Supernatural Power

Overview
"Supernatural" is a catch-all term for all those things that go beyond, and may at times run counter to, the normal laws of nature. That said, however, the supernatural in most cases conforms to its own manner of logic and structure, and as a result is something that can be studied, understood, categorised, and explained. Thus, what the humans in the outside world may call "supernatural", someone more wise to the true nature of reality might more correctly call "unusual".

There are many ways to acquire and develop these "supernatural" abilities. For some, their supernatural powers are intrinsic, an example would be most plant and nature youkai intrinsically having the ability to manipulate plants; for others, similar abilities may be acquired through training, or interaction with more powerful beings. Due to the unusual, and sometimes borderline illogical nature of these abilities, it is in most cases far more difficult to acquire them through training alone, unless one has a specific talent for the ability in question - such as Marisa Kirisame's talent for magic. Without such a talent, it could easily take a lifetime of training to acquire even the basics of a "supernatural" power, let alone master it, although this process could potentially be a lot easier and faster if one were to find someone sufficiently knowledgeable to instruct them.

These types of abilities can also be given directly by sufficiently powerful entities - a good example would be the way the greater gods of the Celestial Bureaucracy empower their servants in various ways, or the way shikigami are sometimes allowed to borrow some of their master's power. Outside of entering into such an agreement, however, it would likely not be easy to convince anyone to hand out power in this manner, however.

Given time, study, training, and cultivation, supernatural powers can grow and develop, eventually reaching the pinnacle of their expression, where they begin to cross over into the realm of conceptual powers - such abilities would be classified as "Partial Conceptual Powers". At their peak, these can act exactly like conceptual abilities, with the difference being that the source of power is the wielder of the ability themselves, while a truly conceptual ability acts through its associated concept.

Magic
Magic is a category all its own, as it forms the basis for all supernatural abilities. In theory, it is also the easiest of these abilities to learn, but can grow incredibly powerful as the range of possible effects are limited only by the knowledge of the practitioner. Almost all Youkai, Spirits, and Gods have a natural affinity for magic, and many humans can learn it, although only a few of them have the talent required to achieve any real degree of mastery in the space of their more limited lifespans.

Magic essentially functions by converting energy from the user into a different form, and then applying or projecting it in some way into the surrounding world. The downside of this is that it often takes a significant amount of energy to acheive significant effects, and that must be tightly controlled to prevent energy from being lost in the process. This is why magic, in and of itself, is both an incredibly powerful and vesatile, but also complex and difficult to use power.



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 * Marisa Kirisame
 * Marisa may only be a human, but her skill in Light and Heat magic rivals that of a youkai magician. Marisa's primary use of her magic is for making star-shaped danmaku and lasers, and Marisa can amplify her spellpower using her Mini-Hakkero, for massively over-powering attacks.
 * Outside of danmaku, Marisa also a skilled alchemist, using exotic mushrooms for components to cast her attacks, as well as for making potions and various and mostly volatile powders.
 * Finally, Marisa has the ability to copy the spells of other magicians by writing them down in her grimoire and reverse-engineering the spell. In addition to stealing the spell, she also researches ways to improve stolen spells and create versions more efficient or powerful then the originals.


 * Alice Margatroid
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 * Fujiwara No Mokou
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 * Gengetsu
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List Of Supernatural Powers
In some ways, these can be considered specific schools or types of magic, in much the same way that different schools of martial arts can be considered specific types of "fighting". Extending the analogy, mastery of one may make it easier or more difficult to learn others, depending on the similarities or differences between them.

Manipulation of Cold


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Manipulation of Plants
 The Manipulation of Plants is an intrinsic ability shared by both Yuuka Kazami and Azami Zatsusei, as well as most Plant Youkai. It is assumed this ability works on all plants, but one can hone the skill towards a certain type of plant, or inherently are better at working with one type of plant over others.

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The Manipulation of Plants encompasses many sorts of useful abilities related to plants.

One such aspect is plant empathy, which lets the basic feelings of plants nearby be communicated. The emotions of plants can be read through plant empathy, communicating degrees of happiness, health, and fear that surrounding plants have. In addition, with this ability, emotions may be conveyed as well, and emotions felt can spread to nearby plants as well. Anger takes the form of bristling and rustling leaves of the surrounding nature, for instance.

Another aspect is the growth of plants, which allows a plant to sprout from a single seed into a mighty and tall tree, if enough power is used. Plants grown in such a way can also have aspects of their growth controlled. Plants can be grown into a superior specimen of that species, or conversely can be mutated into some other plant that looks nothing like what it was spawned from, depending on who is using the power and for what purpose.

The final aspect is controlling plants themselves, with the ability to will them to move. Of course, this works best if the plant actually has parts that can move. A tall sunflower could be moved to wrap around a post, but not much else, where a tree can flail its branches, and has large enough roots to possibly even uproot itself from the soil and crawl towards another location by the sheer will of the one controlling it. This aspect is often combined with growth to create plants that grow and move towards an object, such as vines that grow and wrap around another object at the same time, allowing it to eventually coil and wrap it like an anaconda crushing its prey.

Application

 * Yuuka Kazami
 * The scope of Yuuka's power over plants, mainly flowers, is currently unknown. Yuuka commonly relies more on her magic then exercise her control over plants, but it is rather assumed she likes to grow flowers quite often with her power.


 * Azami Zatsusei
 * Azami can rapidly accelerate the rate at which most plants around it grow, including roots, vines, stems, leaves, etc. In addition, it can also mutate plants as they grow, giving them all manner of spines, ivy, vines, bristles, and sometimes can cause such features to secrete a weak poison or corrosive agent. Defensively, it can thicken plant features to become unnaturally hard, woodlike, and/or grow bark.
 * The speed at which Azami can grow plants depends on the amount needed, and how many mutations they need to undergo. This could be as fast when erupting sharp roots or tendrils of ivy from the ground, or slow when spreading a wide swath of plants over barren ground or a structure. Azami also exercises control over plants very often, in conjunction with growing them, and it uses this with both grabbing prey with vines and for using plants to fling danmaku at enemies, commanding plants to toss thick swaths of leaves, thorns, or whatever else fancies it. To a lesser extent, it also will control trees in a forest to bend, sway, or shake their branches at prey trying to take to the air or use them as cover.

Manipulation of Transmutation


Special Cases: Partial Conceptual Powers
"Partial Conceptual" refers to supernatural power (magic, effectively) that is acting on a concept or producing a conceptual effect. These are generally the pinnacle of development for supernatural abilities, and can sometimes even rival purely conceptual abilities in terms of power. What seperates these from true conceptual powers, though, is that the user of the ability still has to fuel it with their own energy, whereas purely conceptual powers have completely different laws governing their operation.

Manipulation of Fate


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Manipulation of Nuclear Fusion and Fission


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Manipulation of Moonlight


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