Animation Retention

The power to retain one's life after being transformed.

Also Called

 * Animation Retainment
 * Life Retainment/Retention

Capabilities
The user retains their ability to live even when turned into or when they are another substance such as stone, ice, glass, or affected by Inanimation, affected by Rigidity Inducement, turned into an inanimate object or affected by a disease of some kind that hinders their ability to do anything. Unlike Capability Retention, this works only on transmutations and the like into things where they user cannot act, move, think or even live, like being completely stone or transformed into stone, and they may not be able to retain all their skills, traits and powers.

Associations

 * Animation
 * Capability Retention
 * Condition Retention
 * Disease Immunity
 * Elemental Mimicry
 * Freezing
 * Inanimation
 * Lifeless Continuation
 * Rigidity Inducement
 * Sentience Inducement
 * Shapeshifting
 * Transformation
 * Transmutation

Limitations

 * May still take on the weaknesses of the substance or object they transform into or are made of/make up.

Known Users

 * Household Staff (Beauty and the Beast)
 * Gargoyles (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)