotic of magical powers. The consequences however, are crystal clear: The more of that twisted magic they assimilate, the greater the risk of corruption and/or internal damage.

The benefits to be reaped are considerable, as it mitigates the chaotic nature of dark magic almost to a zero so long as it's used with moderation, allowing them to use it to it's fullest potential beyond mere cursecrafting through consistent high bursts of it. Any and all magic the core absorbs, be it through other masteries or touch, will go through a conversion to dark magic and stored for use.

Exceptions to the rule exist, such as dissonance, proving to be too much to contain for long. The exposure alone is already dangerous enough to keep them from using any source of it for spellcasting, save for whenever they deem it worth the risks-- A flaw they seek to correct.

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Through contact, general exposure, or aggression, TT leeches lifeforce from the world and foes around them, forcing the erosion of flesh, bones and metal alike to strip it from life, artificial or not. This energy is repurposed to reverse any damage inflicted and as a less volatile fuel for their puppets and apparatuses.

The stolen lifeforce can be then integrated into the Amalgam's Core, either to stabilize or feed it, serving as a secondary form of absorption and to repair the otherwise weak frame they possess.

Alternatively, it can overflow others with life to augment their capacities, eating through magic as opposed to calories, electricity or what not

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It exemplifies creativity and the break of any limitations, physical and otherwise, unlocking all parameters the Amalgam has programmed. It follows internal bleeding, known as a magical leak event, where the core works full-time into aggression as opposed to containment.

Creativity becomes endless, as the uncommon sense begins to apply: Break the sky, swallow time, dance with space, believing in the unreal. Learning the rules of the cosmos to break them, along the stars themselves.

The consequences are very much reliant on what the core absorbs during the directive trigger, but range from incapacitating to catastrophic.

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The harvest of souls tends to be for different reasons. In their case, souls are enslaved, 'lobotomized', and stripped of all independance to assimilate into magitechnology, creating a sentient and far more responsive system fueled by soul fragments torn from spiritual energy and lifeforce alike. The Amalgam Core was creating using this technique, and it sustains best from souls and spirits which constantly attempts to assimilate into itself.

This soultech is ever-changing, constantly adapting itself to the needs of it's user. For Tick, it could be to quickly regenerate limbs, transmute materials, or alter the properties of their framework to reinforce resistance against specific magical elements, as much as it is to forcefully adapt tech and weaponry as if it were clay to mold to their tastes.

Those sensitive to spirits could tell there are more than a singular soul in both twins, as if worn like clothing.

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