User blog comment:Imouto-tan/Izaya Malphas/@comment-4867780-20160921074540

How are the abilities of Shade Summons determined ? Do they take them after the people/entities whose coalesced negative emotions they were made from ? Do they replicate the abilities of opponents by drawing upon the darkness in their hearts ? Do the various Shades have some abilities in common ? How different from each other can they get power-set wise ? Do they have specific archetypes like class-based characters ?

Nemesis Form seems a good complement to Empathic Creation for Izaya's Painful Memories Magic.

I think the Black Heart Form section would gain from being personalized some more, it sounds too similar to its source in its current state.

His darkness aura is particularly powerful, dangerous and unsettling in multiple ways, perfect for a high-level villain like him centered on darkness and corruption 👍

Polymorphic Arm ? Slimy tentacles ? Gynoid harem ? I can vaguely guess the 'handy' applications ^ ^

Enhanced Preparedness applied to his squad of artificial one-women armies, on top of their sheer firepower/resilience, his own massive darkness powers and 150 living shadows with unpredictable abilities ? Taking him down sounds like a major challenge even for mulltiple teams of high-level characters, even more so considering his great tactical and survivalist skills. Definitely the "Elite Boss" type to boots, which suits the evil top-ranking Wizard Saint like a glove.

Special mention to Ghostly Fireworks (as badass and stylish as it is well-named) and Phantom Sleep (phantom because it will most likely be the last :P it would be even cooler and more fitting if targets killed under its effect became ghostly thralls under his control). The prospect of falling asleep in the middle of a life-and-death battle is terrifying enough, but when the opponent is someone like Izaya, the dread alone would basically halve the fighting potential of most anyone standing against him.