| “ | You ran away. You couldn't bear to live in reality. We cannot be eternal. You who became phantasms. Whatever you do, no matter how hard you try. You won't ever grasp a single thing with your hands! | „ |
| ~ Ren Fuji to the Three Commanders |
| “ | Just a while ago, I thought I had no choice in the matter. But not unlike you, I was saved by having a good friend. That’s the one thing I am truly grateful for. | „ |
| ~ Ren Fuji to Mercurius and Reinhard |
| “ | I can't see anything else, I cannot hear whatsoever. But there is one thing I shall never forget...I love her with all my heart! | „ |
| ~ Tenma Yato |
Background
Ren Fuji (藤井 蓮, Fuji Ren) is the main protagonist of Dies Irae/Shinza Banshou. Ren Fuji was created by Karl Ernst Krafft, also known as Mercurius, as his substitute, who would fill seat XIII of the Obsidian Round Table in his place during the battle at the Eastern Shambhala, Suwahara City, which would see the resurrection of Reinhard Heydrich and the erasure of the world of Eternal Recurrence, which the Golden Beast plans to wash away with his own world.
Powers and Stats
Key: Base | Ein Faust Finale | Hadou God
Tier: At least 7-B, likely 7-A | At least 5-A, likely High 3-B. Can and will eventually become 1-A | 1-A
Dimensionality: 3-D | 3-D. Will eventually become Inapplicable | Inapplicable
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Skilled Hand-to-Hand Fighter, Weapon Mastery, Longevity (Die Ewigkeit users stop aging physically and can extend the life a soul, but only a few hundred, to at most a few thousand years), Immortality (Type 3), Regeneration (Low-Godly. Ewigkeit users can reform their bodies from their disimbodied souls. Apostles can exist in and regenerate from a disembodied state), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2 and 3), Regeneration Negation and Immortality Negation (High-Godly & Types 3, 4, 5, 8 & 9. Carries the curse of Marie on his blade. The curse of Marie can even kill the likes of Mercurius, it is considered a match for both the Gold and Mercury and will kill you even if you are immortal and can deny death as she is a blade that is able to defeat such immortals when used by Ren), Instinctive Reaction (Can dodge attacks based on instinct), Extrasensory Perception (Capable of seeing and compreheing what is normally invisible to the human eye), Enhanced Senses (His senses are beyond those of normal humans. Can sense breathing, heart rate, and even mental state even while meters away), Spiritual Aura (Multiple Ewigkeit users have demonstrated that they release a spiritual pressure that denotes the strength of their soul, and this pressure can have a wide variety of effects on others which consists of "breaking down the body", "shattering the soul", fading one's strength, inducing fear and madness, all while paralyzing the opponent in place as well as "attracting followers around them", and inducing "nausea, intoxication, and itchiness" onto others),Non-Physical Interaction & Soul Manipulation (Ewigkeit users can absorb and devour souls, as well as destroy them with mere conventional attacks), Empowerment (Ewigkeit becomes stronger as they eat souls), Law Manipulation & Reality Warping (Ber'iah is the act of an Ewigkeit user forcing their deepest desire on reality and are described as the implementation of a new law into reality that is essentially a single person's craving against the world's, which can nullify the laws of another to the point of non-existence, and which temporarily overwrites even the laws of Mercurius' world due to the Ber'iah user bending "the laws of the world with your own will", causing the "laws of the old world to hold no water" within their own. Hegemony Ber'iahs create a "parallel world" in the space around the user that is constantly in discourse with the law of the "pre-existing world"), Subjective Reality (Ewigkeit users forces their deepest desires into reality through their Briah), Time Slow & Statistics Amplification (In Overture, his Ber'iah allows Ren to slow down his perception of time, while also increasing his own time in turn, therefore increasing his speed, with no theoretical limit; When controlled by Marie, she was able to increase Ren's own speed by hundreds of times and even up to three thousand times his normal speed), Durability Negation (His attacks affects the body and soul. Marie's curse instantly decapitates someone regardless of their durability as the curse itself does the decapitation via contact with their neck), Death Manipulation (Can deny the concept of death with Ein Faust Sherzo), Resistance Negation (Ein Faust Finale was able to slowing down Machina and Eleonore, who previously could resist Ren's time effects), Reactive Evolution (Ren has shown on multiple occasions that he can adapt to a certain level of strength, gaining a resistance to things pressuring him, and becoming stronger than he was a few minutes ago both physically and with his law's craving; Ren has also shown to gain new abilities as his Ber'iah has changed from what it once was into another on two different occasions)
Resistance to Fear Manipulation, Madness Manipulation & Mind Manipulation (Every user of Die Ewigkeit can fight against the pressure of other Ewigkeit users and the presence of Reinhard's spear, which does this to the mind; Die Ewigkeit users from the L.D.O. have shown they are capable of fighting even in the presence of Methuselah), Power Nullification (Ahnenerbe users can't be nullified), Death Manipulation, Existence Erasure & Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3. Resisted a punch from Machina), Magic, Soul Manipulation (Comparable to Reinhard who possesses millions to billions of souls within himself. An Ewigkeit user gains soul resistance proportional to the amount of souls they have consumed. Can resist Reinhard's spiritual pressure without dying. Every user of Die Ewigkeit uses their Ahnenerbe to fight and resists the other Ahnenerbe of another Die Ewigkeit user. Ahnenerbe plunders souls and feeds on them to rob their enemies of life which is considered an act that hinders the soul's recurrence in an attempt to disturb the cycle of recurrence to destroy the current ghetto, breaking the shackles of Foreknowledge/Mercurius), Biological Manipulation, Poison Manipulation (Apostles are naturally resistant to drugs and poison), Law Manipulation (Briah possess the ability to negate and ignore the laws of another Ewigkeit user's Briah to the point where it has no effect on them, as well as ignore and override the law of Mercurius, in which "the laws of the old world hold no water"), Disease Manipulation (Resists natural diseases), Fire Manipulation (Endured the flames of Eleonore), Poison Manipulation (Endured the poison Tubal Cain), Lightning Manipulation (Endured the lightning of Tubal Cain), Ice Manipulation
All previous abilities except Time Slow and Marie's Curse, plus Lightning Manipulation via Beatrice's Ahnenerbe, Death Manipulation and Immortality and Regeneration Negation (Has the ability to deny the "very concept of death" with Eine Faust Scherzo, to kill the living dead permanently, which effected the entirely of Gladsheimr and makes him bereft of all the souls with him)
All previous abilities from All Routes, plus Improved Time Slow via Finale (In Finale, Ren increases his speed further by a thousand-fold while simultaneously slowing down those around him by "tens of thousands of times"), Berserk Mode and Transformation (Physically changes into this and is overwhelmed by an intense bloodlust). Can and will eventually gain all the abilities and weaknesses of a Hadō God
All previous abilities, plus Time Stop (Ren's Law makes all of creation freezes in its wake, slowing down everything to a halt, including the Throne), Spiritual Aura (Overwhelming; The density of their soul is powerful enough to make a weaker Hadō God die, and destroy all of creation from their mere presence, which why the Throne is needed to contain it), Soul Manipulation (Any God can affect the soul, be it destroying or outright absorbing it, even from another god), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3; With Taiji, Gods become the origin from which all phenomenon and concepts come from, and there are infinite concepts), Regeneration (At least Low-Godly, likely High-Godly; Gods possess regenerative capabilities that are significantly superior with that of the L.D.O. at the very least, considering Mercurius is the one who gave them said regeneration in the first place; And although it is never stated, it is likely that Gods possess regenerative capabilities that match the restoration powers of Gladsheimr, which can bring people back even from Machina's erasure, it is also likely that Machina was able to land one of his punches on Mercurius or Reinhard, and they didn't die, in the Three Colors Fight before being taken down himself - since much of that fight is done off-screen), Non-Corporeal and Abstract Existence (A God embodies their own Law), Cosmic Awareness (A user of Taikyoku knows everything that has or will happen inside their own Law, as it is no different than being part of their being), Large Size (Type 11; A God embodies their own Law, which for Gudō Gods exists outside of the world's laws and concepts and outside the boundaries of providence, while for Hadō, they paint over the cosmos in their law possessing a similar, yet different nature to a Gudō, but they all still share the same level of existence), Beyond-Dimensional Existence (A God with Taikyoku is the source of and beyond all concepts and phenomenon which includes dimensions, physics, space-time, etc; As a God with colored Taikyoku, they are incomprehensibly transcendent to those who do not reach the same level as them, akin to an artist drawing a picture upon a canvas. Even such things like the Singularity (which only as Gods are they capable of painting it, and the rest of creation, in their color), which is an infinite expanse of colorless Taikyoku, or hole in the canvas of creation, that exists as a tunnel to the Throne and comprises every layer of creation from the lowest floor being the multiverse, to the highest being right before the Throne itself. The Singularity is under the possession of the Supreme Law/Throne God and is both that infinite and endless, and one reaches the "bottom" of it, it merely opens another greater hole that is deeper than the last ad infinitum, and beyond it all exists the Throne, and Gods exist beyond even that as shown by the meaninglessness of its destruction and by it being affected by numerous' Gods' laws), Immortality (Type 1 - All gods are eternal, Type 3 - All gods can regenerate as shown when Ren created a moment frozen in time, Mercurius went from missing half his body to having his whole body restored and has the potential to emanate in Marie's law, Types 5 - Gudō Gods like Marie have shown to exist outside of the world's laws and concepts, described as unchanging and everlasting, existing and yet not existing, outside the boundaries of providence. Hadō Gods possess a similar, yet different nature in which one's law turns outward instead of inward affecting all of creation instead of just their person, although they are stated to exist on the same level of existence), Transduality (At least Type 2; Gudō Gods like Marie are shown to exist outside of the world's laws and concepts and do not obey them. They are described as both dead and alive, but yet also described as life beyond death, they exist within and embody a world that is described as unchanging and everlasting, existing and yet not existing, outside the boundaries of providence, they are walking contradictions, they represent a dichotomy, yet they don't as well. Hadō Gods possess a similar, yet different nature in which one's law turns outward instead of inward affecting all of creation instead of just their person, although they are stated to exist on the same level of existence), Acausality (Type 5; Gudō Gods like Marie have shown to exist outside of the world's laws and concepts, exists and embodies a world that is perpetually frozen in space and time, described as unchanging and everlasting, existing and yet not existing, outside the boundaries of providence. Hadō Gods possess a similar, yet different nature in which one's law turns outward instead of inward affecting all of creation instead of just their person, although they are stated to exist on the same level of existence), Information Manipulation (Hadō Gods paint over the infinite colorless information of the Singularity with their Law), Omniscience, Nigh-Omniscient in Amantes Amentes (As a Hadō God, they expand to consume all of Creation, and as a user of Taikyoku, they knows everything that has or will happen inside their own Law, as it is no different than being part of their being; When apart of Marie's Law (Amantes Amentes), multiple Hadō God's exist simultaneously, and thus, only embody and know that which is in their domain), Law Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, and Reality Warping (A Hadō God that emanates will impose their own Law on the world and also passively warp existing laws; the flood of their Law will cause reality to warp and be shaped according to their desires, affecting all of the cosmos, including things like space and time), Omnipresence (A Hadō God is the origin and embodies their law, which emanates over all of creation, and paints the blank slate of the cosmos in their color), Summoning (Hadō Gods can summon the Physical Manifestation of their Law), Power Bestowal (A Hadō God can grant any soul under their Law pseudo Godhood status and protection through Legion Reincarnation), Avatar Creation (Hadō Gods can create avatars called a Sensory, as shown with Mercurius, whose true self lives at the center of the Throne, while his shade is referred to as only a "reflection of the moon on a lake's surface"), Likely Telepathy (All Hadō Gods likely have the same ability as Mercurius, who spoke to Shirou in his mind)
Attack Potency: At least City level+, likely Mountain level (Comparable to the LDO members and can harm them, who are impervious to any weapon ever constructed by mankind, which includes the Tsar Bomba, and capable of shattering mountains) | At least Large Planet level (Fought against Eleonore, Machina and Wolfgang, who are stronger than Methuselah, whose Jaws of Darkness has a density of a hundred nights, with each night being equivalent to the destruction of half of the planet), likely High Cosmos level (Masada stated that Eine Faust Finale is capable of breaking Heilige Eohl). Can and will eventually become Ascendent level (He was stated to have the ability to emanate over creation, but actively decided not to because he views his ideal world as "place worse than Hell", but eventually does so after his conversation with Marie who convinces him to emanate) | Ascendent level (As a Hadou God, Reinhard transcends all of creation and perceives everything as a mandala/canvas, whereas he is freely able to paint it over anew with his law and overrule and manipulate all of Creation's infinite concepts, no matter how complex they might be, including the multiverse's higher dimensions and the concept of dimensions. A Taikyoku user exists completely disconnected from Creation and their laws control all things. To even the weakest God with 1 Taikyoku, an object that governs all of Creation such as the Throne is nothing more than a tool, and exists beyond the Singularity. Additionally, Reinhard at his strongest has a Taikyoku value of 90, making him one of the strongest Hadou Gods possible. His state as Tenma Yato consists of a Taikyoku value of 100, making him the 2nd strongest Hadou God to ever exist)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Stated to surpass the speed of lightning twice. Can fight against Kei Sakurai and eventually fight Tubal Cain, who uses Beatrice's lightning, which is lightning that is faster than natural lightning), At least FTL, likely FTL+ in his Ber'iah (His first time using his Ber'iah allowed him to increase his speed and slow down his perception of time to the point that said lightning appeared frozen to him which showed to be this fast. Traded 50 strikes with Reinhard in under a hundredth of microseconds which is this fast | Massively FTL+ (Finale boosts his previous speed of Overture by a thousandfold. Retains his original Ber'iah's ability, allowing him to go even faster). Will eventually become Irrelevant | Irrelevant
Lifting Strength: Superhuman (His throw could shot Sakurai away into the sky) | Superhuman | Irrelevant
Durability: At least City level+, likely Mountain level (Die Ewigkeit allows Ren to grow both stronger and have more life force with each added soul. Making him immune to both anti-personnel and all conventional weaponry) | At least Large Planet level, likely High Cosmos level. Can and will eventually become Ascendent level | Ascendent level
Stamina: High (Die Ewigkeit is what imbues the user with stamina that defines physics and thus, should be comparable to Wilhelm Ehrenburg; Can fight against members of the L.D.O. even while being affected by abilities such as Wilhem and Cain's Ber'iah's. Can fight even after numerous injuries, fractures, stress and pain) | Limitless (His power comes from the Throne) | Limitless
Range: Extended melee range with his Ahnenerbe | Extended melee range with his Ahnenerbe. Hundreds of Meters with Ber'iah (Should have a comparable Ber'iah size as Wilhelm Ehrenburg). Can and will eventually become Ascendental (Is eventually becoming a Hadō God) | Ascendental
Standard Equipment: Holy Relics (Margueritte Bois de Justice and Thrud Walküre)
Intelligence: Ren is an adapt learner who was able to learn the basic fundamentals of Ewigkeit in a matter of weeks, something that took even members of the L.D.O. years to learn and master its power (though this can be said as a matter of Ren's connection to Mercurius, his creator as well as the one who made Ewigkeit). With it, Ren was able to quickly form his Ahnenerbe and even his Ber'iah, using his newfound powers to combat those who had decades of experience fighting in combat and war. However, he is also at times reckless and not quite tactically and strategic in combat, often having to rely on others to do the plan of fighting instead | Nigh-Omniscient under Amantes Amentes - Omnia Vincit Amor (Co-exists with other Gods who possess their own laws), otherwise Omniscient (A user of Taikyoku knows everything that has or will happen inside their own Law, as it is no different than being part of their being)
Weaknesses: Margueritte Bois de Justice's curse will not work if the blade makes contact with anywhere else that isn't the neck. Most of the standard Apostle weaknesses. Eine Faust Scherzo's effect only works against those of the dead | Same as before, minus the weakness about Eine Faust Scherzo. Is initially afraid of emanating over creation and stops himself from doing so until he discusses it with Marie | Standard Hadō God weaknesses. Upon the death of his father, Ren will lose every trace of his divinity
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Yetzirah
- Margueritte Bois de Justice: Ren's Holy Relic, taking in the form of Marie that manifests as a black and red scythe-like extension from his right arm. The Relic carries a unique ability: Replicating Marie's curse, Ren can negate immortality and regeneration by cutting at his target's neck (even if the target in question can survive decapitation), beheading them in the process if it successfully makes contact.
Briah
- Eine Faust Overture: (Beginning of the Ephemeral Moment) Ren’s Gudou Briah, his desire being “I want to experience this moment of eternity”. When it activates, Ren is capable of accelerating time for himself in order to amplify his speed in each passing second, being capable of achieving feats with this such as exchanging 50 blows with Reinhard in under one-hundredth of a microsecond and accelerating himself fast enough to where lightning appeared frozen to him.
- Eine Faust Scherzo: (Middle of the Ephemeral Moment) Ren's Hadou Briah in which he uses it in conjunction with Beatrice's Holy Relic, his desire being "I don't want the dead to live". It further increases his speed and allows him to kill the living dead, allowing him to down the members of the LDO permanently. He used this to defeat Machina in one route and cause Gladsheimr to collapse in that same route.
- Eine Faust Finale: (Ending of the Ephemeral Moment) Ren’s final Hadou Briah, obtained after being empowered by Mercurius due to Ren’s soul possessing his blood, transforming him into a monstrous being with red and black skin and scythes protruding from his back to appear like wings. In this form, Ren is capable of both accelerating time for himself (like with Overture) while passively slowing down everything around him, allowing him to achieve speeds far greater than what he’s naturally capable of while also being able to restrict his enemies movement to an extent to the point that they have been stopped to a near standstill.
Atziluth
- Res Novae - Also Sprach Zarathustra: (A tale of transcendence - The tale of the new world) The manifestation of Ren’s Law, his desire being “I want to enjoy this moment forever”. After activation, time, in all levels of existence, is completely frozen, even in areas where time in all its forms does not exist (such as the Throne). This puts a complete stop to everything in existence, whether it is a simple action, manipulation of reality, or so on. No one dies and nothing is lost, but no new life is created as Ren's Law prevents any changes that occur in existence. This passive ability also appears through an extension known as “Time Armor”, where Ren is also capable of completely negating change (making all damage done to him effectively null unless the opponent's power is equal to or outright exceeds Ren's). The Time Armor even allowed him to halt Hajun’s Law from being completed for over 8,000 years, only stopping because of his own death (Albeit Hajun was significantly weakened due to having absorbed a vast quantity of souls and was not paying any attention to Ren's existence throughout all that time).
- Kamungara: The physical manifestation of a Hadou God's Law, existing as a universe within them. Ren's Kamungara takes the form of countless amounts of gears and clocks.
- Legion Reincarnation: Much like Reinhard, Ren is capable of bringing absorbed souls to his level of existence after he becomes a Hadou God, making them unimaginably more powerful, and allow him to use their abilities for himself. However, unlike Reinhard, Ren cannot convert people he has killed to his Legion and has access to this only as a Hadou God. His Legionnaires include:
- Rusalka Schwagerin Has the ability to manipulate shadows and can summon torture tools out from her own shadow. Anyone that steps on it will be paralyzed, even unable to breathe if she so desires.
- Beatrice Kirscheisen: Capable of becoming lightning, thus overwhelming her opponents with sheer speed.
- Tubal Cain: Capable of poisoning and rotting matter over very large distances.
- Kei Sakurai: Able to become flames, much in the same manner as Valkyrie but without the speed boost.
- Machina: Formerly a member of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden, Ren is able to use Machina’s power to completely erase his targets existence and history itself, all with a single strike.
- Riza Brenner: Puppeteers corpses via Soul Manipulation.
- Shirou Yusa: Through the technique “Malignant Tumor Apoptosis”, Ren can crush supernatural abilities, negating anything that can be considered superhuman down to simple regular humans, even those on the level of Hadou Gods. The only way to survive is to simply have an equal or higher Taikyoku value than Ren.
- Rea Himuro|Theresia: Not directly useful in combat, Theresia instead stabilizes Ren’s Law, and, through eight sacrifices (The souls of the other Legionnaires and Theresia herself), can restore Ren to full power.
- Valerian Trifa: Exact capabilities are unknown, but Valeria’s Legionnaire form is shown to be mountain-sized.
Others
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