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psychicshellRafael is half human and half carinan. The carinans are a race of powerful psychics. Being only half carinan, Rafael is still a powerful psychic, but his powers are unstable and developing much slower than a full blooded carinan's would.
Psychic Shell: Their most famous power. Carinans can generate a shell of telekinetic force that covers their entire body. This has three benefits.
Protection - the shell acts as a suit of armor, allowing the person inside to shrug off an absurd amount of damage despite not being any tougher than an ordinary human
Augmentation - The shell is far stronger than the wearer's muscles. While the shell is active, the wearer can perform feats of superhuman strength with little difficulty.
Stretchiness - While the shell defaults to the shape of the person who wears it, they can will it to stretch out into other shapes. They can grow wings, form shields, change their hands into blades, stretch their arms to grab distant objects, and generally do sort of shape-shifter-like feats without actually changing their physical bodies.
Rafael's shell has a distinctly unstable appearance, due to him only being HALF Carinan.
Carinan psychic repository: the Carinans are not a hive mind, but they do have a psychic link to a shared repository of all the knowledge their species has ever accumulated, which they can access through meditation. Rafael's link to this psychic library is very unstable. On top of that, he doesn't even know it exists. He occasionally will just "remember" some random factoid about aliens.
Psychic Shell: Their most famous power. Carinans can generate a shell of telekinetic force that covers their entire body. This has three benefits.
Protection - the shell acts as a suit of armor, allowing the person inside to shrug off an absurd amount of damage despite not being any tougher than an ordinary human
Augmentation - The shell is far stronger than the wearer's muscles. While the shell is active, the wearer can perform feats of superhuman strength with little difficulty.
Stretchiness - While the shell defaults to the shape of the person who wears it, they can will it to stretch out into other shapes. They can grow wings, form shields, change their hands into blades, stretch their arms to grab distant objects, and generally do sort of shape-shifter-like feats without actually changing their physical bodies.
Rafael's shell has a distinctly unstable appearance, due to him only being HALF Carinan.
Carinan psychic repository: the Carinans are not a hive mind, but they do have a psychic link to a shared repository of all the knowledge their species has ever accumulated, which they can access through meditation. Rafael's link to this psychic library is very unstable. On top of that, he doesn't even know it exists. He occasionally will just "remember" some random factoid about aliens.
