Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25814498-20170501170235/@comment-27508227-20180410134711

Name: Companion

Type: Conjuring (primarily), Enhancement

Description: Create a human being endowed with nen to act as a personal bodyguard, companion or comrade in arms. The Companion is fully conscious, aware of its nature and with a distinct personality. It was created with access to nen, and much like any other nen user, can invent and refine its own nen abilities (which can be of any type, regardless of its conjurer's type.) This is possible through the enhancement property of the conjurer. As the Companion has been awakened, it produces its own nen, meaning emission is not required of the conjurer to supply it with nen. However, if it is close to the conjurer, they will be able to use their enhancement alongside the Companion's ren to greatly amplify its strength temporarily. The Companion does not have to be near the conjurer and may be as far as it likes

Limitations: Only one can be produced, ever. The Companion is, for all intents and purposes, human. This means it requires food, water, sleep and shelter. It can be injured and if the injuries are bad enough, they will be permanent, like they would for a regular person. A requirement for such a potent ability is that manipulation cannot be used by the conjurer to order it around. Instead, it must be asked, begged, demanded or bargained with, depending on it's personality, to do anything. Its actions are not supernaturally monitered by the conjurer. It is capable of lying, disobeying orders and arguing with its creator. Its personality is determined by the conjurer's subconscious desires for their ideal companion. For example, a dominant person would have a submissive Companion, a meak person would have a brave, protective Companion, a light-hearted person would likely have an equally light-hearted Companion (their personalities may be similar or different, it all depends on what the conjurer perceives as ideal). The nen ability they develop will reflect their personality which, in turn, is determined by the conjurer's subconscious desire. The big limitations are two fold. After a long and grueling process of thinking of the ideal Companion and then conjuring one, the can never be dispelled to be resummoned. They now exist almost permanently unless the conjurer dies. The second big one is that the death is a two way street. While injuries do not carry over, if the Companion dies, so will the conjurer.

I think I posted this earlier, while not signed in and have no idea how to delete it. What I was going for was a conscious, thinking being and how one would deal with it. Aside from the listed limitations, there's the fact that anyone would undoubtedly get attached to their Companion and would not want to harm them. You'd also have to keep your relationship with then good because, while they wouldn't kill you (unless they were literally suicidal) they could make your life a lot harder. Another limitation I just kinda forgot to add would be that this would be a great undertaking and a highly specialised technique. Since time is limited, this leaves less time for developing other techniques.