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A form of Hollywood Science where it's possible to, in effect, "drain", or "transfer", or "reverse" physical conditions. The usual form this takes is related to Life Energy-- if you drain someone's life energy, they start to show the physical signs of aging. Transferring life energy ages the victim and youthens the recipient. This treats aging as if it's the presence or lack of a substance, rather than a set of physical conditions; it would be like having a device which fixes flat tires by "draining the roundness" from things, causing nearby pizzas to turn polygonal. This is especially unrealistic with regards to hair as people who have their life energy drained immediately gain gray hair, despite the fact that hair is dead and the gray color comes from the hair follicles in the skin not p

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  • A form of Hollywood Science where it's possible to, in effect, "drain", or "transfer", or "reverse" physical conditions. The usual form this takes is related to Life Energy-- if you drain someone's life energy, they start to show the physical signs of aging. Transferring life energy ages the victim and youthens the recipient. This treats aging as if it's the presence or lack of a substance, rather than a set of physical conditions; it would be like having a device which fixes flat tires by "draining the roundness" from things, causing nearby pizzas to turn polygonal. This is especially unrealistic with regards to hair as people who have their life energy drained immediately gain gray hair, despite the fact that hair is dead and the gray color comes from the hair follicles in the skin not p
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  • A form of Hollywood Science where it's possible to, in effect, "drain", or "transfer", or "reverse" physical conditions. The usual form this takes is related to Life Energy-- if you drain someone's life energy, they start to show the physical signs of aging. Transferring life energy ages the victim and youthens the recipient. This treats aging as if it's the presence or lack of a substance, rather than a set of physical conditions; it would be like having a device which fixes flat tires by "draining the roundness" from things, causing nearby pizzas to turn polygonal. This is especially unrealistic with regards to hair as people who have their life energy drained immediately gain gray hair, despite the fact that hair is dead and the gray color comes from the hair follicles in the skin not putting pigment in anymore. One variation uses life energy to transfer injuries instead of aging. Apparently, we might not be able to drain the roundness from pizzas, but we can drain "lack-of-bullet-hole-ness"; how else to explain why someone can drain your life energy to give you their wounds? Another variation simply has characters "aged" or "youthened". There's no actual drain or transfer, but age is still treated as a substance, where it can be added or removed and you'll automatically get a whole host of physical changes. This can be especially silly when someone is youthened into a baby, or a baby aged into an adult. In theory, this could be justified by having Applied Phlebotinum speed up time for real--except that the target never dies of starvation or lack of air, never excretes, never shows years' worth of hair growing in and falling out before it turns gray, never gets bored, etc. Any version of this can be justified as "magic", but it is common even in sci-fi settings. Usually labelled "Drain Life". Sometimes used for Fairest of Them All. May be a Power Source to some villains or powers, or as the food for Horror Hunger. If the character is using this to live forever, it's Life Drinker. Helps when you use Powers as Programs. Empathic Healer is a more heroic inverse of this trope, where someone heals another person by transferring the other person's wounds to themselves. Assets may be acquired via a Blood Bath. Examples of Liquid Assets include:
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