So if your stories have power systems or magic what are some of the most creative powers or applications you've come up with in your stories?
It doesn't matter if it's in the story already or if you have just thought it up and are going to implement it later on.
I for example I'm probably a lot of chapters away from showing this in the story but one cool ability I have thought up is that one mc with his shadow pocket dimension starts stockpiling gallons of blood, so when he's fighting and receives damage he manifests tiny shadow portals inside his veins to refill the blood loss. Like his own IV system. While he also has room for other things~
My protag is able to manipulate entropy and was raised as a weapon. She's been taught to see her abilities as inherently destructive and herself as tainted for having them. As part of her healing arc, she realizes she can use that same power in a more controlled fashion to
rehabilitate the soil of a depleted field by accelerating the breakdown of buried organic matter.
One of my MCs in a private Story can basically actively see the traces of peoples emotions on items and tools by a faint aura like colour they are sourrounded by and also see colours in spectrums others can't. She is a bit offline constantly in the head though because the ability has no off button and the entire world of hers is basically giant compilation of colours making her drift off during conversations. She does use her abilites though to help people and solve crimes.
I try to ground the sci-fi powers in real world physics (liberal applications of 'soft' because the setting literally says that the past tech was so advanced it is effectively magic)
But quantum manipulation to twist probabilities, folded geometry as blade edges, stuff like that.
Hmm - probably have my more creative uses scattered around "Between Earth and Pyrroth"
- Using a song by Journey to revive a dead person
- Using the Law of Similarity to turn robes into a form-fitting cage by turning the wool of an ewe into the wood of a yew.
On this site, maybe having Sparrow use her sonic cry to put out a fire ranks up there (though I've seen that done in fiction before, so it wasn't MY creativity, but someone's...).
Black Mist Princess Represents the Collective Wounds of Oppressed and Silenced Women
Disaster Princesses in "The Blood Rose Princess Just Wants to Live in Peace with Her Little Daughter" are not just powerful characters or antagonists. They are conceptual entities born from the deepest wounds of the world, the embodiment of the sadness, suffering, and hidden desires of humanity and the world itself. They are called "disasters" not because of their inherent evil intentions, but because their presence shakes the world order—either because they are too honest, too strong, or too true for the world full of falsehood to accept.
—
Origin of the Disaster Princesses
"The world cried, and from its cries they were born."
Each Disaster Princess is born from the "highest point of suffering" in human history, whether physical, spiritual, or metaphysical. When the world's wounds reach a saturation point and no human or system can heal them, a Princess is born to bear and embody those wounds in the form of absolute power.
They are called Princesses because metaphorically and spiritually, they are the children of the world itself. Not biological offspring, but the incarnation of the world's will in the form of women who represent birth, suffering, hope, and destruction.
—
Existential Function
Each Princess has four functions in the world:
Mirror of the World – They show the true face of the world that is often hidden: injustice, hatred, the destruction of nature, or the meaninglessness of life.
Alternative Judge – They appear when the system fails. If kings fail to protect, the Blood Rose will execute. If society fails to protect women and children, the Black Mist will destroy the patriarchal order.
Test of Humanity – Their presence tests: will humanity change? Or will destruction sweep everything?
Symbol of Dark Hope – Behind the destruction they bring, lies the hope of a more honest, cleaner, more balanced world—even if it means going through disaster.
Blood Rose Princess Judges a Tyrant With Blood In Court
—
Why Are They Called “Disasters”?
Because true change is always painful. Because the world rejects the cure that comes with blood, not prayer. They are called disasters by humanity because their presence disrupts the status quo:
They cannot be controlled by kings or systems.
They destroy cities and kingdoms, even for moral reasons.
They defy the conventional moral logic of humanity, which is bound to compromise.
However, among the oppressed, they are often secretly worshipped. Some people call them:
“Children of the world who love in a way that is incomprehensible.”
“Goddesses of curse and hope.”
—
Existential Structure and Power
Disaster Princesses share several common traits:
Not fully living beings. They are half-spirit, half-ideological reality.
Power does not come from training, but from suffering. They do not level up—they are born at the peak.
They cannot kill each other outright. Because they understand each other—despite their different goals.
They have pure souls. Unambitious, no lust, their actions merely realise the will of a wounded world in extreme ways.
They generally can't have children, because they are not biological women, but Marry is an exception because:
Caelan is not an ordinary child but a spirit of the world's will
But they can:
Hurt each other.
Fight each other.
Oppose each other’s ideologies.
—
Relationship with the World
The Disaster Princesses are not aliens or demons; they are part of the world. But the world fears them, as one fears an old wound reopening.
Only the Earth Mother is called the "Mother of the Disaster Princesses" because she is the earliest incarnation of the Earth's suffering. She does more than guide; she sometimes groans, cries, or gets angry because she sees her children misunderstood, even hurting each other.
—
How is the Disaster Princess Born?
To explain how the disaster princess was born as a response to collective suffering, the Ideology Evolution Tree Framework is used as a philosophical-narrative structure to explain how ideology was born as a living being, namely the DisasterPrincess. This is the unique framework of the Blood Rose Princess (BRP) series that distinguishes it from other stories: ideology does not only exist as an idea, but as an active spiritual entity that lives, acts, and influences the world.
—
The Ideology Evolution Tree Framework:
I. Collective Suffering (Root)
↓
II. Spiritual Incarnation (Disaster Princess)
↓
III. Unique Skill (Form of Life Ideology)
↓
IV. World Impact (Fruit)
—
Explaination of the Ideology Evolution Tree Framework:
I. ? Root: Collective Suffering
"Disaster Princesses are not born from abstract ideas. They are born from collective wounds that have gone unhealed for too long."
Every living ideology stems from deep suffering experienced by many people, such as:
• Injustice and dead laws (Blood Rose)
• Systemic patriarchal violence against women (Black Mist)
• Ecological destruction (Earth Mother)
? Traits: The suffering must be real, systemic, and make it impossible for humans to survive with the old system.
—
II. ?️ Stem: Incarnation as a Disaster Princess
After collective suffering reaches critical mass (collective spiritual trauma), the world metaphysically "gives birth" to the ideology in the form of a Disaster Princess — a girl who is not an ordinary human being, but the spiritual embodiment of that wound.
"The mystical girl was reborn from the suffering of the world."
? Note: The form, personality, and way of speaking of this princess reflect the soul of the suffering she represents.
—
III. Branch: Unique Skills
Unique skills are concrete forms of ideology — namely how the ideology acts on the world.
Examples:
• Marry El Rose (Blood Rose) → Blood Rose Execution → can only hurt those who are guilty.
• Black Mist → Birth of Mist → gives women the ability of parthenogenesis - giving birth to a daughter without the presence of a man.
? Skills are not just cool. They are the world's mechanisms for testing that ideology in the real social realm.
—
IV. ? Fruit: Social and Political Impact
If the Disaster Princess acts according to her ideology, then she will change the world — both structurally, morally, socially, legally and spiritually. For example:
• Moral/Social → Black Mist creates a mist garden as a male-free zone as protection for women.
• Law → Blood Rose applies the "law of blood" which is executing criminals without pardon based on their valid crimes.
Ideology is not finished in the head. It grows into a world structure through the real actions carried out by the disaster princesses.
—
Conclusion: Are They Saviours or Destroyers?
"They are not the world's enemies. They are the world that cries."
The Disaster Princesses are the world's answer to the pain that humans cannot express. They can be:
Heroes in the eyes of the oppressed.
Villains in the eyes of the powerful.
Symbols of the end times in the eyes of historians.
Lost children in the eyes of the Earth Mother.
—
Seven Disaster Princesses
There were at least seven disaster princesses known to humanity before the world's memory collapse incident, they were:
1. Blood Rose Princess (Marry El Rose)
Symbol of wound: Injustice and tyranny perpetuated by corrupt law.
Wound of the world: The world allows the law to become a tool for the rulers, so that the common people have no place to ask for justice.
Response: She becomes a blood executioner who overtakes tyrants in order to uphold absolute justice — even though she has to abandon compassion.
2. Black Mist Princess (Avenya)
Symbol of wound: Hatred and trauma of women due to systemic patriarchal violence.
Wound of the world: The world rapes, silences, and destroys women for power.
Response: She creates the Mist Garden, a country of women without fathers, and destroys men who reflect biological tyranny.
3. Knight Princess (Alice Vermillion)
Symbol of wound: Betrayal of idealism by power.
Wound of the world: Knights who serve the kingdom are actually used to maintain a corrupt system.
Response: She becomes a knight who breaks her oath to defend the people and destroy the oppressive hierarchy.
4. Golden Wisdom Princess
Symbol of the wound: Collective stupidity and mass manipulation.
World wound: The world is lost in lies and propaganda, swallowed by humanity's own stupidity.
Response: She creates an absolute collective consciousness so that the world becomes one mind — no stupidity, no more conflict, only peace.
5. Equality Princess (Revia)
Symbol of the wound: Inequality of power and existential injustice.
World wound: The strong oppress the weak simply because of differences in talent, birth, or wealth.
Response: She neutralizes all power — forcing all to be equal, even in battle.
6. Death Princess
Symbol of the wound: The world's weariness of suffering and existence.
World wound: The world is tired of the cycle of suffering and wasted lives.
Response: She comes to end it all life — because in total death, all suffering will cease.
7. Earth Mother
Symbol of the wound: Ecological destruction and loss of harmony with nature.
Wounds of the world: The world was destroyed by a civilisation that forgot the roots of life.
Response: She summons natural disasters, restoring balance through the destruction of human civilisation.
Critical note: The existence of Earth Mother is currently known only to the disaster princesses, even before the collapse of world memory. Humanity has forgotten her existence since the ancient kingdom was destroyed by Earth Mother. Therefore, in contemporary historical narratives, Death Princess is considered the oldest disaster princess recorded in the history of the continent of Eldora from the clues of ancient murals found in the ancient ruins of the 'Memorial'.
One of my MCs in a private Story can basically actively see the traces of peoples emotions on items and tools by a faint aura like colour they are sourrounded by and also see colours in spectrums others can't. She is a bit offline constantly in the head though because the ability has no off button and the entire world of hers is basically giant compilation of colours making her drift off during conversations. She does use her abilites though to help people and solve crimes.
This is similar to my narrative protagonist, whose FMC possesses a unique ability called [eyes of judgment], which allows her to see the essence of the human soul, including emotions, mentality, and thoughts. She uses this ability to solve crimes and uncover the motives behind each crime.
So if your stories have power systems or magic what are some of the most creative powers or applications you've come up with in your stories?
It doesn't matter if it's in the story already or if you have just thought it up and are going to implement it later on.
I for example I'm probably a lot of chapters away from showing this in the story but one cool ability I have thought up is that one mc with his shadow pocket dimension starts stockpiling gallons of blood, so when he's fighting and receives damage he manifests tiny shadow portals inside his veins to refill the blood loss. Like his own IV system. While he also has room for other things~
That’s actually a fascinating mechanic – turning the body itself into a living system of portals. It blurs the line between biology and spatial manipulation, which I love.
In Gobby’s Adventure, power isn’t external at all. It’s psychological – the ability to manifest one’s inner essence, a creature born from fear, guilt, or desire. Every ability emerges from an innate potential, a predisposition – the essence simply activates what was already buried inside.
When that fusion deepens, awareness itself becomes unstable. The person no longer uses their power – they become its mechanism.
It’s less about magic, and more about how the human psyche transforms when its latent energy finally finds a form.
Black Mist Princess Represents the Collective Wounds of Oppressed and Silenced Women
Disaster Princesses in "The Blood Rose Princess Just Wants to Live in Peace with Her Little Daughter" are not just powerful characters or antagonists. They are conceptual entities born from the deepest wounds of the world, the embodiment of the sadness, suffering, and hidden desires of humanity and the world itself. They are called "disasters" not because of their inherent evil intentions, but because their presence shakes the world order—either because they are too honest, too strong, or too true for the world full of falsehood to accept.
—
Origin of the Disaster Princesses
"The world cried, and from its cries they were born."
Each Disaster Princess is born from the "highest point of suffering" in human history, whether physical, spiritual, or metaphysical. When the world's wounds reach a saturation point and no human or system can heal them, a Princess is born to bear and embody those wounds in the form of absolute power.
They are called Princesses because metaphorically and spiritually, they are the children of the world itself. Not biological offspring, but the incarnation of the world's will in the form of women who represent birth, suffering, hope, and destruction.
—
Existential Function
Each Princess has four functions in the world:
Mirror of the World – They show the true face of the world that is often hidden: injustice, hatred, the destruction of nature, or the meaninglessness of life.
Alternative Judge – They appear when the system fails. If kings fail to protect, the Blood Rose will execute. If society fails to protect women and children, the Black Mist will destroy the patriarchal order.
Test of Humanity – Their presence tests: will humanity change? Or will destruction sweep everything?
Symbol of Dark Hope – Behind the destruction they bring, lies the hope of a more honest, cleaner, more balanced world—even if it means going through disaster.
Blood Rose Princess Judges a Tyrant With Blood In Court
—
Why Are They Called “Disasters”?
Because true change is always painful. Because the world rejects the cure that comes with blood, not prayer. They are called disasters by humanity because their presence disrupts the status quo:
They cannot be controlled by kings or systems.
They destroy cities and kingdoms, even for moral reasons.
They defy the conventional moral logic of humanity, which is bound to compromise.
However, among the oppressed, they are often secretly worshipped. Some people call them:
“Children of the world who love in a way that is incomprehensible.”
“Goddesses of curse and hope.”
—
Existential Structure and Power
Disaster Princesses share several common traits:
Not fully living beings. They are half-spirit, half-ideological reality.
Power does not come from training, but from suffering. They do not level up—they are born at the peak.
They cannot kill each other outright. Because they understand each other—despite their different goals.
They have pure souls. Unambitious, no lust, their actions merely realise the will of a wounded world in extreme ways.
They generally can't have children, because they are not biological women, but Marry is an exception because:
Caelan is not an ordinary child but a spirit of the world's will
But they can:
Hurt each other.
Fight each other.
Oppose each other’s ideologies.
—
Relationship with the World
The Disaster Princesses are not aliens or demons; they are part of the world. But the world fears them, as one fears an old wound reopening.
Only the Earth Mother is called the "Mother of the Disaster Princesses" because she is the earliest incarnation of the Earth's suffering. She does more than guide; she sometimes groans, cries, or gets angry because she sees her children misunderstood, even hurting each other.
—
How is the Disaster Princess Born?
To explain how the disaster princess was born as a response to collective suffering, the Ideology Evolution Tree Framework is used as a philosophical-narrative structure to explain how ideology was born as a living being, namely the DisasterPrincess. This is the unique framework of the Blood Rose Princess (BRP) series that distinguishes it from other stories: ideology does not only exist as an idea, but as an active spiritual entity that lives, acts, and influences the world.
—
The Ideology Evolution Tree Framework:
I. Collective Suffering (Root)
↓
II. Spiritual Incarnation (Disaster Princess)
↓
III. Unique Skill (Form of Life Ideology)
↓
IV. World Impact (Fruit)
—
Explaination of the Ideology Evolution Tree Framework:
I. ? Root: Collective Suffering
"Disaster Princesses are not born from abstract ideas. They are born from collective wounds that have gone unhealed for too long."
Every living ideology stems from deep suffering experienced by many people, such as:
• Injustice and dead laws (Blood Rose)
• Systemic patriarchal violence against women (Black Mist)
• Ecological destruction (Earth Mother)
? Traits: The suffering must be real, systemic, and make it impossible for humans to survive with the old system.
—
II. ?️ Stem: Incarnation as a Disaster Princess
After collective suffering reaches critical mass (collective spiritual trauma), the world metaphysically "gives birth" to the ideology in the form of a Disaster Princess — a girl who is not an ordinary human being, but the spiritual embodiment of that wound.
"The mystical girl was reborn from the suffering of the world."
? Note: The form, personality, and way of speaking of this princess reflect the soul of the suffering she represents.
—
III. Branch: Unique Skills
Unique skills are concrete forms of ideology — namely how the ideology acts on the world.
Examples:
• Marry El Rose (Blood Rose) → Blood Rose Execution → can only hurt those who are guilty.
• Black Mist → Birth of Mist → gives women the ability of parthenogenesis - giving birth to a daughter without the presence of a man.
? Skills are not just cool. They are the world's mechanisms for testing that ideology in the real social realm.
—
IV. ? Fruit: Social and Political Impact
If the Disaster Princess acts according to her ideology, then she will change the world — both structurally, morally, socially, legally and spiritually. For example:
• Moral/Social → Black Mist creates a mist garden as a male-free zone as protection for women.
• Law → Blood Rose applies the "law of blood" which is executing criminals without pardon based on their valid crimes.
Ideology is not finished in the head. It grows into a world structure through the real actions carried out by the disaster princesses.
—
Conclusion: Are They Saviours or Destroyers?
"They are not the world's enemies. They are the world that cries."
The Disaster Princesses are the world's answer to the pain that humans cannot express. They can be:
Heroes in the eyes of the oppressed.
Villains in the eyes of the powerful.
Symbols of the end times in the eyes of historians.
Lost children in the eyes of the Earth Mother.
—
Seven Disaster Princesses
There were at least seven disaster princesses known to humanity before the world's memory collapse incident, they were:
1. Blood Rose Princess (Marry El Rose)
Symbol of wound: Injustice and tyranny perpetuated by corrupt law.
Wound of the world: The world allows the law to become a tool for the rulers, so that the common people have no place to ask for justice.
Response: She becomes a blood executioner who overtakes tyrants in order to uphold absolute justice — even though she has to abandon compassion.
2. Black Mist Princess (Avenya)
Symbol of wound: Hatred and trauma of women due to systemic patriarchal violence.
Wound of the world: The world rapes, silences, and destroys women for power.
Response: She creates the Mist Garden, a country of women without fathers, and destroys men who reflect biological tyranny.
3. Knight Princess (Alice Vermillion)
Symbol of wound: Betrayal of idealism by power.
Wound of the world: Knights who serve the kingdom are actually used to maintain a corrupt system.
Response: She becomes a knight who breaks her oath to defend the people and destroy the oppressive hierarchy.
4. Golden Wisdom Princess
Symbol of the wound: Collective stupidity and mass manipulation.
World wound: The world is lost in lies and propaganda, swallowed by humanity's own stupidity.
Response: She creates an absolute collective consciousness so that the world becomes one mind — no stupidity, no more conflict, only peace.
5. Equality Princess (Revia)
Symbol of the wound: Inequality of power and existential injustice.
World wound: The strong oppress the weak simply because of differences in talent, birth, or wealth.
Response: She neutralizes all power — forcing all to be equal, even in battle.
6. Death Princess
Symbol of the wound: The world's weariness of suffering and existence.
World wound: The world is tired of the cycle of suffering and wasted lives.
Response: She comes to end it all life — because in total death, all suffering will cease.
7. Earth Mother
Symbol of the wound: Ecological destruction and loss of harmony with nature.
Wounds of the world: The world was destroyed by a civilisation that forgot the roots of life.
Response: She summons natural disasters, restoring balance through the destruction of human civilisation.
Critical note: The existence of Earth Mother is currently known only to the disaster princesses, even before the collapse of world memory. Humanity has forgotten her existence since the ancient kingdom was destroyed by Earth Mother. Therefore, in contemporary historical narratives, Death Princess is considered the oldest disaster princess recorded in the history of the continent of Eldora from the clues of ancient murals found in the ancient ruins of the 'Memorial'.
This is similar to my narrative protagonist, whose FMC possesses a unique ability called [eyes of judgment], which allows her to see the essence of the human soul, including emotions, mentality, and thoughts. She uses this ability to solve crimes and uncover the motives behind each crime.
Ohh that's curious and cool. Must be really exhausting for her to even see mentality and thoughs.
My MC is to airheaded and jaded towards humanity to fight much for justice tho, rather she does operate more like a private detective and isn't always on the side of good rather finds herself in a gray area.
Ohh that's curious and cool. Must be really exhausting for her to even see mentality and thoughs.
My MC is to airheaded and jaded towards humanity to fight much for justice tho, rather she does operate more like a private detective and isn't always on the side of good rather finds herself in a gray area.
It was indeed tiring, but FMC didn't stop there. She didn't use her unique skill randomly. Thankfully, she could deactivate it at any time, using it only when necessary. Otherwise, FMC might have lost faith in humanity. Because, as we all know, no human is 100% good.
One of the powers I have thought of, which will appear way way ahead in my story, is the ability to view the roadmap to anything. Basically, the power lets you find the most optimized path to your desired goal. That is using the power would instantly let the user know the step-by-step guide to success. The power also lets the user know of how to do certain things if required for achieving the goal, but the power only tells what to do and the user must do it on his own.
Oh, if we're talking ever, the one time I completed a NaNoWriMo story, I had a musical group called Adversary,
The band's lead singer had absolute control of his voice - able to make it sound like anything from a low whisper to a full orchestra, and even use it for combat if he had to.
The drummer was a speedster who could move insanely fast, sometimes appearing to be in two places at once.
The keyboardist had an extra pair of arms he usually kept hidden in oversized clothing.
The band also had a member who could SEE how things worked together - people, songs, objects, anything - she could put it together (as a side effect, she could also identify what powers someone had, because that was part of how they fit - or didn't).
The final member of the band had a "tactical mind" - kind of able to enter bullet time and see angles of attack, weak points, etc. - a side effect of this is that he also knew how to use any weapon or musical instrument he handled after a few seconds.
It was indeed tiring, but FMC didn't stop there. She didn't use her unique skill randomly. Thankfully, she could deactivate it at any time, using it only when necessary. Otherwise, FMC might have lost faith in humanity. Because, as we all know, no human is 100% good.
heh, my protanist's secret ability is 'atomic quantum observation'. If you know anything about quantum mechanics, you know that the ability to 'observe' millions of molecules at the same time is pretty useful.
The dragons in my world all have titles pertaining to their elements. For example, there is a dragon called "Catl, The Wind Champion". The element is not as important as the name 'champion'. You can tell how strong each dragon is by their title. The three strongest dragons all have the title "Eternal", and the dragon waifu is called "Valericae, The Eternal Red." She is able to use a spell that can consume mana because they're like oblivion flames.
In the same story, there will be a tribe of water elves later that all specialize in water magic.
My protag is able to manipulate entropy and was raised as a weapon. She's been taught to see her abilities as inherently destructive and herself as tainted for having them. As part of her healing arc, she realizes she can use that same power in a more controlled fashion to
rehabilitate the soil of a depleted field by accelerating the breakdown of buried organic matter.
Sounds like a complex endeavor conjuring up such forces of quantum physics to change from disrupting for destruction to healing, sounds kinda magical even, is it a magical sci-fi setting or advanced beyond comprehension?
One of my MCs in a private Story can basically actively see the traces of peoples emotions on items and tools by a faint aura like colour they are sourrounded by and also see colours in spectrums others can't. She is a bit offline constantly in the head though because the ability has no off button and the entire world of hers is basically giant compilation of colours making her drift off during conversations. She does use her abilites though to help people and solve crimes.
Interesting, I was going to mention that it reminded me a bit of Jack the Killer in Record of Ragnarok who also sees emotions, but the fact that all the emotions leave an implant and your character sees the world through that like an infinite canvas and sounds like she acts like drugged out of this world due to such existence she experiences sounds certainly quirky.
I try to ground the sci-fi powers in real world physics (liberal applications of 'soft' because the setting literally says that the past tech was so advanced it is effectively magic)
But quantum manipulation to twist probabilities, folded geometry as blade edges, stuff like that.
The quantum for probabilities I totally get it! The folded geometry as blade edges though gotta admit that I can't grasp how that is applied from hear it being named.
Hmm - probably have my more creative uses scattered around "Between Earth and Pyrroth"
- Using a song by Journey to revive a dead person
- Using the Law of Similarity to turn robes into a form-fitting cage by turning the wool of an ewe into the wood of a yew.
On this site, maybe having Sparrow use her sonic cry to put out a fire ranks up there (though I've seen that done in fiction before, so it wasn't MY creativity, but someone's...).
To be fair if you Don't Stop Believing, its not that hard to do anything even reviving a dead person.
But is that Law of Similarity itself the power of someone? :o
This is similar to my narrative protagonist, whose FMC possesses a unique ability called [eyes of judgment], which allows her to see the essence of the human soul, including emotions, mentality, and thoughts. She uses this ability to solve crimes and uncover the motives behind each crime.
Ohh now this application reminds me a bit of the Magatamas in Ace Attorney series for investigating the liars. Now in this scenario I want to ask is that overpowered that straight up reads minds? Or do they still have to be deciphered and put the pieces together?
That’s actually a fascinating mechanic – turning the body itself into a living system of portals. It blurs the line between biology and spatial manipulation, which I love.
In Gobby’s Adventure, power isn’t external at all. It’s psychological – the ability to manifest one’s inner essence, a creature born from fear, guilt, or desire. Every ability emerges from an innate potential, a predisposition – the essence simply activates what was already buried inside.
When that fusion deepens, awareness itself becomes unstable. The person no longer uses their power – they become its mechanism.
It’s less about magic, and more about how the human psyche transforms when its latent energy finally finds a form.
Oh that's very beautiful! Your idea resonates with me a lot because those topics of inner self and the human psyche reminds me a lot of Carl Jung's psychology and Inner Shadow talk! My own story does have a power system that relies on such concepts of "Inner Spirits" so its really fun to hear a concept that feels similar in essence.
One of the powers I have thought of, which will appear way way ahead in my story, is the ability to view the roadmap to anything. Basically, the power lets you find the most optimized path to your desired goal. That is using the power would instantly let the user know the step-by-step guide to success. The power also lets the user know of how to do certain things if required for achieving the goal, but the power only tells what to do and the user must do it on his own.
heh, my protanist's secret ability is 'atomic quantum observation'. If you know anything about quantum mechanics, you know that the ability to 'observe' millions of molecules at the same time is pretty useful.
The dragons in my world all have titles pertaining to their elements. For example, there is a dragon called "Catl, The Wind Champion". The element is not as important as the name 'champion'. You can tell how strong each dragon is by their title. The three strongest dragons all have the title "Eternal", and the dragon waifu is called "Valericae, The Eternal Red." She is able to use a spell that can consume mana because they're like oblivion flames.
In the same story, there will be a tribe of water elves later that all specialize in water magic.
So fire that consumes mana, so if a person gets burned they are fine but they loose their mana? Does the fire run out until the mana runs out or are there other ways to get rid of it?
Ohh now this application reminds me a bit of the Magatamas in Ace Attorney series for investigating the liars. Now in this scenario I want to ask is that overpowered that straight up reads minds? Or do they still have to be deciphered and put the pieces together?
It's indeed an OP skill. However, I have an unwritten principle that OP characters must have certain disabilities, whether trauma, power limitations, etc.
Well, FMC happens to be a moralistic and humanist heroine. She doesn't want to use the [Eyes of Judgment] skill carelessly. The reason is that she doesn't want to lose faith in humanity. Imagine if every day you saw sinners around you, your family, your friends, and society, then you would lose trust in them. Therefore, FMC only uses the skill consciously to uncover crimes and to fight (reading the opponent's intentions). But she won't use it for fun just to look at other people's privacy.
The quantum for probabilities I totally get it! The folded geometry as blade edges though gotta admit that I can't grasp how that is applied from hear it being named.
Gravity folds space, (and technically time as well but we'll leave that out for sake of simplicity)
Therefore, if you control gravity well enough, you can fold space so that one side of the 'blade' in this case is offset from the other side of the blade.
Thus, you swing it, and anything that comes into contact with that fold is split along two different vectors.
There are a few loopholes. It isn't all too powerful because there's a big cooldown on the spell... yes it's a spell. The other problem with using it is, if required, it can tell the user to kill (someone), it can even teach how to kill, but the eventual killing is what the user has to do, accounting for really interesting scenes where the user is like "I can't do this" cuz of his emotions/feelings.
Malcolm used Open Arms because it was the first song they danced to and described their relationship... and was immediately teased with a line very much like what you said... :D
In canon, it was a side remark the game developers used to explain how Spell Material Components worked. But players used it to do creative "pun effects" with the more open-ended spell, and when a player finds himself actually able to use magic, its one of the first things he tests out.
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