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SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: ..........Weird, I had an idea for a similar Semblance. Though my idea leaned more towards inducing a sort-of Narcolepsy, not just "drowsy before going to sleep".

Let's see.... All right then.

1) For reference for this first part, I took inspiration from Sam Fisher from the Splinter Cell series (The books, not the games). At the start of one of his books (I don't remember which) he mentions that he can basically fall asleep at the drop of a hat wherever and whenever he wanted. I believe he describes it in the book in something along these lines; 'It's as if my brain would take over and say "You will sleep now" and I'd be out' (I'm paraphrasing, obviously). Basically, it's an acute control over one's body with regards to sleep. If it can't happen IRL and that Splinter Cell example was creative license, then I'll take out that aspect of my character. I'm not married to the idea, I just thought it may be a cool little aside.

2) Well, Spirited, Blu3 Fir3 and I were bouncing ideas off each other regarding the inner workings of the Semblance, and I can link it to you if you want. Spirited came up with the delay, referencing the 'Yawn' move from Pokemon, while Blu3 Fir3 was thinking of something that was easy to dodge so it wasn't OP.

I appreciated them both, which is where the Tier 1 scattershot idea came from- step back for the scattershot, but even if you didn't you still had some time before you were knocked out. However, I also wanted my character to have something of a ranged option. I'm using Neko-Te as his weapon, and there's not a whole lot that can be done to turn that sucker into a gun besides a small-mag finger gun...I guess. So I decided to give him two different forms of the Semblance, one to give him a decent ranged option and one to give him a close-range tool, so there we are.

3) I was actually unsure about how to display the Semblance's AOE. I was thinking that some form of flame effectss of some kind may work, as Freddy got his powers after being burned alive and going to hell, but that's as close as I've come to a Visual AOE representation. Maybe some kind of discolored and ethereal flames? Still working on that.

4) I don't see any circumstances where the User would be affected by his own Semblance.

Bit of a tangent, but do we have any 'Semblance-reflecting Semblances'? If not, then good; I don't recommend it for the same reason I don't recommend Semblance-negating Semblances. If so...why? it's a constant drain on Aura and is way too situational.

Tangent over.

So, under what circumstances would it be possible to have his Semblance affect him?

@Spirited 1) thanks for pointing out Russel Thrush, his name had slipped my mind, and  2) I had imagined that the effects would continue if the user was incapacitated, unless there's an issue with that canonically.