- "I’m a survivor. I’m not gon' give up. I’m not gon' stop. I’m gon' work harder. I'm a survivor. I’m gonna make it. I will survive, keep on surviving."
- ― Lyrics to 2WEI Survivor
- "Wah-ha-ha! Did you think a little thing like the end of the world was gonna do me in? The earth tried to swallow me up once or twice, but I just pried its jaws open and climbed back out!"
- ― Duncan Harcourt (Final Fantasy VI)
- "I've been blown up, dropped down smoke stacks, fed to sharks! I'm the Joker! I always survive!"
- ― Joker (Batman: The Brave and the Bold)
- "Here's the sitch: Uninhabited planet. No resources, no supplies. No apparent way home. A lesser man would die here... I'll be home by Christmas."
- ― Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog)
The power to be a master of survivalism, either innately or through training. Variation of Intuitive Aptitude and Complete Mastery.
Also Called[]
- Expert/Skilled/Master Survivor
- Expert/Skilled/Master Survivalist
- Hell and Back
- Natural Survivalist
- Prepper Instincts/Intuition/Wits
- Survival Instincts/Intuition/Wits
- Survival Arts/Skills
- Survivalism
- Survivalism/Survivalist Intuition
Capabilities[]
The user is a master of survival and all skills applicable to survival, thus allowing them to easily survive in any and all environments, actively prepare for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales from local to international. Survivalists often acquire emergency medical and self-defense training, stockpile food and water, prepare to become self-sufficient, and build structures (e.g., a survival retreat or an underground shelter) that may help them survive a catastrophe.
Users have an intuitive mastery of all the associated survival skills and techniques granting them major leverage in any survival situation and allowing the user to easily survive any condition. Users can perfectly and without a single flaw or mistake survive any and every type of environment there is, was and will ever be whenever they want with zero effort by themselves.
This also includes clusters of natural disasters, patterns of apocalyptic planetary crisis, or "Earth Changes", anthropogenic disasters, general collapse of society, financial disruption or economic collapse, global pandemic, or widespread chaos or some other unexplained apocalyptic event.
This is the ultimate survival mechanism, since the user will automatically survive with perfect skill, technique and timing. The users full and complete mastery in survival and anything related to survival makes them as the ultimate survivalist .
This also allows the user to dominate any and every survival-based competition on any and every competition level at any time in all aspects easily.
Applications[]
- Adaptive Mind - To quickly adapt mentally to any situation.
- Administration Mastery - To have innate mastery in administration, to understand which procedure can take.
- Air Detection - To sense the presence of air and possibly gain detailed information about the air they are sensing.
- Agriculture Mastery - To have innate understanding of agriculture/aquaculture.
- Ambush Mastery - To have innate mastery of conducting ambushes.
- Architecture Mastery - To have innate understanding of architecture, can use to design shelter.
- Armorsmithing Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for armorsmithing.
- Ballistics Mastery - To have innate understanding of ballistics, for personal defense.
- Bladesmithing Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for bladesmithing.
- Bomb Disposal Mastery - To have innate mastery of bomb disposal.
- Botany Mastery - To have innate understanding of plants and fungi.
- Bowyering Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for bowyering.
- Breeding Mastery - To have innate mastery of how to breed anything to spawn the next generation with desired characteristics.
- Brewing Mastery - To have innate mastery all brewing skills and techniques, able to make all kinds of drinks.
- Butchering Mastery - To have innate mastery all butchering skills and techniques, able to butcher all kinds of meat.
- Car Driving Mastery - To have innate mastery of car driving.
- Carpentry Mastery - To have innate understanding of carpentry/construction work, can use to build tools and shelter.
- Cartography Mastery - To have innate mastery of cartography.
- Change Sense - To sense changes in anything within one's vicinity.
- Character Judgement Mastery - To know someone intentions and trustworthiness.
- Child Caretaking Mastery - To have innate skills, and instinct for child caretaking.
- Cleaning Mastery - To have innate mastery all cleaning skills and techniques, able to clean anything and make anything hygienic.
- Combat Mastery - To automatically fight with maximum efficiency in any situation, ensuring optimal success .
- Combat-Medical Mastery - To have innate medical skill, to easily treat injuries while in combat situation.
- Craft Improvisation - To automatically use and improvise anything from the surrounding resources as needed.
- Criminology Mastery - To possess an innate understanding of criminality, allowing the user to handle a variety of encounters with criminals.
- Culinary Mastery - To have innate mastery all culinary skills and techniques, able to make all kinds of food.
- Danger Detection - To automatically detect and evade impending threats.
- Deduction Mastery - To have innate mastery of deduction and accurate information processing, which allow to survive any situation that require investigative and reasoning prowess.
- Economics Mastery - To have intuitive understanding, skills, and instinct for economics, user can perfectly survive any economic crisis.
- Enhanced Preparedness - To have innate understanding of how to prepare for anything, always be prepared.
- Enhanced Wits - To quickly think on one's feet in any difficult situation, and always being cool and adaptable.
- Efficacy Mastery - To have innate mastery of using their skills and resources in optimal manner.
- Escapology Mastery - To have innate understanding of how to escape all manner of bonds and captivity.
- Family Mastery - To have innate skills, and instinct for family caretaking and protecting.
- Firefighting Mastery - To extinguish fires and prevents them.
- Fishing Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for fishing.
- Fixing Mastery - To have innate skill and talent for fixing anything.
- Food Sense - To have the ability to very easily track down food or tell the hidden attributes of a food item using ones highly attuned senses.
- Foreign Forces Detection - To sense the presence of foreign bodies within themselves or others, including physical objects, sicknesses, parasitic beings, superpowers, supernatural effects, toxins, magic, curses, etc.
- Gardening Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for gardening.
- Glass Blowing Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for glass blowing.
- Grilling Mastery - To have innate mastery all grilling skills and techniques, able to grill all kinds of food.
- Humor Mastery - To have innate mastery of humor.
- Hunting Mastery - To have innate understanding of how to track and hunt anything under any conditions.
- Hyper Awareness - To always be aware of one’s surroundings, even when sleep.
- Hypercompetence - To be naturally extremely skilled in an impressive number of fields and skills needed for survival.
- Improvisation Mastery - To have innate mastery of improvisation.
- Individual Detection - To sense the presence of anyone in one's vicinity, including people, animals, aliens, etc.
- Indomitable Will - To innately have an indomitably strong willpower to survive against all odds.
- Infinite Resourcefulness - Have knowledge to make the most out of anything and everything in any situation.
- Instant Learning - To intuitively and instantly learn, gather and understand any form of knowledge or skill needed for survival.
- Intelligent Travel - To intelligently know the right things to do and the right turns to take and the right paths to reach a destination.
- Intimidation Mastery - To be a master of intimidation and use it to instill fear in others and command respect from them.
- Killing Mastery - To have innate understanding of how to kill anything with no guilt or hesitation.
- Leadership Mastery - To have innate mastery of leadership allowing user to effectively keep order and morale.
- Lie Detection - To instinctively detect any and all lies being told at any moment, and perfectely survive all kinds of conspiracies.
- Linguistics Mastery - To innately know how to speak, write, understand, and communicate in different languages.
- Location Analysis - To intuitively analyze locations, being able to obtain information about the surrounding and environment.
- Maintenance Mastery - To intuitively know how to groom and maintain hygiene oneself and others.
- Management Mastery - To have innate mastery of management allowing user to manage logistics, people and supplies in the most optimal manner.
- Mechanical Mastery - To have innate understanding of mechanics, make anything out of scrap.
- Medical Mastery - To have innate medical understanding, easily treat injuries and create medicines.
- Metallurgy Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for metallurgy.
- Metalsmithing Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for metalsmithing.
- Meteorology Mastery - To have innate knowledge over the weather, users can perfectly predict the weather.
- Military Mastery - To have intuitive understanding of military, and innate skills, talent and instinct for warfare, user perfectly survive any war.
- Navigation Mastery - To have innate understanding of navigation, users can easily navigate through any area.
- Negotiation Mastery - To have skills in negotiation, for manage conflicts and resolves disputes peacefully.
- Observation Detection - To detect when being watched/observed.
- Optimal Finesse - To know how to use all your skills flawlessly.
- Peak Human to Absolute Condition - To instinctively know how to stay in the most optimal condition, always ready physically and mentally to survive any situation.
- Pharmacognosy Mastery - To possess intuitive knowledge and/or skill in the creation and use of medicinal substances from natural sources.
- Plumbing Mastery - To have innate understanding of plumbing work, can use to build irrigation, waste disposals and maintain hygiene.
- Political Mastery - To have intuitive understanding, skills and instinct for politics, user perfectly survive any political crisis.
- Preparation Time Mastery - To have innate mastery of using preparation time with maximum efficiency.
- Preservation Mastery - To preserve on self and belongings in a hostile environment.
- Psychological Mastery - To possess a deeper and intuitive understanding of the psychological behavior of everyone they meet, always know if someone is a challenger, friend, or foe, and intuit exactly how to manipulate it to their advantage.
- Rescue Mastery - To locate and rescue individuals who are injured, lost or in distress.
- Response Mastery - To intuitively pick up the right response to survive any situation.
- Sarcasm Mastery - To have innate mastery of sarcasm.
- Seduction Mastery - To instinctively know how to attract the best and most compatible mate to breed, for ensuring the user bloodline survival.
- Self-Sufficiency - To survive without the aid, support, or interaction.
- Sewing Mastery - To have innate skills and talent for sewing.
- Sexual Mastery - To have innate understanding, skills and instinct for sex/reproduction, user can perfectly ensure the survival of their species in any environment and is always seen as a very desirable sexual partner for reproduction and satisfaction.
- Simmering Mastery - To have innate mastery all simmering skills and techniques, able to simmer all kinds of dishes.
- Social Mastery - To possess innate social skills and the capacity to navigate various social situations.
- Society Adaptation - To automatically adapt and survive any kind of society easily.
- Solidarity Mastery - To possess innate mastery of being able to form proper uniformity, even among strangers for survival
- Stealth Mastery - To possess either innately or through training, of stealth moving cautiously and surreptitiously, usually for hunting, espionage, assassination, evading being tracked, etc.
- Swimming Mastery - To have innate knowledge of swimming.
- Tactical Analysis/Genius - To have great tactical knowledge.
- Temporal Sense - To innately know the date and time.
- Toxicology Mastery - To possess intuitive knowledge and/or skill in the creation and use of poisonous substances from natural sources.
- Tracking Evasion - To easily avoid detection and evade followers, as needed.
- Trapping Mastery - To have innate understanding of how to create traps for capturing animals or for protection.
- Tranquil State - To keep a cool levelheaded and clear mind, to think their way out under any difficult condition.
- Urban Intuition - The user can effectively survive and know their way around any urban area, as well as know who to trust and who not to trust, what areas are dangerous, etc.
- Vehicular Mastery - To innately know how to drive a variety of different vehicles.
- Water Detection - To have innate skills of sensing the presence of water, allowing them to easily find water for survival.
- Weather Sensing - To have innate skills of sensing what kind of weather will be coming, allowing them to prepare.
- Weapon Proficiency - To innately be a master of handling and wielding weapons.
- Woodworking Mastery - To have innate skills, talent and instinct for woodworking.
- Zoological Mastery - To have innate understanding of animals.
Variations[]
- Archetype:Horror Survivor
- Archetype:Last Survivor
- Archetype:Outbreak Survivalist
- Disaster Mastery
- Survival Luck
Associations[]
- Alien Physiology
- Automatic Self-Preservation
- Environmental Adaptation
- Intuitive Aptitude
- Mortal Physiology
- Self-Sufficiency
- Superior Human Physiology
- Supernatural Survivability
Known Users[]
- Jackson Curtis (2012)
- Marcy Wu (Amphibia)
- Various Characters (Baki the Grappler)
- Yuujiro Hanma
- Reiichi Andou
- Gaia
- Max Tennyson (Ben 10)
- David (Camp Camp)
- Chuck Bartowski (Chuck) via The Intersect 2.0
- Rantaro Amami (Danganronpa V3)
- Everyone from Athas (Dark Sun)
- Contractors (Darker than Black)
- Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman (DCAU)
- Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC Comics)
- Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (DC Comics)
- Midnighter (DC Comics/WildStorm)
- Chris Gordon (Demon Accords)
- Survivors of Capital City (Disaster Report)
- All playable characters (Don't Starve)
- Hyakkimaru (Dororo)
- Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
- Jason Bourne (Bourne Series)
- Aaron Cross (Bourne Legacy)
- Pyo Wol (Reaper of the Drifting Moon)
- Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Predator Series)
- Akira Satou/Fable (The Fable)
- Civia (Fablehaven series)
- Courier (Fallout: New Vegas); via survival skill
- Duncan Harcourt (Final Fantasy VI)
- Izumi Curtis (Full Metal Alchemist)
- Yuno Gasai (Future Diary)
- Chito (Girls Last Tour)
- Yuuri (Girls Last Tour)
- Spear (Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal)
- Cassie Hack (Hack/Slash)
- Marcus Octavius (Highlander: The Search for Vengeance)
- Ritzhardt Salonnen Reventulet (Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni Karigurashi)
- Oh Kang Woo (Player Who Returned 10,000 Years Later)
- Keill Randor (Last Legionary)
- Nidalee, the Bestial Huntress (League of Legends)
- Udyr, the Spirit Walker (League of Legends)
- Jin Ja Gang (Legend of Asura – The Venom Dragon)
- Geist (M.D. Geist)
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- Callisto (Marvel Comics)
- Sage/Tessa (Marvel Comics)
- Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven The Hunter (Marvel Comics)
- Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Masters/Taskmaster (Marvel Comics)
- Teon Macik/Primal (Marvel Comics)
- Takhar Orisha/Gregor (Marvel Comics)
- All White Whistles (Made in Abyss)
- Mash Burnedead (Mashle: Magic and Muscles)
- Hitonari Yamano (Matagi Gunner)
- Hitomi Hitoyoshi (Medaka Box)
- Lif and Lifthrasir (Norse Mythology)
- Heracles (One Piece)
- Survivors of Geo City (Raw Danger)
- Jack (Samurai Jack)
- Heather Mason (Silent Hill 3)
- Kumoko/Shiraori (So I'm a Spider, So What?/Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?)
- Sticks the Badger (Sonic Boom)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Doctor Robotnik/Eggman (Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog); only in Mushroom Planet
- Eishirou Sugata (Sora no Otoshimono)
- Dias Flac (Star Ocean: The Second Story)
- Mace Windu (Star Wars)
- Master Yoda (Star Wars)
- Arcturus Mengsk (Starcraft)
- Rima, The Jungle Girl (Super Friends)
- Ken and Mery (Survival Kids)
- Jim Lake Jr. (Tales of Arcadia)
- Ēsu (Yume no tohi)
- Raphael/Red Stripe (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series); only in the alternative future
- Mira (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
- Hojo Tokiyuki (The Elusive Samurai)
- Cris (The Golden Man)
- The Mutants (The Hills Have Eyes)
- Katherine Hanks (Katherine)
- Tatsuya Shiba (The Irregular at Magic High School)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- Dwight Schrute (The Office)
- Loid Forger/Twilight (Spy x Family)
- Practitioners of the Hercules Method (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode)
- Jim Hopper (Stranger Things)
- Jane "Eleven" Hopper (Stranger Things)
- Jemma Simmons (Agents of Shield) only in Maveth Planet
- Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
- Tsukasa Tsukuyomi (Tonikaku Kawaii)
- Everyone from Catachan (Warhammer 40,000)
- Jasmine (Total Drama)
- Shawn (Total Drama); in zombie situations.
- The Cannibals and some characters (Wrong Turn series)
- Erin (You're Next)
- Axel Brodie (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
- Nublar Six (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous)
- Ryan Wilder/Batwoman (Arrowverse)
- Non-Heretic Pilgrims (Goddess of Victory: Nikke)
- Snow White