Had a bit of a thought recently on rewriting the full bring arc, other than my usual musings on the matter. It was touched briefly that having Full Brings was not fun all in all for the users, and because of their hollow nature tended to bring the user a lot of suffering. Granted thanks to Tsukishima's power this is likely bullshit, but I think this is something that could be touched on a bit more in a rewrite to both fix the fact that the majority of fullbringers were douche-bags, other than Jackie admittedly, and also give them more of an actual motivation for stealing powers.
The concept of encroachment is something that hasn't been touched on for a while, basically the decay rate of the chain of fate for a soul that leads to them becoming a hollow. It's a concept that could easily be tied into the nature of full bring. By bonding with and making a pact with any one particular item you also tie it to your own chain of fate.
However when this bond starts to become too strong with any one object, this causes the object to pull on that chain all the harder as the strength of the bond increases. This in turn starts to decay the chain of fate as it's pulled between the user's soul and that of the object, and starts the encroachment process. Essentially the deeper the bond becomes and they more they use their own powers, the less and less human they become, until they become altogether ruled by their own abilities.
Basically similar to the Cursed Beings concept I had in that Create your own Manga concept thread only with a different cause for their turning into monsters.
The effect this could have on the particular user could vary, but largely it would likely be something mental and/or related to the object in question. You could obviously have your users who gain a berserk form on occasion, which could work for pretty much any fullbringer, but this is the obvious and thus boring choice so we want something more general and personalized a little for each user. They all could still have a stage where their powers overtake them of course, but this is a list of stuff that could also be added to their characters on top of that feature:
For Yukio, diving into his games and ignoring reality and his family for so long with his powers could have caused his general detachment from the world and literally erased any semblance of emotion from his soul. Rewriting him to not be a shithead and instead completely emotionless to everything thanks to his own overuse of his full bring could help to considerably fix his character, who initially I found to be the most compelling of the lot before he turned into a dick.
For Tsukishima, his power to slip in and out of the pasts of anything could have erased his moral code since it would be so easy to erase himself from someone's existence. Essentially explaining why he can so easily break peoples minds on a whim, he literally doesn't care about the consequences of his own actions.
For Giriko, the more he relies on making pacts with the god of time, the more he starts to lose in the process, his eye, his senses, other parts of his body, etc... Even his own age could be something added onto himself thanks to his own pacts, and it turns out he's actually much younger than he appears.
For Riruka, the obvious choice is greed, the more stuff she collects and adds to her collection, the greater her need to keep them and the more she treats whatever it is like an object to be collected, no matter what it is and even extending to people, likely leading to her collecting quite the body count over time. Technically a dark extension of what almost happened anyway, but yeah seemed like a logical extension given the general trend.
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For someone like say Jackie, incorporating how her boots collect filth but wash it away afterward could be incorporated in it causing misfortune to those around her, like the washed off filth is being cast on those close to her instead, likely causing her own families horrible fates. :blue:
Hell for our old pal Moe, potential for the act of using his fullbring to eat away at his own luck in life (Meaning he more often gets the short end of the stick in life for lulz).
Stuff like that basically.
Now where the stealing powers comes in is that the act of stealing powers from other fullbringers and incorporating it into their own decreases the depth of the bond created between the user and the object by adding another layer to their abilities, reducing the pull on their chain of fate and thus slowing or altogether stopping the encroachment. So basically the more complex they make their fullbrings, the less the negative effects start to take hold, while at the same time making their own abilities more powerful.
Of course any previous damage to the chain of fate is either permanent or takes a long time to recover, but regardless it's still better than the damage progressing until they basically become a living hollow, a fate worse than death.
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