Time Manipulation

## Summary

**Time Manipulation** is the ability to control time itself; the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.

While some abilities technically have to interact with time to some level to work, this page only lists uses that directly are related to its direct influence. As such, abilities such as Time Travel or Clairvoyance are their own pages.

Also note that while the ability deals with the concept of time, its branching paths are covered by another ability, which is Probability Manipulation/Fate Manipulation

## Types

**1. Time Acceleration:** The ability to accelerate the flow of time. The user may be able to use it on themselves or their ally to make themselves faster, or at the opposite, may be able to use it under a more deadly form, which is to speed-up a target's time to make them age or decay at a faster rate. Other applications may also include accelerating an object's speed to turn it into a deadly weapon or accelerating a target's growth to make them reach their prime faster.

* Users: Hunter Zolomon (DC Comics), Enrico Pucci (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) through his stand Made in Heaven

**2. Time Deceleration:** The ability to slow down the flow of time. The user may be able to use it on a target to dampen their movements, making their attacks easier to avoid and the user's harder to dodge. An unconventional application would be to slow the user's own time, which may allow them to live longer by slowing down their aging or the progress of an ailment inflicted on them.

* Users: Foxy (One Piece), Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach), Doze (Homestuck)

**3. Time Stop:** The ability to stop the flow of time. The user may be able to use it on a target to completely halt their movement, allowing them to protect themselves from attack and do as they please in stopped time. Some advanced users may also be able to partially use it on themselves to stop their aging process or to completely prevent change from happening upon them, by having their own body frozen in time. When not purposely used on themselves for defensive purposes, users of this ability usually have Resistance to it, allowing them to move in their time stop as well as in others'.

* Users: Dio Brando (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure), Hit (Dragon Ball)

**4. Time Reversal:** The ability to reverse the flow of time. The user may be able to use it as a form of healing, by rewinding their own body's or an object's time, allowing them to heal from inflicted wounds or to go back to a previous state, or to use it offensively, by rewinding a target's time to a more fragile state of existence, or even erase them by rewinding before their birth. Others possible uses would be the ability to create Time Loop; a moment in time that keeps rewinding itself over and over, effective to trap or torture a victim; a Time Reset; undoing all events that happened in a certain period of time, or as an unconventional mean of Time Travel, where, instead of making the user the one who moves across time, it is time that moves around the user.

* Users: Yoshikage Kira (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) through his stand Killer Queen Bites the Dust, Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya series) through her infamous Endless Eight time loop

## Limitations

* Type 1 users may not have the perception time needed to match their physical acceleration
* Type 2 users may find their time slow useless against a target that is too fast even when affected
* Type 3 users may not able to move or harm objects, since their time stop would prevent any change
* Type 4 users may be affected by their own ability, making them unable to consciously use it