Plot Manipulation

Plot Manipulation
Ajimu Najimi (Medaka Box) possesses innumerable plot-altering abilities.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate the plot.

"Ultimately, every human is their own writer."

― Han Sooyoung (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

"I can give you the most powerful weapon in all creation, I can give you a story."

― Dream/Morpheus (Vertigo/DC Comics)

"H-have you completely lost the plot or something!?"

― Shin on Ou Hon's Awakening idea (Kingdom Chapter 578 - By Tomorrow)

"Only a Prime can defeat the Fallen.
Optimus Prime?
So you've met a Prime? My you must’ve met a great descendant. Is he alive here on this planet?
He sacrificed himself to save me.
So heʼs dead. Without a Prime, it's impossible no one else can stop the Fallen.
So this same energy that's gonna be used to reactivate the machine, can that energy somehow be used to reactivate Optimus and bring him back to life?
It was never designed for that purpose, but it's an energy like no other.
So then how do you get us to the matrix before the Decepticons get to me?
Follow your mind, your map, your symbols. What you carved in the sand is your clue. When dawn enlights the daggerʼs tip three kings will reveal the doorway, find the doorway!"

― Sam Witwicky and Jetfire (Transformers; Revenge of the Fallen) plot in finding the matrix of leadership before the Decepticons

The power to alter the plot. Lesser version of Author Authority. Narrative equivalent of Nigh-Omnipotence.

Also Called

• Plot Altering/Control/Warping

Capabilities

The user can manipulate the plot/narrative that the writer created. Users can manipulate the stories plot as it goes, be it the stories setting, whom it 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)

• Archetype Manipulation
• Beginning Dominance: Standing according to how the plot begins.
  • Beginning Inducement
• Causality Manipulation: Manipulated the cause and effects of anything.
• Conclusion Dominance: Deciding when and how to end the plot.
  • Conclusion Inducement
• MacGuffin Manipulation: Objects and items necessary to advance the plot
• Midpoint Dominance: Evaluate how and in what ways one reaches the center point.
• Narrative Perception: Seeing the plot in its entirety.
• Nigh-Omnipotence: For the Nigh-Omnipotent plot is yours to command.
• Nigh-Omniscience: Plot-wise.
• Perspective Manipulation
• Plot Convenience
• Plot Device Techniques via tropes in storytelling.
  • MacGuffin Manipulation
  • Plot Armor
• Reality Warping via plot alterations.
  • Narration: Write it down.
    • Comic Narration: Make it into a comic.
    • Vocal Narration: Tell the story.
• Stage Manipulation

Applications (Examples)

• Absolute Condition/Dodging/Durability: For as long as the user decides to focus on you, you are safe and can do more, no matter what the situation.
• Absolute Resurrection
• Context Manipulation
• Life Determination: Can control and shape one's 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.
• Plot Empowerment
• Plot Erasure: Erase the plot to defeat opponents.
• Power Augmentation: Enhance the user's powers to defeat any opponent they face.
• Power Immunity: Others' powers don't work on the user without even needing a reason.
• Protagonism Manipulation
• Self-Power Bestowal: Literally gaining new powers if the plot requires it.
• Story Manipulation

Associations

• Author Authority
• Event Manipulation: The plot is the sequence of events.
• Fiction Manipulation
• Nigh-Omnipotence
• Origin Manipulation: Control the origin of their verse. (High-Level user only)
• Reality Warping
• Story Creation
• Story Mimicry

Limitations

• The power may only work subconsciously.
• Power only works with its own stories and cannot change the stories of others or intervene in them.
• The extent of the applications varies between users.
• May be countered by Coincidence Nullification.
• Plot Erasures can erase the plot entirely.
• May have to follow a plot structure.
• Characters with Plot Immunity are immune.
• It cannot affect users of Origin Transcendence, Fictional Transcendence and Reader Embodiment.

Known Users

• Sarda the Sage (8-bit Theater)
• Erika Aoyama (Anime-Gataris)
• Neko-Senpai (Anime-Gataris)
• The Baker (Cookie Clicker)
• Mister Mxyzptlk (DC Comics)
• The Writer (DC Comics)
• Akuto Sai (Demon King Daimao)
• Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
• Akira Toriyama (Dr. Slump)
• HABIT (EverymanHYBRID)
• Slender Man (EverymanHYBRID)
• Kevin Thorn (Fables)
• Miyuki Sone (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi)
• Aoi Mukou (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi)
• God (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi)
• Arthur Boyle (Fire Force)
• The Narrator (George of the Jungle)
• Eric Morden/Mr. Nobody (Doom Patrol)
• Alternate Calliope (Homestuck); After absorbing the green sun
• Caliborn/Lord English (Homestuck)
• John Egbert (Homestuck); After touching The Treasure.
• Andrew Hussie (Homestuck)
• MSPA Reader (Homestuck); After touching The Treasure and after Absorbing the green sun.
• Ultimate Dirk Strider (Homestuck)
• Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
• Loki/Variant L1130 (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• The Beyonder (Marvel Comics); Post-retcon/Defenders: Beyond
• Victor von Doom (Paper Memory) (Marvel Comics); via Gutter Space
• God of Stories Loki (Marvel Comics)
• Billy Kaplan/Wiccan (Marvel Comics); as the Demiurge
• Masked Raider III (Marvel Comics); via Eternity Mask
• Multi-Eternity (Marvel Comics); as part of Eternity Mask
• Nyx (Marvel Comics); inside the House of Ideas
• The One Above All (Marvel Comics)
• Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool (Marvel Comics)
• Gwendolyn Poole (Earth-17217) (Marvel Comics); via Gutter Space
• Stephen Strange (Marvel Comics); via Gutter Space
• Vision (Marvel Comics); inside the House of Ideas
• Ajimu Najimi (Medaka Box); Via God Eye
• The Author (Once Upon a Time)
• Altair (Re:Creators)
• SCP-001 - The Database (S Andrew Swann's Proposal) (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-0001 - Meta Ike's Proposal - The Solution (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-423 - Self-Inserting Character (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2747 - As Below, So Above (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3043 - Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER! (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3143 - Murphy Law, Murphy Lawden (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3145 - The Giving Man (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3167 - Character Assassin (SCP Foundation)
• Sam Howell/SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3930 - The Pattern Screamer (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4010 - Attempt To Look At What We Accomplished (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4028 - La Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-4455 - The Streamliner (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-10101-J - Not A Self-Insert At All (SCP Foundation)
• Operation ÓverMeta (SCP Foundation)
• The Overvoid Lurk (SCP Foundation)
• The Supernormal State (SCP Foundation)
• Thaddeus Thaum (SCP Foundation)
• Alba (Senyu); temporarily
• Creasion (Senyu)
• God (Supernatural)
• Doug Walker/The Writer (To Boldly Flee)
• Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
• The Purples trio (The Purples)
• Yamoner Delangu (The Purples)
• Haru (Extraordinary You)
• Sabrina Spellman ("Chilling adventures of Sabrina"); inside The Endless

Known Objects

• Javascript console (Cookie Clicker)
• The Treasure (Homestuck)
• Continuity Gem (Marvel Comics)
• Eternity Mask (Marvel Comics)
• SCP-826 - Draws You into the Book (SCP Foundation)
• Plot Device (Sheep in the Big City)
• Miyuki's Smartphone (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi)
• Transport Cards (Sora No Otoshimono)
• Time Machine (Teen Titans Go!)

Known Locations

• Adolla (Fire Force)
• Gutter Space (Marvel Comics)
• House of Ideas (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

Sam Howell/SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me (SCP Foundation) superseded his own author ben and is now able to manipulate the plot thanks to existing on infinite higher narratives.

SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me (SCP Foundation) has tremendous plot manipulation abilities as it is a Swann entity.

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 Strider (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 Strider.

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".

Arthur Boyle (Fire Force) is said to be able to change the narrative.

Continuity Gem (Marvel Comics)

Miyuki Sone (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi) is capable of rewriting the script of her game via the power of God, and the usage of her smartphone.

Similarly, Aoi Mukou (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi,) is capable of achieving such feats via calling "God."

Videos

SCP-423 - Self-Inserting Character-2

Exploring the SCP Foundation- SCP-3043 - Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER!-2

SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me (SCP Animation)-2

Exploring the SCP Foundation- SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me-2

SCP-3930 - The Pattern Screamer