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Suzumi has the ability to reproduce information, which allows them to create illusions by way of manipulating peoples' consciousnesses and altering what they perceive. In their attacks, they create danmaku out of nowhere and can also make the bullets disappear and reappear at will.
Suzumi can create books containing the memories and experiences of a person upon fulfilling unspecified conditions. These books allow them to replay and/or overwrite a person's memory. They can replay a target's memory by reading a book containing their memories, and can overwrite them by editing the book and showing it to their target, knocking the target out in the process. Suzumi can also read books containing their own memories in order to fly back in time and alter the events of the past. Should a book be destroyed, they can easily regenerate it.
When using their ability on themself, such as when memory diving or rewinding time, Suzumi appears to need to sleep to do so, as shown in their Bad Endings in Evanescent Existence, Earthen Miraculous Sword and Reactivate Majestical Imperial. One monad cannot use their abilities on another, but this hardly matters as their memories are shared in the first place.
Overwrite (Memory Forgery)
One of the applications of their ability used by Hamal Cine is what they refer to as "Overwrite", the ability to rewrite people's memories. However, such application has a weakness; overwriting memories of an event does not mean that the event never occurred, and people can therefore remember what has been erased under specific conditions. Hamee used this to make Hooaka "forget" their arm, essentially severing it.
Overwrite can affect the present, but not the past.
Trace (Memory Pursuit)
Another application of their ability used by Arde is what they refer to as "Trace", described as the ability to rewrite facts themselves. They also use it to "rewind history", presumably reversing time to gather information from the future safely before returning to the past. However, memories can leak through from other timelines, allowing people to recall memories of events that did not actually occur within the current timeline but in another one. Arde refers to the phenomenon as déjà vu, and explains that it is why careful use of Trace is essential. While all individuals experience déjà vu, some apparently have a stronger déjà vu than others, such as Yago Ametsukana. Arde also notes that a great discrepancy in a person's current memories and those received through déjà vu may lead to serious mental damage, and is the major risk of using Trace to rewind time. This is why Arde tries to avoid majorly altering the course of history before rewinding, especially killing people.
Déjà vu is not a specific result of Arde's ability, and is in fact the reason everyone vaguely remembers all possible routes of the events from Earthen Miraculous Sword, Reactivate Majestical Imperial and Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle. In addition, due to déjà vu being a memory-based phenomenon, it can be negated by Hamee's Overwrite ability. This is explained to be why no one remembers or only vaguely remembers their encounters with Suzumi in Reactivate Majestical Imperial.
Rewinding history has an additional side effect of creating a clone of Suzumi, which the original has to erase. This is done by the two merging together, getting rid of the clone in the process.
Trace can affect the past, but not the present.
Suzumi has the ability to reproduce information, which allows them to create illusions by way of manipulating peoples' consciousnesses and altering what they perceive. In their attacks, they create danmaku out of nowhere and can also make the bullets disappear and reappear at will.
Suzumi can create books containing the memories and experiences of a person upon fulfilling unspecified conditions. These books allow them to replay and/or overwrite a person's memory. They can replay a target's memory by reading a book containing their memories, and can overwrite them by editing the book and showing it to their target, knocking the target out in the process. Suzumi can also read books containing their own memories in order to fly back in time and alter the events of the past. Should a book be destroyed, they can easily regenerate it.
When using their ability on themself, such as when memory diving or rewinding time, Suzumi appears to need to sleep to do so, as shown in their Bad Endings in Evanescent Existence, Earthen Miraculous Sword and Reactivate Majestical Imperial. One monad cannot use their abilities on another, but this hardly matters as their memories are shared in the first place.
Overwrite (Memory Forgery)
One of the applications of their ability used by Hamal Cine is what they refer to as "Overwrite", the ability to rewrite people's memories. However, such application has a weakness; overwriting memories of an event does not mean that the event never occurred, and people can therefore remember what has been erased under specific conditions. Hamee used this to make Hooaka "forget" their arm, essentially severing it.
Overwrite can affect the present, but not the past.
Trace (Memory Pursuit)
Another application of their ability used by Arde is what they refer to as "Trace", described as the ability to rewrite facts themselves. They also use it to "rewind history", presumably reversing time to gather information from the future safely before returning to the past. However, memories can leak through from other timelines, allowing people to recall memories of events that did not actually occur within the current timeline but in another one. Arde refers to the phenomenon as déjà vu, and explains that it is why careful use of Trace is essential. While all individuals experience déjà vu, some apparently have a stronger déjà vu than others, such as Yago Ametsukana. Arde also notes that a great discrepancy in a person's current memories and those received through déjà vu may lead to serious mental damage, and is the major risk of using Trace to rewind time. This is why Arde tries to avoid majorly altering the course of history before rewinding, especially killing people.
Déjà vu is not a specific result of Arde's ability, and is in fact the reason everyone vaguely remembers all possible routes of the events from Earthen Miraculous Sword, Reactivate Majestical Imperial and Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle. In addition, due to déjà vu being a memory-based phenomenon, it can be negated by Hamee's Overwrite ability. This is explained to be why no one remembers or only vaguely remembers their encounters with Suzumi in Reactivate Majestical Imperial.
Rewinding history has an additional side effect of creating a clone of Suzumi, which the original has to erase. This is done by the two merging together, getting rid of the clone in the process.
Trace can affect the past, but not the present.
