Question The power to animate oragami:

I'm thinking of a character who is an Oragami Artists, able to fold things
like this. . She can then animate her model. The power only works on models that she has folded her self from a single sheet of paper. The model will last up to a day before growing still. The models can follow simple instructions, and could potentially carry things up to their own weight. the are silent, and unable to really comunicate anything more sophisticated. Possible orders would be:

* fly to me if anyone enters this room.
* follow him, and then show me where he went
* take this object and hide it in his room.

the models can be used as self passing notes, being able to fold themselves flat and then back to whatever shape she gave them. go there unfold yourself and then fold yuourself back up on command and come back is about the most complicated thing one of the models can do.

I'd be inclined to say this is a very limited form of magic, but I'm not sure of the rank, or indeed if there is a better power classification for it.

EDIT: I should add that the character is also Exemplar 2 and TK 4 (limited to contorlling air). The ability to breath life into things is soft of an extension of this.

Reminds me Awakening, from Warbreaker, although it's not entirely identical.

I'd actually imagine that it's a telekinetic power, that the origami models become TK constructs kind of like the J-team. I think that fits better than magic.

Would she be able to reanimate constructs that have worn out? Or would she have to refold them? That could be quite impressive. After all, an army of tiny paper cranes is still an army.

Also, how much stiffness can the models have? Could they become razor sharp like Hank's paper swords? Are they tougher than average paper (for use as shields)?

Do they have to be origami paper, or could she get special devisor paper with interesting properties?

Can models with wings fly? Can models without wings fly?

I'd call it a specialised application of TK - especially if the constructs were limited to moving within a defined radius or line-of-sight, and "programming" them was via giving them a sequence of simple instructions, e.g. if/then/else statements.

Another combat final, another humiliation - Buster, after picking once too often on "Folded Paper Girl", gets attacked and defeated by a swarm of origami swans, suffering paper cuts that require two to three days in Doyle to heal...

That's a wonderful image.
Make it worse by gluing razor blades to the paper.

Also, would this power make her Draco Malfoy?

OK I think I will fold this into her TK ability. So its just part of her TK 4. However the models themselves have an air shell equvelent to a TK 1 shell, making them more damage resistant then normal paper, and can have sharp edges, that would harm an ordinary human but are pretty well useless against anyone who has any kind of damgage resistence. The models are vulnerable to being burned.

Every 1 pound of paper she animates reduces how much she can move with TK by 100 pounds, it takes at least 10 minutes per pound to animate a model, and she can re-animate a model she made previously. To keep the numbers down the models are limited to lasting about 2 hours on 1 charge.

Reminds me of the R.O.D. anime with the paper sisters.

Exactly what I was thinking of. Read or Die, and R.O.D the TV

They did some pretty impressive things with paper as weapons.

Been a while since I saw the movie or series, but what they pulled off would be PK 5+, varying by which sister, if the power is PK-based with a paper focus. Freaking dragon out of paper at one point if I recall which took down a military jet. Unless my memory is off, still blocking machine gun fire with a paper shield and seeing them fight was awesome. Although I could see several routes to this kind of power, manifestor which uses paper as a focus for their manifestations, Wiz-type who focuses their spells through origami and other paper constructs, a warper like Folder but focused on paper instead of able to bend anything.

In this case the fact that she gets focused on animating orgami is an accident rather than a fature of her powers. It just happens that Oragami was her hobbie even before she manifested. Spending several minutes carefully making a model put her into the right frame of mind to build a tk shell around the paper. Note that tis the shell (which is made out of air) that is her real power. Getting into the same mental zone without actually building a model is something she is going to have to learn how to do. Its certainly not soemthing she is going to work out on her own initiative.

I don't want to push this feature of her power to the Read or Die level, as she is not a papermancer. Her models are definetly not bullet proof , and are about as flamable as any other object made out of paper.

Wasn't animating objects s/he folded part of Folder's (or whatever codename 'Anandani' is now using) powers? I think that s/he used some magic to control it better, but the basic ability to move them was part of the overall power.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Wasn't animating objects s/he folded part of Folder's (or whatever codename 'Anandani' is now using) powers? I think that s/he used some magic to control it better, but the basic ability to move them was part of the overall power.

Folder's power was the ability to fold ANY material, and is not the character in this thread.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Wasn't animating objects s/he folded part of Folder's (or whatever codename 'Anandani' is now using) powers? I think that s/he used some magic to control it better, but the basic ability to move them was part of the overall power.

Yes, Folder could animate things but only those who his/her power had first been used on. I think it was a variation of his ability to affect material properties of items he'd first folded.