Necromantic Shade
[Semi-Passive]

Duncan is able to create shades, or aura constructs, of those that pass away in his presence. He passively absorbs and stores a small amount of the deceased's aura as they pass and use it with some of his own aura, to create shades. These shades appear as vaguely translucent versions of what the target looked like as they died, including clothing and injuries though they don't have their own original colored clothing or skin tone, all color is replaced by varying shades of Duncan's light brown aura color.

These shades have two “forms” and which form is sent out depends on how much Duncan focuses.

The standard shade will appear as above but will only be able to be given rough mental commands such as “attack” or “defend”. The actual words aren't as important as the idea behind them. Duncan can expend up to 10 shades at once whole still being able to move around and act normally while these shades are being used, any more and he has to stand still. However, each Shade has one lifetime use unless not used for a month. With each month it goes without being used, it gains an additional use. This means if Duncan has a shade and doesn't use it for 3 months and then uses it, he has 2 uses left. If a shade goes unused, he could theoretically store one forever.

These shades can exist up to an hour before being forcefully canceled, but they get weaker every 6 minutes.

The second form requires Duncan to stay still, only being able to move his head to look around or talk. These shades are opaque and appear just like they did in life, any injuries that lead to their death healed. They can receive much more complex commands but even beyond that, they appear to have the same personality, voice, and mannerisms as the original deceased did in life as well as a similar aura pool.

To create the second form of the shades, in addition to standing still, Duncan needs to use a chunk of flesh, approximately the mass of a baby pig, that has been sufficiently soaked in a living being's aura. In other words, Duncan needs live flesh or very recently removed flesh of a human, faunus, or animal. Duncan can then use this flesh as a "base" to for the shade so that it can form around it using the deceased's, Duncan's, and the Remnant of the flesh's aura to bind the process.

Once used in this form, despite how many months have passed, the user will no longer be able to use the shade. However, the shade will have a comparable aura defense as they did in life. These shades will never fade out when used, they only go away when Duncan manually cancels them.

While all shades appear with the weapons they most commonly used in life, if any, only the second form shades can use a watered down version of their semblances.

As a secondary effect of the semblance, Duncan has an intuitive understanding of the combat abilities and semblances of those he absorbs and he can turn his attention inward to "observe" the pieces of aura that he's absorbed and can try to understand what kind of person they were.