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I'm a little annoyed at the fact that revisions were made to the descriptions of BB's abilities without consulting the guy who wrote in the vast majority of its contents.
Does it sound like a NLF? Sure. But can we have a little more discussion than "it sounds like a NLF" before we go into it?
Potnia Therion functions based on the concept of life implemented by the Earth Mother Goddess. Due to slaying countless mortals but also rendering the fields fertile, she became the giver of life and death. Thus it became impossible to defy her orders or attack her since doing so would be opposing the concept of "living itself".
By absorbing the data of all the goddeses that made up the aspects that were worshipped after she was forgotten, BB gained this authority and thus the ability to lolnope resistances and make attacks and abilities against her "not happen".
But Rep, this sounds like a clear NLF! I know, I'm getting there.
The first thought would simply be to outmuscle her. If one has much higher AP than her, then it would only be natural that they would be able to override her authority, right?
Not quite.
Meet Kingprotea, one of the Sakura Five that BB herself is a part of. Like BB, she can manipulate the physical laws of the world and actually has significantly more "presence" and thus power than BB in the Moon Cell due to also utilizing the Earth Mother Goddess's data. Due to her unique skills, she can also increase her size and power infinitely at the cost of her intelligence, eventually becoming a "Universe level" threat that will self-destruct once logic and common sense can no longer comprehend how unfathomably large she can become.
Despite being comparable in ability and having even greater raw power, a continuously growing Kingprotea was reverted to a child and sealed by BB into a pocket of imaginary space as a precaution against rebellion.
Thus outmuscling her won't work.
Okay then, what about outhaxing her?
Possible, but improbable. It's explicitly stated that Potnia Therion is an ability that connects to Akasha, making the authority absolute enough that the Heroic Spirit Gil, with his nigh-infinite treasury of conceptual, space-destroying, reality bending weapons can't do jack to her under normal circumstances. Even the Anti-Divine Enkidu and "killing things that lack the concept of dying" Ea won't be able to touch her for as long as this is active.
This also extends to the Divine Spirits, or in layman's terms the gods and goddesses whose origins began on Earth. All of them can warp reality, shape the concepts of civilization, move outside of time, alter the flow of time, and shift events in history, manipulate causality, and use other assorted hax at will. The Earth Mother Goddess's authority is superior to all of them.
So what ca stop her?
By Nasuverse rules, the Earth Mother's Authority is based on Mystery. The older it is, the more powerful it is. Hence, simply being older than Earth itself would bypass it.
Not being born on Earth is another way to get around it. Anything that took its form on the Moon for example (i.e. the AI that is the main character of Fate/Extra) would not be subject to her authority in any way.
Having a "higher grade" of Divinity would also bypass it. For example, in the Nasuverse, Saver and Kiara Sessyoi are both above BB as they govern entire Solar Systems. In the latter case, Kiara absorbed BB and the other High Servants after their respective defeats and reached the level of a True Demon through Hans Christian Anderson's Noble Phantasm.
Being backed by an otherworldly deity whose current form was not made on Earth of significant power would work as well, so the The God Emperor of Mankind and Reinhard Heydrich would fare well against her.
Having infinitely greater power would obviously work as well, even better if that person was a powerful deity. Hence Saint Seiya's Athena will lolstomp BB, but not anything short of God Cloth Pegasus Seiya.
In addition, since her power is tied to the Moon Cell, dragging her out of Imaginary Space and outside of the Moon Cell's influence would also nullify the vast majority of her abilities.
There's also the fact that within all humans is the "Power of the Beginning" a gene from which all other human genes originate. Potnia Therion cannot "undo" this trait, and thus those who are able to analyze Potnia Therion and unlock the Power of the Beginning within themselves can prevent BB's Authority from overtaking them. However, since the Moon CEll's authority was required to unlock this ability, it's presumed that it would take a great deal of knowledge in genetics and magic or powerful reality warping abilities to use this power.
I hope this was a little bit enlightening and could provoke more discussion than "BB is overused. She's a walking NLF."
I apologize for making this an absurdly long post, but I hope this can actually help settle things rather than simply rewriting everything without actual discussion about what her powers do.
Does it sound like a NLF? Sure. But can we have a little more discussion than "it sounds like a NLF" before we go into it?
Potnia Therion functions based on the concept of life implemented by the Earth Mother Goddess. Due to slaying countless mortals but also rendering the fields fertile, she became the giver of life and death. Thus it became impossible to defy her orders or attack her since doing so would be opposing the concept of "living itself".
By absorbing the data of all the goddeses that made up the aspects that were worshipped after she was forgotten, BB gained this authority and thus the ability to lolnope resistances and make attacks and abilities against her "not happen".
But Rep, this sounds like a clear NLF! I know, I'm getting there.
The first thought would simply be to outmuscle her. If one has much higher AP than her, then it would only be natural that they would be able to override her authority, right?
Not quite.
Meet Kingprotea, one of the Sakura Five that BB herself is a part of. Like BB, she can manipulate the physical laws of the world and actually has significantly more "presence" and thus power than BB in the Moon Cell due to also utilizing the Earth Mother Goddess's data. Due to her unique skills, she can also increase her size and power infinitely at the cost of her intelligence, eventually becoming a "Universe level" threat that will self-destruct once logic and common sense can no longer comprehend how unfathomably large she can become.
Despite being comparable in ability and having even greater raw power, a continuously growing Kingprotea was reverted to a child and sealed by BB into a pocket of imaginary space as a precaution against rebellion.
Thus outmuscling her won't work.
Okay then, what about outhaxing her?
Possible, but improbable. It's explicitly stated that Potnia Therion is an ability that connects to Akasha, making the authority absolute enough that the Heroic Spirit Gil, with his nigh-infinite treasury of conceptual, space-destroying, reality bending weapons can't do jack to her under normal circumstances. Even the Anti-Divine Enkidu and "killing things that lack the concept of dying" Ea won't be able to touch her for as long as this is active.
This also extends to the Divine Spirits, or in layman's terms the gods and goddesses whose origins began on Earth. All of them can warp reality, shape the concepts of civilization, move outside of time, alter the flow of time, and shift events in history, manipulate causality, and use other assorted hax at will. The Earth Mother Goddess's authority is superior to all of them.
So what ca stop her?
By Nasuverse rules, the Earth Mother's Authority is based on Mystery. The older it is, the more powerful it is. Hence, simply being older than Earth itself would bypass it.
Not being born on Earth is another way to get around it. Anything that took its form on the Moon for example (i.e. the AI that is the main character of Fate/Extra) would not be subject to her authority in any way.
Having a "higher grade" of Divinity would also bypass it. For example, in the Nasuverse, Saver and Kiara Sessyoi are both above BB as they govern entire Solar Systems. In the latter case, Kiara absorbed BB and the other High Servants after their respective defeats and reached the level of a True Demon through Hans Christian Anderson's Noble Phantasm.
Being backed by an otherworldly deity whose current form was not made on Earth of significant power would work as well, so the The God Emperor of Mankind and Reinhard Heydrich would fare well against her.
Having infinitely greater power would obviously work as well, even better if that person was a powerful deity. Hence Saint Seiya's Athena will lolstomp BB, but not anything short of God Cloth Pegasus Seiya.
In addition, since her power is tied to the Moon Cell, dragging her out of Imaginary Space and outside of the Moon Cell's influence would also nullify the vast majority of her abilities.
There's also the fact that within all humans is the "Power of the Beginning" a gene from which all other human genes originate. Potnia Therion cannot "undo" this trait, and thus those who are able to analyze Potnia Therion and unlock the Power of the Beginning within themselves can prevent BB's Authority from overtaking them. However, since the Moon CEll's authority was required to unlock this ability, it's presumed that it would take a great deal of knowledge in genetics and magic or powerful reality warping abilities to use this power.
I hope this was a little bit enlightening and could provoke more discussion than "BB is overused. She's a walking NLF."
I apologize for making this an absurdly long post, but I hope this can actually help settle things rather than simply rewriting everything without actual discussion about what her powers do.
