Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170624011641/@comment-25936766-20170706224706

HookshotHotshot wrote: 1) You misunderstand me. Remember that massive.........Where we went over way too many tangents and clogged the thread for a few days? 

2) As far as I'm aware, the only reason you're against the passive ability of the Semblance is because it's impossible for humans to go to sleep and wake up at will. Is that correct?

Because if it is, I can point out a huge variety of things that Semblances do that are impossible for humans to do. And that ability is part of a Semblance.

3) How would you work a Semblance-Reflecting Semblance? You don't need to put it in a Template, but what would it do and what would the cost be? 1) Did it really last days? I thought it lasted like 1, at worst 1-and-half, but we simply responded to each other frequently.

2) If you overly-simplify the Semblances, sure, any of them fall into that, because Semblances are super powers with a fancy name.

But overly-simplify anything, and you can fit everything into it. I could call humans "things with 2 hands and 2 feet". But if I did that, a good number of animals, like monkeys for starters, would count as humans, and that would be incorrect.

There's a difference between ability and capability. Let's use Ruby's Speed for the example:

1>Ruby's Semblance is just moving fast. Theorically speaking, any body capable of movement has the possibility of going that fast if they can (Leaving aside all the nasty side effects that going fast would have). Humans can't, not because they are incapable of going that fast, but because our bodies are not capable of generating enough speed and acceleration, we can't flash around like she does.

2>Sleeping/Waking up at will, is, as far as I know, impossible (at least if we're talking about real sleep), because when people fall asleep, they lose practically all awareness and are barely conscious. It's like becoming a vegetable, until you wake up. You cannot tell yourself "Wake up" or anything, because you don't even realize when you're asleep (and even when you are aware you're sleeping, you can't tell yourself to wake up prematurely).

See the difference? For the former case, people are able of going fast, but not physically capable of attaining that much speed. For the latter, people are not able to send themselves to sleep, or at least wake up at will, to begin with, thus they are not capable of doing that.

It's not impossible for humans to go fast. But our bodies are not physically capable of reaching such speed (or surviving it, since reality is harsh). Meanwhile, it's impossible to retain even most of our awareness while asleep, and thus we are not capable of waking up at will.

Now, I'm speaking on a basis of how things normally are. I'm not including things like "hypnosis", but even then, I doubt one would be capable of waking themselves up with it.

3) A reflection, in this context, is to throw back something without absorbing it. So I would think of something that would bounce back Semblances that affect the user, with the manner of how they bounce back depending on the Semblance.

For example, if the Semblance amplifies the force of a punch, then that extra force would be bounced back as if it was recoil. Meanwhile, a Semblance that fires something would have the shot be bounced back in another direction.

If the Semblance reflected affects solely 1 target, it would be bounced back to it's user. If the Semblance affects a group, it would only bounce back when it comes to the Reflector's User being affected (meaning everyone else is still affected), and how it bounces back still depends.

And if the Semblance simply creates something somewhere, there's no real way to reflect that, so it's not reflected.

As for range and duration, my idea is that at first it only affects the user, and last for a small second or 2 meaning timing is required. With more practice, it could be held for longer, but that makes it more tiresome, and the user could pass the effect to others via direct contact, but that'd also make it more tiresome.

As for cost, a small amount for activating it momentarily, plus a bigger amount that is proportional to the reflected Semblance. And if the cost is bigger than the Aura % of the user at the moment, then it won't reflect the Semblance entirely, leading to something similar to what Yang got handed to her by Adam.

And of course, passing the effect to someone else, or holding it for longer, would cost more.

That is how I would make a Semblance-Reflecting Semblance.