What do you think should be done here?
Well, seeing as how people don't agree with Architect's R-F Transcendence (mainly because he loses to / is harmed by one of his ficitonal characters in combat), I'd say there are three paths that he could be tiered.
1. Keep him at Tenebris' tier (At least
Low 2-C, possibly
higher), and mention in the explanation that he should be at the very least as strong as Tenebris.
2. Upgrade him to a solid
2-B, possibily
2-A physical rating. If Tenebris' tier is based on his capability to "inadvertedly destroy the reality" should he use his godly strength against an opponent (where "the reality" can range from anything between a Low 2-C to a 2-B structure), Architect should easily scale to the entire verse's cosmology - given how he wrote it into being and can just as easily erase / rewrite it from scratch if he felt like it. Now that just recently Underworld became just another timeline in the ocean of timelines in the canon Shadow Fight lore, Architect should scale to the entire cosmology of the canon material - we're looking at at least 500.000.000.000 universes here (with some localizations describing the amounts of timelines out there as "countless" and "infinite").
3. Keep him at Tenebris' tier (At least
Low 2-C, possibly
higher)
physically, but allow him to have a
2-B, possbily
2-A technique via hax. This path is if people want to attribute his capability of writing and erasing / rewriting the entirety of the verse's cosmology to his
Plot Manipulation (which frankly he does have and uses it in spades), rather than tie it to his physical statistics. Although this depends on interpretation: does Shadow Fight (and its plot) exist because Architect physically wrote them down on a piece of paper in the Real World? That sounds like a physical feat to me.
Or do those elements exist and/or cease to exist the moment he imagines them / decides what happens to them in his head? Because in the event story featuring him we can see him interfere with the plot without him actually pulling out a piece of paper in front of everybody and writing Shadow into him miraculously talking. And he explains this to Sensei as "Everything's possible in the creator's
head".
Also this is off-topic somewhat, but how should his
Data Manipulation be handled? Shouldn't it technically be at least as potent, if not stronger than his
Plot Manipulation? Because remember this guy is still capable of deleting the game itself from the Player's mobile device. Let's assume that the Player and Architect exist in the same Real World (because if the Player were to exist in a more "real" Real World than Architect, it wouldn't make sense for a game on their mobile phone to be actually created by a ficitonal character). Wouldn't it be safe to assume that Architect's
Plot Manipulation is reserved for his creation, and not the Real World in which he was born in? But here we have his
Data Manipulation interfering with the mobile device of a person (the Player) from the Real World, which massively affects the ficitonal world of Shadow Fight, too (deletion of the game is deletion of the fictional verse). Does this whole thing deal with
AP or
Range, or
both? Because riddle me this: if Architect's
Plot Manipulation can casually affect a
2-B (even potentially
2-A) structure, but we can take it for granted that it would never be capable of affecting the Real World from which he comes (which is what a lot people on this forum believe to be just another universe contained within the
2-B /
2-A Shadow Fight game) no matter what (otherwise Architect Plot haxes the Player or world governments and does funny things), while another ability of Architect's (
Data Manipulation)
can in fact affect elements located in the Real World (such as mobile phones), then how would this quite immense superiority of
Data Manipulation over
Plot Manipulation be tiered?
Plot Manipulation can affect the entire 2-A Shadow Fight cosmology, but it just so happens to not be capable of affecting some random universe contained within this bubble (whoopsie daisies, right?). But
Data Manipulation can affect this random universe inside the 2-A bubble that a 2-A range / potency ability cannot affect even if it wanted to. Isn't this just Reality-Fiction Transcendence? How can an ability have more range / potency than a 2-A ability (of which from the perspective of the 2-A ability is impossible to reach), and not be ranked a tier above it?
