Name: Kane Thornewood
Age: 18
Height: 6'3"
Status: Graduated High School (Wealthy)
Location: Seattle (Penthouse Apartment)
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{THE ABSORPTION SYSTEM}
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Core System Mechanics (Passive)
These are the always-on parts of your ability, working in the background.
• Smart Merging: Your system intelligently takes new abilities and blends them with what you already have. Stronger traits take over weaker ones, and complementary traits work together to make you far more capable.
• Human Form: Even as you gain immense ability, your body stays looking and feeling human. The system improves your human biology; it doesn't turn you into something non-human. You might temporarily show traits like claws when you need them, but your skin and overall appearance remain human.
• Constant Growth: Your system is always learning and getting better. It finds new ways for your abilities to work together, constantly pushing your body to its perfect form.
• Abilities & Traits Panel: This screen lists all the abilities, traits, and skills you've absorbed.
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Absorption Methods (Active Skills)
Basic Methods: These methods are available from the start.
• Touch and Take: Just touch something, and its qualities become yours. Touching a rock can make your skin tougher. For normal things, this takes a few seconds. For supernatural sources, it can take seconds, minutes, or even hours of direct contact, depending on how strong the source is.
• Eat It Up: Eating a part of something powerful gives you a sudden, strong boost. It's raw, but effective, giving you a near-instant surge of ability.
• Focused Absorption: You can pick one specific trait, skill, or even a piece of knowledge to take. By focusing on it, like a cheetah's speed, a fighter's skill, or a specific memory from a person, your system works faster, so you get that trait quicker.
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Advanced Methods (Locked)
As your ability grows, you'll unlock these specialized ways to absorb.
• Soak It In
• Conceptual Assimilation
• Radiant Absorption
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Benefits & Evolution (Passive Gains)
Every time you absorb, you change, and your ability keeps growing with you.
• Acquired Traits & Skills: You immediately gain new physical traits (like claws or faster healing) or instantly learn new skills (like a fighter's moves or a mage's spells). You don't learn; you just can.
• Breakthroughs: Sometimes, after absorbing something truly unique, you'll have a Breakthrough. This unlocks entirely new abilities or greatly improves ones you already have.
• Supernatural Abilities: Absorbing something truly strange, like part of a ghost or a broken dimension, gives you unique, unpredictable abilities no one else has.
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Traits Absorbed (Up-to-date)
Each trait has been well thought out, even if there seems to be a degree of overlap between some, they actually work in conjunction and complete one another to bring their traits to a higher level.
Axolotl (Perfect, Scarless Regeneration):
• Absorption Effect: Gains the axolotl's unique ability to perfectly regenerate complex body parts, including limbs, spinal cord, heart tissue, and even portions of the brain, without scarring or loss of function.
• Vampire Comparison:Elevates the "rapid healing" and "agelessness" to an absolute peak, making dismemberment a temporary inconvenience.
Naked Mole-Rat (Pain & Cancer Resistance, Longevity):
• Absorption Effect: Gains extraordinary resistance to pain (their neurons lack Substance P, a key pain transmitter), making them largely impervious to physical discomfort. They also have an unparalleled resistance to cancer and can live for 150 to 200 years, or even longer, while maintaining their vitality and avoiding the typical diseases and frailties of old age. This grants exceptional cellular health and extended vitality.
• Vampire Comparison: Greatly enhances overall resilience, making them less susceptible to debilitation from injury (they'd feel no pain from trauma) and almost immune to disease.
Cyanobacteria (Enhanced Photosynthesis/Energy Efficiency/Self-Sustainance):
• Absorption Effect: Allows for incredibly efficient energy production at a cellular level, directly converting light into metabolic energy. Cyanobacteria are among the most photosynthetically efficient organisms on Earth, accounting for over 50% of global photosynthesis. Their specialized pigments (like B-phycoerythrin) have much higher light-harvesting efficiency and their CO2-concentrating mechanisms maximize energy conversion. This drastically reduces the need for traditional food intake, fueling their body's metabolism, healing, and physical abilities with inexhaustible, self-renewing energy, allowing for sustained activity for days, weeks, or even indefinitely without food or rest. While not producing water directly, their hyper-efficient metabolism and reduced waste minimize water loss, making external hydration needs incredibly infrequent.
• Vampire Comparison:Mimics perpetual energy and complete lack of fatigue, allowing for continuous, high-performance activity indefinitely without needing to "feed." This trait represents the pinnacle of natural energy self-sufficiency, far surpassing a vampire's need for blood.