| “ | ... Plundered one. | „ |
| ~ Gabriel to Kirito during his battle |
| “ |
His eyes had turned inhuman before I even noticed. The sockets were filled with nothing but bluish-black light. Truly — an angel of death. A transcendent being that hunts and plunders the souls of humans. What the hell kind of attack would work against someone who sees themselves as that? I looked away from the embodiment of fear itself and checked on the figures of Asuna and Alice, who were running up the skyward staircase hand-in-hand. They still needed two, no, three minutes before they could reach the floating island. It’s just that I was no longer confident I could buy them that much time. ... Such omnipotence. |
„ |
| ~ Kirito describing Gabriel |
| “ | Your soul... will be so sweet. | „ |
| ~ Gabriel |
Background
Subtilizer, or his real name, Gabriel Miller is the primary antagonist in the War of the Underworld arc of Sword Art Online. He is the chief tactical officer of Glowgen Defense Systems and the child of the former president and founder of the company. He was hired by the US to retrieve Alice Zuberg's fluctlight, so he directly commanded the assault on the Ocean Turtle and used the Soul Translator to enter Underworld, first as Vector, then as Subtilizer.
Powers and Stats
Key: Real Life | Subtilizer (Gun Gale Online) | Vector & Subtilizer (Underworld) | Incarnation-Empowered
Tier: At least 10-A physically, 9-C with guns | 9-C physically, higher with guns. Up to 9-A with explosives | At least 9-B physically, higher with Incarnation. Can affect those up to 7-C with Fluctlight Alteration | Low 6-B, likely 4-B
Dimensionality: 3-D
Skilled Knife User & Marksman, Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Enhanced Senses (Through his battle experience), Analytical Prediction (Can predict the movements of his targets with pin-point accuracy in real time), Stealth Mastery
Peak Human Physical Characteristics, Accelerated Development (Leveling; Abilities), Skilled Knife User & Marksman, Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Enhanced Senses (Through his battle experience), Analytical Prediction (Can predict the movements of his targets with pin-point accuracy in real time), Stealth Mastery (Able to sneak up to someone as skilled as Sinon without a problem), Limited Reality Warping (Via Proto-Incarnation. In times of extreme brain activity reaching to one's Fluctlight, or soul, the user can temporarily enact change on the world to an extent via their willpower or imagination. Usually, it has been displayed to enact improbable feats, such as delaying death, breaking out of system paralysis, bypassing system-enacted rules, and more that can be described as "surpassing the system"), Resistance to Pain (All virtual reality avatars have a pain absorber, which lessens the amount of pain one feels to negligible amounts, even with injuries such as decapitation)
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Accelerated Development (Leveling; Physical Stats, Abilities), Immortality (Types 2 and 3; Super Accounts have an extremely massive pool of Life, meaning that normal fatal wounds such as holes where vital organs should be or torn limbs will not kill them. With Incarnation, a Super Account can heal off most wounds instantly), Skilled Knife User & Marksman (Bercouli stated Vector's skill with a sword is lacking since he was so focused on knife/gun combat), Martial Arts, Regeneration (Low-Mid. Should be comparable to other god accounts via Incarnation), Enhanced Senses, Analytical Prediction (Can predict the movements of his targets with pin-point accuracy in real time), Stealth Mastery, Magic & Creation (via Sacred Arts. Can create a spell or an object for almost any situation, so long as he knows the words used to arrange his thoughts, guide his emotions, and fuel his imagination to create said spell or object. Using a Super Account, Vector does not need an incantation to use Sacred Arts), Intangibility and Absorption (His body (underneath his skin) is made out of some sort of "Amorphous darkness" that he can control to his will. He can actively use this ability through Incarnation if he subconsciously believes that he cannot be injured, making attacks phase through him or be absorbed into him. More specifically, this only extends to fantastical phenomenon, such as magic and fancy attacks you see in fiction. Something such as bullets will be able to harm him, since he subconsciously believes he can be damaged by them), Soul Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Memory Manipulation and Mind Manipulation (Can instantly see, steal, and directly manipulate fluctlights, a person's soul, and can absorb other people's Incarnation and willpower), Power Mimicry (Upon peering into a target's fluctlight, Vector instantly gains everything the opponent has, including their powers, and is immediately able to use said powers with extreme potency. This does not include the opponent's weapons), Passive Reality Warping (via Incarnation. As with all VR avatars, especially in the Underworld, Incarnation grants all the ability to alter reality via their conscious and subconscious belief and willpower, and can be described as many people sharing a single dream, with greater control of Incarnation being likened to "lucid dreaming"). The primary applications of Incarnation are as follows: Empowerment, Statistics Amplification and Statistics Reduction (Belief in one's own strength will amplify one's own power, however the opposite can happen to the user as well if they are not confident in a matchup), Limited Law Manipulation (If enough people believe that something cannot happen, it will become impossible and vice versa), and Probability Manipulation (If an Incarnation user truly believes that they are weaker than their foe, even subconsciously, reality will be rewritten to ensure their defeat (and vice versa). If both sides are both completely confident in a battle, it will be a battle to see who's mental willpower is stronger than the other). For Vector/Subtilizer, additional applications are as follows: Transformation and Shapeshifting (via Incarnation), Forcefield Creation (Can create a barrier around his entire body), and all of the Dark God Vector abilities, and Immortality (Type 8; Characters in the Underworld can't die as long as their fluctlight isn't destroyed), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 1; He was described by Kirito to be akin a black hole[1] and what stood in front of him was a patch of nothing), Void Manipulation, Disintegration, and Corrosion Inducement (Via his Void Blade)
All of the previous abilities and resistances to a far higher extent (excluding his Super Account's variation of Intangibility, he has a new version of it in this key), plus:
Elemental Intangibility (His body is now made out of a "liquid-metal" substance), Thread Manipulation, Telekinesis, Creation, Summoning, Non-Physical Interaction (Can interact and clash with Eugeo's soul), Aura and Fear Inducement (Has an aura of energy that strikes fear into people), Danmaku (Can summon multiple orbs that fire countless lasers), Body Control (Turned his wings into blades), Spatial Manipulation (Can manipulate the size of his sword)Resistance to Fire Manipulation, Steel Manipulaton, Ice Manipulation, Wind Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Slashes, Thrusts (As his body is made up the way it is, his attribute is the ability to absorb everything just listed), and Soul Manipulation (Ignored Shasta's Soul Destruction Release Recollection), Unconventional Resistance to Soul Manipulation and Matter Manipulation (The souls in Sword Art Online are described as being made of quantum fields)
Attack Potency: At least Athlete level physically (A trained soldier who would easily be stronger than Kirito and Asuna), Street level with guns | Street level physically (GGO avatars should be physically superior to real life ones. Can dismember limbs pretty easily and tackle monsters of similar strength), higher with guns. Up to Small Building level with explosives (Can harm monsters of this size) | At least Wall level physically (Able to chop off Bercouli's arm with ease and effortlessly punch a large hole in his chest, completely going through his armor), higher with Incarnation. Can affect those up to Town level with Fluctlight Alteration (Should be comparable to other Super Accounts. Matched Solus' attacks.) | Small Country level, likely Solar System level (Can fight Kirito when he was powered by the Night Sky Sword's Release Recollection and even managed to lob his arm off)
Speed: At least Athletic Human (Should be easily faster than the main cast) | Peak Human travel speed (Superior to any normal human), Hypersonic+ combat speed (Comparable, if not superior to Kirito, Asuna, and LLENN. Blitzed Sinon in their fight) | Supersonic+ with Relativistic reaction speed (Comparable to Kirito and the Goddesses) | Supersonic+ with Relativistic reaction speed and Speed of Light attack speed (Can fire lasers that should be comparable to Fanatio's light beams)
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Durability: At least Athlete level | Street level | At least Wall level (Was not harmed by the combined might of Bercouli and his dragon, Hoshigami), higher with Incarnation, Town level when blocking with the Void Blade (Superior to other Divine Objects, which can withstand their memory release forms. Should be able to withstand Super Account abilities, as the weapon can work as a conduit for said abilities). Immortality and intangibility makes him difficult to kill. | Smally Country level, likely Solar System level (Can take hits from a fully-powered Kirito). Immortality and intangibility makes him difficult to kill.
Stamina: At least Athletic Human | Infinite physically (Virtual Reality Avatars can never get physically tired; limited only to the mental power of the person themselves) | Virtually Infinite physically (Just like normal Virtual Reality Avatars, however the difference being that if one ran out of "stamina", they would begin taking damage to their Life), Vastly Superhuman mentally (Shrugged off having his arm lobbed off. Comparable to other characters in the arc)
Range: Standard Melee Range when unarmed, Extended Melee Range with a knife hundreds of meters with guns | Standard Melee Range when unarmed, Extended Melee Range with a knife, hundreds of meters with guns | Extended Melee Range with his sword, several meters with Sacred Arts and Incarnation | Likely Planetary (Shook the entire Underworld during his clash with Kirito)
Standard Equipment: Standard American Special Ops Equipment | None Notable (Usually challenges himself when in GGO, sometimes only taking a knife and handgun, and sometimes not even taking anything at all) | Void Blade (As Vector)
Intelligence: Unknown academically. Gifted in combat strategy and tactics, and is the head of Glowgen Defense Systems. Is trained in martial arts and has experience in real combat. His skill is so impressive that he is able to predict how opponents will attack, both in real time and strategically. Was able to utilize and lead the entire Dark Territory.
Weaknesses: Insanely psychopathic and sociopathic, extending fights out to get the best reactions out of his targets or until he gets bored of playing with them | Same as previous. Because of Incarnation's passive nature based on the imagination and willpower of the individual, at worst, if the user thinks a situation is hopeless or impossible to succeed, Incarnation will instead have a negative effect and make that situation true | Same as previous. Overloading his ability to peer into fluctlights with enough memories will fry his own fluctlight, killing him.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
«The Dark God Vector» super account is granted the ability to directly manipulate Fluctlights.
He is shown to be able to utilize this in various ways, such as by being able to absorb souls and Incarnation, granting him even more power. He can also put people to sleep by halting brain activity, directly manipulate memories, and manipulate the mind.Incarnation: A secret skill passed down by Integrity Knights since ancient times, and one of the most important concepts in the Sword Art Online franchise. Incarnation refers to the ability to change the state of the world through pure willpower and imagination. For any other virtual reality world, it is a system glitch, usually activated in times of extreme emotion or during extreme brain activity, allowing closer access to one's Fluctlight, or soul, to temporarily change the world around them. For residents of the Underworld, it is a constant passive that dictates whether they succeed or fail in anything. The more confident one is in their abilities and the more of a positive reputation they have, the more the world shall bend in their favor. It is the power which Sacred Arts derive from. Its effects are versatile, as the power has been used to wield invisible blades, create swords from the user's blood, transmute objects, increase the chances of an event happening, and much more. However, the power of an Incarnation ability can be matched by another Incarnation ability, and the use of Incarnation is mentally exhausting, requiring a lot of concentration and energy to perform. If the user is in a state where their will is not strong enough, they become unable to use Incarnation. There are a limited amount of people who can use Incarnation to its full potential, and much practice and experience are needed to be able to use it. This ability is most prominent in the Underworld, as this ability is one of that world's core mechanics. However this ability has also been shown multiple times throughout the series before the Alicization arc.
Sacred Arts: «Sacred Arts» are System Commands in Project Alicization that residents of Underworld believe to be magic rituals. In reality, they are just words used to arrange thoughts and guide the emotions of the caster to make use of one's imagination power. Because of this, the imagination of the
user may either improve or decrease the effectiveness of an art.Others
Notable Victories:
Notable Losses:
Inconclusive Matches:
- ↑ Sword Art Online 18 Alicization Lasting