Trait:Powers Via Weapon

Powers Via Weapon
Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach), like other Shinigami, gains the majority of his power through his Zanpakuto.
Power/Ability to:	Use powers through weapons.

The power to use powers through the use of weapons. Sub-power Weapon Manipulation and Weapon Proficiency. Variation of Powers Via Object. Not to be confused with Power Weaponry.

Capabilities

The user has access to a weapon that grants them supernatural powers, these can be magical objects of great or destructive power, or technological weaponry. If the user already possesses supernatural abilities, the weapons are mostly meant for letting them access and/or enhance their powers, or grant them new abilities.

Applications

• Idiosyncratic Manipulation
• Self-Power Bestowal
• Weapon Proficiency

Associations

• Power Artillery
• Power Weaponry
• Powers Via Object
• Soul-Bound Weapon
• Weapon Empowerment

Limitations

• Without weapons, the user is left powerless and vulnerable.
• Object Negation/Weapon Negation

Known Users

Comics/Cartoons

• Captain Cold (DC Comics); via Cold Gun
• Scarecrow (DC Comics); via Scarecrow's Fear Toxin
• Batman, God of Knowledge (DC Comics); via the Mobius Chair
• Harley Quinn (DC Comics); via Apokolips Hammer
• The Batman Who Laughs (DC Comics); via Dark Metal Cards
• The Ninjas/Elemental Masters (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)

Anime/Manga

• Teigu users (Akame Ga Kill!)
• Creed Diskenth (Black Cat)
• Durham Glaster (Black Cat)
• Shinigami (Bleach)
• Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist)
• Exorcists (D.Gray-Man)
• Ikaruga (Fairy Tail)
• Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)
• Erza Knightwalker (Fairy Tail)
• Artificial Sacred Gear (Highschool DxD)
• Holy Sword users (Highschool DxD)
• Demon Sword user (Highschool DxD)
• Inuyasha (Inuyasha)
• Seven Deadly Sins (Nanatsu no Taizai)
• Leo (One Piece)
• Nami (One Piece); via the Clima Tact
• Haru Glory (Rave Master)
• Lucia (Rave Master)
• Sailor soldiers (Sailor Moon)
• Weapons & Meisters (Soul Eater)

Video Games

• Diddy Kong (Donkey Kong)
• Various Users (Kingdom Hearts)
• Thunderbolt (Skylanders)
• Voodood (Skylanders)
• Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles); via Monado

Others

• Zac Blakely (Mako: Island of Secrets)
• Dusty Everhart (Arkwell Academy); via Bellanax
• Marrow (Arkwell Academy); via Bellanax

Known Weapons

• Peanut Popgun (Donkey Kong)
• Zanpakuto (Bleach)
• Sword of Grayskull/Power Sword (He-Man)
• Sword of Tengu (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• The Monado (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Gallery

Akame (Akame Ga Kill!) can kill in one cut via her One Cut Killer: Murasame blade.

Kurome (Akame Ga Kill!) can control eight corpses via her March of the Dead: Yatsufusa blade.

Creed Diskenth (Black Cat) can only use his Imagine Blade via a sword hilt.

Durham Glaster (Black Cat) can only use his Shot via a gun muzzle.

Yu Kanda (D.Gray-Man) gains various types of power via his Mugen blade.

Leo (One Piece) can only use his Nui Nui no Chikara via needles.

Inuyasha (Inuyasha) can slice through dimensions via Meido Tessaiga.

Prince Adam (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) becomes the invincible He-Man only when empowered by the Sword of Grayskull.

King Grayskull (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) was the original wielder of the Sword of Grayskull which empowered him with its cosmic energies.