THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. You don't activate your magic or superpower without an announcement. After all, randomly bursting into flames at a dinner party would be rather rude of you, if you were the Human Torch. So you put together a ritual that triggers things, complete with a Catch Phrase. You shout "Flame On!" and the other dinner guests - or anyway, the audience - knows things are about to get flame-y. In short, you (the writer) invoke your character's power to suspend disbelief long enough to do something way out of the norm. More often than not, though, it's just the Rule of Cool in action, rather than an actual incantation. The Pstandard Psychic Pstance gesture seems to be a universal invocation of psychic powers. Contrast with In the Name of the Moon and Transformation Name Announcement, which come after the transformation, but before the buttkicking. Not to be confused with Magical Incantation, By the Power of Grayskull or Words Can Break My Bones where the words actually do something. She uses "Kai Men!" (The same phrase, but in Chinese.) The Gate users on Gate Keepers would often shout "Gate Open!" in Gratuitous English when manifesting their abilities.May overlap with the Survival Mantra or the Badass Creed. " Pearl Voice!" in the Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch manga is either this or the Magical Girls' hero identities' naming format it's not entirely clear which, but if it is a transformation phrase, it's an Invocation, because they certainly don't say it all the time.Mirai from Moldiver doesn't need to shout "Metamorforce!" when she triggers the Mol Unit, she just does it because she thinks it's cool. Emiya Shiro from Fate/stay night tends to say "Trace, on" (or off) whenever he uses his Projection spell.In the anime, though, it's clearly By the Power of Greyskull instead. It doesn't really seem to do anything aside from making himself concentrate on the spell, considering that his future self only says it once in the entire game (naturally, to confirm that he was the future version of Shiro). Most magic in the setting is done by simply channeling Mana through your magic circuits (presumably in the correct manner), but since this is hardly a natural human action, mages tend to make up verbal spells that they associate with specific magic circuit usages. What the words actually are is irrelevant, since it's simply a kind of self-hypnosis. Pretty much every exorcist in D.Gray-man, usually with a dramatic " Innocence", Activate!".Of course, since this is the Nasuverse, we always get exceptions, in this case Medea who uses Divine Language where apparently the sounds themselves create their own magic circuits and one person from Karano Kyoukai who talks to the world and convinces it to change.
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