Omoikane

Shigeo has seen his share of tragedies over his long life but there are three in particular that he remembers keenly; namely that of his three best friends whom all died under similar circumstances. Each fell to a long-lasting poison whether by fate or chance and each of them had Shigeo with them until the end.

Unwilling to let them die Shigeo looked into their minds with the Sharingan and through the several days that they lasted he walked among them inside their minds and had them share with him their secrets and talents. Not in the usual sense but by actually becoming them and experiencing their abilities through them through the application of Inari in tandem with the power of Tsukuyomi; once each as he with his left eye drew them into his world and with his right he recorded their experiences within the dream world and bound them to himself. Within the dreamscape, he embodied their experiences, drew upon their talents until he finally sealed their experiences within himself with their explicit cooperation and active assistance so that part of them might continue to live on inside him.

These borrowed experiences and talents lie buried in his subconsciousness but are no less real than they were when they were not his. It was only through herculean effort on Shigeo's part that he was able to mould and shape them together so that he could draw upon their vast experience and knowledge subconsciously in order to master skills and abilities that he never took an interest in, by placing Inari upon himself as well and permanently affixing it in place alongside the remnants of the illusions that once affected his friends.

Omoikane was the result of that work and while its effects are astonishing it has the weakness that although his friends' abilities in their chosen fields were great the extent of the knowledge he can derive from them at once is directly proportional to the strength of the dormant genjutsu that he programmed and transcribed into his own mind; strength that increases as Shigeo's understanding of the art form does. After the process was completed three black dots appeared in his Mangekyō Sharingan like miniatures eyes within the pupil itself, one eye for each individual so bound by Omoikane and his left eye remains empty at the moment, ready to be used anew to deepen his knowledge.

## In Roleplay

Omoikane is a Mangekyō Sharingan ability that manifested itself in Shigeo's right eye, it has three primary functions which can be best described as recording, manifesting and embodying knowledge.

* **Recording**: When used upon an individual at the precise point of their passing in tandem with the Tsukuyomi of Shigeo's left eye Omoikane has the power to absorb all of a dying target's mental energies and killing them in the process, which is generally referred to as stealing their essence. At the same time, the victim is drawn into the World of Darkness by Tsukuyomi and their experiences and abilities are recorded by the eye itself over several decades of illusory life, allowing Shigeo the chance at harnessing their skills and knowledge by later Manifesting or Embodying them.
* **Manifesting**: Manifesting is the most powerful method of drawing upon the information recorded within Omoikane and when it is utilized it allows Shigeo to draw upon the combined knowledge of every single essence within it, giving him an overwhelming amount of different options that only increase for every person so collected. Because of the intense mental strain of all of that knowledge flooding his mind at once as well as the sheer power of the genjutsu in question, **Shigeo suffers 25 psychological damage per round that Omoikane remains fully manifested**.
* **Embodying**: Omoikane's power exists in a highly limited but more accessible form even when Shigeo is not actively using his Mangekyō Sharingan which allows him to apply the benefit of one of the **Specializations** stored within it continually and without contributing to his blindness or even requiring chakra to maintain. Once approximately every hour he can change the embodied **Specialization** to another of those Omoikane has access to, alternatively, he can spend 20 Stamina to change it instantly. In terms of roleplay the exact one he Embodies will be decided before the roleplay even begins. Although it has no real weaknesses to speak of from a typical sense it does allow the memories and essences he summons a far greater amount of autonomy and freedom than when he manifests them through his Mangekyō Sharingan. Shigeo constantly experiences them in the back of his mind and he can even talk to them, but the same is true in reverse as well and they influence him in ways he might not even realize meaning that depending on which essence he's embodying at any given time Shigeo becomes a subtly different person.

## Trivia

* In Japanese mythology, Omoikane is the god of wisdom and intelligence who is called upon to counsel the other deities in heavenly matters, Omoikanes ability to absorb and harness knowledge befits that theme.