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Quirk: Photon (Light)

Quirk Type: Emitter/Transformation (Dual Type)

Quirk Description: The ability to absorb, manipulate and emit photons within the Quirk range from their body as well as converting body tissue to, and altering the wavelengths of absorbed photons inside their body. Absorbed photons are stored in the body of the user and when depleted the user can, if wanted to, use their own body to fuel their Quirk. The most easily manipulated spectrum of photons is between near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, with increasing difficulty as the energy of the photons gets further away from that range.

Applications: When the photons are being absorbed there is no light being reflected and so this appears as a pure darkness. This can be used to completely negate other Quirks which require a line of sight. The user can actively manipulate the rate of absorption as well as the specific frequencies so as to darken or change the colour of a surface (colour of someones skin, eyes etc. as a form of disguise). Combining this with the emission of certain colours of photons within their range, the user can make themself look entirely much smaller or larger than they actually are, or completely invisible, as well as allies or objects within the viscinity of their powers. With an increased Quirk range the user could potentially "dislocate" a whole region of vision on a field so as to divert attention else where or confuse opponents.

Another way to confuse opponents, possibly even more effective then just blinding them, is by intentionally altering the light directly entering their eyes to grossly distort or inverse their vision. (Only they have to be within range for this to be possible).

The Quirk holder can use their ability to "see" from the point of absorption within their Quirk range. This allows them to see around corners at shorter ranges, or for a more advanced user, to "see" into a room at a distance. If the user is untrained then this would appear from the "observing point" as pure black orbs, but the user can "observe" in a light-wave frequency that humans can't see and once the visual information has reached them, convert it back to a visible spectrum that the user can see. At even more advance levels the user can literally just see from wherever they want within the Quirks power range when they are absorbing the photons.

The user can rapidly emit light either visible or invisible (to the human eye at least) to burn away opponents or to blind them. With acute manipulation the energy can be released as a focused beam for attacks or as a directed radial release for blinding and diversion.

As the Quirk holder uses their body for the storage of the energy and can also transform their tissues into energy for their Quirk, after an extreme amount of training and with supple stores of energy the user could travel as a beam for short but instantaneous distances, possibly reabsorbing the lost energy as they travel to maximise efficiency of their usage (appearing as a travelling beam of pure darkness...... for the milliseconds they are travelling).

Another form of the conversion of body tissue at expert levels of training is the reverse. As this would be much more complex for the user to accomplish, and requiring them to be awake, this would be a much slower form of conversion (relatively speaking, compared to the simpler version of body tissue into energy) and would cost the user gigantic amounts of stored energy, though the ability to self-heal is fantastic to have.

For an advanced user, the ability to control the conversion of their spilt blood, withing the Quirk range from a distance, into photon energy is possible. This means that if the Quirk user were to be injured they could "detonate" the lost blood as an explosion of light, completely consuming the otherwise wasted blood.

Limitations: The range at which the user can absorb and manipulate the photons is only a short range without intense Quirk training, anywhere between 1m-3m depending on the users innate capabilities with their quirk, but can be greatly advanced up to a range of over 50m radially.

Stores of the photon energy are quite limited and based on the size of the users body and their affinity with the Quirk. Without strategic reabsortion of the energy the user could easily be left drained and having to decay their own body to save themselves or someone else.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks: -    Photons reaching into ionising radiation are almost impossible to control and absorbing them puts great stress on the body, even small amounts, causing extremely rapid increase in core body temperature which can potentially kill the user. -    If the user has no stores of energy remaining, using their body will rapidly decay their tissues and then their organs, also potentially killing the user. -    Though their is a range of photon energies that are very easy for this Quirk to use, they still heat up the users body gradually with frequent absorption. The Quirk can be trained to increase the heat managing efficiency but even someone trained to expert levels with this Quirk still have a limit. -    Even with intentionally reabsorbing as much light as possible any light that actually hits targets loses some potency as it slightly absorbs into the surface. In pure darkness even the best trained user with this ability still has a limit of light they have available. -    The Illusions created don't make any sounds, so at closer distances they are easily discernable from the real things.

Strategies for Maximisation: The bigger the person the more photon energy they can store as well as increasing the amount of tissue they have available for conversion to energy. Training to become bulky allows the user to not only increase their stores of photon energy and body tissues but also their close combat abilities which can be combined to make them an even more impressive fighter. A user that is extremely intelligent and creative with strategies of deceiving with this Quirk as well as constantly reabsorbing potentially wasted energy can vastly increase their potential.