User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171003190230/@comment-25135454-20171005130650

So, in a sense, when Lawrence inherited the Prime Undefineness, he was "born again" a completely different person because of the powers, retaining only the personality? Quite neat indeed.

The good old Problem of Evil. Since Epicurus presented it, I safely assume it has been the main reason for dissidence from all religion when believers come to face it. Since high school, I knew alot of atheists that also present it as the final and definitive answer to the unexistence of God. I myself almost treaded that way but, luckly, it seems I was also an exception because before doing it, I found alot of answers for it. While it is only logical that life without suffering would be better, I think it would also be poorer. If life was devoid of suffering, it would also be devoid of compassion. If it was devoid of evil, it would also be devoid of heroes to stand up to it. Following that logic, some people may come to the conclusion that things like compassion and heroes are unnecessary. Maybe there is some reason to it, but I do not think that way. A world without compassion, even if it's because it's a world without suffering, is less beautiful. Selforge City may be devoid of compassion because suffering is alien to it, but only internally. When it's founder and citizens interact with the outside universe, they show compassion in kind.

I also think that reading or watching the happiness of others can be kinda depressing, but sometimes, when done right, they can be the motivation we need to seek our own. But doing it right is very challenging on the writing part.

When I stumbled on Lawrence, his and Selforge City story was already pretty long. At the time, I didn't realize that you were building it, little by little, over the course of 3 years (Lawrence's birthday was past week!). When I realized it, it made my admire your work even more. Reading about it's story and how it became to be the way it is now, with it's complex structure and administration, everything falling together so perfectly... It just fills me with hope. The more you write and update, the more believable it gets. While I still cling to my childish dream that someday humans will have superpowers, my adult mind tells me it will never happen. But still, even if nobody ever unites with our own universe's Prime Undefineness, maybe a Selforge City is possible on our world, even if toned down a megaton. Maybe someone with the right mindset, morals and resources at his disposal can build a Selforge City on his own personal life, living with lots of women in his mansion, for example. Maybe I'm pushing it, but I never keep myself of thinking anything.

The way you present Selforge's organization as a reflection a family organization is so, so nice. But one of our main divergent points is that, while I think that the Selforge Soldiers are jawdroppingly awesome, I never liked the idea of soulless soldiers. In fact, I'm a bit unnerved by it. I see that you took a heavy inspiration from the Sentinels of the X-Men franchise and when I watched Days of a Future Past, I was really, really unnerved. The way they killed everyone with the most effective way of doing it while keeping their blank face was awesome but also terrifying for me. I don't like the idea of controlling such a force, but I like the idea of fighting it thou. I always imagine my character (and sometimes other characters, like Lawrence himself) arriving at such situations and engaging the battle. And when they win, I'm very satisfied. I guess thinking and feeling this way is heavily related to how deep absurdly powerful and blank faced entities are on the uncanny valley.

Maybe the time travel trick alone wouldn't work, but I thought that allied with things like Causality and Logic Manipulation we could pull it off. I always thought that Causality and Logic were omniversal and I can't picture them being different in every single universe. While I can think that the Space and Time laws may be radically different from verse to verse, I think Causality and Logic are beyond such mutations. But I'm talking with the guy who created the Causality Manipulation page and most certainly edited the Logic one, so I'm eager to know what you think on the subject.

One of the biggest coincidences I spotted when I first read Lawrence's history is how our characters have similar creation processes. From what I can infer, there is no omnipotent God on your verse and the shard of the Prime Undefineness separated from the whole purely by chance. In my verse, there is a omnipotent God. Before time, he created the Ether (it's radically different from the Aether of the Aether Manipulation page. It can't be classified as a space, time, energy or matter because it's something else entirely. In short, the Ether is the "fuel" to God's omnipotence) and then, fragmented his Endless Soul in the many, standard souls (his Soul being Endless, he never gets any weaker from this fragmentation, nor any stronger if they eventually reunite with him again, being always infinitely powerful) that he infused on all sapient living beings, granting them limited access to his omnipotence, expressed through superpowers that can be acquired one at a time through practice of the Ethereal Arts, both mystic and scientific. However, the First Soul that separeted from the whole was infused on Ether itself and my character was born, being essentially the anthropomorphic personification of Ether itself. Pretty cool, eh? I keep presenting my story to you because I would love to hear what the creator of Lawrence Selforge would say about it :D Ah, and the way you integrated your two favorite superpowers into the origin story was so nicely and masterfully done. My props to you again o/

Yeah, crossover are ultimately pointless. I'm not trying to have an argument about "my character is better than your character" because that's just silly. However, Lawrence's powers alone are so well-elaborated that I think that putting my character against him is a healthy exercise to my imagination. And if now I have the opportunity to hear your side of it too, the learning process becomes all the more complete.