Graviton

**Graviton** ( *重力子 Jūryoku-ko***?**, lit. "Fundamental Law of Mass") is the ability that is exclusively used by one Academy City's Level 5 Espers, Asuma Shinohara.

The ability has the power to manipulate gravitational forces by which all physical bodies attract each other, and gravitons, a elementary particles that mediate the force of gravitation.

## Principles

The ability lets Asuma manipulate, control and shape gravitons, an elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction, and the hypothetical quantum of gravity.
By controlling gravitons Asuma gains the extended ability of manipulating gravity as well as gravitational force fields.

As one of the four fundamental forces of the universe, Graviton(Abillity) is an extremely powerful and versatile ability.

### Repulsion

After a run in with Academy City's rank 1 Esper, Accelerator, Asuma got inspired by the former's ability to redirect/reflect any attack coming his way and developed his own variant of it.

Asuma uses this passive ability of **"Repulsion"** to push away any oncoming physical objects coming towards the field that protects his entire body, most likely his AIM Diffusion Field, which covers the clothes he wears and select objects he is holding. "Repulsion" is a lot simpler than Accelerator's redirection and require less calculations, all which can be done by Asuma subconsciously.
For defensive use, Asuma subconsciously establishes a filter that analyzes everything as harmful or not, and uses his repulsion to push away anything that could harm him. Examples of these would be high-velocity objects that are pushed away.

Asuma can extend the perimeter of "Repulsion" and use it in a more offensive manner.

### Weaknesses

The repulsion barrier has a very clear weakness that being it only works on objects that abide the laws of gravity. The barrier is an absolute defense for anything physical, such as bullets, cars and even light, but it cannot block things such as fire, electricity or sound waves.

### Gravity Manipulation

**Gravity Control** allows Asuma to manipulate the gravity of any object or individual in his vicinity. As such, he can change the direction and force of gravity from its standard downward 1*G* force.

Asuma typically uses his ability for offensive purposes. He can manipulate physical matter from the surrounding area, such as the ground he is in, to use as his weapon and launch at his opponents, crushing them with the force-enhanced matter. Regardless of its size, the object can inflict massive destructive force when its gravity is altered to a greater strength and force. He can also stop bullets shot at him and deflect them back to their sources.

Moreover, Asuma can directly control people's physical gravities. When manipulating his opponents' gravities, he can immobilize their movements by making their bodies heavy or light enough to render them incapacitated. For instance, he can make them levitate by lightening their masses and immediately plunge them to the ground with a heavy force.

He can also manipulate his own gravity as he deems fit. He can decrease his body's gravity to lighten his mass while attacking at high speed; as a result, his kicks released at high speed can pierce through his targets with the weight of an iron ball. In addition, he can control his gravity and allow himself to sprint at overwhelming speeds and reflexes without losing momentum. Asuma can also manipulate his gravity that can allow him to stand upside down on the ceiling, ride his motorcycle sideways on the face of a building, and even walk on an airborne plane's flap with relative ease.

By increasing his own density, he is capable of crushing a tank with his bare hands. He is also able to shoot balls of compressed gravity that act like black holes that swallow anything.

* **Flight**: Asuma can fly, glide and/or levitate through his manipulation of gravity. He can fly at varying speeds, levitate, or propel himself without taking flight, including enhanced jumping by a short burst of flight. This is achieved by gathering amounts of gravitational energies as a propulsion system, decreasing his gravitational pull/weight, and pull his own mass through the air while repelling gravity simultaneously.

* **Gyrokinesis**: By controlling gravitons and gravitational force fields in hi vicinity Asuma is able to use a form of telekinesis.

* **Gravitational Downforce**: Asuma can drastically increase the gravity in a given area, making moving or even standing difficult for anyone in it, even causing damage to the targeted area/targets, prompting the ground to crack and cave in, crushing the targets.

* **Graviton Blast:** By rapidly projecting gravitons in a cohesive beam, Asuma can generate a force blast with a maximum concussive force equivalent to the primary shock wave of an explosion of 20,000 pounds of TNT.

### Gravitational Energy Manipulation

Asuma can not only manipulate gravity but he can also shape and manipulate the gravitational energy, i.e., the energy a body with mass has in relation to another massive object. This energy is connected to gravity or gravitational force and kinetic energy. An object has its own gravitational field that draws it to a larger object, like the Earth. As an object is positioned high above the ground, its gravitational energy increases while its kinetic energy decreases. As the object plummets towards the ground, its kinetic energy increases while its gravitational energy decreases.

Asuma can harness the gravitational potential energy in his immediate area and turn it into kinetic energy and in the process temporarily lower the gravitational pull in that area.