u/Ghost_Petals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession\_is\_nine-tenths\_of\_the\_law

I think 9/10's would be a great hatsu/ability for an overarching main antagonist in a Shonen Jump manga.

Allegedly, irl, an organ donee might take on the personality and temperment of an organ donor.

Imagine your deuteragonist's loved one receiving an organ from an enigmatic benefactor who doesn't want payment nor credit/recognition for their "altruism".

Their loved one miraculously recovers, but her endearing saccharinity is diminishing.

She's becoming more choleric, sadistic, or melancholic with an appetite for starkly different foods and listening to starkly different music genres.

She disappears one day, and you have intuition that the enigmatic organ donor is responsible. Finding them to get her back is a superb motivation for joining the protagonistic faction.

Turns out she with 4 other organ transplant donees became a party with the main antagonist who is wheelchairbound and looking to unseal their waning power.

There'd have to be a moment where the dueteragonist is knocking on death's door and is offered an organ from the MA using his loved one as a proxy.

The deuteragonist tricks them by swapping his healthy organ for the one that's been corrupting her for years, freeing her at last.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiphoid\_process

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

https://www.lisatherpg.com/gang.html

Inspired by Ajeet Mandeep's status-inflicting, finger-oriented moveset from LISA: The Painful RPG.

You are simply localizing your aura via Gyo and Ko into your index fingertips to penetrate your enemy's body.

The crux behind the fighting style is fracturing off the opponent's xiphoid process located just beneath the sternum to incur internal bleeding.

The sheer pain of a broken xiphoid process touching the liver would get them bawling into the fetal position.

To demonstrate the technique, you could penetrate the concrete floor of Heaven's Arena.

Imagine just barely winning by perforating holes into the Heaven's Arena floor after learning your opponent has crippling trypophobia.

So you know how the 12 Zodiac members are based on the Chinese Zodiac?

With the technical exception of Mizaistom Nana (Chinese Ox v. African Cape Buffalo), there'd be NO overlap because Africa and China have different subsets of fauna.

You'd be borrowing that trope where a disgruntled member of the governing party (the Zodiacs in this instance) mysteriously vanishes because of creative differences.

They have one junior Zodiac who looks up to them and was upset when they mysteriously vanished and took their position as a stopgap measure.

A decade goes by...

Their former role model comes back to stage a coup against the Zodiacs with their own knock-off team of the party.

After managing to defeat one member, the Zodiac is offered a spot on the team by their former senior, assuming that they still agree with their radical ideology as an adult like a decade didn't just pass.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting\_(aerodynamics)

You're going to be like a comet in the vacuum of space, moving at full velocity without being encumbered by air resistance.

Via Shu, projectiles like shotputs and javelins will experience less drag and reach a further distance.

Silver is surprisingly the most thermally and electrically conductive metal because of a single valence electron.

You'll soon be going to college varsity. You're shaving seconds off your track record, and your throws are going further because you're gently exempting yourself from the laws of physics.

To legally circumvent the Kakin military, the Xi-Yu and the Cha-R Families, the Heil-Ly's falsely registered themselves as regular civilians with pedestrian occupations.

I find that opportunism genius and wanted to share the names, occupations, and Nen types of my 23-membered, BANANA REPUBLIC community.

It's still a WIP.

My OC is Skokie the Janitor (Transmuter), who carefully selected who to ensconce with Contagion, unlike Morena.

1. Panini (Public Defense Attorney) ♀️ MANIPULATOR

2. Tablet (IT Technician) ♀️ CONJURER

3. Vinegar (Librarian) ♀️ ENHANCER

4. Mobile (Food Courier) ♀️ EMITTER

5. Raisin (Laundromat Washerwoman) ♀️ TRANSMUTER

6. Mascarpone (Child Daycare Worker) ♀️ ENHANCER

7. Cracker (Cineplex Employee) ♀️ EMITTER

8. Brûlée (Rollerskating Waitress) ♀️ MANIPULATOR

9. Peach (Public Accountant) ♀️ ENHANCER

10. Garlic (Club Bartender) ♀️

11. Sorbet (Pop Idol) ♀️

12. Grover (Watchdog Journalist) ♂️ MANIPULATOR

13. McKinley (Casino Worker) ♂️

14. Ulysses (Men's Barber) ♂️

15. Buchanon (Animal Handler) ♂️

16. Pierce (Court Stenographer) ♂️

17. Polk (Banker) ♂️

18. Quincy (Insurance Agent) ♂️

19. Washington (EMT) ♂️

20. Roosevelt (Mechanic) ♂️

21. Nixon (Cryroptocurrency Dealer)♂️

22. Milhouse (Restauranteur )♂️

You know how there's 1,000 possible results from a slot machine if it had 3 0-9 reels from 000 to 999?

That's 32 squared #'s, 168 prime #'s, 3 perfect #'s, 246 semiperfect #'s, 89 untouchable #'s, 2 weird #'s, 2 amicable #'s, etc.

There exists overlap like squared numbers often being semiperfect numbers.

I don't have all the effects yet, but rolling a perfect number (006, 028, and 496) with a 0.03% chance would be something like temporary invincibility.

Rolling an untouchable number (002, 005, 052, 096, 098, etc.) would incur some penalty/debuff.

If you roll a number that isn't any of those, it won't be rolled again next time. Your probability of rolling a CHARGED ### with some effect for better-or-worse will increase.

Each roll takes less than a second like a random number generator.

Your deuteragonist and tritagonist are in dire straits, needing an excorcist, STAT.

The academically junior protagonist and sensei are both suffering from amnesia via a post-mortem-curse meant to seal a chunk of someone's character development.

They inevitably get split up, and the tritagonist battles Klaus, a semi-excorcist that inserts a random yet temporary condition into someone's hatsu, 3 times a day.

Klaus had already used up one slot to aura farm in the previous chapter/volume against some jackass thug in a pachinko parlor who crippingly uses their hatsu as a crutch.

The tritagonist struggles with their embargoed hatsu, has some tropey flashback about being confronted by sensei for the already unnecessarily complicated nature of it, and learns to be more resourceful without it.

Klaus is impressed by their acumen in the fight and explains how their hatsu, Jailhouse Lock, works.

1. Klaus can't dispel any of his levied conditions.

2. The more powerful his opponent, the longer his levied condition lasts from a day to a month.

3. They are randomly selected of out 10, and he has 3 slots total.

4. He can use ALL 3 slots on one person (foreshadowed against the main antagonist later on).

Klaus meets up with the protagonist, uses J.L. on the curse, and it fortunately selected ("Hatsu cannot work on legal minors under 18 years old").

The curse becomes dormant, and the protagonist's memories about Nen come back. But their 18th birthday is at the end of the month when Klaus's condition becomes moot.

Klaus bought them some time and is now part of the group. He's also sadistic, loving seeing people who bank everything into their hatsu like a crutch just to get rugpulled by his own hatsu.

"Fiat Panis" means "let there be bread" and is the Latin motto of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

Imagine being an excorcist who learns the grotesque Nen beasts they excorcising were entirely beneficial the whole time.

Their progenitor, the school nurse, wanted to help students who are borderline starving themselves from having a distorted body image.

Once the student is a healthy weight, they'll vanish on their own, having done their job as invisible rehabilitators.

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

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

Montblanc (French for "white mountain") and Schwarz (German for "black") are your comically laidback mafia mercenaries for hire.

Schwarz has a hammerspace in his afro for field work and rest/recreation when the job is over with Montblanc.

Cigarettes, brass knuckles, guns, bullets, keys, a crowbar, mint Tic-Tacs, hand sanitizer, burner clamshell cellphones, contraband, etc.

It'll be handy if they get pulled over and need to hide their merchandise swiftly if the police inspect the vehicle.

The conditions are the following:

1. Schwarz has to move with the added weight of whatever gets inserted in his afro.

Too much, and he'll feel like he has on several lead blankets from the dentist on him with glaucoma and higher blood pressure.

2. Schwarz may only insert something in his afro ONCE. After it's been pulled out, it can never enter his hammerspace again.

3. Schwarz can't insert living organisms into his hammerspace. He's not an animal trafficker.

4. The maximum amount of time something can stay in his afro is 12 hours. After that, it'll unceremoniously eject from his afro without warning in the exact order they were inserted.

I have this OC "Klaus" (a play on the word "clause") that can add (also risk subtracting) up to 3 conditions/clauses on any Nen curse for his clients.

I guess it'd technically make him a pseudo or semi-excorcist without actually dispelling the curse, just making it dormant or hindering its functionality.

I'm still brainstorming how Klaus's hatsu would require risk from you, and depending on how your luck is, you could add up to 3 clauses/conditions to the curse or subtract up to 3, making it stronger/more efficient.

Conditions like it can't kill you, can't put you in Zetsu, the curser needs to reveal their identity for it to work, only works on Nen users, and no post-mortem bolstering.

If you have better conditions, let me know.

First off, here's some antonym-pairs you might consider dubbing a hands/glove-oriented hatsu as a muse.

Ebb & Flow, Concave & Convex, Wax & Wane, Zenith & Nadir, Apogee & Perigee, Dusk & Dawn, Solstice & Equinox (please do add more if you have any).

EBB & FLOW is about using Shu on objects, automatically manipulating them depending on which hand you're using.

Via direct-contact or emitting your aura like a Dragon Ball finger beam so long as you send enough aura to completely envelope the remote object.

1. EBB (LEFT HAND) will disassemble/dismantle the Shu-coated object instantaneously.

A policeman's gun, smartphone, glasses, handcuffs, access ladders on buildings, door locks, IKEA furniture. Any screws will instantly unscrew themselves onto the floor.

The more EBB is used without breaks, the slower the disassembly.

2. FLOW (RIGHT HAND) will activate/turn on the Shu-coated object, even sans batteries with your aura being the power supply like Riehvelt and his motorized wheelchair.

Garage door openers, remote controls, taser, laser pointers, flashlights, etc.

I have a fight written out where my battered, minor antagonist, Zinc, is attempting to bisect a protagonist by supercharging the garage door with all their remaining aura on their enemy's abdomen before they kick the bucket themselves.

It became a battle of attrition at this point where Zinc's resourcefulness in an urban setting shines brightly, like Reggie Star in JJK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s\_Ladder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne%27s\_thread\_(logic)

It bothers me more than it should that Luini's fascinating hatsu is plainly referred to as "spatial teleporation" by Cashew.

"Ariadne" loaned Theseus her ball of thread that helped him safely navigate and escape the Minotaur's labrynth by keeping track of his movement, unspooled.

"Jacob's Ladder" is a metaphor for a ladder or staircase to heaven in Judeo-Christian hermeneutics.

As an Emitter, I'd love to make teleportation anchored hotspots to mess with authority figures and save money, energy, attention, and time for my work commute.

How about 6 two-way anchored hotspot max and 10 one-way anchored hotspots max?

First, you'd practice popping spools of bubble wrap with Gyo in your fingertips to silence the popping.

Next, you'd Shu your entire hands to crush fortune cookies, eggs, soda cans, ping-pong balls, or whatever else you can break in your palms with no sound.

Then, you'll start Shu-ing branches and twigs. When you break them, no one should hear any sharp snapping from the wood.

Maybe as a bonus, you can use Gyo on your feet to walk up-and-down some creaky stairs quietly. First barefoot, next socks, then finally shoes.

You'll begin gently walking to outright running up and down with no sound from your steps.

Ultimately, you'll create a rectangular prism and/or cubic En that will silence whatever is inside of the En like a soundproof, British phone booth.

Perfect for having a private conversation with someone in public or assassinating if you're in the Succession Contest on behalf of your Prince.

I love that at-a-crossroads moment where the deuteragonist/tritagonist has to choose either to save the knocking-on-death's-door protagonist or finally get their revenge on a major antagonist whose now in the palm of their hand, vulnerable and trying to flee.

Their hatsu can be as much a bane as it can be boon to someone, depending on how they feel (valence) and the intensity of those feelings (potency).

"Does your hatred for me trump your love for your friend?"

They have a tough choice to make. They might never get this chance their dying friend afforded them in the first place by pummeling their archnemesis. But could they live with themselves if their friend dies from getting their revenge after all?

I'm a very disagreeable person, and it pays to be disagreeable. It's been empirocally proven that being less agreeable often earns you more money as a man.

I'd listen to your case on why you think someone should be cursed like a legal consultation with an attorney. If I'm moved, I'll give you the tool to inflict a specific curse Nen beast.

It'd likely last ONE day and cause mild symptoms. Diarrhea, nasal congestion, insomnia, profuse sweating, bad hair day, etc.

Maybe you'd want to inflict it on a big exam day, prom, graduation, their wedding, etc.

Maybe a contraceptive curse if you're a parent who doesn't want a career-damning teenage pregnancy in the family until their teenager becomes an adult.

No roofie, on Cloud 9 love potion-inspired Nen beasts. I'm not Fairy Godmother from "Shrek 2". I might double-dip with an excorcist best friend who dispells my curses and shares the profits.

Having twin OC's where the older one curses and the younger excorcises is an interesting pair up until the mafia catches on and puts them on their payroll.

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.