Magic: Soulfish are somewhat limited in their use of magic but some individials have a knack for magic others don't. As a default they have a kind of "absorption" magic which they use to eat emotions, this ability can only be enhanced to eat larger portions of emotions and nothing more. Some soulfish can learn basic invisibility magic but this only effect their body and not their collars and chains until they become more adept in it. They can also learn some electricity based magics but it rarely is more than a startling shock to give them a chance to run from unwanted attention.

Levitation: Soulfish are not affected by gravity the same as most creatures and thus seem to levitate. They sometimes use their fins to push off objects in their surroundings to give them a little boost of speed but they can "swim" through air just fine.

Interstellar travel: There's is nothing stopping Soulfish from traveling in space as they are not necessarily tied to planets by gravity and they have no real respiratory system. The main hinderance is their food source. They have to have a consistent diet of emotions in order to survive, so if they tried to embark on their own they'd most likely starve long before they got near a new food source. If they follow another species into the cosmos, though, that solves most of their problems.

Dimensional travel: Soulfish are natural plane jumpers. From hatching they phase out of their own plane into one with emotional life and pop out on a world currently having a lunar eclipse then the barrier between worlds is thinnest and easiest for the fry to move through. Fully grown and Adult Soulfish can pass through plane boarders easily though and don't have to worry about lunar eclipses unless they just don't want to put in the extra effort to pass through.

Semi-tangibility: As mentioned in their description they are only partially tangible in any plane other than their own. They often don't interact with non living substances at all and pass right through them with no problem unless they wish to interact for some reason. Living creatures however can interact with soulfish like other things on their own plane meaning soulfish can be caught by living creatures, but cannot be caged or leashed unless these restraints are somehow living material.

Luminescence: Soulfish tail gems glow and flicker giving off light that can be seen even through magical darkness if the soulfish wishes it to. Soulfish can adjust how much their gems glow affect the plane they are on so they can have a very bright looking glow that doesn't pierce the shadows around them at all or have the glow be directional like a flashlight.

Emotional Diet: They directly eat emotions from living entities that produce them, this has the side effect of the entity that was fed on temporarily losing some or all of the ability to feel the emotion eaten. A creature who's fear was eaten by a soulfish would have a hard time judging if something was scary, or something who's joy was eaten would have a hard time having fun with activities they usually like. This effect is only temporary and should return after day.

Total consumption: Even though emotions usually return to creatures after a day, if too many soulfish feed off the same creature in that span of time theres a chance for the creature to lose the ability to feel any emotions at all. This effect isn't permenant but it will not wear-off on its own like normal. An outside force will have to intervene to spark emotions back into the creature and even then the emotions will feel distant and hard to distinguish for a while. When the creatures emotions fully return it can become easily overwhelmed by them until they become used to having them again.

Jingling: Though they don't have any proper way to communicate with other creatures their tails and tail gems can jingle, the chain sounding like the jingling of chains of course but the gem itself gently ringing like a bell. Some who have close bonds with Soulfish may be given "Soul names", or a specifically beautiful ring of the gem that only the person named can perceive. Due to it only being perceived by one person at a time no one knows if the Soulname is he same between muliple creatures or if the soulfish names each being its close to something different. Soul curses are similar but its the reverse. It is a ring given to a creature the soulfish specificly doesn't like or fears. The ring is an awful sound meant to warn those near by of the perceived threat with out alerting the threat itself.

First and foremost, Soulfishs do not reproduce or mate with one another. This will be touched up in the tab labeled "Adult forms" when thats done.

Egg stage:Soulfish "Eggs" are incubated in their original plane for an indeterminate amount of time. The eggs look like the gems on the end of a soulfish' tail with a thin metallic ring around it which becomes thicker as the egg gets closer to hatching. Soulfish don't hatch like normal fish by cracking open the egg, they pass through the egg catching the metallic ring which mostly bcomes their collar and any left over material turns into the chain connecting the fish to their "egg" which upon hatching becomes their feeding apparatus.

Fry: Directly upon hatching the fry search for thin spots between their plane and one with emotional creatures and push through into that plane. If they are too weak to push through they quickly starve, but due to still being on their own plane this just means they die and are pulled back into their "egg" where they are often picked up by one of the Adult forms to restart. Once in the next plane they pick what emotion they wish to eat and usually stick with their first choice for their entire pre-adult stage.

Pre-adults: Soulfish can live their entire existance in this phase as becoming their adult form takes a lot of energy and since becoming their adult forms is an open choice for this species most chose not to use up that kind of energy on it if they see no reason to. (wip info) The only exception to this is if they become a Nightmare, soulfish become nightmares through making pore choices during their fry and pre-adult phases and are forced into using up energy to become their stronger Nightmare form.

Rinse and repeat: Due to most soulfish spending their entire pre-adult phase absorbing emotional energy upon death, as long as their tail gems weren't irreparably damanged, they simpley start again in their Egg phase, using the extra energy left in their gems to start incubating again or if there was none wait for an adult to find them and start the process that way. Most soulfish lose their memories of their previous lives and thus even though they'd have the same gem and metal they can look and eat very differently than their past forms. This cycle will continue until either the gem is destroyed or they Become one of their Adult forms.

Adulthood (wip). Soulfish have 2 possible Adult forms, Dreamcatchers and Nightmares. They are currently a Work In Progress and will be announced at a later date.

Naturally, Soulfishs are a nomadic species. They explore and wander either alone or in small groups of 3-5, only settling in areas with consistently emotional life like big cities and drama filled small towns. They one very rare occasion settle with specific individuals either to feed off solely or just because they like that individuals company and occasionally make trips for other food. Most Soulfishs get along with one another naturally, though there are still different natures between them. some
Amongst other species, Soulfishs are naturally curious. They will engage in playful activities or watch from afar, typically, and are generally fond of pranks as well.

Communication wise, Soulfish have no way or truely comunicating with other species verbally and only have their jingling to comunicate; which greatly limits them if the creature is deaf. With a lot of effort some soulfish can be trained to flash their gems in morse code but since the flashing is also mood based it makes it a very unreliable means of communicating. The only proper way to "talk" to a soulfish is telepathically which can be a bit strange due to the strength of the emotions they eat interfearing with the emotions they themselves have. A soulfish may "say" something very happy but due to having a diet of anger could telepathically read as totally pissed off. it takes a lot of practice to push the initial emotions aside to get to the more faint true emotions of a soulfish.

For most Soulfishs amongst one another, they're friendly. They will play and pull pranks.

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