Hatou Manabu

==Summary==
Hatou Manabu is the protagonist of the light novel and manga Murasakiiro no Qualia. Manabu befriends Marii Yukari, a girl who sees people as robots, and who eventually replaces Manabu's left arm with a cell phone. Manabu acknowledges her left arm to be flesh and machine simultaneously, preventing the superposition from collapsing. In doing so, she gains the ability to communicate with other versions of herself in alternate realities. This culminates in her learning the Theory of Everything, allowing her to reach beyond the limits of her observation and collapse the infinite possibilities into a single definite universe.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least 
Name: "Hatou Manabu", "Hatou Gaku"
Origin: Murasakiiro no Qualia
Gender: Female
Age: Billions of years old
Classification: Human
Powers and Abilities: Weapon Mastery, Preparation, Probability Manipulation, Quantum Manipulation (via Probability Manipulation), Time Travel, Incorporeality and Stealth Mastery (Became quantum mechanically unobservable, meaning she has no interaction with the four fundamental forces. Is neither a wave nor a particle nor even a probability density), Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 1, Aspect Type 5; Doesn't exist as neither wave nor particle, nor even a probability density), Memory Manipulation (Can synchronize her consciousness with alternate possibility versions of herself, so that both of them have each others knowledge), Hive Mind (Type 2), Immortality (Type 1 and 6; Can survive by sharing her consciousness to her alternate version of a different possibility. All of the countless versions of her, with which she has synchronized her consciousness, are her. That means all of them need to be killed to truly kill her), Acausality (Type 1, 2 & 3), Pseudo-Possession (Can "pretend" to be another person taking their place in history, which includes her gaining a body identical to the "possessed" individuals), Likely limited Physics & Mathematics Manipulation, Unconventional Power Mimicry, Power Bestowal & Accelerated Development (See "Instant Learning"), Magic (Has powers referred to as magic, though they possibly are something else, like ESP or a mutation), Transformation, Telekinesis, Flight, Fire Manipulation, Teleportation, Light Manipulation (Can create tangible holograms), Electricity Manipulation, minor Existence Erasure (Changed her own parameters to become a nonexistent entity)
Attack Potency: At least Wall level (Used "Magic" to punch several meter big holes into walls and disintegrate humansMurasakiiro no Qualia Episode 14)
Speed: Subsonic+ (Shown to fly besides military planes)
Lifting Strength: At least Athletic Human (Can become a great amount of different people, she herself has performed lots of physical training to become strong)
Striking Strength: At least Athlete level (Can become a great amount of different people, she herself has performed lots of physical training to become strong)
Durability: At least Athlete level (Physically fit and can become a great amount of different people, some of which have this), Unobservability, Non-Corporeality and Nonexistent Physiology make her difficult to harm
Stamina: Likely Infinite (As a Non-Existent being Hatou doesn't need physical energy, her observation abilities likely require no energy source and her mental stamina was sufficient to keep her working on her task for dozens of billions of years)
Range: Universal+ (Her observations can affect the entire universe, its past and its future), Can switch between infinite possibilities
Standard Equipment: None
Intelligence: Extremely High (Has gathered several billion years of experience from countless different versions of herself and all knowledge they ever learned. Has additionally gained the knowledge of all the people she has ever lived as, which likely includes the majority of all Japanese people throughout history. Has gained an intuitive, but not mathematical/scientific understanding of the Theory of Everything. However, she herself isn't a genius and hence can herself not easily accomplish scientific research. She can manipulate others into doing it for her at some point in time and use that knowledge, though.)
Standard Tactics: Hatou is special in that instead of following a single strategy, Hatou follows every possible strategy. Hatou describes it as "acting in imitation of light". Light always takes the shortest path to its goal, which can be explained as it actually taking every path, but all except the shortest one interfering with each other and hence disappearing in the end. Analogue to this Hatou, with her infinite possible selfs, takes every possible action in one possibility each and in the end abandons all the possibilities, except the one that let her reach her goal.
Weaknesses: People with radically different Qualia than average humans can perceive her. She can only change the life of those with these different Qualia in a limited way, as they can observe her and their own fate. She can not "possess" people with different Qualia and she can not change to certain possibilities which would need different Qualia to observe, such as a world where all humans are robots or where 1+1≠2.
Feats: See here.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Probability Manipulation: Hatou can choose which result of random events she observes and by that what happens. She does that by transmitting her consciousness to another possibility. She can switch which result she observes after it already happened and can not only choose present and future possibilities, but can also choose which of all possible pasts led to the present state.
*Instant Learning: Hatou is able to instantly get unlimited practice in any area she desires. The way this works is that Hatou can use her ability to select her own past in order to select a past in which she spend most of her time practicing a skill of her choice. If that should not be enough she can use the fact that her alternate selfs can share knowledge to give the knowledge gained to a child version of herself and have that one once again spend her life training, so that the present Hatou essentially gets two lifetimes worth of training and so on. Hatou demonstrated this ability early on. Originally she had spend a lot of time after meeting Marii Yukari studying quantum mechanics to understand Marii's unique ability. However, after her priorities changed to taking down the organization JAUNT instead, she desired power to protect herself more. As such she switched to a past where she spent all the time she priorly spent on studying by instead practicing her Naginata skills. As a result she gained great skills in that martial art and the body to match, while retaining her knowledge on quantum mechanics from her alternate self. Hatou can take this even further. Even if she originally lacks the talents and prequisits for a certain skill entirely, she can chose a past for herself where the circumstances of her birth and her development thereafter are different, so that she has them. Only prequsite for that is that it is theoretically possible for her to be born with them. She demonstrated that ability when she found a past for herself where she has supernatural superpowers, such as flight, teleportation or pyrokinesis, despite no other human on Earth being known to possess such abilities. And the ability can in principle be taken even further. As Hatou can possess people (or replace them in history taking their place), just as long as they are humans or in some way related to humans, she can also gain access to talents and other prequisites that she regularily could never gain through her own personal past. If she, for example, wanted to be history's greatest swordsman she could take the place of the current greatest swordman in history. That way she would get their body and could go through the exact same events that led to history's greatest swordman being so skilled, learning his techniques in the process. Due to the verse equalization assumptions on time travel she could do the same in other fictions within a vs-thread. She could, for instance, become a random sorcerer of another verse and go through their magic curriculum to gain a copy of that fiction's magical abilities. Due to the unconventional mechanics behind this style of copying powers the limits of the ability are very different than those of regular power mimicry. If in the fiction she is fighting a Conceptual Manipulation-spell is easy for humans to learn then Hatou could follow the same curriculum to learn it. On the other hand, even the most basic Earth Manipulation-spell could be utterly beyond Hatou to copy if the style of magic used is one that no member of humanity or a human-related species ever learned (unless potentially she can get someone form a different species to sucessfully manage to teach her or if she can create a genetic link to that other species). Aside from that there are special limitations caused by the fact that even if Hatou possesses someone it is still her on the inside. If an ability can not be used by Hatou's mind per se then she has no hope of learning it no matter who she becomes. Qualia related abilities such as Marii Yukari's are the primary in-universe examples of this. Additionally, externally granted abilities could be lost. If, for example, a deity decided to grant a person a blessing, said deity could potentially notice the possession by Hatou and decide to not give that same blessing to her. That way Hatou would be unable to recieve the power of the blessing for herself.
*Physics & Mathematics Manipulation: Which laws the universe has was decided by a random process that happened at the creation of the universe. The normal laws are only in place, because these were the ones humans could comprehend and hence observe. Hatou can use her ability to observe other possibilities to observe other outcomes of the random process, now that she isn't bound to the conditions for human existence any more. However she is not unlimited in which laws she can choose, as she could not create the possibility where humans are robots, that Yukari observes. Additionally some rules are the way they are due to consciousness. Namely 1+1=2 was said to be a law, because that is what the human mind can grasp and Hatou's mind is fundamentally still human. So she likely couldn't observe a possibility where 1+1≠2.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Cain (DC Comics) Cain's Profile
Losses:
Inconclusive:
==References==
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