you know, while we're at it, I have one concern in regards to the fictional worlds being transcendent. Why would they transcend, well, each other? There were some vague statements like them being stacked on top of each other like an endless staircase, but the scans are self-contradicting.
Here she says there's an endless hierarchy of worlds, but she explicitly says that Tom isn't any greater or more real than she is.
You're misinterprenting the point of Fables arc, It was supossedly to be where everything what we bealive in the start of the series was cleared
If you noticed on how The Unwritten start, Tom Taylor never threated these stories as something such as their own world or something more than an fictional narrative, Tom Threated these stories as something as not real something like a game or an illusion. Tom bealive that his world are the only thing that "real" and the only thing that's matter.
All of that was true until we get to Fables arc where the line between reality and fictional blur, It was the turning point of Tom Taylor character where his belief that he was different from any stories were false. There no such as "Real world" it just a "First Stories" and what come after.
That were this dialogue played part.
"Are you
MAD? It's me. not Tommy, I don't have any MAGIC. And i don't--I dont even
BEALIVE in any of this!"
"Child, have you learned NOTHING here? do you still think yourself GREATER than us? More REAL than we?"
This is where Tom realized that these Stories also are "real" world on their own and also must be saved.
Its not really an incosistency or contradiction it just how Mike Carey explained his belief through his work to write Tom character development.
To top all that the last issue of Apocalypse plot is how Tom Taylor dropped
1 level from the hierarchy and become fictional from his dad view.
TLDR:
That first Totenkinder statement is not meant in VS debating way it just to point out Tom belief. the R>F stuff literary come 7 issue after that and its clear shit
