Book Imprisonment

Book Imprisonment
Through his Ability - Black Cat in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs) can trap anyone who reads his novel inside its narrative and setting.
Power/Ability to:	Trap others in books.

The power to trap other beings in books. Technique of Literary Manipulation. Variation of Binding and Imprisonment Realm Creation. Offensive version of Book Jumping.

Also Called

• Book Trapping
• Literary Imprisonment/Trapping
• Book/Library Jailing/Power Stasis

Capabilities

Users are able to create pocket dimensions within books and other literary texts to imprison targets. Targets may assume the roles of certain characters, an observer, or themselves while in the book. Destruction or damage to the book may either free or destroy those imprisoned depending on the nature of the ability.

Variations

• Image Trapping (words on a page)
• Picture Imprisonment (picture books)

Associations

• Binding
• Dimensional Manipulation
• Literary Manipulation
• Media Trapping

Limitations

• Users of Anti Storage cannot be imprisoned.
• May be limited by how many beings can be imprisoned in a book.
• May be limited by number/size of pages.
• Alterations to the book pocket dimension may alter the text altogether, or vice-versa.
• Opening the book or reading its passages may free any sealed beings.
• The victim can be freed by outside help.
• Users of Freeing and Unfixed Movement cannot be bound.
• Depending on the way used to bind the victim, they may be able to overpower/break their bindings.
• Users of Teleportation/Intangibility can escape.
• May be unable to generate the ways to bind and be limited to existing material.
• May have to stay close to the victim or the binding may break.
• If the prison is damaged in any way, the victim may be able to killed or escape against the user's wishes.
• May have to perform a certain action in order for the target to be contained.
• May only be temporary.
• The prison might not be strong enough to contain the victim.

Known Users

• Demondo (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo)
• Charmcaster (Ben 10 reboot)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs)
• Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott (Date A Live); via Ashufiriya
• R.L. Stine (Goosebumps)
• Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
• Queen of Fables (Harley Quinn)
• Zatanna (Harley Quinn)
• Brother Thelonious (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Gabriel Agreste/Collector (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Fable (Steven Universe: The Phantom Fable)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• The Apprentice (Once Upon a Time)
• Charlotte Mont-d'Or (One Piece); via the Buku Buku no Mi/Book-Book Fruit
• Thorn (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost)
• Malachite (Suburban Knights)
• Kikuchi (Takama-ga-hara)
• Raven (Teen Titans)
• Rorek (Teen Titans)

Known Objects

• Evil Spirit's Book (Care Bears: The Movie)
• Beelzebub (Date A Live)
• Books of Zeref (Fairy Tail)
• Goosebumps Manuscripts (Goosebumps)
• Book of Koridai (Link: The Faces of Evil)
• Power Ponies Comic Book (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Sarah Ravencroft’s Spellbook (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost)
• Tome of Moloch (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Legendarium (Winx Club)

Gallery

Malachite (Suburban Knights) trapped Chuck Jaffers in spellbook alive without starvation for 30 years.

The Evil Spirit (Care Bears: The Movie) was an immensely powerful demon trapped within an unnamed book for many years, later re-imprisoned in same book.

Book of Koridai (Link: The Faces of Evil)

Sarah Ravencroft's spellbook (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost) contained a spell that trapped Sarah Ravencroft inside the book.

Charlotte Mont-d'Or (One Piece)

Gabriel Agreste/The Collector (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)

Kikuchi (Takama-ga-hara) has the power to turn people into kanji and then seal them into books.

Video

Goosebumps (2-10) Movie CLIP - Sucked Back Into the Book (2015) HD-2

Goosebumps (10-10) Movie CLIP - Open the Book, Scaredy Cat (2015) HD-2