Titan Nova

**Name**: Titan Nova

**Species**: Titan

**Homeworld**: Earth

**Appearance**: Nova Titan stood roughly 60 meters tall, making him around four times the height of any other Titan seen so far. His hair grew long enough to graze his shoulders, and his tongue and ears became elongated. His facial features also underwent a transformation; he developed a prominent, hooked nose, his eyes became deeply sunken within their sockets, and his mouth took on an unusual, jagged shape that was unsuited for intelligible speech. Despite this, he was capable of howling and roaring in order to express his exhaustion and anger. In addition, he also lacked lips and flesh on his cheeks, so his teeth were exposed. Nova Titan is well-proportioned and physically fit, sporting a well-defined, lean, and muscular appearance in lieu of the more common pot-bellied or emaciated appearances of regular Titans. The Omnitrix symbol is on his chest.

**Powers and Abilities**:

**Regeneration**: Titan Nova could regenerate his body, as long as he has the will to live. He was even able to grow back his entire head in the event of a partial or complete decapitation. Regeneration from severe injuries such as lost limbs could strain his powers and prevent him from transforming for a period of time; healing took much longer as a human than as a Titan. The time it took to regenerate depended on the extent of the injury and how focused he was on healing that area. This healing was not absolute, however, and could be overwhelmed if the injury was severe enough. It was also possible to intentionally delay the healing, which Alex used to infiltrate Negav as an injured soldier, or when he was able to hold off on regenerating several wounds received during his time infiltrating Arayd. The only surefire way to kill Titan Nova was through severing the brain's connection to the rest of the body, although it was possible to survive even this by transferring the mind to the rest of the nervous system.

**Enhanced Strength**: As a result of Titan Nova's form being much more muscular than other Titans, he was much stronger in terms of physical strength. During his first transformation, he was able to decapitate a 15m Titan with a single punch and kill a 7m Titan with little effort. With both arms lost, he was also strong enough to bite into the neck of a large, abnormal Titan that ate Julie and lift it up above his head. With enough force, Titan Nova was able to throw the abnormal into another Titan hard enough to knock them both into a building. Against the Female Titan in the Titan Desert, Titan Nova had enough physical force to leave large craters in the ground, as well as lift the Female Titan into the air with a punch. Ultimately, Titan Nova greatest display of strength was when he lifted a giant boulder, albeit with difficulty, carried it across a large distance, and slammed it down to seal the hole in Frost's gate, producing a large shock wave.

**Explosive transformation**: Although all Titans generated enormous amounts of heat and energy when transforming, Titan Nova took this to the next level. He could control the energy produced during his transformation to create various effects. For instance, when he attacked the middle tier, his transformation only causes a wind blast that knocked some trainees over the Wall. However, during the Battle of freedom, Titan Nova released a much larger explosion, creating a mushroom cloud of dust and rubble, ravaging part of the city, and killing a great number of Isolon Fist soldiers. He also used this ability to wipe out most of, if not all of the Isolon Fist naval fleet present at the Raid in a tremendous explosion sending a massive wave of energy inland and destroying the port.

**Size**: As a peak Titan, Titan Nova is infamous for his incredible size, standing at a previously unseen 60 meters and being tall enough to peer over the top of the Walls. He also possessed incredible physical strength, able to destroy the outer gate of Wall Negav with a single kick, launch entire houses in the air, and send Hiroko's Attack Titan flying from the ground to the top of Wall Maria. He also used the Colossus Titan's immense strength and size to ensure the destruction of the Marine ships and naval port by stepping on them after his transformation.

**Steam emission**: The unique ability possessed by Titan Nova appears to have been significant control over the amounts of steam emitted by his body. In normal circumstances, Titans emitted steam from wounds while regenerating, and their bodies would evaporate completely into steam after receiving a killing blow. However, Titan Nova is capable of emitting great amounts of steam at will. This power could be used for a variety of purposes. By emitting great amounts of steam at once, the pressure and force of the steam would burn and repel any individuals in close proximity to Titan Nova that were not fixed in place; in addition, if anyone was affixed to it, they would be at his mercy and constantly roasted by the heat. However, frequent or constant usage of this ability rendered Titan Nova's muscles immobile. Prolonged use of this ability also took a toll on Titan Nova, decreasing his muscle mass gradually until only the skeletal structure remains. In some cases when it was necessary, Titan Nova was capable of evaporating his entire body at once, disappearing instantly. This did put him in a position of great vulnerability, with no way of preventing a fall from a great height where Titan Nova once was. However, this disadvantage could be alleviated if Alex switches into another alien form.

**Armored skin**: The defining feature of Titan Nova was the all-encompassing layer of plated, armor-like segments of hardened skin protecting his body. This armor was capable of shielding Titan Nova from significant amounts of damage, shielding direct hit from a cannon, breaking ultrahard steel blades of vertical maneuvering equipment when struck and withstanding the Colossus Titan's explosive transformation. However, the armor had some limitations and was not capable of protecting Titan Nova from high-power weaponry such as the Mid-East Allied Forces' anti-Titan artillery. The armor could be used for physical protection as well as offensively, dealing great damage upon impact on anything he charges. While certainly formidable, the primary disadvantage of Titan Nova's skin was the decreased speed. Whether due to increased weight or restrained movement, Titan Nova was only capable of maintaining moderate running speeds when completely armored. This could be alleviated if he chose to shed segments of the armor to increase movement capability, such as the armor behind the knees, enabling Titan Nova to move with incredible speed. A lesser-known disadvantage was that if the holder of the Founding Titan wished to, they were able to cause the hardened skin of Titan Nova to crumble away to nothing; this left him prone and extremely vulnerable to damage. However, this only seemed to apply to the current body created by transforming, as transforming into Titan Nova later revealed it to be restored of his namesake armor.

**Future memory inheritance**: While all of the Nine Titans could receive memories of past inheritors, Titan Nova could also receive memories of inheritors yet to come. Alex described it as "the power to transcend time." These memories led those with Titan Nova to move forward, fighting for freedom. Alex received memories of Noctis telling his son to protect his wife and daughter, although he did not know whose memories they were. Titan Nova saw that he was able to reach the Coordinate in the unknown land after seeing the future from Alma's memories. However, just like how memories from the past were often incomplete, memories from the future were incomplete as well: He did not know that Hugo only obeys those with royal blood.

**Adaptation**: According to Alex, it was particularly easy for Titan Nova to exhibit abilities similar to those of the other Titans if it consumed parts of them.

**Titan Attraction**: Similar to the Founding Titan and Beast Titan, Titan Nova was able to exercise a degree of influence over Pure Titans through a scream-based ability; in Titan Nova's case, it was able to attract Pure Titans to himself. Titan Nova used this ability to gather Titans on Death Island to the Walls during the fall of Wall Jackie. The downside of the attraction ability was that once the Titans following Titan Nova arrived at his location, they would attack him and eat his body. Under normal circumstances, this could lead to disaster him; but on some occasions, this phenomenon could be used to his advantage. With the Omnitrix, Alex could escape from Titan Nova as other Titans consumed its body; and the steam emitted from the continuously inflicted wounds could serve as a cover for him if he did not desire to be seen.

**Versatility**: Titan Nova was also known for his high endurance and mobility, the greatest instance of this being the journey to the Walls, where he ran what can be deduced as near to the coastline of Paraside Island to the distant Walls, although this exhausted him to the point of resting in bed for several hours.

**Hardening**: Titan Nova possessed the ability to harden his skin, able to shatter blades of ultrahard steel upon contact. Besides its defensive properties, this hardening made Titan Nova's melee attacks significantly stronger, with a single well-placed blow being capable of dismembering or even decapitating other Titans. He also used this ability while coming out of his Titan's nape to create a crystal cocoon around himself.

**Powerful throwing**: Titan Nova possessed a devastating ability to throw objects with great accuracy and immense destructive capability. This was notably used during the battle of 2 District to wipe out most of the Corps with crushed rocks. Towards the end of the Liam Mid-East War, he annihilated the entire naval fleet of the Mid-East Allied Forces stationed at Fort Naga.

**Speed and agility**: Titan Nova demonstrated significant amounts of speed and agility in his Titan form. He could even move fast enough to catch most of the other Nine Titans off guard. Though he was relatively small and weak, his mobility excelled in terrain such as Titan Forests.

**Crushing strength**: Titan Nova possessed incredible biting and crushing strength in his jaws and claws which could be used with devastating efficiency against both Titans and man-made structures. His claws were strong enough to cause severe damage to armored opponents such as turrets and even the crystal shell created by the War Hammer Titan. The force of his jaws was shown to be strong enough to chew through the hardened Titan armor generated by Akira as well as the aforementioned crystal shell surrounding the War Hammer Titan, something not even the Attack Titan was able to achieve. His powers manifested in different ways such having hardened teeth, armored masks, jaw plating and hardened fingers that could withstand gunfire.

**Flight**: Titan Nova was able to sprout wings and a tail which allowed him to take flight while carrying multiple people on his body.

**Titan creation**: Titan Nova could transform his subjects into Titans and could even make them as massive as the Colossus Titan. He presumably used this ability to create the thousands of Colossus Titans that made up the Walls. He could also transform his subjects into Titans by screaming after injecting those he wishes to transform with the beast's spinal fluid.

**Titan control**: By screaming, Titan Nova has the ability to control Titans at will and make them follow virtually any order without question. This was demonstrated by him, who unintentionally commanded nearby Pure Titans to eat Wei's Titan and attack the Armored Titan. It appeared to be only effective on Pure Titans, although those with the power of the Titans can still feel its influence. It was also used by him to build the Walls, who commanded many Colossus Titans to harden their bodies and confine themselves within the resulting structures. He used to use this ability to command an army of Titans for war; however, once set loose, these Titans became indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction that would slaughter his enemies. This ability had no known range, although he used it to command Colossus Titans that span across a large portion of the Island. He claimed the power has the capacity to wipe out all the Titans, if used to its full potential.

**Memory manipulation**: Titan Nova was able to modify the minds and memories of his subjects, even entire populations at once. This ability was related to the Titan control ability: As noted by Alex, Titans are simply transformed humans (specifically, the Subjects of Ymir); therefore, the screams that control the minds of the former should be able to affect the latter as well. It was used by him to make the Subjects of Ymir inside the Walls forget the history of the world before the Walls' installation. It was also used by him to remove Alma's memories of her visits. These memories, however, appeared to be accessible in dreams, as Alma would sometimes be able to dream about her encounters with Alex , although she would forget about them once she awoke. Members of the Ackerman bloodline were resistant to this ability while anyone who was not a Subject of Ymir was unaffected by it.

**Anatomical manipulation**: Titan Nova was capable of changing the body composition of any Subject of Ymir. He once used this power to make the Subjects of Ymir immune to a rampant epidemic. He wanted to use this ability to make all Subjects of Ymir sterile, so they would die out in a generation and rid the world of Titans once and for all.

**Telepathic communication**: Titan Nova could telepathically connect with all of the Subjects of Ymir by way of the paths they are connected to. He used this ability to communicate with every Subject of Ymir when announcing his plans for the Rumbling of the world.

**Clairvoyance**: Similar to the Attack Titan's future memory inheritance ability that allows inheritors to receive future memories from future inheritors, Titan Nova can take things to a much greater scale and directly influence things in the past, although only to preserve history the way it's already played out. It also enables him the ability to perceive time in a non-linear fashion, being able to see the past, present, and future simultaneously. As a drawback, it causes him to think incoherently to a degree and go with the flow of events he have already seen, even if it is something he would be against doing. Alex goes into depth about the drawbacks about this ability when he converses with Alma in the realm of paths and sorrowfully reveals that he used it to influence Wei's Pure Titan to ignore Beth and head to Shiganshina instead, indirectly causing his mother to be devoured.

**Endurance**: Titan Nova possessed a level of endurance greater than that of the other members of the Nine Titans, allowing him to partake in long missions without the need for rest. His absorption resistance allowed him to maintain his Titan form for long periods of time, making him an ideal candidate for a variety of tactics, including the clearing of trenches, and long-term operations into enemy territory. Likewise, Alex claims that Titan Nova's power allowed him to perform hundreds of consecutive transformations before he started to feel fatigued. On the downside, Titan Nova had much lower defenses than the other Nine Titans and was more likely to be taken down by a critical or severe blow. Another major disadvantage was that Titan Nova did not have the same regenerative speed as the other Titan inheritors, requiring a longer period of time to heal wounds received in combat.

**Quadrupedal form**: Titan Nova stood out as unusual among the Nine Titans for his quadrupedal form. As a side-effect to Titan Nova and staying in his form for extended periods of time, he was liable to forget how to walk normally and would instead crawl like Titan Nova. Alex was often seen crawling similarly to Titan Nova when in the presence of few people, and also used crutches when getting around. In addition to its combat abilities, Titan Nova was often used to carry supplies or troops during times of conflict. Examples of this include during the course of the Great Titan War as well as the Battle of Marie In addition, Titan Nova was also used as a mobile gunnery platform, being able to wear harnesses that could hold various weapons; this included several machine gun turrets and much larger weapons such as an anti-Titan artillery cannon.

**Structural hardening**: Titan Nova could produce and manipulate structures that were made of hardened Titan flesh. These structures could be weaponized—for example, forming pikes large enough to impale and lift a 15m Titan, flooding areas with protrusions such as spikes, and manifesting the Titan's signature war hammer. This ability could also create serrated and bladed weapons, such as a sickle, battle axe or a broadsword; even more noteworthy was that Titan Nova was capable of manifesting flexible weaponry components, such as the string of a crossbow or the whips of a cat-o'-nine-tails, making this a particularly unique brand of hardening. This hardening could also be used to encase the human operator of Titan Nova inside a crystal casing. He retains consciousness while encased inside the crystal, allowing him to control the Titan body. While durable, this crystal casing could be damaged when struck or crushed by a more resilient structure; the Jaw Titan's claws and teeth were the only structures seen to have been capable of such a feat. It was stated Alex that while they are certainly a powerful asset, Titan Nova's structural hardening abilities were to be used in moderation; otherwise, constant usage in a short amount of time could quickly deplete him of stamina.

**Remote operation**: Unlike any of the other Nine Titans, it was possible Titan Nova to remove his control center from the nape. Under such circumstances, the body of Titan Nova would be connected to Alex by a long cable of flesh, while Alex's body was encased in a hardened crystal and connected to said cable. If the cable was severed, Titan Nova's body would be deactivated, although a new Titan body could still be made. Unlike the rest of the Nine Titans, Titan Nova's body could emerge from various locations upon transformation because Alex did not need to be inside of his nape.

**Weakness**: