Velveteen/Velma Martinez

Form: miniature hearts (as in the organ) (1/1)

( 'I think this may be the worst idea in the history of bad ideas, and the fact that I'm going along with it is possibly a sign of mental illness,' said Velveteen, staring fixedly at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. )

Form: Candle in holder.

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What Joy Learns
A lot more about the power of stories and the Seasonal Countries. Joy will remember that she met Hailey as an adult, and Hailey hadn't aged. Then again, Hailey is nearly a century old in truth.
Understanding of the context of why she feared the Seasonal Countries, especially Autumn. It didn't stop her from befriending Jackie Frost, but does put things into context.
A bit about the origins of superheroes. The Big Three -- Majesty, Jolly Roger and Supermodel -- were the first supers, if you don't count figures like Santa Claus who showed up afterward claiming to have always been present. Joy could put this together with her Vegas memory, where Dame Fortuna gave her some less public knowledge.
A lot more fears/dislike about forced body modification. The next game where this comes up will be heck. Well, maybe not the de-aged game, though that will have problems of its own considering li'l Vel's history with being kidnapped into strange realms by storybook people.
I'd say this would affect Joy's decision about whether she'd like to stay in Aather if/when she good-ends, but... already she considers Tiger's Eye her team and her friends. A lot of Joy's problems are ones of being alone and isolated. This was her first solo mission, and her first solo fight, so it's understandable she was all 'take me home to my friends and my bed and my teddy bears'. Aather does not have her friends from home, but it has her new friends.

Form: Candied Apple pieces (5/6)

( The list of things Velma had conveniently forgotten during her years of self-imposed isolation from the superhero community was long, and the more time she spent staring at the paperwork required to get a permanent license in the state of Oregon, the longer that list seemed to become.  )

Powers: Anima (sensory)
Earned: Cecily adn Masked Lady's story
Form: a key shaped cookie

So, this is based on several aspects of Velveteen's powers.

• Vel can call out to anything in the area that her powers can affect. For instance, if Vel is in a field, and guesses that there might be abandoned toys there because people lose things throw things away (the jerks), she can send her power out without knowing what she'd get, and the toys will answer.

• Consequently, Vel doesn't have to be in line of sight to control her toys.

• The last one is hard to quantify since it only appears in the canon's climax, but Velveteen was able to tell that a superpower was based on life energy (like hers is) and not telepathy and see what was going on. She's never done that before the finale, but the only other animus she's met (Tag) was obvious about his powers.

So, for everyone Joy may be able to sense 'flows' of life energy (whatever that means in your canon) from one thing/person to another. (That probably means I should ask people about that for their characters.)

Powers: Anima (basic)
Earned: Mr. Right's skillshare game
Form: a bay leaf

So, this unlocks the basics of Velma's superpowers. She is able to animate things that are not alive. The canon rule seems to be 'anything with a face', but specifically her powers are listed as "Semi-autonomous animation of totemic representations of persons and animals, most specifically cloth figures, including minor transformation to grant access to species-appropriate weaponry."

Marketing says she brings toys to life with love. Really, she's putting some of her life-force into them -- generally only a smidgen, so it comes back quickly. So anyone sensitive to such things can see that.

( Details and Limits )

( Bits of spoilers. )

Memory: Finding the Phantom Doll
Earned: Professor Endboss's Robot Game
Form: A water gun (2/3 uses)

Velveteen (who had long since run out of any cookies to toss, and was now reduced to tossing the memory of cookies that had been eaten years before) was on the verge of suggesting that they turn around when one of the Princess’s songbirds came flying out of a cloud bank, wings beating frantically as it tried to stay aloft. It looked exhausted. Velveteen understood the feeling.
-- Velveteen Versus Jolly Roger

( The charts provided by Dame Fortuna had been long on symbolism, low on actual directions. )

Effects
+ Knowledge of magical realms and pocket dimensions, which need things like intent and believing in oneself to find them.

The directions to the Phantom Doll probably would have worked over any coastline, with any star, because that's the difference between straight-out magic in Vel's world and all the other kinds of unlikely powers. Jolly Roger and Princess (and the seasonal heroes like Jackie, to some extent), are powered by belief in the concepts of their powers. There's a reason that Princess has a business arrangement with Disney: the more little girls want to be fairy-tale princesses and have a fixed idea of what one of those is, the more power Princess has.

This is probably useful knowledge in Aather, since the Personae seem to work in similar manners.

+ ... Knowledge of Victory Anna will probably help with future encounters with Professor Endboss, since, you know, mad scientist gadgeteer. Torrey prefers rayguns to robots, though.
-- Hell with flying. Hell with it.

Memory: First Morning in Oregon
Earned: Eliza's Brother's game
Form: A strand of flax (2/3 uses)

( Velma woke slowly, resisting the process every inch of the way. )

Memory: First Power Manifestation
Earned: Jabberwock's Game
Form: A looking glass (7/7 uses)

( Velma's powers actually manifested for the first time at seven-sixteen in the morning on a Saturday when her father was in jail on yet another minor assault charge, and her mother was sleeping off the drinking binge to end all drinking binges. )

Effects
... So even my 'normal childhood' was pretty sucky. Hell.

Memory: Superhero Tryouts
Earned: Day 226 (Seekers and Champions Guessing Game)
Form: A yellow feather. Stick behind your ear to receive a memory (3/3 uses).

( Velma squirmed, still uncomfortable in her new 'uniform,' even more uncomfortable in the bright lights of the studio. )

Effects
Unlock: The Velveteen Rabbit story
+ Protectiveness towards team and children. (It is probably for the best that Vel hasn't encountered Intempas, considering Sieh mentioned his family history.)
- Bullshit stage events and rigged competitions. This could affect her in the games, but at least Joy generally assumes the games are fair. Also, she's less likely to lose patience if her team is there and want to win.
+ Likelihood to lose her temper and kick ass (metaphorically or literally).

Memory: Fight with Sparkle Bright
Earned: Day 223 (Goldie's Date Auction)
Form: Come in the form of a tube of lip gloss in your team's color. There's enough for about 10 applications, but after the first 5 the memory starts to fade. (4/5 remaining)

( Velveteen was coming out of the gym, leotard sweaty and sticking to her sides. Working out in tights had never been her favorite way to spend an afternoon, but with the chance that training could be filmed at any time, all heroes with non-public secret identities were required to wear variants of their standard costumes while exercising. )

Effects
- Security about powers/identity.
+ Hurt and confusion regarding friendship
o Unlock: code name.