The ability to make any layer/surface much harder without losing any mobility. Opposite to Fortitude Weakening.
Also Called
- Hardening
Capabilities
User can make any layer/surface much harder without losing any mobility through whatever means, either as a whole or only partially.
Applications
- Corporealization: Make immaterial aspects that are normally substanceless more than solid.
- Deflection: Refining defensive properties to rebound or reflect for various purposes.
- Dermal Armor
- Internal Reinforcement
- Skin Hardening
- Solidification
- Continually harden an object without increasing its mass.
- Reinforcing blunt force weapons.
- Hardening air to walk on or creating a barrier.
- Increase the damage of a strike without losing any momentum.
- Alter the sharpness of certain objects (i.e. cardboard or paper) by hardening/compacting molecular lattices.
Variations
Associations
- Effect Stacking
- Fortitude Strengthening
- Layer Manipulation
- Property Manipulation
- Quality Enhancement
- Stabilization
Limitations
- Hardened objects may allow light and other particles to pass through.
- May be limited to certain objects or materials.
- May require constant contact with the object or the effect disappears.
Known Users
- Akatsuki Ousawa (Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero)
- Hellas (Aldnoah.Zero)
- Dioscuria (Aldnoah.Zero)
- Poison Ivy (Batman: Arkham Knight)
- Irene Belserion (Fairy Tail); via Enchantment
- Shirou Emiya (Fate/stay night)
- Medea (Fate/stay Night)
- Greed (Full Metal Alchemist)
- Lightning Flame users (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!)
- Gamma
- Lambo
- Behemoth (Knights & Magic)
- Parasite Unit/Skulls (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
- Isaiah Mustafa (Old Spice Commercial)
- Busoshoku/Armament Haki Users (One Piece)
- Tekkai/Iron Body Users (One Piece)
- CP9 members
- High Ranked Navy Officers
- Yomiko Readman (Read or Die); limited to paper
- Akio Fudo (Trinity Seven)
Known Objects
- X-Ionizer (DC Comics)
- Maw Installation (Star Wars)
Gallery
Poison Ivy (Batman: Arkham Knight/DC Comics) can reinforce tree bark to the extent that it becomes harder than steel.
A member of the Parasite Unit/Skulls (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain) reinforces his skin into thick armor.
Yomiko Readman (Read or Die) reinforces paper to the point where it can block bullets.
Shirou Emiya (Fate/stay night)
Shirou Emiya (Fate/stay night) can reinforce anything with Reinforcement magic, in this case, a rolled-up poster.
The X-Ionizer (DC Comics) reinforces matter via tight positive/negative ionic alignment. Strengthening it and creating monofilament edges.
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Hellas (Aldnoah.Zero) can harden it fists down to molecular level, making them impervious to physical damage.
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Dioscuria (Aldnoah.Zero) molecular armor fists
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