u/Ghost_Petals

This hatsu fills in the gaps of what something once was, whenever you touch the reduced remains of said object(s).

Imagine passing airport security with just the ostensibly innocuous handles of what used to be a knife, katana, kunai, gun, hammer, gardening trowel, and ice pick in a trench coat like Inspect Gadget.

Whenever you grab a specific handle, your aura will Transmutate into the lost blade, hook, or whatever business end the object once had.

Let's say you're driving your car in a bad neighborhood at night, and there are a lot of treacherous potholes.

This hatsu reflexively uses your aura to automatically fill the potholes so your tires and suspension have a smooth ride and don't get absolutely shredded and bent out of shape.

It can also function for makeshift prostheses like your leg gettinf blown off by a landmine, and now you have a phantom leg made of your own aura to stand and walk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi\_no\_toki\_mairi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeter

This is from a manga oneshot I wrote about a teenage girl named "Chiaki" being given the opportunity to curse a group project mate ("Yokotani") that dropped the ball when presenting their segment and lowering her GPA.

Aoyama, a moonlighting pachinko parlor worker, gives her a nail and an ominous straw doll.

The nail has to collect her animus, and the doll will begin transmogrifying its appearance to look just like who she wants to curse like a tacit voodoo doll.

The kicker is that she has to be around the person she absolutely despises for at least one week. In that time, the voodoo doll will become a proper effigy, and the nail will have sufficient animus when she strikes it on the full moon.

Chiaki would ask her disheveled classmate, Yokotani, if they could hang out after school. Yokotani is surprised, but he doesn't mind. He's not promising to be the ritz or an entertainer.

In the week Chiaki would be around Yokotani, she'd learn that Yokotani has problems outside of school that he's trying his best to not let bleed into school.

He has to work as a FREETER. He helps tutor latchkey kids, which Chiaki even stepped in and enjoyed doing.

She'd heartwarmingly conclude that a school group project can be the least of someone's concerns, and Yokotani even spoke with the teacher to take the brunt of their grades plummeting.

The final day where the full moon appears. The effigy and nail are ripe to inflict the curse.

The final page is Aoyama smiling, seeing the nail and doll he lent Chiaki on his desk, back in their default forms with no animus.

Despite having a pedigree of curse peddlers, Aoyama is the black sheep of his family because he enjoys it more when his clients works it out in that fake week condition he made up.

I'd like the idea of conjuring 2 little imps that help you out and playing Willow the pyromaniac in "Don't Starve".

It'd be Manipulation leaning towards Emission, like Morel with his smoke. But here it's with any fire you started.

You emit some aura into a fire and emerges a will-o-wisp at your disposal. You can then manipulate them like fireflies, creating a magical ambiance for a date with a girl.

"Brûlée" means "burnt" and often uses direct heat like a torch in crème brûlée (translated literally as "burnt cream").

"Flambé" means "flamed" and happens when you pour liquor over food to set it on fire during cooking.

The former would be converging all your will-o-wisp into a localized wisp. The latter would be spreading them all out maybe.

I really like that trope where some wannabe street thugs are endowed superpowers by the desperate, main antagonist in exchange for vassal service.

The chronology goes like this...

The thugs encountered the protagonists and got their asses handed to them earlier in the chapter/episode.

Later, the same protagonists defeat the main antagonist (who grossly underestimated them) by the skin of their teeth, forcing the MA to flee and recover.

The same street thugs from earlier encounter and accost the barely-walking MA in an alley, attempting to recover their lost pride by mugging them.

Knowing they can easily kill them but not wanting to draw attention, the main antagonist offers them hatsus if they can find them a place to recuperate and get back at the protagonists.

Now, the thugs are invincible against their rival gangs, and it'll later dawn upon them that their hatsus were temporary and they weren't cut out to being gangsters when the MA asks them to do something out-of-line like murder.

Let's say you have a very private journal/diary and don't want ANYONE to open it.

Using Nen, would you encrypt/encipher the writing, make a Nen beast that'll act as a sentinel/gatekeeper, or set up conditions for anyone to open it, including yourself?

That'd be an interesting ability for a Guardian Spirit Beast, reflecting its host Prince who values privacy with property and individual liberties.

JAILHOUSE LOCK (a la "Elvis Presley) would be a great name.

Long story short, an acquaintance of a friend got SWATTED, and he told me that he encrypted his hard drive so they couldn't post-confiscation plant malware or criminally-damning evidence into it.

Idk the veracity of his story, but he sounded confident enough and isn't in jail.

Host: 6th Prince Chartreuse Foei Gras (Age 22)

GSB: Talking Head: Bohemian Rhapsody (Manipulator)

6th Prince, Chartreuse Foei Gras, owns and operates an initially mediocre social media company, Dross & Gloss (a Buzzfeed parody if we're being honest).

This all changed when the Succession War commenced and her Guardian Spirit Beast began invisibly helping its host with her dream of owning a successful social media platform.

Her giant wisteria peacock GSB manipulates the guests who agree to be on D&G by suppressing their social filters (e.g., their racism, sexism, ableism, gerontophobia, xenophobia, bigotry, etc) into saying really career-damning harangues that'll incur memes and traffic to its host's website.

Each day of the Succession War, D&G skyrockets in subscriptions, advertisers, and cultural relevance. Tragically, one of the guests self-deleted from online harassment and not knowing the GSB possessed them into saying all those things.

Prince Chartreuse would've cared, but she uncharacteristically sees the tragedy and controversy as another whirlpool that'll bring traffic to D&G, disturbing her staff. A real Walter White into Heisenberg moment.

There's a moment where before Prince Chartreuse dies, her elder brother and killer admitted that D&G went from having its journalistic integrity to becoming another sensationalist, yellow journalism, Jerry Springer show (no offense given; I love Jerry Springer).

Prince Chartreuse is moved to hear that from her older brother, who was a guest to talk about a Prince that died, and he was immune to her GSB because GSB's instinctively don't attack the hosts of other GSB's.

Her dream becomes realized with her death on camera. D&G raked in millions of traffic and cash, leaving Chartreuse distinguished from the Princes of this generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-year\_itch\_(idiom)

Before school started, I just finished watching "Future Diary" and loved it.

I'd imagine a yandere would create a hatsu meant to isolate the person of their intense, one-sided affection.

Like how some irl parasites affect the behavior of their hosts, maybe a Nen beast that manipulates the host's friends and family into alienating them so its progenitor can have their "lover" all to themselves.

Making arguments more common, falling outs occuring, and social tethers becoming severed.

Definitely some kind of Nen beast that only Nen users could see, therefore requiring more aura from the yandere for the lack of risk and it affecting multiple people.

It'd be interesting for an excorcist to curtly explain to the chronically-fatigued yandere whose aura is going into the Nen beasts that she's slowly killing herself for "some guy".

She'd vociferously retort that "that guy" was the only one who visited her in the hospital or whatever the inciting incident was that made them the target of their affection

The excorcist would be speechless, and the victim would enter the hospital room and they'd just talk about their feelings.

I'm a First Prince Benjamin Hui Gou Rou STAN. Come at me.

Liebe (German for "love") is a self-insert Kakin soldier, acting as Prince Benjamin's fallback excorcist for a rainy day.

Liebe's hatsu CHOCOLATE DISCO randomly sacrifices an organ per excorcism a la a spinning a conjured roulette wheel with 8 selected organs as collateral.

So far, Liebe has sacrificed his nonessentials: one lung (1), an eyeball (2), a kidney (3), his gallbladder (4), left testicle (5), and his larynx (6) whenever Benjamin was cursed by assassins and political malcontents.

Despite now being wheelchair-bound and needing an electrolarynx to speak, Liebe guiltily wishes Benjamin would get cursed more to prove his value as his personal excorcist.

Prince Benjamin's personal army finds Liebe's zealotry tolerable. But the fact Liebe won't excorcise Benjamin's personal soldiers unless ordered by Benjamin himself is not helping his reputation.

Liebe is only put up with because he once risked capital punishment with a litany of crimes like criminal trespassing just to save Benjamin from "a common cold of a curse" in the Royal Palace.

You conjure a scalpel that Transmutates your aura into the incision that'll open up the person without needing a redactor ring to keep their flesh from closing up.

It's great if you need to swiftly remove a tumor, parasite, crossfire bullet, shrapnel, etc.

When you snap your fingers, the epidermis will contract back into itself without leaving behind a nasty scar.

Maybe a condition about sacrificing lifespan where every minute GOLDEN HOUR is in effect.

INVOICE is a conjured barcode scanner that re-conjures itself into the receipt of whatever you scan.

Now you can know where, when, and who purchased whatever for how much.

If you scan a PS5, the scanner will poof into a receipt and show if anything else was purchased with said PS5 at BestBuy.

If you're doing taxes and lost the receipts of what might be tax deductible for the tax year, INVOICE will be your best friend.

INVOICE can also turn into what you purchased if you have the receipt and scan it.

Say if you scan the receipt of a firearm or handcuffs, INVOICE will transform into it by scanning the receipt for the item so you can have 2 iterations of what you bought.

You can only do it once per item as a condition, so you might have to buy in bulk.

I like the idea of a hatchet-faced battleaxe of a bodyguard that nobody except the Prince likes, saving the day against an assassin.

They gracefully conjure a ribbon that contrasts their established abrasiviness, instantly detaining the assassin after swiftly catching their fired bullets then constricting them like a boa constrictor.

So it's be Conjuration and Manipulation. Maybe a little Enhancement?

As an homage to Pokkle's Rainbow Arrows, maybe each colored ribbon might do something different.

A Yellow Ribbon could be a warning to stand down. If they continue, then it'll counteractively turn red and become more powerful.

A Black Ribbon would be interesting to think about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen\_bee\_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business\_card#Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meishi\_Smile

"Queen Bee Syndrome" is an irl phenomenon where women in power treat women below them on the corporate ladder more critically and harshly out of occupational self-preservation.

"Meishi Smile" is a band I'm homaging because Japanese business cards are called "meishi".

You are weaponizing a social convention like exchanging business cards to spread a harmless Nen beast that improves the other person's opinion of you via diffusive-levy Manipulation.

Your chances of getting a promotion, being forgiven for being tardy, your idea being accepted, etc. will skyrocket.

Maybe the more Nen beasts overall, the weaker the depth of Manipulation for breadth will occur to make it balanced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard\_Blow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard\_kung\_fu

Kastro has mastered the Tiger Bite Fist that can cut down a tree with one blow, according to Killua.

In contrast, my OC Coolidge can penetrate through a rock with his knuckles without breaking it.

Instead of the hands being open in the Tiger Bite Fist, the Leopard Fist is a half-opened fist.

The Leopard Fist is more localized in its damaging, being the crux being the foreknuckles that reduce surface area to penetrate vulnerable soft tissue like the temples, joints, and neck.

Originally, Coolidge was going to use Enhancement to enhance the strength of his foreknuckles to penetrate the concrete floor of Heaven's Arena to establish its lethality.

Maybe Transmutation to coat his foreknuckles with "aura knuckleduster claws" to slash like Wolverine from the X-Men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese\_tea\_ceremony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sencha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf\_mimicry

This Hunter Exam will be a Japanese tea ceremony by my Gourmet Hunter OC, Ginger.

Each Hunter Examinee will have to pluck 10 leaves of Clement Mint in Ginger's estate for a tea ceremony in one hour. But proceed with caution.

Because of leaf mimicry via coevolution, Clement Mint has a dangerous imposter, Inclement Mint.

One leaf of Inclement Mint has enough caffeine to lethally incur cardiac arrest and seizures in 5 people. Like irl caffeine, it can be absorbed through the skin, so be careful. It makes for a great natural pesticide in gardens.

Some Hunter Examinees will die from erroneously selecting one Inclement Mint leaf for their teacup.

I like to imagine one bizarre Examinee astonishing Madame Ginger for having imbibed 10 Inclement Mint-leafed tea and surviving only because of their behemoth metabolism or immune system.

The rest will feel refreshed for the next Exam segment. Those who've perished or declined the tea ceremony will have failed the Hunter Exam.

It's pretty straightforward. You conjured a coin to flip.

If it lands on heads, you'll subsequently conjure the blue BOON dice to roll. If it lands on tails, you'll subsequently conjure the red BANE dice to roll.

The BOON dice has 6 sides that'll buff a certain aspect of your physical corporeality or Nen output.

(1) En, (2) Gyo, (3) Zetsu, (4) Ken, (5) Ren, (6) Ten.

The BANE dice has 6 sides that'll debuff or disable a certain aspect of your physical corporeality or Nen output.

(1) En, (2) Gyo, (3) Zetsu, (4) Ken. (5) Ren, (6) Ten.

The effects last 10 minutes, and the coin can be given to a Nen user willing to roll the dice after you explain the ability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s\_Anatomy

GRAY'S ANATOMY is a D100 the size of a billiard ball that can incur positive and negative medical miracles to its caster.

The first condition would definitely be thoroughly explaining the logic and effects of the color coding before anyone casts the D100.

If you land on...

1. GOLD (2%) Complete rejuvenation and cellular regeneration down to the atomic level like an immaculate gene therapy. Broken teeth, castrated/hysterectomied organs, amputated limbs, your Hayflick Limit, and telomeres are fully regenerated for a clean bill of health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect\_number

2. SILVER (18%) Any malaise that needs invasive surgery like ulcers, tumors, lesions, industrial swarf, and anthropogenic pollution are completely broken down into stray, harmless atoms that'll be assimilated into your metabolism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiperfect\_number

3. GREEN (10%) Superficial, aesthetic healing with scars, bat wings, sagging breasts, vericose veins, cellulite, crow's feet, laugh lines, wrinkles all vanishing like the ultimate spa day makeover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square\_number

4. BLACK (4%) A painful death akin to acute radiation exposure like the hapless firefighters from Chernobyl.

Instant cellular senescence with tumors and other body horror, repulsing everyone around you into being untouchable. Sheer body horror.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable\_number

5. RED (22%) A random effect that can be albinism, heterochromatic eyes, bad acne, freckles, genetic/chromosomal disorder, baldness, hirsutism, club foot, cleft chin, fish scales from atavism, vestigial tail, hemispatial ataxia, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime\_number

6. PINK (1%) Complete and immaculate biological sex swap. Male-to-female; female-to-male. Secondary sex characteristics are definitely included.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird\_number

7. BLUE (43%) RE-ROLL with no effect.

That's a 31% chance of rolling something great or relatively harmless. 26% of it backfiring, and a 43% chance of nothing happening.

Blutsauger has 3 modes made by a reticent, cannibalistic butcher, and organ dealer.

MODE #1 is a literally bloodthirsty kitchen knife meant to exsanguinate whatever hapless thing gets cut by it.

Blood will be siphoned into its blade so the iron will regenerate the chipped knife, giving the victim anemia.

MODE #2 is a meat cleaver meant to bifurcate the enemy into pieces like the Op Op Fruit in One Piece.

Severed limbs will still be able to feel and move around remotely without bloodshed. There's a Transmutated aura coating the open wounds, keeping blood from spilling.

MODE #3 is a meat hook that will phase through someone's body to hook out an organ.

Imagine seeing one of your kidneys on the meat hook without an invasive surgical scar. It could be put back like a bargaining chip.

I thought it'd be funny to inflict a cat Nen beast named "Mittens" unto someone that they and only Nen users could see and hear.

Conditions would be you can only sic Mittens upon fellow Nen users and Mittens can only harm Nen users, making her indestructable and long-ranged.

Mittens the Cat would irksomely follow someone like a nuisance, a poltergeist, an omen.

Swatting your lunch off the table, jumping into boxes, getting on your keyboard, scratching the drapes, etc.

You can't outrun Mittens, and I want to give her 3 modes with different cat coat patterns such as Tuxedo, Tortoiseshell, and Seal Point.

I'll workshop them later. If you have suggestions, do tell.

I like the idea of a murderer leveling up only when they end a bloodline and only with one specific murder weapon they can't unconjure out of existence.

Like a conjured, hefty meat cleaver used by butchers when a regular kitchen knife won't make the cut (ba-dum-tssh!).

Being stuck with the same modus operandi of homicide that forensics will definitely notice, with a weapon you can't conveniently poof out of existence post-conjuring and therefore risk it being confiscated as damning evidence are layered risks imo.

The murderer won't level up from an indiscriminate-wanton murder spree.

As a condition to accumulate power, they implemented a consecutive murder streak of ONLY murdering the last endlings of bloodlines. They'd therefore have to thoroughly research their next victim to confirm they are, in fact, a single-child with no siblings nor children.

If their due diligence is incomplete and they murdered someone who turns out has a half-sibling or unknowingly sired an illegitimate child, they'd simultaneously reset their level, lose their murder streak and have their accumulated power vanish.

If they kill a husband who has been brutally cuckolded with children that aren't biologically his, then they'll still level up because they did technically end a biological bloodline.

Blood doesn't make a family; love makes a family. The murderer doesn't think so, and it's reflected in their hatsu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula\_rasa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s\_Anatomy

I'm writing a tournament organized by the G20 with 32 of the world's most bizarre criminals for a world-encompassing criminal pardon, the Tabula Rasa.

"Tabula Rasa" means "blank/clean slate" in Latin, and it'd be on pay-per-view, all meant to stimulate the economy with sports-betting, merchandising, and advertising.

Also, to hopefully deter at-risk teenagers from criminality like the D.A.R.E. program and "Scared Straight" despite the evidence empirically suggesting those programs might've made the social problems even worse.

The first fight is tawny, brawny with 1% body-fat, "Mr. Universe" from Austria versus "Dog-Earred", a scrawny bibliophile bookworm from Cambodia with ludicrously overdue library book fees and an IQ of 160.

Why Cambodia? To reference the Khmer Rouge led by totalitarian dictator Pol Pot, who murdered Cambodian intellectuals from 1975 to 1979 a la tall-poppy-syndrome.

Mr. Universe affords "Dog-Earred one free hit as an act of good sportsmanship to which "Dog-Earred" obliges by putting down his book and injecting his hyper-toned right index finger from decades of page-turning into Mr. Universe's xiphoid process and solar plexus.

Mr. Universe collapses from his fractured xiphoid process lacerating his stomach and liver. "Dog-Earred" moves on to the next stage in the tournament and resumes reading his book, Gray's Anatomy.

I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate Nen or HxH into it. Maybe it can be it's own thing? Idk.