Darquesse

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==Summary==
Darquesse is Valkyrie Cain's true name and the name of an alternative personality of her. She was prophesised to destroy the world by numerous psychics, though none were aware of who she really was. During moments of immediate threat to Valkyrie's life, Darquesse would awaken and take control of Valkyrie until she was forced back into Valkyrie's subconscious through various means, growing strong each time she awakened. Eventually, Darquesse almost completely took control of Valkyrie's body, at which point she decided to remove the remaining aspects of Valkyrie's personality to gain complete control. However, Skulduggery tricked Darquesse and managed to remove the Darquesse half of the personality from Valkyrie's body, restoring Valkyrie's control of herself. However, Darquesse's spirit escaped and possessed the body of Valkyrie's Reflection, a sentient reflection of her. Eventually, Darquesse was defeated with an illusion that tricked her into believing that she had destroyed everything in her universe and the only thing left for her to do was to move on to another universe to test her power against the Faceless Ones, where it was believed she would die to them.
However, Darquesse did not die, and instead spent five years locked in an endless war against the Faceless Ones, with neither side able to kill the other. During this time her powers grew even further, as did her knowledge. Eventually, a group of cultists who worshipped Darquesse found a way to bring her back to her original world, believing that she was the only way to stop an unknown future calamity. Vastly removed from humanity by this point, after much investigation of the world, Darquesse decided that the only way to decide if the world was worth saving instead of destroying was to grow up in it and experience it with new eyes, and reverted herself to a baby to be raised by the cultist's leader Sebastian Tao.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least , possibly at least , would eventually become far higher | At least , likely far higher | 
Key: End of Phase 1 | Phase 2 | EOS
Name: Darquesse
Origin: Skulduggery Pleasant
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Classification: Human, True-Name Sorcerer, "God"
Powers and Abilities:
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*Superhuman Physical Characteristics
*Magic
*Longevity (Users of magic live for several centuries)
*Immortality (Types 2, 3 and 6)
*Elemental Manipulation
*Darkness Manipulation
*Matter Manipulation (On the Atomic level)
*Transmutation
*True Flight
*Forcefield Creation
*Reactive Power Level
*Accelerated Development (Training, Passive; Physical Stats, Intelligence, Abilities)
*Non-Physical Interaction (Destroyed a remnant spirit)
*Enhanced Senses
*Adaptation (Sharpened her eyesight, adapted her eye to see in the dark)
*Statistics Amplification (Can increase her strength and durability with her magic)
*Extrasensory Perception (Able to perceive the flow of souls, magic, and energy, can "see" and feel death)
*Information Analysis (By observing the magic and energy of others she can determine how powerful they are and what they are capable of)
*Power Mimicry (Can analyse and then replicate any form of magic within seconds)
*Pseudo-Precognition
*Soul Manipulation
*Healing
*Regeneration (Mid; capable of healing gun wounds to the head and reattaching her severed head to her body in the moments before brain death)
*Dream Manipulation
*Mind Manipulation
*Illusion Creation or Shapeshifting (Made her spirit appear as Gordon Edgely to trick Valkyrie)
*Power Nullification (Can "smother" the magic of others to prevent them from using their magic, bypassed Kitana's forcefield)
*Attack Reflection (Instinctively redirected an energy beam attack from a sorcerer)
*Existence Erasure
*Absorption (Can absorb the energy/souls of those she kills to grow stronger, absorbed the heat and fire from China Sorrows)
*Body Control and Biological Manipulation (Can control the density of her body)
*Necromancy
*Telekinesis (Up to an atomic scale)
*Energy Manipulation
*Teleportation
*Possession (If physically killed her soul has some time to possess another body in order to survive)
*Dimensional Travel and BFR (Can send people to other dimensions by shunting them)
*Portal Creation (Opened a portal to the Faceless One's multiverse, which was notably sealed away from the rest of the multiverse)
*Pain Inducement (Placed Erskine Ravel in a state of constant unbareable pain for 23 hours a day, being left an hour to fear the next 23 hours, if he got used to the pain then it would intensify even more)
*Possible Resurrection (After absorbing the knowledge of Argeddion, she may be able to use his powers, which included being able to resurrect the dead)
*Possible Intangibility and Invisibility (A fragment of Darquesse left in Valkyrie appeared invisible and intangible)
*Resistance to various forms of Magic, Clairvoyance, Precognition, Extreme Temperatures, Disease Manipulation (Magic makes sorcerers more resistant to the effects of disease, with one comparatively weak sorcerer surviving a magic disease that kills normal humans in hours for two weeks), Madness Manipulation (Type 2 and 3), Power Nullification, Sealing, Sleep Manipulation, Possession, Soul Manipulation and Mind Manipulation (Including Telepathy), Possible Resistance to Telekinesis (bathed in the Source Fountain, which created the God-Killer Weapons and gave them the ability to resist the telekinesis of the Faceless Ones and Darquesse herself), Likely Resistant to Death Manipulation (Kes, an aspect of Darquesse, was unfazed by walking around the Necropolis, which instantly kills any living thing that enters)
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All previous abilities plus:
*Immortality (Type 4)
*Resurrection (Resurrected her own corpse)
*Self-Sustenance (Types 2 and 3)
*Duplication (Can create "aspects", duplicates of herself which she is mentally linked to. These aspects are capable of creating their own aspects, and Darquesse demonstrated the ability to have over 23,400 aspects simultaneously, as well as being theorised to have potentially millions active later)
*Mind Manipulation (Capable of reading minds and projecting experiences and emotions into other people's minds. Can manifest the minds of other people in a physical form, which can consequently be manipulated by touch.)
*Improved Enhanced Senses or Clairvoyance (Does not need to be looking at someone to see them. Has either X-ray vision or some form of farsight - was able to see "vast distances" through solid walls)
*Improved Teleportation (Can teleport herself or others with or without contact)
*Intangibility (Her child self was able to move through solid objects without difficulty, and attacks merely passed through her)
*Possibly improved Existence Erasure (Made a box disappear without using her black flames, though she may have merely teleported it away), 
*Enhanced Transmutation (Can turn objects and living beings into portals and vice versa)
*Incorporeality (Her true form is a energy being, but she usually uses her physical body)
*Enhanced Matter Manipulation (At least on the Subatomic level)
*Enhanced Resistance to Mind Manipulation (Her thoughts are now too complex to be thought with a physical brain. Instead her mind is of non-physical nature and located in and around her)
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All previous abilities to massively higher extent and:
*Enhanced Duplication (Can make trillions of copies of herself, each having power equal to her own)
*Enhanced Power Nullification (Can change the total amount of magic in the universe)
*Enhanced Incorporeality (Became the universe itself)
*Resistance to Transmutation (Can resist being turned into energy), Attacks on her Essence & Enhanced Resistance to Power Nullification (Resisted direct attacks on her magic for days at minimum)
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Attack Potency: At least Small City level (While exhausted and on the verge of death, she destroyed the eastern quarter of Roarhaven through an explosion compared to a small nuke), possibly at least City level (during only her second appearance , and her power has grown exponentially since), would eventually become far higher (Darquesse grows in power exponentially with each appearance, being able to merely kick people apart and burn them to ash in her first appearance, and then stating she could casually pulverise a city in her second appearance. Had she not been defeated she would have lifewiped the planet and burnt at least its surface to ash in moments), can negate durability with various abilities | At least Mountain level, likely far higher (Vastly above Cadaverous Gant, battled equally with the Faceless Ones for several years, repeatedly stated she could end the world, "reconfigure" its energy into a new one, and "crack open the world") | Universe level (Recreated the entire universe after its destruction and became one with it)
Speed: At least Subsonic (Casually dodged the co-ordinated attacks of 3 Cleavers, outsped and caught arrows from the God-Killer Bow), possibly Supersonic (Described to hit Kitana Kellaway with the speed of a bullet) | At least Subsonic, possibly Supersonic | Omnipresent (Became one with the universe)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 5 (Can casually throw a car) | At least Class 100, likely higher (Her energy-body was able to rip off the head of a mountain sized entity with its bare hands) | Unknown (As she has no physical body the idea of physical strength doesn't really apply)
Striking Strength: At least Small City level, possibly at least City level, would eventually become far higher | At least Mountain level, likely far higher (Could physically harm The Faceless Ones) | Unknown (As she has no physical body the idea of physical strength doesn't really apply)
Durability: At least Small City level, possibly at least City level (Stood in the centre of the explosion she caused to destroy Roarhaven, tanked having her own power reflected back at her. Her forcefields, statistics amplification and density control should allow her to reach this level of durability), would eventually become far higher | At least Mountain level, likely far higher (Could take hits from The Faceless Ones) | Universe level (Is the universe itself)
Stamina: Superhuman (While extensive assault can overwhelm her, she can recover extremely quickly) | Possibly Infinite (Waged a war against the Faceless Ones for 5 years with neither side incapacitating the other) | Likely Infinite (higher than before)
Range: Tens of Kilometers, Interdimensional via Shunting and Portal Creation (can enter other universesSkulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light - The Devil Comes to Play) | Same as before | Universal
Standard Equipment: None notable | None notable | Anything within her universe
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius. Learned all to that point existing knowledge about quantum physics and the theory of magic in days; can quickly learn and replicate magic of other people once she has seen it, holds the memories of thousands of Remnants, including one that possessed Kenspeckle Grouse (an exceptionally intelligent medical sorcerer) and Tanith Low (one of the world's best fighters), "solved the mechanics of reality" to open a portal to a sealed multiverse and can process information instantly | Higher than before. Became even more intelligent, to the point that she "transcended" language and found it to be an extremely basic method of communication. Her thoughts became too complex to be thought with a human brain so that she had to switch to an incorporeal consciousness. | Nigh-Omniscient (In addition to all prior, remembered the position of every atom in the universe. She remembered the universe in such detail that she could create an exact copy of it, including giving all living beings in the universe copies of their souls, original minds and magic)
Weaknesses: Having her brain completely destroyed will kill her, although she has been able to heal from such things as having her skull caved in and bullets fired through her brain. Her Shunting does not let her freely teleport, only move to a corresponding location in alternate universe. Her possession only works against those who are taken by surprise or willingly let her in, and if the body is not powerful enough to contain her she will destroy it from the inside out over the course of a few hours. Her power mimicry and information analysis appears to be limited against magical artifacts as she was unable to mimic the Scepter's power, and questioned what the Deathtouch Gauntlet was capable of (though the former may due to the Scepter coming from the Caves of the Void and the latter she may have been choosing not to look, or bluffing as she had previous experienced the Gauntlet's powers and did not come close to it) | None notable | None notable
Feats:
*Turned a Remnant into a chair, and Deacon Maybury into a rubber duck.
*Broke the minds of Sensitives who tried to enter Valkyrie's mind and made them obey her, gained the knowledge and powers of Argeddion who was able to instill mental blocks in people and control the minds of numerous people around the planet, overwrote the Echo Stone containing a copy of Gordon Edgely's consciousness
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Elemental magic: Magic the allows for the manipulation of fire, water, air and earth.
**Fire: She can throw fireballs, which can envelop the whole body of a target with fire. Additionally she can focus fireballs into smaller, more intense flames for cutting and carving. Darquesse can additionally manipulate larger gatherings of existing fire.
**Water:She can manipulate water to aid her when swimming.
**Air: She can manipulate air to push, pull, squeeze, press, cut, crush or levitate objects.
*Necromancy: Necromancy is the ability to feel and manipulate death and shadows. It gets stronger if a lot of death is around. It can be used to manipulate shadows and create waves, whips, knives, bullets etc. out of them. It is especially effective, since it can be used to attack from multiple directions at once. Darquesse normally uses this ability for defence by covering her entire skin in shadows. She has also shown the ability to shadow-walk, a lesser form of teleportation. While most necromancers can only shadow-walk short distances, Darquesse should be superior to Melancholia Saint-Clair, who was able to shadow walk several kilometres at a time.
*Dimensional Shunting: A power copied from Argeddion, who had himself copied it from Silas Nadir, Dimensional Shunting allows the user to teleport themselves and/or others (on contact) to alternate universes. However, not all these universes are capable of sustaining life from the normal universe, with some having the planet filled with lava, not having the planet be where it should be, or even reversed physics, and the user does not know what the universe will be like until they have teleported there. Darquesse is capable of teleporting between her normal universe, and the alternate timeline where Malovent won the war, and presumably any other universe she has been in that is not barred from the normal multiverse (such as the Faceless One's multiverse). As Darquesse is likely superior to Creyfon Signate, she can at least teleport an entire city between universes.
*Pain Inducement: Darquesse is able to induce pain. What makes this special is that the pain can not be sedated by any method, magical or otherwise, and that it will automatically increase whenever the one feeling it gets used to the pain.
*Pseudo-Precognition: Darquesse uses her extrasensory perception to sense the magic in others. That way she can tell what spell they are about to use before they actually do. Through this she was able to dodge beams from The Scepter of the Ancients.
*Pain Manipulation: Darquesse can reduce or shut off her own sense of pain.
*Black Flame: Darquesse can create and control black flames, which erase the target's atoms, energy and soul from existence. These flames can be created by converting them from normal fire, or can be created from nothing. Darquesse is also capable of summoning these flames directly around a target. Darquesse has also shown the ability to summon these flames around her body without being harmed by them.
*Soul Manipulation: Remnants are non-corporal soul beings. Darquesse demonstrated being able to kill and absorb Remnants and extracted a Remnant from Tanith Low's soul even after they had completely merged. She can also manipulate souls of dead people.
*Telekinesis: Darquesse possess a powerful form of Telekinesis. Using it she is not only able to move objects around and kill enemies through direct use of the ability on their bodies, but she is also prone to pulling enemies apart on sub-atomic level. Her control over the ability is great enough to rip a human apart like that and put its atoms back together in order to revive it, or turn it into something entirely else, like for example a rubber duck.
*Magic Manipulation: Darquesse can see and manipulate the magic of others. Using her ability to see magic she can utilize a form of aim dodging, where she reacts to the magic of the opponent before the phenomenon it causes is produced. Using her ability to manipulate magic she can hijack the spells of others, circumvent magical shields or otherwise influence their magic to make it harder for them to fight her.
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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