Layer Reinforcement

Layer Reinforcement
Greed (FMA) can harden his skin by rearranging the carbon in his body to make his skin as hard as diamond.
Power/Ability to:	Make any layer/surface much harder.

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.
• You can reinforce your blunt force weapons.
• You can harden air to walk on or create 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.

Associations

• Effect Stacking
• Property Manipulation
• Quality Enhancement
• Stabilization

Limitations

• Hardened objects allow light and other particles to pass through (can be good or bad).
• May be limited to certain objects or materials.

Known Users

• Poison Ivy (Batman: Arkham Knight/DC Comics)
• Shirou Emiya (Fate/Stay Night)
• Medea (Fate/stay Night)
• Isaiah Mustafa (Old Spice Commercial)
• Lightning Flame users (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
• Gamma (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
• Lambo (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
• Busoshoku Haki users (One Piece)
• Vergo (One Piece)
• Yomiko Readman (Read or Die); limited to paper
• Akio Fudo (Trinity Seven)

Gallery

Poison Ivy (Batman: Arkham Knight/DC Comics) can reinforce tree bark to the extent that it becomes harder than steel.

Yomiko Readman (Read or Die) reinforces paper to the point where it can block bullets.