Cadenza

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Quirk

Quirk Name: Cadenza

Quirk Type: Emitter

Quirk Overview: When Aria sings, holding a note for over one second, any person able to hear her feels a paralyzing effect through their body. They will move toward her if her pitch increases, away from her if it decreases, and remain in place if it stays the same. The effect is diminished the less the person is able to hear her.

Quirk Limits/Drawbacks: The second start-up time and Aria needing to breathe eventually means there will be windows of opportunity to counterattack, even if she is completely paralyzing the target. As it only affects physical movement and the body, Quirks that can be activated mentally can still be used, without physical control anyway. Aria can potentially burn her voice out if she sings too loud too long. It will affect everyone who hears it, including civilians and fellow heroes. Lastly, the effect does not work through speakers or any kind of electronic enhancement.

Quirk Strengths: Crowd control above all else. As there is no upper limit to the number of people it can affect, this quirk could freeze an entire army in place. Aria is also able to freely act as she sings, allowing her to put cuffs on a target or otherwise try to incapacitate them in other ways. Further, the target does not need to consciously hear her singing, even deaf people would be affected from it affecting them.

Quirk Weaknesses: While deafness would not affect the quirk, someone cutting their ear off would make them immune to her effects. Further, if the target has some other way of overpowering the sound of her singing through other sound, like loud music or a vehicle’s engine. The target themselves screaming would grant a brief respite, but as the effect takes hold their body would freeze up and their own sound would gradually stop their effort.

Future Development: Singing in different styles in order to evoke simple commands, like dropping whatever they’re holding or to drive them into a blood-lust styled attack at whatever’s closest. Further, she could eventually learn El Siibo, the whistled language of a Canary Island that has an effective range up to 5 km and would allow her to use her basic paralysis abilities at extreme range and effectiveness.

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