Luck Manipulation

Background

Luck Manipulation is the ability to influence events and outcomes in a way that generates fortunate or unfortunate results. This power allows the user to create favorable circumstances for themselves or their allies (good luck) and hinder opponents by causing unfavorable outcomes (bad luck). Unlike probability manipulation, which alters the likelihood of events in a neutral and precise manner, luck manipulation focuses specifically on producing advantageous or disadvantageous effects without directly changing the mechanics of probability.

As a primary example, one with Luck Manipulation can have themselves operate and survive under 0% probability due to just "being lucky".

Applications

• Good Luck Induction: Creates positive circumstances for the user or others, such as ensuring success in tasks, finding rare items, or narrowly avoiding danger.
• Bad Luck Infliction: Causes mishaps or failures for opponents, such as missed attacks, mechanical failures, or accidental injuries.
• Fortune Aura: Passively radiates an aura of good luck to allies or bad luck to enemies within a certain range.
• Luck Stealing: Drains another individual's good luck, causing them to experience misfortune while the user benefits from increased fortune.
• Random Event Influence: Manipulates random events in the environment to favor or hinder specific individuals (e.g., flipping a coin that always lands as desired).
• Enhanced Gambling Success: Guarantees success in games of chance, such as rolling dice, drawing cards, or playing slot machines.

Types

• Selective Luck Manipulation: Allows the user to target specific individuals or events to affect their fortune or misfortune.
• Passive Luck Manipulation: Radiates an unconscious influence that causes luck to tilt in the user's favor without direct control.
• Localized Luck Manipulation: Affects the probability of events within a specific area, influencing luck for everyone in that zone.
• Dual Luck Manipulation: Balances good and bad luck, creating misfortune for one side while granting fortune to another.

Limitations

• Luck manipulation may not guarantee control over large-scale or highly improbable events, as the outcomes can still depend on external factors.
• The user might inadvertently create an imbalance, leading to unexpected consequences or backlash.
• Luck-stealing or bad luck infliction may draw hostility or karmic repercussions.
• Passive luck manipulation might not distinguish between friend and foe, affecting everyone equally.
• Entities with resistance to probability-based powers or divine protections may be immune to its effects.

Scale

• Personal Scale: Affects the user's immediate surroundings or events directly involving them.
• Localized Scale: Extends luck manipulation to others in a specific area, such as an entire room or battlefield.
• Global Scale: Alters luck across entire regions or even the planet, though such use typically requires significant power or resources.
• Cosmic Scale: Alters luck across the entire cosmos (even up to multiversal levels), though such use typically requires significant power or resources.

Distinction from Probability Manipulation

Although both abilities deal with chance, luck manipulation and probability manipulation differ in scope and mechanics:

• Luck Manipulation focuses on creating fortunate or unfortunate outcomes without directly altering the underlying odds. It is often biased toward achieving specific results, such as success or failure, rather than controlling the probabilities behind those results.
• Probability Manipulation is more precise and neutral, capable of increasing or decreasing the likelihood of any event, regardless of whether it is advantageous or detrimental. Probability manipulation allows for broader control of chance but lacks the specific focus on fortune or misfortune that defines luck manipulation.