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Blu3 Fir3 - V2.0 wrote:  -Name: Candor Angelus

 II) Semblance

-Name: Divine Theft

-Short Description: Can steal the Semblances of others via physical contact on any part of the body  (Includes clothing, armor, etc.) Candor is able to use the Semblance for only five minutes, but he increases its power exponentially. Not only that, but he can "stack" Semblances, combining them to form more, and more powerful combinations of attacks; however, the time limit does not increase each time he adds a new Semblance, and it drains his Aura faster each time he does so.

This semblance…doesn’t really work within the context of the show for a number of reasons Spirit covered, so instead I’ll opt to talk about why it doesn’t work mechanically. Semblances are, as far as the show has portrayed them, a mix between a muscle you are unaware of and a profession. You need to both practice with it in order to make it stronger, and you need to experiment and learn how to use it to discover it’s limits.

Stealing a semblance means you now have a muscle you have never used before, that performs an action for a profession you have never practiced in. You can not steal Weiss’s glyphs and then summon her iron giant, because your user has never gone through the years of practice it took her to get there, nor will you immediately be able to tell the summoning glyphs from her speed glyphs. As a better example, what happens if he steals a semblance from someone before he even knows what it does? Do you not only download the semblance but also the thoughts AND muscle memory? Where do those go after the 5 minutes then? Cause i’ll tell you right now the brain can not just empty all the data he would have had to absorb from one person alone. Don’t even get me started on mix and matching two semblances to create an entirely new profession that no one would have been able to practice with.

To summarize, the main problem with your semblance is that, in order for it to work, he needs to both steal aura, then it needs to steal memories, then it needs to not work on people with a locked aura or an undiscovered or unknown semblance, then it needs to not be able to be used better than the one he stole it from...and this isn’t even going into the amount of stuff he’d need to mix two of them.

Look...I’m probably the person most likely to bend the rules with a semblance. I’ve made a semblance whose sole purpose is to disable other semblances for instance, but I draw the line when a semblance asks for too much, and stealing semblances, in a universe where that is linked to a person's soul, counts.