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Name: Burden

User(s): Xavier haven'tcomeupwithalastnameyet (yes, it will fit the color rule, don't worry)

Type: Psychic

Purpose: Defensive/Utility (can apply to all three, depending on how it's used, really)

Short Description: Inflicts the target with confusion, sensory overload, winds them, and creates numbness in the body. The general feeling you might experience when standing too close to a bomb as it explodes.

Activation Cue: A loud ringing, as if one were too close to an explosive. You know when you're watching a movie and something explodes, and as the main character is crawling away you hear the loud blaring ring that they're supposedly hearing because they temporarily lost their hearing? That. If you still don't know what I'm talking about, watch the scene from the Hunger Games where Katniss blows up the food supply.

Range: Medium

General Limitations: The user can only activate their semblance when inflicted with incredibly strong negative emotions. It is difficult to do on more than one person at a time.

Passive Ability(s): May give slight headache to others around him when he is in a strong negative emotion but does not trigger his semblance (e.g. he loses to a game of Go Fish, his family is killed, his pumpkin spice latte is poorly made, etc).

Active Ability: Tier One: Semblance is inflicted on one specific target.

Active Ability: Tier Two: Semblance is inflicted on all targets within a specific radius (very draining).

Dust Interaction: Nada

Notes: This semblance is especially effective on humans, but does nothing more than knock a Grimm backwards and wind them, as Grimm have no soul, which may be problematic for Xavier as the semblance is triggered by negative emotions, whicb attracts Grimm. The semblance is his way of forcing specific targets to share his mental and emotional pain, so the results may vary - for example, if he's incredibly frustrated, confusion will be especially strong when the semblance was used, but if he was angry, sensory overload may come more into play.