Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151027072937/@comment-86.61.21.122-20151104232556

Hello. First time here.

-Name: Grav-burst (I guess. I'm not good with names. Short for gravity burst.)

-User: Let's go with "Mac" (Again: bad with names)

-Type: I'm not sure. Could be Aural, Conversion or Physical. One of the last two.

-Purpose: Utility

-Short description: A burst that destabilizes gravity in an area about 1 meter around the user.

-Visual effect: A sphere of air makes a gust around the user. Like white wind that appears for a second around the user. About a 7 feet wide bubble. (Imagine a wind burst but less visible.) But it's not wind. It just looks similar.

-Range: Short. About 3 feet-ish from the user in all directions. A sphere around the center of mass. Not really under the user's legs.

-General limitations: It can't be spammed. Energy consumption depends on the output needed: if the user falls from a plane it takes more energy, also if you need to make the force stronger, like throwing someone/something farther away, or throwing/effecing more objects/people.

Fighting someone with great spacial awareness and balance can be an issue. In this case it's just a push in a random direction which they can even use to their advantage.

-Passive ability: Silly, but the user rarely trips, allthough that could be because they know a bit about physics. (Like I said. Silly)

-Active ability: The user creates a short burst of energy that destabilizes the gravity around them. It looks like a gust that goes different ways and sort of makes a bubble, about 2 meters wide, around the user. Doesn't really effect things below the user's feet. It effects the space around them, but not them. Their clothes don't move (like they would with a wind based burst). It lasts for a moment.

The user can choose to jump and use the semblance to push themselves somewhere, (since it would affect the walls and ground but since those are static and the user is in mid air it would move the user,) but due to the nature of the semblance (lots of small forces in random directions) it isn't advised. It wouldn't work. It would be useless.

Example 1: You have 5 spears going straight towards your face, you use the semblance and the weapons are redirected somewhere else. Could also work for arrows, crossbow bolts or rockets and granades. Not really good for bullets since they are so small and there's a lot of them coming one after the other. You would need to spam the whole sphere since you can't select just a part.

Example 2: if the user is surrounded he can use the burst to push people back, away, up, down, it's random as long as it is away from the user. In a hallway enemies can be thrown against the ceiling, knocking them out. It works for a moment. People are pushed back (or up, or left...) but they fall on their own, so if the user is fighting someone with great spacial awareness and balance it wouldn't be that effective.

Example 3: The user is falling of an airship and one meter before the ground uses the semblance. He survives. Dazed, drained of power, but alive.

-Dust interaction MAYBE: wind dust: make a stronger gust around the user. Throws people farther away. Maybe? I didn't think if this. Probably not.

Haste+ice (I know that that is Weiss's speciality, mixing dust, but I'm brainstorming here) If he was under the effect of Weiss'  Glyph, could he throw people away at random in slow motion? They would be stuck in mid air and he could just hit them. Like time freeze. The opposite of Haste. Hm... Weiss could actually use that in the series. Whatever she used fot Haste, but instead of lighting (I think), she would use ice.

Okay, I've decided. NO DUST INTERACTIONS

-Notes: I guess it's just a wind burst only fancier. A glorified wind burst but it doesn't really affect (normal) dust or smoak so it can't make a smoakscreen. Also people aren't just thrown back, but are thrown at random (away from the user.)

'''You all had Physics, right? You know vectors, those little arrows? Yea, imagine an orb full of tiny little arrows all going in random different directions, and a guy in the middle'''. Because It's not magic. It's science!

(Joke: Now I'm going to picture all the ways how this semblance can go wrong if it didn't have "away from the user". Like a spear wielder goes for his arm, he uses his semblance and the spear is redirected into his leg.)