Re: Game Discussion
I totally am fine with Parma being one of the unique things about the order of Hermes. I just wasn't sure about Affare is all.
He probably is very familiar with the effects of the gift though from his training, and forces himself to be laid back like he is as a sort of adaption is my guess. Like the dude is probably secretly serious and not a jokster at all and made himself one as a sort of anti-gift self-focusing training lol. :)
Calliope is a bit different. The narrative reason I use as a player, to back up the OOC reason that I the player control Calliope's reactions to people, is that her magical air aura is a bit different than "normal" and pushes out other auras, and in combination with her absurd second sight/perception abilities makes her instantly aware of the auras of others and able to "see past" them, and thus she ends up unaffected behaviorally. This fits into the theme that she has an extremely potent core of power, although one quite different from the Gift (and mutually exclusive to it, at that!).
Now I don't expect other NPCs with Gift/air based auras to be the same, as that takes away some of the specialness of Parma. This is fiction narrative that's just for my Calliope, and is a feature that is supposed to also make her even more interesting to Emrys and Affare. As if she isn't an oddball enough already! :)