Law Manipulation

Law Manipulation
Judgemaster Cid Randell (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance) leader of all judges.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate laws.

"Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never experienced joy and kids who have never experienced suffering have different values! Only those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! The victors alone are justice!"

― Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)

The power to manipulate laws. Sub-power of Omniarch and Causality Manipulation. Variation of Personal Domain. Opposite to Crime Manipulation.

Also Called

• Rule Manipulation

Capabilities

Users can rewrite, redefine, delete, apply and generally manipulate any law which affects anyone and everyone as the user sees fit, allowing them to decide what happens under which conditions.

The user can create a law where one can only kill a person by removing their head; create a law where everyone and anyone that wears pink has three lives in their general area; or make it a law that combat must done with one tossing a die to decide what action to perform or providing that one must say where they are attacking and when they do so. The user creates any law they see fit or changes the entire concept of an existing law.

High-level users can also delete, rewrite and re-define any of the fundamental laws of existence and can affect any area and anyone they choose.

Applications

• Banishment
• Binding
• Cartoon Physics
• Chaos Inducement - by removing all law in area
• Coercion - physically, spiritually and mentally force others to obey your commands
• Concept Manipulation - Control Laws governing Concepts.
• Contract Nullification
• Criteria Manipulation
• Judgement Manipulation
• Justice Manipulation
• Law Attacks
• Law Creation
• Law Enforcement Manipulation
• Law Erasure
• Law Immunity
• Law Inducement
• Law Mastery
• Logic Manipulation
  • Logic Mandate
• Order Manipulation - Using laws manipulate order in anything.
• Paradox Inducement - by setting contradictory rules
• Personal Domain - essentially
• Personal Law
• Physical Law Erasure
• Physical Law Immunity
• Physical Law Manipulation
• Physics Enforcement
• Physics Manipulation
• Punishment Manipulation
• Reality Rejection - Deny specific actions, such as violence, the use of weapons, powers, etc
• Reality Warping - for organizing purposes only
• Right Manipulation
• Rule Bending/Living Anomaly
• Universal Principle Manipulation

Techniques

• Law Combat
• Law Defense
• Law Empowerment

Variations

• Absolute Law Manipulation
• Law Magic
• Physical Law Manipulation
  • Exotic Law Manipulation
• Supernatural Law Manipulation

Associations

• Causality Manipulation
• Censorship Manipulation
• Crime Manipulation
• Government Manipulation
• Law Arts
• Obedience Manipulation
• Obligation Manipulation
• Omniarch
• Ownership Manipulation
• Personal Domain

Limitations

• Absolute Law
• Law Immunity
• May be limited in range and possibly in duration; subverted with proper planning.
• Rules may backfire if the user isn't cautious.
• May only affect an area centered on the user.
• Opponents with Physical Law Immunity may be able to resist the user's power.
• Unless user is careful, they may end up leaving exploitable loopholes.
• Users laws may be bypassed or broken by users of Rule Bending and Living Anomaly.
• User is powerless against users of Rule Transcendence.

Known Users

• Odin (Fortissimo Akkord Bsusvier)
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer)
• The Charred Council (Darksiders)
• Mio Takamiya (Date A Live)
• Glory of the First Council (DC Comics)
• Grand Priest (Dragon Ball Super)
• Judgemaster Cid Randell (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance)
• Judge (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1 & 2)
• Shiroe (Log Horizon)
• Living Tribunal (Marvel Comics)
• Principality (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Magic Users (A Veterinarian in Another World)
• Members of the Justiciar Pathway (Lord Of The Mysteries)
• Members of the Black Emperor Pathway (Lord Of The Mysteries)
• Cathleen "Cassie" Bate/Star and Stripe (My Hero Academia); via New Order
• The Fragmented One/WAN/he Eternal Network/Fuxi/The Maker of Machines/Hakhama/The Great Voice/Sophia/Mekhane/SCP-001 - TwistedGears/Kaktus Proposal - The Broken God (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-343 - God (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4494 - THE SPECTER" (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-001 - WJS Proposal - Normalcy (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3088 (SCP Foundation) - Only "Legally Empowered Individual"
• SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me (SCP Foundation)
• Accelerator (Toaru Majutsu no Index); via Black/White/Platinum Wings
• God (Tokyo Babel)
• Rimuru Tempest (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken); Covenant King, Uriel
• Shuna (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken); Analyst
• Throne Seekers (The Witch's Throne) Via Law of Numbers
• Mira Yamana (Trinity Seven); via Fallen God's Land
• Great Adepts (Age of Adepts)
• High Grade Beings (Age of Adepts)

Known Objects

• Bellanax (Arkwell Academy series)
• SCP-001 - qntm's proposal - The Lock (SCP Foundation)

Gallery

SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me (SCP Foundation) twisted the law in such a way that it was able to convict Talloran for something simple.

Odin (Fortissimo) can create and rewrite laws of reality.

Living Tribunal (Marvel Comics)

Star and Stripe's (My Hero Academia) Quirk, New Order, enables her to beset new decrees on certain abstracts which she touches, with a maximum of two laws active at any given time.

Videos

SCP-4494 - Plays Video Games in His Spare Time - The Specter

SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center of Everything That Happens To Me (SCP Animation)