Contract Bestowal

Contract Bestowal
Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) making a deal with the treacherous Bill Cipher.
Power/Ability to:	Give a power, object or change an event through a agreement.

The ability to give a person a power or gain a power, or change an event through an agreement. Sub-power of Oath Manipulation. Variation of Power Bestowal, Self-Power Bestowal and Wish Granting.

Also Called

• Deal With the Devil
• Dealing
• Faustian Bargain
• Oath/Pact Creation

Capabilities

The user can give a person a power, an object of power or change nearly any event within their power to something as trivial as transporting them to a location or as simple as knowledge on something. Some other uses include being their servant till they die or something as extreme as giving them a plot coupon.

They can also create their own contract granting something within a contract's payment being as no payment.

The user can take anything from a contracted client be it their powers, emotions, memory, soul or event in their past or future and maybe even someone connected to the client who they can choose to make him or her their servant. The contract can be fulfilled by doing some task or arduous payment.

The user can bend the agreement to their own desires limited only by his/her power and therefore they can change the contracted into a monster as a way to give him or her a power. As long the agreement didn't say they could not perform a certain action their restraints are somewhat relative. The user can also simply agree to grant the person what they want without telling them what their payment is or when they will pay it.

Associations

• Absolute Buying
• Assailant
• Dark Arts
• Double-Edged Power
• Guardianship
• Oath Keeping - Maybe resulted from creating the contract in order to enforce it.
• Oath Manipulation
• Powerful Objects
• Reality Warping
• Summoning - summoning contract
• Wish Granting

Limitations

• Users may require a lot of power to make a deal.
• If the payment is the power source used to make contract happen (Souls).
• Destroying the contract may nullify it.
• Contract can be void if contracted item is destroyed.
• User can only give power or gain powers within their limits.
• To receive any payment the user may need a lot of power.
• The user must follow the nearly unbreakable rules of the contract not filled with loopholes which they can exploit to their own ends.
• There is small chance of a loophole being created in the agreement by a low level user.
• Payment may be paid at a later point as agreed upon in the contract.
• Payment can be anything even things yet to come.
• May be overruled by a higher power. For example: A Deity.
• Payment can be transferred to a third party if the said party agrees to it (knowingly or not).
• May be more conditions to the deal than expected or wanted.

Known Users

• C.C. (Code Geass)
• V.V. (Code Geass)
• Devils (Highschool DxD)
• Magicians (Highschool DxD)
• Demons (Christian Folklore)
• Lucifer/The Devil (Christian Folklore)
• Mephistopheles (Folklore)
• Floor Guardians (Tower of God)
• Lorenzo (American Dad!)
• Shiroe (Log Horizon)
• Philemon (Persona 1 & 2)
• Igor (Persona 3 & 4)
• Kyubey/Incubator (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Servants/Master (Fate Stay Night)
• Summon Spirits (Tales of Series)
• Rumpelstiltskin (Shrek Forever After) 
• Lucifer (Dante's Inferno)
• Celestial Spirits (Fairy Tail)
• Crossroad Demons (Supernatural)
• Demons (Kuroshitsuji); via Faustian Contract
• Neron (DC Comics)
• Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)
• Felix Faust (DC Comics)
• Giriko Kutsuzawa (Bleach); via Fullbring, "Time Tells no Lies"
• Nulgath (Adventure Quest Worlds)
• Sakura Kinomoto (CardCaptor Sakura)
• The Djinn (Wishmaster series)
• The Devil/Roark (Ghost Rider)
• Rumplestiltskin (Once Upon a Time)
• Demons (Ángel o Demonio)
• Dyshana (Record of Agarest War)
• Mimel (Record of Agarest War)
• Malebolgia (Image Comics)
• Calvin Dion Avericci (Archie's Weird Mysteries)
• Bill Cypher (Gravity Falls)
• Zahn (Charmed)
• Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
• Black Cat of Contract (Kyōkai no Rinne)
• Rokumon (Kyōkai no Rinne)
• Mr. Smith (Twisted Tales)
• Chains (Pandora Hearts)
• God of Death (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
• Hades (Disney's Hercules)
• Dr. Facilier (Princess and the Frog)

Gallery

Lorenzo (American Dad!) made a deal with Roger Smith to teach him guitar lessons that will ensure his victory against Jamal at the cost of his soul...

...but Roger cunningly conned Jamal into covering the "price for [his guitar] lessons", saving Roger from Lorenzo's grasp at the cost of Jamal's soul.

Giriko Kutzusawa (Bleach) breaks a contract with the God of Time set by his Fullbring, Time Tells No Lies, causing his eye to be burned away by the Flames of Time.

Calvin Dion Avericci (Archie's Weird Mysteries) gave unsuspecting teens charge cards that allows them to buy things within his mall, free of charge, until they reach a limit, to which he then turns the victim into a mannequin; he corrupts teens so in order to repay his own debt of being able to shop endlessly, and his failure to do so resulted in his death.

Kyosuke Higuchi (Death Note) made a deal with the Shinigami Rem for the Shinigami Eyes, granting him the ability to see names and lifespans of the people he looks at in exchange for half of his remaining lifespan.

Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) made a contract with the toads, and can summon them by offering a drop of blood each time.

Ursula (The Little Mermaid) has a way of making deals with her victims.

Rokumon (Kyōkai no Rinne) is Rinne's black cat of contract. The black cat's have a symbiotic relationship with the shinigami, and assist them in their duties of casting souls into the underworld and placing them on the path to reincarnation.

The God of Death (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) is an evil duel spirit who offered the wielder the power of one-turn kill in exchange of their souls.