The ability to manipulate gunpowder. Variation of Powder Manipulation and Volatile Manipulation.
Also Called[]
- Black Powder Manipulation
- Kayakujutsu (Art of the Gunpowder)
Capabilities[]
The user can manipulate gunpowder, a powdery chemical explosive that was mainly used as propellant in early firearms. Gunpowder can be used as physical matter to build constructs and capture enemies, but can also be detonated to inflict incendiary damage. Skilled users can detonate gunpowder at minuscule scales to provide a propellant thrust for projectiles or flight.
Applications[]
- Create/generate/increase gunpowder.
- Shape, compress, and/or otherwise manipulate gunpowder.
- Combustion Inducement
- Exploding Clones
- Explosion Inducement
- Explosive Combat
- Explosive Hell
- Ferrokinetic Constructs using gunpowder.
- Fragokinetic Flight
- Projectile Enhancement by using gunpowder as propellant.
- Trapping Intuition by creating explosive traps.
- Volatile Constructs
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Ash Manipulation
- Explosive Fire Manipulation
- Explosive Proficiency
- Gun Manipulation
- Iron Sand Manipulation
- Metal Dust Manipulation
- Powder Magic
Limitations[]
- Unless the user has Explosion Immunity, gunpowder can cause potential lethal backfire.
- Gunpowder cannot detonate if dampened or cannot be ignited.
Known Users[]
- Papillon (Buso Renkin)
- Asuma Sarutobi (Naruto)
- Zakuro (Ninja Scroll)
- Fremy Speeddraw (Rokka: Brave of the Six Flowers)
- Powder Mages (The Powder Mage Series, By Brian McClellan)
Gallery[]
Zakuro (Ninja Scroll) manipulating gunpowder, and even implanting it into people to control their movements, and then detonating them with devastating results.
Asuma Sarutobi (Naruto) using Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning to breathe out chakra-infused gunpowder that he can redirect using wind currents...
...and then detonate with flint in his teeth.