The power to manipulate reality via writing. Variation of Reality Warping.
Also Called[]
- Narrative Essokinesis/Ontokinesis
- Narrative Reality Manipulation/Warping
- Rewriting Reality
Capability[]
User can create, shape and manipulate reality via writing, making everything they write become true.
Applications[]
- Anything user writes comes true (varies in potency).
- Weather Manipulation by writing about a storm.
- Write out a death of a real person, killing them.
- Creation/Destruction by writing about a person, place, thing, etc. appearing out of thin air or disappearing without a trace.
- Kinship Manipulation
- Life Determination
- Life Story Manipulation
- Narrative Teleportation
- Pencil Warping: User can rewrite about themselves have over anything/everything related to themselves.
- Personal Mastery
- Self-Power Bestowal: User can give themselves any power just by writing it. (Depending on who and what kind of restriction this power has in a specific show, book, movie, etc. The user may or may not need to learn the power they'll be giving themselves or to other people.)
- Story Manipulation
- Summoning
Variations[]
Associations[]
- 4th Wall Awareness
- Destiny Manipulation
- Future Art Illustration
- Literary Manipulation
- Narrator Interaction
- Reality Artistry
Limitations[]
- May be hard to change reality back once written.
- May be countered by Coincidence Nullification.
- Must have something to write with or write on.
- Effects may be limited.
- The quality of what the user writes (like the amount of specific details) may affect how reality changes.
Known Users[]
See Also: Rewriting Reality.
- Alan Wake (Alan Wake)
- Thomas Zane (Alan Wake)
- Han-Mi (Ballad of Lost Hollow)
- The Create (Card Captor Sakura)
- Ghost Writer (Danny Phantom)
- Death Note users (Death Note); in terms of death
- Jack Gable (Delirious)
- The Omnipotent Third Person (Don't Rest Your Head/Don't Lose Your Mind)
- Mister Nobody (Doom Patrol)
- R.L. Stine (Goosebumps Film series)
- Sutter Cane (In the Mouth of Madness)
- Rohan Kishibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamonds are Unbreakable); via Heaven's Door
- Morgo/Mr. Voice/The Narrator/The Parasite (Little Misfortune)
- Fitzpatrick McCorrigan/The Blood King (Lost Girl); if he uses his own blood for writing
- Discord (My Little Pony series)
- Lloyd Allen (New Albion Radio Hour)
- Jeremy Brasieri/Spider Kumonos (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger)
- God (Supernatural)
- The Author (Once Upon A Time)
- Henry (Once Upon A Time); one time deal
- Planet Dolan Cast (Planet Dolan)
- Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu)
- Unkei (s-CRY-ed)
- The Overvoid Lurk (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2747 - As Below, So Above (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-4264 (SCP Foundation)
- Scribes (Solstice)
- Burger Beard (SpongeBob SquarePants); via Magic Book
- Narrator (The Stanley Parable)
- Karen Eiffel (Stranger Than Fiction)
- God (Supernatural)
- He Who Remains (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- The Neverending Story (The Neverending Story)
- Mokona (Tsubasa Reservoir: Chronicle)
- Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
- Edgar Allen Poe's Writing Book (Warehouse 13); grants this power
- Magic Notebook (The Amazing World of Gumball)
- Visionary pathway (Lord of the mysteries)
Gallery[]
While under the influence of the Dark Presence, Alan Wake (Alan Wake) was able to write a manuscript that was coming true, that had the characters in it and made the Dark Presence grow stronger.
Light Yagami (Death Note) is the user of a Death Note, a magical notebook which kills anyone whose name is written in it.
The Neverending Story (The Neverending Story)
Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu)
The Ghost Writer (Danny Phantom) can summon his keyboard to manipulate reality to torment Danny for accidentally destroying his Christmas poem.
Maxwell Scribblenaut (Scribblenauts) has a magical notebook that lets him create or spawn anything that he writes in.