Thread:Taki-Tan/@comment-25363089-20170630031257/@comment-29264888-20170706023432

Bird summoning is a very versatile semblance if you think about it. Similarly to bird control/manipulation, you can control birds to do your bidding. Other than using them against your enemies by summoning a swarm of birds, you can possibly use them for spying on others in order to recieve information about things, summon a flock to make you capable of flight, or even see through the eyes of the controlled bird(s).

Of course, the before mentioned are very common abilities of utlizing birds.

But then there's also the dust application.

Maybe if you add fire dust, you can turn an auric bird into something resembling a phoenix. The phoenix could be some giant fire bird that is nigh impossible to kill. Even if you extinguish it, it instantly returns because your OC is constantly cycling aura into it. The only viable way to take down the phoenix is if  you take down its direct source via your OC. However, your OC doesn't have to be nearby the pheonix, so your OC can simply hide a fair distance while you control it. And if you have the ability to see what the phoenix sees, you won't lack maneuverability.

You can also have a water bird, something that others can't defeat with physical attacks. Maybe it can attack or shoot with water so fast that it can cut things. Like a water jet of sorts.

Then there's the wind bird. As long as your OC can stay around this wind bird, you can have the ability to fly or float. Including to this, the birds has strong knock back potential from the gales it produces.

Finally we have the earth bird, which I don't know if it can do anything special. However, what I do know is that the earth bird can be a monster, capable of withstanding a major amount of damage. Or you can even make it crazier and allow it to dig or mold into the ground, allowing it to reappear and jump out at unsuspecting foes when it comes back up.

Now that I think about it, this is falling more into the rules of summoning semblances. However, the bird semblance I'm talking about doesn't summon elemental birds from the get-go. It simply summons a regular bird made of aura and then you apply elemental dust to it, thus creating the elemental birds. One could also believe that the dust applied would run out, but there can be an explanation that you're using your aura to sustain the elemental effects.

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To your first RP idea, they won't do something against someone unless provoked. So in other words: they are a neutral party in a majority of situations. If they are hired, they'll provide support based on what they're paid. If an opposing faction doesn't want my faction involved, they can pay a larger amount to stop them, though there are few who will possibly reject that bribe for reasons unknown.

You can call their work generally similar to mercenaries of sorts. On the outside that is.

And don't underestimate my faction. I haven't described much about them, but each individual member within the corporation are quite capable of many things. But I won't debate on things because I'm tired of that.

Again, you still don't have any viable reason as to why someone would target my faction. Steal something to use as leverage? For what reason they would do such a thing? Are you doing it for scandalous reasons? Or perhaps there's a hidden enemy my faction doesn't know about? If there's a hidden enemy, the question still applies to why they would attack them in the first place."

As for your second idea, I say again that I don't mind this one. This seems simple at its core to me. Though not majorly important, I did mention that my faction has members of various skills. This would mean that I could possibly have a person who is a caretaker/maid/bodyguard. Similarly to Sebastian from Black Butler or Sakuya from Touhou.