Question Esoteric

The door opened back up, revealing the beautiful girl... woman... he had just been told he was going to be rooming with here in Poe cottage. She had the curves and muscle of the classical comic book heroine and was currently wearing just boxers and a sports bra. That's what 'one' of her was wearing, anyway. Like a lot of the people he'd seen so far on campus, he saw her with a sort of double image. The one with more solidity to it seemed to be even more gorgeous than the other and was dressed in some sort of exotic costume. The second image, the one he was fairly sure was the real one; showed her in a state of undress and still with some of that high school girl baby fat and awkwardness. Relative levels of baby fat and awkwardness... back home, she'd be film star gorgeous even without the more exotic version.

When you came through the gate, it reacted badly with Frank's powers... I really did think you were a girl for a moment there. How strange...

Malady wrote: So, we see another person with... Umm... Whatever Ayla's got. Female up top, Male below, and also preternatural sight. ... Sorta thinking he's an Ayla Expy. But, really, coincidence is possible...

Malady wrote: So, what is Esoteric seeing, precisely?

Is it BITs? Or Souls? Or something else? I'm fine with speculation...

Malady wrote: What could it mean? Did his Astral Travel mess up his BIT so he doesn't get the Gender Adjustment Mental Package?

DanZilla wrote: He see's their astral impressions... people can have different mental images of themselves to he sees them differently and places, over time, leave an imprint. When they get changed, like Whateley leaving its gates open now when for so long the gates were closed, he gets multiple impressions.

"I will open the rest of the gates briefly to accommodate your passing through them, while that might cause some risk; it will be less so than having to rebuild them all from scratch if you shatter all of them as you pass through."

Kristin Darken wrote: However, most people perceive him as female. Even standing there in a very male attire and stance.

Kristin Darken wrote: It'll get called that at least once, yes. But there's a non-magic explanation that is power appropriate (and explains the exceptions to the rule... which will be easier to understand when you meet which people don't automatically see 'girl').