Powers

A **Power** is a special, superhuman ability that a person can have. Along with being unique to each user, Powers are compartmentalized into multiple categories. Powers users are also limited to one ability and are thus unable to achieve any other.

## History

The first person in the world to manifest a power was a newborn baby around 500 years ago in California, America; the baby was born with sharp teeth like a shark.

After that phenomenon, many people around the world began to manifest different kinds of superpowers. The cause of the power phenomenon is unknown. These superpowers were first referred to as Abilities before later being called powers.

The dawn of this extraordinary era was marred by a breakdown of society caused by the sudden onslaught of criminals empowered by their newfound "superpowers" and ordinary people being prejudiced against the power users. The world was broken into many different nations and all of them fought each other. Some of the nations were anti-power and others were pro-power.

During this time period, Crimison Anchor became a symbol of unity in society. He used his power allowed him to have someone’s power by taking some form of their DNA, his favourite method of getting someone’s power is eating their flesh. His actions under the guise of returning society to its prior state of humanity, when in reality, he was gathering followers who were loyal to him, allowing him to act out his ulterior motives.

A peace treaty was formed in order to stop human extinction but Crimison didn’t want this and believed that humans without powers should all die. By saying this all the nations ganged up on Crimison and declared him a war criminal, he was found later dead after he committed suicide.

After the peace treaty was signed and monsters started to attack human society, ordinary civilians with their own powers decided to take matters into their own hands to bring order to society and thus the first "monster hunter" appeared and they changed the world.

As society adapted to the new status quo, the Police Force moved to prioritize leadership and to maintain the status quo, and as such, decided not to use powers as weapons. To fill that void, the profession of crime-fighting powers users, an organisation for monster hunters called The Monster Hunter Association began which caused the vigilante monster hunters to slowly disappear. Authorizing the use of powers that could so easily kill, however, was a greatly criticized decision at first.

Over time, it came to garner public support due to the fact that the first people to work professionally as monster hunters acted morally and upheld the law. However, some members of society were not happy with the the governments' regulations on power usage as they believed that the free use of their superhuman abilities should be a basic human right.

**The earliest type of power:**

Conversion - 1520

Physical - 1520

Emission - 1522

ESP - 1855

Animal - 1912

Technological - 2005

## Information

Powers are said to be the next stage of evolution in the human race. It is possible to diagnose a person as possessing or lacking a power by analyzing the presence or absence of an appendix. People without an appendix develop a power while having an appendix indicates that the person is powerless.

A person's power will normally manifest around the the age of four, five or six years old depending on the power, although, it is possible for a child to be born with their power already manifested, such was the case with Vernon Savage.

Although easy to forget, the fact is that powers are physical abilities. As such, they can be trained and worn out. When a person works out their muscles, the muscle fibers are destroyed and new, stronger ones grow back; this same rule applies to powers. However, should a power be overused, the user could suffer any of a variety of drawbacks, depending on the nature of the power. These drawbacks are usually simple ailments, such as dry skin or nausea; however, in some cases, the drawback can be much more severe.

There are also instances where a power doesn't suit the user's body and the body can't handle it. Some people suffer from birth defects that cause the victim to have difficulties controlling their power. Such conditions can be bypassed through the use of support equipment.

## Power Types

### Physical

Physical type powers are abilities that increase a part of a person body. Physical type powers can sometimes have the physical appearance of the person.

### Conversion

Conversion type powers are abilities that cause the user to take on a temporary alteration of some kind. Conversion type powers allow the user to temporarily "transform" their body in a variety of manners, sometimes enhancing existing features, removing features, or adding new features to the body altogether.

### Technological

Technological type powers are abilities that make the user have control over certain technology. All technological type powers change the physical appearance of the user.

### Emission

Emission type powers are abilities that allow the user to generate certain things, or alter existing things around them in certain ways. The Emission type power can have a wide variety of properties and abilities.

### Animal

Animal type powers are abilities that allow the user to have the traits of an animal. The Animal type power sometimes changes the appearance of the user but that doesn’t always happen.

### ESP

ESP type powers are abilities that allow the user to control certain things with their mind or change how their mind works. The ESP type powers do not change the physical appearance of the user.