Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6299840-20200105204428/@comment-4867780-20200205113635

I'm not saying there should be oppositse for each and every power, as we agreed during th discusison on Discord it should be reasonably limited to interesting ones with an identity of their own, that constitue a valuable addition to the power cosmology.

Nonexistence for example is both offensive and defensive, so a defensive counterpart wouldn't make much sense. Absolute Immortality and Absolute Death Inducement on the other hand are quite clearly two sides of the same coin, and there is no denying that Absolute Death Inducement is an amazing power in its own right.

Look how incredibly popular the Death Note series was, now imagine this same power freed from all limits, applying equally to any entity of any power, on any scale and from any distance, with no more than a sovereign act of will. How is that not terrifying and awe-inspiring in equal measure ? And does it not offer some of the deepest themes and most captivating dynamics a story can have ?

Bestow it to a strong-willed character with a good moral compass, and you instantly get enough narrative potential to write an entire book, if not a whole series : everyone else wanting to either kill him or use him while dreading the fatal consequences of any wrong move, the character genuinely wanting to use it to make the world a better place despite the life-ending nature of his power, the constant ethical dilemna of weighing lives and ending some to save others or letting nature run its course and leaving countless innocent to die, the crucial necessity to distinguish between greater and lesser evil and its ever-increasing difficulty as events unfold and entangle the character in their multilayered complexity, all the psychological and philosophical implications of his every decision and the stacking consequences on his personal life and relations, the eventual realization of the deeply amoral nature of life and death and the ultimate futility of all his efforts and sacrifices, yet the refusal to give up and determination to achieve a positive net result despite everything while refusing to lose himself and all he cares most about.

Just imagine how mind-blowing a story that would make...

So preferences aside, saying Absolute Death Inducement isn't an interesing power is just not true ^ ^;