Dedan

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“	You will taste the pain, you sick spirit. I’m going to cut your face to remove this insufferable smile.	„
	~ Dedan to The Batter

Background

Dedan is the Guardian of Zone 1. He is notable for his nasty temperament, and seems to be constantly enraged. He interacts with cruelty towards various beings, including his own working staff.

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

Dedan is introduced early in the game as a supervisor and administrative figure associated with The Queen. Even the Elsen in his own land, Zone 1, greatly fear him, despite the importance of what he and them do in producing goods for other Zones. He allows the spectres to run rampant and terrorize the vulnerable Elsen in their workplaces, having little interest in making efforts to help them. Dedan is a supervisor working with the Queen. As Guardian of Zone 1, he is the first boss that the Batter must face. He is first met in the barns of Pentel, where he is angrily shouting at an Elsen for getting in his way. He is then met personally in the office of Shachihata, where he is fighting the spectres that are infiltrating his building. He believes that the Batter is the "chief of spectres" and warns him to leave, saying "If I see you again... you're dead". He then teleports away to Alma (possibly through the use of his Zodiac Card). After encountering him again in his secret office, where he is even more aggressive, he will call the Batter "insane" and engage him in combat. After he is defeated, he is in denial that he has lost and is then purified by the Batter; thus purifying the Zone. Later, in Zone 2, a short description of how Dedan became a Guardian is found in a page in the massive library of Bismark. Once the Batter gains access to The Room, he is able to visit beings that are altered versions of previous bosses. One of them, titled "The Tall Mister", is a counterpart of Dedan. Other beings in the area include "The Bird" and "The Big Mister", which bear resemblance to Japhet and Enoch respectively. The Tall Mister is an entity which appears to be a time-skipped version of Dedan before he became a Guardian. The Tall Mister's personality traits are the opposite of Dedan's, as he is observed to have a compassionate and sedate manner. The alternate Dedan has a particular interest in dates and times, commenting about this to the Batter, which could point to the Tall Mister having been an organized and prompt leader before his personality deteriorated. Dedan sees the Batter as a particularly aggressive specter, calling him a "sick spirit". It is unclear if Dedan has any awareness of The Player or of the overall nature of the Batter's purification mission.

General Information

Name: Dedan

Origin: OFF

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Boss

Species: Unknown

Occupation: Zone 1 Guardian, Zone Guardian, Queen's Inspector

Status: Deceased (Killed by The Batter in combat)

Alignment Lawful Evil (Zone Guardians are corrupted inspectors of their zones, meant to take out phantoms though Dedan in specific interacts with unjust cruelty towards his subjects)

Codex Statistics

Tier: 8-C, 6-C with Energy Manipulation

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Building level (Noted by Dedan that no one is capable of fighting phantoms asides from The Queen's Royal Officers, which would make it where no Elsen can fight them, with Elsen that reach this large), Island level with Energy Manipulation (Is the creator of Zone 1, which are described as islets, it’s specifically noted the zone guardians draws infinite power from the sun)

Durability: Building level

Striking Strength: Building Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Regular Human, Speed of Light in the nothingness (Stated to be able to travel in the nothingness at the speed of light)

Combat Speed: Superhuman (Can tag The Batter)

Reaction Speed: Superhuman

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee Range, likely Higher with Competences, Kilometers with abilities (Created Zone 1, which like other zones should be the size of an islet)

Intelligence: Genius (Naturally the ruler of his zone, applying all of the systems, sets of logic, etcetera. His zone in specific holds a massive factory issuing every element)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses (Can still attack enemies while under the blinded status effect), Non-Standard Interaction (Metaphysical Interaction; Can harm and kill spectres. Should be comparable to other Zone Guardians and Batter who can harm and kill specters, undead ghost, and can harm nonexistent enemies within purified zones. Abstract Interaction; Can imbue his attacks with abstract ideas, can use his own words as attacks. Should be comparable to Batter who can harm and kill abstract specters and speech bubbles), Conceptual Manipulation, Linguistic Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Text Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Reality Warping, Matter Manipulation, Creation, Energy Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation & Pocket Reality Manipulation (All Zone Guardians created their zones, which are pocket realities sculpted from the energy given by The Queen it also contains its own space and time as it's separate from the other zones from the nothingness, a place outside of space-time. Likely created the elements. Zone guardians would have also created and have their energy tied to the concepts of their world which upon Batter killing them, it erases areas to the extent that they no longer have names and are replaced with “???” along with books and signs being unreadable, and color along with everything being gone), Summoning (Can summon speech bubbles to fight with him), Limited Time Manipulation (His competences are all time based), Status Effect Inducement, Sleep Manipulation (With “Hour Hand”, inflicts the sleep status effect), Empathic Manipulation (With “Minute Hand”, inflicts the furious status effect), Teleportation & Dimensional Travel (Should be comparable to other Zone Guardians like Japhet, who can teleport directly into the nothingness and back to their zones).

Resistance to Madness Manipulation (Does not go insane due to lack of sugar, which is directly stated to make people go mad without it), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Can take attacks from Batter and his Add-Ons), Spatial Manipulation (Can take attacks under the plastic element), Nothingness Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Linguistic Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Text Manipulation, & Purification (Can travel in the nothingness, a non-existent realm outside of space-time. Zone Guardians existence is what stops Batter’s purification of a zone, which upon purifying zones he erases to them to an extent that the names for areas get re-named “???”, along with books, and posters becoming unreadable. It is even noted that the color and everything is gone), Metal Manipulation (Can take attacks from the metal attribute. Should be able to like The Judge walk around in a purified zone where metal no longer exists, which it was stated without metal there would be no way to walk without sinking into the ground), Organic Manipulation (Can take attacks from the meat attribute)

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Equipment

His Speech Bubbles

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Notable Techniques

• Minute Hand: A special attack of mediocre impact.
• Hour Hand: Afflicts an enemy with Sleep, causing the enemy to fall asleep.
• Sweep Hand: A special attack that can also afflict the enemy with furious, making them lose all sense of reasoning and strategy and just rapidly attacking. It also deals low impact.
• Summoning: Dedan can manifest laughter, in the form of speech bubbles bearing the "laughter" kanji, to assist him in combat.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Dedan will use different competences or attacks as he sees fit.

Weaknesses: Quick to temper and unreasonable.

Note: A lot of OFF’s explanations and concepts are very limited and require many different interpretations, thus making it difficult to completely ascertain what certain elements mean, thus using what one can piece together in game along with Mortis’ statements, we have supplied the following profile.

Battle Records

0-1-0

None.

• The Batter - Fight
  • Conditions: The Batter had help from his add-on.
  • Location: Office of Shachihata

None.