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7/18/2025, 6:04:09 AM
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It's the old 'if god is good, why doesn't he X' argument. Or 'why doesn't the batman just kill the joker?' Tropes and memes aside, I'd recommend going pretty deep into their thoughts and the consequences of their actions right after gaining those kinds of powers, instead of deciding how they'll treat them in advance. it'll help you get a better picture of their personality and how they'll react to difference settings and situations.
My Sidereal jumper had a similar dilemma, but solved it by continuing to play the part of the Glorious Vizier. As he would say, 'This is not my story.' He knew that he would move on, that he couldn't stick around and solve every problem, that doing so would leave people unable to handle things on their own, in the future. So he stuck to the background, acting as side and support character who helped advance the plot or handled things elsewhere. The disguise only came off if something really pissed him off. Sometimes that something was the entire setting if it was badly written enough. Otherwise he was pretty laid back, because he knew he'd go insane if he tried to control.
OTOH, my first or second jumper was very lazy. Take some magic-to-tech perks, use D&D spells that only target the objectively evil as a base, build a giant raygun, scale it way, way up, and if things are bleak or just annoying enough? Press a button and burn the world clean of everyone below a certain level on the good-evil scale.
It's the old 'if god is good, why doesn't he X' argument. Or 'why doesn't the batman just kill the joker?' Tropes and memes aside, I'd recommend going pretty deep into their thoughts and the consequences of their actions right after gaining those kinds of powers, instead of deciding how they'll treat them in advance. it'll help you get a better picture of their personality and how they'll react to difference settings and situations.
My Sidereal jumper had a similar dilemma, but solved it by continuing to play the part of the Glorious Vizier. As he would say, 'This is not my story.' He knew that he would move on, that he couldn't stick around and solve every problem, that doing so would leave people unable to handle things on their own, in the future. So he stuck to the background, acting as side and support character who helped advance the plot or handled things elsewhere. The disguise only came off if something really pissed him off. Sometimes that something was the entire setting if it was badly written enough. Otherwise he was pretty laid back, because he knew he'd go insane if he tried to control.
OTOH, my first or second jumper was very lazy. Take some magic-to-tech perks, use D&D spells that only target the objectively evil as a base, build a giant raygun, scale it way, way up, and if things are bleak or just annoying enough? Press a button and burn the world clean of everyone below a certain level on the good-evil scale.
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