Liberation

* Eagle
* Miraclonizer

**Liberation** is the special superpower granted by the Eagle Miraculous to its owner.

## Description

This superpower allows the user to free people of any personality traits that hold them back from their full potential. It is activated by the user speaking its name.

### Miraculous owner

The user shoots a magic golden feather at their target and the feather disappears into the target's body. The user can choose to shoot only one feather at a time or multiple feathers at once.

Once the feather is inside the targets body, the user can free the recipient(s) from any mental or emotional restriction of the user's choosing that prevents the recipient(s) from reaching their full potential, such as a code of ethics, a vow to not do something, or the fear of the destructive potential of one's own power. Notably, when used on multiple people at once, the user can choose a different restriction for each of them to be freed from.

In "Re-creation", it is revealed that Liberation can also nullify limitations that the target didn't put on themselves or are innate to them, and that were put in them through other means, even magical ones. In "Conformation", Gabriel Agreste akumatized himself into Nightormentor and used his powers to spread his nightmare-inducing dust all over the world, effectively trapping his victims in their own nightmares, thus limiting their true potential. Later on, by using Liberation, Eagle was able to free some of the victims in New York City and in Paris and get rid of the effects of Nightormentor's powers.

The Eagle Miraculous owner is able to use this power to assist their allies, like Lafayette did with his troops during the War of Independence. Ironically, the user can also free people as means to hinder them; after Miraclonizer freed the United Heroez of their restrictions, they stopped caring about trying to recapture him and instead focused on making up for lost time with their new freedom.

Apart from removing their inhibitions, the recipients personality seems to go unchanged, Doorman still had his unquenchable curiosity and Knightowl was still just as cranky and stubborn as she normally is. The recipients memories also appear to go unaffected, as Knightowl remembered that she had told Sparrow to stay at the hotel.

Interestingly, once the Eagle Miraculous owner frees someone of their metaphysical restrictions, the recipient(s) remain free even if the Eagle Miraculous is stolen and used by someone else.

The Eagle Miraculous owner can dispel the effects of their power by speaking the cancellation phrase: **Cool Down**. Notably, the Eagle Miraculous owner can use this cancellation phrase to return people to normal even if they were freed by another Eagle Miraculous owner. Once the trigger phrase is spoken, the feathers used to affect the victims leave their bodies and disappear.

### Liiri

The effects of Liiri's Liberation is unknown, but it would most certainly be unconstrained and results in some kind of catastrophe, though he would be able to restrain it somewhat.

## Weaknesses

The user must be careful in choosing the binds they wish to break, or else the person being freed may go out of control, following their every whim without any concern for the consequences. This can be especially problematic when the power is used on people with superpowers and/or advanced gadgets.

While Liberation can embolden people, it cannot increase or enhance their abilities, nor can it give them any additional abilities. It can only give people the courage to utilize the potential that they already have.

Someone who has been freed of their restrictions can be very predictable and can therefore be tricked and taken advantage of; after Doorman was freed and started using his powers only to satisfy his own curiosity, Ladybug, Cat Noir, Sparrow, and Uncanny Valley were able to use his curiosity against him, to trick him into opening a portal into the Statue of Liberty so they could sneak up on Miraclonizer from behind.

As seen in "Re-creation", Liberation was unable to free the Miraculized from their transformed state. This either means the transformation into a superpowered villain is not considered a limitation as far as the power of Liberation is concerned, or that the power can only free people of mental and emotional weaknesses and is powerless against physical ones.

Resistance can cancel out the effect of Liberation.

In "Miraculous Paris", it is revealed that using the special superpower uses vital energy from the Kwami, but also from the miraculous holder. It's one thing for an adult holder, but for an underage holder, who is less physically and mentally capable of handling the strain, there is a security system in place that limits them to only using their special power once and causes them to detransform before it becomes dangerous. However, using the Miraculous for evil overrides the limiter, allowing an underage holder to use their powers to their full potential. As previously stated, a younger holder cannot handle the strain; dark veins of corruption will gradually spread across their body, and they will inevitably be destroyed.

## Trivia

* This is the fourth Miraculous superpower that can be called off by the user; following Akumatization, Amokization, and Mirage.
* It's the fourth Miraculous superpower to use an object to affect their targets following Akumatization, Amokization and Uproar.
	+ It's the second Miraculous superpower that uses feathers to affect their targets.
	+ The effects of Liberation on their targets will remain even if the user detransforms, or if they or the jewel are no longer of this world.
		- However, Amokization and Akumatization does it indirectly, infecting objects that people have, and Liberation is more direct, affecting humans on a mental and emotional level and unlike the other two, these feathers don't need to purified by a Ladybug Miraculous user.
		- When the user is an adult they can shoot multiple feathers at multiple targets, however the adult users of Amokization and Akumatization must have their powers amplified or their victims have to touch the same object and as well as shared the same feeling to be affected.
			* It's also possible that akumatization may have allowed Miraclonizer to use multiple feathers at the same time.
			* Jessica Keynes is seen using the power multiple times in "Re-creation", however this doesn't really answer the question due to the revelation in "Revolution", that growing up does not necessarily have to be in the physical sense to get adult powers.
				+ It could be that this Miraculous it similar to the Rabbit and Snake Miraculouses can give the user multiple uses of it's power but has a different unknown limitation.
* Similar to an amok it's unknown what will happen when the feathers misses their target.
* Since Eagle only used her powers to undo the effects of Liberation and didn't use the power herself, it's unknown if the timer was activated.

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