Life Manipulation

## Summary

**Life Manipulation** is the ability to manipulate life itself or the **life force/energy** that courses inside living beings or the very concept of life itself. It is what one uses the essence of Life itself as a form to attack or for other powers that can give the user an advantage over their enemies. This can give life to the dead, or take life away, or shape how life grows and evolves, or causes regression of life to more primordial states.

The user can even take a certain amount of life in the form of energy as **Life-Force** and project it outward from themselves or other places to used for any other means besides as a means to live.

## Possible Uses

* **Animation:** Some life manipulators are able to breathe life into inanimate objects, turning them into living creatures to aid them in combat. Whether they become flesh and blood or not depends on the power in question.

* **Plant Manipulation:** Life manipulators are frequently associated with plant life, enriching the ground with life energy in order to cause plants to rapidly grow. Some users can control the life energy within the plants for a variety of effects.
* **Biological Manipulation:** Users of Life manipulation can manipulate biological beings, such as the organs and substances that keeps organic beings alive.

* **Healing/Regeneration:** Many life manipulators are able to use it to heal themselves or others to greatly prolong the time they spend in combat.

* **Life Stealing/Instant Death:** Some life manipulators are able to steal life energy or simply remove the life energy from an opponent's body to grievously harm or kill the target.

* **Statistics Alteration:** Many works feature characters that are able to manipulate the life energy within their own body to grant them Superhuman Physical Characteristics or bolster their already great physical prowess.

## Types of Life

* **Artificial**: This is for any life forms that were created unnaturally and/or have a form that is not biologically fit for life yet is considered a life form none the less, possibly elemental constructs or such (Note that artificial life is not considered such if they art utilizing a pre-existing still active life form or more).
* **Plant/Flora**: This is a form of life that consists of any and/or all plant, vegetation, trees, etc..
* **Animal/Fauna**: This is a form of life that consists of any type of animals or organic species that are not capable of organized society or civilization or self-awareness.
* **Sapient/Intelligent/Self-Aware**: This is a form of life that belongs to species of life such as and/or much like humans (*homo sapiens*) that are capable of intellectual thought or completely self aware or conscious of any action they take or able of being organized into civilizations.

## Limitations

* Life Manipulation may be ineffective against an inorganic beings or those that are not truly "alive" and thus do not have life energy to manipulate.

* Life manipulators are frequently shown to suffer from adverse side effects when overusing their powers or when they have an excess of energy, which may be used against them if forced to use a great deal of it at a single time.