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''Behold my phantasmagoria, enacted by myself. I shan't sing with another's voice.''

-Name: Canvas-Faced

-User(s): "Vega Lyra".

-Type: Conjuration

-Purpose: Utility

-Description: Covers the user in an illusion, making the user look, sound and feel like something specific, to others and themself.

The user can, theorically, turn into anything they imagine. However, accuracy is proportional to how clear the user's image of the target form is, and cost is proportional to how different is said target form from the user.

At the same time, it is only an Illusion. The user does not physically transform into anything, they just look/sound and feel like that thing, even if that thing is of a different size/anatomy than the user.

-Activation Cue: Visual: The user's image blurs for a second. How much do they blur depends on how big the changes are.

Sound: A "zoom" sound, volume proportional to how big the changes are, though never loud.

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-Range: Personal.

-General limitations: 1-Since it's only an Ilusion, "clipping" can happen, since the actual physical space the user occupies does not change, regardless of what they turn into. This doesn't break the effect of Ilusion, but it certainly breaks the effect of disguise.

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2-As a rule, as said before, cost depends on how different the target form is to the user. Things like changing eye/skin/hair color are minimal; things that have different size or shape are more extenuating; things such as "Air" or "Light" are the most draining of all (the user could hold the Illusion for about a few seconds at the very best).

Things such as "different clothes/hairstyles" fall into the second one. As for Auditive Ilusions, it follows the same rule: The more different it is from the user's actual voice, the more expensive.

Note: While little can be done on the Auditive side, on the visual side "Vega" remediates the issue somewhat by using things to change their appearance, making the cost more bearable, and thanks to common usage of the Semblance, in "normal cases" (not something excesive as turning into a Grimm), the cost is low enough for the Semblance to remain active even for days (assuming nothing happens that would make the user use up more Aura).

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3-As said before, the user is not inmune to the Ilusion. Let's say the user turns into a Beowulf: If they look in a mirror, they would see themself as a Beowulf. If they speak, they would hear themself as a Beowulf. If they touch themself, they would feel as furry(?) as a Beowulf. But the user is still not a Beowulf.

Note: The user can turn into something that is very different from what a person normally would be shaped like. Such as a Nevermore. The user would need to adopt a posture at least similar to a Nevermore for the effect to be convincing.

Otherwise, the disguise fails due to the "Nevermore" adopting a pose that is either impossible for them, or just plain weird. If "Vega", say, stood up perfectly straight, arms down, like a normal person, the "Nevermore" would look like some sort of flamenco-wannabe.

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4-Since it's only an Illusion, not a physical transformation, that means the user's strength won't change at all, nor will they be affected any different by forces. Let's say the user weights 50Kg, and a Goliath weights 250Kg. If the user turns into a Goliath, regardless of the size and how heavy the user feels, the user would still weight 50Kg and be affected like normal.

In the same way, if the user turns into a Faunus, no night vision.

5-The Ilusion ends inmediately should the user's Aura drop to 0. If the user's Aura is extremely low, about 10-to-15%, or if the user loses too much concentration, the Illusion starts to lose accuracy. Strong-enough hits can also momentaneously stop the Ilusion.

6-Should the user turn into a Grimm: No, they will still be capable of telling the user is not a real Grimm. Unless the Grimm do actually rely on their senses to tell what is what, then (emotions aside) they would fall for it, for the most part.

-Dust interaction: None.

-Notes: The (current) Idea for Vega Lyra's Semblance, based on Lupin's Master of Disguise skills.

When I say "loses accuracy", I mean that it looks more...fake. Assuming about 99% accuracy of a penguin, the user would look like a real penguin.

Meanwhile, if it was about 50% instead, the user would look like a more fake penguin, but one that at least resembles the real thing somewhat.

With about 10-or-less % accuracy, it looks so obviously fake that only a blind bat would think it's real.