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Explanation/Introduction
I passingly mentioned this in my first book Pennywise CRT, but it didn't go anywhere due to a lack of feedback. So I'm back here, making another CRT on Stephen King's drug-fueled fever dream.
In The Dark Tower, this thing known as "Ka" is established. In the books, it is explained as pretty much what we know as destiny/fate. During my original research on Pennywise, I stumbled upon Stephen King's website, and what I found there was an official glossary for all the various terms used in the verse, including Ka. Here is the High Speech definition of Ka;
As for what exactly this entails for Pennywise and the wider verse. Given this (That a person's fate, mind, soul, and life-force are all the same thing), any case where a character is manipulating someone's mind for instance, they're also affecting these other facets. Not only warranting Mind Manipulation, but also Soul Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, and Life Manipulation. This includes Pennywise, who is already established to be capable of manipulating minds and souls in his own book, IT. At the very least, a possibly can be put on the page.
For Pennywise specifically, this also gives him a resistance to Life Manipulation and Fate Manipulation. Pennywise already has a resistance to mind hax and soul hax due to his mind/soul being the Deadlights, an outerversal entity, and given minds, souls, fates, and life-forces are all the same thing, the Deadlights would also encompass Penny's fate and life-force.
Votes
Agree: Rutæhh, Lephers (Is a bit iffy on Fate Manipulation), Planck69, Elizhaa, TaiwaneseScaler (???)
Disagree:
Neutral:
I passingly mentioned this in my first book Pennywise CRT, but it didn't go anywhere due to a lack of feedback. So I'm back here, making another CRT on Stephen King's drug-fueled fever dream.
In The Dark Tower, this thing known as "Ka" is established. In the books, it is explained as pretty much what we know as destiny/fate. During my original research on Pennywise, I stumbled upon Stephen King's website, and what I found there was an official glossary for all the various terms used in the verse, including Ka. Here is the High Speech definition of Ka;
This definition implies that one's Ka (destiny), mind, and life-force are all the same thing. This is somewhat backed up in the book, The Drawing of the Three, where we see a guy manage to separate his Ka from his body. This state was described similarly to a disembodied consciousness or ghost. On top of this, in the book The Outsider, it is also implied that one's Ka and soul are the same thing.
As for what exactly this entails for Pennywise and the wider verse. Given this (That a person's fate, mind, soul, and life-force are all the same thing), any case where a character is manipulating someone's mind for instance, they're also affecting these other facets. Not only warranting Mind Manipulation, but also Soul Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, and Life Manipulation. This includes Pennywise, who is already established to be capable of manipulating minds and souls in his own book, IT. At the very least, a possibly can be put on the page.
For Pennywise specifically, this also gives him a resistance to Life Manipulation and Fate Manipulation. Pennywise already has a resistance to mind hax and soul hax due to his mind/soul being the Deadlights, an outerversal entity, and given minds, souls, fates, and life-forces are all the same thing, the Deadlights would also encompass Penny's fate and life-force.
Votes
Agree: Rutæhh, Lephers (Is a bit iffy on Fate Manipulation), Planck69, Elizhaa, TaiwaneseScaler (???)
Disagree:
Neutral:
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