Space-Time Manipulation

Cerl finding out that Alan is in Carmen, resurfacing mixed emotions about her past causing time and space to distort.

Background

Space-Time Manipulation is the ability to manipulate the space-time continuum — the unified framework that combines the three dimensions of space with the one dimension of time. This continuum forms the fundamental structure of reality itself, governing the flow of existence, causality, movement, and duration. Users of this ability can bend, distort, reshape, or even break the boundaries between space and time. Manipulating space-time allows one to interact with the deepest fabrics of existence, potentially creating rifts between dimensions, halting or reversing events, or rendering entire timelines fluid or unstable.

This power often appears in cosmological or metaphysical settings where reality is seen as malleable, and the user can treat space and time not as fixed constructs but as variables to be rewritten or removed entirely.

Also Called

• Continuum Manipulation
• Temporal-Spatial Control
• Spacetime Warping
• Reality Axis Control

Variations

• Spatial Manipulation: Control over three-dimensional space; includes the ability to move, remove, fold, expand, or isolate areas.
• Time Manipulation: Control over the fourth dimension of time; includes slowing, accelerating, freezing, reversing, or looping time.
• Dimensional Travel: The ability to traverse or open gateways between different universes or planes of existence.
• Teleportation: Moving across space instantaneously by warping or folding space-time.
• Temporal Looping: Repeating a set segment of time in a cycle, either to trap others or relive events.
• Event Negation: Erasing an event by restoring the state of space-time to what it was before it occurred.
• Space-Time Distortion: Warping or tearing the continuum in a way that changes physics or structure locally.
• Spatial Displacement: Shifting or relocating objects and phenomena within space.
• Subspace Access: Entering alternate dimensions layered beneath normal space-time (e.g., subspace or hyperspace).
• Spatiotemporal Lock: Locking a target outside the normal flow of space and time.
• Space-Time Constructs: Forming weapons, shields, or platforms using shaped space-time fabric.
• Chrono-Spatial Fusion: Simultaneous control over both space and time for compound effects or enhanced attacks.
• Black Hole Creation: Compressing space-time into a singularity with extreme gravitational effects.
• White Hole Creation: Reversing space-time compression to emit matter or energy explosively.
• Force-Field Generation: Creating barriers from folded or layered space-time to block outside influence.
• Omnipresence: Existing in all points in space and time simultaneously (in highly advanced cases).
• Velocity Manipulation: Adjusting momentum through space-time shifts.

Possible Applications

• Tear open rifts to other timelines or dimensions.
• Crush objects by folding space around them or deleting space entirely.
• Displace attacks or people by instantly shifting spatial coordinates.
• Age or regress targets by manipulating their temporal placement.
• Reset battles or events by reverting the affected space-time to a previous state.
• Generate gravitational fields or voids via compression or expansion of space-time.
• Freeze enemies in time or place oneself outside the normal time flow.
• Use shortened space to increase strike speed or remove spatial gaps in movement.
• Delay effects (like damage) by isolating them in distorted time.
• Counteract reality-warping attacks through direct space-time correction.

Practical Uses

• Instantaneous travel and evasion through dimensional warping.
• Nullifying attacks by folding or displacing the surrounding area.
• Weaponizing distortions of time or space for offense and defense.
• Rewriting events or bypassing cause-and-effect constraints.
• Entrapping opponents in temporal loops or isolated space-time zones.
• Creating self-contained zones immune to external temporal influence.
• Preventing universal collapse or paradoxes through continuum stabilization.

Possible Limitations

• Characters with Acausality or Time Paradox Immunity may be unaffected.
• Entities that transcend space-time conceptually cannot be manipulated this way.
• Can backfire if precision or control is lacking, causing instability.
• Might require immense energy, especially on larger scales.
• Changing past events can produce paradoxes or chain reactions.
• Overuse could unravel the space-time continuum or collapse timelines.

Users

• Lain Iwakura (Serail Experiments Lain): Lain can control reality and use "All Reset Return" resetting history and reality to make it where she never existed.