Umbrakinesis

The ability to manipulate darkness and shadows. Some users were born with this ability while others obtained it after taking on shadow forms.

## Sub-Powers

**Turning into Shadows**: Users can dissolve their human identity and become a 2D shadow. It is attached to a wall, ground and has some sort of connection. This allows the user to also change the shape of the shadow in the way they want. It is the most basic form. Users, when more advanced can also become a 3D shadow which is tangible and looks like a sorta see-through dark figure. In this form all an any type of light (sun, artificial light etc.) can kill or severely injure the user. You can not feel anything in either of these forms- unless it's the pain of light lol. Becoming a shadow is permanent unless you have control over it. \*see Shadowfication\*

**Shadow-Travel**: When the user is a shadow they gain the ability to travel both short and long distances via shadows by having access the Shadow Realm. If a person is not a shadow they can suffocate and die in the realm because it is pure darkness and a void of nothingness (think of it like space).

**Tangible Shadows**: Along with manipulating shadows on surfaces or walls, by channeling the shadows or darkness a certain way users can make shadow objects tangible or 3D. Users can only make simple objects where they knows the layout and internal structure. Light can easily make the object disappear and it can not stay for long periods of time because the person creating it must have full focus.

**Manifestations**: Manifestations are another person or humanoid shadow created on purpose or subconsciously. There are different types like conscious and controlled. All users can create uncomplicated shadow people to do their bidding, however, the complex ones are only created by Lyra and Pax. \*see Lyra Statesgard and Pax Statesgard for more\*

**Shape Shifting**: Can /only/ happen in shadow form but it does not happen often of not at all because it is a lot of work. Mostly used by Three Statesgard as a scare tactic.

**Night Vision:** Being a shadow or at least part shadow gives users the ability to see in the dark because they are the dark.

**Puppetting/Possession**: Puppetting is when users go into someone else's shadow and control their movements from there (think like Peter Pan and his shadow almost, the shadow has a mind of its own because the user is the shadow). Possession is possession of the mind, users can find and exploit the "shadows" of peoples minds and their dark thoughts. Users can control them from there. Things can go very wrong during possession and it is highly dangerous for both participants (shown by the whole Luci-Lyra situation). Only the Lyra, Three, Pax can do both puppetting and possession, Five has achieved possession once and the other users could puppet if they wanted.

**Shadowfication**: Only the Statesgard siblings can turn other turn living things into shadows by possessing them and rearranging their mind. This gives all other access to shadow powers. This comes with a downfall. Whoever is "the mothership" or the host of the powers as Lyra usually is, they have control over all shadows including people who have been shadowed. Whoever the host is they have an internal connection to all shadows and could even make that person disappear/control them as they are a shadow and under their power. THIS EFFECT IS PERMANENT UNLESS THERE IS A REPLACEMENT BODY THE PERSON CAN POSSESS. Only the Statesgards can go in and out of human and shadow forms at will.

## Known Users

**Lyra Statesgard**

**Three Statesgard**

**Pax Statesgard**

**Malia Statesgard**

**Vix Statesgard**

**Five Hargreeves** (Formerly)

**Catrina Pitts** (Formerly)

**Y Rosetti** (Formerly)