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When Suiren was a young child she came into contact with a spirit. This encounter modified the source of her demonic abilities to allow her to awaken a very unusual type of Curse known as Astral Curse noted to be superior to the Absorption Curse in every way possible. As the name suggests, Astral Curse is still a Curse despite this modification. It shares many if not all of the attributes that are commonly seen in Curses. However, the spiritual energy also gave it attributes that are usually seen among spirits which makes it something a bit more complicated than an ordinary Curse.
Astral Curse is a Curse that feeds off the fear, despair, and uncertainty that everyone has regarding death and the afterlife. When Suiren came into contact with a spirit as a child its spiritual energies modified her demon factor much in the same way it would to a magic origin if trying to grant a Slayer Magic. However, instead of granting her a Slayer Magic it granted her a unique never before seen Curse called the Astral Curse. This curse allows her to combine the spiritual energies generated by her modified demon factor with a massive amount of magical barrier particles and her curse power to create death-force, which is the essence of death and the afterlife and what this curse revolves around creating and manipulating.
Death force is that which causes things to rot, wither, and decay. Death force doesn't simply cause things to decay like in the case of Death Magic, but it is better described as death given a physical form. This spiritual energy can leave a trail of death, destruction, and decay in its path and only other spiritual forces can stop it. This makes it very difficult to deal with because it will simply phase through any obstacles in its way in order to reach its target. This is probably why very few have fought Suiren and lived to tell about it because most don't know how to deal with it and the few who do usually can't deal with it effectively enough to save them.
Suiren growing wings made of astral energy
This isn't all death-force can do. It also gives Suiren the ability to create and manipulate the forces of the astral plane and Astral Realm. The place where dreams, the mind, and spirits reside. She can use death force to summon and command astral energy, summon or control spirits or phantoms, mimic the attributes of various spirits and phantoms, and manipulate the dreams of others. Death-force also allows her to interact with souls and spirits in various ways. She can project her own soul from her body or someone else's, trap souls or spirits, absorb or destroy souls, receive visions of the future from spirits, gain various psychic powers from spirits, and other such things.
Essentially there is nothing she can't do with the astral plane its forces making it vastly superior to the Absorption Curse in every way possible. No Absorption Curse user of any level can compete with what she is capable of doing. What the strongest Absorption Curse user can do with souls with their highest tier jinx she can do with a mere swipe of her hand. However, it should be noted that her powers are reduced greatly when she is in Earth Land even though she is still more than capable of taking down powerful foes and still completely out of the league of any Absorption Curse demon. Only when she is in the Astral Realm does she have full access to her abilities.
One unique aspect of her Curse is due to the spiritual energies that her demon form generates the Astral Curse is able to interact with Spirit Arts as though it were one demonstrated by how she once dispelled the spells from the Demons' Parade Spirit Art with a snap of her fingers implying that her curse power is some strange union between curse and spirit power.
Subspecies Abilities[]
Death Drive:
Suiren's Death Drive
Death Drive is a spiritual ability that allows Suiren to draw power from her proximity to death due to the increase ease of drawing power from the afterlife. The closer to death she gets the stronger her body and curse power becomes.
Astral Manipulation: Astral Manipulation is an ability that allows Suiren to manipulate all things relating to souls and spirits with her mind including astral energy. Her control over such things is absolute to a point where ice has a better chance refusing an Ice Devil Slayer than such things have with refusing her will. She has demonstrated this numerous times by forcing Celestial Spirits to turn on the person who summoned them, hijack objects possessed through Human Possession in order to attack the person who created them, or negate Animal Possession. In the Astral Realm she once defused an uprising by taking control of an entire country of ghosts and forced each and every ghost to kneel to Izanagi. Admittedly she is unable to use this ability on that level outside of the Astral Realm. Outside of the Astral Realm her limit appears to be an entire city of ghosts. Currently the only person who has shown more control over spirits and souls than her is Izanagi himself. The one flaw this ability has is she has unlike Izanagi she has trouble manipulating anything that is not fully a spirit. For example, she can't manipulate a demon-spirit hybrid very well though she can easily manipulate a spirit or wandering soul of a demon. It takes her full attention to control just one or two spiritual hybrids. The greatest testament to her control over souls is how in her timeline Izanagi claimed Suiren has the potential to take his place should he ever retire, but that she still has a far way to go.
Psychic Manipulation:
Death Sense: Suiren has the ability to sense coming death and the actual death of those around. She can tell exactly how a person close to death is going to die and exactly when they will die down to the millisecond with no margin of error. She is also able to tell when a family member or someone she loves dies regardless of where they are. Through long meditation she is also able to predict when a person is going to die several decades in advance.
Soul Eater: Soul Eater is an ability that allows Suiren to feast on the souls of others to heal and enhance her body. She can feast on the spirits of the dead that roam the world around her, Spiria, or a soul extracted from a person. As magic is the physical embodiment of the soul, eating the soul of a living person can allow her the option to obtain that person's magic. She is very picky about the magic she obtains though and only allows her body to draw out the most powerful magic from souls which is why to date the only magic she has obtained though soul eating is her father's Ice Devil Slayer Magic. Seiren has stated that souls do have taste and its taste depends on the magic of the person as well as their personality. If the fact that 98% of her diet now consists of souls is anything to go by the taste appears to be far greater than normal food. The last 2% of her food intake that consists of normal food only exists because she doesn't want to be rude and not eat when at a table with someone which implies souls do provide her with enough nutrition to live on.
Indomitable Soul: Suiren's curse has greatly strengthened her soul far beyond that of any ordinary demon. This is best seen in her Resurrection ability where she is able to deny death and reattach her soul to her body up to twice a day through the sheer strength of her soul although it is very exhausting. The strength of her soul also grants her immunity against things that would try to damage, take, or trap her soul.
Astral Immunity: Suiren is not just immune to her soul being damaged, but all spiritual things in general. She is also immune to all things obtained through spiritual means such as Fire Magic if it was obtained by absorbing someone's soul.
Spiritual Awareness: Suiren has a very high spiritual awareness. She is able to recognize a person just by their soul even if they have reincarnated and if they have reincarnated she can tell by what means by the condition of their soul. She is also able to see wandering soul which is a feat that should be impossible. When she meditates for long enough she can sense the location of each and every wandering ghost, spirit, etc. in whatever world she is in. On a similar note, she is able to track someone by their soul no matter where they run or how they try to hide by meditating for long periods of time. She can also obtain vast amounts of information on someone by reading their soul whether the soul is in a body or free standing like a ghost or astral projection. When people in her old timeline would say she could peer into your soul to see past any facade they meant that in a very literal sense. In her old timeline the only person better at sensing spiritual stuff is her mentor who was the one true lord of the afterlife in their original timeline.
Jinxes[]
Soul Harvest:
Suiren removing a human's soul
Soul Harvest is Suiren's simplest and most dangerous jinx and the reason why she wasn't just Izanagi's top Valkyrie, but his most terrifying assassin. She wasn't always such a cold person, but once was someone known to be very friendly and easy to get along with, which for purposes for this jinx is very deadly. It allows her as the name suggests to remove the soul of anyone whom she has established some sort of connection with typically for the purposes of consuming. In theory there is no soul she can't remove meaning there is no soul she can't safely eat and thus no one she can't kill. The problem is the jinx's drawback. The stronger the individual is the greater the connection must be. For instance brief physical physical contact like touching them with her hand is enough to remove the souls of those weaker than her. However, to take the soul of someone strong such as a dragon, god, or phoenix she needs to establish a better connection such as an extended hug. This makes the jinx useless in combat for the most part because people she can instantly kill with this jinx are also the same people she would have beaten in a fight anyway and establishing a strong connection to kill someone in the middle of combat is too hard. She might not be able to take the entire soul of such creatures she is able to small pieces after punching or kicking them to gradually kill them. What makes this jinx terrifying is how physical contact isn't the only way to meet the jinx's requirements. Friendship or any form of relationship, being connected through something like Organic Link Magic, or performing a Unison Raid with someone all count. It doesn't matter if the connection is physical, personal, spiritual, or magical.
Power Sample: Power Sample is a jinx that is only usable once se has consumed a bit of a mage's soul. She can use astral energy to break down the tiny bit of soul into spiritual information to use as a blueprint to temporarily transform her own soul into an exact copy for a maximum of 20 seconds. The connection magic and the soul has grants her the ability to use the same magic they can and manipulate the opponent's spells as though they were her own until Suiren's soul reverts to its normal state.
Spirit Pressure:
Suiren destroying the ground around her with just her spirit pressure
Spirit Pressure is the soul variant of stuff like magic pressure or curse pressure and this jinx allows her to exert it as a means of intimidation. Suiren has often described this jinx as something akin to shaking a soda bottle and loosening the top slightly to repressurize the container. She isn't exerting her actual soul, but the pressure of her soul. In the case of spirit pressure it shows itself as an aura of spiritual energies; the same kind that her demon factor creates. In addition to instilling fear on those whose souls are weaker than her own, which most are, it can also push enemy's back and paralyze those with inferior souls. To those with high spiritual awareness her spirit pressure can cause spiritual sensory damage in the same way loud noise can damage the ears. Depending on how close they are when she releases her spirit pressure and how attuned they are to spirits the damage may be great enough to blind their spiritual awareness preventing them from ever sensing spirits or ghosts again. It also has defensive and supplementary uses as well. It can completely obliterate any hexes placed on her even those from gods or primordial demons. Suiren's spirit pressure is stronger than the curse and magic pressure of all original nine Demon Gates put together as one may expect from one with an indomitable soul. Her spirit pressure is so terrifying she has made creatures like devil kings, dragon kings, and high gods tremble in abject terror with the only ones managing to remain unphased are people as strong as Izanagi.
Spirit Pressure Control: Spirit Pressure Control is a jinx that allows Suiren to use her curse power to control her spirit pressure in various ways. She isn't limited to just releasing pressure as an aura but can also do things like unleash all of it only from her fist instead of her entire body to greatly augment the power of her punches, control it so it is released from the bottom of her feet to launch her into the air, or use it to knock aside attacks. As a whole, Spirit Pressure Control functions in much the same ways as the Spirit Art Immovable though not quite on the same level and achieving its results in a different way. One interesting thing to note is that when she enters her demon form she loses access to this jinx and it is replaced by Immovable suggesting the only difference between Spirit Pressure Control is one uses spirit power and the other does not.
Death Cry: Death Cry is an offensive way of using Spirit Pressure. It allows her upon crying out manipulate her spirit pressure so as to launch the spirit pressure at the opponent from her mouth much in the same fashion as Sword Pressure. Instead of slicing through things the wave of spirit pressure it propels the opponent back with great force as it breaks their bones and damages internal organs.
Demonic Soul-Make:
Suiren using Demonic Soul-Make to grow phoenix wings
Demonic Soul-Make is a jinx that as the same suggests allows her to use death-force to mold her own soul. However instead of molding it into objects like Molding Magic she can reshape it into the soul of another creature to cause an effect similar in nature to Take Over. This jinx is inferior to Take Over because while the result allows her to modify or body to gain the physical traits of a creature she is unable to gain the magical abilities of the creature.
Valkyrie Death Marking:
Valkyrie Strike: The Astral Curse doesn't have many common jinxes like creating barriers or ordinary offensive spells. Valkyrie Strike is the closest thing the Astral Curse has to an ordinary offensive spell and it is also her most used Curse. It is a jinx that that allows Suiren to incorporate astral energy into a palm strike. To perform, she cloaks her hand in astral energy and increases the concentration of astral energy as she simultaneously vibrates the astral energy at high frequencies. After doing so, she slams her palm against the opponent's body and releases the astral energy into the target's body to knock the opponent back at great speed and damage body and soul alike.
Soul Possession Cannon: Suiren forms the Kuji-kiri known as Zai with her hands while coating her hands in astral energy. Using the astral energy as a catalyst she is able to fire her soul at a target in order to possess it. While possessing it her body collapses to the ground and remains vulnerable until she returns to her body which she can do whenever she chooses. Despite what people think Suiren is able to possess more than just living things, but objects and elements as well. In a fight she mainly uses this jinx not to possess people, but to possess elements to temporarily gain control them and redirect the attack before returning back to her body before it can hit the floor.
Soul Possession Cannon: Omnipresence: Omnipresence is an advanced form of the Soul Possession Cannon. While the Soul Possession Cannon can only allow her to possess a single small target like a person or a single fireball this jinx allows her to possess an entire landscape. The entire landscape becomes her body allowing her to control everything it from plants to animals. When she possesses a landscape she knows every tiny thing that happens within it. The more curse power she uses the larger of an area she possess.
Demonic Spirit Channeling: Demonic Spirit Channeling is a jinx that imitates the effects of Enchantment. It allows her to place new properties into things she touches by using astral energy to channel a spirit that matches that property into her desired target. For example, she can give something elemental properties by channeling an elemental spirit into the target, grant weapons the ability to drain away life by channeling a wraith into a weapon, etc. In many ways Demonic Spirit Channeling is not as versatile as Enchantment because in order to give something a unique property there must be a spirit that represents that property. Suiren has learned how to overcome this limitation by using Living Magic to create new spirits that can grant the property she wants.
Astral Projection: Astral Projection is a jinx that allows her to use the Astral Curse to separate her soul from her body. Once outside of her body she can move her soul around as though it were her body. Her soul once projected is limited by the physical plane like her body. It can freely move forward and back in time, ignore gravity to float where she wishes, and enter the dreams of others.
Izanagi's Spirit Chains: Izanagi's Spirit Chains is a jinx that allows Suiren to coat the area in a thin mist of ectoplasm that reduces the power and effectiveness of Spirit Arts used within the area by slightly draining the spiria that makes up the spirit power used to perform Spirit Art spells. The absorbed spiria is transmitted to her after being absorbed and if enough Spirit Arts is used her body can use the absorbed spiria to create its own spirit power granting her access to her Ghostrick Spirit Art outside of her demon form. This rarely happens though because it takes several minutes of constant Spirit Art use to obtain enough spiria for that to happen and most opponents she has faced are smart enough to think of doing something about the mist rather than ignore it.
Kitsunebi: Kitsunebi is Suiren's trademark Astral Curse and it allows her to summon mysterious balls of light wherever she chooses. These balls of light look like blue ghostly balls of fire when in actuality they are a special type of ghost. Coming into contact with these ghosts causes an opponent's soul to be stripped away to slowly kill them as well as causing their body to slowly withered away all the while inflicting pain reminiscent of being burned from the inside out being rated as a four out of four on a pain scale as it is as painful as a bullet ant. This makes it feel as though their soul is being burned away. It takes about 10 or 12 solid hits with the spell to complete strip an opponent of their soul to kill them. People who have been killed by this jinx have been found as an emaciated corpse with their souls unable to pass on as it was consumed by the ghost. To add to how dangerous this jinx is, Suiren isn't limited to being summoned in her hand to throw at an opponent for she is able to summon them from a distance and is able to summon hundreds upon thousands of these balls to make it very hard to move around without bumping into one of them. When Suiren is in her demon form and can use her Spirit Art she can increase the power of these ghostly balls considerably by turning into a kitsune and infusing them with spirit power. In this state it takes only five solid hits to kill a person. When she is in her demon form or has access to spirit power some other way the ghostly balls gain the ability to absorb an enemy of their spirit power in addition to their soul.
Forbidden Back Door of the Celestial World: Forbidden Back Door of the Celestial World is a jinx that allows Suiren to use astral energy as a catalyst to summon Celestial Spirits. Suiren can use this spell to summon the Celestial Spirit King himself, but it requires her to use 98% of her maximum curse power meaning she can only really summon him at the beginning of a fight when she has yet to use much curse power.
Celestial Symbiotic Dress:
Mono no Aware: Mono no Aware (物の哀れ, 'the pathos of things') is an advanced jinx that Suiren mastered with help from her cousin Vincent Nakano from her original timeline. It allows her to use death force to summon a massive beam around the target or targets that reaches toward the sky composed of the same dark spirits that make up the infamous curse Memento Mori. Just like with the curse those killed by this jinx are simply erased, becoming nothing for eternity. The power of this beam is enough to easily over power Genesis Zero and comes a little short of reaching the power of the curse that inspired it. Mono no Aware has to major flaws. The first is that it requires a length incantation spoken in the language of the dead to perform, which requires Suiren to have backup to perform the jinx. The second is it requires her to use 40% of her curse power, which makes it pretty exhausting to use.
Soul Disturbance: Suiren channels a small amount of astral energy to her eyes and makes eye contact with the target. Once eye contact has been made, the astral energy in her eyes will allow her to take control of the target's soul and by extension, their body, for a very short amount of time. The amount of time Suiren has is only long enough to force the opponent to do once sporadic action such as forcing the target to wave their hand or move their limbs a tiny bit to mess with their accuracy.
Trivia[]
Astral Curse was somewhat inspired by the abilities in Tales of Demons and Gods.
Soul Strike is based off of Soul Menace from the Soul Eater series.
