Trading Mastery

Trading Mastery
The Mercane (AD&D) are the greatest merchants/traders in the multiverse, with such innate knowledge and skill that allows them find and sell anything/everything that their customers are searching for.
Power/Ability to:	Be a master of how to sell/trade.

"What're ya buyin'?"

― Merchant (Resident Evil)

"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

― Oscar Wilde

"Allow me to say this, Ri Boku. When it comes to doing business, I have never in my entire life budged a single inch from my offered price."

― Ryo Fui (Kingdom)

The power to be a master of selling/trading, either innately or through training. Technique of Business Mastery. Variation of Intuitive Aptitude and Complete Mastery.

Also Called

• Barter Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency
• Buying-and-Selling Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency
• Enhanced Barter/Buying-and-Selling/Haggling/Trading Skill
• Expert/Master/Professional/Skilled Merchant/Salesperson/Salesman/Saleswoman/Trader
• Haggling Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency
• Straw Millionaire
• Trading Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Proficiency

Capabilities

The user, either innately or through training, is a master of selling/trading. They can perform feats such as locating any/all items for sale or trade regardless of how difficult (or impossible) it might be to find or sell and is always able to have the best or lowest price for said items and can convince others to buy them regardless of their level of value. Using this ability, the user can become wealthy very quickly and easily, and perform feats such as always making trades that generate profits, making the right choice when it comes to bartering and advancing said trade, and predicting the best time to make trades (buying/selling).

This is the ultimate trading mechanism, since the user will automatically trade with perfect skill, technique and timing. The users full and complete mastery in trading and anything related to trading makes the user the ultimate trader.

Applications

• Absolute Buying
• Convinced Inevitability
• Enhanced Charisma
• Information Brokering Mastery
• Locality Tracking
• Monetary Manipulation
• Negotiation Mastery
• Numerical Precision
• Persuasion
• Probability Computation
• Quality Sense
• Rarity Detection
• Rarity Manipulation

Associations

• Business Mastery
• Immense Wealth
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Psychological Mastery

Limitations

• Must still make their own trade.
• May require a degree of training or exposure.
• May take time to achieve such mastery.

Known Users

• Mercane (AD&D)
• Wes Weasely (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Akashi (Azur Lane)
• Shiranui (Azur Lane)
• Black Tortoise Promenade (Blue Archive)
  • Akeshiro Rumi
• Sora (Blue Archive)
• Schneizel el Britannia (Code Geass)
• Izaya Orihara (Durarara!)
• Protagonists (Fallout); via Charisma or Barter skill
• Anna family (Fire Emblem)
• Petyr Baelish/Littlefinger (Game of Thrones)
• Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
• Kaito Nakamura (Heroes)
• Willie Loman 3000 (Jimmy Neutron)
• Akashi (Kantai Collection)
• Ryo Fui (Kingdom)
• Experiment "Slick" 020 (Lilo & Stitch)
• Eddie Gunman/The Swell (Marvel Comics)
• Maguro Kurokami (Medaka Box)
• Johan Liebert (Monster)
• Flim and Flam (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Merchants (Octopath Traveler series)
  • Tressa Colzione
  • Partitio Yellowil
• The Duke (Resident Evil)
• Merchant (Resident Evil)
• Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers)
• Kraft Lawrence (Spice and Wolf)
• Lagh Piasky (Spice and Wolf)
• Ferengi (Star Trek)
• Daietsu-no-suke (Straw Millionaire)
• Niccolo (Sword of Mana)
• Epona (Tears to Tiara)
• Merchant (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Rogue Traders (Warhammer 40,000)
• Ta'u Water Caste merchants (Warhammer 40,000)

Known Objects

• Swell's Stick (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

Wes Weasely (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)

Akashi (Azur Lane)

Shiranui (Azur Lane)

Akeshiro Rumi (Blue Archive)

Sora (Blue Archive)

The Anna family (Fire Emblem) are masterful traveling merchants across the multiverse.

Kaito Nakamura (Heroes) predicts the stock market simply by reading the newspaper, thus he easily became extremely wealthy by trading stocks.

Akashi (Kantai Collection)

Due to his past as a merchant, Ryo Fui (Kingdom) is quite skilled in political and financial "bartering".

Experiment 020 "Slick" (Lilo & Stitch)

Flim and Flam (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Partitio Yellowil (Octopath Traveler II) has charm, drive, and kindness, all the makings of a good merchant.

Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers)

Merchant (Resident Evil)

Niccolo (Sword of Mana) is a master merchant with enough skill to convince almost anyone to buy his wares.

Merchant (Valkyrie Crusade) has innate knowledge and skill in selling, to the point she is able to make anyone sell to her anything she wishes.

A Rogue Trader (Warhammer 40,000)

A Ta'u Water Caste merchant (Warhammer 40,000)