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Ok gotcha. Thanks for clarifying, I’m fine with the possible rating for plot manipulation for Arthur if that is still applicable.@Maitreya pretty much, Adolla makes it very explicit on how the characters are treated where they’re actual background characters in a story and they have specific roles to play in the narrative, with the author statement kind of verifying it being the case. The fact the meta narrative context is what’s describing the ability makes this plot manipulation as opposed to it being just reality warping.
it’s a very specific type of reality warping. In the same way on how Immortality Negation or Regeneration negation are very specific types of power Nullification that require additional context for you to gain said abilities.
The video game scan in of itself doesn’t exactly tell me much given he mentions about a character being an enemy and we cut to some random fight with no additional context on the meta statements. The biggest support for Arthur getting plot hax is the “change the narrative” line but that would need more elaboration via meta-narrative context if you want this to be solid plot hax. At the very best it would be possible Plot hax.
For more context on the video game scan: Arthur needed to get way stronger in order to fight Dragon and the way he got stronger was to go on a “journey.” This journey being him just playing a video game.
The interesting thing to note here was that what was happening in Arthur’s video game was simultaneously happening in real life too. This was even visually represented to show how Arthur was “impacting” the real world with video game pixelated backgrounds being present in some of the fights. With what Arthur was doing just by playing a video game at home causing the same thing to happen in the real world outside too.
On his profile page they list the power as Information Manipulation (they don’t specify the type but I assume it’s type 2 because of how Arthur is fundamentally impacting reality). I assumed this was from Arthur’s plot manipulation “changing the narrative” (unbeknownst to him) of the world around him of the events from his video game impacting the events happening in real life, but idk if this would qualify as more evidence for Arthur’s plot manipulation of if it should just remain as information manipulation.