Umbrakinesis

Umbrakinesis
Phoebe manipulates her shadow.
Held by:	Phoebe Frady
Ability to:	manipulate light and shadows
Examples of umbrakinesis

Umbrakinesis is the ability to manipulate light and shadow. Phoebe describes her ability by saying that she can "steal light" and "channel darkness".

Characters

Confirmed

• Phoebe Frady has demonstrated this ability. (Dark Matters, Part 1)

Unconfirmed

• Darkmoon is said to be able to manipulate shadows. (Purpose)

Limits

Phoebe first began experimenting with her ability by playing with her shadows and making them move independently of her (Dark Matters, Part 1). She also plays harmless tricks on others, like when she turned off the lights on a South Western College professor. As she grew stronger, her ability sometimes worked without her active concentration, like when shadows crept along a wall as she experienced a nightmare (Dark Matters, Part 3). Sometimes her abilities echoed her emotions, like when she accidentally blew out a light when she was angry with her brother (Dark Matters, Part 3).

Phoebe eventually grew strong enough to the point that she could gather shadows from her surroundings and hold it in her hands. In fact, when Quentin saw an eclipse on June 13, 2014, he automatically assumed it was caused by Phoebe's ability (Dark Matters, Part 4).

Phoebe's abilities seem to be able to affect the abilities of other evos, nullifying them. She has so far made a levitating guitarist fall, extinguished a pyrokinetic's fire, and prevented Malina from using her powers. When doing so, she actively projects darkness, and in the last case generates tendrils of shadow from her hands to negate the power. (Dark Matters, Part 3, The Lion's Den)

When using her powers actively, Phoebe's eyes turn purple.

Selected Examples

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  Phoebe manipulates her shadow to wave independently of herself.
  (Dark Matters, Part 1)
• 
  Phoebe plays a game with her shadow.
  (Dark Matters, Part 2)
• 
  Shadows creep along the wall while Phoebe has a nightmare.
  (Dark Matters, Part 2)
• 
  To stop others from fighting, Phoebe's eyes become purple...
• 
  ...she makes a levitating guitarist fall...
• 
  ...and she makes pyrokinetic fire disappear.
  (Dark Matters, Part 3)
• 
  "The Shadow" extends shadowy tendrils out of her arms...
• 
  ...that serve to negate Malina's power.
  (The Lion's Den)

Trivia

• On her Instagram page, actress Aislinn Paul said that to create the effect of her holding the ball of light and shadow in The Needs of the Many, the effects team put lights inside her sleeves so they could use a mix of practical and digital effects.

See Also

• For the similar ability to absorb light, see light absorption.
• For the similar ability to negate others' powers, see Mental manipulation.

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