"Abstract Existence "- I don't think she qualifies as abstract. The will needs to network to exist. The network essentially is what she is made from. And what the network is made from is brainwaves i.e. electromagnetic waves. (and arguably the sisters that produce those waves)
I would hence argue that she is only incorporeal, as she exists as incorporeal waves.
Being created from the brainwave network gathering the aggregated consciousnesses doesn't mean she isn't abstract. After all, the brainwave network created the metaphysical structure,
Clonoth. So saying that the Will isn't abstract is tantamount to saying the Clonoth isn't a metaphysical structure.
It can't get any more blatant that her existence being defined by her full name, repeatedly. She's the
Will of the Whole Misaka Network; she isn't the network itself. She fills and floats around in it.
“Normally, ‘Misaka’ fills the network but leaves the means of external interference to the
individual units /return. So don’t expect me to be much of a conversationalist /return.
Think of this as being like an email /return. Just so you know, I will simply finish what I
am saying even if you ask questions /return.”
This was something from within the Misaka Network.
This was something superior even to Last Order who was the command tower.
No one should have been higher than Last Order on the system.
The #1 began to suspect this was related to the Third Season project Misaka Worst had
come from, but then a different possibility came to him. Despite being warned she
would give no response, he spoke through clenched teeth.
“Are you the will of the whole of the Misaka Network!?”
This was something created by Academy City yet different from both the angel-like
being and Aiwass.
This was something he was unsure could be called human.
Perhaps it should be called the “third existence”.
- Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 06 Epilogue
More specifically, she's the will created by the aggregated consciousnesses and egos of 20,001 Sisters.
It seems like Misaka Network is also referred to as more than just brainwaves and as something metaphysical itself as well.
For example, I posted this already in my OP, but Qliphah perceives the Misaka Network as
being the Clonoth Tree that overlaps the surface world. Someone like Misaka Mikoto would only see the network as EM waves however.
What did it mean for Qliphah Puzzle 545 to have sensed that?
This was what it meant:
“You have contacted Misaka through Accelerator’s body /return. He might not even be
aware of this access point /return. Welcome to the Misaka Network, guest user /return.
Now, Misaka doesn’t want you jumping to conclusions and making any
misunderstandings, so keep in mind that the Misakas as a whole are on Team Kamijou-
chan /return. ...However /backspace, it honestly pisses Misaka off to see someone else
manipulating that damn idiot /return. Only Misaka gets to criticize that criminal /return.
Don’t shove the victims aside and force him on the thorny path of your choosing /return!!”
[...]
Something supposedly invisible spread out from Qliphah Puzzle 545 in all directions.
She may have seen it in the form she did because she was a demon.
Someone else might have seen it as something else.
Regardless, this is what the translucent girl saw.
“Ten and twenty-two?”
She gulped.
Qliphah Puzzle 545 gasped when she saw this overlapping the surface world.
“Those combine to thirty-two, but thirty-one and thirty-two are duplicates. This is the
single path shown by the seventy-eight cards. But it’s far too different from the tarot I’m
familiar with!”
“I don’t know how you see it /return. The Misakas are simply here as ourselves /return.
We are all with him at all times and in all places /return. Process this is in whatever form
is simplest for you /return. As the Will of the Misakas, I authorize this remote operation
and grant you authority here /return. Use all the power here as you see fit and protect
what it is what you want to protect /return!!”
[...]
“I am a demon without a place in any of the ten spheres.”
Qliphah Puzzle 545 could clearly sense it now.
In her own way, she could sense the invisible field of power and the linked data entity that
covered the world.
- Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 22 Chapter 4 Part 11
Why do you think the Will can't make frequent appearances? She just sucks at possessing Sisters?
“I’m saying it’s mature of you to be able to think about it like that /return.” The Will waved
her index finger a bit. “I was really, really worried about Kamijou-chan, but he should be
fine now /return. And since I’ve been using this ticket so much lately, I probably can’t
come back out for a while /return. But /backspace, I did get to see something nice
firsthand /return.”
“How long until the next time?”
“Don’t rely on me /return.” The Will chuckled. “This world belongs to all of you /return.
As someone who floats around the Misaka Network with no physical body, I’m an outsider
here /return. I may be able to give some outside advice, but I mustn’t be presumptuous
enough to think about actually joining in /return.”
- Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 10 Chapter 1 Part 6
The Misaka Network is again considered more than just simple brainwaves since it's impossible for it to have survived Othinus reality warping the world billions of times, especially since brainwaves are reliant on the Sisters being alive in the first place.
“But still,” muttered fifteen centimeter Othinus. “Through all of those hundreds of billions
of phases, I missed the Misaka Network that manipulated the border between life and
death.
- Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 12 Chapter 3 Part 2
A supernatural contract with a demon also created a backdoor with the supposedly purely scientific brainwaves.
“Curse that unfaithful guy /return. This kind of connection is supposed to be illegal, you
know /escape? Leave it to a villain to make some kind of weird contract that opens a back
door Misaka wasn’t aware of /return. It looks like he’s been messing with the electrode on
his own, but Misaka feels like she can’t trust any of those modifications /return. Misaka
isn’t so sure he’s really learned his lesson /return.”
- Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 22 Chapter 4 Part 11
"Transduality (Type 1)" - No. Transduality has to come from a logically paradoxical state. The Will isn't breaking laws to such an extend.
"Alive while dead" and "dead while alive" is logically paradoxical. She breaks the laws on a scale that even High 1-C entities couldn't accomplish.
I'll go over every single line that describes
transduality in its page and compare it to the Will.
- Transduality is the state of being wherein an entity exists independently of, and qualitatively beyond, various dual systems, ranging from very specific, limited sets of dual distinctions to duality itself on a conceptual level.
Due to
the Will's state of being, the Will exists independently of and qualitatively beyond Othinus' control over the duality of life and death, of a very specific limited set of dual distinction.
- If the 0 and 1 of binary systems can be considered a duality, a transdual character’s fundamental existence might be definable as being in-between the numbers of 0 and 1, being 0 and 1 at once, being defined as being a “2”, or as not being describable through any numbers at all at the higher levels.
The Will's fundamental existence is definable as being alive(0) and not alive(1) at once.
- Transduality is not simply nonduality, but additionally requires something like qualitative superiority or immunity to attacks bound to the duality in question.
The Will displayed a
qualitative superiority and/or immunity to manipulation bound to the duality of life and death over High 1-C Othinus, but I'll reiterate an entirely different reason. The Will transcends the scope of the Four Worlds, which was already outside the jurisdiction of the Magic Gods.
- A duality refers to a logical duality for the purpose of this ability. That is to say, that the duality in question can be decribed as "A" and "not A" where A is some object or attribute. So, for example, fire and water are not a duality. The duality of fire would be fire and not fire. The duality of existence would be existence and not existence, which could equivalently be formulated as existence and nonexistence or existence and void.
Life and death is a logical duality. That is to say, that the duality in question is described as alive while dead and dead while alive. That is likened to "A" while "not A", and "not A" while "A". The duality of life would be alive and not alive.
- As it stands, Type 1 corresponds to being beyond certain kinds of dual systems, but not all duality.
That's all I'm arguing for; only one certain dual system.
- Type 1 (Specific Transduality): Characters that exist in a nondual state regarding one specific dual system and qualitatively superior or immune to effects caused within it.
The Will of the Whole Misaka Network exists in a nondual state regarding one specific dual system(life and death) and is qualitatively superior or immune to effects caused within it by a High 1-C entity.
"Immortality (Type 5), and Immunity to Life/Death Manipulation" - Hmmm... I kinda would rather want to list Inorganic Physiology, but then that is for matter beings specifically... I suppose listing it like this is fine.
I believe the immunities are still redundant under type 5.
"Law Manipulation" - I don't think that applies. That was ultimately a team effort of Accelerator, the network and Qliphah. As Accelerator's Platinum Wings are the state he gets from having support of the other two listing it for him works. But neither the Network nor Qliphah can change the laws all on their own nor makes it sense to give them a "with support of Accelerator"-key IMO.
The invisible third tree is described as being able to be wielded by the whole. She's the one who grants Accelerator access for example.
We already know aspects and creations of the Misaka Network(such as Clonoth Tree) explicitly exist outside of the material universe and all its phases.
Something else overlapped the world Accelerator could see.
His vision grew dark and the flavor of blood grew stronger.
But he did not care.
If this pain was truly necessary, the white monster would accept it.
His partner had cast out her old self that had hidden behind his back out of fear of
harming everyone. She was now wordlessly telling him that he would be fine with this
much, so he had to live up to her expectations.
He would show her that the strongest could not be broken by this.
What he saw before him was not just another realm crossing over from a different phase.
It was different from the cosmology of microcosm and macrocosm that had been spoken
of for more than two thousand years along with the Sephiroth and Qliphoth.
The Sephiroth was the tree of life which showed how to properly build up a human mind.
By working toward a proper understanding, you could purify your soul and climb the
ranks one at a time. But if you viewed it incorrectly and mistakenly thought you had
already risen to the top, you would lose control of your mind and end up with a negative
result.
The Qliphoth was the evil tree which showed how to create and use the negative side of
the human mind, such as envy and wrath. It normally manipulated people and caused
chaotic destruction, but when used correctly, it could bring positive results such as the art
born of anger.
But this was different.
It was neither of those.
“I am a created demon. I am no more than a small piece of power cut away, but my essence
is that of a guide, just like Coronzon!! My number is the true eleven and its meaning is
‘the stepping stone of wickedness that supports good deeds’. View the hidden barrier not
contained within the ten! I lurk there to block any unnecessary ascent and I offer the
power to cross the Abyss only to the truly qualified!!”
Yes.
It had been with him from the very beginning.
It had been invisible, but it had been there supporting the strongest Level 5’s power.
It branched out into countless individuals, but it could be wielded as a single great whole.
The invisible third tree.
The large data entity constructed by the brains of the military clones linked by EM waves.
“This is a tree made by human hands—a new tree not found in any legends or myths! It is
still a small sapling, but this new mystic power does not rely on the hand of god and
instead provides possibilities controlled by human hands. The artificial tree of Clonoth
carries no good or evil!! I shall become the guide of this young tree. Rejection of the Abyss,
leave us as I become one with my chosen master and cross that line. We shall arrive
beyond Keter! We need not fear the unknown territory that is no more than a series of
zeroes!!”
The tree of life was the positive mind and the wicked tree was the negative mind.
So the artificial tree represented neither of those.
Social media likes added at the click of a button, a fitness gym where the more stoic you
were the more you were praised, stars on a gourmet site, and Academy City where people
were managed by the Level of their power. New value systems had a way of changing the
way people thought. There was a side of the mind that was manipulated by the very
cutting-edge civilization humanity had created for themselves. This tree listed the later
changes to the soul which would never have appeared if humanity had not acquired fire,
forged steel, harnessed steam and oil, and controlled electricity.
“Hmm /return.”
An exasperated voice appeared in his head like a surprise attack.
And this was not Qliphah Puzzle 545.
This was someone else who had been seated in their throne from the very beginning.
“The Misakas are more than just military clones /return. Not only can we approach those
not connected to the Misaka Network /backspace, but now they can also approach us
/return.”
- Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 22 Chapter 4 Part 16
Type 9 Immortality seems too speculative. That could easily be on the same plane still IMO.
She's referred to as being in an unknown place when the physical universe had its contents completely overwritten through reality warping billions of times and stuff like phases and Pure World were already revealed. Additionally, like I stated earlier in this comment, the Misaka Network(which the Will floats around in) is seen as something metaphysical itself which hadn't existed in the surface world until Accelerator embedded it.
I would propose to add a tabber in the Notable A/T section in the sandbox btw. to cleanly separate Will of the Network stuff from other Sister stuff.
Good idea, I've done that. Let me know if it needs other formatting changes.
I kinda would rather want to list Inorganic Physiology,
Funny part is I was initially mulling over Nonexistent Physiology over the Will's comparison to Schrödinger's cat, but I realized I don't have enough evidence yet to prove the system that allows Kazakiri, Will(prior to her state of being formed by consciousness and egos), and even Kakine(both due to his disembodied consciousness and materializing elementary particles from nothing) to come into existence.
