Powers

[centelha]

At its' core, Ezequiel's power is really not a series of them but one, that one being photokinesis. While the term photokinesis is often used to mean the generation of light, it more properly means the control of it, as as such covers both light generation and reduction. It is inaccurate to say he has control over two separate elements, it just often appears that way from the outside looking in.

Photokinesis has many implementations, some of which he is remarkably bad at, some of which he has become adept at. Ezequiel's strength lies in creative implementation of a limited skill set compared to most, not in raw power. A list, in full, of the abilities he has access to currently, is as follows:

• Light Blast: The ability to increase the brightness of a relatively small area into a blinding mass and direct it in a general direction. This can range in hardness from merely distracting (easiest) to hard enough to knock someone over and blind them (hardest). As light is connected to heat, being hit by one of these feels hot, enough to provide some sensory distraction, but light being what it is, these are possible to deflect with reflective surfaces.
• Burning Beam: The ability to create a small, precise beam of intense light to heat things in order to either set them on fire or melt them. Since this would result in horrible burns if he used this on a person, for the most part he's used this on locks or to create distractions, and as such has no real experience generating multiples of these.
• Invisibility: By altering the light around him, Ezequiel is able to become invisible. This is not as useful as it sounds as he is still subject to being heard and it becomes harder to maintain the more he moves. The longest he has ever stayed invisible was three minutes, and during invisibility he cannot access any of his other powers without breaking his cover. Additionally, this does not hide him on infrared vision, something he found out from his father, but it can fool most camera systems otherwise.
• Shadow Bolt: The ability to decrease the light around a small, palm sized area to a visibly darker patch and direct it at someone, this too has a range from merely being distracting to being physically damaging. Unlike light, which when increased gets warmer, it feels significantly colder to be hit by one of these, which can have a stunning effect if aimed at the head or joints. He has arguably had the most practice in this since he's been using this longest.
• Cover Of Darkness: A variation on invisibility that's longer lasting, but not as all-concealing, it is possible to wrap himself in darkness by amplifying it around himself to allow him freer movement in it. This is only truly viable at night or indoors under certain circumstances, as otherwise he would have no darkness to take cover in.
• Cold And Dark: Lovingly named by his father, this is the ability to decrease light in an area in order to make it colder and darker. For the most part, this has been useless, except in combat with a supervillain whose abilities were heat-dependent. Indoors is where this ability truly shines (pardon the pun) as the limited light sources make it easy to darken an area and stifling the light can result in a quick temperature drop. Unlike his father, who can freeze people to death, Ezequiel has never been able to get it to go below freezing, nor has he ever been able to make a place go pitch-black, though the smaller the room, the closer he gets to snuffing out all light.
• Night Vision/Light Non-Sensitivity: The required secondary power of being photokinetic. In order to see while using his powers, his eyes have developed to include both night vision and the ability to see in blinding levels of light. Abuse of this, however, can give him killer migraines. One of the giveaways to his parents that he's been out at night again is that he's nursing a headache the next morning. If he were to push it past an hour of constantly using this, he would begin to get nauseated and have to stop. In order to keep the public unaware of this power and keep his identity safe, Ezequiel, like his father before him, pretends that his mask gives him this ability. This bold-faced lie can likely be spotted in his ability to read remarkably well in low lighting and not flinch when looking towards the sun.