Talk:Author Authority/@comment-5265497-20141031215352/@comment-4867780-20141103113215

The crucial difference is that writers effectively decide how things work, while my character doesn't at all, so all he can do is shape his own comfy corner.

Honestly, I don't think your character would be receptive to your philosophical arguments. You definitely put him through tons of unnecessary trouble while you could easily give him an heavenly life, all to avoid a boring plot when it comes down to it. So unless he has a thing for existential masochism, he'll just hate your guts for life.

And who could possibly blame him ? ^ ^; No matter how you try to justify it, from his perspective what you do is just needless torture, plain ans simple.

Though it's true that if we put the story in a multiversal or even omniversal perspective, there's bound to be loads and loads of crappy realities. So I guess it all depends whether we look at from a narrative perspective (unforgivable sadism) or from an alternate reality perspective (inevitable misery for the unlucky ones).