280 Votes in Poll
Boundless inner world for me. Fictional Lordship is awesome however I’d prefer creating my own Boundless Realm. I can also give myself powers there & then take those powers with me outside of that Realm. I see it similar to the Pre Ret Beyonder & the Beyondverse.
This is hard as fuck! I love em both. AAAAAAHHHH. FINE FINE. Imma go with BIW
So then I am curious if someone with boundless inner world dies will their world cease to exist? Do they just reincarnate into their biw as a god? Same for fictional lordship if that person dies does someone else take over fictional lordship or does fictional lordship follows the host of the power forever no matter what reincarnation the "host" goes through.
@Abdalla1234 hey who is winning the poll?
For now BIW is.
I think I'm going with Boundless Inner World on this one even though they've both got limitless potential in what they're capable of one through fiction/unreality and one through an inner world that's limitless in every aspect (Potential, Size, Power, Knowledge, etc...) I think I like the idea that the world is mine or an inherent aspect of my existence since it exists within me and so I can manifest it in other aspects of myself like the limitless potential within it is now my limitless potential. It also doesn't give me that feeling of falsity that I feel with Fictional Lordship even though the whole point of FL is to govern that exact feeling or whatever comes from it.
There's also the fact that while fiction is limitless, and I can simply create new fiction it doesn't compare to that feeling of getting something entirely new that absolutely belongs to me that comes with BIW. I'd like my BIW to start as some limitless lump of all possibilities because that what it should be and from there, I'll shape it consciously and subconsciously it would be a physical representation of me and everything I've experienced and will continue to experience. An incomprehensible mess that makes complete sense to me and only me. It would be a place of logic and reason while simultaneously being a place of irrationality and feeling. Structures that make sense while at the same time they don't. A world of fiction and truth.
Hmm looks like I've got a new power that I like a lot.
@Manuele9 I still can't choose either xD
And thanks, though I did generate the images with Midjourney - it was actually back when I made the second Tournament of Aspects post (which I do intend to continue at some point).
@Cameron Washington Mind if I ask why?
@Abdalla1234 Yeah, I get that feeling. I like both powers, so it's really hard to choose.
@Mysterylobo My thoughts on this are that these are both absolute in nature, and absolutes tend not to care about outside/lesser factors like life and death. I think it would be different if it was an active power that you had to actually try in order to use (mainly because you can't try to use your power if you're dead, unless the afterlife or reincarnation, or something like that, is a thing) but these are rather more... hybrid powers, I guess? They are things that you have, and can leverage/command in order to use power - you have a boundless inner world, and absolute authority over it, and you have absolute authority over unreality.
For Fictional Lordship, it's not unreasonable to suggest that the user would simply remanifest in unreality. After all, if they are dead/erased in reality, then they are no longer real (or at the very least, their 'alive self' isn't real), so they are a part of unreality. They have absolute authority over unreality, with it essentially being a domain over which they are all-powerful, as well as having free passage throughout, into and out of it, so they could easily just leave unreality and enter reality again. Beyond this, there are many characters throughout fiction that can come back to life or continue to think and act despite being dead, so Fictional Lordship would naturally have access to those capabilities due to having access to all abilities existing in unreality.
For Boundless Inner World, I feel like the user could just reawaken inside their world. It is, at least, a part of them on a fundamental level, and at most, an extension of them. If it is an extension of them, then the actual physical form of the user in the outer world would just be a miniscule part of them, with the vast majority of the user being the Boundless Inner World itself. In either case, they possess a transcendent connection to it, so it is not unreasonable to suggest that their consciousness/soul/mind/etc, would be preserved by that upon death and end up in their BIW (or perhaps an Inner God would act to save them). There's also the argument of absolute authority entailing them being all-powerful within it, and therefore capable of doing anything involving it, which could allow them to come back to life/restore themselves within their BIW despite normal laws of life and death - especially since the user is the only one who dictates the laws of their world.
One thing that I have speculated before is that a BIW is bonded to the user at an absolute level.
"Personally, I like the idea that, unlike a normal Inner World which can be said to exist solely within a person's mind or soul, or in some other similar fashion, a Boundless Inner World exists within the absolute of the user, thus being bonded to them on a level entirely transcendent of normal restrictions, allowing it to be a truly real, absolute world, whilst simultaneously existing entirely within its user." In this sense, the connection to the BIW would surpass death and non-existence.
What do you think?