Tsukisumi Mani

Mani is a tall, toned guy in his mid 40's. He has shoulder length jet black hair he usually wears pulled back into a top knot. His skin has ocre undertones in sunlight, but slightly greys when outside of sunlight. Most of his body is covered in a blackout tattoo, which covers everything other then his lower legs, forarms, and face, though the edges of the tattoo are shaped like tendrils which do wrap around each of the uncovered areas. He stands with impeccable posture at 6'4". He usually dresses formally and in mostly momochrome, with purple accents and accessories to show his place as a member of FM.

Mani's Vibe is his Shadowdance. He can manipulate his shadow and tattoos to have a verity of effects.

Dance Style
Mani has an eclectic style, though he mainly focusses on Ballroom and Swing.

Vibe Abilities
Looming Shade
Mani always has control over his shadow. With no charge, he can shift the position of his shadow to any angle around him, and cause the shadow itself to move, as if it had a life of it's own. The shadow can be lengthened to up to 8 feet. When he enters a heightened state of emotion, his eyes can shift colour do be darker, and his tattoos can twitch and move like tendrils across his body.

Dark Amalgam
For each charge of vibe Mani has, his own shadow can be lengthened by an additional 3 feet.
When Mani's shadow touches another shadow he can merge them, extending his shadow to the space of that shadow. He can chain this to any shadow, up to a range of 30 feet. If a creature is aware of Mani's Vibe, they can make a contested roll (Mani's Guts Vs the resisting STEPer's Guts) to stop their own shadow becoming amalgamated.

Shadow Strike
Mani can spend Vibe to infuse his shadow with the Abyss ink over his body. By infusing his shadow with this sliver of ink, it can tangibly interact with the shadows of other objects and creatures.
Mani's shadow (and by extension, any shadow he has amalgamated) can cause phenomena to occur in objects via their shadows. For example, if Mani's shadow pushed the shadow of a box, the box might be shoved off of its perch. When Mani's infused shadow interacts with an object, no roll is required. He can use these interactions to attack, making the regular roll for a round of a throwdown, causing psychic damage if their shadow is struck when doing so.
The size and number of objects Mani can manipulate during a throwdown correlate to his strength of will. Examples include:
. Multiple small objects (one or two handfuls), pens, cans, etc, possibly multiple.
. A single object that could be lifted by Mani himself, such as crates, chairs, etc.
. He must make a roll of 7+ on 2d6 to throw objects that would be considered large, such as mopeds or long benches, or push objects that are large (such as dumpsters).

Inky Form
Mani can spend Vibe to invigorate his tattoos to become living shadow on his body. Whilst benefitting from this, he can create appendages, enhancements, and defences that draw upon the power of the ink. For example, he could transform his hand into a shadowy claw, create a tar like-maw to bite with, create a shifting barrier for a moment around himself, or lash out with a spike originating from his chest. IF Mani's shadow is infused, he can drastically change it's shape when using this ability, and it reverts back to his natural shadow when it is no longer infused.

Tenebrous Avatar
Mani can spend Vibe to become a shadow. When he does so, he becomes impossible to discern from a regular shadow, entirely silent, and exceptionally fast, the only sign of where he is the pinprick like orbs of his eyes. Whilst a shadow, Mani can quickly travel through or linger inside other shadows. In a throwdown, Mani can spend a round hiding in the shadows to make a Contested Guts Vs Wits roll to hide, STEPers having disadvantage on attack rolls against him whilst he is hidden. Whilst hidden he cannot fight in a throwdown, unless he reveals himself.


Weakness
True Dark
Mani's ability to become, amalgamate, or manipulate a shadow requires that there is a shadow to use. As such, his powers are weakened in a situation where there is continued exposure to light so bright and encompassing it removes shadows, or so diffused it creates soft shadow. In such instances, his power is lessened, but not entirely removed. He can still use his power though it is not as effective.
If Mani is caught in pitch blackness, where everything is shadow, his powers become more unpredictable, usually becoming more difficult if not impossible to use, but very occasionally causing a momentary flare in power instead.
Mani's Vibe is at its most easily usable when there is drastic lighting (such as the strobing light of a club, street lamps, and neon signs, or under direct moonlight.