Narratives

[Shiroiyo]

Powers and abilities that manipulate narratives are always treated as plot hax here? If not what do I need in order to qualify as one.

 

[Da3ggman]

Yeah, usually they are unless there’s some other context behind what “narratives” mean in the series (ex: Narratives meaning someone’s fate or something), or if they’re just used as flowery language. But the latter isn’t very common from my experience.

 

[AlipheeseXIV]

Yeah, usually they are unless there’s some other context behind what “narratives” mean in the series (ex: Narratives meaning someone’s fate or something), or if they’re just used as flowery language. But the latter isn’t very common from my experience.

Assuming that the context is literal, then what? Because I have seen plenty of verse's I thought would logically qualify not qualify due to arbitrary interpretations from other members, so could you shed a little more light on that?

 

[Da3ggman]

Assuming that the context is literal, then what? Because I have seen plenty of verse's I thought would logically qualify not qualify due to arbitrary interpretations from other members, so could you shed a little more light on that?

Uhhhhh you’d have to send the examples, ig. If it’s literal narratives, like plot shit, it should qualify. Maybe like, warping reality instantly, controlling everything, author allusions, etc. could help bolster the case.

 

[AlipheeseXIV]

Uhhhhh you’d have to send the examples, ig. If it’s literal narratives, like plot shit, it should qualify. Maybe like, warping reality instantly, controlling everything, author allusions, etc. could help bolster the case.

I don't have any immediately available examples unfortunately as I was just talking based off things I've seen throughout my time on the wiki, but what you're saying makes logical sense. It's just there were a few cases where such things weren't unanimously agreed on, I'll see if I can find some examples.

 

[Shiroiyo]

Bump

 

[Vietthai96]

manipulate literal narrative is plot hax of course

 

[Shar122]

Narrative is considered a form of
metafiction, a literary convention that conveys the mode of telling a story and it is also metaphysical.
Which can be achieved by altering the "text bubbles" that narrates the story, modifying the narrator's script, directly manipulating the novel's page etc.. Or other metafictional shenanigans could very well possibly suffice.

 

[FinePoint]

Powers and abilities that manipulate narratives are always treated as plot hax here? If not what do I need in order to qualify as one.

If not otherwise elaborated on, we would assume it's Plot Manipulation, yes.

In many contexts, it's also directly linked to Fate Manipulation (in the sense of things being written in the narrative may be considered as things destined to happen as well) or other abstract manipulation like Information Manipulation or high-level Text Manipulation if the narrative is stored in that sort of form.