Abstract Manipulation

Abilities related to Abstract Manipulation
Related Abilities	Conceptual Manipulation - Principle Manipulation - Linguistic Manipulation
Similar Abilities	Metaphysics Manipulation - Law Manipulation - Axiom Manipulation - Truth Manipulation

Background

Abstract Manipulation is the ability to manipulate, create, and destroy abstractions. This ability has many applications which vary. Abstract Manipulation is the indirect change of the world around the user by changing the underlying abstractions that govern the reality they exist. This can vary from many things and even include ideas such as concepts.

A concept is an idea/definition for anything concrete or abstract (E.g.: Concept of Time and Concept of Space) in the universe. By creating a concept, the user can define its fundamental bases and apply it in several ways or change existing concepts like reality or energy to enhance it or decrease its effects in various scales.

Each concept is linked with its respective item. Thus, changing the concept will change every object in the same way the concept itself was changed, mirroring the same effort and thus, being the ultimate representation of what the concept is. This does not bode the same for abstractions, where one could remove an abstraction without removing the concept. This is a very important thing to notice on the wiki when assigning this ability. As one with conceptual manipulation

Possible Uses

• Abstract Creation: The ability to create abstract things, such as being able to add a concept to reality, changing the fundamental way of Reality. With the ability to create concepts, there is virtually nothing the user can do within his power range, as the underlying ways of reality are their's to command, to create a concept is to add it to all reality, to change the functions of the Universe to suit the new concept, resulting in changes across History and the Future. It's the absolute form of Law Manipulation.

• Abstract Alteration: The ability to manipulate, alter, or change abstractions. The user of this ability can change how an abstraction or a concept functions, to change the concept of an Apple so that Apples are Green, or are living, resulting in them always being living and Green.

• Abstract Destruction: The ability to destroy or remove an abstraction. The user of this ability can virtually destroy anything on a fundamental level, for higher level users they can remove a concept, meaning that it would never exist and never had existed. To restore the concept would require equal if not greater power, similar to restoring something destroyed on a conceptual level.

• Abstract Attacks: The ability to cause more than physical interference by enforcing effects that extend to rewriting or damaging natural laws. The user can launch an attack that can directly affect abstract objects, including time, space, natural order, etc. The attack doesn't only damage the opponent with physical interference, but through abstract interference, by changing or actualizing the meaning of something, or damaging a concept directly. For example, a weapon that could kill an immortal being by forcing the concept of 'mortality' into their existence, or the ability to kill anything that lives by actualizing the concept of 'death' within its existence.

• Abstract Defense: The ability to protect against more than physical damage by enforcing or passively having effects that protect against reality rewriting attacks. The user can create or naturally possess a defense that can directly protect against attacks especially those that use abstract objects, including existence, time, space, unavoidable, etc. The defense protects the user from all forms of damage, through conceptual means, by becoming something conceptually impossible to harm, negating the effects of the cause, or by having a body that is the very concept of defense.

Applications

Conceptual Manipulation

Conceptual Manipulation is the ability to manipulate, create, and destroy concepts. This ability has many applications which vary. Conceptual Manipulation is the indirect change of the world around the user by changing the underlying concepts that govern the reality they exist.

A concept is an idea/definition for anything concrete or abstract (E.g.: Concept of Time and Concept of Space) in the universe. By creating a concept, the user can define its fundamental bases and apply it in several ways or change existing concepts like reality or energy to enhance it or decrease its effects in various scales.

Each concept is linked with its respective item. Thus, changing the concept will change every object in the same way the concept itself was changed, mirroring the same effort and thus, being the ultimate representation of what the concept is.

Possible Limitations

• One that transcends a concept one controls (I.E. X controls the concept of time and Y transcends time) will generally be unaffected.
• One that predates concepts will generally be unaffected.

Principle Manipulation

The power to manipulate principles. Users can manipulate principles, the complete and fundamental underlying nature behind everything. Since principles are the basis and foundation for every concept that exists or doesn't exist, allowing the user to control, create, decide, destroy, or manipulate anything. In theory, this is a power beyond the scope of concepts because if there are no principles, there can be no concepts. However, this varies from verse to verse on how this is treated. This is due to principles being connected to specific phenomena, like laws and theories.

Linguistic Manipulation

Linguistic Manipulation is the ability to manipulate the linguistics of words and terms including names, definitions, and context (For example: The user can control the words or terms, letter by letter and it can have a reality affecting change or manipulate the term of an ability or object where they can completely rewrite or remove their definitions.).