Maveth Gaze

### Abilities

Allows the user to perceive the "lines of death" of all beings and items, physical or intangible, thus allowing them to cut through it and actualize death.

### Wielder(s)

**Belial Clan*** Baelor Belial
* Cleria Belial
* Daemon Youngblood

**Maveth Gaze**, also known as the **Evil Eyes** or the **Eyes of Death**, is the extremely rare hereditary ability of the Belial Clan. It is the demonic version of Angels of Death's unique ability to perceive and deliver a fast and painless death.

## Summary

Maveth Gaze is an ability the original Belial created based on one of the angelic abilities she lost when she became a Demon. Because of this, it is considered a demonic version of it - The unique power of the angels of death which allows them to instantly perceive the lines of death that exist in all beings and items, regardless if they are physical, incorporeal or even conceptual, and deliver a quick, instant and painless death by severing these lines.

During the later years of the Great War, her great-grandson Baelor Belial became the first devil of her clan to inherit this ability after he achieved his Devil Trigger. With his Maveth Gaze, he became one of the most feared devils of all times, killing hundreds of thousands of the Netherworld's enemies and even bringing dozens of pureblood devil houses into extinction.

Another member who possessed the Maveth Gaze is Baelor's niece, Cleria Belial, who was heralded as one of the strongest female devils of her generation and the hero who convinced the Belial Clan to switch size to the Anti-Satan Faction during the Devil Civil War.

Due to unknown reasons, though Baelor personally believed that it was the doings of Heaven for causing the deaths of a pair of soulmates, Daemon Youngblood - Cleria Belial and Masaomi Yaegaki's son - was naturally born with the infamous Maveth Gaze, signifying his relations to the Belial Clan.

## Appearance

When activating Maveth Gaze, their eyes turn bright blue while a blood-red ring appears around the irises. For Daemon, whose Maveth Gaze is constantly activated, his eyes are a bright gold which ranged from sunset-colored to a toxic yellow based on people's description.

## Abilities

According to Baelor, Maveth Gaze can be called a circuit that opens up in the brain and eyes to allow the user to "perceive death", the conceptual "death of an existence", as visual signals in the forms of lines and points. Its usage is not entirely dependent on the eyes of the user, as they can still "see" lines should they go blind or gouge them out, as rather than "seeing", it is more like they are "observing" everything at a higher level as "death" is invisible to all beings.

Its ability to perceive death of a being or object depends entirely upon the user's perception of death. The brain and Maveth Gaze work as a set, so having different "specs" allows for great differences in the users' abilities to perceive death. They can show the death of things, the weak points where everything is most easily broken and the imperfection in everything that will break down one day. They can be said to see the fate of all things, seeing the future, allowing them to see death. While there is a difference as to when a person or object will "end," it is certain that they will all arrive at that point because death is not something that "arrives," but rather is something already contained within an object at its creation and certainly bound to happen as part of the principle of causality.

Anything with an origin must have an end, a "time of death" determined at the beginning, and as it already exists, it is not impossible to comprehend such a concept with the appropriate circuit in the eyes and brain, allowing them to be viewed as though a microscope. It is normal that cutting a living being's neck would kill them, their life stopping because it was cut, and conversely not being able to cut a being's neck would mean that they will not die. The eyes can ignore the cause, instead allowing them to kill even that which is immune to all external effects. That which is cut falls apart and that which is "killed" becomes "dead," but rather than "tracing the lines causing the object to fall apart" and the object becoming dead because it was cut, it is "ending the lifespan and killing the object." It is the erasure of existence rather than physical destruction, so the object is "stopped" and the cut is the end result.

### Lines of Death

Death emerges to the surface of an existence as lines, and cutting along them will result in "death", regardless of the constitution or properties of the object. They have no particular structure, so they can be described as solid, black "zigzagging scribbles" all over the world, even within the air itself, that look like cracks. They are harder to see during the day due to the light, but emit a sort of glow at night. The lines of a living organism will keep changing position as long as it is alive, constantly moving and irregular.

They can be traced with any sort of object, effectively "breaking" the person or object along the line, cleanly cutting it without any need for force. The object tracing the lines "sinks into it", and although a finger will fit into the thicker parts, thinner objects like rulers or knives are more effective. While anything can be cut, the user has no say in where they can cut, as it depends on the placement of the lines.

Baelor theorizes that the lines are something like the weakest parts of the joints between molecules in an object or a predesignated switch within the genetic makeup that activates the death of the object. Completing a cut makes it impossible to heal under normal circumstances, as the lines that are cut cause the corresponding part to die, making them never able to move again even if the main body is alive. However, by completely reinventing the conceptual structure of a body part and abandoning the conceptual structure that had been traced, that part may also be regenerated.

Beings will have different amounts of lines depending on their complexity. Humans will have a countable amount in geometric patterns, while the dead have numerous lines all over their bodies that make their appearance hard to discern. The majority of supernatural beings will often have very few "parts vulnerable to death." Even those without physical bodies like ghosts and spirits or divine beings such as gods or angels are also able to be killed.

### Points of Death

Points of Death are from where all lines seem to flow, resembling blood vessels. There can be a number of them on an object, and, whereas the lines are "where things die easily", the points are "death itself." The eyes do not actually kill "the body", as the power of killing someone's life is very common in the world. The "points" seen by the eyes end the very meaning, the "existence", of whatever is "killed." The destruction, the extinguishing of life that comes afterward, is only a side effect of destroying their existence. Striking the point makes the entity completely cease to function. What "makes a living person a living person" or what "makes a hallway a hallway" is ended in the simplest way, unraveling its existence and making it no more. This makes it possible to kill the soul without harming the body, allowing for the destruction of one of two souls in a single body without the death of the other soul or the body itself. The weaker soul is the one that will be ended, so it is a battle of strength in that case.

Points can be pierced by sharp objects. Piercing a point effectively “erases” that object from existence, causing the entity to completely cease in function. It can stop certain inherent properties such as momentum, toxicity, and generally any effect it may impose on its surroundings. Disease, poison, and cursed corruption can be completely negated. Living things whose point was pierced get “stopped” and, as a consequence, die. Those who have accumulated an exceptionally large weight of existence take longer to die because there is more of their existence that needs to unravel. It is absolutely permanent and can't be reversed or bypassed, as only those such as the Celestial Princes are truly capable of performing such feats.

## Weaknesses

The ability to kill something with the eyes requires the user to actually strike the target, so those physically above the user will easily be able to avoid them with little worry. There are also existences that are hard or impossible to kill due to their nature such as those whose true form exist on a level of existence much higher than what the user's capable of comprehending. Something "made of words" and "which has yet to exist" cannot be "killed." Beings who can also be called a "phenomenon" like "wind storms" and "typhoons", and while individual events of such phenomenon can be dispersed, it is impossible to outright kill the phenomenon itself.

There are also those who lack an actual death, such as the Angels, Fallen angels, and Demons. While lines and points can be seen on them, they are too close to being "perfect life" in their true essence-like form they don't even carry the concept of death. Beings like the Celestial Princes and the Primordial Deities lack the concept of death entirely, so the ability will not affect them under any circumstance.

## Trivia

* "Maveth" (מָוֶת) is a Hebrew word meaning "death".
* This ability can only be gained after the user has gained a deep connection with death.
	+ The original Belial being a retainer of Azrael, the primordial angel of Death herself.
	+ Baelor Belial spent a prolonged amount of time drifting between life and death and even came into contact with Pralaya, the personification of the void itself.
	+ Cleria Belial was essentially killed by an unnamed devil and immediately sustained by Baelor, though it is implied that her body already had the ability but it was simply brought to the forefront and awakened by the accident.
	+ Daemon was originally thought to be an exception, but was later revealed to be the incarnation of Thysía, the archreaper who personifies the death of "sacrifice".
* The angels of death's version of this ability is so unbelievably strong that they can kill by just a glance and even overwhelm users of Maveth Gaze.
	+ The archreapers' version is said to be so powerful that it even overwhelms the angels of death's and can kill any being from anywhere across Creation.
* It became so infamous after the Devil Civil War because of Baelor Belial's actions that the curses "Baelor look at you" or "Baelor see you off" were born and became popular in the years that followed.