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Alright, so Hatou can use the fact that she can share her mind with versions of herself of alternate pasts to get herself new abilities:
That should also give her weapon mastery of the Naginata, but that is just on the side. What's important here is that Hatou can essentially get in a lifetime of training in something, by simply choosing a past for herself in which she did in fact spend a lifetime training that thing.
Later on Hatou takes this further. Instead of choosing a past in which she has trained, she chooses a past in which she was born with supernatural talents.
Combine that with the fact that she can replace/possess any human in history and it becomes even crazier. (for scans I will lazily link to my respect blog on this one)
So, if she for example wanted to become a good sword fighter, she could possess/replace the greatest swordsman in history. Then she could use their talented body to fight and go through his exact training regimen to gain his skill.
Now Hatou has already power granting listed. One could expand on that to add her being able to learn mundane stuff instantly. Or one could list it as accelerated development, as she essentially can get an infinite amount of training done instantly.
I also mentioned power mimicry in the title and that requires a bit more roundabout thinking.
Say she is in a fight with Harry Potter. Now, as the Time Travel page explains
So Hatou can in essence get a copy of the verse's wizard powers via a very roundabout method.
And since Hatou uses her quantum uncertainty to take every action physically possible to her, this is in-character as well.
So by some very unconventional means one could say she has a kind of Power Mimicry. Hence I think unconventional power mimicry (together with a big explanation on all this) could be added.
And with that we come to the limits part of the title. Where do we have to draw the limits on this ability?
Since Hatou's possession only works on people that (throughout arbitrarily many branches) are related to her, something like an alien species that never interacted with humanity is beyond her reach (at least, unless Hatou manages to trick one into somehow having children with her). She needs a genetic link. So, for the most part, she can only get abilities that humans can learn or species that can breed with humans can learn.
Second, it's still Hatou on the inside. By possessing someone she could copy their inborn talent and stuff, but it's still her mind on the inside. If Hatou, due to mental limitations, can not learn something despite talent, probability manipulation and infinite training, she can't have it. There actually is an in-universe example of this. A girl named Alice has the mental ability to look a mathematical equation and draw its solution as a picture. (She's might be somewhat of a savant) She can then translate the picture into a solution in common language and by that solve even the most complex problems easily. Since Hatou's mind doesn't comprehend the world the way Alice's mind does she couldn't get that ability.
Third, as it's still Hatou on the inside, if a power requires help from some kind of other entity (e.g. a blessing from a god) then that entity could decide that it doesn't want to cooperate with Hatou even if it did with the original person she possessed.
Aaaand, yeah that are all limits I can think of. If I add this to the page I would of course also mention those limits.
What do you think, everyone?
(Conversation of Hatou with another version of herself, from Chapter 9)
That should also give her weapon mastery of the Naginata, but that is just on the side. What's important here is that Hatou can essentially get in a lifetime of training in something, by simply choosing a past for herself in which she did in fact spend a lifetime training that thing.
Later on Hatou takes this further. Instead of choosing a past in which she has trained, she chooses a past in which she was born with supernatural talents.
(From Chapter 10)
Combine that with the fact that she can replace/possess any human in history and it becomes even crazier. (for scans I will lazily link to my respect blog on this one)
So, if she for example wanted to become a good sword fighter, she could possess/replace the greatest swordsman in history. Then she could use their talented body to fight and go through his exact training regimen to gain his skill.
Now Hatou has already power granting listed. One could expand on that to add her being able to learn mundane stuff instantly. Or one could list it as accelerated development, as she essentially can get an infinite amount of training done instantly.
I also mentioned power mimicry in the title and that requires a bit more roundabout thinking.
Say she is in a fight with Harry Potter. Now, as the Time Travel page explains
So Hatou can do all her time stuff in Harry Potter's verse. So she can probably just do the same as when she gave herself magic power to make herself a muggle-born wizard. Even if we are strict and say she can't do that, she could still just possess/replace Hermione Granger and that way become a wizard. And then Hatou could, as Hermione, go to Hogwarts and learn how to use those powers to their full potential.
So Hatou can in essence get a copy of the verse's wizard powers via a very roundabout method.
And since Hatou uses her quantum uncertainty to take every action physically possible to her, this is in-character as well.
So by some very unconventional means one could say she has a kind of Power Mimicry. Hence I think unconventional power mimicry (together with a big explanation on all this) could be added.
And with that we come to the limits part of the title. Where do we have to draw the limits on this ability?
Since Hatou's possession only works on people that (throughout arbitrarily many branches) are related to her, something like an alien species that never interacted with humanity is beyond her reach (at least, unless Hatou manages to trick one into somehow having children with her). She needs a genetic link. So, for the most part, she can only get abilities that humans can learn or species that can breed with humans can learn.
Second, it's still Hatou on the inside. By possessing someone she could copy their inborn talent and stuff, but it's still her mind on the inside. If Hatou, due to mental limitations, can not learn something despite talent, probability manipulation and infinite training, she can't have it. There actually is an in-universe example of this. A girl named Alice has the mental ability to look a mathematical equation and draw its solution as a picture. (She's might be somewhat of a savant) She can then translate the picture into a solution in common language and by that solve even the most complex problems easily. Since Hatou's mind doesn't comprehend the world the way Alice's mind does she couldn't get that ability.
Third, as it's still Hatou on the inside, if a power requires help from some kind of other entity (e.g. a blessing from a god) then that entity could decide that it doesn't want to cooperate with Hatou even if it did with the original person she possessed.
Aaaand, yeah that are all limits I can think of. If I add this to the page I would of course also mention those limits.
What do you think, everyone?
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