Lynx (Chrono Cross)

Lynx

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Lynx

Background

Lynx is one of Serge's main nemeses in Chrono Cross. He is also one of the last boss fights before the Dragon God and Time Devourer.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Lynx’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

He is the biological emissary of the FATE supercomputer. Lynx was shaped from Serge's father, Wazuki; when Wazuki took Serge to be healed by the Frozen Flame in Chronopolis, he was corrupted by its emanations and subsequently was subject to mind control by the FATE supercomputer. Since the Prometheus Circuit locked FATE's access to the Frozen Flame, FATE shaped Lynx with the objective of killing Serge and restoring the connection. Total control was achieved in 1010 A.D., the year in which FATE had Wazuki attempt to drown his son. Regardless of whether it succeeded in either dimension, this effectively wiped the last remnants of Wazuki's mind and care for Serge, allowing him to be physically reconfigured to resemble the panther demon that attacked Serge in 1006 A.D. Lynx had a sentience and personality out of his own apart from FATE; he became sadistic and manipulative, motivated only to achieve his goal while sating his own sick desires in the process. In Another World, FATE reasoned that Serge would cross the dimensions in 1020 A.D.; Lynx was called back to set up events that would take advantage of this face. He was sent abroad to Porre and home to Viper Manor in order to play the two parties to set up FATE's plan; he was joined by Harle around this time, who accompanied him. FATE grew impatient in 1015 A.D., and sent Lynx to Lucca's house to abduct the famous scientist and use her to disengage the Prometheus Circuit. Lynx set fire to the entire orphanage, nearly killing all the children in the process. Lucca eventually did not acquiesce to his desires, and probably died as well. A young Kid developed a scathing hatred of the man, who she remembered from the fire. Lynx then continued to pique both Porre and the Acacia Dragoon's curiosity concerning the Frozen Flame; by 1020 A.D., Porre stood ready to invade, and the Acacia Dragoons were at Lynx's beck and call. His plan was to lure Serge to Fort Dragonia, and then undertake a ritual to switch bodies with him. This would fool the Chronopolis defense system into thinking Lynx was Serge. He tried to capture the boy early on after Serge raided Viper Manor, but this proved unsuccessful. Knowing that Serge would follow him to the fort anyway, he withdrew with the Dragoons and made preparations. When Serge came, he stabbed General Viper in the back and undertook the ritual; after its completion, he stabbed Kid as well, though he later spared her and adopted her as his new traveling companion. He then somehow sent Serge into the Temporal Vortex, and returned to Chronopolis while wreaking havoc on the way. He anticipated Serge's return, and launched an offensive on the boy and his friends at Hermit's Hideaway. He was thwarted by Fargo, who escorted Serge to safety. Lynx then lay in wait at Fort Dragonia in Home World, where he battled the boy once again, duly retreating after his defeat. He kept Kid with him as he returned to Chronopolis; there, he waited for a final showdown with Serge. His close proximity to the FATE computer allowed him to be reshaped into a horrific and terrible adversary, but even in this form, he was vanquished by the young boy along with the FATE supercomputer. His last words mentioned that he was not supposed to die, in effect revealing that he was not privy to the full scope of Project Kid as planned by Belthasar. This marked the end of Lynx, whose state in death was a far cry from the loving, ordinary father Serge once knew.

Powers and Stats

Tier: High 6-B, likely 6-A | 2-C, likely 1-C

Name: Lynx, FATE, Wazuki

Origin: Chrono Cross

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown (17 with Serge in his body)

Classification: Arbiter of FATE, Panther

Attack Potency: Large Country level+ (Killed Lucca, who with Crono defeated Lavos whose Rains of Destruction did this much damage, and his power was used to lift Zeal into the air), possibly Continent level (Lucca and Crono could harm and defeat Lavos who caused Zeal to fall) | Complex Universe level (Can cast moves such as Forever Zero, which sends one to an alternate universe with multiple galaxies in the background that is all completely erased into nothingness, with the description for it even saying “all things will become eternal nothingness), likely Complex Multiverse level+ (Fought Serge who shouldn’t be that far off from his end game self)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Is a black panther hybrid) | Superhuman

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal (Could tag Lucca who can tag Lavos who flew to Earth from a distant star system in around 20 seconds. Lucca can also tag Queen Zeal who exists in the black omen which flows across all temporal dimensions and transcends space-time, existing outside of the flow of time itself. Along with the black omen being stated to “straddle time”) | Extra-Temporal, possibly Inapplicable (Fought Serge who shouldn’t be that far off from his end game self)

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal, possibly Inapplicable

Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Comparable to Serge physically who can move this gigantic shell out of the way), Class 1 with Telekinesis (Can lift a giant block of stone and drop it on the enemy with the stone being this heavy) | At least Superhuman, Class 1 with Telekinesis | At least Superhuman, Class 1 with Telekinesis

Striking Strength: Large Country Class+, possibly Continent Class | Complex Universal, likely Complex Multiversal+

Durability: Large Country level+, possibly Continent level | Complex Universe level (Can tank ForeverZero), likely Complex Multiverse level+

Stamina: Superhuman (Serge was capable of doing the same stamina feats in Lynx’s body. Serge is capable of traveling across the world, climbing up the cliff side of viper’s manor while fighting multiple monsters and having boulders fall down on him all the while being pushed back down by water), Limitless with Vigora (Temporarily stops Serge’s stamina from decreasing)

Range: Extended Melee Range with Scythe, Varies from Several Meters to Kilometers with Elements (Many elements either beams that can be shot or causing storms from the sky), Complex Universal with stronger Elements (Forever Zero sends the target to an alternate universe and fully destroys it, UltraNova pulls the target into outer space (or possibly an alternate dimension) causing a massive explosion), High Multiversal+ with FATE’s abilities (FATE governs the fate of all infinite timelines, with the cosmology reaching this size)

Powers and Abilities:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (An extremely skilled wielder of his scythe), Immortality (Type 8. Lynx is the human incarnation of FATE), Subjective Reality (In the world of Chrono Cross the world is stabilized by the observations of the one who views it with each world having it's own observer, along with this in one's dream exists truth, the observation of many made supercomputer's such as FATE once they sealed away the dragon gods become literal gods of fate in the world), Transmutation, Statistics Amplification, & Statistics Reduction (Through the use of techs Lynx can warp the element field into his element, strengthening his attacks and defense along with this he can make the opposite element take even more damage and have their attacks come off weaker, along with this he can also strengthen his own resistances), Teleportation (Has shown to teleport upon his first encounter, replacing himself with a shadow), Duplication (Made a shadow duplication of himself to fight early game Serge), Animal Manipulation, Magic, & Possible Summoning (With FeralCats, invokes a pack of magic acts to attack), Nothingness Manipulation (With Forever Zero, with the description for it even saying “all things will become eternal nothingness), BFR (Type 3. Lynx with the frozen flame was capable of sending Serge into the dimensional vortex a place that is rare for a physical being to wander in with spatially flat beings, Sprigg notes that returning the real world, it is a world with substance, where even the water and air is different), Soul Manipulation & Sleep Manipulation (Lynx with the power of the Frozen Flame put Kid’s soul to sleep), Resistance to Elemental Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (Naturally resists his own element, which is the black element), Black Hole Creation (Survives being around Black Holes), Soul Manipulation (Like others in verse, can dodge his soul being taken out of him when the enemy uses hell soul)

Resistance Manipulation & Transmutation (Can change one’s innate resistances into weaknesses and vice versa via the turn elements)

Blue Elements: Water Manipulation & Ice Manipulation (Via Aquabeam, aquaball, deluge, icelance, iceblast, iceberg), Healing (With cure, curse plus, cureall), Purification (With medicine), Power Nullification (With Anti Red, which nullifies all red element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With nimble, amps up evasion vigora, which stops one’s stamina from decreasing), Statistics Reduction (With numble, lowers evasion), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field to blue)

Red Elements: Fire Manipulation & Magma Manipulation (With fireball, firepillar, magma bomb, magma burst, inferno), Earth Manipulation & Vibration Manipulation (Can generate a volcano to come out), Healing (With tablet), Purification (With ointment), Power Modification (With recharge, restores all previously used elements), Power Nullification (With Anti Blue, which nullifies all blue element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With strengthen, raises one’s attack. With ninety-nine, raises their accuracy to 99%), Statistics Reduction (With weaken, lowers one’s attack), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field to red)

Yellow Elements: Telekinesis (With uplift, lifts a boulder into the air and slams it on the opponent), Electricity Manipulation (With electrojolt, electrobolt), Earth Manipulation (With upheaval), Vibration Manipulation (With Earthquake), Weather Manipulation (With thundastorm), Purification (With Brace), Healing (With Capsule), Power Nullification (With Anti Green, which nullifies all green element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With HiRes, which amplifies one’s defense), Statistics Reduction (With LoRes, which lowers one’s defense. Nullifies physical attacks with physnegate), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field to yellow)

Green Elements: Information Analysis (With info scope, gives the health of an enemy), Air Manipulation (With bushwhacker), aero saucer, aero blaster, tornado), Plant Manipulation (With bushbasher carnivore), Healing (With heal, heal all, healplus, ), Purification (With antidote), Power Nullification (With Anti Yellow, which nullifies all yellow element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With eagleeye which raises hit%), Statistics Reduction (With bay eye which decreases hit%), Elemental Manipulation (Can set the entire field green)

White Elements: Light Manipulation & Energy Manipulation (With photon ray, photon beam, holy light), Summoning (Can summon meteorites with meteorite, meteor shower), BFR & Explosion Manipulation (With ultranova), Purification (With whiteout, purify, panacea), Healing (With recoverall, holyhealing), Power Nullification (With Anti Black, which nullifies all black element attacks), Statistics Amplification (With magnify, increases elemental damage by 1.5x), Statistics Reduction & Mind Manipulation (With weak minded, lowers magic defense through lowering one’s mind. MagNegate, nullifies all magic), Resurrection (With revive and fullrevival), Resistance to Mind Manipulation (With strong mind, amplifies one's mind to gain magic defense amplifications)

Black Elements: Gravity Manipulation (With gravityblow, gravitonne), Soul Manipulation (With Hell Soul, removes the soul from the user), BFR (Type 1. With Hellbound, pulls the opponent into hell), Vibration Manipulation (With freefall, causes a massive vibration that causes one to fly into the air), Damage Transferal (With Revenge, shifts status effect onto the opponent), Black Hole Creation (With Black Hole), Purification (With blackout), Healing (With nostrum), Power Nullification (With Anti White, which nullifies all white element attacks. SealAll nullifies all elements), Statistics Amplification (With Genius, increasing a party member’s magic power), Statistics Reduction (With Imbecile, lower one’s intelligence making their magic power weaker. Diminish halves all elements power)

All previous powers and abilities, Fate Manipulation (The observation of many made supercomputer's such as FATE once they sealed away the dragon gods become literal gods of fate in the world, directly called the goddess of fate, with characters even noting fate itself is dead once they killed FATE with Water Dragon backing it up stating that FATE has fallen and died, Miguel directly states that FATE is the one that governs and controls everyone’s lives, even Serge’s meeting with Miguel was predestined. Noting that these events are all a part of the grand game of the gods and goddesses. The Water Dragon makes note of the “eternal chains of fate”, and correlates this to the goddess of fate, along with the water dragon noting that FATE controls the fate of the world), Sealing/Power Nullification (FATE sealed the frozen flame’s power, sealed away the reptite’s fortress, and sealed away the Dragon God’s powers), Information Analysis (FATE can analyze across infinite timelines to learn about beings), Memory Manipulation (Fate controls the memories of those across timelines. FATE can control the brains of the humans who they come into contact with through the records of fate), Cosmic Awareness (FATE can observe 2 parallel worlds, along with other worlds it observes, such as the Radical Dreamers world), Law Manipulation, Existence Erasure & Non-Existence Erasure (Type 4. During the adventure of Chrono Cross FATE has made it where if Serge at all dies he will be completely erased, not even being allowed to be born within reality. FATE used it’s powers to erase a nonexistent timeline beyond the dimensions), Heat Manipulation & Energy Projection (With Heat Ray, shoots an energy beam of concentrated heat), Darkness Manipulation, Breath Attack & Energy Manipulation (With Dark Energy, shoots a beam of dark energy out of its mouth hitting all party members)

Standard Equipment: Scythe, The Frozen Flame | Lynx

Intelligence: Genius (An incredibly skilled warrior that leads the Porre army, able to fight with the likes of Serge who can defeat general Viper in combat who is superior to his 3 generals in skill. Intelligence and magic are interchangeable in the verse, withLynx being an incredibly skilled spell caster), higher with Elements (Can use elements such as genius to increase his intelligence making his magic attacks more powerful, can strengthen one’s mind with StrongMinded)

Standard Tactics: Lynx will use a mere shadow of himself for the opponent to fight and wear themselves out with, in which he will spawn more shadows to attack while using various different black element spells. | FATE will manipulate fate into it’s favor, in battle it will use heat ray, dark energy, freefall, diminish, gravitonne, and other black elemental attacks.

Weaknesses: Has an innate weakness to the white element.

Key: Lynx | FATE

Explanations

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