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I decided to create a fullbring, it's a little on the overpowered side but I think there's enough weaknesses by virtue of the wielder being human in order to cancel out a little of how overpowered it can be.

Fullbring Name: Cutting Through Conceit

Fullbring focus: The focus of the user’s Fullbring is a novelty umbrella with a handle shaped like that of a katana’s hilt and tsuba. The hilt and tsuba are all black and the umbrella’s canopy is a silver color with the interior of the canopy being black.

Fullbring Appearance: When the user holds the focus and activates their Fullbring the canopy of the umbrella shatters and disappears, with a blade reminiscent of a longsword appearing in it’s place where the rod of the umbrella would have been. The blade has a long black line running down the middle to the tip of the blade. A silver fitting glove also appears on the opposite hand to the one holding the sword.

Special abilities: The foremost ability of “Cutting Through Conceit” is that it warps the reality of the actions of its wielder’s enemies based on that enemies confidence. For instance, if an enemy attacks the wielder with an attack that they believe is a “one-hit kill” then the power of the attack gets proportionally weakened to the point where the wielder is only moderately wounded. However this does not make the wielder invincible, enough attacks that would normally kill the wielder will eventually wear down the wielder and succeed in killing them. Attacks by the enemy that do not have a lot of confidence behind them do not get weakened, but as an enemy would rarely make a move that they do not think will work, this is a hard to exploit weakness of the fullbring. The Fullbring has a few other minor abilities:

•	Canopy Manifestation: The wielder can, by motioning with the silver glove of their    fullbring, summon forth a translucent silver barrier in the shape of an open umbrella canopy. This barrier is strong but can be shattered with a strong enough attack and is usually only used in a situation where the main ability of “Cutting Through Conceit” would not be needed to defend against an attack. The barrier does not benefit from the protection offered by the main ability of the fullbring. Only one such barrier can be summoned at a time and it is summoned in a fixed location, unable to be moved, but they can be dispelled and resummoned with ease.

•	Telescoping Blade: By stabbing the longsword towards the enemy the wielder can extend the blade up to 5 times it’s normal length in a fraction of a second allowing for a mid-range attack that can catch most enemies off guard. The extenson however cannot be maintained and after the blade has been fully extended it immediately retracts. This can be used in conjunction with the fullbrings ability to manifest an umbrella shaped barrier to push the barrier into the enemy with force potentially catching the opponent off guard.

(NOTE: As Fullbrings don’t have a higher state of release such as Bankai, Vollstandig or Resurreccion, I’ve decided to add in what the Fullbring would evolve to if given Ichigo’s ability to clad oneself in their own power, as happened with the members of Xcution)

Clad-type Rename: Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

Fullbring Appearance: The blade portion of the umbrella remains unchanged, however the wielder gains a silver trenchcoat along with a silver glove on each hand, the trenchcoat has a black lining on the inside of the coat and along the outside there are black tribal designs along the bottom of the coat and on the cuffs of the sleeves.

Improved Cutting Through Conceit: The main ability of the fullbring remains unchanged, however it does gain a massive increase in power and the way it can affect enemy actions. Whereas before an enemy’s attack was weakened only enough to make them doubt their own confidence, the confidence of the enemy is now turned wholly against them, where an attack that they would believe to be a “one-hit kill” becomes completely ineffective against the wielder, essentially making the enemy’s confidence become a complete lie. Now attacks are proportionally weakened by the amount of faith the enemy has in them, for instance if an enemy is 80% sure the attack will cause some damage then the attack would only be 20% as effective as normal.

•	Improved Canopy Manifestation & Telescoping Blade: The other abilities of the fullbring also become improved. Whereas before the wielder had to motion with their hand to where the barrier was to be summoned, it can now be summoned simply by looking at the place where it is to be summoned and willing it there, in addition up to 8 such barriers may be created concurrently, but they still can’t be moved. The telescoping blade attack also undergoes a few improvements, namely the force and length behind the extension is at least doubled, the extension can also be maintained indefinitely and, most noticeably the wielder can now create and extend blades from the center of the umbrella barriers, increasing the amount of “blades” available to the wielder to 9 in total. This allows the user a wide variety of offensive and defensive options that can catch an enemy off guard.