Jockey-1337 said:
Kingverse Gods haven't fails/weaknesses.
^This is pure NLF.
However...
The complete destruction of infinite-upon-infinite universes is something the King is capable of surviving/regenerating from, and he is capable of rearranging all of said universes, dimensions,
et al to his own liking.
Gan's fate manipulation is actually extremely similar to what you've just outlined. Fate as a concept within DT's verse (henceforth referred to by its in-universe name,
ka) is nothing more than the will of Gan, and is capable of affecting and even dictating everything within said verse:
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"They were
the hands of Gan, the hands of ka, and they knew no mercy." - Excerpt from DT7:
The Dark Tower
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"
Ka --
the word you think of as 'destiny,' Eddie, although the actual meaning is much more complex and hard to define, as is almost always the case with words of the High Speech." -Excerpt from DT3:
The Waste Lands
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[
What you call freedom of choice is part of what we call ka, the great wheel of being] -Excerpt from
Insomnia
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His plot manipulation in and of itself is also well within this realm, as he is the 'author' of all that exists, the source of every story in the verse, and the creator of all manifestations of life and experience within the verse itself:
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"Out of the Prim arose Gan, animating spirit of the Dark Tower. From the magical waters dripping out of his navel, Gan spun the physical universe.
But sensing that one world was not large enough to contain all possible manifestations of life and experience, he divided the universe into multiple, parallel realities,"
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"The Turtle spoke in Bill's head, and Bill understood somehow that there was yet Another, and that Final Other dwelt in a void beyond this one. This Final Other was, perhaps, the creator of the Turtle, which only watched, and It, which only ate.
This Other was a force beyond the universe, a power beyond all other power, the author of all there was." -Excerpt from
IT
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Gan's power reaches such an extent that he has generated entire universes where works of fiction are directly correspondent to another reality. As a direct example, The DT series itself (and indeed, Stephen King's entire body of work) is considered fiction within the verse:
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"
I'm Gan or possessed by Gan, I dont know which, maybe theres no difference." King began to cry. His tears were silent and horrible. "But its not Dis, I turned aside from Dis, I repudiate Dis, and that should be enough but its not, ka is never satisfied, greedy old ka...." -Excerpt from DT6:
Song of Susannah
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It was a photocopy of a poem by Robert Browning. King had written the poet's name in his half-script, half-printing above the title. Susannah had read some of Browning's dramatic monologues in college, but she wasn't familiar with this poem. She was, however, extremely familiar with its subject; the title of the poem was "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." It was narrative in structure, the rhyme-scheme balladic (a-b-b-a-a-b), and thirty-four stanzas long. Each stanza was headed with a Roman numeral. Someone-King, presumably-had circled stanzas I, II, XIII, XIV, and XVI. "Read the marked ones," he said hoarsely, "because I can only make out a word here and there, and I would know what they say, would know it very well."
"Stanza the First," she said, then had to clear her throat. It was dry. Outside the wind howled and the naked overhead bulb flickered in its flyspecked fixture.
"My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby."
"Collins," Roland said. "
Whoever wrote that spoke of Collins as sure as King ever spoke of our ka-tet in his stories!" -Excerpt from DT7:
The Dark Tower
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"
No writer is Gan - no painter, no sculptor, no maker of music. We are kas-ka Gan.......The prophets of Gan." -Excerpt from DT7:
The Dark Tower
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"Would you risk destroying that world as well as this, and the other worlds sai King has touched with his imagination, and drawn from?
For it was not he that created them, you know. To peek in Gans navel does not make one Ga, although many creative people seem to think so. Would you risk it all?" -Excerpt from DT7:
The Dark Tower
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This obviously does not mean that DC's entire multiverse is contained within the DT realm, and that's not the point I'm here to make. What I am saying is; every in-verse work of fiction contained within DT was spun, not by innate powers inherent to the writers themselves, but by powers granted to them by Gan. All possibilities within DT were also created by Gan, as well as the entire concept of fate within the verse.
And the Crimson King, while not on this level, is still very much capable of fighting against Gan in this respect:
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"Ka is drawing you to the Devar-toi,
but a very powerful anti-ka, set in motion by the one you call the Crimson King, is working against you and your tet in a thousand ways." -Excerpt from DT7:
The Dark Tower
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[He's at the Civic Center now.
His mother, whose life you and Lois also saved this morning, got a call from her babysitter less than an hour ago, saying she'd cut herself badly on a piece of glass and wouldn't be able to take care of the boy tonight after all. By then it was too late to find another sitter, of course, and this woman has been determined for weeks to see Susan Day ... to shake her hand, even give her a hug, if possible. She idolizes the Day woman.]
Ralph, who remembered the fading bruises on her face, supposed that was an idolatry he could understand. He understood something else even better:
the babysitter's cut hand had been no accident. Something was determined to place the little boy with the shaggyblond bangs and the smoke-reddened eyes at the Civic Center, and was willing to move heaven and earth to do it. His mother had taken him not because she was a bad parent, but because she was as subject to human nature as anyone else. She hadn't wanted to miss her one chance at seeing Susan Day, that was all. - Excerpt from
Insomnia
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"I'll be a vampire,
a slave to him. His scribe, maybe. His pet writer."
"Whose?"
"The Lord of the Spiders.
The Crimson King. Tower-pent." -Excerpt from DT6:
Song of Susannah
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Not only can the King oppose
ka and rearrange it to suit his purpose, but he is also capable of enslaving the writers of in-universe fictional stories in order to change the plot of their corresponding realities. Unless Destiny himself has shown to be capable of overpowering a being who can in his own turn oppose the creator of fate itself/the writer above all writers/the being who simultaneously embodies and transcends all that exists within his creation, as well as a being who can assume control over the writers themselves, then I don't see how he can actually physically defeat the Crimson King. Especially when we already have to take into account the fact that 'all of creation being destroyed' is still not enough to put him down for good.
And that's also without factoring in High 1-B hax.
