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Ch-3 Shattered Limiter: Path to Infinity
🕑 Added 2025-05-18 11:12:21 +0000 UTCNarada leaned in, a grin on his face. "Alright, time for a perk. This is where you get something extra to spice things up. You only get one chance, so make it count."
Raj glanced over the options, his mind racing. "Okay, let's see what's on the table."
[Perks-]
[Blank (-1pt): By taking this perk you are completely immune to being perceived by Precogs, Psychometry Users and any powers that try to get information about you and from you, effectively making you a blind spot to their supernatural senses. This includes Future/Past sight, Danger sense, Compelling Ability, Truth Serum, etc.]
[Shattered Limiter (-1pt): The factors that kept your power and growth in check are completely done away with. At base this doubles the numbers of slots and charges you have available. Your power growth skyrockets, with your power doubling in strength every year if you do nothing but live a normal life. Actually, fighting on a regular basis drops this down to half a year. Each such interval also increases the number of slots and charges your power provides by one. Your power refuses to be kept in check, rendering you immune to those who would try to affect your abilities.]
[Invictus (-1pt): By taking this factor such as distress, suffering and any difficulty mean nothing to you. You are capable of undergoing any disaster without batting an eye, ignoring any amount of pain, remaining mentally untouched by even the most terrible events and even the most fearsome odds will not give you pause. Abilities that would affect your mind or control you are useless. You will never break, never bow and even come a thousand apocalypses you will stand as tall and resolute as ever. Note- That this is does not suppress or remove your emotions and you are still able to feel grief, guiltiness and sadness like any other person.]
[Comic Book Pretty (-1pt): You look like a model, airbrushed to perfection, even under the most extreme conditions. You also heal perfectly from all wounds given sufficient time, though you may have some aesthetically pleasing scars afterwards, age slowly and recover from even otherwise permanent transformations quickly.]
[Inspiration (-1pt): Something about you reaches directly into the hearts and souls of others. Even if you don't lead them, just your presence seems to lift their spirits and restore their hope. Wherever you go people see you and find new purpose and courage. The broken will rise above their suffering to go on, hopeless defenders will rally to defy the odds, and even the most inhuman of your enemies will be shaken with a sense of terrified awe at your presence.]
[Singularity (-1pt): You are the One and Only in the whole of existence, no other variant, clone or any sort of copy exists of you in the Mega verse.]
[First Impression (-1pt): No matter what you do, it seems like you're incapable of making a bad impression on others when they encounter you. Even your enemies will find themselves respecting you, seeing you as a worthy opponent. This isn't permanent though; your actions and decision will influence them as normal.]
[Cloak & Dagger (-1pt): You find it almost trivial to gain contacts, expand networks, plant spies, sabotage and even assassinate. Espionage in all of its forms is as easy as breathing for you, almost without regard for reasonable limits. While this isn't a power your talent here is great enough that it might as well be.]
[Big PP (-1pt): You get a Big PP and such skills that you may as well be called God of Sex.]
[Manpower (-1pt): Nobody knows how you do it but you are able to find, recruit and manage competent and loyal minions (or workers, troops, professionals, etc.) with almost zero effort. Whether its lawyers, mercenaries, doctors or just raw manpower you have no trouble finding people to work for you.]
[Plot Armor (-2pts): Fate and Chance conspire to keep you alive. If you tangled with Hulk, reinforcements (or distractions) will be on the way shortly. If you're shot in the head, expect to be fine after a little coma time. You can even go toe-to-toe with freaking Dr. Doom without any powers and survive... somehow. Enemies you buy with a complication can ignore this power. This power is more likely to fail the more concrete, verifiable and/or dramatically appropriately your death would be.]
[Resources (-2pts): You have Batman's real superpower: money. This comes in the form of numerous bank accounts in your name worth millions, a mansion or several large houses scattered across the world and perhaps even a secret base somewhere interesting. Spend the money and it will slowly refresh, with you suddenly remembering another bank account or trust left to gather interest, or an estate you had mothballed.]
Raj sat down, looking over the list of perks and adding up the points in his head. He needed to be strategic about this.
Blank (-1pt) – That's a no-brainer. Being invisible to psychic probes and precogs? Raj could already imagine the headache it'd cause enemies trying to get a read on him. With powers like Superman's super hearing or the Bat family's detective skills, being undetectable was priceless. No one would see him coming.
Shattered Limiter (-1pt) –
This one made Raj pause. He already had Eidolon, a power built for evolution, learning, and replication. But Shattered Limiter? That would take it into overdrive. Every six months of training or even survival would push him forward exponentially. That kind of trajectory…Raj felt a chill run down his spine—not from fear, but from the sheer scale of the potential. With enough time, his Eidolon could begin branching into powers so versatile and expansive that he might one day reach the level of Complete Arsenal.
He had read the Medaka Box before. A single name came to mind 'Ajimu Najimi' .The idea of being able to manifest any weapon, tool, ability, or power imaginable—the sum total of all forces across reality. A living embodiment of "prepared for anything." It was absurd. It was terrifying. And with Shattered Limiter backing Eidolon's growth?
It was possible.
That would be his long-term goal: not just survival, not just mastery, but total transcendence. To become a self-contained multiverse of capabilities.
In the short term, though, Raj needed something more grounded. Something still impossible by most standards, but attainable in this world: Legion. David Haller. The mutant who contained thousands of personas, each with a different omega-level power.Raj didn't want the mental instability. But the raw potential? The freedom to wield hundreds of tools and powers on instinct? That was within reach. Give him two years, maybe less with enough conflict, and he'd be there. A one-man Justice League.
Invictus (-1pt) – Raj thought about the sheer emotional toll some of the DC villains put on their enemies. The Joker's mind games, or Darkside's unyielding cruelty, could break the strongest minds. With Invictus, Raj wouldn't feel the weight of all the suffering. He could face them all head-on, emotionally unshakable, no matter how high the stakes.
Comic Book Pretty (-1pt) – Raj had to chuckle. Sure, he wasn't here for vanity, but looking like a comic book cover model had its perks. Plus, who wouldn't want to be the person who looks flawless in battle, like Wonder Woman after a grueling fight? Scars that make you look cool, age slower, and heal faster? He could definitely get behind that.
Singularity (-1pt) – Raj knew that this kind of perk could be dangerous, but also extremely useful. In a world where you could have clones or versions of yourself from other timelines, being the "One and Only" meant there was no one who could come after him. Not like Bizarro, or a multiverse version of himself—he was the original, and there was power in that.
Plot Armor (-2pts) – Fate wouldn't keep Raj alive forever, but he liked the idea that if he were to face down an impossible fight, he'd get a little help from the universe itself. Imagine being in a showdown with the likes of Lex Luthor, only to find the tide turning at the right moment, just when things seemed impossible. He'd still have to be smart about it, but this gave him the breathing room to survive.
Raj looked down at the list, mentally tallying up the cost. "Let's see…... I think I'm set."
"Alright," Raj said, looking over the powers and perks he'd chosen. He had everything covered—from being able to avoid psychic detection, to growing in power faster than he could blink, to keeping his head clear even under the most insane pressures. "This is the perfect setup."
"You've covered all your bases," Narada said, voice low and approving. "Psychic-proof, unstoppable growth, unbreakable mind, flawless recovery, sole-survivor status, and a little cosmic luck. You're built to face anything the DC world can throw at you."
He stepped back, letting Raj absorb the weight of that setup. Then Narada folded his arms and offered a small smile.
"Now," he continued, "it's time for complications. These will give your story depth—and a few extra points to play with. Ready to get a little messy?"
