User blog comment:Imouto-tan/Izaya Malphas/@comment-4867780-20160921074540/@comment-26362471-20160922205333

Sorry for the wait just wanted to finish up the edit that I had waiting for him before I commented :D

Each Shade is unique but they usually can use any power as they essentially are made from everyone's inner darkness. More commonly Shades take on powers and combat strategies that best counter act whoever they are fighting at the time. Some Shades are smart enough to mimic their enemy's move set completely. Shades generally are able to create constructs made from darkness and hide in shadows (plus the abilities that are described on the blog itself). Power set-wise they rarely ever use the same ability unless they are all fighting them same target, most Shades have preferred weapons and armor that they wear but can adapt to almost all enemies. Shades come in all of the generic RPG classes if Izaya wants them to (usually to mock his opponent's strength), but they generally have no form until they are engaged in combat and even then most look like giant knights made from darkness.

I was actually replacing the "Black Heart form" with the "Dark Maw form" when you first commented :D

Izaya and Huozai are both very evil people, but wouldn't get along do to conflicting personalities.

He has a lot of power perversion potential with his Polymorphic arm but mostly uses it to tear his enemies to shreds.

Izaya, Victoria, and Ritsu are all relatively powerful army destroyers and all are equal on many terms, but what Victoria and Ritsu lack is the firepower that Izaya has on his side. They could easily gang up on him and overpower, but his humongous arsenal of highly versatile soldiers wouldn't allow it do to their tenacity.

Thank you very much :)

I already have another character that kills people in their sleep and turns them into zombie slaves.