Automatic Self-Preservation

Supernatural Self-Preservation
Victoria (Twilight)
Power/Ability to:	Evade capture or attack.

"This isn't the end."

"You say that with remarkable assuredness."

"With experience. When the Borg destroyed my world, my people were scattered throughout the universe. We survived - as will humanity survive. As long as there's a handful of you to keep the spirit alive, you will prevail - even if it takes a millennium."

― Guinan and Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: TNG)

The power to identify and escape danger without consciously thinking out a plan of action. Not to be confused with Escape Artistry or Tracking Evasion.

Also Called

• Automatic Self-Preservation
• Enhanced Self-Preservation
• Superhuman Self-Preservation
• Super Self-Preservation

Capabilities

Users can automatically identify and escape dangerous situations and evade opponents without consciously thinking out a plan of action. An example of this would be if the user is pursued by enemies that are faster than the user, they would automatically run in a pattern that would keep them from being surrounded, cut off, or captured by all means and then throw off their pursuit.

Applications

• Adrenal Activation
  • Accelerated Perception
• Danger Intuition
• Evasion
• Maximum Concentration Capacity
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Leap
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Reflexes
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Speed
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Strength
  • Hyper Awareness
• Escape Artistry
• Flawless Coordination
• Hypercompetence - for self-preservation.
• Prey Instinct
• Social Cloaking
• Survival Intuition
• Tracking Evasion

Associations

• Enhanced Condition/Supernatural Condition
• Probability Manipulation

Limitations

• May be unable to escape from certain almighty powers such as Universal Irreversibility, individuals possessing Omnilock (seeing as no power can lock onto them), beings with Omniscience, etc.
• May be limited on how long or how much they can use the ability for a certain amount of time.
• May require additional powers to escape certain dangers.

Known Users

• Assassins (Assassin's Creed)
• Templars (Assassin's Creed)
• Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass)
• Mister Miracle (DC Comics)
• Batman (DC Comics)
• Rincewind (Discworld)
• Victor (Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined)
• Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
• Cris Johnson (Next)
• Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
• Oriana Thompson (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
• Vash the Stampede (Trigun)
• Victoria (The Twilight Saga)
• Iruma Suzuki (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)
• Yorick Brown (Y: The Last Man)

Gallery

Oriana Thompson (A Certain Magical Index) constantly evades her pursuers.

Having been given the Geass command to "live" by Lelouch, Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass) will preserve his own life at all costs, often leading to him pulling off impressive physical feats...

...such as outrunning a camera-mounted machine gun, and then kicking it off its base.

Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) might have been a spoiled Celestial Dragon, but his hatred for those who tortured him made him refuse to die at all cost, keeping himself alive to kill them in revenge.

Victoria (Twilight) being "baited" into disregarding her ability.

Peter Parker/Spider-Man's (Marvel Comics) Spider-Sense can not only detects potential danger, it also causes him react automatically to immediate danger (e.g. a gunshot) without conscious thought.

Yorick Brown (Y: the Last Man) survived a plague that wiped out all beings with the Y chromosome and remained fertile. He was never caught by female captors due to his incredible self-preservation tactics and great escape artistry.

Videos

New Moon - Chasing Victoria

Victoria (The Twilight Saga: New Moon) escapes the wolves without a scratch