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"...And so, I brought the buoyancy of everything around her to zero."
― Awatsuki Maaya (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun)
"He's w-wearing a personal flotation device and the wu-water's only a foot deep! How can he s-sink?"
― Eager Young Space Cadet (Duck Dodgers)

The power to manipulate buoyancy. Variation of Contact Force Manipulation.

Also Called[]

  • Buoyancy Alteration/Control/Shift
  • Plefstótitakinesis
  • Buoyokinesis

Capabilities[]

The user can manipulate buoyancy, the force exerted by a fluid on an immersed object. Under normal circumstances, buoyancy acts upwards, typically against the weight of an object and with a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object.

The user is capable of enhancing, diminishing, redirecting, or nullifying the buoyant force on an immersed object (whether in air, water, or another fluid) and can cause it to float, sink, appear/feel lighter or heavier, or experience a neutral buoyancy. The user may also be able to alter the center of buoyancy, changing the stability of floating objects (e.g. sailing vessels) and may cause them to tip over.

Applications[]

  • Air Walking
  • Buoyancy Defiance
  • Levitation
  • Personal Buoyancy
  • Sinkability
  • Water Floatation
  • Water Walking
  • Water Negation
  • Flight Manipulation - If a user of this ability can control where something is buoyed and more importantly how fast something buoyed in any direction, they could imitate Flight and High-Speed Flight, they could even ride wind currents by gliding on them.
  • Newtonian Motion Defiance
  • Viscosity Manipulation
  • Telekinesis - By telekinetically moving objects (including themselves) around while under the control of the users powers. The user could also move objects to and from them via making them float.
  • Weight Manipulation - Because buoyancy is the force of an objects weight within a fluid, on a surface level, what a user of this power can do is make anything including themselves lighter or heavier or take on the feeling of the two without actually physically increasing or decreasing their weight at all, Users can even achieve Selective Heaviness & Mass Defiance.
  • Personal Weight Manipulation
  • Structure Weakening - By manipulating the buoyancy (Weight) of an object to such a degree on a subatomic or molecular level, you could weaken the integral structure of any object making it infinitesimally fragile, being able to push the atoms apart manually, rip apart anything, you could liquefy objects, topple buildings, solidify water, keep a building from falling over, shatter things, disintegrate objects, cause them to fall apart, melt, Punch trees down, make craters in the ground and walls, etc.
  • Surface Tension Manipulation - By fiddling with the mass/density of water and the buoyancy effect it gives objects. Users could turn a lake (or any body of water even the ocean) so dense that everything in the lake floats to the surface, submerged objects would be ejected up at high speed out of the water via the water, even metal or things that wouldn't float on their own.

Associations[]

Limitations[]

  • May not work in a vacuum, or if the object is somehow separated from the fluid it is in.
  • Targets having their weight altered may behave erratically under the power's influence.
  • Users may have no control over the direction or speed of which the target or object is buoyed.
  • May be limited to manipulating the buoyancy of yourself or just anything else separately.

Known Users[]

  • Dragons (Drifting Dragons); via Ferry
  • Awatsuki Maaya (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun)
  • Rose Quartz (Steven Universe)
  • Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
  • Bandu (Friday Night Funkin Dave And Bambi Golden Apple Edition)
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