Destiny Manipulation

Destiny Manipulation
Destiny of the Endless (DC Comics)
Power/Ability to:	Control Destiny.

" I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening, turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say, I am."

― Thanos (Avengers: Infinity War)

The power to perceive and affect fate/destiny concerning people and events. Opposite to Freedom.

Also Called

• Destiny Control
• Fate Control/Manipulation
• Predestination
• Predetermination

Capabilities

User is able to perceive, shape and manipulate destiny allowing them to affect reality in several ways both overt and hidden. Many users have an object that is physical manifestation of this power, common forms being Book or Spindle and a cutting tool.

Applications

• Action Inducement
• Destiny Assignment
  • Path Maker
  • Destiny Chosen
• Destiny Perception
  • Reality Awareness
  • Reality Clarification
  • Reality Perception
• Epiphany Inducement
• Fate Denial
• Higher Consciousness
  • Omnipresence
• Inevitable Event Creation
• Nigh Omniscience or Omniscience
  • Solipsistic Manipulation
• Obstacle Manipulation
• Probability Manipulation
• Purpose Manipulation
• Quantum String Manipulation
  • Creation
  • Destruction
  • Immortality
• Reality Anchoring
• Reality Restoration
• Time Manipulation
  • Event Manipulation
• Universal Irreversibility

Variations

• Causality Manipulation
• Cycle Manipulation
• Destiny Magic
• Destiny Weaving
• Fate Embodiment
• Future Manipulation
• Meta Fate Manipulation
• Prophecy Construction

Associations

• Almighty Law Creation
• Author Authority
• Destiny Chosen: Capable of choosing these people through manipulation.
• Destiny Weaponry
• Narration
• Node Manipulation
• Order Manipulation
• Red String Manipulation

Limitations

• User actions are likely bound in certain ways.
• Prophecy Construction may counter this power.
• Users of Freedom are unaffected by this power.

Known Users

See Also: Because Destiny Says So.

Mythology/Folklore

• Sisters of Fate (Greek Mythology)
• Moros (Greek Mythology)
• Fates (Mythology)
• Norns (Norse Mythology)

Comics

• Destiny (DC Comics)
• The Three (DC Comics)
• Composite Superman (DC Comics)

Manga/Anime

• Vanessa Enoteca (Black Clove); via Rouge/Red Thread of Fate
• Oginome Momoka (Mawaru Penguindrum)
• Users of Izanagi and Izanami (Naruto)
• Sul (Oban: Star Racers)
• Slow (Karakuri Dôji Ultimo)
• Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu)
• Souta Hatate (Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara)
• Supreme Deity (Nanatsu no Taizai); via Perpetual Reincarnation Curse

Tabletop Games

• Mages with the Fate Arcanum (Mage: the Awakening)
• Mages using the Sphere of Entropy (Mage: the Ascension)
• True Fae and Changelings (Changeling: the Lost)

Television

• Atropos (Supernatural)
• Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
• Angels of Destiny (Charmed)
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer)

Video Games

• Sidereals (Exalted)
• Remilia Scarlet (Touhou Project)
• Sagume Kishin (Touhou Project)
• Sisters of Fate (God of War)
• Theresa (Fable Trilogy)
• The Great Rabbit (Armed and Delirious)
• Ithereal (Diablo)
• The Force/Gentle Pull (Super Mario Galaxy)
• Clutho (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Lachesis (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Atropos (Valkyrie Crusade)
• The Fateless One (Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning)

Cartoons

• Phasir (Aladdin)
• The Fates (Disney's Hercules)
• Mata Nui (Bionicle)

Literature

• Fate (Discworld)
• StarClan (Warriors)
• Coil (Worm); to a limited degree

Other

• The Vision (Fear Mythos)

Known Objects

• The Destiny Stone (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
• The Cards of Fate (SCP Foundation); formerly

Gallery

The Three (DC Comics) aka: The Kindly Ones, The Hecatae, the Erinyes; the Fates; the Three Witches; the Norns; the Three-in-One; Moirae; Eumenides; the Furies; Parcae; Fortuna; the Charities.

The Izanagi technique (Naruto) allows the user to control their state of existence, escaping unfavorable outcomes and rewriting the results. Thus they can alter their destinies.

Due to the fate altering aspect being abused, Izanami (Naruto) was designed to decide fate, by trapping the abuser in an infinite loop, until they accept their fate and cease using it.

Bad Wolf Entity (Doctor Who) manipulated her own destiny to cause her creation.

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Clutho (Valkyrie Crusade)

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Lachesis (Valkyrie Crusade)

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Atropos (Valkyrie Crusade)

Remilia Scarlet (Touhou project)

The Fates (Disney's Hercules)

Sagume Kishin (Touhou Project) can reverse any situation by talking about it, causing the opposite of however she speaks about a situation/event to occur no matter what.

The Cards of Fate (SCP Foundation) are a set of playing cards SCP-1440 won from the Great Death that were capable of manipulating fate until SCP-1440 overused them to prevent several deadly conflicts (wars, revolutions, etc.), rendering them powerless.