Talk:Author Authority/@comment-5265497-20141031215352/@comment-4867780-20141105020538

I can totally relate to my character (why do you think I put so much work in it ?), proof that it's perfectly possible. For example, you don't have to fight for your survival like most characters. Do you miss that ? Hell no! It's much better this way, obviously enough.

Yet you have your characters fight for their own, because you find it more interesting.

Just like the ruthless audience of ancient roma, gleefullly watching gladiators butcher one another from their safe and comfortable seat, for no other reason that their entertainment.

My character is merely an extension of this natural desire for safety and satisfaction. In that, he is one of the most relatable characters ever created. The lack of serious goal is only natural once everything important is guaranteed, just like people with a secure and comfortable lifestyle. Once again, very natural and relatable. Still, this character is no doubt the greatest learning of fiction, so your point on the matter in inherently invalid. "Learning" and "suffering" are simply different things, which you seem unable to dissociate.

My character could definitely achieve large-scale miracles (though once again "large" will always be nigh-nonexistent in the face of infinity), the decisive difference is that at the time I thought "I know better than any of you and you can't stop me anyway, I'll just do things my way whether you like it or not". That's not how this character operates. He notably puts free will "at the top of his social priorities", so unless there's a consensual vote on the matter and agreement on the price, it simply won't happen. And I can't imagine many men agreeing to his terms, let alone all of them