- "I'm inside a self-assembling hyper story! And it's trying its best to destroy me."
- ― Thought Robot (DC Comics)
- "H-have you completely lost the plot or something!?"
- ― Ri Shin on Ou Hon's Awakening idea (Kingdom Chapter 578 - By Tomorrow)
The ability to control the plot. Sub-power of Author Authority. Narrative equivalent of Reality Warping/Nigh Omnipotence.
Contents
Also Called
- God Modding
- Metahax
- Narrative Altering/Manipulation/Warping
- Narrative Nigh Omnipotence
- Plot Altering/Manipulation/Warping
Capabilities
The user controls the plot of the story as it goes, be it the setting of the story, whom the plot revolves around, how the plot progresses, or the reasoning of the user's world. They can control every decision the characters make and every consequence of those decisions and essentially control the whole timeline of their verse.
Applications (General)
- Causality Manipulation - Manipulated the cause and effects of anything.
- Conclusion Dominance - Deciding when and how to end the plot.
- Nigh Omnipotence - For the Near Omnipotent plot is yours to command.
- Nigh Omniscience - Plot-wise.
- Omni-Protection - via Plot armor
- Perspective Manipulation
- Plot Convenience
- Plot Device Techniques - via tropes in storytelling.
- Reality Warping - via plot alterations.
- Narration - Write it down.
- Comic Narration - Make it into comic.
- Vocal Narration - Tell the story.
- Narration - Write it down.
- Stage Manipulation
Applications (Examples)
- Context Manipulation
- Invulnerability - For as long as the user decides to focus on you, you are safe, no matter what the situation.
- Life Determination- Can control and shape ones own plot.
- Logic Manipulation - Even the most ridiculously impossible feat/situations are achievable, if not easy.
- Luck - No matter the extent of the user's misdeeds, they will always escape retribution.
- Meta Resurrection
- Plot Empowerment
- Plot Erasure - Erase the plot to defeat opponents.
- Power Augmentation - Automatically adjust the user's power-level to defeat any opponent they face.
- Power Immunity - Others' powers don't work on the user, without even the need for a reason.
- Self-Power Bestowal - Literally gaining new powers if the plot requires it.
- Story Manipulation
Associations
- Author Authority
- Event Manipulation - Plot is the sequence of events.
- Origin Manipulation - Control the origin of their verse. (High-Level User Only)
- Nigh Omnipotence
- Reality Warping
- Story Creation
- Story Mimicry
- Fiction Manipulation
Limitations
- The power may work subconsciously or consciously.
- The power only works in the character's own story.
- The extent of the applications varies between users.
- Coincidence Immunity limits this power.
- May have to follow a plot-structure.
- Users of Origin Transcendence and Self Origin Manipulation are immune.
Known Users
- SCP-001 The Database (SCP Foundation)
- Sarda the Sage (8-bit Theater)
- Erika Aoyama (Anime-Gataris)
- Neko-Senpai (Anime-Gataris)
- The Writer (DC Comics)
- Cosmic Armor Superman (DC Comics)
- Mandrakk (DC Comics)
- Mister Mxyzptlk (DC Comics)
- Akuto Sai (Demon King Daimao)
- Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
- Akira Toriyama (Dr. Slump)
- HABIT (EverymanHYBRID)
- Slender Man (EverymanHYBRID)
- Kevin Thorn (Fables)
- The Narrator (George of the Jungle)
- Andrew Hussie (Homestuck)
- Caliborn/Lord English (Homestuck)
- John Egbert (Homestuck); After touching The Treasure.
- Ultimate Dirk Strinder (Homestuck)
- Alternate Calliope (Homestuck); After absorbing the green sun
- MSPA Reader (Homestuck); After touching The Treasure and after Absorbing the green sun.
- Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
- Jim Gardley (Marvel Comics); via Eternity Mask
- Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool (Marvel Comics)
- Nyx (Marvel Comics); inside the House of Ideas
- Multi-Eternity (Marvel Comics); as part of Eternity Mask
- The One Above All (Marvel Comics)
- Billy Kaplan/Wiccan (Marvel Comics); as the Demiurge
- God of Stories Loki (Marvel Comics)
- Ajimu Najimi (Medaka Box)
- The Author (Once Upon a Time)
- Altair (Re:Creators)
- Alba (Senyu); temporarily
- Creasion (Senyu)
- God (Supernatural)
- Doug Walker/The Writer (To Boldly Flee)
- Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
Known Objects
- Eternity Mask (Marvel Comics)
- Continuity Gem (Marvel Comics)
- Plot Device (Sheep in the Big City)
- Time Machine (Teen Titans Go!)
- The Treasure (Homestuck)
Known Locations
- House of Ideas (Marvel Comics)
Gallery
The Author (Once Upon a Time), with his magic pen, can manipulate the story of anybody to suit his desires.
Alba (Senyu) once tried to alter the plot in order to get out of jail, but his attempt didn't last very long.
After Creasion (Senyu) changed the characters, the plot, and the narrator at the same time, events become totally different as the new art style showcases.
The Plot Device (Sheep in the Big City) is a machine that sets up and controls the plot of the series.
Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni) is a Plot Controller.
Akira Toriyama (Dr. Slump) changes Arale's speech bubble.
Caliborn/Lord English (Homestuck) Unlocked the narrative and assumed control of it, creating "Homosuck". Later, as Lord English, he was destroying to structure of the story and dialogue boxes with his stardust glitches, poisoning people with Canonical Dissolution, and killed his own author, treating to destroy all of canon and paradox space.
Altair (Re:Creators) is capable of breaking free of a plot, revising aspects of a plot, or even erasing a plot element outright.
After fusing with Caliborn's treasure, John Egbert (Homestuck) gained the retcon powers, allowing him to change the narrative of Homestuck, blow away glitches on the fabric of the story and the website, freely move through Canonspace, teleport planets into between the comic panels and transcend the confines of canon itself.
Alongside Slender Man, HABIT (EverymanHYBRID) directly controls and orchestrates the lives of the EverymanHYBRID crew across "multiple iterations" like a form of fiction, and reloads them at his own discretion. According to him, life is a lie that grows on its own.
Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) Is aware of the fictionality of her universe and can manipulate the script to decide on the events that happen in the game.
Ultimate dirk strinder (Homestuck) assumed control over the narration of homestuck, changing the thoughts of characters, influencing events, talking to the readers, and even connecting with the real world's internet.
Alternate Calliope (Homestuck) absorbed the green sun, the "largest source of raw narrative mass in the multiverse" and could hijack control over the narration and even overpower other narrators like ultimate dirk strinder.
The MSPA Reader (Homestuck) touched The Treasure, granting the retcon powers, allowing him to travel anywhere in the narrative and change fundamental events and creating a "narrative paradox" such as impeding Sburb from ever starting...
...later absorbing the green sun, being both bigger and inside his story, becoming it's the first guardian and turning it into a "Locked Timeline".
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