Paper (Papyrokinesis)

**Papyrokinesis** is the use of paper. Paper controllers win battles through their speed and cunning. Victory in small steps, a death by a thousand cuts - Literally.

Sometimes referred to in slang as useless.

### **Common Strengths**

* Paper controllers tend to be quite agile, with above average speed. Use your speed to your advantage! They can even briefly cause their own bodies to become extremely thin, which makes them the best kinesis as dodging.
* Huge amounts of paper can be controlled, moreso than many other controllers. A paper controller can cause enormous storms of paper to give enemies uncountable numbers of papercuts - making their damage above average for a kinesis - or even create new battlefields out of paper. Weapons too!
* While fragile and sharp in individual sheets, a stack of paper can be solid and blunt. They can use different formations of paper to different ends. This includes in the form of beasts, or shields!
* An experienced paper controller can learn the more advanced techniques relating specifically to books. The most powerful among these is a finishing move: locking a weakened enemy inside of a book, to be freed at the paper controller's decision. All of their versatility means paper controllers are one of the highest-utility kineses.

### **Common Weaknesses**

* Paper controllers, like their paper, are very fragile. Very, fragile. They are the single least tough kinesis. They need that dodging ability.
* The paper is fairly fragile, and can be destroyed. While under their control, it doesn't have the same weakness to fire or water that normal paper does, but it still takes the same damage as it would from any other source from these elements.
* Paper controllers cannot generate paper for free; they need a source of it. Destroying a paper controller's paper is the best way to troll them. Dousing it in liquid can make it harder for them to control.
* Paper can be a shield, but it's not a powerful shield. Overcome a paper controller's speed and they're open to attacks.

### **Sample Abilities**

* Get creative with your paper, and not just by writing or drawing on it. Make weapons, beasts, walls.
* You're not limited to blank pieces of paper. Consider books, playing cards, cardboard (technically paper!), origami or even clothes made of paper! Make wings too for flight!
* Once you're fully experienced with the physical ways to control paper, start coming up with unorthodox ways to do things with what's actually on pages. Use letters, or drawings, or even start using spellbooks of other kineses to cast some of their spells!
* Have a battlefield formation made of paper sorted out in your head. Make it to suit your character's strengths. Advanced users may be able to surround the battlefield in a "wallpaper" which then manifests and really puts the combatants in an area like what's depicted.
* Any unique abilities you want to give your character!

#### **Sample Archetypes**

Feel free to take inspiration from these archetypes when making your papyrokinetic. Emulate one of their styles, combine their features, or go another direction entirely!

**The Artist** understands the power of blank canvases, as long they're made from the right materials. They eschew the more esoteric powers in their kinesis to specialize in paper as an "element" in itself, offensively and defensively harnessing countless types of paper which they enhance further using their kinesis.

**The Wizard** scours dusty corners of the academy library for hidden spellbooks, and quests for unique scrolls when the magic they need isn't in stock. Their physical control of paper is likely too weak to be of much combat use, but their ability to tap into the magical power that paper can hold gives them access to non-kinetic magic, which means a tool for every situation.

**The Sigma** shows their commitment to the grindset by using their kinesis for its most noble application: printing money. They can wield their dollar bills as effectively as any other paper controller, but instead of spending their time on branching out to other materials, they forge business connections and spend their budget within fights to purchase special equipment and the allegiance of powerful allies.