Special Triggers are magical devices created by Fital after The Grand Finale: Requiem to draw on the true potential of anyone using it.
Description[]
A Special Trigger is a device typically attached to the arm that is capable of allowing the wielder to use a mighty attack. These attacks use as many of the user’s capabilities as is feasible so as to best represent the wielder’s power, even through any limitations such as not having powers used in the attack due to seals or a reliance on Power Energy or other such factors.
These special attacks can also combine powers together in ways that are normally impossible, such as clashing elements or the user’s weapon not typically binding with their powers. For certain users, other techniques adjacent to a special attack, such as a Team Blast or techniques like Chaos Blast which are the same sort of power burst may become part of the attack. A lack of weapon can change the attack, but only if they often fight without it. Inversely, the simple use of a weapon often changes the attack if they do not typically use it or that specific kind.
As the wielder’s powerset develops, their unique attack can develop with them to account for new powers and techniques, especially if they start combining their powers on their own. As well, different forms will often drastically change the attack, with Super Forms and the like amplifying the spectacle and power, Sol Forms and other such focusing on the user’s element more so than their techniques. Of course, the most drastic shift is for forms that change the body, such as a dragon transformation or such.
The Special Trigger always has a name for the special attack used, often before its user can come up with one. Fital added this feature specifically for calling out the special attack’s name before using it, which is not necessary. The name may update as the attack changes, but typically only does so for different forms.
Anyone can use a Special Trigger provided they can get one, even if they have no powers or fighting skill. Such attacks use an undefined energy to draw upon passions and weaponize them. This undefined energy can damage anyone, no matter their resistances, though how much it actually impacts the target depends on their power contrasted with the user’s power. It can always be felt though.
A Special Trigger only has one charge. Some versions can recharge off of “fighting spirit” but they’re typically disposable. The only well known way to get a new one is through Fital himself, as very few others can make them. No other Kalied Demon can make one, and it’s theorized that it’s due to his special energy balance. Variants can be created, provided you can make a basic one.
Design[]
A typical Special Trigger looks like a watch, though the head is rectangular rather than circular. The display is merely a button that glows gold, which when held for a second, charges the user with the power for a special attack.
The rechargeable variety has the display turn black after a use, with it turning back to gold as it charges.
Special Log[]
(Note: Not a list of users, some featured users never get their hands on a Special Trigger.)
Base Forms[]
- Alan: Light Cutter: Alan strikes his immediate area with a light flash, then attacks immediately after. Once the light clears, the targets are harmed with all three Wisp elements.
- Dria: Soul Storm: Dria flies around, gathering random objects and forming a ring with them through telekinesis, before outstretching her arms, holding herself up with telekinesis and firing down on targets in the ring, before eventually flying higher and diving down with a kick, hitting the area with a powerful burst which releases the stuff outwards.
- Srish: Shattering Sound: Srish spins around with a leg out, sending out three waves of ice spikes that leave a trail of shards while sliding to a halt, before calling on his Wisp for a Rhythm charge, and stomping the floor with the leg that sent the ice, causing visible vibrations to be sent across the shards, which shatters them, and the spikes, which shatter into a spikey burst, and back into Srish, who rebounds them as a burst of sound and vibrations
- Silence: Unheard Of: Silence silences the area, before calling on Ghost power and vanishing, with explosions then appearing on top of targets silently. Silence eventually reappears
- Hammer: Shock And Awe: Hammer summons a Lightning Shield on himself, before expanding it across a area, then retracting it and biting the collected targets in Frenzy form
- Thistle: Flame Fury: Thistle clutches both his arms to his chest, healing himself, before using Burst's Energy form and hurling mighty fireballs in whichever way he was facing, which explode on targets
- Gust: Gale Force: Gust stirs up four tornadoes which roughly circle him from a short distance away, collecting targets, which are shot at by Gust before he uses a Laser color power to bounce between the tornadoes a couple times
- Katona: Reality Crack: Katona calls upon his Wisp's power, then combines it with his power to blow a hole in reality open. He uses this power to expand the hole, until it collapses in on itself and crushes targets nearby. Katona emerges fine by the way
- Fital: Special Soul: Fital picks a random Special and replicates it himself, in a stronger or weaker fashion depending on who he's copying
- Eror: What You Make Of It: Eror attacks with both his hammers and his halberd, the hammers floating around as he holds the halberd, slashing in whatever direction he feels like, with elemental missiles firing off at targets in that direction, while the hammers attack to the left and right of that direction flipped, with a random elemental effect each hit. After a bunch of these strikes, Eror spins with the halberd, the hammers following the spin from a farther distance, before sending out a burst of power.
- Escour: Weapon Of Hatred: Escour summons one of his creations, and directs them to do their Special in his place, while he slashes at foes in the area with his True Scalpel.
- Serd: Stolen Wonder: Serd links both his gloved hands, which causes a explosion of power. He then jumps around and does some more of these explosions, before using his draining glove to channel the power back into him, weakening foes as well.
- Dimensional Source: Restoration Of Adventure: Dimensional Source entraps foes around her in liquid Dimensional Energy, before subjecting them to multiple finishing blows from across the multiverse
- ASD: Might As A Whole: ASD splits off into it's separate forms, which then work together with a combination of all three of their specials
- Battle Chip: Restorative Justice
- Darkness: Limits Of Destiny
- Sonic: Blue Hurricane: Sonic stirs up a massive Sonic Wind as both a barrier and something to rebound off of, before Homing Attacking someone and bouncing off the walls, growing faster and faster in his bounces until stirring up a massive Blue Tornado
- Tails: Tornado Twister: Tails calls upon several models of the Tornado, which all bombard the immediate area with their weapons
- Knuckles: Lava Flame Punch: Knuckles combines the flame techniques he knows with his connection to Angel Island, and punches the ground with a flaming punch that opens several temporary lava geysers
- Amy: Power Of Heart
- Eggman: Egg Conquest
- Metal Sonic: Overdrive Lightning: Metal Sonic creates a electric barrier around himself, then flies in a large circle around foes, leaving behind a electric trail, until eventually, lightning strikes within his circle, including one massive bolt that strikes the entire area.
- Big: Fishing Rod Frenzy: Froggy jumps in and grabs the hook, then jumps between several targets, entangling them and more in fishing line. Big then reels the lot in, and spins around before slipping the line loose, tossing the targets out of the area hard.
- Shadow: Chaos Blitz: Shadow unclips his Inhibitor Rings, and combines Chaos Spear, Control and Snap against all the foes nearby, before blowing them away with a supercharged Chaos Blast.
- Rouge: Gem Of The Night Sky
- Omega: Secret Weapon: Omega opens up, revealing numerous hidden weapons, before firing in whatever direction he was facing, obliterating any foe in front of himself.
- Cream: Chao Crew: Cream directs Cheese and several other Chao to attack, which summons a cartoon dust cloud in the area in front of Cream. Cream finishes the special by spindashing into the cloud, bowling the targets away.
- Vector: Chaotix Strike
- Espio: Chaotix Surprise
- Charmy: Chaotix Speed
- Blaze: Royal Inferno: Blaze jumps into the air and summons a massive fire pillar directly below herself to scorch foes, emerging alight, but unharmed.
- Marine: Sea Master
- Captain Whisker: Captain's Power
- Johnny: Pirate's Weapon
- Silver: Psychokinetic Overload
- Mephiles: Soul of Solaris: Mephiles opens a portal behind himself, directing a storm of meteors at the general area in front of him, before outstretching his arms, and firing a massive laser.
- Eggman Nega: Future's Wrath
Guest Characters[]
(Include your character if they can use a Special Trigger, even if it's not one of Fital's)
- Raid Shmyrna: Existence Overwrite
- Terios: The Concept of Nothing
- Cross: Quantum Blitzkrieg
- Veroxx Asura: The Eternal Flame
- Tsuyo Sashi: True Grand Design
- Cyne: Phantos' Haki