Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20180622162042/@comment-25396609-20180929005718

For one, "extremely rare" means nothing here. With the exception of the Schnee family, Semblances are unique to the individual. Obviously it's impossible for every person to have a wholly unique ability, but that's where degrees of seperatiion come in.

Second, "blast of psychic energy" ? I think you're writing this ability for the wrong show, dude. Characters in this show have an Aura, not psychic energy or whatever. Aura is a physical expression of a person's soul, not a projection of force of will.

Third, you're trying to overcomplicate a pretty simple ability. You don't need some absurdly fancy flashy effect or anything, because in the end literally all you would be doing is slowing down the rate at which a person's brain processes information.

We measure time based on the observation of movement in one form or another; slowing down how quickly a person processes sensory information would cause a sense that time is slowing down.

Now, the closest we have seen to an ability like this in-show is Emerald's hallucinations. She is quite skilled with that ability and very well trained in its use, but it is extremely taxing on her body and mind.

In order to forcibly slow a person's ability to process information, you would need to either slow the movement of electrical impulses through their nervous system, or overwrite the sensory information they are receiving. Both of these would require extreme concentration making it not especially useful in combat.

Of course, neither of these would actually allow the user to seemingly teleport, because slowing perception of time through any mechanism would not cause that sort of frame-skipping effect. They would still see the movement, it would simply stretch out over a longer timeframe.