So you just... apply double standards here or something?
What.
Verse equalization is a tool for cross-verse comparison. It is not a definitional framework for how realities relate to each other within a verse. I'm not applying double standards, I'm using the right tool.
In actuality... no. It's because it's not transcendent to the Dark World akin to being able to completely be capable of manipulating it, thinking it out of existence and stuff. They're even reffered as sides of the same coin.
The Light World doesn't need to be transcendent over the Dark World in the metaphysical, Low 1-C sense for my point to hold. It just needs to functionally ignore the scope of the Dark World, and it does. A city-sized Dark World fits inside a room from the Light World's perspective. The energy, the scale, the dimensions, none of it bleeds through. That's not transcendence, that's just how the relationship canonically works.
This entire thing is high-key useless because the Titan is originating from the Dark World, so it is indeed its own reality.
The Dark World inside the Titan is a second layer. It's a lesser reality nested within the Titan's own reality. The Titan is native to the Dark World, yes, but the dark world it contains inside itself is subordinate even to that. It's not the same layer. It's deeper. And if we're not granting the Titan city-sized scale from that internal dimension, then that 7-B simply doesn't transfer upward.
If you disagree with that internal dimension existing at all, then it's not 7-B either. We agree on the conclusion either way.
We no longer treat R>Fs as any tier by default, we do if there's a minimal piece of evidence for any transcendence to be involved, this is why the Player from OFF was downgraded from Low 1-C to unknown.
The frame of reference point isn't the core of my argument, it's just context. What I'm establishing is simple: there is a canonical, demonstrable difference in scale between these two realities. 7-B in the Dark World is objectively, provably smaller from the Light World's perspective. That difference exists in canon. And that difference matters when we're asking what the Titan itself existing in the Dark World actually contains
The issue is that you cannot really "transfer" imaginary damage to your physical self, if you're having an imaginary fight in your mind those injuries obviously do not translate to your real body.
The term of illusion here does not mean literal imagination or nonexistence (otherwise Ch 1 becomes stupid given that it's just Kris and Susie playing with toys in a room for over 8 hours), but it's more a way to change the nature of that place by making it so dark that its reality basically becomes obscured.
This is why places like the Church emanate smoke, because they're physically still there, but distorted like the HTC. It's clear that the Dark Worlds have some physicality involved, because you cannot make a place literally imaginary unless you just erase it from existence.
But that physicality and scale, and scale is the entire basis of the rating, is far smaller from an outsider perspective.
The Church still physically exists. The smoke is real. The distortion is real. No one's arguing the Dark World is pure imagination with zero substance. But here's the thing, the size of it, the scope of it, the very thing that gives it a 7-B rating in its own frame of reference, is compressed and diminished when viewed from outside. That's not a metaphysical claim, that's literally how the relationship between the two realities functions in canon.
The Dark World inside the Titan is real. It's just not Titan-sized real. The Titan doesn't get to inherit those 7-B dimensions because from its own layer of reality, it's holding something far, far smaller than that.
