Give And Take

## Description

Give and Take is an inherited technique that is actually only seen once in a generation of the Elio Family, an esteemed family of cursed sorcerers in Europe, more specifically in Italy. This Cursed Technique allows the user to imbed their own cursed energy into anything from inanimate to living beings such as shamans or even cursed spirits. This will inturn reinforce the target (in the case of inanimate objects) or drastically increase their own reservoir of Cursed energy (in the case of Shamans or Spirits). After the target is severely damaged or destroyed, it will then return both the energy given to it and a portion of the target's "essence" to the user.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

The primary strength of this technique is it's immeasurable amount of potential in a variety of different situations. This so because the user deposits a portion of their cursed energy into a target. For example they can deposit in inanimate objects then destroy them to regain the cursed energy and then an "essence" of the targets. So when applied to let's a brick, by depositing their cursed energy into the brick making it harder and a lot more durable, then destroying it the "essence" of a brick turning their skin much more durable and strong.

This Cursed Technique can also be applied to the likes of sorcerers and cursed spirits, in fact this technique is often said to work best agasint cursed spirits, being that their bodies and entire existence is made up of cursed energy. For example, after a user slams their fist into a cursed spirit, and it meets the amount needed to affect a cursed spirit, after it's destruction they can absorb an "essence" of the spirit. This will vary as in some cases if only minimum is needed a user can steal portions of their cursed energy or absorb phsyical attributes of the target such as their claws, rough hides wings and essentially make them part of the users body.

In extreme cases a user is capable of depositing a large portion of their own cursed energy into a target, it's been proven they could steal techniques of a tsrget. This is in fact how the Elio clan had built their strength and reputation, as not only did they defeat incredible strong foes, they could use the techniques of foes for their own benefit. It is estimated the current clan as a whole have stolen over twenty different techniques, though the head of the clan actually holds more than that alone, of course it is unsure if this is true or simply a tactic to scare off potential threats.

### Weaknesses

* The biggest weakness found within this technique is that regardless of the situation, it puts you in a less than favorable position to be in a fight. This is because just to activate this technique, you must give cursed energy to your target, there for increasing their strength making yourself weaker. If the user was in a fight against an enemy of equal strength to their own they'd have to deposit not just a significant amount of cursed energy but would shift balance of the fight entirely into the direction of the tsrget.

* The user also can only apply this technique one target at a time. When thks technique is attempted ot be applied in different locations it'll cancel out both applications. Though this doesn't not return the sacrificed energy to the user either.

* If the user absorbs physical features from the likes of a cursed spirit,then they are incapable of naturally recalling that feature and are now part of their bodies until the feature is released by the user. This can mitigated by the use of specially designed seals that can make those features recall back into the body until the tag is removed or runs out of energy.

* Any cursed technique stolen by this ok me will always come with the draw back that it takes 1.5 times as much cursed energy to fuel. This is a shared drawback among all users of the technique and is heavily implied to because the technique was not naturally their own.

## Trivia

* I based a lot of this technique early on off of Knuckles men ability in HXH