I strive for something beyond the strongest, that challenging me would be the most ridiculous thought ever, that fighting me would be a sin!
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~ Accelerator
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I have no interest in being a villain, and I don’t think that I can become a good person. I’m at a halfway point where I’m not even sure which path I should walk down… but I guess even there, I can still interfere in someone’s life and help bring things to a positive conclusion…
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~ Accelerator
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It's ridiculous that a villain who was no better than a piece of shit like me was guarding her! No matter how you think about it something must have been wrong! How could I possibly be a hero! No matter what, I can only choose the blood-stained path! Why do I have to do all these things! If a hero like you had shown up earlier, then something like this mix-up of position wouldn’t have happened! That brat would not had to have suffered as much this way!
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~ Accelerator
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I get it... this is what it means to fight to protect.
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~ Accelerator
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This will eliminate what made you so special. Being the strongest is boring. It’s like a poison that dulls your sense of pain. You only get to see who you truly are once it’s been stripped from you. So I’ll show you, Coronzon. I’ll show you who you are when you’re stripped bare!!
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~ Accelerator prior to ripping Coronzon's soul out
The Accelerator is the name used to refer to the 1st-ranked Level 5, the strongest esper currently residing in Academy City.
First appearing chronologically in To Aru Majutsu no Index as an antagonist, he later becomes the second protagonist of the series and primary male protagonist of the Science Side after being defeated by Kamijou Touma. His journey to a more "heroic" role in the story progresses after meeting and saving Last Order, and is forced into an ironic twist of fate where his life now depends on the Sisters, clones he previously killed by the thousands. He is also a major antagonistic character in To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and is the protagonist of To Aru Kagaku no Accelerator.
In his role as a protagonist, he is forced to deal with the cruel Dark Side of Academy City, the secret conspiracies surrounding it, the guilt he carries from the Level 6 Shift experiment and his inner conflict about his status as a villain/hero. As the most powerful esper of Academy City, his existence and powers are tied to the plans of Aleister Crowley, the founder of Academy City, alongside Kamijou Touma.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At least 9-B physically, at least 7-B, possibly 7-A with Vector Control, higher with Plasma Storm, High 6-A with Earth's Rotational Energy, Varies with what vectors are available | At least 9-B physically, at least 7-B, possibly 7-A with Vector Control, higher with Plasma Storm, High 6-A with Earth's Rotational Energy, Varies with what vectors are available | At least 9-B, 6-B with Vector Manipulation, higher with Black Wings, even higher with White Wings, High 6-A with with Earth's Rotational Energy, Varies with what vectors are available | At least 9-B, 5-B with Vector Manipulation, higher with Black Wings & White Wings, far higher with Platinum Wings, Varies with what vectors are available, 4-BEnvironmental Destruction via Galaxy Shaking
Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic (As the strongest Level 5 Esper should be superior to Sogiita Gunha) | At least Massively Hypersonic (Comparable to before, could keep up with Kakine Teitoku), Sub-Relativistic with Black Wings (As an angel should be superior to saints like Kanzaki Kaori) | Sub-Relativistic (Fought equally with Gabriel and Kazakiri Hyouka) | At least Sub-Relativistic (Superior to before, fought Coronzon)
Striking Strength: At least Wall level physically, at least City level, possibly Mountain level with Vector Control (Can boost his physical attacks using his ability), Varies with what vectors are available (Will scale depending on the opponent's own durability, via reflecting and multiplying the rebounding/reactionary forces encountered upon contact) | At least Wall level physically, at least City level, possibly Mountain level with Vector Control, Varies with what vectors are available (Will scale depending on the opponent's own durability, via reflecting and multiplying the rebounding/reactionary forces encountered upon contact) | At least Wall level physically, Country level with Vector Control, higher with Black Wings, even higher with White Wings | At least Wall level physically, at least Planet level, likely far higher with Vector Control, higher with Black Wings & White Wings, far higher with Platinum Wings, Varies with what vectors are available
Range:Several Meters to Tens of Meters with firearms and standard vector attacks, Hundreds of Meters with Black/White wings (At least 100 meters[18][34]), Kilometers with Air Manipulation (Can manipulate the air across Academy City), one Planetary diameter when using the Earth's energy and rotation; Varies with what vector he comes in contact with; Galactic range with Platinum wings
Intelligence:Extraordinary Genius. His intellect exceeds a hundred supercomputers. Accelerator's esper ability has been shown to require complex calculations to function, with him being skilled enough in this field to come up with a new application on the fly during his battle against Touma. He also appears to have a very good memory, as he memorized the codes for Last Order's default mind state and was able to remotely return her to that condition, thus erasing the virus planted into her by Amai Ao. Later, he also starts to display well-thought out strategies in battle, like when he was able to take out the Hound Dogs using guns, which he utilized for the first time against them, along with exploiting his immediate environment and psychological tactics to his advantage, without using his esper ability. Even with less than half of his calculation ability, it is great enough to allow Accelerator to calculate and analyze all the 25,000 different kinds of energy of Kakine Teitoku's Dark Matter was emitting at once[36]and updating his ability in order to reflect them, while fighting on par with Kakine and protecting the bystanders.[36][37] Unknown with Platinum wings. Likely has tremendous amount of knowledge about the occult to an exponential degree via the third tree.[20] Has access to all of Academy City's resources and databases with the authority as the Board Chairman.
Redirection/Reflection (反射 Hansha): Accelerator's passive application of his esper ability. He automatically inverts the direction of any incoming harmful vectors, even if he is unaware of their presence. He must consciously allow things like gravity, sound and light to affect him, but he can shut them off too if he wants it.[12] Since it is bound to his calculation speed, attacks that are significantly faster than light can likely pass through without being affected. Because his passive reflection changes just the direction of the attacks, but not their magnitude, one can argue that his reflection is not dependent on the magnitude of the attacks.
Internal Spell Immunity: In addition, by incorporating his newfound knowledge regarding Magic, Accelerator has developed an immunity to spells that specifically target his inner body, as showcased throughout his battles against Elizard's All-Dimensions Severing spell and Nephthys' water-based moisture-draining technique.[20]
Vector Control (ベクトル制御 Bekutoru Seigyo, lit. "Vector Control"): The active application of Accelerator's esper ability. By touching an object, he can freely manipulate its existing vectors or even apply some new ones.
Increased Strength: One of the most basic uses of his power: Accelerator can exponentially increase the strength of his actions by manipulating his own vectors. He can launch humans or powered suits flying with what should be a light touch, which is considered holding back as he's capable of simply causing a human to explode with a light tap. He can similarly collapse a large section of a wall just by tapping his hand on it. The magnitude of his strikes can potentially be augmented up to High Complex Multiverse level, but is entirely dependent on the opponent's own durability, via reflecting and multiplying the rebounding/reactionary forces encountered upon contact.
Increased Speed: By altering the vectors for the motion of his feet, Accelerator can cover long stretches of ground in one step at high speeds, with the movement compared to a bullet since he's using his powers to essentially shoot himself forwards in a straight line.
Air Manipulation: He can manipulate the vectors of the air surrounding him to affect the air in a large area, being able to affect the entirety of Academy City before suffering his brain injury. He can use this high-velocity wind in numerous ways: he can create air blasts/shockwaves, spear-like gusts of 120 m/s wind, tornadoes, air bindings to restrain/crush humans, compressed air spheres that he can slam into the enemy as an attack, walls of wind that can trap an enemy and even a spherical wind barrier as protection. However, manipulating air through vectors requires extremely difficult calculations that involve chaos theory,[16] so these can be disturbed by an opponent in specific ways to disturb those calculations and counter his attempts to use wind.
Temperature Control: Through instantaneous expansion of air Accelerator can manipulate the temperature of objects all he likes, doing things like using adiabatic expansion to freeze water.
Vector Shooting: By touching an object, he can immediately change its movements vectors to launch it at high speeds as a projectile. He has used this to do things like launch metal construction pillars, throw metal containers or cars, kick pebbles at high speeds and turn regular falling leaves into a storm of razor sharp bullets.[50]
Vector Analysis: Accelerator can sense and perceive the environment entirely through vectors, obtaining information such as frequency, speed, magnitude, size, structure, etc. One common application of this power is for him to predict the enemy's movements using the analyzed information.
Brain Hacking: According to Accelerator, by redirecting the electrical signals of the human body, he can take 'control' over them and rewrite the memories and personality of the people as was shown in volume 5 with Last Order, though unlike proper mental type espers who can interpret those signals, he needs a previous reference to be able to achieve concrete effects. This technique requires immense amounts of calculation power. Since this technique completely strained his brain prior to suffering brain injury, it's unlikely that he can replicate the same feat after losing half his calculation power.
"I get it... this is what it means to fight to protect."
White Wings: An apparently more powerful version of his dark wings, Accelerator first used these wings during the climax of World War III. While not a lot is known about these wings, his defenses rise considerably with them; as he was able to tank an attack that could destroy all of Eurasia without his vector shield. Unlike the previous wings, these ones seem to be created by Accel's honest desire to protect something. Noticeably, the first time he used these wings he also manifested an angelic white halo, but neither he nor Rensa have managed to replicate this halo in later uses of the white wings. By flapping the wings, Accelerator can convert some 'unknown energy' into lift and fly without emitting any force down to the earth.[18]
Clonoth: The previously unnamed Tree which Accelerator rewrote and implanted into the world. So far he has demonstrated that once a connection is established to this tree through Qliphah (likely instantaneous) it increases his calculation powers and upgrades his reflection capabilities, giving him the ability to manipulate unknown energy in the form of invisible vortex-like spears to nullify magic and an upgraded field that carries Anti-Magic properties.
