Killing Intent

Killing Intent
Orochimaru (Naruto) exuding his killing intent to shock Sasuke and Sakura.
Power/Ability to:	Exude killing intent to intimidate the target.

The ability to control one's own killing intention and use it to intimidate the victims. A variation of Fear Inducement. Not to be confused with Killing Instinct or Intuition.

Also Called

• Psychic Intimidation
• Shin no Ippō ("One Side of the Soul")

Capabilities

User can control their killing intention and use it to intimidate the victims, it can be used in two ways:

Killing Intent

The user can give off their pure killing intent, affecting the opponents, themselves, and others around the vicinity. Particularly strong killing intent can paralyze the victim in fear, causing them to morbidly hallucinate their own deaths, or even kill them by forcing the mind to believe the death is reality.

Suppression and Perception

If the users have masterful control over emotions, they can control their killing intent by suppressing it, to prevent the opponents from discovering it, thus hiding one's motives and preventing one from being tracked by such emotions.

Anyone who can also perceive a foe's killing intent can perceive the foe's next move and prepare the next appropriate move in advance.

Applications

• Apathy: by suppressing the intent while retaining desire to kill.
• Combat Perception: by reading the foe's killing intent.
• Death Inducement: by causing fear to the point of killing the foe.
• Fear Inducement: by showing extreme blood-lust to shock the opponents.
• Illusion-Casting: by projecting visions of gruesome deaths via killing intentions.
• Pain Illusion: by causing so much fear that the foe hurts in the visions of death.
• Paralysis Inducement: by utilizing fear against the foe to the level of stopping their movements.
• Persuasion: by utilizing fear to make others do what the user requests.
• Psychosomatic Illusion: by showing such powerful visions that the foes actually believe it is happening.

Associations

• Fear Manipulation
• Killing Instinct
• Killing Intuition
• Phobia-Initiated Ability Manifestation

Limitations

• Killing intentions can serve as a way for the opponent to track them down by Empathy, unless they can suppress the intent while fighting.
• Uncontrollable killing intent can adversely affect unwanted targets.
• Users of Indomitable Will, Apathy, Fear Masking and Tranquil State are either immune or highly resistant.

Known Users

Killing Intent Exudation

• Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
• Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach)
• Retsu Unohana (Bleach)
• Code Breakers (Code: Breaker)
• Satsujinken Users (History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi)
• InuYasha (InuYasha)
• Ninjas in general (Naruto)
• Arlong (One Piece)
• New Fishman Pirates officers (One Piece)
• Pokémon that know Glare/Leer (Pokémon)
• Martial artists (Ranma 1/2)
• Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Jin-e Udō (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Makoto Shishio (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Enishi Yukishiro (Rurouni Kenshin)

Killing Intent Suppression

• Akame (Akame Ga Kill!)
• Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
• Sojiro Seta (Rurouni Kenshin)

Killing Intent Reading

• Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
• Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Kenbunshoku Haki users (One Piece)
• Martial artists (Ranma 1/2)
• Many skilled swordsmen (Rurouni Kenshin)

Gallery

Kiriyama, due to brain damage, exudes pure killing intent and at the same time can track it when dueling in close quarter combat.

Zaraki's (Bleach) killing intent manifesting to the form of his spiritual pressure, making Ichigo hallucinate being stabbed.

Even while smiling serenely, Unohana, being the first Kenpachi, can get people to do what she 'requests' by projecting Killing Intent.

Rei's killing intent is so powerful, Sakura described it as the eyes of a grim reaper.

When Arlong is angry, his eyes is a reflection of his killing intent.

Hody's overdose on Energy Steroids make his killing intent overflowing.

Sasuke (Naruto) releasing his killing intent to paralyze Suigetsu and Jugo from fighting anymore.

InuYasha, in his full demon persona, is so full of killing intent that the mind-reading Goshinki could not follow.

Jin-e Udō is so skilled with using Shin no Ippō, that he can paralyze a person's lungs, causing them to suffocate.

Video

Ichigo and Uhohana

Unohana's Killing Intent