Talk:Author Authority/@comment-5265497-20141031215352/@comment-4867780-20141101062501

Man of Miracle / Mother of Creation kind of escape the plot-wreacking effect via self-imposed rules, though he/she appears to only rule a single universe, so he/she could very well just be yet another Nigh Omnipotent king in his/her playground.

I personally dislike TOAA because he embodies the concept of omni-impotence, all informed abilities and zero action, similarily to the godamn Watchers who have enough power to solve most problems before people even notice they exist, and will put all their cosmic might into watching things fall appart without lifting a finger, because they are Watchers, and Watchers don't act they just observe because they are Watchers, etc. etc. in a massively retarded social conditioning loophole.

Due to a pragmatic perception I tend to consider power without proof as empty boasting, and word of god as a meta-fictional propaganda to hide this emptiness. The problem with Omnipotent interventionism is that it would most likely ruin the plot, so writers have to come up with tricks like "balance", "free will", "mysterious ways" to justify the criminal passivity of their Omnipotent, while the only true reason is that writers cultivate the characters' ordeals because the companie feeds on them.

Featherine took the opposite path, harnessing full author status and explicitely affirming that she doesn't care about the characters' well-being, only about her own entertainment, putting them through unnecessary struggles and suffering because it makes her stories more interesting and lead to captivating developments.

That's why I like her : she doesn't doesn't have any god complex, doesn't pretend to be what she's not, is crystal clear about her values and priorities, and use her unlimited power in pursuit of her own satisfaction without any shame nor a care in the world. This complete honesty is what makes her an unrestricted author avatar and grants her the full-power author-level she effectively and brillantly demonstrated on several occasions. In short, she's an author who takes responsibility for herself.