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@Godking25 A big part of what makes characters interesting is how they respond to challenges. But when trying to challenge Omnipotent-level characters, the challenges put before them really can't be external, because any such challenge could be trivially overcome. I'm suggesting a possible internal challenge they could face, one that could not really be overcome through Omnipotent-level power alone (I mean, it could be, because they could use their power to convince themselves that there isn't anything above them, but if they're paranoid about it then they likely wouldn't want to do that).

@Necropolis00 In essence, your character might wrestle with the idea that there could be entities more powerful than them in the same way some people have existential crises relating to the possibility that we are in a simulation, or something of that nature. It's something that they could neither prove nor disprove - or, in the case of a character with Metapotence, something they could both prove and disprove, since they can do anything.

While they could certainly use their power to gain the knowledge of whether or not there is anything more powerful than them (there likely wouldn't be, since they have Metapotence), they may still be uncertain because if there is something more powerful than them, it could entirely just be out of reach of their power, so their power can't recognise its existence and 'believes' itself the most powerful. A similar thing can be said about if they were to use their power to determine the full strength of their power. They would find out that they can do anything... but how do they know that the power isn't actually limited in some way and is just incapable of recognising its own limits? We know that they have Metapotence and so can do anything, but they could reasonably doubt that, even if their power tells them otherwise.

This could lead to a variety of things. Perhaps they become paranoid, and spend significant amounts of time preparing for a threat that isn't there. Perhaps they continually seek out higher levels of power that don't actually exist (though they could attain them all the same due to having Metapotence. Again though, any level of power 'beyond Metapotence' would be functionally equivalent to Metapotence, since Metapotence can already do anything). Perhaps they limit their actions in an attempt to 'avoid drawing attention to themselves', because they believe there could be things above them that would take notice if they started doing anything too extreme.

The furthest you could take this would likely be if they decided to find a being more powerful than themselves; they have Metapotence, so they can do anything, even this. They would inevitably succeed in finding something 'more powerful' than themselves, even if such a thing did not exist. Of course, as stated before, 'beyond Metapotence' would be functionally equivalent to Metapotence, so such a being would, at most, match your character in power (though your character may believe otherwise).

@AzQth Basically the Metapotence user is paranoid about the possibility of someone or something being stronger than them, and so they do everything in their power to either avoid or prepare for that possibility, even though it doesn't actually exist.

@Necropolis00 Essentially, yeah. My philosophy when trying to make Omnipotent-level characters interesting is that any conflict must ultimately stem from an internal, often psychological conflict, and there must be a discernible reason why they don't just use their power to remove or overcome that internal conflict. In some cases it's more obvious than others - Alien X is a good example of an obvious internal conflict that reasonably can't just be done away with - but it can be a wide variety of things.

The suggestion I gave before was that they might limit their actions because of paranoia about the possibility of beings higher than themselves (even if such beings don't actually exist); they may fear drawing attention to themselves from such beings. Even if they aren't limiting themselves, their actions may still be affected by this belief in higher beings - as you put it, "they do everything in their power to either avoid or prepare for that possibility".

There are, of course, plenty of other routes you could take.

For instance, if you have an originally human character, it might be that they fear losing their humanity if they use too much of their power, or if they use their power to alter their own mind (thus allowing them to be affected by prior trauma and for that to dictate some of their actions - this is especially true if that trauma is related to losing themselves in some way, such as being mind controlled or something along those lines, since they could reasonably be less willing to then alter their own mind). Trauma of some kind that they aren't willing to use their power to overcome is another reason they might limit themselves.

Other examples could include limiting themselves out of boredom with an all-powerful existence (this would likely be more feasible if your character has been around for a very long time), though this does raise the question of why they wouldn't just use their power to remove that boredom. Or perhaps they see existence like a story or a play, and have chosen to play a particular role in it. They wouldn't use the full extent of their power, even though they could, because doing so would be 'breaking character'. Though this one does tend to suggest some level of apathy towards others, or nihilism towards existence as a whole, where they believe that maintaining their own role in the story is more important than whatever suffering is occuring in the rest of existence. For instance, if a person they 'love' is suffering, and they choose not to 'break character' by using their power to save this person, then it implies that their 'love' is staged for the purposes of their role in the story.

Perhaps create an avatar than limit themselves, this avatar then could essentially do what it wants in this world or take a particular role while being itself, imagine something like you make an avatar in world of magic, this avatar then finds an interesting person or character, then later on as this entity or character gains strength perhaps they let themselves be summoned by them and take the role of something like a butler or representative that possesses immense power but still limited perhaps, so you could seemingly be set to do ordinary chores or governing work when you are truly 5x more powerful then your master, you could have more fun and push boundaries. Or you could also have a character who if they got bored decided to do something like run tests, imagine an omnipotent scientists who's bored but has a hunger for knowledge but don't isn't willing to gain omniscience, so what they do is say they are interesting I'm what if scenarios with nations, they construct multiple worlds where nations take different decisions which ultimately change history, maybe one where the USSR is still here, another where their still here and have America's level of influence, one where china has America's level of domination, one where all these nations are not superpowers and it's some other nations in Brazil or Africa and that's one series of worlds based on one particular subject of what if scenarios of nations, imagine all the other worlds that could be created from a simple question, like what if their curious about what if they implemented certain policies inside in one or many particular nations, then go further and think what if I mixed these 2 policies from opposing sides? This is still one things, they could do something like, what if this human species dominated earth instead? Then just based off that they can again ask many of the same questions they did about nations, what if's etc on humanity to these new species all these are already 100,000s if millions or more worlds, then they can start asking what if biology worked this way etc. essentially use their powers to fill their knowledge and curiosity.

Actually I think you could even use the above example to where the character uses their powers to fulfill their interests and passions in ways only a god could.

@AzQth Is there a way to combine the boredom and trauma routes? Both of those are applicable to my Omnipotent-level character (though I haven't figured out HOW he is omnipotent yet, which irks me).

@Ogtea I love your idea of an Omnipotent scientist toying with existence to conduct scenarios and see what could happen differently! I am definitely interested in hearing more about it!

@Necropolis00 I mean, the main flaw with the 'boredom' route is the question of why they don't remove the boredom with their power. So probably the simplest way you could combine the two is to have boredom be the reason they limit themselves (or otherwise don't use the full extent of their power) and the trauma be the reason they don't just use their power to get rid of the boredom. Perhaps they have trauma relating to mental manipulation, or fear losing their humanity, or a bit of both, and so are unwilling to alter their own mind, even with a seemingly flawless power.

@AzQth The character has both of those traumas. They were mind controlled and forced to do terrible things for a long time in addition to trying to control their darkest desires. Hey, man. Do you have any omnipotent abilities you recommend for me based on what you know about me or my character?