Pendulum

**Pendulum** is the Quirk used by Kagemaru Kuramori.

## Description

Pendulum gives the user the ability to control the personal timeline and motion of objects or living things through physical contact.

By touching a target with their left hand, the user can force it to rewind along its timeline, reversing its previous movements and retracing its steps backwards along the exact path originally travelled. Once activated through left hand contact, the target will revert to mimicking prior recorded motions in reverse chronological order. The speed of this rewind is also controlled by the user.

Aside from regressing items and beings, Pendulum also enables progressing targets forward. Through right hand contact, objects and persons can be pushed ahead along their timeline, resuming intended motions as if never interrupted. As with rewinding, the rate this occurs can be controlled, slowly incrementing forward or vastly accelerated.

Kagemaru tends to use this ability mainly on himself to speed up his movements. By constantly keeping his right hand charged with the acceleration power of Pendulum, he can hyper-stimulate his personal timeline to give the appearance of enhanced speed. Kagemaru can speed up his brain, giving him a faster reaction time.

Though he has barely done this in the past, Kagemaru has been seen rewinding the wounds of himself and others. He's usually too rash to realize he's been injured, however, so the rewind window exceeds to far to be effective.

### Weaknesses

In its current state, Kagemaru can only reverse living things up to 30 seconds back, and can only send them 30 seconds forward. This means the ability only proves useful in on-the-whim plans. With objects, though, Kagemaru has found himself able to reverse them 2 hours back, and 2 hours forward. This is apparent when he rewinds a cold plate of crab rangoon. After using his ability on someone or something, there is a slight cooldown, indicated by the used hand burning and aching.

Physical contact is required to manipulate subjective timelines, which can prove difficult with evasive or long-range opponents.

Only reasonably sized objects and beings within the user's immediate vicinity can be affected--buildings, geographical features and extremely large entities cannot be controlled.

If Kagemaru overuses Pendulum's timeline manipulation on himself, he risks dramatically accelerating or decelerating his heartbeat to dangerous degrees depending on direction of overuse. Additionally, extensive control of his brain's speed can lead to brain hemorrhages, though this is uncommon.

Due to him being limited to controlling his power with his hands, Kagemaru will be unable to utilize his Quirk if he loses said limbs.

## Usage

As a child, Kagemaru took immense pride in his Quirk, constantly finding ways to creatively leverage his time manipulation abilities to prank others. He would frequently rewind the timeline of people's meals to reverse them back to hot after they had cooled off - resulting in messy spit-takes. Or he would undo the putting on of someone's pants to embarrass them as they suddenly found them pooled at their ankles again.

These harmless but disruptive pranks constantly kept his friends, classmates, and even teachers on their toes around the mischievous young Kagemaru. While some scolded him, especially Toki, most quietly admired his innovative applications of timeline control. As he matured, Kagemaru graduated from mere pranks to honing Pendulum into a formidable battle technique--though he maintains his penchant for theatrics and surprise when facing enemies today.

Kagemaru often uses Pendulum to tactically reposition himself, opponents, and environmental objects by reversing their timelines to past locations as needed for his strategies. By skipping objects ahead, he can also set up creative traps that activate on cue after he accelerates their timelines.

To build up Pendulum's capabilities, Kagemaru undergoes training where he uses his quirks on robot vacuums, and sometimes random people in public (to the academy's dismay) and other moving objects in the world. As the ability becomes exhausted when overused in rapid succession, this allows him to improve duration and mastery without consequences. He's also learned specialized techniques like boosting his cognitive speed by hyper-accelerating his own brain in battle.

During desperate situations, Kagemaru can drastically amplify his timeline manipulation on targets to forcibly rewind or fast-forward them at warp speeds, albeit at the cost of severely draining himself. Since he doesn't affect their brain, this effect happens on them as fast as it looks, resulting in possible nausea.