Avatar of Plundering

Avatar of Plundering
Name
Gift Name	Avatar of Plundering
Battle Data
Classification	Physicality
Usage	Absorbing Gift abilities.
Information
First Seen	Episode 2
Known Users	Hero Killer

Avatar of Plundering is the Gift used by Hero Killer. It allows her to copy and steal the Gifts of other Gift users.

Description

The Gift enables the user to steal and absorb the Gifts of other Gift users. There are two categories of stolen powers: Permanent and Temporary.

• Permanent Gifts can be used for an unlimited amount of time, within the limits of the user's EST.
• Temporary Gifts have a pre-defined quota of time that they can be used for, and every usage of the ability draws down upon that time; once the user has fully exhausted this quota, they can never use that Gift again as their own although they can gain it as a permanent Gift.

Avatar of Plundering does not merely copy a Gift as expressed by the original user or mimic the effect of another Gift, it absorbs the entirety of the Gift. This means that when the user initially steals a Gift, they could be much weaker than the original user if they are unskilled or have less EST.

Conversely, it's also possible that the stolen Gift will be much stronger than the original if the stealer has a very great idea of how the Gift is used or has a much higher level of EST than the original user, The stealer can also advance and grow the Gift as if it were their own, creating new techniques or using it in ways that the original user never envisioned.

It is speculated by Vector that not only does Avatar of Plundering take another user's Gift, but also their status (bone density, strength, EST, etc.) as well.

Usage

Hero Killer's new selection list.

Permanent Gifts are obtained whenever the user kills another Gift user and is directly responsible for their death while Temporary Gifts are obtained from physical contact with another Gift user.

Ihwa grabbing the red streams of EST to gain a Temporary Gift.

While it was unnamed, it was not apparent whether Ihwa stole a Gift with either her merely needing to be responsible for killing her targets or an opponent using their Gift. But after naming her Gift, she increased her control and visualization over it like a selection list in a video game. Ihwa can now grab streams of EST that she can absorb with permanent Gifts colored as blue streams and temporary Gifts colored as red streams.

Weaknesses

To absorb a Gift, the stealer must generally first observe the original user using the Gift. Although this is not a mandatory requirement to steal a Gift, it is a practical limitation because the stealer does not necessarily understand how a stolen Gift works immediately. It is possible to steal a Gift without even realizing what Gift they've stolen. In such a case, the user would have to discover the Gift's power and may even inadvertently activate it. To avoid such a cumbersome, and possibly dangerous, discovery process, observing the original user is almost always necessary.

Relatedly, like any Gift user, one must learn how to use the Gift through experience, and in the cases of complicated Gifts, it can take a while to understand. Newly stolen Gifts will also be limited in how long they can be used for, however with experience and training, this duration can be increased.

The nature of the Gift means that the user does not always have a consistent stable of powers, as temporary Gifts have a limited number of usages and can expire. This requires her to be extremely skilled in combat and able to adapt to learning the new Gift on the fly, mastering them, and then abandoning them and the fighting style associated with it when the Gift runs out.

Although permanent Gifts have unlimited uses, Ihwa can only use one permanent Gift at a time. On the other hand, any number of temporary gifts can be used at once. The user can use her one permanent gift simultaneously with her temporary Gifts. It took Ihwa a long time before she fully understood this limitation of her Gift because temporary Gifts were so rare and precious to her that she was not able to haphazardly experiment and find out the limits of Gift usage until she had accumulated a sufficient number of temporary Gifts.

Techniques

Image	Name	Description
	Blood Vengeance	Ihwa, using Blood Manipulation, unleashes multiple blood created blades from her wounds to attack her opponent from multiple angles. This technique was first used in her first fight with Jintae Yang as she nearly killed him.
	Vorpal Rain of Blade	Ihwa, using Blood Manipulation, gathers the created blades from Blood Vengeance to levitate them in the air and forms blood blades on the ground to unleash a torrent of slashes on to her opponent. She first used this technique in her fight with Jintae as she overloaded his Healing.
	Grayman's Axe of Vengeance	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation, creates a giant axe that's capable of destroying a large obstacle or a group of multiple opponents. She first used it to attack Raxfer Sinclair's Platinum Verdancy in her attempt to save Nenya.
	Jade and Grayman's Combination - Thunder Blossom	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation and Electrokinesis, combines the two Gifts to create a "flower" inside an opponent to unleashes a torrent of electrified blades with reddish hues of color. She first used this technique in her fight with the Punisher.
	Ihwa Punch Amplified by Nenya	A simple but devastating punch that was empowered by The Torch, it was first used against Jintae Yang as payback for his earlier offensives as it nearly killed him.
	Bladed Bullets	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation, creates multiple blades and then smashes them into small projectiles of metal to bat them into an opponent at high speeds. She first used this technique in her fight with Puppeteer.
	Guillotine	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation, generates a giant blade from her abdomen to stab an opponent in a surprise attack. She first used this technique in her fight with Puppeteer.
	Grayman's Sweet Home	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation, generates multiple blades from her forearm to serve as a shield against attacks.
	Blade Wall	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation, creates a large wall of blades from stepping on to the ground to trap and prevent an opponent form escaping.
	Gray Urumi	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation, creates and extends urumi, a flexible, whip-like blade, from her arm that she had some measure of controlling as she could curve and bend it. She first tested the technique in her fighting "sessions" with Hekate.
	Daemon Laserblast	Ihwa, using Demon Mask, produces a powerful breath attack similar to Daemon's own. She first tested the technique in her fighting "sessions" with Hekate.
	Dark Dance	Ihwa, using Weapon Creation, fashions long, sharp talons akin to Abyss Dancer's to claw through her opponent. She first used the technique against Jintae Yang during their final fight.
	Daemon Claw	Ihwa, using Demon Mask, fashions sharp talons to slash apart her opponent. She first used the technique against Jintae Yang during their final fight.
	Glass Baptism Light Call	Ihwa, using Glass Baptism, creates a hailstorm of glass particles.

See also

• Hero Killer's Gifts

Trivia

• Although her Gift was originally unnamed, Hero Killer eventually named it Avatar of Plundering, increasing her focus and control over the skill.
• The Gift shares vast similarities with the central protagonist of unORDINARY, John Doe's Aura Manipulation.