Michael's Big Upgrades

• Name Of Character: Michael Asthavon
  
• Link To Character Profile: https://www.platinumhearts.net/t8367-michael-asthavon-0-5danava
  
• Reasons For Upgrading: Due to the fact that Michael does have a master and an advanced in DE i think it is not outside of his abilities to be able to go into DE merge state, along with several other things due to Michael becoming a Royal and finally breaking the 0-5 teir
  What Are You Upgrading:
  
  DE Powers:
  Death's Aura: This is one of the most dangerous abilities that Michael has, for one reason only, it attacks the very core of a person. This ability creates a semi aura of death around Michael, causing anyone within the area to feel a great feeling of dread and as if death is coming down on them, which for the weak can be enough to cause the fight or flight reason to kick in and cause them to make mistakes. This is not very dangerous to most fighters of Michael's capable due to the simple fact that they are use to Death being near them, so this might be a new experience for them but it is unlikely that it will cause them to flee, or fight and make mistakes out of the fear. The real power happens when someone either makes eye contact or touches Michael. If Michael makes eye contact or touches with you, depending on how long the eye contact or contact is is, visions of the different ways that Michael can kill that person will flash though their minds(not their eyesight), and the longer the eye contact or touch is made. This can cause some of the weaker willed fighters to be paralyzed in fear of their doom and their death, but what makes this even more dangerous is if Michael manages to hold eye contact and contact for a long period of time. While the effects vary from person to person, most of the time the person does their very best to flee or they simply stand like a deer in headlights.
  
  
  Death's Cologne: This is a unique combination of the Death Energy Life Draining effect, the Parasite from the Black Inferno Release along with the Curse effect that Demons hold. This ability releases a odorless and invisible (unless Michael wants it to be) miasma of this disease though the air around him, though the pours of this skin. This miasma once it makes contact with the skin of the opponent will instantly absorb into the skin and start the attack. This does start off very slow at first due to the natural power of the person, but as the fight goes on, and the more they are exposed to this Miasma the worst it gets.In posts 1-5, It first starts attacking the spiritual center of the body, making it much harder for the opponent to use and manipulate his reaistu, making his attacks either weaker or he has to use more energy to make them work at full power. In posts 6-10 Next it starts to weaken the physical aspects on the opponent, by destroying muscle tissue and damaging nerve ending reducing both speed and strength as the fight goes on. In post 11 and on, the real effect goes into place, which is to start corrupting and draining the opponent of all of his reiastu at first, and then finally his life force. As this is contracted though the skin, any prolonged contact (more then five seconds or so) with Michael will increase the 'post' rate that you have been in the Miasma by one. There is a handful of ways to remove this miasma if you know it is attacking you, one of which is to flush your system with reiastu, feeding the parasites and causing them to explode due to rapid influx of power, this causes no damage to the person, but it can cause quite a lot of draining of reiastu. The other way is to have a much higher skill in Death Energy then Michael, and if you have that you can remove the most dangerous part and then flush your system of the parasites.
  
  DE Merge Appearance: While Michael is in DE merge, his black hair grows much longer, down to past his shoulders and turns bone white. While Michael's skin does not seem to grow any older, his muscle structure seems to decrease as if his body was losing muscle from age, along with his tan skin becoming nearly ivory in color. This also means that all of his tattoos also vanish from his body, as if they had never been re-inked and simply faded away from his skin.
  
  DE Merge Powers: Death's Skin: In this form, Michael has combined two aspects of Death Energy that can cause serious damage to a person's body Breakdown and Death Energy Barrier. While both are passive and separate most of the time, in this form they becoming one on the surface of Michael's skin. This increases the destructive and penetrative ability of Michael's punches several times over, due to DE barrier having the naturally ability to weaken or bypass defenses then combined the breakdown skills ability to destroy anything makes this an extremely dangerous hand to hand combat ability. Along with this comes an insane defensive ability, the ability to break down Reiastu and abilities as they come into contact with his skin, working much like his Breakdown Ability, but on an instant level, and this also augments the decaying factor of the Death Energy Barrier that is on his body, making any spiritual or physical attacks that hit Michael do even less damage then before.
  
  Metaphysical Defense: This is an ability that Michael has had for a very long time, and is something that he has pushed well beyond what Mana had it at due to the fact that Mana doesn't specialize in defense like Michael does. Michael's Metaphysical Defense has now surpassed Mana's as he is now able to nullify or weaken things that attack him on an emotional or instinctual level, such as if someone was trying to make Michael feel fear though and ability, Michael's defense would weaken that ability depending on how well he could figure out how it works. This also increases his defense against spiritual based attacks massively, Michael now able to take a Cero Osucas with ease, leaving only scratches on his body, if the Cero was at full power when it hit.
  
  Hardened Fists: Michael has been watching the other Shadowfall members and former Shadowfall members for a long time, one of which being the former second Shadow Espada. As he was watching his match with Moonie, from the saftey of his lab in the Shadow World, he noticed that his fists were covered in an insanely hard Hierro, increasing his destructive ability several times over. Michael then when to stealing that ability for himself as it was brilliant and simple for him to copy it. Michael fists, along with his forearms and legs are coated with seven layers of Akuma Kyōdo, this not only increases the pure destructive ability of his fists by increasing the hardness and mass of it, it increases the defense of his hands making them much harder to cut or damage in any way.
  
  Skill Upgrades: I would personally like if Michael could get Mental Deduction up to Master, possibly even Grand Master( at least in Reiastu structure) due to the work he has done in labs and recreating others abilities.
  
  I would also like to see if I can get Focus up to Advanced due to his Breakdown skill forcing him to train that.
  
  
  
  
  
• Any Extra Notes: These abilities will help Michael play with the big boys of the site and hopefully do well enough

This could, in theory, break anyone that has the base fear of Death causing them to have a heart attack and die or do whatever it takes to escape Michael.

This ability releases a odorless and invisible (unless Michael wants it to be) miasma of this disease though the air around him, though the pours of this skin. This miasma once it makes contact with the skin of the opponent will instantly absorb into the skin and start the attack. This does start off very slow at first due to the natural power of the person, but as the fight goes on, and the more they are exposed to this Miasma the worst it gets.In posts 1-5, It first starts attacking the spiritual center of the body, making it much harder for the opponent to use and manipulate his reaistu, making his attacks either weaker or he has to use more energy to make them work at full power.

Kylekaotikk wrote:

This could, in theory, break anyone that has the base fear of Death causing them to have a heart attack and die or do whatever it takes to escape Michael.

I don't really have a problem with this, and you did state for weaker willed opponents, but just note that he won't be able to, like, attack their heart. That falls down onto the user how it effects them with their visions of death.

This ability releases a odorless and invisible (unless Michael wants it to be) miasma of this disease though the air around him, though the pours of this skin. This miasma once it makes contact with the skin of the opponent will instantly absorb into the skin and start the attack. This does start off very slow at first due to the natural power of the person, but as the fight goes on, and the more they are exposed to this Miasma the worst it gets.In posts 1-5, It first starts attacking the spiritual center of the body, making it much harder for the opponent to use and manipulate his reaistu, making his attacks either weaker or he has to use more energy to make them work at full power.

All right, this ability... don't really have a problem with it in theory; although I do with the whole invisible part of it. If the miasma is invisible upon will, then how's the opponent meant to counter something like that? And not only that, there's been given no definable way to get the miasma out of the body and stop attacking the body. Hell, how's someone meant to fight against an invisible aura and fight it off if they have no fucking clue what's attacking them? It makes it virtually impossible to flush it out with reiatsu, as the miasma feeds on it. Adjust this and then I really have no problems with the effects of it.

Following this, I'll allow the upgrade to Grand Master for Mental Deduction. As well as this, his focus shall be bumped up to advanced. Just make the changes I requested, and then I'll really have no issues with these abilities.