Neat concept for a thread. I will yap about my current thoughts of what mayyyy be my cosmology and the power levels of my characters.
Before being a powerscaler I was originally an anime roleplayer when I was a child, that did a lot of fighting roleplays. Roleplays where I fought other characters, OCs, etc. So to make those roleplays more exciting, I tried to put my characters in the most varied tiers of power as possible in order for them to be compatible with the power levels of other characters.
I kept running into the problem of "The character of my opponent is too strong and one-shots me at 7,000 m/s with a force of 28,000,000 Newtons" or "My character is too strong and fast for my opponent" so I gave nearly all of them the ability to alter their own stats to equal the stats of other characters just so that fights turned into fights about who is smarter, better at strategy and has the better abilities? Rather than who has the better stats. That eventually evolved into me making it an in-verse mechanic that the characters equalize their stats and have fights where the smarter one or fella with better hax wins.
Since I didn't have to keep worrying about stats, I pretty much gave them all random stats, minus the gods. I just gave them the stats that I found to be cool and the most fitting. I tried to avoid giving two low-mid tier characters the same stats. I have 59 characters, originally meant for fighting roleplay that I plan to use for a story. That means that I don't remember exactly how strong every character is.
Off the top of my head, I know that there are like 2 that are the weakest of the weakest low tiers that are
(10-B) Human level and
(10-A) Athelete level
I forgot exactly how strong the rest are, so I'll open their roleplay character profile to see the stats I gave them (I haven't done this in years) I will only mention random characters (The ones I like the most)
- Character 1 is physically a human with FTL reaction speeds with gravity/anti-gravity manipulation that reaches infinite strength and FTL speeds, EM manipulation that reaches continental potency and a hammock shield that can withstand the destruction of half of the universe (Multi-Galaxy level).
- Character 2 is physically wall level with his copper armor, building level with his copper manipulation and has a speed of 1,422 m/s (High hypersonic) I think I googled the speed of the fastest bullet and gave that speed to him.
- Character 3 moves at 6,000 m/s for some reason and has Moon level strength and can raise it to infinite strength for a limited time if she touches an opponent for 5 seconds.
- Character 4 is below average human level physically but moves 300 times FTL, her liquid manipulation is Moon level, her weapon manipulation is Multi-continental level, but she can do infinite damage with infinite sharpness
- Character 5 is small city level physically, why small city? 6 years ago I looked at VSBW and thought that Small city level was the coolest level. Her titanium manipulation is listed as large mountain level, mountain level with clothing manipulation and small town level with holy water manipulation
- Character 6 is street level physically with exactly Mach 80,000 (Sub-relativistic+ level) speeds, her weather manipulation is city block level
- Character 7 is multi-city block in her base form with lightspeed movement speeds, small planet level in her first form with precisely a speed of 1,000,000,000,000 m/s, with a final form that has infinite stats all around
- Character 8 is a character I made after I realized that describing what exactly a character can destroy and the speeds they can move at is better than looking for the precise number on VSBW or on Google. He has peak human stats and can react to lightspeed. His slime manipulation can destroy hundreds of houses, and he can catch hypersonic missiles with his slime, his machete manipulation has infinite strength and durability, they're also faster than bullets
(I could list more, but I got lazy)
Fun fact, when making those profiles I used random tiers on the VSBW tiering system, but since I could barely understand English, I didn't understand the difference between tons and tons of TNT, so my characters have their strength and durability listed as the tons used to determine lifting strength rather than strength.
I plan to make the strength of my characters more consistent with each other rather than random stats I saw on VSBW if I ever write something. Or maybe I'll keep the random stats, they all fight under equal stats anyways.
I wanted to talk about the top tiers and god tiers, but I got hungry, and I haven't eaten, so I will go scavenge my freezer for food.
But basically:
Normal humans < Mid-tier Mortals < Embodiments of concepts of a single universe < Embodiment of concepts across all of reality < The first embodiment of concepts (The ones that predated reality) < The narrator (She will be a cute librarian girl) < Maybe the embodiment of the writer? I don't know, I might end up writing the story without the author self insert. People dislike author self inserts
I will now talk about the god tiers.
I used to browse the Superpower wiki as a teen religiously so I loved the idea of a character that is the embodiment of a certain concept. If I remember well, learning about Yukari Yakumo introduced me to the idea of boundaries/dualities or well, 2 concepts that are antonyms of each other (sharp/blunt, cold/hot, death/life) That eventually led me down to become a Touhou fan.
So a lot of my verse revolves around the embodiments of concepts hanging with or fighting mortals and mortals trying to become embodiment of concepts.
Most embodiments of concepts have infinite stats all around. Minus a few exceptions. They are concepts so they won't permanently die unless their concepts are destroyed or they're separated from their concepts.
Each universe has different embodiments of the same concept and concepts operate under an universal scale. So death in one universe might be an eyeless black woman, and a skeleton in the second universe. Not all concepts gain sentience or gain an embodiment. Embodiments are pretty much what happens when a concept starts thinking and gains a physical form.
I love the idea of spatial dimensions, it opens the possibilities for more interesting powers, pocket dimensions and more. But I hate dimensional tiering. Despite that, I still want to use concepts like "infinite directions and mathematical axis" I'd be neat to have a character who's power is to move between all the axis' making it seem like he teleports. So I thought of adding infinite dimensions but their size are unknown and due to the verse having different laws of physics, destroying a timeline, doing infinite damage, destroying a dimension, destroying timelines, destroying dimensions will all be equally strong. Destroying something bigger than infinity will require infinite energy but it will just need more range rather than more strength.
Sadly that might mean that if I ever make a character that's in charge of altering the laws of physics (like an embodiment of physics) they'll be infinite dimensional due to controlling infinite dimensions and existing before he nerfed dimensions but eh, ill probably not make them important or something.
I don't want to add infinite dimensions in the traditional powerscaling sense because everything you can do with dimensions, you can do with alternate universes and I want to make each level of existence feel unique.
Dreams, your brain, your mind, your thoughts, your fantasies are all real and they exist above the universe. When you create something fictional, that thing is still fictional but you indirectly create a world above your own where what you created is real. Your stories are real on places above you.
Everything that is real are a bunch of grapes (Universes) that have fallen off the grape vine onto the floor. All the dreams, all the alternate possible possibilities, all the stories exist on a grapevine, they're still attached to the grapevine. The higher you go on the grapevine, the more illogical that dream or universe is. The grapevine has infinite grapes yet most of them aren't unique, they're copies with minor alterations. Some are identical. The only way to stand out is to fall down the vine.
Dream powers summon the logic of dreams above us but they're limited. They function like normal powers, nothing broken. I plan to make a character that's a sheep girl sleeping inside of the moon, her dream form guards the grapevine and feeds off the grapes.
I still haven't brainstormed on how to add a plane where thoughts, the subsconscious, imagination and the mind are real onto my cosmology. Do I make it the place that's housing the grapevine? I want to focus on dreams since they're cooler than other mind stuff. I'll figure it out later.
Basically all characters in this level have
infinite strength but their range can vary. It can be the range of a timeline, a spatial dimension, timelines, spatial dimensions or all of creation.
Everything below was creation. It's all just a giant ball inside of the plane of existence called Descreación (Good name, I know) that predates everything, including time and space (Including spatial dimensions), it predates all concepts minus the concepts that always existed. Before space, before everything, there was nothing and afterwards things started to appear once concepts started gaining sentience. The concepts made space and time after being bored of an empty world. One of them made all of creation, the realm that those gods use to entertain themselves.
They're beyond the nature of dimensionality and time, so they would be
Low 1-C 5D currently. If Ultima's proposal of beyond dimensionality stuff passes, they
might be 1-A Outerversal
Descreación is real but it's both a story and a virtual reality simulation to a higher level of existence called NAME IMPENDING where the narrator (Who is a cute librarian girl) exists and narrates and observes everything.
Why is this place both code and a story? It's illogical? Well we already transcended logic. This place is illogical and beyond logic. Also I like both code manipulation and plot manipulation and I couldn't decide whether to make reality code based or a story so I chose both.
This place would be
Low 1-C 6D
I would continue but people are knocking on the bathroom door. I'll write later.