Darkness Imprisonment

Darkness Imprisonment
Jellal Fernandez (Fairy Tail) using Darkness Cage, crushing a smaller dark sphere in his hand and creating a larger dark sphere around Erza Scarlet.
Power/Ability to:	Bind, stop and imprison by using darkness

The power to bind, imprison or otherwise stop objects by using darkness. Sub-power of Umbrakinetic Constructs. Variation of Elemental Imprisonment.

Also Called

• Shadow Imprisonment
• Shadow Trapping
• Umbrakinetic Imprisonment
• Umbrakinetic Trapping
• Darkness/Shadow/Umbra/Umbrakinetic Jailing/Stasis
• Darkness Cage

Capabilities

The user can bind, imprison and/or otherwise stop object/being by surrounding them completely by using darkness.

Applications

• Blindness Inducement
• Deoxygenation
• Shadow Generation

Associations

• Binding
• Darkness Manipulation
• Elemental Imprisonment
• Platform Creation
• Umbrakinetic Constructs
• Wall Generation

Limitations

• Light based abilities are the perfect counter.
• Shadow Absorption
• Users of Freeing and Unfixed Movement cannot be bound.
• Users of Anti Storage cannot be imprisoned.
• Depending on the way used to bind the victim, they may be able to overpower/break their bindings.
• Users of Teleportation/Intangibility can escape.
• May be unable to generate the ways to bind and be limited to existing material.
• May have to stay close to the victim or the binding may break.
• The victim can be freed by outside help.
• If the prison is damaged in any way, the victim may be able to escape.
• May have to perform a certain action in order for the target to be contained.
• May only be temporary.
• The prison might not be strong enough to contain the victim.

Known Users

• Yami Sukehiro (Black Clover)
• Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)
• Kurumi Tokisaki (Date A Live)
• Jellal Fernandez (Fairy Tail); using Darkness Cage
• Gasper Vladi (Highschool DxD)
• Morgana (League of Legends)
• Tazma Grimm (Mysticons)
• Melascula (Nanatsu no Taizai)
• Marshall D. Teach/Blackbeard (One Piece)
• Gecko Moria (One Piece)
• God (Rec 2)
• Shadow Weaver (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
• Makora (Samurai Deeper Kyo)
• Sakura Matou (TYPE-MOON)
• Yumiella Dolkness (Villainess Level 99)
• Darcy (Winx Club)
• Zaruchim (Zatch Bell!)

Gallery

Gasper Vladi (Highschool DxD) about to imprison Georg in absolute darkness.

Merascylla (Nanatsu no Taizai) can trap her victims in a wrapping of her darkness-like cloak.

Makora (Samurai Deeper Kyo) using Kage Ochi that drags the victim into the shadow dimension for eternity, with nothing but darkness until death.

Zaruchim (Zatch Bell!) can immobilize his opponents with their own shadows when his partner Raushin Mo activates the Orushido Sharon spell.

Tazma Grimm (Mysticons) traps Piper and Zarya in shadow tentacles.

Father Owen once explained that the angels that once fell where imprisoned in darkness by God, which is the reason why Tristana Medeiros (Rec 2) was unable to be found in the light...

... so in order for the demonic parasite to escape it needed a new host like Ángela Vidal for it to roam the earth freely.