Bugs Bunny changes the plot with a computer
Summary
Plot Manipulation is the ability to create, destroy, or control the plot that governs reality. Commonly found in metafictional stories, the plot can be understood as a fundamental aspect of reality once one views that reality as fictional. It is the description of the world that doesn't only describe, but determines, reality itself. As such, by altering the plot, one can achieve virtually any effect, in a similar fashion as with Reality Warping.
Note that this ability should not be listed just because a power is compared to a trope or otherwise metafiction is used in the story. For instance, a character that is lucky or fated to win (eg. a character recognized to be the protagonist) would only get this power if their luck or destiny is actively described as altering the plot. Otherwise it would simply be Supernatural Luck or Fate Manipulation.
Regarding No-Limits Fallacies, users cannot simply be assumed to bring out any imaginable effect. They are assumed to be limited in both applications and scale to what they demonstrated or can be reasoned to be capable based of reliable statements. For instance, a character whose plot manipulation can affect concepts, would need to also demonstrate the ability to affect information for them to utilize both in a combat setting. See here for more information regarding this topic.
Possible Uses
- Users may be able to determine how things will proceed by writing into the plot what is going to happen.
- Users may be able transforms objects and individuals by altering their description in the plot.
- Users may be able to retroactively change the past, by changing what is recorded about the past in the plot.
- Users may be able to control the action and/or thoughts of others by writing what they will do or think into the plot.
- Users may create things by writing them into the plot.
- Users may erase things by removing any mention of them from the plot.
Users
- Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
- The One Above All (Marvel Comics)
- Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club!)
- The Old Man of Wandering Mountain (The Neverending Story)
See also
Discussions
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