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| - The Russian's ability to change his own age allowed him to change his age from that of an old man to that of a young man, and then to decrease his age further to a young boy. He seemed to be able to utilize the skills he had as a young man, such as physical strength and knife handling. Everything about him appeared the same except his age. For instance, while appearing as a young man, the Russian had a large cut on his forehead, and the same cut remained even after shifting to the age of a young boy. Additionally, the Russian's clothes never changed while he was shifting ages. Because of the similarity in appearance, he was originally believed to be a family of men and boys, before the ability was identified.
- The user can either accelerate or reverse the aging process in themselves or others.
- Age Shifting is the ability to accelerate or reverse the aging process. It can be used offensively to instantly kill mortals by accelerating their age until it reverts the victims to nothing but dust. The demon Cryto displayed this power by changing Gail Altman into a young woman again as a reward for summoning him. However, he killed her friends, Helen and Amanda, by rapidly aging them to the point where they were reduced to dust.
- Age Shifting is the ability to shift one's age into that of another. This may seem like the ability to manipulate time, but it only targets time fields around biotic matter (and only around the user). With this, one could age shift himself into an older version of himself (called Maturation, Obsolescence or Age Progression if he can only do this) or a younger version (called Infantilization, Rejuvenescence or Age Reversion if he can only do this). While age shifted, the user gains the characteristics of that age group, so they could realistically act like the age group to which they have shifted. In addition, he retains mental capacity even while he is age-shifted.
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| - The Russian's ability to change his own age allowed him to change his age from that of an old man to that of a young man, and then to decrease his age further to a young boy. He seemed to be able to utilize the skills he had as a young man, such as physical strength and knife handling. Everything about him appeared the same except his age. For instance, while appearing as a young man, the Russian had a large cut on his forehead, and the same cut remained even after shifting to the age of a young boy. Additionally, the Russian's clothes never changed while he was shifting ages. Because of the similarity in appearance, he was originally believed to be a family of men and boys, before the ability was identified.
- The user can either accelerate or reverse the aging process in themselves or others.
- Age Shifting is the ability to shift one's age into that of another. This may seem like the ability to manipulate time, but it only targets time fields around biotic matter (and only around the user). With this, one could age shift himself into an older version of himself (called Maturation, Obsolescence or Age Progression if he can only do this) or a younger version (called Infantilization, Rejuvenescence or Age Reversion if he can only do this). While age shifted, the user gains the characteristics of that age group, so they could realistically act like the age group to which they have shifted. In addition, he retains mental capacity even while he is age-shifted. One could even age a desired subject to be too young or too old to be able to defend themselves (called Age Manipulation); a variation of that aspect of this ability often comes at the cost of the evolved human becoming older when making another person younger, or becoming younger when making another person older (called Age Transferal). This makes it possible for a person to effect anything with their ability, causing common items to age, while becoming younger themselves. Often, the drawback to the Age Transferal portion of Age Shifting often comes with an increased aging rate. The strength of the varying ages is questioned, depending on the actual age of the person possessing this ability, to they maintain, gain, or lose strength and vitality depending on the age that they assume. For example; if a young adult had this ability and then shifted to an age of eighty, would their bodies become more frail or would they maintain their youthful strength? This often varies for each user (some retain all stats, like knowledge, strength, vitality of their true age, while others do not). One question that is raised by this ability, is its healing/regenerative properties. The only Evolved Human to display this ability had a large cut on his forehead and it remained as he shifted his age, so it supposedly does not heal as his age changes. However, this is not set in stone for every user, either. But when this same concept is applied to diseases that are incredibly unlikely for a young person to get, such as Alzheimer's Disease. If he were to get this at an old age, would it alleviate when he shifted to a younger age. Presumably no, but further research into this ability is required. The final and most perplexing question raised by this ability is that of death by aging. If this ability actually changes the physical age of the body of the user, then they would presumably be able to maintain an age that was youthful and far from death. This does not apply to the Age Transferal aspect of the ability, as it is definitely possible for them to maintain a young age by transferring their own age to other objects or people. This faculty would include the manipulation of the biological processes that concern body decay with aging, this makes the ability related to Rapid Cellular Regeneration.
- Age Shifting is the ability to accelerate or reverse the aging process. It can be used offensively to instantly kill mortals by accelerating their age until it reverts the victims to nothing but dust. The demon Cryto displayed this power by changing Gail Altman into a young woman again as a reward for summoning him. However, he killed her friends, Helen and Amanda, by rapidly aging them to the point where they were reduced to dust.
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