- "Bobby: He's Cold.
- Dean: Is he breathing?
- Bobby: No.
- Dean: Maybe Angels don't need to breathe."
- ― Bobby Singer and Dean Winchester on Castiel (Supernatural)
- "I can see through her! I-Is she a ghost?"
- "We don't know, She won't answer."
- ― Glenn Quagmire and Su-Jin (Family Guy)
- "Dad! Your alive!"
- "(runs right through him)"
- "Well, your something anyway."
- ― Gosalyn Mallard talking about Darkwing Ducks spiritual body (Darkwing Duck)
The ability to be both alive and undead in equilibrium. Sub-power of Paradox Manipulation.
Also Called
- Life Scale
- Living Undead
- Perfect Undead
Capabilities
User exists in a paradox state of being simultaneously alive and undead by all definitions of both states. They may appear to be alive for all intents and purposes, to any test or scan, but possess undead/necrotic energy sustaining and empowering them, their living and undead states may exist on a scale depending on how healthy they are.
Applications
- Defunct Physiology
- Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition
- Environmental Adaptation
- Reactive Adaptation
- Undead Physiology
- Undead Soul
Techniques
- Afterlife Traversal - By being both and neither of living or dead worlds.
Associations
- Cemetery Empowerment
- Dead Heart
- Death Empowerment
- Death-Force Manipulation
- Fear Inducement
- Paradox Existence
- Physical Restoration
- Regenerative Durability
- Restoration
- Undetermined Existence
Limitations
- User may be self crippling by their own power due to their paradoxical state.
- May be incapable/immune to any and/or all forms of healing or harmful spells rituals or ceremonies or hyper vulnerable to specific kinds of magic.
- May not receive any supernatural buffs or assistance unless its a specific form of magic.
- May have to take in/absorb a constant supply of something specific like blood or life-force in order to remain in peak optimal condition to prevent their undead side growing stronger.
- User's presence may be detrimental to their allies even if they don't mean to be.
Known Users
- Clover (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
- Valkyries (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
- Sentrakh (BIONICLE): via experimentation
- Siren (Bioshock Infinite)
- Miguel Rivera (Coco); temporarily
- Ouri Kagami (Corpse Princess)
- Eric Draven (The Crow)
- Kirika Ueno (CubexCursedxCurious)
- The Buzzard (Dark Horse Comics)
- Chiaotzu (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- Son Goku (Dragon Ball); kept body after death as reward for the good he has done
- King Kai (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death due to his position
- Old Kai (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death due to his position
- Piccolo (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- Tien Shinhan (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- Vegeta (Dragon Ball); allowed to keep his body by King Yemma in a special case
- Yamcha (Dragon Ball); kept his body after death to train at King Kai's planet
- John Milton (Drive Angry)
- Junpei Takeda (Dungeon Seeker)
- Mavis Vermillion (Fairy Tail)
- Cadderly Bonaduce (Forgotten Realms); via becoming the Ghost King
- Diavolo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
- Riko (Made In Abyss)
- Hiyori Iki (Noragami)
- Hel (Norse Mythology)
- Noya (Owari no Seraph)
- Vorlog (Ravenloft)
- Hi-Five Ghosts Son (Regular Show)
- Sinbad (Sinbad)
- Kiriko Zubreska (Sunday Without God)
- Castiel (Supernatural)
- William's infectee's (Underworld)
- Bonnie Bennett (The Vampire Diaries); as the Anchor of the Other Side
- Transitioning vampires (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals)
- R (Warm Bodies)
Known Objects
- Relic Ring (Final Fantasy VI)
Gallery
After finding the Book of the Dead, Clover (Anima: Beyond Fantasy) was converted into a being neither alive or dead.
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Miguel Rivera (Coco)
Due to being born from death, Ouri Kagami (Corpse Princess) is considered to be both human and shikabane.
Crows (The Crow) are deceased beings empowered by a spirit of vengeance who tie them between both the land of the living and the realm of the dead.
Kirika Ueno (CubexCursedxCurious) is both alive and undead because of the cursed tool Ginstrnag's Love.
After his death, Goku (Dragon Ball) was permitted to keep his physical body in the Other World.
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John Milton (Drive Angry) being an escaped soul from hell is neither living nor extinguished. Ergo no matter what is done to him you can never kill a dead man.
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Junpei Takeda (Dungeon Seeker)
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Due to being still considered immortal despite being killed by Zeref's ankhseram's contradiction curse, Mavis (Fairy Tail) is both alive and dead at the same time.
After nearly dying in a bus accident, Hiyori Iki (Noragami) became a half-Phantom, stuck between the human realm and the afterlife.
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