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What are all of Wes/Wraith's powers or abilities?

Honestly? He already has pretty much every power he's gonna get (except for a couple more a long ways off). It's more a matter of figuring out how to use them. His abilities are pretty versatile, in actuality, even if he doesn't have very many. A couple minor examples that I've already alluded to him eventually learning are making external light sources (a mundane utility based on his light ability), and self-augmentation via muscle stimulation (for which he has so far only used to briefly boost his physical strength). But really, there's boatloads he can do with his current arsenal, if he only puzzles them out.

At the moment, his powers are as such: light manifestation, electrokinesis (affecting only himself and whatever he is in direct contact with), vocal mimicry, video/audio distortion/camouflage, uncanny valley, and all the usual stuff ghosts can do. Almost anything else he learns will be various ways to utilize or combine these abilities, and trust me, I have a LOT planned.

As for any NEW abilities...

I have plans for exactly one (1) ranged attack, but it may or may not come up much just because he's such a close-range fighter, if a squishy one. I've also been hinting towards the possibility he'll learn to shapeshift, but if he ever does, it's only going to be a very minor thing. He definitely won't be Bertrand lmao, but if, say, he wanted claws, he could probably grow them. But nothing as drastic as like, wings.

Are Wes and Danny ever going to date? Like be boyfriends?

I'm hoping to let their relationship form naturally, if possible. I do intend for them to eventually date, but they probably won't make a huge thing of it. Wes is still way deep in the closet, so any relationship is gonna be kept on the down-low. Although, I do have something of a mini-arc in mind regarding this ;)

any neat tricks you got in mind for Wraith?

I did an ask once before about what powers he's gonna get so I won't get into those, but I've got some stuff in mind for more specialized tricks and techniques. Some spoilerish, some not. I'll go ahead and share a couple passive ones. (Not spoilers really, but I'll put them under a cut just in case)

You know how people really dig the idea of Danny but viscerally WRONG in a way that just can't be pinned down? Apply that to Wes. One of the main aspects of his ghost half is cryptid shenanigans; that's why he doesn't come through well in pictures, and why he invokes uncanny valley just enough that you can't connect his ghost identity to his human one. I feel like the stronger he gets, the more inexplicable stuff will start happening to and around him. Things like him suddenly appearing when you never noticed him walking up, or his proportions not feeling right, or his gaze being a little too intense (in a different way than usual). He just starts feeling a little off. Less so in human form, though.

Another thing is the ability to not only absorb electric currents, but detect them. It hasn't really come up because it's faint, and usually it's been pretty obvious whether there's currently a bunch of running electricity to suck up. But let's assume you couldn't hear that telltale hum or see sparks or anything like that. He would be able to pinpoint whether a device was live or fried, or whether or not a cord was defective. He just innately knows where the juice is. This also means he would get antsy and stressed if, say, he was in the middle of a desert or a ghost town or something where there's no electricity at all.

Sometimes I also think of him standing outside Vlad's window blaring car alarm noises at all hours of the night djsksnsbsjssnns

Wattson Wraith Chapter 41 spoiler

If you've been reading Wattson Wraith on ao3 you've already seen it, but it's about time I post it here too. Here's my wacky dead dentist dude, Oris Maw, making his debut in chapter 41!

(plus a REALLY old bonus joke edit under the cut lol)

Lmao I think it's been long enough, time to post character drawings

WATTSON WRAITH CHAPTER 47 AND 48 SPOILERS

Behold, Her Majesty Queen Kazul! (Pictured below are her normal form and her dragon form, which respectively debut in chapters 47 and 48.)