The Soul is a blueprint for all phenomena 元魂生万象
Thus, by realizing the light of one's own Soul, they may exert its influence on their own physical body and their surroundings. The power of the Soul manifests through Aura, Techniques and Dust use, and Semblances, corresponding to a person's ID, EGO, and SuperEGO respectively.
ID- Irreducible Distance 不可化之隔
The barrier which separates the Self (理) from the World (万理). An Aura barrier encapsulates an ontologically isolated domain where the light of the Soul enforces the Soul's conception of its Self against foreign influence.
Most well understood is the Aura barrier's ability to shield the user from external damage and to accelerate the user's recovery from damage or illness of all forms, but that notion of the Irreducible Distance is also what makes it nearly impossible for most abilities to be able to manipulate a user directly- so long as the barrier is manifested, a telekinetic would have no ability to pinch a Huntsman's blood vessels shut, having to resort to hurling objects at them, or perhaps hurling them directly with sufficient power.
Even most forms of magic cannot cross the Irreducible Distance- the Soul itself a non-replicable pattern (理) pulled from an infinitely complex magical baseline of existence (万理). A magic of the same complexity capable of invading the ID would be required- typically an innate magic of another Self, such as the SuperEGO
EGO- Emergent Gestalt Ontology 显生之我
The interface between the Self and World. Through the acquisition of language and experience as a person grows, they gain the ability to internalize the external World, giving rise to an inner subjective world within their Self.
This interface is what enables communication- like rational thought and language enables the communication of ideas between individuals, the information and logical systems encoded into the EGO create the means for the Self to communicate with the World via their Aura, through the activation of Dust, techniques, and a super power unique to the EGO- hence, "Super-EGO"
The "Super Power" that emerges to define the Self, with a range of potential ability encompassed within their ID, defined by the unique magical composition of their Soul; but with the actual form it takes influenced by the user's character and journey throughout life, hence EGO- emergent gestalt ontology.
For example, their ID's composition may have meant a certain individual would always develop a shapeshifting semblance, but whether that is copycat shapeshifting or biokinesis is caused by how the ID is filtered by the EGO \\ (Note: the use of shapeshifting as an example is somewhat misleading, as usually the range of possibility allowed for by their soul's patchwork composition is far more eclectic)
While most humans of the current era have lost the World's power and thus magic, the Self is capable of the same abilities- oft times limited in scale due to the limited reach of the Self's inner subjective World, but with no true restriction on what the ability may be any more than restrictions exist on full magic.
This has not stopped many attempts to create rules for what Semblances can and cannot be, for there is a typical range that Semblance abilities rarely stray from corresponding to the common sense of the modern man.
Conversely, every list of rules has always included one final rule: 'every Semblance may break one rule, including this one'. After all, it is impossible for any singular description to encapsulate the entirety of the human (or Faunus) experience
PTSD- Pneuma-Transcoding Semblance Distortion 灵失真
A rare event, caused by a drastic* change in a person's character and outlook, to a degree that their existing sense of their EGO is overwritten. After recovery, the user's Semblance will become fundamentally changed, and often unrecognizable to its previous form due to the eclectic range of possible ability held within their ID
*Typically in response to sustained trauma, but even then trauma sufficient to cause a Semblance distortion is exceptionally rare- as the change in the person must be sufficient to rewrite the surface of their soul
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