Cuddle-r | A technique based on r/K selection
Those born with this technique are very touchy. They have a natural compulsion to hug any and all creature they see. They have a lessened sense of self-preservation when faced with intimidating appearances or auras.
They are the embodiment of:
> If not friend, why friend shaped.
Users are often found unconscious, due to having fallen asleep hugging something and expending all their cursed energy on a single creature.
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# Cuddly ^(*CE Trait*)
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The user's cursed energy is soft and comforting. It deals severely reduced physical damage but is good at shock absorption and attacks the fighting spirit. The user's prolonged contact renders any creature docile, all hearts melt in their embrace.
(Notes: sheep wool.)
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# Cuddle-r ^(*Cursed Technique*)
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The user's embrace siphons the target's lifespan while funneling mutating cursed energy into them. The targets body becomes phenomenally enhanced.
The target gets larger, faster, stronger, and new features. As well as instincts so sharp they instinctively wield cursed energy if they couldn't beforehand.
Afflicted targets lose any ill will against the technique user.
However, once out of the user's presence, they fly into rage (madness), attacking nigh any and everything. Triggering this rage is as simple as the user putting on a mask to hide their face.
The only things safe from the rage are the user (if they reveal their face) & members of the same species but of opposite sex.
Mutated creatures have a stronger drive to reproduce and can do so normally, resulting in cursed creature outbreaks.
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# K-pex ^(*Reversal Technique*)
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The user's embrace funnels their lifespan and stabilizing positive energy into the target. The target becomes able to control the cellular make up of their body at will. They may change their form however they see fit.
Exercising this new "muscle" comes at the cost of lifespan.
Conscious effort is needed to maintain change of form. The cursed technique cause the body to remember it shape, thus without input it will always bounce back to its default. This also means the target cannot be killed by conventional physical damage in any meaningful way. They'll regenerate even from beheading.
**Death is only possible by:**
**A|** Dealing irreparable soul damage.
**B|** Continuously damaging the target until their lifespan is used up.
**C|** Destroying every cell of their body (which is still technically "B").
On the flip side, those affected become emotionally number and lose any drive to have offspring.
For as long as the target views the user's face, they will be overcome by the urge to kill the user. Thus in order for the user save the ones they love, they must turn friend to foe.
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# Friend Code ^(*Domain Expansion*)
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Anyone caught by the sure-hit becomes the user's bestest friend in the whole wide world.
(Notes: Ha ha. Todo's delusions.)
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# Deathless Reincarnation ^(*Imaginary Technique*)
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Allows the user to alter the default state of the target's body however they see fit.
It also frees the target from any attachment/loyalties/mental burdens they may have.