#the hints of TanZen in there cough

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Felt like talking about the Charm Warriors AU again. This time it's about some of the powers the gang has. Now we haven't finalized everyone's abilities but we got a couple for each, some more than others. Tanjirō has the most at the moment courtesy of Smol. If you need a refresher on their weapons and power bases, check this post

Inosuke

Inolocation: Inosuke yells and feels the sound waves that bounce off objects on his skin

Overgrowth: He throws bits of sand and dirt at the opponent, secretly mixing in seeds from the flowers in his magical flower crown. The seeds plant themselves in the opponent's body at the points they land. Then, at Inosuke’s command, they bloom and grow rapidly on and along the body. Takes a certain amount of control and precision to make sure the flowers don’t grow too wildly and potentially endanger teammates

Genya

Bullet Hell: Genya can create up to a thousand small portals at the very end of his gun to turn 1 shot into several. Takes a lot of concentration to create and position each portal. Can lead to severe mental exhaustion if used too many times within a short period

Iron Will: Genya can hold iron for up to 1 minute while transformed. Any longer and he has the same reaction as other Fae (the other boys just can’t handle iron at all while transformed)

Muichiro

Blinding mist: Mist can take away regular sight, can take away magical sight, can take away thermal vision, can take away sense of direction, or just be super thick mist that’s hard to see through

Storm Summon: using his silly string weapon Mui can draw the kanji for rain, waves, tsunami, storm, hail, ice, etc and then summon that

Puppet Master: Using silly string like puppet strings. If they remain unnoticed for 30 seconds then the strings will gradually become very fine. The string will then sink into the target’s skin where they were once bound. Once that’s done, Muichiro is free to use the strings to manipulate the target’s body as he pleases. If this move cannot be fully executed, it can transition into Binding String.

Binding String: Silly string surrounds the target and hardens like concrete. Solidifies at Mui’s command and requires concentration to keep solid. Mui’s tutors taught him a technique that uses his magic to increase the maximum amount of time his brain is able to concentrate. Since it relies on him having a lot of magic stored up, Muichiro trains to expand the magical reserve in his body and to absorb a bit of magic from his surroundings. Magic absorbed into the body (specifically, a body made to contain magic like Fae or the half Fae things the boys have become) must be guided into the reserve while avoiding any of the body’s major organs. Mistakes can be extremely painful and too much foreign magic hitting an organ can cause genuine damage. This ability can be used to stick two things together if Mui wants or can be used to make casts for broken bones.

Zenitsu

Sight of Sound: With a lot of concentration, Zen is able to visualize sound waves for a short amount of time. If he uses more mental effort he’s able to focus in on a specific one. It has a very wide range.

Lightning Speed: Zen is able to travel along sound waves at the speed of lightning. Traveling with this method for too long will result in disorientation for up to 2 minutes (Zen learned that the hard way).

Song of the Stars: Zen plays a variety of hypnotic songs using the feathers of his wing ears (and sometimes his own low hums) and imbues the sound with magic. Every time he plays one, the star charms on his body glow faintly. Different songs come with different effects, but each song needs to be played out in full for the effects to work as intended. The songs are Fae songs that he has learned and mastered. He is strictly advised not to play songs he hasn’t mastered or else it will backfire and place a curse on him. Though, in a moment of desperation, he tried to play a song he was in the midst of learning. Since he had yet to fully master the song, he played it wrong, and was instead marked. A spade on his left cheek, the symbol of power, of freezing winters, and of bloody wars. The more he feeds into his wrath, the stronger the mark becomes. As it grows in strength it will increase in opacity until it’s an inky abyssal mass that mars his face. With every increase in strength Zen will feel more power coursing through his veins, he will gain urges for violence that will only grow in intensity, and he will step closer to death’s door. (Blame Lilith for the curse aspect.)

Tanjirō

Cleansing Fire: Attacks something that doesn't belong in the body. It's good for infections, diseases, poisons, and cancer but useless for broken bones, internal bleeding, etc. Also removes curses or, if the curse is too strong, reduces its effects or temporarily relieves the affected from the curse. (You think, I, Smol, would let Zenitsu be cursed without having someone else be able to help him? Also Tanjurō is sick so Tanjirō can help his dad too. Win win.)

Prism: A state that affects Tanji’s entire body. He appears very crystal/diamond like in this state. Magical abilities that hit him get absorbed and reflected back. He can either automatically reflect it back or hold it for 30 seconds so that he can redirect it to wherever. Mainly uses frying pan to redirect but can also use hands or feet. No matter what magic hits him, it’s always reflected back as a high powered beam of energy (the beam is always a fraction more powerful than the original magic).

Kaleidoscope Shield: Extremely defensive, whatever hits it (be it magical or physical attacks) gets reflected many times within the structure and therefore the magical or physical energy is dispersed. Shields have the pretty colorful blooming symmetrical pattern, they look crystal-like. In the beginning uses his frying pan as the shield, later can create multiple copies and larger ones (still in the shape of a frying pan).

Mirror: After a significant amount of time analyzing someone’s fighting style or a general skill (they have to be doing the same general thing the entire time), Tanji can activate his ability which will use magic to fill in the rest of the details and allow him to mirror that fighting style or skill exactly (he does not gain the knowledge of how).

Kamado Charm (joke by others): Includes uncanny ability to incite self reflection by pinpointing the issue that's bothering someone else, the uncanny ability to always say the right thing to comfort other people, inability for anyone decent to hate him for long. Also includes (according to Zen) the ability to be unreasonably good looking and to have the prettiest melody he has ever heard in his life.