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I guess they could give themselves the potential to escape fate, but how would they know to do that, and would fate allow it in the first place?
I think they would... possibly. It's hard to say.
@Nicholas8293 Yeah, that's the issue with fate. If you are already within it, how can you even know or want to use your power to escape it, even if your power is easily enough to do so.
The only two possibilities I can think of for them escaping it are either:
Fate inherently restricts the potential of everything to a predetermined course, but the user's authority over that same potential supersedes fate's due to being absolute in nature, meaning that fate cannot bind them. Doing so would mean overcoming the user's authority, which is impossible.
The user is inherently beyond potentiality itself. After all, in order to rewrite potentiality, they must be capable of acting beyond it. In other words, they have Absolute Potential, or possibly a capability superior to it (as in, rather than just having limitless potential, they are beyond potentiality in its entirety), being able to do things without caring if they are or are not possible (whether or not they have the potential to occur), so even if fate should be impossible to escape, they are beyond the lack of potential to escape it and can do so anyway.
@AzQth If this were a different ability besides Potentiality Lordship, then I would say that they could not escape fate except for a handful of powers.
But let's discuss what fate is.... fate is: the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.
You know I use Minus as my example of this power. There are NO events beyond her control...so someone with this ability would kick fate in the ass and tell it to have a nice day.
Since they are already a part of fate, anything they do cannot lead to them becoming fateless, as all their actions are a part of fate. So the only way for them to escape is to either be fated to or encounter someone without fate. But we're going with the second option, so they can't even use their power to make such an encounter, as that would be fated. So the only option is to have a fateless being encounter them and change their fate.
I know this power gives you Meta Fate Manipulation, but even if you got that power, you wouldn't be able to use it to free yourself from fate unless you were fated to do so, or you didn't have a fate, to begin with.
Also, just gaining this power would be a part of fate, so if it in any way could let them escape it, that would also have been a fated consequence of their actions upon gaining the power.
@TheBoundless1 So you're more taking the stance that the user can't be bound by fate in any capacity in the first place?
I think that's what I'm leaning towards. Mostly because it makes sense to me that someone with absolute authority over potentiality must be unbound by potentiality themselves, or else their capacity to command and control potentiality would itself be bound by potentiality. That would tend to suggest that potentiality has authority over the one that has absolute authority over it, which doesn't feel right.
Since fate, by its nature, restricts the potential of everything bound by it to be within a predestined outcome, being beyond potentiality would mean being beyond fate.
What do you think?
Also, @Carcassfrozenyogurt, could I ask your thoughts on this (both the fate and the 'beyond potentiality' idea)?
@AzQth I'm definitely taking the stand that the user can't be bound by fate in any capacity in the first place.
"Since fate, by its nature, restricts the potential of everything bound by it to be within a predestined outcome, being beyond potentiality would mean being beyond fate."
Bingo
To own the very idea of Potentiality, gives the user leeway to already circumvent the very terms of destiny on account of commanding the concepts within the sphere of potentiality (possibility/impossibility, probability, certainty/uncertainty). An authority to it inherently demands superseding what you're beholden to. And that's only ruminating within a functional perspective.
On a general perspective, the user has to be beyond a predetermined course of events or unavoidable parameters regardless of the events. Something that Potentiality Lordship implicitly breaks by already noticing destiny works in the same wave-length the power also does, ergo, forging their own destiny by orchestrating potential pathways for everything, including the user.
I think I had an anueryism trying to understand this with my feeble fox brain.
What do you think?