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An important thing about Lawrence is that he is not the original human who gained powers through merging with the shard like it usually happens in superhero stories, he is a distinct entity whose core personality was inherited from said human. The complete understanding of all events and experiences composing the human’s history during the merging notably granted him a very sharp insight into the workings of life, drawing all the valuable lessons of a human life while having never lived it himself.

Lawrence was thus born an adult entity from an adult human, inheriting his identity core and refining his perspective via retrospective wisdom without the burden/scars of his human life.

Quite the neat trick, isn’t it ? ^ ^

Ultimately, life would have been vastly better without suffering (obviously so), which is probably the biggest flaw in monotheist logic (an omnipotent/omniscient/omnibenevolent deity, yet suffering and unfairness remain omnipresent all life long), but believers simply have to make do with what they got just like everyone else in this world, and finding meaning in it certainly increases our happiness level.

I think the issue about happy settings/stories is that most readers simply cannot relate to them. This happiness they witness is just not their own, and the show ends up rubbing salt in the wound instead of distracting them from the pain, which is ultimately the universal purpose of all fictional media.

The most interesting part about paradises is probably to make convincing sense of them, to explain why and how it all works so wonderfully well, so as to make them more believable and thus pleasant to read about, at least for those willing to leave reality and its troubles behind for a moment, and just enjoy the dream.

That’s what I did with Selforge City : Lawrence started with a couple powers, and the setting was gradually built though constructive applications of them in increasingly elaborate ways.

Seira was originally Lawrence’s first true companion, the Silver Sisters were born from their unions, and Selforge Soldiers were simply Lawrence delegating the military tasks, just like the civil ones were delegated to Seira and the Silver Sisters : the first because necessary bloodsheds are better left to soulless beings (and because badass armies are so cool ^ ^) and the later to complete Lawrence’s all-father side with Seira’s all-mother one, and nicely wrap up Selforge City’s family theme with the angelic Silver Sisters. So it is more about societal organization rather than any kind of necessity.

In my cosmological perspective, the Prime Undefineness predates everything in the Omniverse since they were all originally born from it through retroactive evolutive genesis (each verse born with its own independent history), including the concepts of space-time and reality in all their myriad forms, and completely ceased to exist in this “omni-birth” (Sacrificial Creation) except for the flawed remain that eventually became Lawrence.

That is why the famous time travel trick wouldn’t lead anywhere, as users would simply go back to a previous state of any given place, and why there is no alternate reality Lawrence, since the surviving shard he was eventually born from predates all realities. This featureless primordiality is notably the reason he can absorb/replicate anything without any limit, and similarly travel anywhere/anywhen with a little more than an act of will.

That’s just me talking about my character, of course ^ ^ Crossovers are a very delicate concept with ultimately no conclusive answer, since unlike like individual works there is no legitimate authority to reliably decide what would happen, so each writer is free to indulge the interpretation that suits them most.