Cloud of Darkness (Final Fantasy III)

“	In darkness, all is as one. Be it hope or despair, everything is mine to devour.	„
	~ Cloud of Darkness

Summary

The Cloud of Darkness is the main antagonist and final boss of Final Fantasy III. Although it is the final boss, it does not appear until the very end. Its goal is to cause a flood of darkness to reduce the world to nothingness.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 2-C | 2-A

Key: Final Fantasy III | Dissidia

Name: Cloud of Darkness

Origin: Final Fantasy III

Gender: None, despite possessing female form

Age: Unknown

Classification: The emissary of the Void

Powers & Abilities:

• Abilities
• Resistances
• Dissidia

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Types 1, 2 and 5), Acausality (Type 2 and 4; scales from the Demons; who can walk down the devil's path naturally, where the concept of time doesn't exist, and the past, present and future are merged as one in this realm), Incorporeality (lacks a physical form due to being an emmisary of the void), Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 1, Aspect Type 2 and 5; is one with the Void itself, a power of nothingness that existed even before the existence of concepts from the Crystals, let alone the entire world was a thing, and lacks an history), Possession (as a Demon, she can possess others), Shapeshifting (As a demon, she can shapeshift into other beings), Extrasensory Perception (Mages have shown to naturally possess this), Magic, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2), and Space-Time Manipulation (Magic is shown in the novels to remove concepts and warp space and time itself, like the Devil's road, which the concept of time was lost, and time and space were twisted to the point the past, present and future existed as one), Law Manipulation (Magic is stated to rewrite the natural order of things), Subjective Reality (Magic, in its basest form, is projecting one's inner mind onto reality, and is powered by intelligence and mental strength), Durability Reduction (Magic ignores durability to physical attacks requiring specific resistances to reduce the damage of), Forcefield Negation and Intangibility (Magic negates conventional physical durability, barriers, and armor, requiring specific defense against magic which is powered by the mind and spirit), Power Modification (Including Duplication, Fusionism, Statistics Amplification, Size Manipulation, Homing Attack, Danmaku, Aura, Breath Attack, and Energy Manipulation, Magic users across the games have consistently shown the ability to manipulate the shape and properties of their own magical abilities, with even higher tiers of spells simply being considered stronger versions of the same basic ability), Non-Physical Interaction (Magic as a whole is shown to affect a wide variety of different beings, from intangible/immaterial beings to non corporeal beings, to abstract concepts like Chronodia, who's the flow of time itself , to Nonexistent beings like Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness), Elemental Manipulation (Of the Lightning, Teleportation, Ice, and Earth variety), Pain Manipulation (Is able to utilize different levels of Lightning spells, which is capable of attacking the nerves), Gravity Manipulation (via Gravity magic, the Haste and Slow spells are stated to control gravity), Flight, Forcefield Creation (Can cast Protect), Curse Manipulation (Other beings with her powers is capable of inflicting curses on others), Biological Manipulation (Can change corrupted individuals into different beings), Statistics Reduction (Can drain others of their strength),, Time Manipulation and Time Stop (releasing her darkness into the world stopped the flow of time, and can speed up time around herself to increase her effective combat speed and counter opposing Time Slows), Energy Projection and Matter Manipulation (In the form of Particle Beam), Corruption (Type 2; Can corrupt others with darkness), Status Effect Inducement (Can inflict a wide variety of status ailments with Bad Breath), Petrification, Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (via Blind, which can render a foe blind), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (Can inflict Poison, which is also stated to corrode the target), Power Nullification (Can nullify powers with Silence), Madness Manipulation (Type 2) and Morality Manipulation (Can inflict targets with the Confuse status ailment, driving the target insane and attack anyone, even their allies), Death Manipulation, Soul Manipulation and Blood Manipulation (Can inflict Death upon the target, which can solidify the target's blood, the Death spell reaps the targets soul; killing them), Sleep Manipulation (Can inflict Sleep on her targets), Paralysis Inducement (Can inflict Paralyze on her target), Size Manipulation (Can shrink her targets with Mini, making then far physically weaker), Transmutation (Can turn others into a Toad), Void Manipulation, Mind Manipulation (Was able to manipulate Xande into causing an imbalance between the powers of light and dark)

Resistance to Subjective Reality, Magic, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2), and Space-Time Manipulation (Characters are capable of surviving and resisting magical abilities, Which is shown to project one's inner mind onto reality, and as shown with the creation of the Devil's road, remove entire concepts and warp space and time to where the past, present, and future exists as one), Law Manipulation (Resists magic, which can rewrite the natural order of things), Ice Manipulation, Fire Manipulation and Matter Manipulation (Sub-Atomic; Is capable of resisting the Fire and Ice spell, which is capable of affecting the target's electrons) Electricity Manipulation and Pain Manipulation (Is able to resist the Lightning spells, which is capable of attacking the nerves), Death Manipulation and Blood Manipulation (Can resist the Death spell, which is even stated to solidify the victim's blood), Power Nullification (Can resist the Silence status effect), Sleep Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (Can resist the darkness status ailment via various equipment, which would render the target blind), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (Can resist the Poison status effect, which is also stated to corrode the target), Petrification, Madness Manipulation (Type 2) and Morality Manipulation (Can resist the Confuse status ailment, which can drive the target to attack anyone, even their allies), Size Manipulation (Can resist the Mini spell), Transmutation (Can resist the Toad spell), Soul Manipulation (Can withstand Ifrit's Hellfire, which is stated to burn the soul away), Earth Manipulation (Can resist earth based attacks), Air Manipulation (Can resist air based attacks), Light Manipulation (Can resist light based attacks), Absolute Zero (Can survive Shiva's ice, including Diamond Dust), Duplication Negation (Is unfazed by the effects of the Dark Blades, which are shown and stated to negate duplication), Water Manipulation (Is resistant to water based attacks), Absorption (Can resist Osmose and Drain), Curse Manipulation, Void Manipulation/Existence Erasure, Biological Manipulation, Time Stop, Mind Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, and Corruption (Type 2) (Is part of the Void itself, and as such is unaffected by its powers)

• Abilities
• Resistances
• With Eidolons

All previous abilities enhanced, Summoning (Can summon various Eidolons from Summonstones and the World of Illusions), Willpower Manipulation (a person's will is power there and enables them to do a multitude of things the stronger their will), Self-Sustenance (Type 2, has no need to eat or drink), Reactive Power Level (the greater someone's will, the greater their power), Law Manipulation (Beings with strong wills can overwrite the laws of the world and bend them to their will), Creation (With a powerful enough will, once can create various things such as phone lines, airships and even entire countries and worlds), Sealing (Can seal off large areas and people with her will, such as Cecil sealing himself in Castle Baron or the cast sealing Kefka inside a Torsion), Dimensional Travel (Characters can open Torsions, rifts in space-time to travel various dimensions), and Immortality (Type 2) (Due to the crystal core of darkness's influence in the hands of Ardyn, warriors will not die no matter how injured they are)

Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Serpah, who was going to absorb the souls of every living being on the planet), Empathic Manipulation, and Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Resistant to the effects of the True Moon, which is capable of affecting the hearts and minds of all living beings on the planet), Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the gravitational pull of the True Moon, which even the Lunar Whale couldn't escape from), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (Can withstand the attacks of Atomos, who manipulates space, crush enemies down to a molecular level, and can warp them into another dimension), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations (Can fight and survive on the moon), Absolute Zero (Can survive Shiva's ice attacks, including Diamond Dust), Memory Manipulation & Dream Manipulation (Diabolos can enter dreams and alter memory)

Hellfire Manipulation (Via Ifrit, Phoenix, Rubicante, and Marilith), Intangibility (Ifrit can become smoke or flame), Ice Manipulation and Absolute Zero and Duplication (Via Shiva who's Ice and aura are stated to reach Absolute Zero including her Diamond Dust, Shiva can duplicate herself), Water Manipulation (via Kraken, Cagnazzo, and Leviathan), Necromancy (Via Lich), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (via Atomos, who manipulates space, crush enemies down to a molecular level, and can warp them into another dimension), Death Manipulation and Space-Time Manipulation (Via Odin, who's Zantetsuken instantly kills an enemy and opens a rift in space time to take their remains), Matter Manipulation and Radiation Manipulation (via Megaflare, which is stated numerous times to be a nuclear power), Attack Reflection (via Carbuncle), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (The Poison status effect, which is also stated to corrode the target), Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (The darkness status ailment via various equipment, which would render the target blind), Power Nullification (The Silence status, which would render the target's ability to use magic null), and Petrification (Via Malboro's Bad Breath), Resurrection (Phoenix can revive fallen party members), Light Manipulation and Holy Manipulation (Via Alexander), Explosion Manipulation and Self-Destruction (Via Bomb), Healing (Via Sylph and Asura), Earth Manipulation (Via Titan), BFR (via Typhon), Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Seraph, who was going to abosrb all souls on the planet), Memory Manipulation & Dream Manipulation (Diabolos can enter dreams and alter memory)

Attack Potency: Low Multiverse level (Capable of completely destroying both the Universe of Light and the Universe of Darkness with the flood of darkness and returning them to complete nothingness) | Multiverse level+ (Is comparable to the other Warriors of Spiritus and draws power from the gods of the cycle.)

Speed: Massively FTL+ (Is superior than the 4 creatures of darkness, who's able to keep up with the After Years crew, who can keep up with Gilgamesh) | Massively FTL+ (Can keep up with Materia's Warriors such as Warrior of Light)

Lifting Strength: At least Class M (Far superior to Goldor, who lugged an airship-sized gold chain across the eastmost continent) | Immeasurable (Superior to Neo Exdeath and Enuo)

Striking Strength: Low Multiversal | Multiversal+

Durability: Low Multiverse level (Would have survived the destruction of both the Universe of Light and the Universe of Darkness) | Multiverse level+

Stamina: Extremely high

Range: Extended melee range. Multiversal+ with magic (Magic as a whole is shown to affect omnipresent beings such as Exdeath when he's become one with the Void itself, which spans across the entire Final Fantasy Multiverse)

Standard Equipment: Tentacles

Intelligence: Cruel and callous, the Cloud of Darkness is a manipulative being who secretly drove Xande insane with his fear of his own mortality, driving him to disrupt the balance of Light and Darkness to facilitate its return even while it remained too weak to fully awaken. It is utterly ruthless and absorbed in its goal, showing no mercy to those who would impede it and nearly wiped out the heroes until the Warriors of Darkness sacrificed themselves to weaken it. In combat, it drives its foes back with her tentacles, which can defend it and attack foes in all directions as it assails its foes with lightning and powerful particle beam attacks.

Weaknesses: None notable

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

• 0-Form Particle Beam
• Anti-Air Particle Beam
• Aura Ball Particle Beam
• Long-Range Particle Beam
• Warp Particle Beam
• Wide-Range Particle Beam
• Wrath Particle Beam
• Ultra Particle Beam

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• Bad Breath: An ability that hampers the enemy with a massive number of status ailments, like petrification, blindness, confusion, poison and sleep.

• Earthquake: The Cloud of Darkness triggers a massive earthquake that was powerful enough to sink the floating continent.

• Haste: The Cloud of Darkness speed up the flow of time around herself to increase her effective speed and counter enemy time slows.

• Lightning: The Cloud of Darkness calls down lightning bolts to strike its foes.

• Particle Beam: The Cloud of Darkness charges and releases a powerful particle beam that deals massive non-elemental damage to all foes in range. In addition, it has displayed numerous other variants of this attack in Dissidia.
  • 0-Form Particle Beam: The Cloud of Darkness quickly charges a particle beam that has short range but shatters enemy guards on impact.
  • Anti-Air Particle Beams: The Cloud of Darkness surrounds itself with four particle beams that fire vertically into the air to cut off her foes' approach.
  • Aura Ball: The Cloud of Darkness fires off numerous orbs of energy that track its foes and detonate on contact or by her own command.
  • Feint Particle Beam: The Cloud of Darkness warps to a location of its choosing before a blast of energy on arrival.
  • Fusilade Particle Beam: The Cloud of Darkness converts her particle beam into a flurry of projectiles that home in on a target to assail them from all sides.
  • Long-Range Particle Beams: The Cloud of Darkness fires off a string of particle beams that shoot into the air, erupting at her opponents' feet and following its opponents' movements.
  • Wide-Angle Particle Beam: The Cloud of Darkness repels and vaporizes its foes with a massive wave of particle energy.
  • Wrath Particle Beam: The Cloud of Darkness nullifies an oncoming attack with a shield formed of particle energy before countering with a beam of energy that fires upward from beneath its foes.
  • Ultra Particle Beam: The cloud of Darkness' most powerful particle beam and her EX Burst in Dissidia, stunning a foe with a single beam before firing a massive beam of energy to annihilate her foe.

• Protect: The Cloud of Darkness erects a forcefield that reduces the effectiveness of physical attacks.

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