Sealing

## Summary

**Sealing** (or **Imprisoning** or **Caging**) is typically the **ability to place or seal one or more objects into another object, though there are various applications**. The mechanism behind the sealing process varies greatly from fiction to fiction (be it through magic or ki use), though the end results are similar. When used as an attack, sealing techniques can often bypass physical durability entirely. The user can even use Barriers as means of keeping enemies trapped inside. This can be done in various ways such as trapping inside objects, inside individuals, inside structures or in other dimensions.

## Variations

* **Mechanical**: also called “**Confinement**” This variation is more of a conventional/practical means of sealing, involving physical matter or structures or items imprisoning someone or something entirely with it's own complex lock mechanism that would require usually a specific physical key, examples would be prison cells, vaults, safes, storages, vacuum sealed containers, etc..
	+ This can usually undone or bypassed by skilled enough safe-crackers or lock-pickers.
* **Encryption**: This variation of sealing would involve encrypting the information of anything into a sealing code, making said information inaccessible to those inside or outside of said targeted item/person, usually requires authentication. Usually found in Digital means, but can extend to physical matter as they have information too.
	+ This can be usually undone or bypassed by skilled enough hackers.
* **Supernatural**: This variation of sealing would involve less than natural means such as using scrolls to seal something away, or any items with specific enchantments or symbols, Or simply seal them away into another dimension which a complex BFR.
	+ This can usually be undone or bypassed by skilled enough counter-spells or nullification.

## Types

* The first type involves sealing physical objects, including living beings. These objects can be sealed within a containment item, though sealing the object within the caster or other people has been shown to be effective. When used against a living being, these powers have the potential to be considered broken depending on how freely the user can preform the sealing technique, though many cases require prep or have imposed drawbacks on the user to prevent this. When a living being is sealed within another living being, the container subject becomes the sealed target's host. The effects that the sealed target has on their host varies depending on the work of fiction, as do the effects on the target if their container is destroyed.
* The second type of sealing involves removing or locking attributes or even concepts of a target. Examples include sealing a target's magic or ki energy, or even their movement or consciousness (Though this could be a case of binding). This type of sealing denies the target use of these aspects rather than specifically placing them in another object. These effects can be temporary or permanent depending on the user.
* Soul sealing usually falls under the category of soul manipulation.

## Weakness

* Users of Unsealing can counteract this power naturally.
* Users who have the necessary keys or codes or methods to naturally unlock said seals could do this without violent action.