User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171003190230/@comment-25135454-20171004133848

Thanks for your answer ^o^ It warmed mine as well, because I wasn't expecting one so fast.

I completely agree with you. We, adults, should also have our happy shows. And that's precisely what my second book is about it. But notice: the second. No matter how hard I wanted to, I couldn't just show my readers the perfect world straight away. It would fail like the first Matrix failed. But unlike the Architect and the real world, I don't believe that this is the best possible world and I never will. What I do believe is that people can accept Paradise, but first they have to go through Hell itself. They have to Earn Their Happy Ending. Emphasis on "Earn". My characters will experience so much rage and fear and sadness that they will take vacations in the Warp. But, in the end, they will reach Paradise and will be happy ever after.

Now, don't get me wrong. I love Lawrence and Selforge City with all my heart. But to me, they constitute an ideal. A model to look forward. It's because I dont know if Lawrence united with the Prime Undefineness at birth or after he was an adult. If it's the first, then Lawrence's story is the perfect story from start to end: having the greatest luck in the Omniverse, Lawrence was born with powers that allowed him to never experience suffering by himself, instead experiencing the suffering of other through the same powers and, because of that, founding Selforge City for all the ones he loved. However, if it's the latter, then Lawrence most certainly experienced suffering as a powerless human being. Instead of feeling the suffering of others, he felt one himself. Without powers, he felt the helplessness himself. He cried and screamed in rage (man, isn't this image hard to imagine?) like we do when faced with those same probles... All before salvation reached him. While the latter would certainly make Lawrence's story a bit more believable by most people, I am almost certain that you think like myself: that would disrupt the magic and the utopian perfection of Lawrence's story.

I am, and always will be, a Catholic. One of the countless lessons I learned was that we should not ask to be spared of suffering, but to have the strength to endure it when the time comes. That we way, we improve ourselves and grow more compassionate with each other. I do think that suffering is bound to the world: there are things beyond the control of even the entire humanity that makes us all suffer. However, I also refuse to accept it the way it is now. There are always ways to make the world better (an satisfying world, an happier world, not a perfect world, right?). And all of us should dedicate ourselves to it because, even if we push suffering to the minimal possible, what remains will still cause a great deal of suffering. It will take the power greater than everything to truly wipe out suffering from existence.

To be fair with all writes out there, writing happy stories is hard. Those aimed at children are all aimed at the lighthearted, silly gimmicks they do everyday just to get a good laugh with us in the end. I think the ones that take a step ahead inevitably fall on the conflict territory we are so trying to avoid (like Gravity Falls and Star vs. the Forces of Evil. I watch both with my Beloved...). To write a happy story aimed at adults is truly challenging. It's not entertaining for most people. I can imagine myself writing an chapter of my book happy in it's entirety, but if I imagine myself pushing it and writing two or three, I start to get apprehensive. That just serves to show how deep even I am on the conflict territory. I guess the only solution is to focus on how to maintain Paradise after you reach it. Selforge City has no suffering per se, but I do think it has it's own problems. If it doesn't, I think the Selforge Soldiers, the Silver Sisters and even Seira would all be unnecessary.

Oh, believe me, you are not the only one happy with Lawrence's creation. My day also brightens up when I come here and see a new update =3

My book has the same effect on me. Sometimes I'm going through hardships and just imagining about my story makes me happier. It all began with the wish to live an epic adventure with my Beloved and my friends. We are the characters on the book (with changes to reflect the different world we live in, of course) and my character, while not the protagonist (that role belongs to my Beloved and my best friend) is second only to God in power. The best power to describe him would be the Nigh-Complete Arsenal, with Causality and Logic Manipulations being on the top. Sometimes, I do an exercise: my characters crosses the Omniversal boundaries and meets Lawrence. I never could defeat him head-on. I think it is impossible. But I can certainly not be defeated by him either, and that is already the greatest accomplishment I can imagine. Once I imagined that using Space-Time, Causality and Logic Manipulations to go back in the time before time and prevent the shard of the Prime Undefineness from splitting from the whole. I don't know if that would work. Even if it did, it would just create a timeline where Lawrence is absent, while he continued to exist on all the other ones. But the biggest reason I would never do such a thing it's because it is straight up coward.

Whew... The second time writing such a long answer. Lost the first due to my browser shenanigans.