Blood Empowerment

Blood Empowerment
Skarlet (Mortal Kombat) becomes more powerful when her opponents' blood comes in contact with her skin.
Power/Ability To:	Gain strength from blood.

"Let me say this as clearly as I can. You cannot beat me. I am a part of them. The Wolf, Ram, and Hart. Their strength flows through my veins. My blood is filled with their ancient power."

― Marcus Hamilton (Angel)

The power to gain strength from blood. Technique of Blood Manipulation. Variation of Organic Empowerment and Consumption Empowerment.

Also Called

• Blood Affinity
• Hemoglobin Affinity/Empowerment

Capabilities

User becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. when they come into contact with or are near blood, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing their existing powers. Some users may be able draw sustenance from the blood or even slow or stop aging.

Applications

• Decelerated Aging/Semi-Immortality
• Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition
  • Enhanced Durability
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Stamina
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Strength
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Regeneration (Haemopotent Regeneration)
• Insanity Inducement
• Metabolization
• Pain Suppression
• Self-Power Augmentation
• Self-Sustenance

Variations

• Blood Absorption: user's strength increases when they absorb blood.
• Blood Consumption: user's strength increases when they ingest blood.

Associations

• Blood Manipulation
• Blood Mimicry
• Consumption Empowerment
• Conversion
• Haemopotent Replication
• Life-Force Absorption
• Organic Empowerment
• Undead Physiology
• Vampire Physiology

Limitations

• Some users may go completely insane/lose self-control.
• May get addicted to blood.
  • May gain withdrawal syndromes without regular consumption of blood.

Known Users

Cartoons

• Hama (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Comics

• Tanya (Batman & Dracula: Red Rain/DC Comics)
• Batman of Earth-43 (DC Comics)
• Brother Blood (DC Comics)
• Blade (Marvel Comics)
• Catiana (Marvel Comics)
• Conan the Barbarian (Marvel Comics)
• Bloodsucker (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Vampirella (Vampirella)

Folklore/Mythology

• Huitzilopochtli (Aztec Mythology)
• Vampires (Mythology)

Gamebooks

• Zara (Queens Blade Grimoire)

Literature

• Count Dracula (Dracula)

Live Television

• Vampires (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Angel
  • Spike
• Vampires (Being Human)
  • Aidan Waite
  • John Mitchell
• Witches (Salem)
• Buffy Sanders (Smallville)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
• Vampires (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
• Hybrids (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)

Manga/Anime

• Esdeath (Akame ga Kill)
• Charden Flamberg (Black Cat)
• Quincy (Bleach)
• Saya Kisaragi (Blood-C)
• Fangs (Dragon Ball)
• Lucy (Elfen Lied)
• Alexander Anderson (Hellsing)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Seras Victoria (Hellsing)
• Gasper Vladi (Highschool DxD)
• Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Hidan (Naruto)
• Mosquito Girl (One-Punch Man)
• Vampires (Rosario + Vampire)
• Little Ogre (Soul Eater)
• The Moon (Soul Eater)
• Mosquito (Soul Eater)
• Ragnarok (Soul Eater)
• Chōji Suitengu (Speed Grapher)

Manhwa

• Cadis Estrama Di Raizel (Noblesse)

Video Games

• The Hunter (Bloodborne)
• Characters with the Crimson Curse (Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court)
• Elesis (Elsword); Dark Knight/Crimson Avenger/Blood Queen class
• The Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3); via Hematophage perk
• Mondo Zappa (Killer is Dead)
• Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Skarlet (Mortal Kombat)
• Buzzwole (Pokémon)
• Rick Taylor (Splatterhouse 2010)
• Uber Reptiles (Ty the Tasmanian Tiger)

Known Objects

• Demon's Extract (Akame ga Kill)
• Lorian's Greatsword (Dark Souls III)
• Chaos Break (Highschool DxD)
• All-Black The Necrosword (Marvel Comics)
• Shichiseiken (One Piece)
• Clothes (Saint Seiya); only from divine blood

Gallery

Esdeath (Akame ga Kill) drank the Demon's Extract, a Danger Beast life blood, gaining immense ice powers.

Tanya (Batman & Dracula: Red Rain)

Charden Flamberg (Black Cat) using his Blood to drain his victims of their blood supply and add them to his own, making him more powerful.

Quincy (Bleach) using their Blut technique to power their offense or defense.

Having been drenched in the blood of a Demon Prince, Lorian's Greatsword (Dark Souls III) is set eternally aflame.

Fangs (Dragon Ball) draining Krillin of his blood to nourish himself.

Alucard (Hellsing) gets stronger when blood is shed.

When exposed to cat blood, Catiana (Marvel Comics) can shapeshift into a cat.

Gorr (Marvel Comics) grows more powerful by feeding the necrosword he wields divine blood.

The Shichiseiken (One Piece) absorbing Zoro's blood to strengthen itself and its wielder.

Mosquito Girl (One-Punch Man) gains strength from the blood collected by her mosquitos.

Tsukune Aono (Rosario + Vampire) empowered by the Shinso's blood, but goes berserk.

The Pegasus Cloth (Saint Seiya Ω) got the self-regeneration power after having contact with divine blood various times.

Sam Winchester (Supernatural) can enhance his demonic abilities by drinking demon blood. He had become powerful enough to not only exorcise demons, but also kill demons as powerful as Alastair and Lilith.

Frill lizards (Ty the Tasmanian tiger) have mammal blood injected into them...

...and become Uber Reptiles.

Hama (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

The Ultra Beast Buzzwole (Pokémon) is able to increase its already immense strength by absorbing the blood of others.

As the Dark Knight/Crimson Avenger/Blood Queen, Elesis (Elsword) uses her own blood to increase the power of her attacks.