Fiction Tuesday: The Problem with Reality Warpers
Imagine you are playing the lottery, but instead of money being the grand prize, instead it is super powers. And against all odds, you won the grand prize. Congratulations, you are now a Reality Warper!
What does that mean? Why you have every single power possible and are essentially unbeatable! Someone defeated you, you can make it so they lost! You fighting a strong opponent, you can blink and now they are weak. Need to travel somewhere? Why go there when you can make the location come to you! Not good at science? Recreate it however you want! Not good at math? Change it so you are always correct on you calculations!
Basically reality warping lets you do whatever you want. You are just short of a physical G-d and if you apply your abilities right, you ARE a physical G-d. And anyone who questions your rule can be willed out of existence.
Now that we understand and wish we had that power, lets talk about the problems with creating a character with this set of abilities.
First of all, with the higher levels of this skill, how does one kill a reality warper? They can undo their own death, they can render any opponents that try to fight them either useless, non existent, or even their slaves depending on the character. Worse, once they reach the omnipotent levels with this skill, they become all knowing and even trying to trick them becomes impossible.
With the lower level individuals with this power, usually stalling for time and playing into their few weaknesses such as human body or subconscious thoughts is one way of victory. In fact subconscious thoughts tends to be the easiest way to stop a person with these powers.
Just one problem. A smart warper can change it so their subconscious mind unaffected what they do. They control the rules of the universe and can change them at will. With invincible characters essentially, it is quite difficult to write them in properly, which is way they should only be added after extreme thought has been put into this.