| “ | Learn well, play well, eat well, and rest well! Hehe, that's what I remembered from my uncle. | „ |
| ~ Adam |
Summary[]
Adam Rivera is the titular main protagonist of Always Running, a teenager enlisted to become a supersoldier. With his father dead, he lived with his uncle in the mountains and learnt the ways of the sword. As he was integrated back into society at the age of 17, his strength had impressed many military officials. So he was drafted into the military and was eventually convinced to be in a supersoldier program. However, the program put too much stress on him so he decided to quit. Unfortunately, many higher-ups didn't like his decision and decided to send many assassins and mercenaries to get him back into the program.
Powers and Statistics[]
Tier: At least 6-C | High 6-A | Low 4-C
Keys: Base | Nephilim | Inheritance
Name: Adam Rivera
Origin: Always Running
Gender: Male
Age: 17 (BOS) | 21 (EOS)
Classification: Human, Supersoldier, "Protagonist", Localized Phenomena
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Types 2, 3, 4 and 8: Was able to brush off damage to his heart and neck. Consistently healed and regenerated broken arms and wounded lungs in a fight. Thanks to his status as a "Protagonist" he has an intrinsic tie to Hope that can resurrect him, though it would take decades), Regeneration (Low-Mid: Was able to consistently grow new limbs back in place during a fight), Skilled Swordsman, Extrasensory Perception, Non-Physical Interaction (Could damage and interact with Phantoms, entities that have no physical form. Was able to cut through magic, which is a force made out of extradimensional particles and the information that comprises reality), Enhanced Senses (Could sense a sniper from over 50 kilometers away), Aura (Scared assassins and mercenaries, both of which faced death multiple times, with his mere presence alone), Precognition, Instinctive Reaction (Was able to consistently predict and dodge dozens of attacks from opponents all around him. His body can instinctively fight and dodge without the need for thinking), Supernatural Willpower (Could break out of The Mad God's illusions, which would've broken a normal person's will twice over), limited Perception Manipulation (Can slow down his perception of the world), Fire Manipulation, Temperature Manipulation (Can manipulate, generate, and alter the properties of fire), Statistics Amplification (Can coat himself in flames to increase his strength), Light Manipulation (Once created a ball of light), Afterimage Creation (Was able to move so fast that it looked as if there were 3 versions of him at once), Shockwave Generation (Created shockwaves by unrestraining himself), Pseudo-Flight (Was able to push himself off of the ground thanks to his flames), Air Manipulation (Created sharp gusts of wind by simply swinging his sword), Invulnerability and Durability Negation, Deconstruction, Matter Manipulation (Atomic) (Could create strikes so precise that it could sever atomic bonds and destroy people on an atomic level. Was able to damage the Voyager despite it being invulnerable to physical attacks thanks to this technique), Accelerated Development (Battle: Combat Statistics) (His strength increases each time he fights), limited Space-Time Manipulation (Type 2) and Causality Manipulation (As a "Protagonist" his pattern is repeated across the entirety of the timeline, causing it to split each time he creates an action)
Resistance to Soul Manipulation (Was not affected by The Mad God's illusions which damage the soul), Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Morality Manipulation (Can resist attacks from Phantom which damage the mind and corrode one's memories, ultimately changing one's morality entirely), Madness Manipulation (Type 2 and 3: Could stand in the presence of The Mad God and withstand his illusions, which inflict madness on a scale of 10,000), Sleep Manipulation (Unaffected by dozens of tranquilizer darts that could put elephants to sleep), Corrosion Inducement (Could grasp a shard of Atman, which created a canyon similar in size to the Grand Canyon), Death Manipulation (Stood in the presence of the Grim Reaper, and could resist his strikes, which inflict pure death), Radiation Manipulation (Unaffected by a nuclear blast), Corruption (Type 2: Was unaffected by a corrupted shard of Atman, which could corrupt space), Illusion Manipulation (Broke out of The Mad God's illusions and was no longer affected by them), Reality Warping, Information Manipulation (Type 2), Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Unaffected by magic, which alters reality by manipulating extradimensional particles and the information comprising reality), Empathic Manipulation (Unaffected by Sadness' presence, which drives entities to suicide), Fear Manipulation (Unaffected by The Labyrinth, the abstract representation of fear), Power Nullification, Power Mimicry (His techniques are unable to be mimicked by even high-class master swordsmen. His flames are unable to be nullified), Statistics Reduction (His flames are unable to be nullified or weakened), Existence Erasure, Probability Manipulation (Unaffected by the Sequence, an attack that enforces the probability of being erased from existence), Pressure Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation (Could stand within Singularities, which have a greater pressure and gravitational force than black holes), Space-Time Manipulation (Type 2), Causality Manipulation, Fate Manipulation (As a Protagonist, his pattern is so powerful that it cancels out any alteration to his timeline), Poison Manipulation (Unaffected by a poison that could kill an entire race of giants), Statistics Reduction, Absorption (Unaffected by The Mad God's presence, which drains one's strength and very soul), Power Nullification, Power Mimicry, Power Absorption, and Power Modification (As a Protagonist, his "light" is unable to be affected or interacted by beings that do not have a stronger will), Psychometry, Information Analysis (Was able to hide from psychics, who are capable of analyzing their surroundings through their mind), Void Manipulation, Existence Erasure (Could withstand the Sphere of Annihilation, which erases one on a physical and metaphysical scale), Spatial Manipulation (Could hold himself together despite a psychic trying to tear apart his position in space), Reality Warping (Protagonists' have a denser "reality" than others, making them conventionally immune to normal reality alterations), BFR (Was able to resist being thrown into a pocket realm), Pain Manipulation (Could withstand the matrices, artifacts that inflict the very concept of pain), Order Manipulation (Type 3), Chaos Manipulation (Type 3) (Thanks to being Dinah's spawn, he is unaffected by the presence of both Dominions and Calamities), Matter Manipulation (Atomic: Was able to resist being torn apart on an atomic scale)
All previous enhanced plus Healing (His flames are capable of healing and are even capable of producing new limbs), Enhanced Light Manipulation, Holy Manipulation (His flames are so bright that they cast holy light), Purification (Types 1, 2, and 3: His flames are capable of purification on all levels), Enhanced Regeneration (High-Mid: Could reconstruct his entire body from fire alone), Enhanced Immortality (Type 8: Will continue to live on as long as people find the will to live), Enhanced Extrasensory Perception (Could see the very red strings of fate and the causal drift of the universe), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3: His flames are so pure that they attack with the very concept of 'fire'. His fight against Lilith was on a literal symbolic scale), Durability Negation (Due to the pure nature of his flames, they damage the very concept of 'you'), Regeneration Negation (Up to Mid-Godly: Due to the flames attacking the very concept of 'you', wounds dealt by these flames are unable to be healed from), Immortality Negation (His flames are said to be capable of negating immortality, though the types are not specified), Reactive Evolution, Enhanced Accelerated Development (Battle: Physical Statistics) (His flames are capable of growing stronger and gaining new attributes to adversity), Incorporeality, Intangibility (Immaterial, Phasing: Can make himself the very immaterial concept of fire), Life Manipulation, Plant Manipulation (His flames were capable of turning a desert into a forest), Madness Manipulation (Type 2: His flames were capable of purging madness and insanity from the minds of others), Plasma Manipulation (The pure heat generated from his flames were capable of generating plasma), Damage Boost (Becomes stronger when in the presence of fire), Empowerment (Becomes stronger anytime someone gains a stronger will), Death Manipulation (His flames were capable of burning away the very presence of Death), Elemental Manipulation (His flames are an amalgamation of every single element present in the world), Resistance Negation (His flames are not conventional fire, allowing it to bypass conventional resistances), Psychometry (Can witness past events by interacting with flames and fire), Size Manipulation (Can alter the size of his flames), Status Effect Inducement, Morality Manipulation, Density Manipulation (His flames are capable of inducing the weight of his target's guilt over their past targets on a physical and emotional scale), Order Manipulation (Type 2), Law Manipulation (His flames are capable of instilling order and law over reality), Summoning (Can summon beings of fire from across the entirety of Hoshi Kinko), Weather Manipulation (His flames were capable of creating rain to terraform an entire desert), Power Nullification, Transmutation (His flames were able to cancel out the Siren's transmutation), Absorption (His flames are capable of absorbing any other fire-based ability or surroundings to enhance themselves), Avatar Creation (Could split his flames to create avatars of his power), Danmaku (His flames were capable of filling the entirety of an island), Space-Time Manipulation (Type 1), Gravity Manipulation (His flames were capable of canceling out Singularities, which are irregularities in space-time), Creation (His flames were said to be capable of generating matter from nothing), Acausality (Type 4 for his flames: His flames work and interact on a different sequence and pattern entirely, making it so that they continue to exist no matter if the causal drift is altered or even completely destroyed), Reality Warping, Information Manipulation (Type 2), Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (His flames were capable of burning away magic entirely), Astral Projection (Was able to project his consciousness into the higher parts of Hoshi Kinko), Dream Manipulation (Could reconstruct and alter the dreams of an entire village), Sleep Manipulation (Could put an entire town to sleep), Mind Manipulation (His flames were said to be capable of erasing consciousness and the mind itself), Stealth Mastery (Completely eliminated his presence in the physical realm), Fate Manipulation (His flames were able to burn down the red strings of fate and alter the future completely), Plot Manipulation (His flames were capable of changing the entire plot of a book he was sealed within), possible Subjective Reality (It was theorized by Kitora, the brain of Hoshi Kinko, that his flames could break down the barrier between dream and reality. However, it was only stated once by it and was never shown in Adam's time as a Nephilim)
All previous enhanced plus Transmutation (Unaffected by Muramasa's blade, which transmuted beings into crystals or swords), Curse Manipulation (Resisted thousands of curses inflicted upon him by Angra Mainyu and could stand within its presence), Sleep Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Subjective Reality (Was unable to be put to sleep by a proxy of Hecate, who could alter dreams and could even bring portions of dreams into reality), Electricity Manipulation (Survived being struck by the very concept of electricity), Fire Manipulation, Elemental Manipulation (Due to his flames being unique and an amalgamation of all elements of the world, they are unaffected by conventional manipulation of fire and elements), Explosion Manipulation (Unaffected by every single atom in his body exploding and undergoing nuclear fission), Enhanced Probability Manipulation and Supernatural Luck (Unaffected by Koun's Almighty, which granted him immense luck), Enhanced Senses, Extrasensory Perception (Was unable to be sensed by psychics, who are beings that could even sense the very spirit), Reactive Evolution (His flames were said to be 'virtually impossible' to adapt to), Retrocognition (As a Nephilim, his past is so wild and chaotic that it cannot be read or even made sense of), Size Manipulation (Unaffected by a giant's potion, which would've either turned him gigantic or small), Pressure Points (Despite thousands of his pressure points being struck, he was unaffected), Possession (His entire existence is unable to be possessed), Law Manipulation, Order Manipulation (Type 3) (Unaffected by Kitora's alterations to the very laws and orders of Hoshi Kinko), Physics Manipulation (Unaffected by the very laws of physics changing around him), limited Time Stop (Could think and perceive events within stopped time), Durability Negation, Teleportation (Could resist the effects of Transferance, which could teleport body parts in their entirety. Was able to resist the effects of Vlad's phasing), Blood Manipulation, Water Manipulation (His inner fluids were unable to be affected by Vlad), Age Manipulation (Was unaffected by a portion of Eine Faust, which drastically ages individuals to death), Cosmic Awareness (His existence was described to be a 'dark spot' within psychics, who use Kitora to project their senses across the entirety of Hoshi Kinko), Black Hole Manipulation (Resisted his body turning into a black hole), Perception Manipulation (His senses and sight of the world were unable to be destroyed), limited Vector Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement (Could stand and move within the presence of Angra Mainyu, whose presence is so great that it halts movement entirely), Biological Manipulation (His biological form is unable to be manipulated as it is protected by the concept of fire), limited Sealing (After being sealed within a book, his "light" was so great that it could not be sealed away), Life Manipulation (His life force was unable to be taken away thanks to the concept of fire), Instinctive Reaction (Kemono's instincts were unable to react to his attacks), Telepathy (His thoughts are unable to be read thanks to the concept of fire)
All previous enhanced plus Abstract Existence (Type 2: Is the very physical embodiment of Fire and Hope), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2: Can attack on a conceptual level with his flames, which strike on a symbolic level and alter reality completely), Reality Warping (His flames alter reality completely), Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 1, Aspect Type 4: The entirety of his information across Hoshi Kinko was completely erased), Causality Manipulation (Can completely alter the causal drift of the world and eliminate it), Mathematics Manipulation (Could completely alter the way mathematics works), Physics Manipulation (Could alter physics. Can control all aspects of physics across the world), Enhanced Regeneration (High-Godly: Could come back from the destruction of his information), Enhanced Immortality (Type 4, 5, 6, and 8: No longer dependant on Hoshi Kinko and instead from separate aspects of reality, allowing him to resurrect from the abyss. Transcended life and death. Can impart his consciousness to others), Enhanced Immortality Negation (Types 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9: Could eliminate and kill The Darkness, an entity that had transcended life and death entirely with its existence dependent on the darkness itself. The Darkness was an undead entity that existed in a higher portion of Hoshi Kinko)
All previous enhanced plus Regeneration Negation (High-Godly), Immortality Negation (Types 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8) (Resisted The Darkness' attempts to nullify his regeneration and immortality), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), Darkness Manipulation (Unaffected by The Darkness' attacks, which strike with the very concept of darkness that transcends the world)
Attack Potency: At least Island Level+ (Could overpower and fodderized Michael, a being that was far more powerful than the entirety of the world's nuclear stockpile [64.449 Gigatons]) | Multi-Continent Level (Only a small portion of his power was able to completely power a machine that could knock the moon out of orbit [9.19 Exatons]) | Small Star Level (Inherited the power of the Emerald Monarch, a being that would've been able to completely atomize all of Asia on a sub-atomic scale [56.866 Quettatons])
Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ (Could casually move at 335 km/s [~Mach 976.976]) | FTL (Capable of dodging light with veritable ease) | FTL+ (Reacted to, and deflected an attack that would've moved from the moon to the sun in 5 seconds [99.8c])
Lifting Strength: Class K (Could lift up and throw around gigantic animals comparable in weight to the blue whale [219 Tons] | Class P (Was able to destroy the machine that could knock the moon out of orbit and could've replicated a similar feat to it) | Stellar (Could withstand the gravity of a star and throw around objects weighing such)
Striking Strength: At least Island Class+ | Multi-Continent Class | Small Star Class
Durability: At least Island Class+ (Could tank hits from Michael casually) | Multi-Continent Level | Small Star Level
Stamina: Very High. Consistently fought against various assassins and mercenaries for dozens of weeks without rest. Despite losing an arm and a leg, was still capable of fighting against Vamp in prime condition. Wasn't even tired even after pushing himself and his own body to its absolute limits.
Range: Extended Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters with Fire Manipulation (His fire was able to move as far as a normal firearm and strike accurately) | Extended Melee Range, Hundreds of Kilometers with abilities (Could completely terraform a desert into a new forest), Multiversal+ with Summoning (Could summon beings across the entirety of Hoshi Kinko, a construct comprised of infinite universes and timelines) | Extended Melee Range, Interplanetary with abilities (Was able to attack the entirety of The Darkness, an entity that could encompass entire solar systems)
- Sting and Pierce: Two rapiers that Adam uses, being made out of an unknown material that although looks like steel, is much better than such. With these blades, Adam was capable of coating them in his flames and increase their damage.
Intelligence: Average Normally, Genius in combat (Although not entirely smart in terms of academic standards, Adam is incredibly intelligent when it comes down to combat. Being an excellent strategist, he was able to completely outsmart Death and The Labyrinth. His skill in the blade was said to be unlike any other, completely outskilling swordmasters that trained for years. He was consistently stated to be a prodigy in the blade and could learn and create techniques that baffled dozens of people)
Standard Tactics: Adam is someone that simply enjoys life and would rather not fight. Despite this, if it does come down to it, he will. But when he fights, it will normally be a casual fight to him, before the opponent starts pushing him. In this way, he is similar to Goku, simply enjoying the flow of the fight and getting stronger alongside his foe. Still, he does have this good in him and will usually try to convince his foe to stop fighting, or to fight somewhere else that doesn't involve thousands of civilians.
Weaknesses: Although Protagonists are intrinsically tied to the concept of Hope, their resurrection can take decades or even millennia. As such, it is not combat-applicable. | Due to Nephilim being extremely conceptual in nature, any damage to their concept or any other will inflict immense damage and pain on them. | The powers of the Emerald Monarch are extremely inconsistent and finicky, choosing only worthy entities over its current wielder. If the worthy one is chosen and is fighting against the wielder, then the powers of the Emerald Monarch will do everything in its power to make the wielder lose it.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Fire Manipulation: The main method of Adam's attacks and abilities. Although it is likened to an incredibly common ability, even amongst psychics, Adam's manipulation and control over fire is what sets him apart from everyone else. Much like every other fire manipulator, he can generate, manipulate, and alter the properties of fire. But his manipulation of fire differs from everyone else in the sense where he is capable of increasing his physical proportions. Not only that, but he has used it for various other purposes. His ability to alter the properties of fire go so much more than just manipulating its heat and temperature. He can change its color, making it completely invisible, or even changing its source of power. Normal fire can gain strength from oxygen, but he can change his fire to gain its strength from the water or even from nature itself. He was even able to use it to cut through magic itself.
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