I had a random thought for something and thought to animate it:

Basically I wanted some kind of visual akin to SPM where there’s a drag and drop animation for most of the character’s actions for my characters or to highlight their powers. And one thought I had was what if they had like a level editor or game editor aesthetic (Look taken from how Clickteam Fusion highlights entities and objects) where they get selected and highlighted, and instead of flipping, the idea is they’re moving/cutting and pasting/deleting themselves to teleport from one place to another. (There’s an idea I didn’t animate where they get selected and they fly into the sky or sink into the floor to move them). In my head they're deleting themselves and still exists in some phantom-like capacity to place themselves back into the area. Though realistically cutting and pasting themselves elsewhere probably makes more sense than saying they delete themselves and place themselves back in.

Along with that I had an idea to conceptualize a copy and paste look and an enlarge sprite look.