Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170624011641/@comment-27447621-20170706013158

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1) That's the reason that you fall asleep before you even know it and then wake up 6 hours later even if you only felt like 30 minutes passed. That's why the idea of waking up "at will" feels ilogical for me, because when you're asleep, you are not capable of doing things by your own will.

2) Aura beams. Like Blake's Blade Beams, which is an Aura Technique. Logically, other kinds of beams are also possible via Aura.

Guns are not obligatory, not even to give the character a ranged option.

3) If you want to keep the Freddy allusion, flames are fine, but if you can't decide on the specific look, think of the OC, their appearance, their Aura's color, etc.

4) So the user makes the cloud....while running forward. Since the cloud doesn't disappear instantly (else it would be useless), the user walks into the AoE, and falls asleep too.

...............................What, never thought of that?

5) Your tangent fails on 1 obvious account: You are assuming any and every Semblance that reflects/negates other Semblances, would have a constant cost. The over-generalization makes it run on stupid logic.

As for being situational, not really. A Semblance-Reflector can be used for Teamwork, in multiple ways, with only some creativity. It makes the user a walking mirror in that regard, and that opens up many ideas. Good on a Team, unless it's run by idiots. 1) There's also the fact that this is a passive effect of a Semblance, meaning that it can ignore certain aspects of anatomy. Ruby's Semblance, for example, allows her to bypass speeds that would be otherwise attainable by humans, or by Huntsmen/Huntresses of her age.

2) Yeah, he uses Aura Beams too, but the thing that makes these a less appealing option than bullets is the fact that manifesting an Aura as a beam would, I assume, take a somewhat decent chunk of Aura to do; otherwise why isn't everyone using Aura instead of a limited supply of Bullets.

And I can guess what you're going to say; Well Semblances use Aura too. Yeah, you're right, but the difference here is that Aura Beams deal one hit, whereas a ranged Semblance that causes people to slow and tire before falling asleep opens the target up for lots more hits than just the one that the Aura Beam does.

3) I will keep that in mind.

4) It's not a cloud, it's more of a burst. It starts to affect anyone hit by it, but if you're not hit it's not like it leaves some kind of Sandman-esque powder floating in the air.

Tangent) Yes I thought it would have a constant cost because if you could just turn it off and on for one Aura cost then what's stopping you from keeping it on all the time until your Aura is completely drained- in things like school and home settings? That way, you just pay once.

Of course I thought about teamwork capabilities, but if we use your 'walking mirror' example, I would expect that it would fall short quite a bit. I don't think a 'walking mirror' would prove useful against Semblances that directly affect the user (like Ruby's, Yang's, Nora's or Velvet's) or created constructs or glyphs that can be easily dispelled (like Weiss', Blake's, Sun's or Neo's). It may affect Psychic ones if the user tried to use it on the target, but that's a small portion, and most illusions can be dispelled by the user anyways, making it a moot point.

If you extend the 'Reflector' Semblance to say "The user of the reflector is now in control of the targets Semblance and/or can entirely reverse the inert effects of Semblances that directly affect the user', then I guess it may work in a few more situations, but it spirals out of control really fast.

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@Ghost

1/2) the Peripheral vision is just a reference. The user can control the AOE of the Semblance to any area within 5 feet within his Peripherals; they're just the maximum limit of his range.

3) I mentioned that there were a few mild potency increases as the user went up through the Tiers (Maybe a range increase of 3-4 inches per Tier; nothing huge). The targets ability to force themselves to stay up is probably the biggest factor. If you've stayed up doing any activity you know that you can put off sleep through willpower and focus, but you can't stay awake forever. This is just that principle, but accelerated.

Does that help?