Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170729051211/@comment-25936766-20170801031726

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

1) Hence I figured a cold related semblance would be more fitting with the tone, since the story is based around the fact that she froze to death and couldn't get warm no matter how many matches she lit.

2) The question I have with inducing hallucinations is "how do I avoid just making another Neo/Emerald semblance?" If everyone sees it, it's like Neo's. If only one person sees it, it's like Emerald's. 1) ........I would tell you about "Making people feel like they are dying" (which includes things like vision going gray and one feeling colder), but I think that's already been done.

2) Well, for starters Neo makes Illusions, not Hallucinations. Which is why everyone can see them; it's a trick of the senses, not the mind.

Second of all.....don't focus on "X is similar to Canon Character Y's Semblance". Focus on what separates them. Something to distinguish it from either of those mentioned Semblances.

Like, for example, the idea I had when I said "Fire that creates/induces Hallucinations": A fire that doesn't cause actual physical harm, but whoever is "burned" by it starts hallucinating about something they want or like, be it some food or some movie or someone.

Already different from Emerald's because the user has no actual control over the Hallucination, and it doesn't directly make people Hallucinate outright from the get go, they must get burned by the flame first.

Again, similarities are not the important. Differences are.