User blog:Neoexlucky/Spirit Evolution

(Just sort of spit balling an idea, not sure if I want to do anything with it yet)

Spirit Evolution (or sometimes reffered to as Transcendence) is a type of ability in which a person and a spirit have linked in a bond has been formed between the two. Spirit evolution can be looked at as a type of 'Super-form' due to it's activatible ability to change the user's shape and powers, often times making the person stronger, but it can also be viewed as a condition due to side effects of the power and the limitations put into place on it.

Aquisition
Now one is born with the ability to use Spirit Evolution, it is a power that is granted when a spirit and a person interact and form a bond between one another. Spirits often times roam the planet in search of someone who could grant them a peace that they long for, in exchange for granting that person their abilities. Often times though that person will have to do several things. They must meet the requirements for using the abilities and must have the morals for it. Spirits, being phantoms, can often see a person for who they truly are and will often try to bring out that side of the person, when they can.

Some spirits require a person to go on a quest to obtain their powers, or to perform a task in order to prove their worth. Once these are complete the spirit will gift the user with their powers and will move on from their roaming undead life.

Abilities
Spirit Evolution comes in a variety of things. The first being that they have the ability to summon their spirit and they will change into a different state, with different abilities and a shape that is similar to the former spirit who granted them their powers but still being similar to the user.

However that isn't the only thing that someone can do with Spirit Evolution. Most, if not, everytime someone gains a spirit, they start to change their normal form in a type of evolution. These changes can vary from person to person though. Once person may evolve and learn how to summon their weapon out of thin air, while someone else could grow a second head, the possibilities are almost endless. Most evolutions are minor allowing the user to gain a new passive ability, or to have great reflexes. A change in fur color is not uncommon and can happen to many users of the ability. Only in extrememly rare cases has anyone ever changed their shape dramatically. This mostly happens to cyborgs who can sometimes evolve to gain parts of their body that they have lost, though it is possible for normal people too.

Side-effects
There are downsides to taking on a Spirit Evolution. Most of these are not permenent but can be if not treated or taken care of properly.

One common trait that is diagnosed to new users is Split Personality Disorder, which is quite common from the first hour to the first three days of having the ability. Normally those with a strong will can easily overcome this and the Split Personality will disappear, but for some it never does and haunts them forever.

Another common trait is seeing illusions. Normally within the first thrity-six hours of having the ability people claim to see things before the disapper into nothingness. This is common and will leave the user after a while.

Another trait is Phantom pain or phantom desensitation. Often when a spirit who has lost a limb is taken in, the user may feel pain in the limb that was missing and in some extreme cases they will even feel as though the limb is gone. While phantom pain can be cured easily with some meditation and time, phantom desensitation is very hard to get rid of, and in most cases it doesn't.

Mood swings are very common in the begginng week that someone has the ability. While most of the time a person will only feel sorrow, this can lead to depression and the user may even try to harm themselves if not watched, but this is only in cases where someone takes the powers of a depressed spirit, most of which do not interact with mortals, let alone give them their powers, but they do sometimes happen.

Gender confusion is the final side-effect that comes from taking a spirit with the opposite gender as the user. While this one will only last roughly fourty-eight hours, it is almost always bound to happen to users who take a spirit with the opposite gender. The side effect itself is not really dangerous, but it is something that could happen.

Restrictions
Not everyone can learn the ability of Spirit Evolution, most of the time it requires normal people, who have the correct traits in order to match up with the spirit but some people cannot take a spirit no matter what they do.

Correct Traits
Simple but important, if someone was very violent and met a peaceful spirit who hated fighting, the two would not be able to form a bond at all. There are several things that a Spirit needs in order to form a bond, and traits are one of them.

Invincibles and Immortals
Spirits are beings of the dead, creatures who are already dead, but still live a half life. One of the ways that a spirit and a person can connect after the spirit is gone is through the fact that the user in question will, eventually die. People who are invincible though (As in they cannot die of age, by battle, by illness, or by poison) have absolutly no chance at being able to have a Spirit Evolution. On the other hand Immortals (Cannot die by age or illness, but can die of battle or poison) are similar, it's possible, but the chances of it happenig are slim to none.

Robots and Cyborgs
Similar to the above Robots cannot form a bond due to not actually living. Robots can be destroyed or deactiviated but it is almost impossible for them to truly live and because of this they cannot form a spirit evolution. Cyborgs are sort of a mixed bag. If the brain and heart are both organic and not robotic than it is possible for them to form a bond, but if one of those organs are robotic or have robotic parts, than the act of trying to form a bond is useless.

Alternative
For Invincibles, Immortals, and Cyborgs, there is a similar approach to forming a spirit evolution without the need to fufil all the requirements. Using a different type of Spirit known as Patroni. Patroni are ghosts of emotion or virtue and as long as the user has one of those emotions or virtues they may be able to link with the patroni. While Spirits of that emotion or virtue would be more powerful, Patroni are easier to come by and easier to bond with. They give similar abilities to Spirits, with the exception of the Evolution part, where the user can gain new abilties or change shape. The user can still suffer from the same side effects as a user of spirit evolution. Robots, however, cannot form a bond with Patroni, due to patroni requiring a virtue or emotion that is genuine, not something artificual. Normal people may also go after and form a bond with Patroni, but it may be better if they looked for a spirit instead of a Patroni, due to better power they can gain from a Spirit.