- "Yes, the world is ultimately a straight line like the rubber string nailed onto pachinko machines. There is no infinite expanse of parallel worlds. But at the same time, the world is a rubber string. It can stretch or contract like time or space. The world we know has a surprising amount of waste. It’s like using only ten frames when using sixty fps film. No one will notice if you stick some subliminal footage in using two or three of the leftover frames. "
- ― Kamisato Kakeru (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
The ability to manipulate temporal phases. Sub-power of Time Manipulation.
Also Called[]
- Phase Shifting
- Temporal Phase Shift
Capabilities[]
The user can shift the temporal phase of any person, object, general area, or themselves unvaryingly ahead or behind any established time-stream. Anything or anyone affected by this ability will be rendered intangible and maybe even invisible (depending on the physical laws of the verse employing this ability) to everything outside its intrinsic temporal phase.
If the users can displace themselves or others minutes ahead of the time-stream, people within the established time stream will perceive them having a form of precognition even though they are merely out of phase.
Applications[]
- Alpha Travel: Sidestepping linear temporal phase enables the bypasssing of set spatial parameters, allowing one to swap out of their original temporal reality in order to traverse along the timestream of the primary reality.
- Cloaking
- Spatial Displacement: Shifting out of synch with time displaces one in spatial covalence, essentially making those effected deanchored from plantery existential placeing.
- Banishment Manipulation: By acceleratig or decellerating temporal shift with the rest of the world. Users can expunge others from their place in said reality either temporarilly or perminantly.
- Temporal Independence: Sitting out of phase with temporal reality causes one to be unreliant on it. Leaving them free of the constraints of its detriment and ravages.
- Temporal Isolation
- Imperceptibility
- Temporal Speed: One is able to move at trans-superluminal speeds due to not being apart of standard local time framing they're initially placed in.
- Temporal Isolation
Associations[]
Known Users[]
See Also: Just One Second Out of Sync.
- Garfield (Garfield)
- Grosse Augen (Concrete Revolutio)
- Hit (Dragon Ball Super)
- Ignacio Huamaní/Fade (Apex Legends Mobile) ; via Prototype Tech Suit
- Aleister Crowley (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Kang the Conqueror (Marvel Comics)
- The Sentry (Marvel Comics)
- Thanos (Marvel Comics); temporarily
- Devidians (Star Trek TNG)
- The TARDIS (Doctor Who)
- Monya (Yoko Tsuno)
- The Bronze Dragonflight (World of Warcraft)
Gallery[]
Hit (Dragon Ball Super) skipping one-tenth of a second.