#semblance ideas

Semblance= Storage space-a pocket dimension of sorts that has limited space

Hey anon! I love hearing about different semblance ideas for James! Hmmm so if I’m understanding your idea correctly it’s that James has the ability to sense other people’s emotions or even feel them? That would certainly be an interesting twist, James constantly feeling other people’s emotions so much that when he’s alone he just wants to feel nothing so he just emotionally shuts himself down. After Beacon I can see it getting really bad with all the fear people are feeling completely overwhelming him and their being too much happening. This could especially be interesting as a passive semblance he can’t shut off just adding to it all. It would especially be cool to have this semblance come out when their is an extremely heated fight happening and James is drowning in everyone’s emotions to the point of completely breaking down and screaming for everyone to be quiet but they’re still feeling the emotions so it doesn’t help. Qrow probably knows about his semblance and realizes just how bad it has to be for James to be reacting like this and in a moment of just being completely shattered by how much he’s feeling admits that he hasn’t had a moment of peace since Beacon because everyone is feeling so much so powerfully he’s always feeling too much.

Revenge:

The User is able to heal their own wounds by giving them to those around them. User does not get to choose who the wound goes to however, meaning that allies can be affected.

Spectator:

The user is able to see through the eyes of 1 other person but not control them. User’s body goes limp while doing so, but can still be injured. User does not control the host, only sees what they are doing, host is not aware of User’s presence.

Life Steal:

The user, when fatally injured or killed, sucks up life from the life around them (Plants, Animals, People) in order to heal or revive themself. This comes at multiple costs though.

- User will look pale constantly after revival and will not have as much energy as they used to

- User has a chance of being significantly weaker after revival

- Because User is technically dead, the User can’t use their aura anymore. They do not have an Aura.

- User can die and be revived multiple times but the consequences will be more significant each time.

- User starts uncontrollably sucking up life around them in order to sustain their own life.

- In heavily life saturated areas, the radius of life being sucked up will be smaller, in very lowly life saturated areas, the radius will be bigger due to needing to find life in order to sustain the users life.

- Plants wither and turn black, Animals collapse and dissipate, and Humans dissolve into dust.

'Uno Reverse Card': Automatically deflect any negative semblance back to your attacker.

'Night Time': Temporarily blind targets. (my own OC has this semblance)

'The Fear': Fill your target with fear and dread, once mastered can cause target to go insane for a short time.

I have a few others, but they're a bit meh. Might add some more later.

Hmm that’s definitely an interesting semblance idea! Though will how poorly defined passive semblances are I always hesitate with them because we don’t really know how well passive semblances are controlled. Sometimes it’s implied they can sort of be controlled others it’s implied it cannot be controlled or stopped at all. Does it depend on the person? The Semblance? Plot? We just don’t know.

I heard though one person mention it would be cool to give James a passive semblance of kind of knowing if people are generally being truthful or deceiving him. Would be pretty interesting to me since that would better be a semblance that would make people weary of someone (unlike stupid Robyn trying to compare her semblance to Qrow even though his is passive and she chooses to use hers on everyone as their mother) because they could never lie to James.

Time pause but only for 5 seconds, doing it in multiple times with short intervals will quickly wear the user out

Yin Yang split, the user splits into two personas the half that represents the Yin and the half that represents the Yang. Hard part is getting the two to fuse back together if left apart for to long.

Location switch, you can switch places of two things including yourself and people. But the things that you switch have to be in eye sight and the heavier the object the more time it takes.

Phasing, you phase through things.

You can shift the center of somethings balance, thus throwing it off balance or helping something regain balance

Good luck. Listen if Qrow is literally a walking talking bad luck charm there is a chance for a walking talking good luck charm to be walking around. It may sound fine and dandy and for the most part it is...until people want to use you for their own personal gain.

Vision sharing, its exactly what it sounds like, but major headache or temporary eyesight problems if done long enough.

Sonic scream. Used enough and ya get a sore throat.

Gravity manipulation but they can only manipulate their own and who ever they touch

When given enough time can locate the weakness on an enemy

Can generate bursts of light from body

Location switching but it takes time because of accounting for weight and distance of what is being switched with what

Shadow travel

Solar energy version of Nora's semblance.

Portal generation, but they have to be able to see where they're going, multiple can be opened at once.