Ghosts (Twilight Syndrome)

==Summary==
Ghosts are spirits bound to the world by unresolved feelings, usually to spaces that were personal to them. While not inherently malicious, they are often governed by negative emotions, and can very easily be dangerous to humans.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: up to at least , possibly at least 
Name: Varies depending on individual
Origin: Twilight Syndrome/Kill the Past
Gender: Varies depending on individual
Age: Varies depending on individual
Classification: Ghost
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Type 1, 7 and possibly 4), possibly Resurrection (Some believe that ghosts reincarnate into new people when the spirit world is fullTwilight Syndrome: Investigation (1996) Rumor 8: Rusty Hole), Incorporeality and Invisibility (Ghosts are normally intangible and invisible, though they can make themselves visible when they want, or even corporeal, a state in which they are indistinguishable from humansTwilight Syndrome: Investigation (1996) Rumor 7: The Telephone Call), Immersion (Ghosts can appearTwilight Syndrome: Search (1996) Prologue in mirrorsTwilight Syndrome: Search (1996) Rumor 3: The Last Train), Reality Warping and Spatial Manipulation (Various ghosts have been capable of causing the surrounding environment to warp to the point that they feel like completely different places, and even adding adding new locations to them or restoring ones that were demolishedTwilight Syndrome: Investigation (1996) Rumor 9: Occult Mystery Tour. Often, they cause those attempting to traverse these places to find themselvesTwilight Syndrome: Investigation (1996) Rumor 5: Hinashiro Grove back where they started or incapable of finding their way back. When a phone line was connected to the world of the dead, calling Fire and Ambulance Services resulted in them replying they were "out of business hours", despite Fire and Ambulance obviously not having business hours), minor Text Manipulation (Fujita's ghost caused erased text to appear again, and later replaced it with different textTwilight Syndrome: Search (1996) Rumor 2: M. F. from the Music Room), Teleportation (Ghosts often move by teleporting forward repeatedly), Precognition (A child's ghost predicted that the protagonists would soon see far worse than her. A different one sensed that her time as a spirit was almost over, and that she would soon pass onTwilight Syndrome: Search (1996) One More Rumor), Technology Manipulation (A group of ghosts warped a photograph taken in a specific location and caused a truck to fall onto the protagonists by causing a failure in its gearboxTwilight Syndrome: Search (1996) Rumor 1: The park in which you can take numerous ghost pictures. Fujita's ghost sent a message through a school's broadcast system. Ghosts often try to contact living relative through telephones, connecting their phone lines to the spirit world), possibly Death Manipulation (A photograph warped by ghosts was thought to be terribly dangerous, and in the bad ending where it is not disposed of, it is implied to lead to the deaths of two of the protagonists), Illusion Creation (Ghosts showed an entire warped environment only to Yukari and Chisato, while Mika did not see it), Disease Manipulation (The stench and disease emanated by many corpses stopped when their ghosts were placated), Aura (The presence of particularly powerful ghosts can be felt by normal humans), Possession (Mayumi Fujita's ghost possessed Mika to play the piano), Limited Sleep Manipulation (After abandoning the bodies they possess, Ghosts will render their targets unconscious for an extended period of time), Possibly Temperature Manipulation (It seems to get colder when ghosts are nearby), Madness Manipulation (After riding a ghost train, Mika was left in a catatonic state in which she was incapable of speaking, and remained in this state for the rest of her life), Mind Manipulation, BFR and Dimensional Travel (Sakura Himegami unintentionally controlled and influenced Mika by exerting an influence on her mind, into jumping off a cliff to join her. Instead of falling to her death, however, Mika ascended and was spirited away, taken to the spirit world, which is something ghosts are capable of forcefully doing to humans), Dream Manipulation and Light Manipulation (Some ghosts call out to humans through their dreams, and others by creating luminous orbs), Vibration Manipulation (Tatara's ghost caused intense shaking in a room upon appearing after being called, or when upsetTwilight Syndrome: Investigation (1996) Rumor 6: The Boy That Appears At Dusk), Telepathy (When Chisato came into contact with a ghost as he was attempting to escape, he accidentally shared his memories with her), Time Manipulation (A ghost stopped time in Yukari's house at exactly midnight), Flight (Ghosts can walk on air as if it was the ground or float freely), Resistance to Memory Manipulation (Humans who have been in the spirit world lose some of their memories, while ghosts aren't affected by this)
Attack Potency: Varies (Ghosts are shown to vary in power level, with some being noted to be particularly powerful), up to at least Wall level (Fujita's ghost would have been able to easily kill a grown man and can easily kill both Chisato and Yukari at once, crushing them. Tatara's ghost caused intense shaking in a room), possibly at least Small Building level (Chisato is incapable of defending herself from Fujita despite her own powers)
Speed: Unknown
Lifting Strength: Varies, up to Superhuman (Fujita can seemingly crush people to death)
Striking Strength: Varies, up to at least Wall level, possibly at least Small Building level
Durability: Unknown
Stamina: At least Superhuman (A ghost stood guard from the 1940s to 1996 without pause while suffering from intense thirst and pain after inhaling incendiary bombs' smoke. In general, ghosts will haunt their locations forever, until their worries are resolved)
Range: Up to Hundreds of Meters (Capable of warping entire locations such as schools or train stations)
Standard Equipment: Depends on what the ghost was wearing and wielding when they died.
Intelligence: Varies from Below Average to Above Average (Ghosts are prone to being overcome and controlled by a single emotion, and some of them don't even realize they have died and become spirits, instead still believing they are alive. Some ghosts however maintain human-like levels of reasoning, as seen with the behavior of Sakai's ghost when rescuing Chisato from a lake)
Standard Tactics: Ghosts are more active when there's no moon. The great majority of them is filled with hatred for the living, and they can be very easily provoked into killing if they perceive one's actions as disrespectful.
Weaknesses: Even in their invisible state, ghosts appear in photographs.
Note: This page only covers the Human Entertainment Twilight Syndrome games directed by Goichi Suda and canonical to the Kill the Past series: Twilight Syndrome: Search, Twilight Syndrome: Investigation and Moonlight Syndrome, as well as related material. It does not contain any information from the later Spike Chunsoft Twilight Syndrome games, Twilight Syndrome: Saikai and Twilight Syndrome: Kinjirareta Toshi Densetsu, which branch off from the ending of Twilight Syndrome: Investigation and do not treat Moonlight Syndrome as canonical.
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Category:Twilight Syndrome
Category:Ghosts
Category:Species
Category:Undead
Category:Immortals
Category:Resurrection Users
Category:Incorporeal Characters
Category:Invisibility Users
Category:Immersion Users
Category:Reality Warpers
Category:Space Users
Category:Text Users
Category:Teleportation Users
Category:Precognition Users
Category:Technology Users
Category:Death Users
Category:Illusionists
Category:Disease Users
Category:Aura Users
Category:Possession Users
Category:Temperature Users
Category:Madness Users
Category:Mind Users
Category:BFR Users
Category:Dimensional Travel Users
Category:Dream Users
Category:Light Users
Category:Vibration Users
Category:Telepaths
Category:Time Users
Category:Flight Users
Category:Characters
Category:Kill The Past
Category:Video Game Characters
Category:Game Characters
Category:Sleep Users