These two are simple pencil sketches of a character who does not
yet have a story. She has fan-shaped blades attached to her shoulders/back
and retractable scythe-like psy blades that come out of her wrists
and elbows. The fan-shaped blades are metal and help conduct mental
projections while blocking incoming mental attacks. They also
serve as a broadcast point for free-flowing psy bolts in an emergency.
The psy blades are mental extensions of energy and are for hand-to-hand
combat.
Back view: Here she is arched backwards while practicing psy extension
from the middle of her back. Typically the psy fighters in her
particular clan are only trained to extend psychically from the
joints in the arms and sometimes the legs. So far it is unclear
why this particular psy fighter is practicing this kind of extension.
Delusion has a shape. This EyeDemon is the result of an inability
to remove one's ego from a situation. In its early manifestation
it distorts perception but can be dissolved with focus. Once it's
grown stronger it must be intentionally displaced by putting one's
energy behind the eye instead of out in front, tangled in the
situation. In its later manifestation it is quite strong and must
be engaged physically.
Traditionally
it is the role of the psy fighter to neutralize EyeDemons that
have gotten out of hand. They are trained specifically to cultivate
then eradicate their own EyeDemons, or egos. This method is referred
to as Shadow Stealing. The level of a psy fighter's commitment
to The Journey can sometimes be ascertained by what she uses to
project her psy; earlier on the psy fighter will have a shaman's
staff, then fan blades, then a circlet worn floating around the
back of the neck, and finally a few small orbs that float in orbit
around the psy fighter's head. The stage at which a psy fighter
has Stolen Her Own Shadow is typified by the integration of opposites.
Here she often uses no external prop to project her psy, and no
longer casts a shadow.