Something that has been living in my mind for a while and it's been pissing me off that I can't think of a proper answer.
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But what is exactly Michael's Power, It's power and or radiation absorptions. but when he first used it, it required the dead to activate, is there dialog that I forgot about or something else?
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As far as i understood it, Michael's power is the absorption itself, then being able to use what he absorbed.He can absorb “natural” sources of energy like light(radiation), lightning, and even a bit of kinetic force and he can also absorb the monster power of others (straight up the same thing the MC and every other superhuman and monster have) but he said that he can barely do it if they are alive so he absorbs the power of corpses because they cannot resist. But the monster power of others that he absorbs seems like it doesnt just add into his own and instead he stores it differently to use in combination with the natural energy
He sort of has 2 or maybe 3 energy tanks, his own monster power (the same one as everyone), the “natural energy” and the stolen “monster energy”
To throw lightning or whatever he needs to combine 2 things. Use a type of “natural” energy he has absorbed which costs him his own monster power to use, and he has to use the stolen type of “monster power” to power up that attack or whatever he is doing (like the energy dagger or sword)
It has happeneded to him that he ran out of “natural” or “stolen mp” and couldn’t use his powers that way anymore, but he still had his own monster power, and i think he can use the stolen “MP” to power up his own MP but not the other way around which is why he can run out
Its been a while so i might have fucked up a little bit the specifics but that its sort of how it works, Michael himself said that it was a difficult balance to understand and use his powers