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A few months ago, shortly after discovering this wiki, I decided to create a page for Hatou Manabu, the protagonist of Murasakiiro no Qualia. Since at that point I wasn't familiar enough with the tiering system, my first attempt was exceedingly misinformed. My article was temporarily taken down, and we had a lengthy discussion in this thread where we ended up agreeing that her tier should be "Unknown". However, after revisiting some of my previous research, I'd like to try to clear up what spot on the tier list I think Manabu should inhabit.
One argument brought up in the thread was that Manabu never exerts enough force to destroy higher-dimensional constructs, nor does she physically exist. However, Manabu's abilities are heavily based off quantum physics, namely the idea that observation collapses a superposition of states. Because of this, someone being able to observe a higher dimensional system implies they can interact with that system, since observation is a form of interaction. This in turn implies that they exist on the same dimensional level as that system.
At a glance Manabu would seem to be 5-d, since she can observe infinite different parallel universes at any point in time. However, I'd argue that after coming into contact with the Theory of Everything (hereafter referred to as the ToE) she should be considered 11-d. After discovering the ToE, Manabu becomes able to expand the scope of her observation. The ToE is implied to encompass the multiverse of Qualia in its totality: "The four forces that hold the universe together: strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravitational force... Unified into one. The absolute culmination of physics." (Source). In the Tiering System page, it is explicitly stated that VS Battles Wiki considers a complete multiverse to be 11-d: "The M-Theory defines the sum totality of an entire multiverse, with all higher dimensions included, as a 10 to 11-dimensional structure. We follow the convention of a complete multiverse being 11-dimensional." While some of M-Theory's analogues utilize a fewer number of dimensions to explain string theory concepts, since M-Theory is the standard, and the series clearly displays that theoretical physics is consistent in the Qualia multiverse, I consider the scope of Manabu's observation to be 11-d.
For these reasons, I put Manabu as 2-A prior to learning the ToE, and High 1-C afterwards.
Here's the link to my version of the article: User_blog:Betaredex/Hatou_Manabu
Feel free to ask about the reasoning for other sections of the edited page here as well. It would be rather annoying to list the rationale for all of them here, especially when a lot of them were covered in the previous thread.
One argument brought up in the thread was that Manabu never exerts enough force to destroy higher-dimensional constructs, nor does she physically exist. However, Manabu's abilities are heavily based off quantum physics, namely the idea that observation collapses a superposition of states. Because of this, someone being able to observe a higher dimensional system implies they can interact with that system, since observation is a form of interaction. This in turn implies that they exist on the same dimensional level as that system.
At a glance Manabu would seem to be 5-d, since she can observe infinite different parallel universes at any point in time. However, I'd argue that after coming into contact with the Theory of Everything (hereafter referred to as the ToE) she should be considered 11-d. After discovering the ToE, Manabu becomes able to expand the scope of her observation. The ToE is implied to encompass the multiverse of Qualia in its totality: "The four forces that hold the universe together: strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravitational force... Unified into one. The absolute culmination of physics." (Source). In the Tiering System page, it is explicitly stated that VS Battles Wiki considers a complete multiverse to be 11-d: "The M-Theory defines the sum totality of an entire multiverse, with all higher dimensions included, as a 10 to 11-dimensional structure. We follow the convention of a complete multiverse being 11-dimensional." While some of M-Theory's analogues utilize a fewer number of dimensions to explain string theory concepts, since M-Theory is the standard, and the series clearly displays that theoretical physics is consistent in the Qualia multiverse, I consider the scope of Manabu's observation to be 11-d.
For these reasons, I put Manabu as 2-A prior to learning the ToE, and High 1-C afterwards.
Here's the link to my version of the article: User_blog:Betaredex/Hatou_Manabu
Feel free to ask about the reasoning for other sections of the edited page here as well. It would be rather annoying to list the rationale for all of them here, especially when a lot of them were covered in the previous thread.
