- "You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun."
- ― Zuko to Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- "Only once every hundred years can a firebender experience this kind of power."
- ― Iroh commenting on the power granted by Sozin's Comet (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
The condition to gain strength from a certain abstract concept, powers, objects or when an event occurs. Sub-power of Affinity Manipulation. Combination of Power Augmentation and Enhanced Condition. Lesser version of Omni-Empowerment. Opposite to Charging and Aversion.
Also Called
- Augmentation
- Empowerment
- Enhancement
- Power-Up
- Strengthening
Effects
As a trait, the users become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. when they come in contact with a certain concept, object, event, or emotion, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers (E.g.: those with Water Empowerment may be able to unlock Water Manipulation when they are in a large body of water). Some users may be able draw sustenance from their affinity or even slow or stop aging.
Associated Powers
- Decelerated Aging/Semi-Immortality
- Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition
- Metabolization
- Self-Power Augmentation
- Self-Sustenance
Major Affinities
- Artificial Forces Empowerment
- Emotion Empowerment
- Environmental Empowerment
- Fundamental Forces Empowerment
- Inorganic Empowerment
- Organic Empowerment
- Planetary Empowerment
- Sin Empowerment
- Self Empowerment
- Universal Force Empowerment
- Virtue Empowerment
Affinities
- Absorption Empowerment
- Action Empowerment
- Aether Empowerment
- Age Empowerment
- Ally Empowerment
- Ambition Empowerment
- Ancient Empowerment
- Anti-Energy Empowerment
- Anti-Magic Empowerment
- Apocalyptic Empowerment
- Appearance Empowerment
- Archetype Empowerment
- Arena Empowerment
- Art Empowerment
- Aspect Empowerment
- Athletics Empowerment
- Belief Empowerment
- Binding Empowerment
- Body Function Empowerment
- Bond Empowerment
- Breathing Empowerment
- Calendar Empowerment
- Change Empowerment
- Chanting Empowerment
- Chaos Empowerment
- Cheering Empowerment
- Chess Empowerment
- Cleanliness Empowerment
- Clothing Empowerment
- Color Empowerment
- Combat Empowerment
- Concept Empowerment
- Conquest Empowerment
- Constellation Empowerment
- Consumption Empowerment
- Conversion Empowerment
- Corruption Empowerment
- Cosmic Event Empowerment
- Cowardice Empowerment
- Creation Empowerment
- Damage Empowerment
- Danger Empowerment
- Day Empowerment
- Death Empowerment
- Death-Force Empowerment
- Demonic Empowerment
- Destruction Empowerment
- Digital Empowerment
- Dimensional Empowerment
- Dirtiness Empowerment
- Discovery Empowerment
- Divine Empowerment
- Dragon Empowerment
- Drowning Empowerment
- Duration Empowerment
- Eldritch Empowerment
- Energy Empowerment
- Entertainment Empowerment
- Entropy Empowerment
- Failure Empowerment
- Faith Empowerment
- Fame Empowerment
- Fictional Empowerment
- Focus Empowerment
- Fusion Empowerment
- Generational Empowerment
- Group Empowerment
- Heart Empowerment
- Healing Empowerment
- Humanity Empowerment
- Hunger Empowerment
- Illusion Empowerment
- Imagination Empowerment
- Inner Beast Empowerment
- Insanity Empowerment
- Invulnerability Empowerment
- Karma Empowerment
- Kinetic Energy Empowerment
- Letter Empowerment
- Ley Line Empowerment
- Life Empowerment
- Life-Force Empowerment
- Loyalty Empowerment
- Luck Empowerment
- Magic Empowerment
- Mimicry Empowerment
- Miracle Empowerment
- Momentum Empowerment
- Morality Empowerment
- Multiversal Force Empowerment
- Mystic Empowerment
- Nature Empowerment
- Negativity Empowerment
- Nether Empowerment
- Notoriety Empowerment
- Number Empowerment
- Object Empowerment
- Oneiric Empowerment
- Obsession Empowerment
- Order Empowerment
- Pain Empowerment
- Parasitic Empowerment
- Patronage Empowerment
- Perseverance Empowerment
- Physical Force Empowerment
- Placebo Empowerment
- Pollution Empowerment
- Positivity Empowerment
- Power Empowerment
- Primordial Empowerment
- Protection Empowerment
- Psionic Empowerment
- Purification Empowerment
- Quantum Empowerment
- Rarity Empowerment
- Reading Empowerment
- Reality Empowerment
- Recreation Empowerment
- Relationship Empowerment
- Replication Empowerment
- Ritual Empowerment
- Rivalry Empowerment
- Sacrifice Empowerment
- Science Empowerment
- Sealing Empowerment
- Sephirot Empowerment
- Serving Empowerment
- Sex Empowerment
- Shedding Empowerment
- Signal Empowerment
- Singularity Empowerment
- Sobriety Empowerment
- Soul Empowerment
- Stamina Empowerment
- Status Empowerment
- Stillness Empowerment
- Synergy Empowerment
- Success Empowerment
- Suffering Empowerment
- Summoning Empowerment
- Survival Empowerment
- Taboo Empowerment
- Tattoo Empowerment
- Technomagical Empowerment
- Technorganic Empowerment
- Thievery Empowerment
- Tool Empowerment
- Transcendent Empowerment
- Travelling Empowerment
- Velocity Empowerment
- Vibration Empowerment
- Volatile Empowerment
- Waveform Empowerment
- Weakness Empowerment
- Weather Empowerment
- Will Empowerment
- Yin & Yang Empowerment
- Youthful Empowerment
- Zodiac Empowerment
Associations/Relationships
- Commonly accompanied by some form of Absorption.
- Affinity Manipulation
- Charging
- May accompany some form of detection in order to know when their affinity is close.
- Omni-Empowerment
- Self Power Link
Limitations/Weaknesses
- Loss of power without the affinity around or from going without contact with the affinity for an extended period.
- May be limited on the amount of strength you gain.
- May overload from absorbing too much.
- May be weakened by some opposing affinity.
- May not be able to choose which Affinity you have.
- May be limited to one affinity only.
- Constant use of Affinity may increase dependency.
- Weak to Affinity Negation.
Known/Example Characters
Comics/Cartoons
- Waterbenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender); grow stronger during a full moon and lose their powers during a lunar eclipse
- Firebenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender); grow stronger when Sozin's comet passes, or when it is daytime, and lose their powers during a solar eclipse
- Mana/Magic users (Ben 10); while in Ledgerdomain have their magical powers and abilities enhanced.
- Lantern Corps (DC Comics)
- Aquaman (DC Comics); becomes stronger in water
- Uncle Sam (DC Comics); gains superhuman strength, speed, and size depending on the American people's beliefs in the ideals of America
- All Kryptonians under a Yellow Sun (DC Comics)
- Desiree (Danny Phantom); gains strength from those she has granted wishes for
- Jackie Estacado (The Darkness); becomes stronger when in the shadows
- Van Kleiss (Generator Rex); strongest when in the radius of the Nanite Explosion area
- Jonas Graymalkin (Marvel Comics); gains superhuman strength and endurance while in the dark
- Moon Knight (Marvel Comics); becomes stronger depending on the phases of the moon
- The Hulk (Marvel Comics); grows stronger whenever he becomes angry
- Hydro-Man (Marvel Comics); becomes stronger near water
- Sand-Man (Marvel Comics); becomes stronger near sand
- Hosts of Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
- Jean Grey (as a host)
- Tengu Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003); ley lines
Anime/Manga
- Kili (Double Arts); becomes stronger when touching someone
- Dragon Slayers (Fairy Tail); via specific element
- "Big Mom" Charlotte Linlin (One Piece); once so driven by hunger
- Ginei Morioka (Rosario + Vampire); becomes stronger & faster when the moon is out
- Blackmore (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VII: Steel Ball Run); can use his Stand, Catch The Rainbow, only while its raining
- Guardian Characters (Shugo Chara); help their masters access their inner strengths
Life-Action TV/Films
- The Charmed Ones (Charmed); stronger together, and when emotional
- Cupids (Charmed); when around love
- Samuel Sullivan (Heroes); becomes stronger with more evolved humans around
- The Chance Harbor Circle (The Secret Circle); stronger together
Literature
- Ethan Wate (Caster Chronicles); his love for Lena makes him resistant to magic powers
- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson & the Olympians); becomes stronger in water
Video Games
- Cole MacGrath (inFamous); is able to draw power from electrical appliances and storms
- Kahoko Hino (La Corda d'Oro); passion for music
- Yu Narukami (Persona 4); Bond Empowerment
- Giratina (Pokémon); Via Griseous Orb
- Pokémon with the skill "Swift Swim" (Pokémon); become faster in rain
- Talim (Soul Calibur); jumps higher-up on her stages, most likely to be Wind affinity
Others
- The Bahrag (Bionicle); Twin queens of the Bohrok swarms would grow more powerful when close to each other
- Ares/Mars (Greco-Roman Mythology); becomes stronger when in conflict
- SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy" (SCP Foundation); when someone or something looks at its face, he gets stronger, faster, and even more durable
- SCP-4043 - Gaia (SCP Foundation); empowered by the biosphere of the earth
- Buelsar Elliot (Tower of God); gets stronger the stronger his enemy is
Known Natural Occurrences
- Limbo (Charmed); expands magical powers and transcends laws of physics
- The Nexus of the All (Charmed); maximizes all powers
- The Nexus of the Halliwell Manor (Charmed); intensifies all magical powers
- Yellow Sun (DC Comics); grants Kryptonians and Daxamites supernatural powers
- Full Moon (Various franchise); werewolves are at their strongest and most volatile state
- Natural elements (Various franchise); empowers someone with elemental powers
Known Artifacts
- Emphyreal Sword (Charmed); strengthens whitelighters
- Deadly Virus (Charmed); temporarily strengthens all magical creatures before killing them
- Moon pool (H2O: Just Add Water/Mako: Island of Secrets)
- Silver Crystal (Sailor Moon)
- Humpty Lock (Shugo Chara); grants Amu Hinamori powers
- Dumpty Key (Shugo Chara); grants Ikuto Tsukiyomi powers
- Fairy blood (True Blood); vampires become resistant to fairy magic after drinking fairy blood
- Serpens Clavem (Witches of East End); strengthens witches whilst corrupting them
Gallery
Comics/Cartoons
Mana/Magic users (Ben 10) in Ledgerdomain have their magical powers and abilities enhanced like...
...Michael Morningstar...
...Gwen Tennyson...
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...Addwaitya...
...and Charmcaster.
Firebenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender) reach maximum power when Sozin's Comet approaches.
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A waterbender like Hama’s (Avatar: The Last Airbender) waterbending reaches its most powerful at full moon. Not only can she bend blood, but other bodily fluids, too.
Superman (DC Comics) is strongest under a blue star.
Power Rings (DC Comics) are empowered by their respective emotions; Rage, Avarice, Fear, Will, Hope, Compassion, & Love.
Hulk's (Marvel Comics) power comes from his rage.
Hydro-Man (Marvel Comics)
Sand-Man (Marvel Comics)
The Tengu Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003) gains strength by seizing control of the planet's ley lines.
Jean Grey has great psychic powers thanks to the Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
Others
Werewolves obtain maximum power under the full moon.
Arthur Curry (Smallville) is at his strongest under the water.
Circle members (The Secret Circle) are stronger together.
At the age of five, Charlotte Linlin (One Piece) was once so driven by hunger, she destroyed an entire village of giants…
…and killed one of the Giants' greatest warriors.
