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So, I've finished to read Medaka Box, and this is something I wanted to revise ever since I saw Iihiko's page.
Mountain of Resistances
As many of you know, Iihiko's page ends like this:
"Resistance to Causality Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Power Nullification, Biological Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, Magic, Existence Erasure, Fate Manipulation, Reality Warping, Time Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Death Manipulation, History Manipulation, Evolution Manipulation, Human Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Mind Reading, Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Power Mimicry, Corrosion Inducement, Power Absorption, Perception Manipulation and many other abilities (None of Medaka's or Ajimu's abilities worked on him)"
Except, Iihiko doesn't really resist them. I'm not talking about not shown or something like that, but that this is for his ability of not letting "skills" reach him, as Zenkichi explicitly states he doesn't actually resists skills after Medaka says that none of her abilities worked on him. This is pretty clear-cut and direct, so let's move to the elephant in the room.
Iihiko's recognitio
The way we've currently considered his power is disastrous as best. Wanked and NLFed to oblivion, with nothing and anything being able to resist said ability, we need to fix this ability. Hell, we aren't even considering it in his P&A section.
First off, this is explicitly a very powerful and peculiar form of Power Nullification. The description the Power Nullification page gives fits Iihiko to a T.
"Power Nullification, or Negation, is the ability to simply nullify the powers and abilities of others, negating their effects. The mechanisms by which this effect is accomplished and their restrictions vary from character to character, but the ability is often limited to a certain type of power, such as supernatural phenomena in general, or magic. In some cases, an ability can only be negated once it's been used or activated, but in others, powers can be nullified before they're even utilized. The effect may be temporary or permanent, and may be restricted by touch, or be something that the user can apply to any ability they see, or within a field that negates any powers within."
I think anyone who has read Medaka Box will realize that this is pretty much Iihiko's ability. Nothing effects him, the "condition" for activating is NOT being recognized by Iihiko, etc. etc. Only part that's different is that it's not really limited to anything but it works on "skills" (or abilities) in general, and that it can also negate AP and Durability. A pretty powerful Power Null, but a Power Null nonetheless.
What exactly is the "scaling chain" of this Power Null (AKA it nulled other power nulls/resistance to power null etc.) can probably be debated later.
Mountain of Resistances
As many of you know, Iihiko's page ends like this:
"Resistance to Causality Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Power Nullification, Biological Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation, Magic, Existence Erasure, Fate Manipulation, Reality Warping, Time Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Death Manipulation, History Manipulation, Evolution Manipulation, Human Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Mind Reading, Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Power Mimicry, Corrosion Inducement, Power Absorption, Perception Manipulation and many other abilities (None of Medaka's or Ajimu's abilities worked on him)"
Except, Iihiko doesn't really resist them. I'm not talking about not shown or something like that, but that this is for his ability of not letting "skills" reach him, as Zenkichi explicitly states he doesn't actually resists skills after Medaka says that none of her abilities worked on him. This is pretty clear-cut and direct, so let's move to the elephant in the room.
Iihiko's recognitio
The way we've currently considered his power is disastrous as best. Wanked and NLFed to oblivion, with nothing and anything being able to resist said ability, we need to fix this ability. Hell, we aren't even considering it in his P&A section.
First off, this is explicitly a very powerful and peculiar form of Power Nullification. The description the Power Nullification page gives fits Iihiko to a T.
"Power Nullification, or Negation, is the ability to simply nullify the powers and abilities of others, negating their effects. The mechanisms by which this effect is accomplished and their restrictions vary from character to character, but the ability is often limited to a certain type of power, such as supernatural phenomena in general, or magic. In some cases, an ability can only be negated once it's been used or activated, but in others, powers can be nullified before they're even utilized. The effect may be temporary or permanent, and may be restricted by touch, or be something that the user can apply to any ability they see, or within a field that negates any powers within."
I think anyone who has read Medaka Box will realize that this is pretty much Iihiko's ability. Nothing effects him, the "condition" for activating is NOT being recognized by Iihiko, etc. etc. Only part that's different is that it's not really limited to anything but it works on "skills" (or abilities) in general, and that it can also negate AP and Durability. A pretty powerful Power Null, but a Power Null nonetheless.
What exactly is the "scaling chain" of this Power Null (AKA it nulled other power nulls/resistance to power null etc.) can probably be debated later.
