Would you Distort or manifest EGO?


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I mean...does Ayin technically count?

The man by the end of Lobotomy Corporation was essentially a multi-headed Serpent who can essentially do whatever he wanted in the Facility.

Given what he does, maybe The Moon is the white pinnacle?
 
Anyway, that's my last guess, I have officially run out of stuff I can pull out of my ass so good luck on your all.
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I just thought of some arguments on why one sin and hundreds of good deed is the pinnacle of white damage.
because he can literally just open your mind and edit it.
He have our lobotomy on steroids. he can just fucking open your mind, edit the memory, close it up.
And he can turn any evil doing person into a good person because he eats sin, he doesn't break your mind.
he just opens it up and edit it.
He can remove sections without breaking it entirely, His white damage is so fucking precise that you don't even feel your mind has been wiped.
 
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Well the thing to note is that aleph+s though unsurpassed...... it wasn't stated they had absolute control of their power
Could means there's alephs who are Masters of their damage type rather than unsurpassed
Like comparing a Brute with super strength to a martial arts master
Pinnacles of differing nature
Mayhaps Nothing there is the master of red in this scenario?
 
1.6.9 - The Qliphoth
Chapter 72 - The Qliphoth

Long ago, buried beneath centuries of duty, you remember how you would weep at the deaths of those who served under you. Each failure, each loss, left you begging and pleading for somebody to make it stop. Each time you too fell, you would cry out. You would weep and scream for somebody, anybody to help you. To save you. To save anyone. Until one day, you learned that it made no difference. No matter how you asked, how you cried, how you prayed, there was nobody who could help you. And so you stopped crying.

In a cold and indifferent world, there was no god to give you salvation. Only one person could put an end to the suffering that surrounded you. So there was no miracle that would rescue you from this pit? You would craft your own miracles. There were no commandments to guide you to freedom? You would give your own commandments. By your hand, you lifted those beneath you up from the depths and into the future with you. The future that you made, with your own will. And you loved it. For all the suffering, the death and pain, you cherished every small victory and step forwards. It was a purpose handed to you since you were made, but you would never dream of anything else. What greater cause could there be than helping others? That facility may have been your hell, but it was yours to rule.

You were foolish to think this world was any different. Kinder though it may be, it is still hell all the same. A part of your kingdom.


The first sensation you register is the cracking of your skin. Agony rips through you as flesh breaks off in stony chunks, the cracks spreading up your arms and running across the rest of your body. You do not scream as you fall apart, like a cocoon being torn open by an emerging butterfly. Beneath the fragments is a primordial lifeblood; the essence of divinity spilling onto the earth. Freed from structure, the pain fades into a dull emptiness. You collapse into an amorphous puddle, a hole in the world that twists and reaches outwards. You cannot see, cannot hear, cannot feel. Everything is but an empty void.

How inadequate.

A single clawed hand bursts from the mire, its warped metallic skin reflecting constellations that never were. The other soon follows, and your grip pierces the earth as you drag yourself up from the nothingness into being. Your body is twisted and monstrous, a towering mess of dull grey steel that branches and churns as if it had a life of its own, tracing infinitely complex patterns into your new flesh. Your upper half is still vaguely humanoid, featureless and twisted as it is. Metallic branches sprout from your skin, forming impressions of spines and horns. Your face is in contrast a smooth featureless plate, so pitch black it seems like a hole in space. Two moth-like antenna sprout from where your eyes would be. Your hair billows out behind you from between the boughs emerging from your skull in an immense cloud. In place of your coat ten stark white insectoid wings rest across your back, each one decorated with colorful patterns. Monstrous, yes, but still recognizably human.

Below your waist is a different story. Six enormous insectoid legs each end in something between a digitigrade claw and a hoof. The false wings line all along your back even as your body loses human shape and is twisted into something truly monstrous. A gnarled metal carapace encloses your abdomen, which ends in five whiplike tails that each terminate in a vicious spike dripping with iridescent fluid.

You take your first step forward. Your metal skin splits open all across your body, many-colored mechanical eyes staring out from the gaps. As your heel touches the concrete, it writhes and roils. The stone melts into sludge, which rises into the shape of flowers, which burn in impossible colors before collapsing back into formlessness. Another step, a new spring of creation bursts forth from the floor of the empty subway. The rain shimmers unnaturally, as if a million liquid prisms were falling from the sky. You exhale with lungs that you do not have, and a gentle breeze fills the stagnant tunnels. This world, kinder though it may be, is merely an extension of your old hell. And like the Facility before, it will obey your commands. Your very touch calls life from the nothingness. A thought could destroy it just as easily.

And yet, something is still missing. Could it be…

You spread your wings, and for a moment all is as it should be.

Not the false, useless things that drape across your back. They are beautiful, reminiscent of the nerve-like branches of glittering light revealed by Lobotomy. As you stretch, exploring the sensations that come with your true form's unveiling, they grow larger and longer until your radiance encompasses the sky. Each brilliant bough, each splayed nerve, grants more sublime clarity with which to see the world than you could ever imagined.

Your vision expands through Mitakihara, each street and building and person carefully witnessed and accounted for. You can feel your sight stretch further, clawing at the sky, but you reign it in. For now, all that you need concern yourself with is here. Instead, you focus your gaze and look deeper, peering into the world in a way you never could before. Your pinions claw at thousands of people all at once, carefully cataloguing the city's population. You are once again all-seeing, all-knowing. All secrets laid bare before a being who can comprehend anything.

With the exceptional clarity granted, the ecstasy of freedom drains away. There is no time to bask in your ascension. More urgent matters are before you, in need of resolution. Nothing There tears free of their cocoon, a towering figure of formless flesh dotted with misplaced features that could perhaps be contrived as human. Twenty-three of the thirty-seven Magical Girls, Kyoko among them, scream within the depths of the Abnormality's flesh. You ward away the chorus of chatter that inexplicably pours from the creature's body. Your work is not yet done. First you need to dispatch the Abnormality before you and retrieve their victims. Then, you'll need to begin working on repairing your seal. It wouldn't do to actually follow through on your threat to Kyubey.

Suddenly, reality shifts and ripples. The quarantine field closes in around you, cutting off the rest of the world. The crystalline structure folds in from nowhere, leaving only a small enclosure where you and Nothing There stand opposite one another on the ruined subway. You would gasp at the sudden loss of sensation if you still had lungs with which to breathe. Instead, you can feel only a wave of relief. It's too soon, too dangerous for you to exist freely. You're not stable yet. Within the containment, you aren't at risk of hurting anyone.

A single branch of your wings pokes at the field confining you. It's well-made, fully capable of restricting your reality-overriding effects to within its limits. Either Kyubey had been planning to use this against you ever since you were observed, the Incubators created it only in the time since your apotheosis, or they simply are used to confronting similar threats and already have countermeasures developed. None of the possibilities bode well. However, it has one critical flaw.

Your wing pushes through the barrier, as if it were not there. While you can't leave the field, Lobotomy can still reach through it. Nevertheless, it would do little good for you to circumvent the field now, while it serves your purposes. You will withdraw yourself, after you take care of one last issue.

You turn your attention to your children, gathered outside the crystalline void in space that is the outside of the containment field. Mami is on her kneees, weeping at the emptiness, Yuma pressing into her side. Homura stares blankly into space, on the verge of falling over. Madoka and Sayaka are saying something, but their smiles are fragile and desperate, about to break. You wish you could reassure them, console them, anything… but you cannot risk it. You have only enough time for one last gift.

A touch flenses the vile cancer of Grief from their souls. What would normally be an hours-long operation, completed in the space of a thought. You must learn how to harness this safely someday. It will be worth it, no matter what you must suffer in the process. With that last act, you withdrawn back into your temporary prison. Again, you are separated from the world.

There is only one thing here with you, and they're exactly where they need to be.

There is nobody here that you can hurt. Nobody but you. Everyone is safe.

Your fingers catch on the flesh of reality and tear it open. A multicolored wound in space opens, spreading and consuming the tiny world you and your foe are trapped in. Nothing There, no longer content to simply stand by, rushes forward a moment too late. In an instant, your facility swallows the tiny world.

The sun and moon enclose one another in the sky, ribbons of black and white stretching and entwining to engulf the horizon. Gouts of murky green liquid leak from the cracks between. The deluge crashes down to form an emerald sea which stretches as far as the eye can see. From the ocean rises islands of metal, half-formed fractal buildings peeking up from the depths. As they grow closer to your perch, the aberrant structures grow more distinct and properly-shaped. Between the offices and laboratories are trees of gleaming iron and fields of glass. This world is artificial, constructed, built by the hands of man.

You stand atop the largest of these great islands, looking down at the facilities you have always ruled.

Nothing There charges across the expanse, each step reducing islands of steel and silicone to dust behind it. You lash out, your wings raking through the earth and sky. The Abnormality opposing you turns, changing from a straight run to irregular, sharp bursts of speed. Even as you redirect the pinions of your wings, they dance through the burning lights with a feral sort of grace. The few that do strike send your foe tumbling, but they bear-instantaneously right themselves and resume their course. Ineffective, but irrelevant. All you needed to do was slow them down.

Nothing There reaches the isle where your 'throne' sits and extends an arm. The first swing hits the earth, scattering rubble in what seems like an explosion that fills the air with thick dust. To an ordinary person, it would be impossible to see their arm stretch and into an immense, horrible blade, letting them strike a moment earlier than they would have otherwise been able to. Fortunately, you don't even have eyes anymore.

You decide to be elsewhere, and the world responds to your order. From several islands away, you watch your previous perch cleaved into pieces by Nothing There's blow. The assault continues, the Abnormality twisting and hurling a barrage of bony spikes in all directions at speeds that should by all logic be impossible to achieve without instantaneously combusting. One of the spikes impacts your shoulder as you reappear, making a tiny crack in the metal bark of your skin.

Nothing There's victory is short-lived. The earth rumbles as the island it stands on cracks and crumbles in on itself, jaws that could swallow buildings whole tearing through the ground and closing around the targeted location. Your opponent leaps forwards, attempting to escape, but before they can reach the edge the jaws slam shut. The enormous worm, thick brown chitin covering its exposed head, sits idle in the middle of your domain. It won't hold. You know very well that Nothing There is undamaged, and they will dig themself out eventually. But in the meantime, you can make preparations.

Shrines to gods whose names were long forgotten ruse from the depths of the viridian ocean, the air already crackling and warping at their presence. Smaller edifices surface around them, radiating an unsettling amethyst glow. Around them ancient machinery whirs to life, already churning out hordes of mindless automata. The first are crude, metal and wood, with only the barest remnants of even the shape of a human. You reach into the machinery, and the next set of creation begins.

Effigies of the past, entombed in black steel and lit by sickly green light. Coils of wires form the shapes of hair, hammered plates the memory of faces. In their hands are spears, hammers, swords, scythes, guns. Scattered through the isles of your realm they may be, but the echoes of a formation already begin to take shape. Your agents have returned to you, even if only as memories.

"You know the drill by now, everyone." you whisper to no one. "We've got a short day ahead of us."

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Kyoko Sakura: Exposure 0 -> Exposure X
Mark of Qliphoth Designated
Homura Akemi: Exposure IV -> Exposure X
Mark of Qliphoth Designated
Mami Tomoe: Exposure V -> Exposure VII
Sayaka Miki: Exposure IV -> Exposure VI
Madoka Kaname: Exposure II -> Exposure IV
Chitose Yuma: Exposure 0 -> Exposure III
Humanity: Exposure 0 -> Exposure III
Incubators: Exposure 0 -> Exposure I
 
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Observation: Daughter of the Sun and Moon
Daughter Of The Sun And Moon

An Abnormality representing and fused with the Facility of Lobotomy Corporation, which reigns supreme as one of the few true rulers among Abnormalities. Seeks to shelter, protect, and nurture others, but its power only ever brings ruin.

Lobotomy: Capability to modify the "self". Channeled through your wings, which can be manipulated freely and do not have a limit to range, size, or number. Stable and well-defined personalities are more vulnerable to manipulation, as are people who are emotionally vulnerable. At a surface level, Lobotomy allows you to observe a person's memories and beliefs freely. Any of the person's traits can be modified either temporarily or permanently. Lobotomy is undetectable in those it works on.

Lobotomy's "wings" are not physical body parts, but more a shadow cast by the ability itself. Damage to them is meaningless and can be effortlessly repaired. While ordinarily invisible and intangible, they can be given physicality to either attack with or simply use as additional appendages.

Abnormalities cannot be affected by Lobotomy traditionally, due to their "identity" being a consequence of the idea they represent instead of the summation of their existence. Instead, Lobotomy simply inflicts severe damage against Abnormalities.

Cogito Fantasia: You scatter the clinging embers of the Seed of Light around you. These fragments of Light are only visible to you, and give some insight into the emotions of other beings within their reach. This Light can gifted through Lobotomy to grant the potential to unlock one's true self.

Qliphotic: Your presence passively constructs a new Facility, controlled by you and your Department Heads. While your facility ordinarily bleeds out into the world, you can enter and use its facilities it regardless of whether it has manifested or not.

The reconstructed Facility retains all of its original features and technologies. They can be used either directly in the Facility or incorporated into your body. As the Facility's "size" is infinite, damage to it is irrelevant.

Control Department - Lilith
Lilith: ???
Information Department - Gomaliel
Gomaliel: ???
Training Department - Samael
Samael: ???
Safety Department - Gharab
Gharab: ???
Central Command Department - Tagimron
Tagimron: ???


Revolution: You remain inextricably linked to the Well of Humanity. You are immune to mental influences and carry authority over anything derived from human emotion. This allows for communication with Abnormalities, as well as some degree of authority over them. While Abnormalities cannot act against their nature and are innately inhuman, they still yearn to be understood.

Order: Commands imbued with intent. Allows for communication unmarred by misinterpretations and with additional effects on Distortions. Those given commands are not obligated to obey them but can go beyond their normal limits to complete assigned tasks.

Interpretation: The power to sculpt from thought into reality. You can extract from your memories to create creatures, places, or items. EGO Gear can be replicated and integrated into these creations once a suitable blueprint has been given. The follow creations can be drawn from Interpretation: Eternal Meal, Last Helix, The God Delusion, and the EGO of Punishing Bird, Big Bird, The Knight Of Despair, Army in Pink, Blue Star, and Nothing There.

Eternal Meal
Eternal Meal: A ravenous hunger that cannot be sated, possessing titanic might. The monstrous worms proliferate endlessly to consume the world. Animalistic and vicious, they will arrive to feast at your command and sink down once more when dismissed, knowing in some way that their stomachs will never be filled.

Type: Ordeal
Synthesis: Complete
Paired With: Mimicry

Food Chain: Lumbering behemoths disgorged but their larger kin, they lack vision and are grateful for the direction you give. Eternal Meal spawns these enormous creatures, who in turn carry their lesser brethren to where they are needed.

The Perfect Meal: The lesser worms lack any intent save for an all-consuming hunger, though their lack of power is compensated for by this enthusiasm. They will swarm the sustenance places before them, stripping life bare with reckless abandon.
Last Helix
Last Helix: The desire to reach the pinnacle of existence, embodied in a machine that could cleave the sky from the heavens. An artillery piece, surrounded by the failures that did not live up to it. The ancient devices lack a will of their own and construct never-ending soldiers to follow your command.

Type: Ordeal
Synthesis: Complete
Paired With: Pinks

Where We Must Reach: Last Helix is surrounded by the remnants of long-lost factories, still producing foot soldiers. These factories can only create up to a certain limit, and do so at a set rate, but the quality of their creations is equivalent to the effort spent.

Process of Understanding: Forgotten machinery once again given life and purpose. They have faster, more fragile and primitive fighters that attack in close range that support bulkier, slower machines that attack equally well at all distances. Each variant has its own production limit.
The God Delusion
The God Delusion: Otherworldly beings, extensions of yourself that existence cannot bear, respond to old invocations and push bits of themselves into the world. The great shrines call their reach forth directly, but the smaller traces of their influence thin and fray reality that you may better stitch your own designs.

Type: Ordeal
Synthesis: Complete
Paired With: A Sword Sharpened With Tears

Grant Us Love: Towering monoliths that serve as gates to spread the influence of eldritch creatures. Their presence wears away at the stability of reality, weakening reality-warping abilities of others while furthering your own influence. Despite their esoteric effects, you know from experience that they are most dangerous when used as a projectile.

Fruit of Understanding: Small creatures born from an unspeakable place, whose existences corrode and degrade everything around them. While weaker than their larger counterparts, their effects still compound over time or in large number.
A Sword Sharpened With Tears
A Sword Sharpened With Tears: An elegant weapon, used to pierce the wicked and protect the innocent. Now tarnished by failure and sorrow. Strikes with great speed and power, penetrating the body and spirit.

Type: EGO
Synthesis: Complete
Paired With: The God Delusion

Blessing: The wish of a weary knight who sought to protect. Offers great resilience to a single person, but cannot be removed or replaced as long as they live.

Sword That Pierces Despair: A second array of swords, intended to be thrown rather than wielded. The pale steel of these accursed weapons has been tempered by loss.

Pairing - The God Delusion: A composite sword formed from the madness of divinities dreamed up by mankind. Summoned in four varieties, each of which inflict their own specialized wounds and have unique physical properties. Only one of each blade can exist at a given time in any form.
Beak
Beak: A small pistol with disproportionately high firepower. The pristine white surface is stained red around the barrel. At least, it looks like a stain. Cheerfully wishes to punish misdeeds.

Type: EGO
Synthesis: Neutral
Synergy: -

Small Beak: While this weapon's power is normally middling, it increases in strength the more a target is deserving of punishment. This variable is determined according to the wielder's perception, but misdeeds that personally affect them are given far more weight.
Lamp
Lamp: A pitch-black lantern containing a twisting, bright flame. Within its radiance, all other lights are extinguished.

Type: EGO
Synthesis: High
Synergy: -

Darkness: The crushing weight repelled only by the lantern's glow, which strips away strength from intruders. Indiscriminately removes enhancements from enemies within a moderate range while active.

Big Eyes: A way to see deeper than a person normally could. Reveals details, invisibility, illusions, enchantments, other modifications, dimensional abnormalities, and other things within your ordinary line of sight. Improves range of vision and eventually accesses pre/postcognition depending on the wielder's paranoia.
Pinks
Pinks: A rifle used by those who seek an end to violence, but can a weapon of war being peace? Each round is fired with force beyond what ordinary technology could produce, striking with an unknown power drawn from the human heart.

Type: EGO
Synthesis: Complete
Paired With: Last Helix

Protection: Army In Black manifests as a collection of many soldiers, acting as one to accomplish their goal. These soldiers can be called to attention and given orders, but cannot act beyond the commands they are given. Each soldier is specialized to suit whatever role it is called for. The total number of soldiers that exist is unknown.

Blackhearted: To cleanse the darkness that taints the human heart, great strength is required. Army in Black carries with it massive destructive power, but its last orders will be carried out indiscriminately.

Pairing - Last Helix: Creation of specialized, unique mechanical soldiers in the form of your lost agents. While these soldiers do not truly carry EGO, their imitations make deadly enough weapons.
Sound of a Star
Sound of a Star: A nimbus of swirling starlight that rends the world around it. The flickering lights twist and pulse to devastate enemies, although more precise usage can bend space in creative and unique ways.

Type: EGO
Synthesis: Neutral
Pairing: -

The Dull Glimmer of Hope: Your coat has taken on a silvery shimmer, much like the divine being that the EGO originated from. This unnatural cloth mends both the mind and body, although extended use instills a sense of devotion and supplication.

The Bright Gleam of Despair: The Sound of a Star is an otherworldly tool that defies traditional understanding. It becomes easier to comprehend as your sanity wanes, and in turn reveals its more complex capabilities. Alternatively, the bizarre weapon may bestow its secrets to one who receives worship in the Star's place.

Event Horizon: An ability revealed under immense mental strain. Releases a pulse of burning light over a wide area. Interferes with both gravity and sound.
Mimicry
Mimicry: Crude and misshapen, this horrid weapon eschews finesse for brutal power and ferocity. Its strikes carry more force than an ordinary human could ever hope to bear.

Type: EGO
Synthesis: Complete
Synergy: Eternal Meal

Regeneration: Inflicting damage with Mimicry allows the wielder to heal depending on the amount of damage done.

Following: Mimicry, despite its sturdy composition, is not bound to a single shape. The weapon can shift and transform according to the needs of its user, reacting to their desires as though it had a mind of its own.

As a result of your chosen body's preference for this weapon, Mimicry can transform itself completely into any simple physical weapon instead of just adjusting its characteristics.

Pairing - Eternal Meal: An endless, insatiable hunger. Mimicry becomes capable of producing multiple smaller weapons. In addition to allowing the wielder to use additional weapons, can also imitate weapons with multiple separate parts such as a bow and arrow.

Due to a strong affection towards you from both halves of this pairing, it is usable even in your restrained state.
 
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oh no.....
here it goes....
Well, We don't need to worry about the walpurgisnacht anymore.
And we have become god, the Ruler of worlds.
(edit: Curious, the clowns and the white ordeals are not here, also the sweepers...)
 
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Thus ends the reception of Nothing There

......... and dear lord we are no abberant if White night
If White mights the antichrist then apparently Aleph is based on SATANAEL OR LUCIFER, THE DAMNABLE DEVIL HIMSELF
AND LEP YOU DIDN'T NEED TO TAKE MY LIGHT COMMENT SO SERIOUSLY!!!!!
PARDON MY FRENCH BUT HOLY MOTHER OF S***
AND IS ALEPH BLATANTLY BUILDING THE BRANCH OF THE LIBRARY HIMSELF!!!!!!!!!
 
Whitenight is the serpent and Lucifers desire to replace god with himself(With the serpent and the apple as the main theme of his weapon, And paradise lost)
We, are humanitys attempt to build a tower towards heaven and we have succeeded.
We are the tower of Babel and we have become the ruler of worlds because god has been toppled.
 
This really is the bruh moment to end all bruh moments (Qliphoth is a beyond ominous name here...)
than you could ever have imagined.
you withdrawn withdraw back into your
they bear-instantaneously near-instantaneously
see their arm stretch and into an immense, horrible blade
This Light can be gifted
its facilities it regardless of whether
follow following creations

disgorged but by their larger kin
sustenance places placed before them

Looks at The Agnus Principle...

Mark of Qliphoth - Lilith: ???
Quite the ominous name we have here, huh
 
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Looking through the Informational for things we can use later:
Lobotomy is undetectable in those it works on.
Instead, Lobotomy simply inflicts severe damage against Abnormalities.
We don't need to worry about causing problems with Lobotomy, unless we *decide* to make them ourselves (also, a new beatstick to use if things get to that)

you can enter and use its facilities it regardless of whether it has manifested or not.
They can be used either directly in the Facility or incorporated into your body.
We aren't going to get TT2, Regenerators (wait, the Red ones might be useful), or Deterrence; but the Employee records, City Tech? Those are free real estate if we are careful

Commands imbued with intent. Allows for communication unmarred by misinterpretations and with additional effects on Distortions. Those given commands are not obligated to obey them but can go beyond their normal limits to complete assigned tasks.
No need to worry about mind control (but that means we can't use it to block stupid decisions), but this is incredibly useful for Repression or limit buffing here

Anyone know the terms of the Qliphotic Tree or the Mythological Figures that are likely to be used from now on?

Waitttttt, True Self does NOT necessarily mean EGO or Distortion...
 
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