Power to separate and disperse into smaller particles. Opposite to Reforming.
Also Called
- Deconstruction
- Swarm Form
Capabilities
User can disperse their body into smaller fragments, like someone who already is made of sand, insects or water spreading themselves or vampires that can turn into flock of bats, scattering into large area while retaining control over their fragments instead of staying in relatively cohesive form and reforming from any part.
While this ability does not really make the best offensive as a defensive form it is almost invincible.
Applications
- Reforming
- Spying/scouting large areas at once.
- Defensive dispersing making the user very hard to hurt and especially capture/kill since finding all of the fragments is practically impossible using normal methods.
Techniques
- Bullet Projection by launching fragments as projectiles.
- Shard Manipulation by manipulating fragments to attack.
- Sharpness Manipulation if the fragments are particle-sized, creating thin bladed weapons.
- Weapon Creation by restructuring the fragments into various formations.
Variations
- Animal Swarming: User scatters into swarm, flock, pack or other group of animal to attack, or escape.
- Arachnid Swarming: Users disperses into a swarm of arachnids.
- Avian Swarming: User disperses into a flock of birds.
- Bat Swarming: User disperses into a swarm of bats.
- Insect Swarming: User scatters into a swarm of insects.
- Butterfly Swarming: User disperses into a ramble of butterflies.
- Rodent Swarming: User disperses into a swarm of rodents.
- Snake Swarming: User disperses into a den or rhumba of snakes.
- Body: User scatters their own body by deconstructing their cellular and body structure.
- Division: User scatters in smaller versions or forms of themselves.
- Elemental: User scatters their elemental form.
- Elemental Intangibility: User can scatter their own body based on their element to avoid any attacks.
- Elemental Teleportation: User can scatter their own body based on their element to teleport to another location.
Associations
- Ash Resurrection
- Disassembly
- Elemental Mimicry
- Evaporation
- Form Shattering
- Granulation
- Intangibility/Elemental Intangibility
- Multi-Shapeshifting
- Partial Teleportation
- Self-Disintegration
- Self-Liquification
- Teleportation
- Unraveling
Limitations
- There's a limit for how far the scattered parts can be from any other part.
- May need most of the scattered pieces together to be able to reform.
- Lack of all parts may cause inability to reform or cause reforming in diminished/wounded state.
- Amount of scattered pieces may be limited by the user's body size.
- May require enhanced coordination to control all the fragments.
Known Users
See also: One to Million to One and Super Smoke
Anime/Manga
- Meisa Ichikawa (Coppelion)
- Janemba (Dragon Ball)
- Hildegarn (Dragon Ball)
- Alucard (Hellsing)
- Shaiapouf (Hunter x Hunter)
- Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
- Gaara (Naruto)
- Katsuyu (Naruto)
- Konan (Naruto)
- Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
- Nagi Springfield (Negima!)
- Buggy the Clown (One Piece)
- Captain Very Good (One Piece)
- Doppelman (One Piece)
- Logia-Type users (One Piece)
- Reiri Kamura (Princess Resurrection)
- Medusa (Soul Eater)
- Arachne (Soul Eater)
- Genbu (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Comics
- Dust/Sooraya Qadir (Marvel Comics)
- Quicksand (Marvel Comics)
- Sandman (Marvel Comics)
- Swarm (Marvel Comics)
Film
- Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
- Hades (Clash of The Titans)
- Emily (Corpse Bride)
- Vlad III Tepes/Dracula (Dracula Untold)
- Destroyah (Godzilla)
- Mina Harker (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
- Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean)
- Ravenna (Snow White and the Huntsman)
Literature
- Hastur, Duke of Hell (Good Omens)
Tabletop Games
- Shardminds (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Anansi (Old World of Darkness)
- Changing Breeds (New World of Darkness)
TV Series
- Party God (Adventure Time)
- Alexander Lucard/Count Dracula (Dracula: The Series)
- Gray Granite (Mighty Med)
Video Games
- Birdman (Alan Wake: American Nightmare)
- Alice Lidell (Alice: Madness Returns)
- Bayonetta (Bayonetta)
- Jeanne (Bayonetta)
- Zaktan (Bionicle)
- Zealots of the Lady (BioShock Infinite)
- Trevor Belmont/Alucard (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2); via Bat Cloud
- Gabriel Belmont/Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2; via Plague of Rats
- Demitri Maximoff (Darkstalkers)
- Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers)
- Nevan the Lightning Witch (Devil May Cry 3)
- Shapeshifters (Dragon Age)
- Morrigan (Dragon Age)
- The Warden/Warden-Commander (Dragon Age: Origins)
- Vampire Lords (The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard)
- Harkon (The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard)
- Last Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard)
- Cole MacGrath (inFamous: Festival of Blood); via Shadow Swarm
- Celia Penderghast (inFamous: Paper Trail)
- Delsin Rowe (inFamous: Second Son); via Smoke
- Hank Daughtry (inFamous Second Son); via Smoke
- Kain (Legacy of Kain)
- Antasma (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)
- Cackletta (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga)
- Yelow Devil (Mega Man series)
- Yellow Devil MK-II (Mega Man 3)
- Soulblighter (Myth)
- Sophie (Tales of Graces)
- Flandre Scarlet (Touhou Project)
- Remilia Scarlet (Touhou Project)
- Suika Ibuki (Touhou Project)
- Beatrice (Umineko: When they Cry)
- Vagullion (Ys Origin)
Known Objects
- Horde of Haiku (Xiaolin Showdown)
Gallery
Alice (Alice: Madness Returns) scatters into butterflies.
Meisa Ichikawa (Coppelion) breaking apart at atomic level to avoid attacks and launching fragments as projectiles.
A vampire erupts into a swarm of bats.
Hirudegarn (Dragon Ball) scattering into intangible ectoplasm to avoid attacks and move quickly.
Cole MacGrath (inFamous: Festival of Blood) was turned into a vampire by Bloody Mary, so he is able to turn himself into a flock of bats.
Dust (Marvel Comics) turning her body into a loose silicon sand blast for destructive purposes, which are also sharp enough to act as microscopic blades.
Katsuyu (Naruto) dividing her own boneless body to many clones to avoid attacks and apply long-distance healing.
Itachi Uchiha (Naruto) using crows as a medium for his clones, which scatter when no longer needed.
Konan (Naruto) scatters into thousands of sheets of paper that can fold into origami.
Gaara (Naruto) deconstructing his own body into sand, granting him invulnerability to attacks and flight.
Buggy (One Piece) scattering his body parts and levitating them, launching them at high speed for offense.
Crocodile (One Piece) is a prime example of how Logia users scatter their element-composed bodies — in his case, sand — for invulnerability.
Monet (One Piece) scatters her own snow body apart to prevent Tashigi from striking her with Haki.
Very Good (One Piece) scattering his body into floating orbs, protecting him from blunt attacks and using the pieces as projectiles.
Gekko Moriah (One Piece) commanding his Doppelman clone to scatter into shadow bats.