r/6Perks • u/WannabemagicalPOC • 14h ago
Rifts of polarity Pt.1
You're about to head to sleep when suddenly a rifts opens on your right, and another on your left. These wormholes to try to suck you in simultaneously, tearing you apart from both sides, and just before you get ripped in two, a 99th dimensional entity known as Randy the Random Ranger comes to your rescue!!!
"These are are rifts of polarity" Randy explains. "They're gateways into immaterial dimensions that only the mind can enter, your physical form would have been destroyed, but your consciousness would have been sucked into either one of them, after that you would have spent the rest of time becoming one with energies of that dimension until your consciousness either becomes part of that dimension, or is cast out into your original dimensions. The dimensions hold energies of opposing extreme concepts, they balance each other other out with an interdimensional energy referred to at "midpoint energy".
Randy can feel the terror in your heart, you've been marked as a midpoint, midpoints are what attract rifts of polarity into your universe. He takes pity on you, and decides to imbue you with midpoint energy, which grants a high resistance to the attractive strength of the rifts of polarity, and the ability to close said rifts when they manifest around you.
This midpoint energy grants you an additional power to hold dominion over the energies of TWO rifts.
Temperature rifts:
Absolute Zero: This is the rift which holds on the energies of the coldest possible temperature, absolute Zero (0 kelvin, -237.15°C, or -459.67°F). With dominion over this rift, one can impose absolute zero on anything they touch, as well as convert their midpoint energy into absolute zero for ranged uses.
Planck Temperature: Roughly 1.41×10³² Kelvin. At this extreme threshold, thermal energy is so intense that the standard laws of physics—including general relativity and quantum mechanics—break down, and space-time itself becomes unstable. This temperature existed briefly during the earliest fraction of a second after the Big Bang. User can impose this temperature on all they that they touch, or convert their midpoint energy into this temperature for ranged use.
Choosing these rifts also comes with an additional ability to coat yourself in midpoint energy to grant yourself immunity to all harsh temperature/weather.
Quantity rifts:
Abundance: Energies from this rift allows you to increase quantity of any physical object. Note that it works on the most extreme version of this concept, so when used, it will always manifest far more than you actually need/want. Let's say you have a burger, but you just want one more burger , using this power could manifest 100 to 1000 more burgers, or even a million.
Lack: Energies from this completely erase a physical quantity, as if it never existed. It erases all of its effects on the world and any memory of is wiped away as well.
Movement Rifts:
Speed: Energies from this rift grant the use light speed, and can convert their midpoint energy to imbue objects and people with. The midpoint energy is what makes you able to use this power without the constraints of the laws of physics, so anything that does not have midpoint energy imbued into it may still be affected normally by your speed. Mastery of this power will allow you use your midpoint energy outward, allowing to use your speed without worring about external consequences.
Slow: Energies from this rift allows you to move and perceive the world at such a slow rate that everything appears to be at rest. You can imbue objects and people with your midpoint energy to slow them down or slow physical aspects of them down like their aging. Though this rift and it's polar may seem similar, their mechanics different quite a bit. Your applications of this power will not be the same as the applications of speed. One allows you to age really slow, the other allows the opposite, for you, other people, and objects as well.
Affection rifts:
Love: Energies of this rift grant the user the ability to make anyone fall extremely in love with anything they specify. You could make a person fall in love with trains, and you can decide the nature of their love, whether it be romantic, platonic, the love you have for a hobby, etc. Since this is the most extreme version of the concept, the love will go so far that it will feel more like an obsession than a healthy love. The targets will still reserve their personality, and their love will be expressed in tune with their personality. This rift also allows a user to cover themselves in an aura of midpoint energy to coax into loving whatever they desire. This power could be used on oneself as as well.
Hate: Energies of this rist allow the user to harness the most extreme version of hate possible. Targets of this power will feel the greatest disdain possible for a specified thing/person. Unlike it's counter, this power does influence the targets personality, causing them to either avoid or actively try to get rid of the object of their hate. Immaterial targets are possible with this power, so you could for example get someone to vehemently hate the concept of inequality or classism.
Distance rifts:
Attraction: The energies of this rift allow a user to imbue objects and people with midpoint energy, and then summon them to location, but the summoned objects/people will be summoned in a way that ensures that they are making physical contact with the user, safely of course. The user can also tag any spot with midpoint energy to create a gateway in which they can summon themselves to that spot
Repulsion: Energies of this rift allow a user to fling an object or person they are touching to the edge of the universe.
Density rifts:
Superhard: Energies from this rift allow a user to condense any physical material to the point that it becomes indestructible on absolute level. Nothing can penetrate or dent objects imbued with this power. This power can be used in unison with midpoint energy to make oneself more durable without any diminishing returns.
Ultra light: Energies from this rift allow a user to make any chosen target so light that it basically just becomes light. It cannot be touched or interacted with physically, everything will just pass right through it. This power can be used in unison with midpoint energy to make oneself intangible with no diminishing returns.
Final note: Randy has made it that daily usage of both of the powers in your chosen rifts for 365 days will result in rift mastery. Once you have achieved rift mastery, you become able to harness both powers of a rift simultaneously and mix them however you like, becoming a fully recognized midpoint.
Rift mastery allows you to use the two powers in a rift to balance each other out, for example, if you chose the temperature rifts, once you've mastered them, you can use the absolute zero to cool the Planck Temperature and get it a to a temperature you actually desire.
If you chose the quantity rifts, you could then use the lack rift to control the abundance rift, allowing you to choose how much of something you want to manifest, and you could use the abundance rift to control the extent to which you want something erased.