Dermal Armor


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The power to have innate physical armor for protection.

Also Called

 * Armored Skin
 * Natural Armor
 * Skin Armor
 * Thick Skin
 * Tough Skin

Capabilities
The users has or can generate an innate armor as a part of their body, which is resistant to attacks, harm or pain and temperature extremes. The armor varies from obvious, physical defenses, such as scales, thick skin/fur, natural shield, armor or shell, in-organic skin, etc, to bone-nodules below skin, particularly wide/sturdy rib-cake, blubber, or simply dense muscle.

Applications

 * Bulletproof Durability
 * Deflection
 * Natural Weaponry
 * Pain Suppression
 * Thermal Resistance
 * Cold Immunity
 * Fire Immunity

Variations

 * Organic Metal Skin
 * Rough Armor
 * Scale Manifestation
 * Shell Formation
 * Skin Hardening
 * Supernaturally Dense Tissue

Associations

 * Biological Manipulation
 * Body Manipulation
 * Defense Powers
 * Density Manipulation
 * Elemental Mimicry/Elemental Exoskeleton: the skin may be formed from a strong element (Stone, gem, metal, etc).
 * Crystal Mimicry
 * Diamond Mimicry
 * Metal Mimicry
 * Stone Mimicry
 * Fur Generation
 * Invulnerability
 * Shield Protrusion
 * Skin Manipulation

Limitations

 * Weak against Deoxygenation
 * Depending on how heavy armor users may sink in water.
 * If one were to disrupt the process of "armoring up" the results would be user losing the ability to armor up for quite awhile.
 * Selective armoring is rare, in short it is an "all or none" principle, either fully armored or not at all.
 * May sacrifice speed for durability.
 * Reverting back to original form or natural state may be moderately difficult or irreversible.