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-Name: Bondsight

-Introduction: User gains a new sense: the ability to "see" the bonds and relationships between people

-Range: Long (100 Meters before things become to blurry to see)

-Type: Psychic

-Purpose: utility

-Visual Cue: when the semblance is gained marks the color of the users aura appear on the users face and said marks grow in size and complexity the more intensely the semblance is used.

-Tier 1: User has the ability to see the bonds between people as a passive sixth sense that is active as long as the user has aura. The ability allows the user to see the characteristics of the relationship (so a mother child relationship looks different than that between lovers). The sixth sense sees through most solid barriers (with the exception of anything with dust in it) and in all directions. A good description of its sensation is “seeing in all directions,” or “hearing with depth perception.

-Tier 2: With focus the user can see and interpret another persons aura to get a broad strokes grip of their personality. This is not telepathy and more functions like an accurate personality test. Getting to this tier is akin to listening to music frequently to be able to pick up the subtle nuances of what you hear; your not gaining anything new just using what you have better.

-Tier 3: The semblance’s only active ability is the ability to create and break battle bonds. Battle bonds are the learned tells that teams develop from working together and allow them to predict their teammates actions. The user must consciously activate this tier and can gain the ability to create or break a battle bond between people within a 20 meter radius for 30 seconds. Aura use goes up exponentially with the number of bonds created or broken. After the ability lapses the bonds return to normal. When a bond is created the people sharing the bond can fight like the have worked together for years where when a bond is broken the affected team are like this fight is their first time working together.

-General Limitations: Describing the sixth sense to others (try describing the color pink to someone blind from birth).

Over stimulation is very possible for new users and is much like being in a too bright or too loud room. More expertise allows the user to block it out to some extent but over simulation can still be a problem given that the semblance is on continuously.

The Bond sight cannot see things with no aura such as grim, robots, or solid objects

The user has no intuition over what the different stimuli mean. For example, in order to tell if a relationship is a mother daughter one the user would need to: know that the relationship is of that type, discover what part of the bond corresponds to that relationship and only then would they know what to look for in the future for a mother daughter bond.

Potential privacy issues given there is really know way to turn off the semblance or to look away

the ability doesn’t see walls or objects and so cant really be used to navigate in enclosed spaces

-Applications: keeping track of people in battle

User should be able to recognize Neapolitan’s illusions given that they would have no aura

Emerald’s illusions would be recognized as they don’t conform to the bondsight and Emerald wouldn’t know how to manipulate a users perceptions to match given they don’t experience bondsight