Talk:Author Authority/@comment-5265497-20141031215352/@comment-4867780-20141103032038

Fiction isn't real life, so non-mentioned characters are technically nonexisent within the context of the story. I realize universal happiness is virtually unconceivable, and I had lots of trouble to even figure out the main ideas when I created Universal Utopîa Creation (though Living Person effectively made a very valid attempt on it, interestingly through a perspective I didn't even consider).

But when it comes to the described cast, it doesn't take a lot of effort to figure out how to significantly improve their quality of life. So still putting them through lots of pains and troubles out of sheer boredom can be legitimately considered as a sociopathic behaviour from a meta-fictional perspective (though once again saddly necessary), especially from the character's viewpoint, who would no doubt angrily call it out if they ever had a say in the matter.

I remember a line from Last Action Hero, in which the titular action hero interpretated by Arnold Schwarzenegger eventually comes to the real world and meet with him, only to say "All you ever did is wrong me". I think this line alone sums up the viewpoint of heroes if they ever learnt of what's going on behind the scenes.

My character only makes meager attempts at external improvement because he's fully aware that no matter how much work he puts in it, it will always remain absolutely insignificant, and even unperceivable in the grand scheme of things, so taking it seriously would be a mistake. Beside, it's not like he actually owed them anything at all, and he most definitely doesn't believe in realization through self-sacrifice. So he only ever helps when he also has an interest in it (the Explanar Improvement Initiative was notably created for the good of his citizens, not that other planes), though he does make a point of generously rewarding those who effectively contribute.

You could say he has a disillusioned and dispassionate perception of life, prefering reasonable agreements and mutual respect to excessive ideals, because he figured out that's just not how things work, and for all his capabilities he plainly refuses to play god, to take on such overwhelming and dezhumanizing responsibility for a state of affair he never had any part in.