- "I do solemnly swear. To every living being, and every living soul. Now cometh the age of the stars. A thousand year voyage under the wisdom of the Moon. Here beginneth the chill night that encompasses all, reaching the great beyond. Into fear, doubt, and loneliness… As the path stretcheth into darkness."
- ― Luner Princess Ranni (Elden Ring)
- "You think freedom is something that you can give or take on a whim... To people, freedom is just as essential as air. And without it, there is no life, no hope. There is only darkness."
- ― Zaheer (Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
- "Destiny. Fate. Dreams. These unstoppable ideals are held deep in the heart of man. As long as there are people who seek freedom in this life, these things shall not vanish from the Earth."
- ― Gol D. "Gold" Roger (One Piece)
- "What does freedom really mean, when demanded of you by a God?"
- ― Dainsleif (Genshin Impact)
- "I am freedom, Griever. With possibility as my patron. And I'm stronger than ever."
- ― Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
The state of being liberated. Opposite to Destiny Manipulation. Not to be confused with Freeing.
Also Called
- Absolute Free Will
- Boundary Immunity/Transcendence
- Complete Volition
- True Freedom/Liberty
- True Limitlessness/Boundlessness
- The Illimitable
- Unfettered/Unfetteredness
- Freedom Embodiment
Capabilities
Users possess a supernatural form of freedom and independence that liberates them from laws, rules, fate, predestination, concepts, limits, and other types of cosmic, spiritual, mental, physical and mystical jurisdictions, making the user highly resistant or outright immune to their effects. In theory, the lowest level of freedom amounts to enhanced free will that enables users to act more independently from and/or with an immunity to more 'worldly' limitations such as laws or societal norms. The advanced levels of freedom, however, would liberate users from fundamental aspects of reality and existence, such as logic, causality or even their own origin, with the absolute form of freedom being liberated from absolutely everything and therefore being nothing short of, and solely possesses freedom having Omnipotence itself.
Applications
Elementary Level
- Clear Mind: Free from the limitations of the mind.
- Control Immunity: User's free will is near impossible to take away.
- Disease Immunity: Free from the effects of disease.
- Fate Denial: Enhanced free will allows the user to deny their fate and change its course.
- Free Will Manifestation: Possess greater free will.
- Law Immunity: Free from societal laws.
- Limit Break/Removal: Users are free of their own limitations and can easily surpass them.
- Path Maker: Users are capable of creating entirely new ways of doing things, free from the laws that would normally apply.
- Purpose Defiance: User is free from their assigned purpose.
- Self-Sustenance: Free from the body for bodily necessities.
Metaphysical Level
- Consequence Immunity/Removal: Freedom from consequences.
- Endless Development: Free from limitations on development.
- Fate Immunity: Complete freedom from fate.
- Environmental Defiance: Freedom from environmental effects.
- Embedded Existence: User's existence is independent of factors such as an existence manipulator.
- Hierarchy Transcendence: Free from the limits of conceptual hiearchies.
- Immutability: Nothing can affect high end users of Freedom unless they allow it, except a (Nigh-) Omnipotent.
- Absolute Superpower Immunity: As a result of this, high end users are completely immune to all powers.
- Life and Death Transcendence: Users are free and independent of both life and death.
- Logic Infringement/Independence: Varying degrees of freedom from logic.
- Paradox Infringement/Immunity: Varying freedom from paradoxes and by consequences them.
- Nirvana Transport: User is free from the boundary preventing souls from entering Nirvana, and so can do so at will.
- Numerical Transcendence: User is independent of numerical systems.
- Origin Transcendence: Users are free even of their own origin.
- Physical Law Immunity: Varying degrees of freedom from physical laws.
- Physics Infringement/Defiance: Varying degrees of freedom from the laws of physics.
- Self-Sufficiency: User is completely independent.
- Rule Negation/Living Anomaly/Rule Transcendence: Users are, to varying degrees, capable of infringing on or outright acting independently of some, any, or even all rules.
- Absolute Luck: User possesses an inescapable blessing of limitless luck, so great that it transcends the boundaries of conventional probability.
- Impossibility Bypassing: he user can ignore the impossible, even if it is absolutely impossible in every conceivable way. Whether it has no way of existing, happening, or being done, the user can bypass these impossibilities and accomplish it effortlessly.
- Self Transcendence: User is free from their own limitations, and so is capable of transcending themselves.
- Unbound Soul: User's soul is free from any plane of existence and its restrictions.
- Undetermined Existence: User is free from normal definitions, and so ideas such as 'living' or 'dead' cannot be applied to them. They are whatever they want to be.
- Unfettered Body: Free from the limitations of the body.
- Unpredictability: Free from the foresight or predictions of others (except nigh and true Omniscience).
- Unrestricted Movement/Movement Transcendence: Free from restrictions to movement, or even the concept of movement itself.
- Unrestricted Thought Process: Free from mental limitations.
- Self-Existence Manipulation: Free, to a varying degree, to be whatever the user wants to be.
- Spatial-Temporal Transcendence: Free from the concepts of space and time.
Absolute Level
- Absolute Access: Be free to access anything and everything.
- Absolute Invincibility: Free from defeat.
- Absolute Potential: Free from absolutely all limitations on the user's capacity for growth and learning.
- Absolute Unpredictability: Free from the foresight or predictions of others.
- Autopotence: The user is free to be whatever they want to be and is the only determining factor of their own existence.
- Overpowered: The user is an overpowering force that is unrestrained from limits through its freedom from all.
- Eternal Existence: The user freedom makes them a being free from all of existence.
- Omnilock: be capable of being present outside of absolutely everything.
- Indeterminacy: Free from scaling and definition.
- Perfection: Free from any and all flaws/imperfections.
- Science-Magic Transcendence: Free from all laws of science and magic.
- Selective Invulnerability/Flawless Indestructibility: Free of weaknesses.
- Selective/Absolute Transcendence: Free to be independent of anything or everything.
- Totality Disconnection: Free from the Totality itself.
Techniques
- Effect Generation: Higher levels of Freedom are free from the need for a "cause" to their desired 'effect', and so can make practically any effect happen without a rational cause.
- Life Determination
- Absolute Superpower Creation/Destruction: If one is truly free, one can give themselves or other abilities, or take them away from oneself or others.
- Cosmic Otherness: Users of Absolute and Ultimate Freedom can choose to forgo/deny everything, becoming something entirely other, absolutely distinct from everything else.
- Ultimate and Absolute levels of Freedom can be applied to perfectly recreate the effects of any power, even without necessarily granting the power itself, as the user is free to do whatever they want.
Levels
Elementary
- Social: Users are free from and thus unaffected by normal laws and forms of jurisdiction in their society. Laws cannot be applied to them, it is practically impossible to imprison or restrain them by normal means, and their free will is, for all intents and purposes, impossible to take away, rendering them immune to all but the most powerful forms of control, as well as potentially granting them the ability to deny fate, as their enhanced free will allows them to act against and somewhat alter its course.
- Biological: Users are free from aspects of their physical condition such as disease, or the need for sustenance such as food and water.
Metaphysical
Users retain all of the abilities of the Social and Biological Levels, on top of varying levels of freedom from more fundamental laws, such as those of reality and existence.
- Type I: Users have an enhanced level of freedom that allows them to infringe on one or more 'laws' of the universe. Such laws are unchangeable by normal means and serve as defining aspects of existence and what we collectively consider real, such as the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, etc. For example, users may be able to infringe on the laws of physics to reduce or ignore the effects of gravity, allowing them to float as though unaffected by it.
- Type II: Users are living anomalies that are completely free from one or more of the laws of reality, such as fate, the laws of cause and effect, or even logic itself. Their existence is independent of such laws and can choose whether or not to adhere to them, allowing them to perform feats that should be completely impossible. For example, users may be capable of completely ignoring the laws of physics to fly or pass-through walls, ignoring the boundaries between realities to cross between them, ignoring causality to render themselves completely immune to harm or arrive somewhere before they actually start travelling, or move free from restrictions. (Note: What sets Type II apart from Type I is that this level of freedom grants users' complete liberation from a law to the point that it doesn't even apply to them while Type I can only infringe on certain aspects of a law without being completely free from it.)
- Type III (Ultimate Level): Users are completely free from all laws of reality and of reality itself, essentially making them nigh-omnipotent in nature. These users possess extraordinary capabilities as a result of their freedom, being capable of doing virtually anything they want, as they are free from any and all laws that could prevent them from doing so. Most likely, even almighty laws and other absolutes in existence would be inapplicable to them as users would exist simply unimpeded by such limitations. Moreover, most users would be liberated from their own origins, thus enabling them to morph and change their existence and destiny at a whim. At this stage, the only thing that prevents them from attaining true freedom is just another truer version of freedom, which is omnipotence itself.
Absolute
- Absolute Level: Freedom in its truest and most unlimited form is nothing short of an expression of omnipotence itself; being liberated from absolutely all aspects of totality. The nature of such freedom would fundamentally be incomprehensible, as if it weren't, it wouldn't be totally liberated. In theory, this would be the equivalent of a fictional character being unhindered by being fiction and being capable of freely transcending beyond its pages to the highest levels of existence and power simply by wanting to. Nothing can affect, define or limit them unless they allow it to, allowing the user to do absolutely anything without being hindered by the need for a 'how' and 'why' to their actions, and giving them the capability to transcend anything and everything, be whatever they want to be, and have any and all abilities they desire at a whim.
Variations
- Anti Storage
- Acausality
- Boundary Manipulation
- Conceptual Transcendence
- Event Negation
- Logic Independence
- Meta Magic: Free from the rules and limitations of magic
- Meta Science: Free from the rules and limitations of science
Associations
Known Users
- Ling (Arknights)
- Astral Plane monsters (Berserk)
- Mages (Berserk)
- Schierke
- Guts (Berserk)
- Empty Hand (DC Comics)
- Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
- Dark Danny/Dan Phantom (Danny Phantom)
- "Unknown" Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake)
- Kratos (God of War Franchise)
- John Egbert (Homestuck)
- Beyonders (Marvel Comics)
- Beyonder
- Thor Odinson (Marvel Comics); by scaping Ragnarok
- Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
- Luner Princess Ranni (Elden Ring)
- Primordial Deities/Entities (Mythology/Religion)
- Chaos (Greek Mythology)
- Gaya (Greek Mythology)
- Nyx (Greek Mythology)
- Ra (Egyptian Mythology)
- Tom Bombadil (Lord of the Rings)
- Virgil (Saga Frontier)
- Transgressors (Tales of Crestoria)
- Nika (One Piece)
- Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece); via the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika
- CHIM Users (The Elder Scrolls)
- The Dragon (Touhou Project)
- The Creators/The Gods (Umineko: When They Cry)
- Gudou Gods (Shinza Banshou series)
- Sun Wukong/Destined One (Black Myth: Wukong); via reincarnation and the recovery of the six relics known as the Senses of the Great Sage
- Sol Clain (Storyverse)
Known Locations
- Iron Republic (Fallen London)
Gallery
Ling's (Arknights) true ability is to be "unfettered", allowing her to choose not to be bound by any restriction that obstructs her, physical or otherwise.
Empty Hand (DC Comics)
Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Comics) As a Nexus Being, is unbound by the Grand Design, with her powers working in direct opposition of the erasure of them.
"Unknown" Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake) sought freedom of Predestination, not just involving himself, but others as well. His various powers and manipulations of events has created two alternate universes, where one determines their own fate, Freedom of Destiny. His intent however, remains unknown.
Kratos (God of War Franchise) became so unfettered that his Thread of Fate could not be tampered or controlled by the Sisters of Fate in any way, causing him to gain sole ownership of his own fate and freedom
Behemoth (Judeo-Christianity)
Leviathan (Judeo-Christianity)
Ziz (Judeo-Christianity)
Virgil, The Ring Lord (Saga Frontier) is practically free from the game itself, resulting him being absolutely immortal and unbeatable and as such there is no way of beating even if using hacks, making him truly freed from all boundaries.
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Gudou Gods (Shinza Banshou series) are independence singularity that is completely free from all of universal and Hadou God's laws and concepts.
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Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) upon awakening the Mythical Zoan Hito Hito No Mi Model; Nika has achieved so much freedom to the point the Gorosei stated it to be the World's Most Ridiculous Power
Sun Wukong (Black Myth: Wukong) freeing himself from the control of the Celestial Court through his reincarnation known as the Destined One, and the recovery of his six senses.
Thanos (Marvel Comics) is cosmically free...
...this is due to him existing outside the norm of the Marvel universe. The forces of chaos, order,...
...& even death have no sway over him.
Luner Princess Ranni (Elden Ring) archived freedom by casting off her Empyrean body, becoming free from the will of the Two Fingers and existing in a semi-spiritual form...
...and depending on the actions of the Tarnished, ushers in the Age of Stars, where people are no longer required to obey a god-queen who has the ability to alter the principles of her ideology on a whim, and will instead be able to govern themselves as they see fit.