Subaru Natsuki

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==Summary==
Natsuki Subaru is the main protagonist of the Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu. He was a shut-in who was sent to a fantasy world. As a child, Subaru always idolized his father, and always felt the pressure of having to live up to being his father's son, his father was very friendly and well-liked by everyone. In grade school, Subaru was the fastest in his class and the smartest and was always the one, who would always be trying new things to get attention, he noticed that as his acts to get attention got more extreme, more and more of his friends left him.
As he grew older, he was no longer the fastest or the smartest, and eventually, he had no friends. Still feeling pressure from being his father's son he tried to reinvent himself in high school, however that failed as he tried to imitate his father's eccentric behavior, which he always showed around him, however, he didn't know at the time that not even his father acted that way around other people. Because of this, he made a complete fool of himself on his high school debut, and slowly, he felt anxious when going to school. He started skipping school, once a week became twice a week until eventually, he stopped going to school altogether. Every day when it was time for school, he always felt anxious, he wanted his parents to disown him for being a failure of a son, but they never did.
After being summoned to a new world, he saw this as a chance to make a fresh start. Exploring this world he met a beautiful half elf girl named Emilia and decided to assist her in her quest. However, Subaru didn't change as a person and failed, being murdered along with Emilia by the assassin Elsa Granhiert. After his death Subaru suddenly found himself returned to the exact time and place that he arrived in this new world. Realizing he now possessed an ability he named "Return by Death", which allows Subaru to return to an unspecified "save point" in the past whenever he dies. He decided that he would use this new power to save Emilia and, though he succeeded, was eventually exposed for what he was- a person forcing their feelings on someone else, and that his white-knighting doesn't work out in the real world. He thought of himself as the hero of his own story, but was faced with reality when he didn't have the OP powers of a usual protagonist, he however chose to ignore that he wasn't the hero and that the world would go on with or without him and tried to force his way into Emilia's affairs, and in the process made a complete fool of himself.
Subaru continued to travel with Emilia and suffered through multiple deaths, facing tragedy after tragedy, gaining new friends and allies only to lose them, the world proceeding to show him how weak he was, and that he couldn't save anyone. After being utterly broken, he wanted to run away but was however stopped by Rem. This became the turning point for his character; he truly made an effort to change himself rather than expect that as the supposed protagonist, everything would work out, which it didn't before as he had to watch the results of his failures and see the people he cared for die over and over again. Subaru indeed became a changed character, and he tries to live up to the expectations of a hero that Rem had for him.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , higher with Patrasche | , higher with Whip and Patrasche, even higher with Invisible Providence
Key: Arc 1-4 | Arc 5-6
Name: Subaru Natsuki, Barusu, Lolimancer
Origin: Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
Gender: Male
Age: 17 (Arc 1-4), 18 (Arc 5+)
Classification: Human, Knight, Spirit Mage, Sage Candidate
Powers and Abilities: 
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Attack Potency: Wall level+ (Can harm people who can harm him), higher with Patrasche (Patrasche can crush Subaru's skull) | Wall level+ (Stronger than before as he trained himself between Arc's 4 and 5), higher with Whip and Patrasche, even higher with Invisible Providence, Can ignore conventional durability with Beatrice
Speed: Athletic Human combat speed, Superhuman travel speed with Patrasche (Ground dragons travel at close to 60 miles per hourVolume 4, Chapter 1), at least Supersonic perception and reaction speed (Perceived Garfiel's attack in slow motion. Dodged multiple attacks from Rem when she was going berserk in Oni Mode. Kicked a table over interceptingVolume 1, Chapter 5 the knives Elsa threw) | Athletic Human combat speed (Superior to before), at least Supersonic perception speed and reaction speed, Superhuman travel speed with Patrasche, Superhuman with Transonic attack speed for the loop of the whip (The loop itself can break the sound barrier) and Supersonic attack speed for the tip of the whip (Can exceed the speed of soundArc 7, Chapter 4), at least Supersonic combat speed with Beatrice
Lifting Strength: At least Above Average Human, possibly Athletic Human (Threw Ram several meters away. Lifted a wolfgarm that is built twice as thickly as the dogs Subaru has seen, with one arm. Has a grip strength of 70 kilograms) | At least Above Average Human, possibly Athletic Human (Superior to before)
Striking Strength: Wall level+ | Wall level+
Durability: Wall level+ (Tanked an attack knocking him into a wall hard enough to do this), higher with Patrasche | Wall level+, higher with Patrasche, Unknown with Beatrice's Barriers
Stamina: Superhuman (Immediately went back to fighting, after having his nose, teeth and ribs broken.Volume 1, Chapter 2 Endured the pain of having his heart squeezed. Became accustomed to having his innards being wrung.Volume 13, Chapter 4 Subaru will endure pain and sufferingVolume 20, Chapter 6 as many times as it takes to save those he cares for) | Superhuman
Range: Standard Melee Range, Several Meters with Whip, Tens of Meters with Invisible Providence | Standard Melee Range, Several Meters with Whip, Tens of Meters with Invisible Providence, Hundreds of Kilometers with Teleportation (Teleported Subaru from Roswaal's Mansion to the Sanctuary.Volume 14, Chapter 2 The Sanctuary is a 7-8 hour tripVolume 10, Chapter 1 by dragon carriage from the Mansion), Interdimensional with Al Shamak 
Standard Equipment: A whip which he uses as his primary weapon, and his ground dragon Patrasche. 
*Optional Equipment: His contracted Spirit Partner Beatrice
Intelligence: Above Average (Subaru has developed an acute nose for danger due to repeatedly facing dangerous situations. He is very analytical, paying close attention to his allies, surrounding and enemies, to come up with insightful ideas how to overcome his predicaments. For example, he is the one who came up with how to trap the Great Rabbit) | Gifted (Subaru is a hardened veteran when it came to sudden, unexpected brushes with death. Because of that he was able to figure out that the centaur doesn't have any vision, nor smell, despite never seeing it before)
Weaknesses: Subaru is physically weak and has to rely on allies for support. Subaru can only return to his latest "save point" after death and cannot control when the save points are set. He also experiences intense trauma with each death which can cause him great psychological distress. For this reason, he tends not to rely on "Return by Death", using it only as a last resort. Invisible Providence causes him enormous pain, thus can't be used continuously.
Notable Attacks/Techniques: 
*Return by Death: An Authority which returns Subaru to an unspecified, unpredictable and uncontrollable "save point" after his death. It activates instantly after his life is taken, there's no lag between the point of death and the point of resurrection, and there is supposedly no limit to how many times he can return. This Authority allows Subaru an endless amount of second-chances as he can recall the events of previous loops he has died in, inherently knowing what will happen and the rough actions the people around him will take, almost like a form of precognition. As he usually tries to do different things every time he returned to life, Subaru is able to gather more intel on how his allies and opponents behave under specific conditions, allowing him to predict their movements and plan strategies accordingly. Subaru is not allowed to reveal this ability to anyone and there are penalties for attempting to do so or if anyone is to find out about it. Usually when he tries to speak about it Satella forcibly silences him by grasping his heart, but if Subaru attempts to reveal his ability irrespective of this penalty she will find another appropriate punishment, such as when she killed Emilia when Subaru was dead set on telling her. If anyone is to discover the ability on their own then Satella will appear herself in order to rectify it, such as when she attacked Pleiades Watchtower when Rui gained knowledge of the Authority's details by eating Subaru's memories, though it should be noted that simply knowing that Subaru can redo through some unknown means will not trigger this penalty, as can be seen in Roswaal's case. Every time he Returns by Death or triggers the penalty, the Witch's miasma, that attracts Witchbeasts, looming around him grows stronger. Subaru can however use these penalties to his advantage- such as when Petelgeuse attempted to possess him, Subaru began to reveal his power to the invading spirit and Satella appeared which forced Petelgeuse out, or the many times Subaru has used himself as a decoy to lure Witchbeasts into traps.
*Shamak: Shamak allows the user to be able to trap their opponents in an area of darkness that seperates their senses from their body. The targets become unable to sense where they are; however, they can still feel the ground and understanding what's happening to their body. After abusing this spell too much Subaru caused his Gate to collapse, and he is no longer able to use it or any magic unless through Spirit Arts with Beatrice.
*Authority: Subaru is currently in possession of two other Authorities beside Return by Death, Sloth and Greed:
**Invisible Providence: His Authority of Sloth allows Subaru to create an invisible force field in the shape of a hand, an oddly similar ability to the previous user. He acquired this Authority from the Sloth Witch Factor which previously belonged to Petelgeuse. However he is only able to control one hand, and using the Authority causes extreme physical backlash.
**Cor Leonis: His Authority of Greed which functions as an inverse form of the previous holder of Greed, Regulus', "Little King"- which Subaru manifested in Arc 6. As such, it works inversely to how Little King does, in which Subaru takes on the burdens of others, either physical or mental, and transfers them to himself temporarily in exchange for an increase in their combat abilities. It seems that it only works on people who Subaru has a strong emotional connection, whom he can perceive through points of light when the Authority is active. Subaru can use it to derive the relative location of allies and their emotional states.
*Spirit Arts User: Subaru is contracted with the Artificial Spirit Beatrice which allows him to take advantage of her vast array of magic spells and lets them use unique original magics: 
**Shamak: A basic Yin Magic spell that allows the user to be able to trap their opponents in an area of darkness that seperates their senses from their body. The targets become unable to sense where they are; however, they can still feel the ground and understanding what's happening to their body. Beatrice's Shamak is potent enough to destroy all 5 of a target's senses while active.
**El Shamak: The target becomes unable to form thoughts, and their will to fight is robbed from them.
**Ul Shamak: Creates an enormous black hole in the targeted space that swallows the victim into it's unknown depths.
**Al Shamak: The ultimate Yin Magic spell which is capable of opening a hole to another dimension and sends the target through, never to be seen again.
**Minya: Creates stakes made of crystallized mana covered with light purple flames. They freeze and shatter the time of a target, which makes them a kind of instant-death magic that negates any defense, sentencing the target to death with even a scratch. Any stakes in the air explode and release smaller stakes that fly in all directions which then rips targets apart.
**El Minya: The same as Minya except the number of stakes can go up to 40.
**Ul Minya: A purple gleam forms a circle around the target, and one massive purple light of Minya appears in the sky to crash down at the target in a huge explosion, or a countless number of Minya stakes appear that block off all escape routes and fire at the target.
**Murak: Reduces the effects of gravity. Just by jumping lightly a person can jump as if they had springs. If the user wishes to, it can also be used to fly, although the user will get blown around by the wind like a leaf, but they won't flip around in midair. Beatrice can reduce a person's weight to zero in an instant.
**Vita: Increases the effects of gravity. It can make oneself or a target weigh more than a hundred-and-some-dozen kilograms heavier than normal.
**E・M・M: An original "absolute defense magic" co-developed with Beatrice. Using Yin Magic, Beatrice interferes with the space-time around Subaru, side-stepping their plane of existence, and while they can't move during activation, they experiences no interference from outside the barrier. It is similar to Regulus' Authority of Greed but doesn't have the same risk, and can be used until mana runs out.
**E・M・T: An original "absolute negation magic" co-developed with Beatrice. Using Yin Magic, Beatrice creates a spherical field several tens of meters long with herself and Subaru at the center which negates the effects from mana within it. It is useful against mages and those who use mana to assist their techniques; however, the spell only negates the use of mana, so it has no effect against opponents who fight without it.
Note: Subaru being able to put up a fight against Elsa in arc 1 was complete PIS, as he has been repeatedly stated and shown to be weak in comparison to characters like Elsa. The fight also had even more inconsistent/pis moments such as Subaru being able to react to Elsa faster than Reinhard could. 
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
*Frisk (Undertale) Frisk's Profile (Arc 5-6 Subaru and Frisk with Immense Determination were used. Speed was equalized)
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