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In a very general sense, as in, not tied to any one verse, can you elaborate on what this actually is?
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Unofficial Powers and Abilities Addition Thread Infinite
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Some characters, such as Belldandy, the Silver Surfer, the Thing, She-Hulk, or Shazam, have on occasions demonstrated extraordinary goodness that makes them extremely hard to corrupt. Maybe that is what is intended here? 
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Being pure of heart or mind is to be devoid of evil or even simply negative thoughts or intentions.
- Though susceptible to Empathetic Manipulation, abilities requiring or targeting evil or negativity are rendered useless.
- In some instances, pure goodness manifests itself as a form of Supernatural Willpower, granting resistance against mental or spiritual corruption.
- Being pure of heart yourself can possibly purify the nature of others.
- Heart purity can charm those around you, granting a personality or character that naturally welcomes and inspires your peers.
- A pure heart can be connected to various supernatural mental abilities, as your nature is inherently enlightened.
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Most of these applications can be listened simply as Resistance to [insert form of mind/soul corruption] (granted, the individual with pure heart is remarkable on its own, otherwise it could simply be listened as a weakness/limitation of offensive power).
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I'm proposing a new possible use for Free Movement. This would be the ability to move through or around tight spaces that would normally be impassible, usually through extreme supernatural flexibility, or having something like a mist or vapor form. Some examples depicting this would be this, this, or this. Here is my rought draft:
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I feel like this is more so body control?
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I was scrolling through the pages and I haven't seen there's an ability that qualifies for speaking/translating multiple languages. Should such ability be added? It's not gonna be limited to human language as animal/aliens could also qualify
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Should creation have types? Like the default type is creating things out of nothing. But what about creating things with something? Like making gadgets, houses and etc
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This apply to armour/gadgets?
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Construction can apply to buildings, vehicles, turrets, and other more stationary things, preparation is generally for more mobile items like grenades, poisons, mechs, or other similarly mobile things.
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I feel like preparation it's own thing (like preparing ofc). Some characters can create mech/gadgets without preparation so I think construction should be modified
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"Technological Preparation - Character in regular state does not have much power, but with time and materials, is capable of creating artifacts of a much higher tier."
That would fall under a plethora of other abilities, preparation isn't just a matter of time but also materials. If a character is capable of just creating things from nothing or with basically no time would have a different power all together. The exception to this would be if it's a very simple thing to make and only requires standard things the character has on hand, such as a makeshift bomb or poison which would be a simple Explosion Manip and Poison Manip respectively.
Ex: Supernatural means are Edward's Alchemy, Metal Benders in Avatar, Enel's Metal and Heat Manipulation, ect.
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Would a page for having a generally 'Enhanced Mind' work? (thats just a placeholder name) As in the user has enhanced capabilities with their own state of mind/brain (not just focused on intelligence).
It could work with
-General resistances to Mind Manipulation/Telepathy
-Hyperfocusing
-Enhanced Mental Processing
-Emotion Control (ability to relax better and thus be less prone to fear etc.)
-Sense control (Being able to dull/shut off their own senses at whim, or drown them out such as sounds)
Given Photographic memory has a page, maybe that could be changed to this and instead be a subcategory? It wouldn't fall under Mind Manipulation since that refers to affecting other peoples minds rather than your own, and instead focuses on the character's own state of mind
It could work with
-General resistances to Mind Manipulation/Telepathy
-Hyperfocusing
-Enhanced Mental Processing
-Emotion Control (ability to relax better and thus be less prone to fear etc.)
-Sense control (Being able to dull/shut off their own senses at whim, or drown them out such as sounds)
Given Photographic memory has a page, maybe that could be changed to this and instead be a subcategory? It wouldn't fall under Mind Manipulation since that refers to affecting other peoples minds rather than your own, and instead focuses on the character's own state of mind
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Could use some help with interpreting the implications of the latter scans. These are for Len'en Project.
Originally I was compiling these scans for Dimensional Travel feats, but interacting with layered and non-real structures in doing so is little too important to ignore here. Some help parsing these scans would be helpful as far as P&A stuff goes. Do note this is a rough draft;
Originally I was compiling these scans for Dimensional Travel feats, but interacting with layered and non-real structures in doing so is little too important to ignore here. Some help parsing these scans would be helpful as far as P&A stuff goes. Do note this is a rough draft;
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Figured it's better to continue this here than to continue in a thread which apparently had nothing to do with including examples for Shapeshifting.
What, in the world, would disguises count as? I don't mean simple ones such as wearing a wig and glasses but the type where you completely take the form of another character. Because in various series, animated and game verses especially, characters can be depicted as completely altering their appearance in order achieve what is functionally the exact same result as shapeshifting. Characters capable of doing this on the fly would be Lupin III, Spy TF2, basically any aliens using disguising tech, Snake Metal Gear, or more goofy examples where the disguise is comedically effective despite appearances (Spy counts as that too).
All of these examples (except Spy) classify this as Shapeshifting on their profiles, however I've been told by a staff member that these don't count as Shapeshifting and compared it to Iron Man putting on his suit of armor. Meaning that there's no actual classification for this type of ability, because "They're not changing what you are, unless you're going by the most literal interpretation possible of the word and defining "shape" as the silhouette of somebody.". I still say it should count since it follows the basic idea of Shapeshifting, especially from a casual point of view, but since it's apparently not I'm now here to figure something out.
What, in the world, would disguises count as? I don't mean simple ones such as wearing a wig and glasses but the type where you completely take the form of another character. Because in various series, animated and game verses especially, characters can be depicted as completely altering their appearance in order achieve what is functionally the exact same result as shapeshifting. Characters capable of doing this on the fly would be Lupin III, Spy TF2, basically any aliens using disguising tech, Snake Metal Gear, or more goofy examples where the disguise is comedically effective despite appearances (Spy counts as that too).
All of these examples (except Spy) classify this as Shapeshifting on their profiles, however I've been told by a staff member that these don't count as Shapeshifting and compared it to Iron Man putting on his suit of armor. Meaning that there's no actual classification for this type of ability, because "They're not changing what you are, unless you're going by the most literal interpretation possible of the word and defining "shape" as the silhouette of somebody.". I still say it should count since it follows the basic idea of Shapeshifting, especially from a casual point of view, but since it's apparently not I'm now here to figure something out.
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Is poison detection a thing? or is there something similar
ItsMeat
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Yes, it's enhanced taste
Ghostimuscrime
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Nice thank you!
Nullflowerblush
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Stealth Mastery, which includes "Successfully adopting the role of others or entirely new personas"—and most likely Preparation; in fact, the current version of the Stealth Mastery page was created because of Loid Forger, who assumes the roles of other people using costumes completely indistinguishable from the real person.
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I would also imagine body control would be the ability if they are specifically able to detect poisons in their own body.
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is there already for tracking stuff?
Chritin
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Most cases I feel like would fall under enhanced senses, since most characters with tracking based abilities do so off of smell, sound, or having enhanced vision for specific features of the environment like being able to sense footsteps (think Bloodhound from Apex legends).
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I think there could be an ability to function under different laws of nature, something like "Nomological Invariance".
Characters with this ability operate on different system of laws and thus have unconventional resistance to law manipulation. The ability is often tied with different forms of acausality. Possible uses:
Law Manipulation(the current world's laws don't apply to you, allowing you to ignore them)
Acausality type 1(working on a system of laws where changing the past doesn't affect the present/the future)
Acausality type 4(working on a system of laws with different causality)
Acausality type 5(working on a system of laws without causality)
Invulnerability negation(working on a system of laws that allows you to bypass such things)
Various forms of NPI
Characters with this ability operate on different system of laws and thus have unconventional resistance to law manipulation. The ability is often tied with different forms of acausality. Possible uses:
Law Manipulation(the current world's laws don't apply to you, allowing you to ignore them)
Acausality type 1(working on a system of laws where changing the past doesn't affect the present/the future)
Acausality type 4(working on a system of laws with different causality)
Acausality type 5(working on a system of laws without causality)
Invulnerability negation(working on a system of laws that allows you to bypass such things)
Various forms of NPI
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The thing is that this doesn't really have any inherent traits by default for this to be a proper P&A (as much type 4 or 5 Acausality don't), and it doesn't help that this is just redundant with Acausality (as the descriptions given for what this'd fall as all are covered on its types), while also not demanding a heavy revamp of the "subsets" of this proposed thing for this to work at all indexing-wise. For something like this you'd want to first make a CRT to divide Acausality even more, which seems rather unecessary to say the least.
ItsMeat
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Yep, it's like acausality type 4, a fancy name for nothing without feats/statements
Nullflowerblush
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Is unlocking and/or drawing out one's potential simply Power Modification, or could it receive its own page?
ItsMeat
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Depending on the context and the way it's done, it could also be power bestowal, but I think that's about it
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Power Bestowal.
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Causality and Metanarrative
Tower of God is a story that is a part of a bigger story called Talse Uzer Story, a verse that comprises of stories which are completely disconnected from each other physically and metaphysically to the point where not even 1-A conceptual realms can transcend the boundary between stories. Then...
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Hey everyone, so it's been a while since I've been on the forum, but this has been on my mind recently and was wondering if there are enough characters with a particular ability to justify a page for this particular power: Lubricant Manipulation. This is sort of meant to compliment the Adhesive Manipulation page the wiki already has. I imagine it would be worded something like this:
"Lubricant Manipulation is the ability to use and manipulate substances, such as oils and soaps, that help to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, allowing them to slip and slide along them more easily. Most commonly, this ability is used to cause opponents to slide along or trip up on otherwise stable footing, to more easily move heavy objects along the ground or even on the user themselves in order to slip through tight spaces or along surfaces to build up speed."
Here are a few examples of characters that would have this ability that I could find or think of off the top of my head:
Don't know how common something like this would be, but I may as well throw it out here to see what people think.
"Lubricant Manipulation is the ability to use and manipulate substances, such as oils and soaps, that help to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, allowing them to slip and slide along them more easily. Most commonly, this ability is used to cause opponents to slide along or trip up on otherwise stable footing, to more easily move heavy objects along the ground or even on the user themselves in order to slip through tight spaces or along surfaces to build up speed."
Here are a few examples of characters that would have this ability that I could find or think of off the top of my head:
- Hakan (Street Fighter)
- Gary The Snail (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Sliquifier (Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombies)
- Optimus Prime (Transformers: Animated) (For those curious, this was in Season 1 Episode 8, Nanosec)
- Kevin McCallister (Home Alone)
- Trapster (Marvel Comics)
- Ethan (Sky High)
Don't know how common something like this would be, but I may as well throw it out here to see what people think.
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Isn't this covered by Organic Manipulation?
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Are all lubricants organic? And even then, what about Adhesive Manipulation? Wouldn't that also come under organic manipulation and thus should be merged into it or something?
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I would not mind fusing the two pages no, I think we have too many P&A pages
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