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ACTIVE ABILITIES

== Strength Draining ==
Chloe can gradually drain others' physical strength through skin contact. This gradually makes her target weaker, and herself stronger and faster. The effect wears off fully in a matter of hours. Draining strength for any amount of time is slightly intoxicating for both Chloe and her target. It induces a kind of euphoria comparable to what you might feel sharing an affectionate moment with a romantic partner, but what Chloe does feels much more intense than that.

Going too long without feeding on someone's strength can make Chloe waste away, becoming weak and sickly until she feeds again.

== Infernal Domain ==
Chloe has a small domain in hell, in which she is all-seeing and nearly omnipotent.

There are a few limits to her power, though. She can't create intelligent life. She cannot create things that persist in the outside world. Any changes she makes to a person or thing from the outside world will not persist into the outside world; anything will leave her realm in the same condition as it entered. She cannot affect anyone's mind without their consent. However, her power here can injure or kill beings who are native to the same plane of existence as her domain, and they can usually pose a threat to her even in her domain.

Chloe can teleport into this realm at any time, bringing herself and any possessions on her person with her, but she cannot bring living things with her this way.

People can open portals to her domain. Portals can only exist at "anchors," on which Chloe has prepared a special set of magic symbols made of special ink and performed a complicated ritual. To open such a portal, someone would need to utter a passphrase specific to that anchor and hold a sample of her blood near the anchor. Chloe does not need to do this; she can open these portals at will. The size of a portal corresponds to the size of the anchor.

== Demon Summoning ==
Chloe can summon demons. This can sometimes be as low-key as mentally/spiritually communicating with a demon in their faraway realm (which she would liken to a telepathic voicemail, if they don't want to or can't answer her). It can also be as openly magical as physically summoning a demon or an aspect of them. The latter is much more difficult and risky, but it is the only way she can ensure her target can and will respond to her.

This process usually involves a complicated ritual and time to study and prepare. It can be dangerous, depending on the disposition of the demon and what Chloe's trying to accomplish with the summoning. If she expects a demon to be unwilling, the ritual will often call for expensive materials and extra preparation time if she wants to reduce her risk of getting hurt.

Chloe also has magical tattoos which can be used to call on three demons specifically: Lord Ghum, Nonabtaob, and Ozerchabal, with whom she has special contracts.

==Fuzzy Nullifier Handcuffs==
This is an unusual pair of power-nullifying handcuffs. They're well-made, heavy-duty leather cuffs with a strong, short chain and a fuzzy inner lining for comfort. If properly tightened they should be difficult to slip out of. But not impossible for an ordinary human, especially if that human is able to use their mouth or teeth to unfasten the cuffs. Furthermore, unlike police handcuffs, these do not lock with any kind of key; anyone can take them off.

Each individual cuff is power-nullifying, and they can be detached from each other and worn separately, or hooked into different kinds of restraints.

PASSIVE ABILITIES

== Infernal Physique ==
Chloe's unusual legs and supernatural physique allow her to run faster and jump farther or higher than any human. Typically, sprinting can bring her to about 50mph (80kmph), and she can lift 3/4 of a ton. Her strength-draining ability can make her both stronger and faster.

Chloe's tail is flexible and prehensile. It is more than strong enough to support her entire body's weight. It has a hard, arrowhead-like tip which is sharp enough to pierce skin. Because of her leg structure, she often uses her tail to balance herself when she walks - so if she doesn't have enough space to stick her tail out a little, she is prone to losing her balance.

== Magic Sense ==
Chloe can sense magical and spiritual energies. She is particularly sensitive to divine energies, the souls of sapient beings, and to demonic energies connected to the same plane of existence as her father. She can recognize qualities about the things she senses, but only if she senses the same thing over and over and becomes familiar with it.

If she detects a soul or a source of magical energy, she can get a vague sense of how far away it is and in what direction. She can easily mistake multiple sources of the same type of energy as a single source. How far away she can detect something depends on how strong her reading is, with 10 meters being average.

== Psychic Resistance ==
Chloe is resistant to most magical abilities that try to affect, control, or read her mind. She can recognize when such an ability is being used on her as well as (in a general sense) what kind of magic it is. She can choose to let these abilities affect her.

Chemicals with such effects will still work on her. Certain magic abilities can still overwhelm her resistance, and if faced with multiple simultaneous attempts to read or affect her mind, she might only be able to fight off a few.

WEAKNESSES

== True Name ==
Chloe has a true name - "Nikuzzamach" - which has power over her. She finds it difficult to resist any command or suggestion made using this name. She can defy such commands, but only if her name is used against her repeatedly, or if following the command would hurt someone or something she holds dear. The effect of a given command or suggestion can only last up to a day at a time.

Her true name, when combined with her sigil and a ritual, can also be used to summon her and temporarily bind her to the summoner's will. Her sigil is present (though well-hidden) on the symbols Chloe uses to form portals to her domain.

== Bad at Using Human Legs ==
While in a human form, Chloe's legs are uncoordinated and weaker than a typical human her age. She can walk, but only for short distances or with some kind of crutch or assistance.

ACTIVES

== Strength Draining ==
Chloe has the ability to feed on the strength of others through physical contact, physically weakening her ‘victim’ while giving herself a burst of inhuman strength. These effects (her extra strength and their weakness) usually wear off over the course of an hour, but it can take more or less time depending on how much strength Chloe has taken.

The act of feeding, again, requires direct physical contact. A part of her must touch a part of someone else without anything in the way for this power to work, but nothing more specific than that is required. Feeding also feels pleasant for all involved: while Chloe is feeding, both her and her ‘victim’ will feel warm and fuzzy inside, comparable to that happy feeling one gets from kissing somebody they like for the first time, but even more intense. She will occasionally use this ability in short bursts to help her manipulate people; people often rationalize what they felt as something similar to love at first sight, making them much more malleable to the object of their newfound affection. Longer feeding sessions have a nasty side effect: when the corresponding burst of strength nears its end, she 'crashes,' feeling profoundly sad and alone for a while afterwards.

Even without having used this ability in the last hour, Chloe is significantly stronger than she should be. On a good day, she can match or surpass the strength of some of the strongest human women, being able to lift about 3/4 of a ton over her head with some effort. However, the longer it has been since her last feeding, the weaker she becomes.

==Demon Summoning==
Chloe has the ability to summon demons. She must spend several hours designing and performing a complex ritual which usually requires rare or expensive materials, and often she will have to make special preparations more than a day in advance. Every time Chloe summons a demon, she risks becoming the victim of a psychic attack from the demon she summons. These attacks can leave her temporarily possessed or put her in a coma.

Chloe has used this to learn a lot about hell - in most of her rituals, the demon she summons must answer any question she poses to the best of their ability. She can also use this power to effectively "hire" a demon from hell to complete a task for her, similar to how an ordinary human being can spend money hiring someone to get something done. The cost to her in each case may vary depending on the demon summoned and the task she needs them to complete.

Chloe's current two servants, Nonabtaob and Ozerchabal, are very special cases. Both relatively competent and powerful familiars which she was able to secure for long term service at a relatively low cost. Usually, the best Chloe will be able to manage is to secure the service of rather weak or unintelligent demons from their masters for a week or two. Such demons could be capable of attempting to track someone down, helping with manual labor, spying on someone, or tormenting someone as a sort of poultergeist. The costs for such services might involve animal or blood sacrifice, regular prayers or rituals at specific times each day for a set period, suffering from a curse for a while, or a combination of these things. Although Chloe might summon a demon to complete a specific goal, they are not guaranteed to succeed; the only guarantee is that they will do their best until their time is up or they are destroyed.

Chloe has also received magical tattoos which allow her to summon the physical forms of Nonabtaob and Ozerchabal at will. This form of summoning will only draw the demon to her location and has no effect on their psyche. In order for Chloe to do this, the demon must already be physically manifested in the world. Furthermore, the tattoo associated with that particular demon must be intact, and Chloe must spend a few seconds contemplating the demon she is trying to summon and uttering a special incantation. If any of those requirements are not met, the summoning will fail. Ozerchabal's tattoo is distributed along Chloe's right arm, and Nonabtaob's is along Chloe's left arm. Chloe is able to summon her daughter Amber through a similar method - though she does not currently have a tattoo for Amber, she can draw up a diagram within a couple of minutes which would serve the same purpose.

==Inner Sanctum==
Chloe has a very small domain in a remote part of hell - a space about as large as a small bedroom, which always seems well-lit despite the lack of a discernible light source. Anyone who enters this space gains an open telepathic connection to Chloe's mind as long as they stay in it; they are able to hear her surface thoughts, and with concentration can sift through her deeper thoughts and memories. If that person dives too recklessly into her mind or makes any noise in her pocket dimension, she will notice their presence and can make this connection work both ways.

Chloe's inner sanctum is normally inaccessible from any other part of hell. If she ever tries to access other parts of hell from within her domain, this will change irreversibly. Beyond these unlikely scenarios, travel to and from her domain can work in one of three ways.

*Given a few seconds of concentration, Chloe can teleport herself and any clothing/small objects she is carrying into this space.
*People can open portals to her domain. These portals must be prepared ahead of time - Chloe must draw a sigil using a special ink mixed with her own blood and perform other rituals that take about an hour to complete. Once the sigil is prepared, she may open a portal by touching the sigil and saying a passphrase unique to that portal. Anyone else can open these portals too, replacing her touch with the touch of a cloth stained with her blood and uttering the same passphrase. Speaking the passphrase from within her domain will open the portal from the other side. The portal will be as large as the sigil it corresponds to. If a portal would close while something lies across its threshold, that thing will be forced onto one side of the portal or the other.
*Given 6-12 hours to focus in her domain, Chloe can open a single-use portal to some other place she is familiar with.

==Fuzzy Nullifier Handcuffs==
This is an unusual pair of power-nullifying handcuffs. They're well-made, heavy-duty leather cuffs with a strong, short chain and a fuzzy inner lining for comfort. If properly tightened they should be difficult to slip out of. But not impossible for an ordinary human, especially if that human is able to use their mouth or teeth to unfasten the cuffs. Furthermore, unlike police handcuffs, these do not lock with any kind of key; anyone can take them off.

Each individual cuff is power-nullifying, and they can be detached from each other and worn separately, or hooked into different kinds of restraints.

==Magic Dagger==
Chloe has a magic dagger. It's like a normal dagger, but very difficult to break or damage and slightly better at cutting and stabbing than could be expected of a mundane blade. She usually has it attached to a scabbard under her skirt / dress. She knows how to use it.

PASSIVES
==Half-Demon Physique==
Chloe's unusual legs and supernatural physique allow her to run faster and jump farther or higher than any human. She considers 30mph (48kmph) a "light jog." Sprinting can bring her to about 50mph (80kmph) or faster, depending on how in shape she is or whether she has fed.. However, she can't wear shoes. This can make walking on some types of terrain, like hot asphalt or sidewalks in the summer, very uncomfortable. Stepping on sharp objects is a constant worry. Chloe's tail is flexible and prehensile. It is more than strong enough to support her entire body's weight. It has a hard, arrowhead-like tip which is sharp enough to pierce skin. Because of her leg structure, she often uses her tail to balance herself when she walks - so if she doesn't have enough space to stick her tail out a little, she is prone to losing her balance.

==Minor Resistance to Mind-Altering Effects==
Thanks to training from her father and from her time researching cursed books with the Academy, Chloe is better than most humans at resisting mind control and some forms of invasive mind-reading. She is not immune to either of these things, but she does have the ability to recognize when they are happening and a limited ability to defend herself. A sufficiently powerful mind reader or mind controller could still overcome her will, but it would require much more concentration to keep her in check than a normal human.

==Demon Sensing==
Chloe can detect the presence of demons. For Mikhainon and especially powerful demonic presences like him, Chloe can recognize them and discern both how far away they are and in what direction. In the cases of much weaker demons or demons from fundamentally different planes of reality than Mikhainon, the sensation is much less intense and she can only tell that she is near one; she has no sense of where the demon is or what it's like, only a vague idea of how far away it is.

WEAKNESSES
==Addiction to Strength Draining==
Chloe needs to feed on people's strength regularly. Going more than 3-5 days without a satisfying 5-10 minute feeding session will give her cravings, making her agitated and reducing her ability to focus. If she doesn't feed within a day of her cravings starting, her health and strength will rapidly deteriorate until she has fed, and she will need to feed more frequently to go back to normal. She suspects that she could die if she goes too long without feeding, but she has no desire to find out if this is true.

==Can be Summoned==
Although she is half-human, Chloe could theoretically be summoned. This would cause her to phase out of existence wherever she happened to be at the time and land on her knees before whoever had summoned her. A summoning may also bend her will to the summoner's for some amount of time, assuming the summoner adjusted his or her ritual accordingly and could defeat her in a battle of wills - and most summoners would be at a significant advantage over her in such a thing.

To accomplish such a summoning, one would need to know either her father's name or her true name (Nikuzzamach), or to have a sufficient amount of her hair or blood. One would also need to be sufficiently knowledgeable in the dark arts to figure out the correct procedures to follow.

==Bad at using Human Legs==
Chloe has a rare condition that affects her only when she uses a standard human shape charm. Despite how strong her legs are in her normal form, while under the effects of a human shape charm they become weak and uncoordinated. It would take either a lot of exercise and physical therapy or a specially made charm for her to overcome this problem.

It is believed that this has something to do with the way Chloe's legs developed in the first place, which was a sudden, traumatic, and not well understood process.

==True Name==
Chloe's true name has power over her. She finds it difficult to resist any command or suggestion made using this name. She can defy such commands, but only if her name is used against her repeatedly, or if following the command would hurt someone or something she holds dear. The effect of a given command or suggestion on her using her name can only last up to a day at a time.