Subject: The epitome of wish fulfillment?
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Posted on: 2016-07-17 11:10:00 UTC

Anything he imagines comes true ...

How does this work? What happens if he imagines something implausible or physically impossible (supposed the setting isn’t so magically that nothing actually is impossible)?

I imagine "K’eth" attempting to cross a road, and he thinks Uh, this is a dangerous situation. I may be run over by a truck. CRASH!

How would such experiences inform his personality? Would he become overly cautious, never daring to do anything dangerous, because he can’t avoid imagining possible consequences?

Ah, no. I see he became reckless, never thinking about consequences, because that’s the only way to avoid them.

Why does he have all those redundant weapons? Can’t he just grab a stick and imagine that it transforms into the weapon he needs?

Well, I imagine that’s actually how he got "Fearstriker"; he just imagined it, and then he kept it, because carrying a sword around is easier than imagining it again when he needs it again. So, "imagining" isn’t easy, it takes some toll (I wonder what that might be).

Played in the right way, "K’eth" may be an interesting character. Put into the wrong hands, he may become a terrible Gary Stu. So keep him, play him, make him grow!

The others didn’t tickle my imagination in the same way, and I don’t see the point in creating characters when you apparently don’t intend to use them anyway.

HG

PS: Agent Hieronymus’s Power of Imagination doesn’t plagiarize "K’eth". It has been part of his characterization ever since I realized that Androia’s Universal Translator not translating his German expletives (writing exercise, January 2014) can’t be caused by the preferences he may have set on his UT.

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