Graviton Manipulation

**Graviton Manipulation** (重力子の操作 *Jūryoku-ko no sōsa*) is an Innate Technique used by Reinhich Arnoux. This technique allows its user to generate/manipulate Gravitons, and the interactions they cause.

## Description

Graviton Manipulation allows its user to control Gravitons, which are theoretical quantums of the gravitational field. By manipulating the interactions these Gravitons cause, the user can essentially manipulate gravity. Due to Graviton Manipulation having such control over a fundamental force, it is considered dangerous towards both enemies of its user as well as the user themselves, as the user is not immune to the effects of gravity themselves. For this reason, learning to control their technique with a high level of precision is vital for a person to use this technique.

## Usage

Graviton Manipulation is most commonly used to create "pockets" of Gravitons, where the user can then manipulate the gravity carried by these Gravitons. These pockets come in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on what the user need them for, but regardless of its function they are used to limit the user's influence over gravity to a specific zone. This limiting of the user's power allows them to drastically reduce the odds of unintentional self-harm, as well as the possibility of collateral damage.

## Related Techniques

#### **Extension Technique(s):**

* **Gravitational Field** (重力場 *Jūryokujō*): The user generates a pocket of Gravitons. These "Graviton pockets" can be compared to invisible bubbles, where the user can apply their technique without influencing anything outside of it. The Gravitons that make up these pockets will fizzle out once their usefulness comes to an end, or whenever the user wants.
	+ **Enragement** (立腹 *Rippuku*): The most basic application of Gravitational Field, and the most commonly used form. The user increases the amount of gravity carried by Gravitons inside of their Gravitational Field, thus crushing everything inside of it. Gravity inside of the field will continue to increase in strength slowly until the user commands otherwise.
	+ **Relaxation** (くつろぎ *Kutsurogi*): The result of applying Reversed Cursed Energy to a Gravitational Field. The user reduces the amount of gravity carried by Gravitons inside of their Gravitational Field to zero, creating a field of anti-gravity. Entities inside will experience a floating sensation, losing control of their own movements while they float; however living things will only remain consious for 10-15 seconds inside of the field, as a lack of oxygen will eventually put them under. Staying too long inside of the field will outright kill anything inside without exception.
	+ **Repulse** (反発する *Hanpatsu suru*): This technique is often mistaken for being a Barrier Technique. The user creates a spherical barrier around a specified area, or a barrier that fits itself to the user's body. This barrier is lined with Gravitons that carry a repulsive gravitational force, repelling anything that would come into contact with the user. It has been commented that nothing can touch the user in this state, with the only acceptions being light, sound, and the sure-hit of a Domain Expansion. Despite this incredible power, the user can only have Repulsion active for very short durations, as the gravity repels oxygen the user needs to breathe.
	+ **Attract** (引きつける *Hikitsukeru*): The user creates a cone-shaped pocket of Gravitons, which carry an attractive gravitational force traveling in the direction the cone points. This is typically used to get in close with opponents, or to force opponents away from the user. The pocket will immediately fizzle out one a target has been carried to a new destination.
* **Graviton Construct** (重力子構築物 *Jūryoku-ko kōchiku-mono*): The user can create physical objects by forming dense pockets of Gravitons in the shape of whatever object they want, however some objects are impossible to create due to a complexity ceiling. Therefore the user can only create simple weaponry such as swords and shields, whereas guns are too complex.
* **Acceleration** (加速度 *Kasokudo*): The user creates a pocket of Gravitons on their back, which carry a repulsive gravitational force. This forces the user to move in a specified direction at immense speed. The user can turn or change direction by manipulating the density of this pocket, allocating more Gravitons to the left side if they wanted to turn right, for example.
* **Deceleration** (減速 *Gensoku*): The user creates a pocket of Gravitons around a person, which carry an attractive gravitational force. This force prevents a target from moving outside of the space they are standing in, but cannot kill them due to the attraction supplying them with oxygen to breathe. The user is incapable of using other techniques while having their target locked in place.
* **Flight** (フライト *Furaito*): Simulating flight by generating precise pockets of Gravitons around the user's entire body.

#### **Maximum Technique(s):**

* **Skyline Shrapnel** (スカイラインの破片 *Sukairain no hahen*):

#### **Domain Expansion:**

* **Gazing Into the Vacuum of the Universe** (真空の宇宙を見つめる *Shinkū no uchū o mitsumeru*)