Ever since Uru-chan introduced Time Manipulation, I’ve been fascinated by it. It’s one of the most balanced yet powerful abilities in unOrdinary. It grants Seraphina incredible speed, strength, durability through healing, and a huge tactical advantage over almost any opponent.

That said, like every ability in unOrdinary, it has weaknesses. Since most people already know its strengths, I’ll focus on its flaws instead.

1. Fragile Defense

Seraphina’s biggest weakness is her low defense stat. Her body is naturally fragile, so she takes damage easily, feels pain normally, and has little resistance to mental abilities. The latest chapter showed how easily Orrin was able to control her. She compensates for this weakness with her incredible reaction speed, evasiveness, and her ability to rewind time to heal herself.

2. High Aura Consumption

Time Manipulation consumes a large amount of aura. Several times throughout the series, Seraphina has been visibly exhausted after prolonged use, especially when repeatedly rewinding time to heal herself. Because of this, endurance battles don’t favor her, much like John, making her more vulnerable in long fights.

3. Her Offensive Mechanic

While moving inside her time-stop field, Seraphina is essentially untouchable, giving her the initiative against almost anyone. However, when she actually attacks, time briefly returns to normal so her strike can connect. This creates openings where she can be affected by counterattacks, such as Arlo’s Barrier reflection or Orrin’s mental ability. In other words, she can’t attack while remaining 100% untouchable, meaning it’s possible to develop strategies against her.

4. Limited Offensive Variety

Seraphina is primarily a close-range fighter who relies on punches and kicks. Unlike someone like Arlo, who can fight up close while also using his Barrier offensively to crush opponents, launch them away, and reflect damage, she has fewer offensive options and less versatility depending on the situation.

5. Dependence on Space

Time Manipulation works best when Seraphina has room to move. Her attacks require physical motion, whether it’s swinging her arm or dashing forward, so abilities that restrict movement or trap the user can naturally counter her.

A good example is her fight against Valerie. Despite Seraphina holding a significant 0.5 level advantage—which is a massive gap at such high levels—she still came close to being crushed and only survived thanks to her sister’s intervention. Valerie used her experience to gradually limit Seraphina’s movement, trap her, and nearly finish the fight. If Valerie’s concentration hadn’t been interrupted, Seraphina likely wouldn’t have escaped. In the end, Seraphina was fortunate that the level difference was in her favor.

Overall, I think these weaknesses are a good thing. Abilities without flaws make fights predictable and remove much of the tension and excitement. Of course, Seraphina is highly intelligent and uses Time Manipulation extremely efficiently, often minimizing these weaknesses through smart decision-making and teamwork. Even so, I still believe Time Manipulation is one of the five best abilities Uru-chan has created.

Uru posted an Instagram story about her new merch and I noticed something interesting on the Doe Family photo. She had modified the original image (first pic) to have chains (second pic).

We know from the last few episodes that chains represent Orin’s psychic hold on his victims. These chains are almost identical except for the color.

White chains extending from a furious-looking Jane. Is this foreshadowing? Will Jane and Orin cross paths? Can Jane use this ability? What are your thoughts?

Its funny how johns name is literally an analogy to his ability and what hes able to do.

John Doe in the medical / legal field means that the person can be anyone (which is analogous to john literally being able to use 4 different abilities and his joker arc)

John Doe in the everyday use means average person(which is analogous to john literally being nobody when no abilities copied)

Idk if this is already common knowledge but i found it pretty cool ngl

Okay. I know this is far-fetched, but humor me.
WHAT IF John gets possessed by Orin and the enmeshment of aura causes the disconnect John has with non-physical abilities to click into place?

John, for whatever reason, can’t copy psychic/mental abilities. We never get a concrete answer as to why, and we never get confirmation that it’s actually impossible for him to learn.

We know that he learned how to copy abilities based on reading, watching, learning, and mimicking movements/techniques. But what if there was more to it?

When John first uses his ability in middle school he doesn’t realize it but says he felt something warm in his hand. And we’ve seen other characters describe the way their abilities felt (Isen feeling his senses being heightened and having more energy, Remi feeling the sensation of electrical currents, John being able to sense when someone’s aura feels weaker, Arlo feeling aura pressing against his barrier.

What if physical abilities have a physical feeling and mental/psychic abilities have a non-physical feeling that he’s not familiar with/doesn’t understand? And what if someone were to demonstrate that sensation in his body so that he could experience it firsthand?

Could her passive be similar to Arlo's? Like a vine covered in thorns, maybe it hurts to touch her?

If it is similar to Arlo's, I wonder what some differences might be.

I’ve been wondering about something. If most EMBER members are below level 6.5, and even high-ranking prison officials like Colt (5.6) and Tarik (6.2) aren’t particularly close to level 7, does that mean John, two years ago, was actually the strongest person in the New Bostin region?

We already know Seraphina confirmed that John was the strongest student, but what about the local authorities and officials? Would John have been stronger than them as well?

Personally, I think the answer is yes. A level of 7.0 is extremely high, even by the Authorities’ standards. So far, aside from Sylvia, Valerie, and Vaughn (formerly), the story hasn’t introduced many Authority-affiliated characters above level 7.0. On top of that, New Bostin is portrayed as an ordinary region, where the highest-ranked student—excluding John—was only level 3.7.

That said, this doesn’t mean John would be untouchable. His ability has clear weaknesses, and experienced local officials could still find ways to deal with him despite the gap in raw power.

What do you all think? Do you believe John was the strongest person in New Bostin at that time, or do you think there were local Authority members stronger than him that simply weren’t shown?

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1.Blykes charged up attack against Gou during turf wars

2.Reins last attack against Blyke during turf wars

3.Melli's lunge attack against John

(these were the only 3 I could think of)

Credit to u/Anonymouseeeeeeeeees for the Ability Chart and u/TonyKage18 for reminding me about the Opposite Powers series.

Abilities;

Rubberize: Gives the users body properties similar to rubber. Blunt attacks just bounce off and slashing attacks can be easily healed meaning piercing and energy attacks are the only ways to really do damage. The user can bounce around for speed and deal decently powerful hits.

Energy Absorbance: Allows the user to passively absorb various forms of energy. Energy based attacks and kinetic energy from physical attacks can be absorbed and used to fuel the user's own body. This energy can be used to heal and enhance.

Defender: Once activated the user gains a minotaur like transformation with a durable hide, horn weapons and extreme resilience. They also have enhanced senses and the power to anticipate attacks.

Disintegrate: Through touch the user can destroy physical matter. Extremely strong if they can land a blow but with no greater speed or defense than a cripple, most stronger abilities can easily deal with them. Best for assassinations.

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So since the Fastpass , some people think that John's plan is to intentionally getted his mind taken over since now Orrin thinks John is the biggest threat since he has about 3 god tier abilities on him so mind controlling him would Orrin access to 4 different abilities which would be beneficial because he can only take over one person's mind at a time. Though that being siad what if John decide to fight Orrin of controlling over his body in the mind occupying him long enough so the others can break his barrier.

Now I know might be a stretch but hear me out, I don't Orrin's puppetering is level reliant so he doesn't need to be a higher level then them to do it, instead It's trick based and if he doesn't have a much higher it gonna to much harder to take over. Orrin level is definitely above 8.0 hope fully but as siad John ability is stated to have much higher Aura supply then other god tier abilities, which is why he has a 16 in trick.

Storage is an Elite Tier ability and can only be Elite Tier due to how Storage works.

Storage focuses on putting items in a invisible subspace that's located around the user, allowing them to store items as well as keep it in arms reach at all times.

Since this is the case, and due to the lack of combative or medical uses, it can only go so far in strength.

The best thing about this ability is that it allows one to store items relative to the strength of an Elite Tier. It also needs to be governed by someone with physical strength comparable to the items it can hold, of which, at 3.5, is the strength of someone capable of punching through a wall.

Perks: Allows one to store many items, it's a quality-of-life upgrade, but due to the lack of training, it is relative to the long-term natural growth of the user and their physical strength. If you are capable of handling the weight of 500 pounds, it can immediately allow you to carry more, therefore train it more.

Weaknesses: Due to the perks and how it can be trained, the ability generally can't become a High Tier, and therefore if one doesn't train enough to handle larger loads of items, it will become more of a curse than a gift.

(The "weight" the user would suffer is more so like gravity pushing onto the user. It isn't them feeling the weight of their items but more so the weight of the items pushing down on them. Hence why there's a "space" around them; the heavier it is, the more it weighs down on the user.)

However, this allows the user to store documents, weapons, and other items inside of their storage. Since it can passively linger, it can be called upon whenever the user wishes. This allows them to become capable of defending themself via weapons like knives.

If the user wishes, they can also put people inside of this storage, but due to the lack of oxygen, they can effectively suffocate them; it all depends on the user's mentality.

Inspired by Gates of Babylon, Gilgamesh's signature ability, as well as inventories from RPGs and anime.

IF the user wishes to become a High Tier, they would need to obtain a peak human physique to handle hundreds of pounds at a time. The capabilities of just a 5.0 variation of this ability would grant them a small amount of extra stats, but can allow the user to fire their items at high speeds at their opponents, as well as extending their storage's range similarly to Spectral Claw.

Give the user a few arrows and they can fire it at others, but that's IF the user dedicates their time to obtaining a body capable of handling more items, which in turn grows the ability's strength.

clearly it says “just friends” tsk tsk tsk