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Name: Shift

User: Cuan Dolan

Type: Physical (I am presuming)

Purpose: Utility

Short Description: The control over the flow of localized time; specifically, around the user, affecting both living and non-living matter. This extends to both what is within his sphere of influence, as well as his own body as well, and of course, anything he touches- weapons especially.

Visual Effect: Vibrant silver glow to the user’s eyes, as if lit with flames.

Range: Personal to Medium – Or in other words, 0-8 meters; also known as 24 feet

General Limitation: Even at maximum aura capacity and control, Cuan has only ever altered time’s flow within fifteen minutes- pushing the limits of his own life and safety to the limit. (Once he manipulated seventeen minutes- and nearly suffered brain damage, and use of most of his motor functions).

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">            When altering time’s flow, he can only do so by a maximum factor of five; when accelerating, one real second becomes a fifth of that, and when decelerating, it feels like one second becomes five.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">            Additionally, the longer he alters time’s flow, the more aura that is required to maintain the alteration. With this in mind, Cuan only do so for small bursts; accelerating time’s flow only for a minute at maximum, or decelerating it for two minutes, as it is far easier to slow down time than to accelerate it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">            When using both deceleration and acceleration simultaneously, Cuan has a time limit of one minute. Using both aspects at the same time is extremely draining, and in truth, he is still limited to a single minute burst; and with acceleration being used, he must wait for his body to stabilize, lest he risk heavy internal damage.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">            Lastly, even when altering the flow of time, dangers are ever present; his body has to use aura to counteract most of the effects of time lag, and when accelerating, he has to be careful as doing so without any excess aura to shield/strengthen his own being can result in internal damage from muscle tears to bone fractures, even migraines and worse…

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Passive Ability: Chronological Clock – Cuan is self-aware of time, not to the point of telling time, but rather, he is aware of how much time passes, with and without his Semblance active.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Active Ability (tier one): Cuan alters the flow of time within his sphere of influence, either accelerating living matter and non-living matter so it “moves” faster through time, or decelerating it, causing it to move “slowly” through time. (i.e. A simple punch can seem like a sluggish strike while using deceleration, and a single bullet can seem to be a high-velocity sniper round from a pistol)

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Active Ability (tier two): Cuan is able to self-accelerate and decelerate; reducing his body’s time in a sense, or alternatively, speeding up his body’s time clock, allowing him to move, react, and fight faster, in a sense.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Active Ability (tier three): Cuan is able to use acceleration and deceleration simultaneously, allowing him to create a large gap in time’s flow; for example, while firing bullets rapidly and making them accelerate at a target- he can slow down the target, not only enabling the bullets to impact, but also allowing more hits to connect.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dust Interaction: None

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Notes: Cuan believes his Semblance was born out of his desire to make the most of the time he can spend with anyone- though his cousin jokes that it was also born out of his desire to blur through detentions.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cuan Dolan is my own OC for the RWBY series. Might put up the other Semblance ideas up later, maybe.