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A long, long ago, in a time forgotten to mankind and ruled by the powers of lazyness, I said I would kill a meme I helped created, then grew bored of.
That day is now.
...Lavos should have Conceptual Manipulation Type 2.
That is because Dreams in Chrono are a Concept.
They make up absolutely everything that Reality is understood as, and there is a literal Sea of Dreams above it all to which all of it returns to with life and existence in general being just a manifestation of the dreams made from it. This is anything but just what people see when they sleep.
It's told in no uncertain terms by Schala that the whole of existence is made of Dreams at the end of the series.
This actually goes hand in hand with Lavos gaining the power to interact with and consume Dreams - from there, the series keeps persistent implications that Lavos was rising to end all things in existence from it, and absolutely nothing would remain.
Now the deal with this is that even places such as the Darkness of Time - aka non-existence beyond the Multiverse are just another manifestation of dreams. You can see in one of the scans above that Schala specifically mentions that even "The words that become deleted, the thoughts that become buried" are a part of it.
To further express this, Chrono Cross presents beings of Dreams that manifest upon the world but absolutely nobody can interact with them - aptly called the Black Nightmares, the only thing that can possibly affect or interact with them is "a Song" which in this case is directly pointing to the unification by the Chrono Cross itself, which is also a melody unifying all throughout Space and Time as one. - and ends up being the sole thing in-verse that can possibly permanently put down the Time Devourer.
Now you may remember that Chrono deals a lot with the ideas of Fate, Non-Existence, Cause and Effect, Space, Time and whatnot, correct?
Now there's yet another quote from Queen Zeal pointing to this, way up there atop the Black Omen: All and Nothing, Destiny in its most essential form --- all of these notions are a form of Dreams.
This all also goes very much hand in hand with the absolutely fodder level scientists in El-Nido, who were researching Lavos...Who, by harnessing/extracting an actual fraction of Lavos' power from the Frozen Flame, would in no uncertain terms be capable of having absolute control over time and "become a presence, like God" - and these scientists were entirely aware of multiple timelines so this reinforces once again that the thing had power enough to not only destroy, but also control/alter all of existence in the verse --- given how even erased/non-existent Space Time can still be affected or further destroyed as is covered in the Res Nullius , it goes without saying that this should include the DBT as well (which is not strange, it in fact ties with Zeal's quote above).
Also goes well with Verse hierarchy given how it's literally only Dream Devourer ^ or the Chrono Cross which can do jack about them. Like how the party could actually punch the "denied of all existence" of the Res Nullius in the face but couldn't touch the Black Nightmares.
Things I'd like to see removed while at it:
Perception Manipulation - Blindness is just an status effect.
Reactive Evolution - No idea where it comes from. Comes as a surprise for me given the char's story with biology but as is I don't think anything supports this power.
Death Manipulation - Summoning the Grim Reaper does *NOT* cause instant death, the summon just calls it to do damage. Thus it's just Summoning.
Power Nullification - Nowhere near enough basis to give it this with basis on Omnilock.
Willpower Manipulation - This is a case of taking the name of a spell instead of what it does: Strong and Weak minded don't change anyone's will, they are respectively a buff and a debuff in Magical Defense.
Illusion Creation - Literally nowhere ever this happened, as far as I can possibly remember.
