Effects
Effects noun - Property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business.
Fates
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The second film leans heavily on this trope; it's revealed halfway through that the first film's characters avoiding the Flight 180 crash created ripple effects as Death hunted them down, allowing others to escape their fates.
Source: For Want of a Nail -
In Fire Emblem Fates, Takumi's bow allow him to ignore terrain effects in addition to dealing very high damage in its own right.
Source: Walk on Water - Functional Magic: A distinction is made between a spell and a prayer made to the Fates: a spell's effects can be reversed unless otherwise noted (which is done rarely), while a prayer's effects can't be reversed by anyone else than the one who made the prayer in the first place.
Source: Fanfic / Hope For The Heartless
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