- "Good morning, Imagine Breaker...and the One who Purifies God and Slays Demons. What does the world look like to the two of you?"
- ― Anna Sprengel on Kamijou Touma (Emanation) (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
The ability to have power with its own sentience. Variation of Esoteric Power. Opposite of Sentient Anti-Power. to be confused with Power Mimicry.
Capabilities
The user has a power or at least part of the user's power has its own sentience, existing as an independent being with its own mind and body that exists mainly inside the user's mind/soul and manifests as it wants or when summoned. By its nature it can react independently as part of the users to either protect them, adapt them, or enhance them to things by given situations.
Variations
- Astral Projection: Users are able to project the entity in an astral form.
- Divided Mind: The entity is an individual soul but is part of the user's soul or mind.
- Enigma Force: The power may seek to bond with its host.
- Empathic Entity/Power: The power chooses who wields it.
- Inner Being/Beast: The entity lives inside the user.
- Inner Power: Both parties are able to unleash their hidden potential.
- Inner Self: The power reflects its user and their identity.
- Living Illusion Creation: The being is a living illusion.
- Manifested Guardian: Manifest the power as a guardian.
- Possession: The power may possess the host to act on their behalf.
- Power Bestowal: Gain powers from the entity.
- Power Infusion: Being infuses users with its power.
- Sentient Armor: The entity can clad the user's body in armor.
- Sentient Force Manipulation: The entity can be manifested as pure force.
- Sentient Magic: The entity can be manifested as pure magic or a living spell.
- Sentient Particle Manipulation: The entity can be manifested as particles.
- Sentient Science: The entity is scientifically-based.
- Sentient Weaponry: The entity can be housed within a weapon.
- Soul-Bound Entity/Power: The sentient power may be bound to the user’s soul.
- State of Mind: Both users and their sentient power understands themselves.
- True Form: Users and their sentient power can combine their powers to reveal their true form.
Associations
- Cosmic Symbiosis
- Living Wing Manifestation
- Sentient Arts
- Special Power
- Spiritual Symbiosis
- Symbiosis
Limitations
- The entity can try or may be able to control the user.
- The entity can refuse to let users use its power if parties are not getting along.
- Sentient power may have a gender and name, and may have the same emotions as other beings, meaning they can get angry, happy or sad about anything and they may like or feel.
Known Users
- Shinigami (Bleach); via Zanpakutō Spirits
- Orihime Inoue (Bleach); via Shun Shun Rikka fairies
- Visored (Bleach); in addition to Zanpakutō Spirits, Visored have Inner Hollows
- Lavos/Time Devourer (Chrono Cross); via Frozen Flame
- Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake); via the Whispers
- Omega (Final Fantasy Unlimited)
- Issei Hyoudo (High School DxD); The Sacred Gear is possessed by the soul of a dragon.
- Tobio Ikuse (High School DxD)
- Kouki Samejima (High School DxD)
- Natsume Minagawa (High School DxD)
- Sentient Stand users (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Nena; via Empress
- Koichi Hirose; via Echoes ACT3
- Hosts of Cheap Trick
- Giorno Giovanna; via Gold Experience Requiem
- Guido Mista; via Sex Pistols
- Trish Una; via Spice Girl
- Melone; via Baby Face's junior
- Enrico Pucci; via Whitesnake and C-MOON
- Kenzou; via Dragon's Dream
- D an G; via Yo-Yo Ma
- Pocoloco (Steel Ball Run); via Hey Ya!
- Yasuho Hirose (JoJolion); viaPaisley Park
- Tooru (JoJolion); via Wonder of U
- One for All users (My Hero Academia); via Genetic Memory
- Fumikage Tokoyami/Tsukuyomi (My Hero Academia); via Dark Shadow
- Jinchūriki (Naruto); via Tailed Beasts
- Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece); via Prometheus, Zeus and Hera
- Pandora's Box (Ordeal)
- Kamijou Touma (Toaru Majutsu no Index/A Certain Magical Index); via Kamijou Touma (Emanation)
- Kagenui (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Patrick Donovan (The Young Guardians); via Dragon's Fire
- Gregory Kennedy (The Young Guardians); via the Inquisitor
- Derek Marvin (The Young Guardians); via Grand Golem
- Justice King Michael (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
- Rimuru Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime); via Ciel
- The Humpback Girl (Little Nightmares); Entity called the Mirror Monster
- Joule (Azure Striker Gunvolt); via Lumen
Known Objects
- Independent Avatar Sacred Gear (High School DxD)
Gallery
Despite Sephiroth being the Nexus of the Whispers (spirits embodying Fate), the Whispers were still sentient entities and capable of making decisions that aren't dictated by Sephiroth.
Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom's (One Piece) sentient sun, Prometheus and thundercloud, Zeus serve as the source of her deadly elemental powers.
Ilious Phoenix Flame (Ordeal) is another sentient Talent that gradually feeds his current host his power & when he sees fit can possess his host.
Natsume Minagawa and Kouki Samejima (High School DxD) possessed two of the Four Fiends Sacred Gear named Griffin and Byakusa.
Most of Imagine Breaker manifested in the form of Kamijou Touma (Emanation) (Toaru Majutsu no Index/A Certain Magical Index) who has gained its own sentience personality and all of the lost memories the original Touma had. According to him Kamijou Touma unconsciously wished for him to manifest.















