Contract Bestowal

Contract Bestowal
Devils (Chainsaw Man) have the power to make contracts with humans. Aki Hayakawa had a contract with the Fox Devil, allowing him to summon it.
Power/Ability to:	Give a power, object or change an event through an agreement.

"Key that hides the power of the stars, show your true form before me. I, Sakura, command you under our contract. Release!"

― Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)

"I want you to make contracts with me and become Magical Girls!"

― Kyuubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

"In putting on this suit and entering the sleigh, the wearer waives any and all rights to any previous identity, real or implied, and fully accepts the duties and responsibilities of Santa Claus in perpetuity until such time that the wearer becomes unable to do so by either accident or design."

― Santa Claus contract (The Santa Clause)

The ability to give a power, object or change an event through an agreement. Sub-power of Oath Manipulation. Variation of Power Bestowal, Self-Power Bestowal and Wish Granting.

Also Called

• Binding Vow (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Deal with the Devil
• Dealing
• Faustian Bargain
• Oath/Pact Creation
• Paranormal/Preternatural/Supernatural Bargain/Contract/Oath/Pact Bestowal/Creation

Capabilities

Users can make contracted deals; a supernatural and versatile contract, typically characterized by its ability to bestow wishes that grants users almost omnipotent power and is able to achieve almost anything within the realm of thought, akin to those of a genie. The impact on others is meticulously controlled through the terms of a contract, and these effects must precisely adhere to the contract's conditions.

The necessitates of the contracts can be highly strategic with their choice of words, as any ambiguity could potentially be exploited to warp the recipient's request. For example, agreeing to a contract for immense strength or power might lead to the user transforming the recipient into an uncontrollable creature or a destructive force of nature.

With that in mind the given to these constraints, practitioners of contract bestowal exercise great caution in their choice of words. Because of the power's nature, users strive to avoid unintended loopholes. For instance, agreeing to a contract for immense strength or power might lead to the user transforming the recipient into an uncontrollable creature or a destructive force of nature.

Contract bestowal can take various forms, often initiated by the recipient to begin the process. Methods range from elaborate rituals to simple actions like signing a document or a handshake. Additionally, contract bestowal often demands a sacrifice in return for the desired boon as part of the dealing, the specific nature of this sacrifice varies among users, shaped by the specific limitations of their power.

Associations

• Absolute Buying
• Absolute Contract
• Assailant
• Dark Arts
• Double-Edged Power
• Guardian
• Oath Manipulation
• Oath Preservation - Maybe resulted from creating the contract in order to enforce it.
• Personal Patron
• Powerful Objects
• Reality Warping
• Summoning - Summoning contract.
• Upgrading Subordination
• Wish Granting

Limitations

• Users may require a significant amount of power to make a deal.
• The payment for the contract may be the user's power source, such as souls.
• Destroying the contract may nullify it, although some exceptions exist where specific conditions secure the contract, resulting in an "iron contract" that lasts until its content is fulfilled.
• If the contracted item is destroyed, the contract may be rendered void.
• Users can only give or gain powers within their own limits.
• To receive any payment, the user may need a substantial amount of power.
• The user must follow the any unbreakable rules of the contract.
• Low-level users may accidentally create loopholes in the agreement.
• Payment may be delayed until a later point as agreed upon in the contract.
• The payment can be anything, even things that have yet to occur.
• The contract can be overruled by a higher power, such as a deity.
• Payment can be transferred to a third party if the said party agrees, knowingly or unknowingly.
• There may be more conditions to the deal than expected or desired.
• Breaking a contract may come at a cost, whether for the user or the other parties involved.
• May be everlastingly binding and cannot be broken.

Known Users

See Also: Magically Binding Contract.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Go Okada (Alive: The Final Evolution)
• Devil (Bible Black)
• Demons (Black Butler); via Faustian Contract
• Terra Guardians (Black God)
• Giriko Kutsuzawa (Bleach); via Fullbring, "Time Tells no Lies"
• Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)
• Devils (Chainsaw Man)
• Seven Demons of the Seven Flames of Purgatory (Code:Breaker)
• C.C. (Code Geass)
• V.V. (Code Geass)
• Contractors (Darker than Black)
• MetalFantomon (Digimon)
• Celestial Spirits (Fairy Tail)
• Servants/Master (Fate/stay night)
• Devils (Highschool DxD)
• Magicians (Highschool DxD)
• Nen Users (Hunter x Hunter)
• Binding Vow Users ( Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Black Cat of Contract (Kyōkai no Rinne)
• Rokumon (Kyōkai no Rinne)
• Shiroe (Log Horizon)
• Beast Knights (The Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer)
• Summoning Technique users (Naruto)
• Chains (Pandora Hearts)
• Kyubey/Incubator (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Spirits (Re:Zero)
• Artifical Spirits (Re:Zero)
• Demons (Seraph of the End)
• Merlin (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Onmyoudou (Tokyo Ravens)
• Grimoire (Trinity Seven)
• Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)
• Him (Yakusoku no Neverland) via “Promises”
• God of Death (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)

Cartoons/Comics

• Lorenzo (American Dad!)
• Calvin Dion Avericci (Archie's Weird Mysteries)
• Felix Faust (DC Comics)
• Neron (DC Comics)
• Etrigan (DC Comics)
• Hades (Disney's Hercules)
• Malebolgia (Image Comics)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Yono the Destroyer (Kim Possible)
• Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
• Dr. Facilier (The Princess and the Frog)
• Rumpelstiltskin (Shrek Forever After)
• ManBearPig (South Park)
• Overlords ("Hazbin Hotel")
  • Alastor ("Hazbin Hotel")
  • Valentino ("Hazbin Hotel")
• Seven Deadly Sins ("Helluva Boss")

Folklore

• Demons (Christian Folklore)
• Djinns/Genies (Islamic Folklore)
• Lucifer/The Devil (Christian Folklore)
• Mephistopheles (Folklore)

Live Television/Movies

• Demons (Ángel o Demonio)
• Grendel’s Mother (Beowulf)
• Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat)
• Zahn (Charmed)
• Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
• Donna Gilchrist (Being Human)
• The Devil/Roarke (Ghost Rider)
• Dream Demons (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Rumplestiltskin (Once Upon a Time)
• Crossroad Demons (Supernatural)
• The Djinn (Wishmaster series)
• Deadmans (Kamen Rider Revice); via Vistamps
• Verna (The Fall of The House of Usher)

Video Games

• The Snatcher (A Hat in Time)
• Nulgath (Adventure Quest Worlds)
• Umbra Witches (Bayonetta)
• Lumen Sages (Bayonetta)
• Devil (Cuphead)
• Lucifer (Dante's Inferno)
• Azul Ashengrotto (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland); via It's a Deal
• Igor (Persona series)
• Philemon (Persona series)
• Phantom Thieves of Hearts (Persona 5)
• Dyshana (Record of Agarest War)
• Mimel (Record of Agarest War)
• Summon Spirits (Tales series)
• Gaunter O'Dimm (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)

Other

• Magical Girls (Oto x Maho)
• Floor Guardians (Tower of God)
• Mr. Smith (Twisted Tales)
• SCP-738 - The Devil's Deal (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3063 - A Fly (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-5151 - The Black Knight (SCP Foundation)

Known Contracts

• Vistamps (Kamen Rider Revice)
• Santa Claus card (The Santa Clause franchise)
• Ogre For a Day contract (Shrek Forever After)
• Cyrograph by Olgierd Von Everec, where the clause was his soul. (Witcher 3 Wild Hunt: Heart Of Stone)

Gallery

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) must use his infernal handshake to create a supernatural contract.

Lorenzo (American Dad!) made a deal with Roger Smith to teach him guitar lessons that will ensure his victory against Jamal at the cost of his soul...

...but Roger cunningly conned Jamal into covering the "price for [his guitar] lessons", saving Roger from Lorenzo's grasp at the cost of Jamal's soul.

Grendel’s Mother (Beowulf) can bargain and give any fine promises to any man who gives her a child with null and void conditions she can use to her advantage.

Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) received her Sealing Wand after forming a contract with Cerberus, Guardian of the Clow Cards.

Contractors (Darker than Black) are granted supernatural abilities that they must pay a contract after use, such as Bai's Molecular Manipulation ability requires her to sleep after using.

Go Okada (Alive: The Final Evolution) can make the Contract with the Shinigami on normal people in that if they break a promise with him, the Shinigami will kill them.

Giriko Kutzusawa (Bleach) breaks a contract with the God of Time set by his Fullbring, Time Tells No Lies, causing his eye to be burned away by the Flames of Time.

Once Giriko Kutzusawa (Bleach) had his Fullbring upgraded, he can create contracts of the simplest clause to gain power, thus boosting his own strength without a price.

Calvin Dion Avericci (Archie's Weird Mysteries) gave teens charge cards that allow them to buy things within his mall, free of charge, until they reach a limit, which is when he turns them into a mannequin.

Rei Ogami (Code:Breaker) had to make a contract with the Seven Demons of the Flames to regain his lost mastery over them in order to use their powers again, sacrificing his sense of taste, Yuuki's Sound ability, his heart upon death, his enemy's envy, his sense of smell, and eventually his memories.

Kyosuke Higuchi (Death Note) made a deal with the Shinigami Rem for the Shinigami Eyes, granting him the ability to see names and lifespans of the people he looks at in exchange for half of his remaining lifespan.

Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) made a contract with the toads and can summon them by offering a drop of blood each time.

Ursula (The Little Mermaid) has a way of making deals with her victims.

Rokumon (Kyōkai no Rinne) is Rinne's black cat of contract. The black cat has a symbiotic relationship with the shinigami and assists them in their duties of casting souls into the underworld and placing them on the path to Reincarnation.

Celestial Spirit Mages (Fairy Tail) make contracts with Celestial Spirits to summon them with Spirit Keys.

Kyubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) is a being known as an Incubator which is a being capable of giving contracts for the price of one's soul in return, they get one wish.

The God of Death (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) is an evil duel spirit who offered the wielder the power of one-turn kills in exchange of their souls.

As a demon, Etrigan (DC Comics) has displayed some examples of 'wish fulfilment' for something in return.

Kuro (Kurokami/Black God) a Terra Guardian is empowered by her contractee/human's life force and their bond.

Demons such as Asuramaru (Owari no Seraph) can make contracts with humans to slay vampires, he takes the form of black katana.

Contract (Oto x Maho) that allows a person to become a Magical girl and this contract can only be given out by magical girls. Failure to follow the contract will result in the person to live as the opposite sex.

Hades (Disney's Hercules) was able to rob Hercules of his god-like strength through a contract, Hercules' strength returning when he was unable to keep his end of the bargain.

Rumpelstiltskin (Shrek), a manipulative trickster who bestows contracts onto others to get what he wants.

Crossroad Demons (Supernatural) operate by making contracts with humans, granting a human their wish in exchange for ownership of their soul.

The Dream Demons (A Nightmare on Elm Street) make a contract with Freddy, giving him the power to turn dreams into reality in exchange for being their agent in spreading fear and chaos.

Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) gained a darker and more powerful form of magic after signing her name and pledging eternal servitude to the dark lord Satan

Gaunter O'Dimm (The Witcher) can grant any wishes through a binding contract between him and his victim, though even Gaunter has to abide the contract once signed.

Him (Yakusoku no Neverland) can make “Promises” that grant the wishes of others with three rules 1. You cannot override a promise with Him, 2.You cannot break a promise with Him, 3.You cannot reject the reward A.K.A the cost

Mephisto (Marvel Comics) has dealt with mortals for centuries

SCP-738 - The Devil Deal (Scp Foundation)

Rumplestiltskin (Once Upon a Time) has centuries of experience in making deals with various people.

Videos

Supernatural - John Makes A Deal With Yellow Eyed Demon For Dean 2x1-2

Supernatural - Dean Sells His Soul for Sam - S2E22 - Logoless

Supernatural Bobby sold his soul "Did you kiss him?" 5x21-2

Trope Talk- Faustian Bargains-2