FATE

“	I love you so much… That is why I sometimes desire to smash you to bits!!!	„
	~ FATE to all of humanity

Background

Mother Brain is a boss in Chrono Trigger. Appearing inside the Geno Dome during the Future era, it is responsible for the uprising of robots against humans.

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Before the Day of Lavos Mother Brain was a central computer that linked together all of the domes and factories in the year 1999 AD. After Lavos emerged and destroyed the world, Mother Brain took control of all the robots on the planet. Since they were not alive, Lavos did not consume their energy, leaving them to thrive. The factories of Geno Dome and the Derelict Factory worked night and day, constructing more machines. Three Centuries Later By the year 2300 AD, Mother Brain had built a massive army of robots. Crono, Marle, and Lucca came through time to stop it. They destroyed its central unit, thus freeing the surviving humans from the threat it posed. Altered Timeline Following the destruction of Lavos back in the year 1999 AD, the timeline shifted to one where the adventurers never came to destroy it. When Belthasar arrived in the future, as he was always destined to, he created a gigantic supercomputer named FATE from designs of it and Robo, and hard-wired it into his research facility: Chronopolis.

FATE is a supercomputer in Chrono Cross. It was created by Belthasar made from Robo in the distant future. Based on the old Mother Brain circuit boards, FATE is self-aware and can operate alone. Referred to as the Goddess of Fate by the people of El Nido, Lynx and even those outside of El Nido, FATE operates as an unseen villain until late in the game. FATE's original form was of the holographic artificially intelligent Mother Brain, which governed the future's robot population. Because the Day of Lavos will no longer occur (following the first game), this event is erased from existence.

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

Following the Time Crash, FATE would not risk the discovery of Chronopolis or the Frozen Flame by populations of the past, which could compromise her creation in the future. It took every measure to prevent this, sealing off the Sea of Eden. FATE created the islands comprising El Nido through terra-forming. They were populated by the Chronopolis scientists and their descendants, brainwashed to be able to live a peaceful life in FATE's 'paradise'. FATE began distributing Records of Fate (green diamond-shaped devices) across El Nido, which the denizens consulted daily. Unbeknownst to the human subjects, FATE used the Records to subconsciously control the minds of the El Nido population, subtly manipulating each person's individual judgment to stop them from leaving El Nido and interfering with history. Using machines to run Chronopolis, FATE was able to monitor El Nido with efficiency and halt any tampering. When the young Serge came into contact with the Frozen Flame, the Prometheus Circuit, a stand-alone program, sealed it away so not even FATE could access it. Unable to draw power from the Flame, FATE's control over El Nido was effectively severed. It single-mindedly set itself to remove all obstacles. During the events of the game, Lynx schemed to be able to possess Serge's body, since that would allow him to enter the Flame's door (which recognizes only the body of its "arbiter"). Lynx succeeded and indeed managed to release the Flame's lock. It is revealed that FATE's desire was to use the Flame to reincarnate itself into a real, and new, living species. Lynx/FATE was defeated by the real Serge, however, before she could realize her dream. Lynx's true identity is FATE. When Wazuki (Serge's father) and Miguel (Leena's father) tried to sail to Marbule fourteen years ago to find a cure for Serge's disease after he was bitten by a panther demon. They were blown off course and ended up in The Sea of Eden, where Chronopolis' computer systems were shut down due to the severity of the storm the FATE computer was offline for ten minutes. But during those ten minutes the Frozen Flame found Wazuki and Serge, Serge was then cured and was named "arbiter" of the Frozen Flame. Wazuki then was possessed by FATE and changed into Serge's greatest fear at the time; a panther and called himself Lynx and was the living incarnation of FATE who plotted to steal Serge's body. Lynx was also the one who killed Serge in Another World by drowning him. In the Home World, Kid saves Serge's life.

Statistics

Tier: High 6-A

Name: Mother Brain

Origin: Chrono Trigger

Sex: Sexless, though with Female pronouns

Age: Unknown (Mother Brain has been around since 1999 AD and likely predates 1999 AD)

Classification: Boss

Species: Computer System

Occupation: None

Status: Deactivated (Mother Brain was permenately deactivated after being defeated by Crono and co.)

Alignment: Lawful Evil (Mother Brain wishes to wipe out all of humanity and let robots rule the world)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Multi-Continent level , likely Continent level+ (Can fight a late game Crono and co., who defeated Lavos whose awakening caused destruction to the entire planet, making a bleak future, which turned the sky black which relates to atmosphere destruction, which ranges from 10^26 joules to 10^29 joules depending on the type of atmosphere destruction)

Durability: Multi-Continent level

Striking Strength: Multi-Continent Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal (Tagged Crono and co. who can tag can tag Lavos, who flew to Earth from a distant star system in around 20 seconds. They 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”)

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal

Stamina: Likely Limitless (Through being a computer)

Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Hundreds of Kilometers (Was in charge of connecting all the domes back in 1999 AD before the day of lavos and after it controlled all subsequent factories causing them to create more robots)

Intelligence: At least Genius (Gained full control over all factories in 2300 AD nearly making a society where machines ruled over humans, and was only stopped due to Crono and co. interfering)

Tier: 2-C, likely Low 1-B

Name: FATE, Mother Brain

Origin: Chrono Cross

Sex: Sexless, though with Female pronouns (FATE is referred to as a Goddess)

Age: Unknown (FATE’s age is completely unknown as it’s around in every point in time)

Classification: Boss, Goddess of FATE

Species: Computer System, Goddess

Occupation: Computer System Overlooking Realities

Status: Deceased (Was killed by Serge and his party)

Alignment: Neutral Evil (FATE wishes to control all of humanity and wants access to the Frozen Flame to have full control over the world, outright does not allow Serge to exist if he dies)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Universe level (It’s avatar Lynx 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 Low Complex Hierarchal Multiverse level (Fought Serge who shouldn’t be that far off from his end game self)

Durability: Universe level (Can tank ForeverZero), likely Low Complex Hierarchal Multiverse level

Striking Strength: Universe Class, likely Low Complex Hierarchal Multiverse Class

Lifting Strength: At least 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

Travel Speed: Superhuman

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal (It’s avatar Lynx 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”), possibly Extra-Temporal (Fought Serge who shouldn't be that far off from his end game self)

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal, possibly Extra-Temporal

Stamina: Superhuman (Serge was capable of doing the same stamina feats in Lynx’s body, which is a mere avatar of FATE. 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: Varies from Several Meters to Kilometers with Elements (Many elements either beams that can be shot or causing storms from the sky), 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), Simple Hierarchal Multiversal with abilities (FATE governs the fate of all infinite timelines, with the cosmology reaching this size)

Intelligence: Cosmic (It’s avatar Lynx is 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, with Lynx being an incredibly skilled spell caster. FATE itself is a supercomputer that governs infinite timelines being capable of analyzing all of them and manipulating the fate of all, is the core reason behind all events happening in Chrono Cross that doesn’t have to do with Belthasar or Lavos), 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)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Inorganic Physiology (Mother Brain is a living computer), Healing (The monitors heal it from damage), Hacking (Can hack into various parts of the factories across 2300 AD to create more robots, attacks such as reprogram can even reprogram biological beings to be inflicted with the chaos status effect), Light Manipulation & Curtain Fire (Can fire a series of light beams from the sky hitting all enemies when her displays are destroyed), Status Effect Inducement, Mind Manipulation, & Chaos Manipulation (With reprogram, induces the chaos status effect), Energy Manipulation (Can do a laser spin that hits all in the vicinity), Darkness Manipulation (With Dark Beam, shoots a beam of darkness at the opponent), Power Nullification & Resistance Manipulation (With Memory Reset, an ability that is omnilock, which is an ability that disables the ability to use techs and items and bypasses immunities)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (It’s avatar Lynx is extremely skilled wielder of his scythe), Inorganic Physiology (FATE is a non-organic supercomputer), Immortality (Reliance [On Person]; Lynx is the human incarnation of FATE), Subjective Reality & Observation (Unconcious Manifestation; 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 (Dimensional; 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), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation) & Sleep Manipulation (Lynx with the power of the Frozen Flame put Kid’s soul to sleep), 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, Erasure & Non-Existence Erasure (Space-Time Erasure & Conceptual Erasure; 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).

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), Metaphysics Manipulation (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), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; With Hell Soul, removes the soul from the user), BFR (Forced Teleportation; 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)

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Standard Equipment

*Displays: Displays set up for Mother Brain that heal them when they take too much damage.

*The Frozen Flame: The Frozen Flame is an item in Chrono Cross and Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki. It is a piece of Lavos that separated from the organism during or after the year of 65,000,000 B.C. Somehow, the artifact retained a kind of sentience, and was able to serve as a communicator between Lavos, deep inside the planet, and beings on the outside crust. It also was imbued with an incredible amount of magical power, the full extent of which is unknown. It is considered the "essence" of Lavos, and contacting it is analogous to communicating with the creature. The legend described the Dragon God's sealing the Flame, a great evil, in the Sea of Eden, when FATE had actually sealed the Dragon Gods up as the protector of humanity. FATE continued to rely on the Flame as its power source until 1006 A.D., when Serge was mauled by a panther demon. Schala caused a raging magnetic storm that blew him to Chronopolis, where the defenses were down; Serge then touched the Flame and became recognized as Arbiter by the Prometheus Circuit, which subsequently locked FATE out from accessing the artifact. His contact healed him and also corrupted the mind of his father, Wazuki. Intent on re-establishing access with the Frozen Flame, FATE shaped his father's mind and gave him the directive to kill Serge in the year of 1010 A.D. This succeeded, allowing access once more; however, in 1020 A.D., Kid traveled back in time and saved him, causing the dimensions to split. Serge once again retained Arbiter status, even across dimensions. Meanwhile, the Sea of Eden in Home World reflected the fate of that dimension's future destruction.

• Lynx: Lynx was Serge's biological father Wazuki until he was corrupted by the FATE supercomputer. When Wazuki took Serge to be healed by the Frozen Flame in Chronopolis, he was corrupted by its emanations and subsequently became 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 AD., the year in which FATE made Wazuki attempt to drown his son. Regardless of whether it succeeded in either dimension, this effectively wiped the last remains 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, becoming 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 the year 1020 A.D. and Lynx was called back to set up events that would take advantage of this fact. He was sent abroad to Porre and then to Viper Manor in order to play the two parties and set up FATE's plan, joining Harle around this time.

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Other

Standard Tactics: The Displays will heal Mother Brain as it shoots reprogram beams at the opponent. If the displays are destroyed it will spam Curtain Fire attacks along with memory reset.

Weaknesses: Nothing notable.

Note: Not to be confused with the Mother Brain from Metroid.

Standard Tactics: FATE will manipulate fate into its 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.

Explanations

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Battle Records

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