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[Clownpiece]

So I have an idea for a character who utilizes a sort of ethereal of tether, an ability innate to them. Basically, they would touch an object/person/whatever and that would create a phantom rope stretching the space between them and whatever they happened to touch. What this tether would do is keep the two affixed items/persons from getting too far apart from each other. As the two would get further apart, movement would get more difficult, until eventually the pulling force overcame any other forces at work, and spring the two closer together, much like what a physical bungee cord or elastic band would do, except less corporeal, so someone stronger or heavier than them would be able to use the cord to their advantage. The tether just phases through matter, but would require a physical touch to affix it. What sort of proficiencies and powers would I be looking at to make such a thing possible?