Nicks/Gents Challenge + GT
Sup guys, it’s me, back at it again with the Gents and Nicks
yes, last time was serious
The Nick as stated previously is the Active Provocation Class
They can do interesting attacks that tend to leave the enemy disoriented in some way. Their powers range from immobilizing the aspect (freezing Time or Space), shaking it up (folding space, twisting it, turning it like a rubix cube) or just supercharging it (causing space to vibrate or shake or grow).
You might be thinking “wow these guys sound op, why’d you make them OP AN?” The answer is cause they aren’t. The downside to their powers is that they have to focus, which causes it to be localized, more potent but localized. Their AP costs are through the roof for things better than the basic GT abilities.
At the beginning of their time as a Nick, they tend to be very combative towards their aspect and trying to bend it to their whim to no avail. Their aspect is a flaming tornado and often it can emotionally overwhelm them and make them not be able to do much. They often try to put down their aspect or make jokes of it.
The Aspect then loses it and then calms down, showing it’s true colors. The Nick sees themselves in this true form and resonates with it, as they know. The Aspect is Them. They then learn to trust their aspect to help them. They then start on a path of being able to move through the craziness of their aspect and get to know it and in general deal with the tornado. Their presence makes the aspect more tangible and this is their true advantage, making the aspect’s impact more potent.
Their challenge is to learn to Become one with the madness of their aspect but not let it rule them, to know the difference between reveling and becoming hedonistic.
The Gent on the other hand is the Passive Provocation Class.
Their abilities are similar to the Gents but they have a lower cost to use and are much less localized, like an AOE, less damage more area. They like to spread the “fun” around so to speak. Their powers are more support based, as in, they are more likely to assist their battle tactics using the powers rather than the tactics being the powers like Nick.
Gents are quite polite at the beginning, they form a sort of embarrassment towards their aspect and try to fix it, try to make it not so unstable. They desperately try to keep it from falling apart but when they finally let it go, it transforms into something astonishing, beautiful even.
Then the flaming inferno becomes clear, it becomes clear that the mania the aspect presents resonates with the suppressed urges of the Gent. They then learn to guide the aspect in a way that creates a better outcome for others. The Gent recognizes the primal nature of the aspect and knows it must be free to do wonders.
Their challenge is to step out of the shadows and know that their aspect is them and they don’t need to fight it. They need to embrace it. For much of their existence they were a background character and simply subtly influenced people around them but often were a cryptid type of person. When they come into their own, their influence skyrockets and people take notice.
