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I know what you have seen. It is your futures that slumber in this hall. Destiny, in its essential form. All the dreams that might have been. All the happiness, and sorrow, you might have known. Your tomorrow, as it has been witnessed. The Black Omen transcends time and space, drifting through the all and nothing, waiting for Lavos to awaken. Destiny has led you here, and here you shall remain. Unless you can defeat me and bring down the Omen, there is no future for you! Come, children! Lavos slumbers. I will guide you into the depths of his dream. Did I say dream? I meant, of course, his eternal nightmare!
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~ Queen Zeal to Crono and co.
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Background
Queen Zeal is the matriarch of Antiquity in Chrono Trigger. She is the sole ruler of the Kingdom of Zeal, the most magically advanced civilization throughout Chrono Trigger 's timeline. It is unknown how the Queen came to obsess over the power of Lavos, but by the time Crono and his friends encounter her, she is dangerously fixated on drawing upon Lavos' energies in an effort to become immortal.
Zeal is maniacal in her efforts to gain power and immortality. She displays a haughty attitude, creating a society which is entirely self-centered, and further centered on her. Her own people are both slavishly devoted to her and terrified of her. She is paranoid and manipulative, gladly abusing the vast magical talent that her daughter Schala displays in order to further her goals. The well-being of her children is forgotten in the face of her desperate desire for power, and she shows a willingness to sacrifice any number of beings in her efforts.
However, it is mentioned by many, including the Gurus, that Queen Zeal did not always behave in such a power-hungry and inhuman manner. Melchior observes that the Queen's psychological degeneration appears tied directly to how much of Lavos' energy she absorbs through the Mammon Machine. Though Schala recognizes her mother's madness, she remains emotionally torn over her inability to accept her mother's behavior. Janus, the Queens only known son, reveals his feelings that Queen Zeal has ceased to be his mother, that she has somehow been changed by the power of Lavos.
It is during the rule of Queen Zeal that humanity first comes into possession of magic, which is revealed to be a concentrated form of Lavos' power. It is this power which Zeal believes will make her immortal. Indeed, after the events in the Ocean Palace and the rising of the Black Omen, Queen Zeal does seem to obtain some form of immortality, since she exists in any time period that the Omen can be found in. It is possible, though, that this is due to the Omen's time-bending nature rather than proper immortality. Queen Zeal makes her final stand against Crono at the heart of the Black Omen, where she is finally defeated.
It is important to note that Queen Zeal is extremely unique in terms of her relationship with Lavos. She is the only known entity to establish any sort of a rapport with the creature. She treats Lavos as a god-like being worthy of worship, yet at the same time Lavos makes no attempt to absorb or destroy her, and indeed seems to follow her commands during the fateful encounter in the Ocean Palace. Also potentially noteworthy, Lavos does not mimic her powers during Crono's encounter with him, despite the fact that she is one of the most powerful boss characters in the game. All of this may suggest a unique relationship between the two, with Zeal's worship both drawing strength from and channeling power into Lavos. However, the actual dynamic of their relationship is never fully explored, and one can only speculate as to its true nature.
General Information
Name: Queen Zeal (Her first name is unknown and was never mentioned)
Origin: Chrono Trigger
Sex: Female
Age: Unknown, Unknown when one with the Black Omen (The Black Omen transcends time and exists at all points in time and across every temporal dimension)
Classification: Enlightened One, Mother of Schala and Janus
Species: Human
Occupation: Queen
Status: Deceased (Killed by Crono and co.)
Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Used the Mammoth Machine to absorb all the magic from her citizens to re-summon Lavos, making her willing to even put her own daughter and son in harms way in order to obtain her immortality)
Codex Statistics
Tier: High 6-A, Higher with Summoning
Dimensionality: 3-D, likely 3+2-D while merged with the Black Omen (The Black Omen transcends time and space across all temporal dimensions, which could possibly make Zeal’s own dimensionality higher)
Attack Potency: Multi-Continent level (Fought Crono and co. who after defeating Zeal fought 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), likely Continent level (Caused Zeal to fall destroying the continent in the process), Higher with Summoning (Can summon Lavos)
Durability: Multi-Continent level. Her connection to the Black Omen & Lavos makes her extremely hard to kill
Striking Strength: Multi-Continent Class
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Travel Speed: Superhuman (Can move fast enough to attack Crono and co.
Combat Speed: Unknown (Their existence is that with 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: Unknown
Stamina: Unknown, likely Limitless (Within the black omen Zeal has eternal life, being able to never die as long as Lavos keeps powering the machine, likely supplying her with an infinite amount of energy)
Range: Standard Melee Range, Kilometers with her powers (Should be comparable to Crono’s magic), Universal with the Black Omen (The Black Omen exists across multiple temporal dimensions which would encompass this size)
Intelligence: Genius (Her magic is stated to surpass Queen Zeal’s who gains full control over the Mammon Machine and the Black Omen being the only being to be able to work with Lavos), Cosmic with the Black Omen (The Black Omen allows her to be immortal existing beyond all temporal dimensions of space-time, and having Lavos' energy fuel it, Lavos who despite having animalistic tendencies, is an extremely intelligent parasite, being the very reason for evolution of humanity while also surveying said evolution so it could gain the DNA of all organisms on the planet and evolve into a higher lifeform, all the while it is the creator of elements in Chrono Trigger. As the Frozen Flame is a piece of Lavos, he has a complete perspective of the infinite timelines of the multiverse, perceiving every time period and alternate selves there are. Lavos has shown himself being capable of looking throughout time and perfectly replicating attacks and futuristic technology before it even existed. Knew about Crono and co.’s plan to defeat him and counter acted with a back up plan)
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic, Elemental Manipulation (Can use the four elements in combat with her main element being the fire element), Immortality (Ageless; Zeal exists within the Black Omen and transcends time and space, becoming completely immortal. Life and Death Immunity; Zeal is arguably also unattached from the concept of death as even after defeating Zeal’s second phase she merely turns back into her base form and summons Lavos. Reliance [On Person]; Zeal also notes that as long as Lavos reigns "your dreams are all for naught" showing that she has a direct connection to him and will live as long as Lavos lives), Acausality (Causality Immunity; Is apart of 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”), Empowerment (Zeal and the Black Omen are empowered by Lavos and his limitless energy being amplified infinitely throughout time), Subjective Reality & Observation (Unconscious 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), Dreaming Existence (Everyone in existence is born from a dream and returns to dreams, with them borrowing the power of Lavos to materialize those dreams[1], dreams are a the manifestation of reality itself and every single thing is dreaing the dream of "life" itself and those things are just a dream of the dream of the planet where all things return to Zuran, the sea of dreams),, Dreaming Existence (Everyone in existence is born from a dream and returns to dreams, with them borrowing the power of Lavos to materialize those dreams[2], dreams are a the manifestation of reality itself and every single thing is dreaing the dream of "life" itself and those things are just a dream of the dream of the planet where all things return to Zuran, the sea of dreams), Portal Creation & Space-Time Manipulation (The Black Omen causes temporal distortions across various ages creating time portals which caused the space-time balance to be slipping off it’s axes), Summoning (Can summon the mega mutant and Lavos himself. Her summoning has been shown to work through opening up time portals, meaning she can realistically summon anything throughout time), Teleportation (Teleported away), Transformation (Can transform into a new form known as Zeal where she only has a face and two hands), Inorganic Physiology (Zeal is merely a floating face and two hands), Flight (Zeal can naturally fly in her base and transformed state), BFR (Can send people into the mammon machine), Absorption (The Mammon Machine would’ve absorbed Crono and co. into itself integrating them with Lavos if they lost), Energy Manipulation (The Mammon Machine can alter energy. Zeal can shoot out energy projectiles), Curtain Fire & Homing Attack (Can shoot out multiple energy blast that home in on the enemy), Holy Manipulation & Light Manipulation (With Heavenly Gate, brings down a light beam that circles around an opponent from the heavens), Power Absorption (Can absorb away all of one’s MP with MP buster, can naturally absorb away one’s MP just from coming into contact with them), Durability Negation (With Halation, does a massive aura ring that affects everyone reducing their HP to 1, can place someone’s HP to 1 with life shaver), Water Manipulation (With starburst, a dark water attack shaped with a star that damages everyone), Shadow Manipulation (With gears of darkness creates a giant dark bomb out of the two objects affecting the everyone).
Resistance to Fire Manipulation (As her innate element is fire, she has a natural resistance to fire elemental spells)
Acausality (Causality Immunity; Is a denizen of 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”), Mind Manipulation & Chaos Manipulation (With Chaos Zone, creates and orb around it that confuses everyone caught in it), Sleep Manipulation (With Mutant Gas: Sleep, creates a gas field around the person that puts them to sleep), Status Effect Inducement (With sap, drains the opponents HP over time), Sense Manipulation (With Blacken, can cause the blind status effect), Lifeforce Absorption (Can stick it’s tongue out at the opponent and suck the life out of them healing themself in the process)Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Type 1; Superbly huge, and towers over Crono and co., it can be seen on the world map which shrinks down buildings and town to tiny size. Even it's inner body is larger then that of Crono and co.), Body Control & Spatial Manipulation (Can remove his head. The inside of Lavos' body far extends beyond the outside of his body, hosting it's own time gate and the pod warping all of space-time within it), Aura (His presence made Frog comment on what the energy in the air was), Magic (Lavos is the very thing that created magic in the Chrono verse, making the ancient kingdom of zeal flourish in magic through using his energy, characters like Ayla who pre-date Lavos arriving on the planet have no ability to use magic along with Lavos being the very thing that powered the ancient magical Kingdom of Zeal), Elemental Manipulation (As he created magic it would extend to the types of magic: fire, water, light, and shadow. It is further noted that everything is made up of these four elements), Immortality (Types 1, 3, 6, 8, & 9. Has been around far before 65 million BC, and still exists even in the future. Can remove his head destroying the head does nothing to him. Due to Lavos evolving into the Time Devourer all subsequent Lavos’ of each timeline will all return back to the darkness beyond time with the Time Devourer, essentially making them all avatars of the Time Devourer. Can summon itself from parallel timelines to fight with it. Even if one kills Lavos he will just be sent back to the Darkness Beyond Time where there is no beginning nor end and can either be summoned back by another Lavos or evolve into the Dream Devourer. Even if Serge defeats Lavos in the Darkness Beyond Time he will not have defeated Lavos for good with the only way being able to kill him was to remove Schala from him then merge the entirety of the cosmology into one. Type 5 via dying. Lavos' death sends him into the darkness beyond time along with the timeline he was defeated in making him a non-existent entity unbound by life and death), Personal Nonexistence (Ayin Physiology; Lavos is a nonexistent being that was erased after the defeat of him, still able to attack from the Darkness Beyond Time), Acausality (Causality Immunity; Lavos’ energy is what powers 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”), Time Paradox Immunity (Types 0, 1, 2, 4, & 5. Lavos can summon other versions of himself without any repercussions, is completely unaffected by events done by Crono and co. in the past, as he will always awaken in 1999 AD, no matter how much earlier he's awakened, with it's own temporal shifts having no effect on it's future self. Lavos exists across mutliple timelines and going back in time to kill him is merely entering a new timeline, Lavos is unbound by the unchanging future, even to the point where his erase and defeat he can undo, making all points in time lead to him. Completely immune to paradoxes as killing him at any point in time merely sends him to the darkness beyond time where he will return from), Regeneration (Mid-High. Regenerates his entire core back after defeating Crono and the party. Likely True-Godly. Came back from the non-existent state after being erased along with the future timeline becoming the Dream Devourer, though it's unknown if it's base self regenerated or if it regenerated once becoming Dream Devourer), Acausality Negation (Type 5; Has superior magic to Magus whose magic can harm and kill denizens of 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”), Time Paradox Immunity Negation (Types 0, 1, 2, & 4. Can paradox out Crono from all points in time who remembered Marle even after she was erased from time due to her ancestor being killed resulting in her never existing. Was aware that the Black Omen was not always there, unlike everyone else who assumed the Black Omen always existed there. Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts. Changing a future in the Chrono Verse causes said future to be erased from existence though characters like Robo still exist even after defeating Lavos and causing the erasure of the future timeline from ever happening. Is unbound by the causality loop of fate that attempts to force a cycle to continue), Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry, Stat Mimicry, Skill Mimicry, Power Mimicry & Technique Mimicry) & Cosmic Awareness (Can look through time and copy the powers of all the bosses Crono and co. have faced even if they haven’t faced them yet nor if the enemy exists yet, he can still power mimic them. As the Frozen Flame is a piece of Lavos, he has a complete perspective of the infinite timelines of the multiverse, perceiving every time period and alternate selves there are in a plane beyond space-time), Adaptation (Lavos is an evolved parasite that will continue to evolve and adapt to previous scenarios. Lavos stored and analyzed all the genetic coding of every creature on the planet, aiming to use it to induce self-evolution into the ultimate life form. His mere energy causes others to rapidly abnormally evolve, Absorbed Schala turning him into the Dream Devourer and then eventually evolving into the time devourer. The Time Devourer is even noted to be a species more evolved then the old Lavos), Reality Separation (Type 4; If killed exists completely outside of reality and it's concepts within the Darkness Beyond Time), Biological Manipulation, Information Manipulation & Evolution Manipulation (Even if the being he copies has servants, he will make his own servants as an extension of his body. Is the very reason for all human evolution, along with feeding off of it. Further stated even by scientists abnormal development was due to Lavos’ biological contamination. Stated it possesses the DNA of every organism on the planet. As he manipulated everyone's DNA it's implied he manipulated the information of those who do not even originate from the planet), Passive Space-Time Manipulation & Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Merely awakening and summoning Lavos caused space-time to distort and Crono, Magus, and the rest of the party to be temporally sent to 23 million BC, Lavos causes events to happen all across space-time), Time Manipulation (Lavos landing caused a time gate to appear. The Frozen flame gives the user the ability to bend space-time, allowing them to re-shape history. The immense energy that Lavos radiates alters time creating time gates. Magus can control the time gates to open. Schala’s pendant protected Kid via rewinding time and sending her back to an immediate past where she was safe, removing all wounds from her), Causality Manipulation (Lavos’ death causes all points in time to close altogether and if you do not return to your time period upon his death you will be lost in the flow of time), Portal Creation (The immense energy that Lavos radiates alters time creating time gates which are portals in time), Time Travel (Has a time gate within him. Lavos can travel across all of time with temporal shift, absorbing everyone into the temporal shift, oddly enough, him going to areas like the prehistoric period massively amplify his strength. Masa & Mune through focusing on the time egg can send Serge and his party back in time, though after a while they'll have a limit to how long they can keep Serge in said time period. Due to the power and strength of Lavos' control over space-time however it is likely he doesn't have this limitation), Absorption (Lavos absorbs the energy of the earth to grow stronger and stronger. The Masamune can absorb energy. Absorbs the lifeforce of the planet while sleeping. Was going to absorb Crono and co. if Schala didn’t teleport them out in time. Zeal makes note that the Mammon Machine would've absorbed the Crono and co. if they lost, intergrating them with Lavos), Power Absorption (Sapped Magus of his powers, can absorb one’s MP. Absorbs the planet while sleeping causing him to grow ever more powerful. Mammon Machine can sap all MP with MP buster), Fusionism (Can unify himself with another to evolve himself into a more powerful and deadly entity. Fused together Masa and Mune can fuse together. Anyone who receives the frozen flame and becomes an arbiter will become one with Lavos causing him to evolve further if their mind is overtaken by the flame), Reality Warping, Pocket Reality Manipulation (Going to fight Lavos sends the opponent into a completely different area front he regular field), Energy Manipulation & Sealing (Lavos energy can open doors sealed with mysterious energy. Can alter energy. Zeal can shoot out energy projectiles. Lavos’ energy is capable of effecting the doors and objects sealed from a mysterious energy. Sealed a Nu), Healing (The left-handed part restores health to the bodies. the frozen flame can heal "all illnesses" even healing wounds beyond the abilities of the doctors of Termina and Guldove), Attack Reflection (Can reflect magic and light. Magus should scale to the other party members who reflected Dalton's magic), Explosion Manipulation & Energy Projection (Fire missiles that deal massive explosions, laser beams causes massive explosions, shadow doom blaze causes a massive fiery explosion across the entire screen. Lavos spawn can create an explosive field around one), Immunity Negation (Can void immunities, even if said immunities are through items), Willpower Manipulation (With Dark Will inflicts status effects on the users), Poison Manipulation (With umbral embrace, deals poison damage), Statistics Amplification (With Evil Emanation, raises Lavos’ attack), Breath Attack & Fragrance Manipulation (Lavos Spawn can induce different status ailments through it's breath attacks, Lavos Breath puts the target to sleep & Miasma inflicts confusion. Attacks such as Lavos Breath likely put the target to sleep due to it's scent), Resurrection (Can resurrect his helpers), Air Manipulation (Can create massive world winds of energy along with small sized air blades that form into massive worldwinds. Can create a massive whirlwind with one of their attacks which induces the confusion status effect. Can casually make whirlwinds), Flight (Before coming on the main planet in Chrono Trigger he is seen flying across space. Magus can naturally fly in his running animation), Life Manipulation (Created his miniature spawns), Madness Manipulation (Type 2; Absorbing Lavos’ energy turns one insane, the frozen flame drove Serge’s father insane turning him into an arbiter of FATE), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation), Sleep Manipulation (Was taking over Queen Zeal’s soul while slumbering within the waves. The power of the Frozen Flame put Kid’s soul to sleep. Lavos spawn can put one to sleep. Wazuki lost his soul coming into contact with the frozen flame), Resurrection Negation (Destruction rains of heavens bypasses the auto revive status), Regeneration Negation & Immortality Negation (Types 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9. Magus is capable of killing skeletons. Lavos' attacks can permanently kill someone to the point where Resurrection or Regeneration spells were not an option to revive Crono. Requiring a higher-dimensional item in order to save Crono. Lavos can permenantly kill other versions of himself successfully cannibalizing them regardless of their survivability, did this in the Darkness Beyond Time to build his strength), Irreversible Damage (Lavos killed Crono to the extent that he was completely gone, being incapable of being brought back through time travel and requiring the higher-dimensional powers of the Chrono Trigger to revive him), BFR (Types 1, 2, and 3. Fighting Lavos sends you into his vortex pocket dimension, Lavos has been having a power effect on the very fabric of space and time sending many to the End of Time, upon merely being summoned he temporally sent the entire party and Magus to 23 million BC, sent Magus as Janus and the Gurus to different time periods, including the end of time, which is infinite. 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. Sent Princess Schala in a dimensional vortex sending her to the Darkness Beyond Time. Zeal could send someone into the Mammon Machine to absorb them and make them one with Lavos), Telepathy (The Frozen Flame spoke to Wazauki telepathically), Weather Manipulation (Lavos destruction caused the winter to end, Lavos’ initial landing in 65 billion BC caused winter to begin), Spike Manipulation (Lavos spawn can shoot out needles from its body), Mind Manipulation & Chaos Manipulation (Lavos spawn can inflict confusion. With Chaos Zone. Magus in his disguise as Magil could with a glare knockout Kid when she was transformed into a Cyclops), Dimensional Travel (Entered into Gange’s illusion a place that doesn’t exist within reality), Deconstruction (FATE divided the Dragon Gods up into 6 weaker beings their avatars were affected along with their true forms being incapable of merging back until fate’s death. Magus’ magic can vaporize an opponent beyond even their skull), Power Nullification (Denizens of the Black Omen use Lavos power including beings that have omnilock, an ability that disables the ability to use techs and items and bypasses immunities. Magus was suppressing the spell putting Kid under mind control), Darkness Manipulation (His spawn can use dark bomb, along with himself using a darkness type element. Magus can use shadow magic. Zeal can use starburst and gears of darkness), Vibration Manipulation (His spawn can use annihilation zone, completely vibrates the ground causing all debris to be lifted off of it, Status Effect Inducement (Via “Hell Geyser: Sap”, inflicts HP down. Diabolic Whisper can induce a random status effect), Durability Negation (With demon star halves HP regardless of defense. As Zeal is a denizen of the Black Omen Lavos should have her abilities which include reducing one’s HP to 1), Transformation (Zeal could transform into a more powerful form with the Black Omen. Masa and Mune appeared before Crono and co. as kids and transformed into their true selves when Crono attempted to grab their blade]), Holy Manipulation (With heavenly gate, unleashes holy light down on the opponent), Information Analysis (Lavos was analyzing the entirety of humanity’s genetic code to feed off of them), Forcefield Creation (Mimic’d Magus, allowing him to gain Magus’ passive barrier that absorbs every element except for the one he’s using), Transmutation (Magus was the one that transformed Glenn into a Frog), Illusion Creation/Precognition (Type 1 (Illusion Creation); Type 5 (Precogntion). Lavos foresaw his defeat by the hands of Crono and co. and made it so no matter what temporal disturbance happened he would always come back. Magus creates illusions for the entire party of people they want to see, this even effects the ones that shouldn’t even temporally exist yet and shows them people that don’t even exist yet in the timeline, the illusions are even aware of events that haven’t even happened yet, even as a kid he foresaw Crono’s death), Afterimage Creation (Magus could move so fast in his battle he formed afterimages, blitzing the cast before they can even react), Fire Manipulation (Magus caused Cyrus to burst into flames, can use Fire II, a red, semi-transparent ring expands starting from him to the boundaries of the battlefield. Then the whole area starts to burst in flames with numerous explosions spread out throughout it and all enemies get hit), Lightning Manipulation (Magus can use lightning II, when cast several beams of yellow light radiate from the caster, between the beams are strands of static discharge), Ice Manipulation (Magus can use Ice II, when cast several sparkles of blue light, resembling snowflakes, orbit her. Following this, the screen turns blue and a blue ring bursts from her as two layers of jagged ice crash down on all opponents on screen), Summoning (Can summon itself from parallel timelines to fight with it. Magus can call upon friends from different time periods to come to their time period), Damage Boost (The Mastermune has a 100% critical hit rate. It also deals extra damage to Demon, Dragon, Floating, Human, Marine, Matter, Soft, and Zombie enemy-types), Dark Matter Manipulation (Magus can use Dark Matter, his strongest attack. When cast a massive triangular prism appears attacking all of the enemies with devastating shadow magic), Memory Manipulation (Magus erased his own memories after learning his journey to save Schala was ultimately pointless), Empathic Manipulation (Magus touched the back of Kid and Serge’s neck and instantly calmed them down), Non-Standard Interaction (Magus and Crono can harm spectors & shadows through the use of magic. Said spectors and shadows can’t be harmed by guns or blades), Telekinesis (Via psychokinesis), Teleportation (Can summon forth a boulder to attack the enemy, Masa and Mune can teleport), Curtain Fire (His rains of destruction could extend across the entire planet), Technological Manipulation (Can mimic and create technological weapons far before they even existed), Gravity Manipulation (The Black Omen caused a massive shift in gravity allowing it to bend space-time and appear in all 3 eras, with Robo even making note that Lavos has a natural gravitational pull upon his awakening), Statistics Reduction (Has the powers of the Masamune, which can reduce magical defenses and resistances, along with force fields and attack absorptions), Matter Manipulation (Robo states that Lavos would destroy their molecular structure if they’re pulled in his energy field), Erasure (Space-Time Erasure; Lavos’ defeat caused the entire timeline to cease to exist), Power Bestowal (Touching the frozen flame makes one link with Lavos giving them extraordinary powers, along with bestowing eternal life), Blood Manipulation (Zombor can absorb the blood out of his opponent), Water Manipulation (Can hit with water magic), Radiation Manipulation (Lavos' attack caused massive radiation in the future transforming all of the monsters into powerful mutants that were considered so powerful people of both domes were shocked to see Crono and co. were able to fight them), Fate Manipulation (Lavos can cause the future itself to refuse change no matter what Crono and co. do, this is likely similar to how Lavos can have fate join it's side and cause Serge to be fated to no longer exist. The Black Omen holds destiny in it's essential form, showing the future of the entire Crono cast if they failed to defeat Zeal and stop the Black Omen. Lavos can divert one's stream of time, making them die when they are not supposed to die), Dream Manipulation & Truth Manipulation (The black omen holds the dreams of all, which concepts such as truth exist within dreams. Dreams are a the manifestation of reality itself and every single thing is dreaing the dream of "life" itself and those things are just a dream of the dream of the planet where all things return to Zuran, the sea of dreams), Conceptual Manipulation (Lavos is the source of the dreamstone, which created concepts beyond human comprehension such as love and hate, the black omen holds destiny in it's "Essential form". Everyone in existence is born from a dream and returns to dreams, with them borrowing the power of Lavos to materialize those dreams[3], dreams are a the manifestation of reality itself and every single thing is dreaing the dream of "life" itself and those things are just a dream of the dream of the planet where all things return to Zuran, the sea of dreams), Wish Granting (The Frozen Flame has the power to grant wishes), Subjective Reality & Observation (Type 2; 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), Dreaming Existence (Everyone in existence is born from a dream and returns to dreams, with them borrowing the power of Lavos to materialize those dreams[4], dreams are a the manifestation of reality itself and every single thing is dreaing the dream of "life" itself and those things are just a dream of the dream of the planet where all things return to Zuran, the sea of dreams).
Resistance to Information Analysis (A supercomputer that can analyze across timelines cannot truly obtain any true information on Lavos), Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, & Darkness Manipulation (Unaffected by fire elemental spells, his pod absorbs all light, shadow, ice, water, and fire elements), Absorption (The very same knife made from the dreamstone, sunstone of nigh-infinite power which made the mammon machine that can absorb the sunstone and Lavos energy could not stop Lavos’ awakening. Instead it corrupted the Masamune making it a blade of evil until Serge and co. purified it), Darkness Manipulation (Shadow magic heals him), Sealing (Should be able to break through seals through sheer strength like Serge did. His mere energy can negate seals), Reality Warping, Time Manipulation, Nothingness Manipulation (Can move, fight, and act within the Darkness Beyond Time, where there is no beginning or end, a place where all timelines, existent or non-existent go to feed Lavos’ strength. Should be able to move in the Bend of Time), 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), Fate Manipulation (After Serge killed FATE, Kid makes mention that destiny and fate itself is dead, with all characters having to make their own destiny), Subjective Reality, Probability Manipulation, & Quantum Manipulation (Lavos exists in the nonexistent timelines and can interact with the current timelines, which puts him outside of the worlds is stabilized by the observations of the one who views it, with Chrono Cross' explanation of how nothing is absolute and everything falls under possibilities and potentialities which all collapse under one observation, Chrono Cross falls under wave particle duality, making Lavos able to exist in the collapsed states of probabilities and making him unaffected by quantum probability)
Black Omen, Lavos
Notable Techniques
- Death Kiss: Absorbs MP from the person Zeal comes into contact with.
- Halation: Creates a massive aura blast that reduces the whole party's HP to 1.
- Energy Spheres: Scatters multiple homing energy spheres to hit the opponent.
- Heavenly Gate: A powerful light/holy magic attack from the heavens.
- Gear of Darkness: A powerful dark magic attack that causes massive explosions.
- Starburst: An incredibly powerful water attack being her most powerful attack, hitting all enemies at once.
- MP Buster: Absorbs all the MP the opponent has left to equally restore her own. This attack also acts as an auto counter if her left hand is attacked in her second form.
- Life Shaver: Reduces a single party member's HP to 1. This attack is only an auto counter if her right hand is attacked in her second form.
Other
Standard Tactics: Zeal will start using the move halation, reducing her opponent's HP to 1 then proceed to death kiss them and shoot energy spheres at them. Once defeated in base they will send the opponent into the Mammon Machine where if they do not have a resistance to absorption they will be absorbed and become one with Lavos, if they do defeat the Mammon Machine though then Zeal will transform where she will start shooting out lasers and using moves such as heavenly gate, gear of darkness, and starburst. If either of her hands are attacked the opponent gets counter attacked with life shaver, reducing their HP to 1 or MP buster, removing all of their MP. If even her second transformation is defeated she will summon Lavos.
Weaknesses: As her innate element is fire she has a natural weakness to water element spells.
Note: There has been some questioning on the validity of whether Lavos summoned alternate versions of himself or just revived parts of himself as the official bs Chrono Trigger character library notes the pod on the right as the "true form" of Lavos along with his ability to to revive parts of him being shown during his first phase. However this misses some key points regarding the way he revives the pods back. The way he revives his helpers is them simply coming back from nothing and continuing the fight, however the way Lavos "revives" the pods is opening up a time gate bringing them back, along with this the entire fight is based off the center shifting through time itself, with this what "Lavos true form" moreso likely means is that this is the true Lavos of the timeline and the others are alternative timeline Lavos'.
Note 2: Lavos' rains of destruction feat that reaches across the entire planet didn't life wipe as there's humans still around but also, 2300 A. D. shows a lot of the planet wasn't destroyed in the conventional sense. A lot of vehicles and technology still work and the overall landscape while very bleak, isn't fully destroyed, thus there's no way to say he significantly affected the overall planet enough to warrant a High 6-A rating, however due to it greatly affecting the atmosphere, it does grant High 6-A.
Note 3: There has also been questioning on Lavos creating the time gates due to a scene where Robo makes note that he thinks them saying Lavos creating the time gates is wrong, this is however contradicted by the scene of Lavos landing and a time gate appearing from where he landed and a time gate existing in him, along with this it's a purely theoretical idea posed by Robo never further expanded upon while Lavos has tangible evidence and has full control over space-time. Thus we have disregarded Robo's statement.
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