The Rift is a spirit realm in Avalon’s world, and it created Passengers. Anyone with magical abilities, human or not, can access it. While almost nothing from the physical world penetrates it, emotions do. While inside the Rift, Avalon will sense others’ emotions whether they want to or not. Emotions can also be “tracked” to their owners from inside, whether they belong to people outside or inside. When someone leaves by following the emotions of another, they appear in the general vicinity of the person they followed. When someone leaves without following the emotions of another, they leave in the same way they entered but appear in a random place in the real world, like walking blindly through a door. Within it, one’s physical body disappears and they take the form of an opaque, intangible human silhouette. Anyone inside can’t be sensed from outside it, even with magic, and effectively doesn’t exist to the outside world. Anyone with magic can access the Rift accidentally through dissociation, ad eventually learn to access it on purpose. Avalon uses the Rift as a portal to transport them to their targets. It also alters the magic of people inside. Generally, abilities that require a physical body, like shapeshifting, won’t work at all. The functions of mental abilities are changed in some way, and people using those abilities will risk dissociation or loss of their sense of self. Avalon can also use their silhouette form outside the Rift for possession or to become intangible.
The driving force behind much of Avalon’s personality is their constant sense of emptiness. They want to understand and fill their internal void. Their personality traits are pieced together from their victims, and they see those traits as tools rather than a personality of their own. They don’t understand emotions well enough to recognize that they aren’t completely unfeeling. They recognize that they’re missing something, and they understand that the way they experience emotions isn’t complete. They are blind to their true emotional experience and self-identify as a being who can’t feel. While they’ve learned that Passengers lack a stable identity, they still don’t know why. They are drawn to people who have suicidal thoughts and urges, because those people often feel like they have no purpose or no reason to exist, similar to Avalon’s own experience. These are the people that they kill. In the early decades of their existence, Avalon fixated on people who wanted to end their own lives because they saw their own emptiness in their victims. They tried to understand their earlier victims because they thought they could use human experiences to understand their situation. When this failed, Avalon decided to use their murders as a purpose. Since their original method worked for them, they kept doing it. They lack strong enough morals and empathy to care that murder is wrong.
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The Rift is a spirit realm in Avalon’s world, and it created Passengers. Anyone with magical abilities, human or not, can access it. While almost nothing from the physical world penetrates it, emotions do. While inside the Rift, Avalon will sense others’ emotions whether they want to or not. Emotions can also be “tracked” to their owners from inside, whether they belong to people outside or inside. When someone leaves by following the emotions of another, they appear in the general vicinity of the person they followed. When someone leaves without following the emotions of another, they leave in the same way they entered but appear in a random place in the real world, like walking blindly through a door. Within it, one’s physical body disappears and they take the form of an opaque, intangible human silhouette. Anyone inside can’t be sensed from outside it, even with magic, and effectively doesn’t exist to the outside world. Anyone with magic can access the Rift accidentally through dissociation, ad eventually learn to access it on purpose. Avalon uses the Rift as a portal to transport them to their targets. It also alters the magic of people inside. Generally, abilities that require a physical body, like shapeshifting, won’t work at all. The functions of mental abilities are changed in some way, and people using those abilities will risk dissociation or loss of their sense of self. Avalon can also use their silhouette form outside the Rift for possession or to become intangible.
The driving force behind much of Avalon’s personality is their constant sense of emptiness. They want to understand and fill their internal void. Their personality traits are pieced together from their victims, and they see those traits as tools rather than a personality of their own. They don’t understand emotions well enough to recognize that they aren’t completely unfeeling. They recognize that they’re missing something, and they understand that the way they experience emotions isn’t complete. They are blind to their true emotional experience and self-identify as a being who can’t feel. While they’ve learned that Passengers lack a stable identity, they still don’t know why. They are drawn to people who have suicidal thoughts and urges, because those people often feel like they have no purpose or no reason to exist, similar to Avalon’s own experience. These are the people that they kill. In the early decades of their existence, Avalon fixated on people who wanted to end their own lives because they saw their own emptiness in their victims. They tried to understand their earlier victims because they thought they could use human experiences to understand their situation. When this failed, Avalon decided to use their murders as a purpose. Since their original method worked for them, they kept doing it. They lack strong enough morals and empathy to care that murder is wrong.
My revised app is over here. Thank you for the opportunity to revise!