Balance Breaker

## Summary

According to many angels and fallen angels, Balance Breaker is a major "bug" within the incomplete Sacred Gear System created by the Biblical God. However, several gods such as Indra, Odin, and Sun Wukong believe them to be a deliberate function created by the Biblical God, to prepare humans against incursions of inhuman forces, both of supernatural and extraterrestrial origins.

It is considered a forbidden technique by the Three Factions. It is also known as the ultimate state of activation for a Sacred Gear, often triggered by high emotions combined with a change in the heart and/or spirit of the user. According to Ddraig, it represents the user's evolution, both as a person and as a warrior.

## Abilities

Balance Breaker is the most powerful manifestation of all Sacred Gears, in which the user's feelings and determinations trigger this evolution. Once reached, it can be entered again far more easily than the first time. An incomplete Balance Breaker can be reached by self-sacrifice on the part of the user, though this method does not count as a true activation. A full Balance Breaker can only be triggered by character growth, representing a permanent change in the user going forward.

With proper - and often intense - training, it can be maintained for long periods of time. And although manifesting Balance Breaker form does require a large amount of energy, skilled magicians can actively draw upon the prana from the surrounding environment to replace their own mana. An example is Vali Lucifer, who, by absorbing the surrounding prana and converting it into miasma, was able to maintain the Balance Breaker form of his Divine Dividing for over a month.

## Classifications

### Crest Side

**Crest Side: Surface Sublimation** is the regular state of Balance Breaker that is achieved through strengthening, combined with the user experiencing a dramatic change in their spirit. It consists of the Sacred Gear's original Balance Breaker, as it is the most common form of Balance Breaker, as well as its Sub-Species Balance Breaker. The Sub-Species Balance Breaker is often different from the original one, taking a new form and gaining new abilities based on the user's emotions and desires. Because of this, Sub-Species Balance Breaker is considered more powerful than the standard Balance Breaker.

The method to attain a Sub-Species Balance Breaker is currently unknown but it seems to involve the user's personality, which reflects on the obtained abilities of the Balance Breaker. Certain skilled Sacred Gear users have also shown the ability to control what abilities they can obtain from their Sub-Species, as Han Zhihao stated that he would like to alter his destruction orb into a new ability, though he mentions that he cannot make the ability too different from its original form.

### Abyss Side

**Abyss Side: Abyssal Sublimation** is an advanced form of Balance Breaker. By desiring to further improve oneself after attaining the Balance Breaker, it is possible for the Balance Breaker to undergo further change and achieve an "ultra-special-ultimate" state. Often, this is achieved by overcoming the user's own inner demons and polishing their Balance Breaker to absolute perfection.

### X-Side

**X-Side: Fortuitous Sublimation** is an irregular and unique type of Balance Breaker. This class of Balance Breaker belongs to a category that can't be classified under any of the known categories due to being irregular, either due to sudden change or it being a combination of the known categories. Often, it is achieved through an outside source interfering with the Sacred Gear itself, causing the Sacred Gear to forcefully evolve itself as a form of self-protection.

### Counter Balance

**Counter Balance: Phantom Move** is the Artificial Sacred Gears' version of Balance Breaker, which allows the user to evolve their Artificial Sacred Gears and use their full abilities. Unlike the normal Balance Breaker, which is merely the unleashment of power that destroys the balance of the world, the Counter Balance is the opposite.

Compared to genuine Sacred Gears, which are already stable by nature, this state is attained by the user's life-force being used to forcibly stabilize the Artificial Sacred Gear.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* It is named so because it has the possibility to break the balance of the world.
* Earliest records of Balance Breaker dated back to Predynastic Egypt, around 4100 BCE.

### Notes

* Balance Breaker and its associated concepts originated from High School DxD.