Soul Absorption

"You can exist without your soul, but you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no...anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone... lost forever."

- Remus Lupin (Harry Potter)

The power to absorb souls and utilize them in some way. Sub-power of Soul Manipulation. Variation of Absorption.

Also Called

 * Soul/Spirit Collection/Consumption/Draining/Harvesting/Robbery/Stealing/Theft

Capabilities
User can absorb souls, while removing them from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.

Common advantages include adding the target's skills and abilities to users, or using the absorbed souls to augment user's own powers.

Applications

 * Absorbing Regeneration
 * Assimilation Shield
 * Energy Empowerment
 * Enhanced Condition/Supernatural Condition
 * Knowledge Absorption
 * Life-Force Absorption
 * Power Absorption
 * Psychometry
 * Soul Empowerment
 * Soul Energy Absorption
 * Soul Removal
 * Obtain access to items hidden in soul, like Soul-Bound Weapon.

Associations

 * Absorption
 * Afterlife Prevention
 * Death Inducement
 * Death Empowerment
 * Life Reduction
 * Mind Absorption
 * Reincarnation Denial
 * Shapeshifting to the absorbed soul's former shape.
 * Soul Channeling
 * Soul Destruction
 * Soul Manipulation
 * Soul Mutilation

Limitations

 * May be limited to how much one can absorb.
 * May have a limit for how many souls one can contain.
 * May have limited range, including touch only.
 * May have to continually absorb souls to survive.
 * Soulless beings are immune as they have no soul to absorb.
 * May only be able to absorb certain kinds of souls, such as those belonging to supernatural beings.
 * Users of Soul Restoration, Absolute Restoration/Flawless Restoration can restore the souls of others.
 * Users of Soul Anchoring are immune.

Known Users
See Also: Your Soul Is Mine.

Folklore/Mythology
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 * Nalusa Chito (Choctaw mythology)
 * Soul eaters (Folklore)

Manga/Anime

 * Arrancars (Bleach)
 * Yammy Llargo; via Gonzui
 * Bounts (Bleach)
 * Hollows (Bleach)
 * Muramasa (Bleach)
 * Yhwach (Bleach)
 * Millennium Earl (D.Gray-Man)
 * Izanami/Yin (Darker than Black)
 * Franmalth (Fairy Tail)
 * Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)
 * Vampires (Hellsing)
 * Alucard (Hellsing)
 * Seras Victoria (Hellsing)
 * Kikyo (InuYasha)
 * Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 Stone Ocean); via Whitesnake
 * Demons (Kuroshitsuji)
 * Demons (Nanatsu no Taizai)
 * Nagato/Pain (Naruto); via the Human Path
 * Valbanill (The Sacred Blacksmith)
 * Five Grand Elemental Spirits (Shaman King)
 * Brynhildr (Shinmai Maou no Testament)
 * Hadou Gods (Shinza Bansho)
 * Soul Eater Evans (Soul Eater)
 * Saigyou Ayakashi (Touhou Project)
 * Holy Grail vessels (TYPE-MOON)
 * Illyasviel von Einzbern
 * Irisviel von Einzbern
 * Sakura Matou
 * Inga (Un-Go)
 * D (Vampire Hunter D)
 * Left Hand (Vampire Hunter D)
 * Kaito Tenjo (Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal); via Photon hand
 * Gouki (YuYu Hakusho)
 * Shishiwakamaru (YuYu Hakusho)
 * Yu Kaito (YuYu Hakasho)
 * Younger Toguro (YuYu Hakusho)}}

Television/Movies
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 * Soul Eaters (Angel)
 * The Beast (Angel)
 * D'Hoffryn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Kathy Newman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Mok'tugar Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Donna Gilchrist (Being Human)
 * Angel of Death (Charmed)
 * Guardian Demons (Charmed)
 * Soul Collectors (Charmed)
 * Lord Marshal Zhylaw (The Chronicles of Riddick)
 * The Beldam (Coraline)
 * Morgan Sinclair (The Curse of King Tut's Tomb)
 * Set (The Curse of King Tut's Tomb)
 * Alexia (Los Protegidos)
 * Stephanie (My Babysitter's a Vampire); via Symbol Magic and Spell Casting
 * Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
 * Splitface (Power Rangers Samurai)
 * Halloween Hound (Spooky Buddies); via Howl Breath
 * Darth Vitiate (Star Wars Legends); via Ritual of Nathema
 * Castiel (Supernatural)
 * The Darkness/Amara (Supernatural)
 * Famine (Supernatural)
 * Crocottas (Supernatural)
 * Shtrigas (Supernatural)
 * Soul Eaters (Supernatural)
 * Migar Prisoners (Tracker)
 * Darkness (Twitches)
 * Arcadius (The Vampire Diaries)
 * Kavaxas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)

Comics/Cartoons

 * Hunson Abadeer (Adventure Time)
 * Marceline Abadeer (Adventure Time)
 * Jasmine (American Dragon: Jake Long)
 * Liss Hubble (Angel: After the Fall)
 * Knuckles the Echidna/Enerjak of Dark Mobius (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Charmcaster (Ben 10)
 * Trigon (DC Comics)
 * Ogdru Jahad (Hellboy/BPRD)
 * Spawn (Image Comics)
 * Nadakhan (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu); via Djinn Blade
 * Skylor (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
 * Blackheart (Marvel Comics)
 * Selene (Marvel Comics)
 * Walker (Marvel Comics)
 * David Haller/Legion/Styx (Marvel Comics)
 * Mephisto (Marvel Comics)
 * Host Rider (Marvel Comics)
 * Shuma-Gorath (Marvel Comics)
 * Zarathos (Marvel Comics)
 * Demongo (Samurai Jack)
 * Meteora Butterfly/Miss Heinous (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
 * Opticarns (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage)
 * Soulvex (Undertaker comics)
 * Keradon The Soulbender (Wetworks)
 * The Darkness (Witchblade/Top Cow)
 * Jackie Estacado (Witchblade/Top Cow)
 * Spirit Drinker (X-Men: The Animated Series)

Literature

 * Dementors (Harry Potter)}}