Bogkit

Bogkit is a current power cat with the power of seance.

The ability to, while near remains/a gravesite, breathe out a thick off-white fog and allow a spirit to manifest through abnormal means, or visualize a small fragment of that spirit’s memories within the fog. Additionally, while in areas of high energy (camps, battlegrounds, training hollows, landmarks, borders), the user may sometimes experience visions of the past through the eyes of a spirit relevant to that memory. Sometimes these visions may be relevant to the user, other times it may just be a simple memory visualized, like a sense of deja vu. While around reincarnations, able to activate fog ability at any time.

- May be able summon a spirit at their place of death, but only if they’d died there within the past 2 moons. (2 weeks in-real-life time.)

- While a spirit is manifested, they are a misty figure with slightly desaturated colors, and they will not have the usual stars in their pelt of a Starclan cat or the dark smoke of a Dark Forest cat. All spirits will appear this way, making it impossible to differentiate whether a cat is “good” or “bad” based on their afterlife allegiance. (Neutral – couldn’t decide if this should go under Drawbacks or Clarifications. Since it’s more like an observation, I’m putting it here.)

- Upon serious/grueling endurance and concentration training, will be able to summon any spirit from any gravesite/remains, so long as the owner of said gravesite/remains was connected to that cat in some way during their life. This can only be done with gravesites/remains, not through a reincarnation (a reincarnation could not ask to summon their friend without being located at their friend’s gravesite, or another cat’s gravesite- in accordance with the previously stated requirement.) These types of summonings require more energy and are therefore shorter and riskier. However, it would allow you to speak to a cat which does not have a corpse or gravesite that is accessible (i.e. Lunarstar’s gravesite is in the old territories, or a body burnt to ashes - referencing kittypets in particular.)

**Clarifications:** *very important, do not skip reading these.*

- If you are near/next to/touching the user when the ability is activated, you are considered a participant. Those that are not- are not considered a participant - however, the fog itself is visible to all eyes. I.e., if a cat were to rush into the fog while it is active, they will not see what the participants are able to see.

- OoC: will require collaboration with spirit’s or spirits’ owner(s), since I can’t exactly be expected to know a character’s history by myself. All participants will also have to provide their consent to have a character’s memory viewed or spirit spoken to.

- Participants do not need to know the spirit in order to be a participant.

- There can be any number of participants, but the more of them there are, the shorter the summoning/vision and the worse the side effects. The user could use their ability at a gathering, for example (provided a corpse is there or a cat has died there recently) and every cat will be considered a participant… However, any vision will be fragmented

- A visiting spirit is able to see through the fog as though it is not there - but participants are only able to see whatever is within the fog.

- The fog serves as a tether to the user’s plane, allowing the fog and subsequently the summoned spirit to move away from the gravesite/corpse/skeleton to move with the user. The spirit is compelled to stay within the fog (this is in order to prevent discrepancies in the way this power functions), but may go as far from their gravesite as they wish.

- The fog serves as a tether to the user’s plane, allowing the fog and subsequently the summoned spirit to move away from the gravesite/corpse/skeleton to move with the user.

- This power is not restricted to spirits of the Forest, Void, or Stars. Therefore, it can work on non-clan cats and non-believers such as rogues, loners, or kittypets, or those with their own beliefs - such as the Tribe.

- Spirits that are maimed, disfigured, or impaired in some way, regardless of whether or not they are Dark Forest, non-believers, etc. are healed temporarily during this meeting - the same way Starclan cats are.

**Drawbacks:**

- While not around a reincarnation, fog ability can only be activated if within a short radius of a cat’s gravesite/corpse/skeleton. If there is no body buried at a supposed grave, the ability will, of course, not work. If a duo reincarnation is no longer with their other half, (i.e. Coral and Lunar) then in regards to this ability they are not considered a reincarnation, as the other spirit is no longer present within the body.

- The user will show signs of struggling to breathe/asthma which slowly worsens throughout their life. Due to this, they are more susceptible to illnesses of the lungs and throat, like green cough. These symptoms are worsened after using fog ability, and can even cause coughing and sore throat - or even result in an asthma attack - if used for too long. (I.e. A long memory, or a spirit staying manifested for too long.)

- While a spirit is manifested, they (the spirit) are unable to be “harmed” in any way. As such, the user would be unable to call upon a spirit for the purpose of fading them.

- All participants must say goodbye before the spirit is able to leave. A spirit may harm the user to forcefully leave - doing so will instantly dismiss them. On the other hand, the user is not able to force the spirit to leave. The spirit may, with malicious intent, choose not to harm the user and to stay manifested. If the user is to pass out from, for example, an asthma attack due to overuse, it will count as the spirit harming the user and immediately dismiss them. A spirit is unable to harm participants other than the user.

- Memories and visions of the past are only limited to the mortal plane, and do not have connections to dreams. Basically, the user cannot view a Starclan cat’s memory and see a time they met with a cat in their dreams. The user also cannot recall a memory of a prior summoning … this all means that only memories of when the spirit was alive are able to be viewed.

- When this power is gone, the user will have permanent lung/throat damage which will require frequent care in order to allow the user to continue to breathe comfortably.

-The user cannot receive actual prophecies or omens via this power … however, a spirit could fake a prophecy or omen as a joke, or to be malicious/manipulative.