Zakara
Semi-Found Cat
- Location
- Chaldea, Bleached Airspace
Hard to say. Fou, by himself, is capital-D Dangerous by any Nasuverse oriented metric, but it's always hard to predict how metaphysical clashes will turn out when you don't have prior examples.
It's important to note that, in his current state, he's Fou, not Primate Murder. PM is what happens when he hangs around Humans and doesn't have a reason to throttle back his Sin, Comparison. Fou is still Beast IV, and could become PM, but he doesn't.
His Sin, the Evil of Humanity he embodies and the main theme behind his Beastly powers, is Comparison: envying those stronger than you and regretting your own weakness.
Lorewise, his main ability can be boiled down to "Become Bigger Fish". He is "the Beast who stands over any and all opponents", and grows stronger by feeding on the energy of competition and opposition. Basically Worm's Lung elevated to metaphysical levels; the more you fight Fou, or initiate competition in general nearby him, the more power he accumulates and the stronger he gets. The only way to actually defeat him is through non-violent means.
In-game, his power spread is somewhat peculiar. He seems to have some sort of control over local space-time; demonstrated when he teleported Ana out of Kingu's clutches in Babylonia, and when he formed timeloops later on to save Ritsuka from various hilarious and not-so-hilarious Valentines Day Bad Ends. He also has an aura, which most beings curiously can't sense, that basically advertises his status as a Thing Not To Be Fucked With.
Very unclear to me how these would stack up against Reine and Mio, especially since I don't know Date A Live very well, but Fou holds place as one of the Nasuverse's endgame bosses for a reason.
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