The power to manipulate the plot. Sub-power of Narrative Manipulation. Lesser version of Author Authority. Form/Expression of Nigh-Omnipotence.

Also Called

• Plot Altering/Control/Warping
• Narratikinesis

Capabilities

Users can manipulate the plot that the writer created. Users can manipulate the story's plot as it goes, Create plots, be it the story's setting, whom it revolves around, how the plot progresses, or the reasoning of the user's world. They can control every decision the characters make and every consequence of those decisions and essentially control the whole timeline of their verse.

Applications (General)

• 4th Wall Breaking: Some users are fictional characters that have awareness of the real world and the ability to manipulate the plot.
• Absolute Destruction/Omnificence: Anything can be created or destroyed by the user as long as it's part of the plot.
• Beginning Dominance: Standing according to how the plot begins.
  • Beginning Inducement
• Conclusion Dominance: Deciding when and how to end the plot.
  • Conclusion Inducement.
• Fiction Manipulation: Manipulated the fiction world and everything in it since the plot/story is part of a fiction.
  • Archetype Manipulation
• Life Story Manipulation: Manipulated the script/story of a living being and the existence, from the moment they were born, where they came from, to the end of their life.
• Midpoint Dominance: Evaluate how and in what ways one reaches the center point.
  • Narrative Perception: Seeing the plot in its entirety.
• Narrator: Some users are also the narrator/storyteller of the story.
  • Nigh-Omnipotence: For the plot is yours to command.
  • Nigh-Omniscience: Plot-wise.
  • Nigh-Omnipresence: The user exists in every story and plot that they created. (Varies)
• Origin Manipulation: Manipulated the entire origin of anyone and everything. (Varies)
  • MacGuffin Manipulation: Objects and items necessary to advance the plot
  • Perspective Manipulation
• Parallel Existence Manipulation
• Quantum Existence
• Reality Warping via plot alterations.
  • Narration: Write it down.
    • Comic Narration: Make it into a comic.
    • Story Creation: The user can create a story like a writer.
    • Vocal Narration: Tell the story.
• Stage Manipulation
  • Causality Manipulation: Manipulate the cause and effects of anything.
• Transition Manipulation
  • Trans-Reality Manipulation
• Universal Component Manipulation
  • Dimensional Border Manipulation
  • Universal Simulation Manipulation

Applications (Examples)

• Absolute Condition/Dodging/Durability: For as long as the user decides to focus on you, you are safe and can do more, no matter what the situation.
• Context Manipulation
  • Life Determination: Can control and shape one's own plot.
  • Power Augmentation: Enhance the user's powers to defeat any opponent they face.
• Fairytale Warping
  • Absolute Resurrection
• Karma Inducement: Induce karma and punishment to those who deserve it, making them regret all of their actions.
• Logic Manipulation:  Even the most ridiculously impossible feats/situations are achievable, if not easy.
  • Plot Reset: The user can reset back the plot to how it started. This will trigger a 4th wall breaking because some character will begin to realize that they are being watched.
• Meta Luck: No matter the extent of the user's misdeeds, they will always escape retribution.
  • Plot Convenience
    • Plot Device Techniques via tropes in storytelling.
      • MacGuffin Manipulation
      • Plot Armor
        • Power Immunity: Others' powers don't work on the user without even needing a reason.
        • Self-Power Bestowal: Literally gaining new powers if the plot requires it.
• Protagonism Manipulation
  • Plot Empowerment
• Story Manipulation
  • Plot Erasure: Erase an unnecessary plot, causing the episode of a series to be cut down.

Associations

• Author Authority
• Event Manipulation: The plot is the sequence of events.
• Qualia Manipulation
• Reality Warping
• Zeitgeist Manipulation

Limitations

• The power may only work subconsciously.
• May have to follow a plot structure.
• Power only works with its own stories and cannot change the stories of others or intervene in them.
• The extent of the applications varies between users.
• Maybe countered by Plot Negation.
• Plot Erasures can erase the plot entirely.
• Users of Plot Anchoring, Fictional Transcendence and Reader Embodiment are immune.

Known Users

Known Objects

• Javascript console (Cookie Clicker)
• The Treasure (Homestuck)
• Continuity Gem (Marvel Comics)
• Eternity Mask (Marvel Comics)
• SCP-826 - Draws You into the Book (SCP Foundation)
• Plot Device (Sheep in the Big City)
• Miyuki's Smartphone (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi)
• Transport Cards (Sora No Otoshimono)
• Time Machine (Teen Titans Go!); Limited

Known Locations

• Adolla (Fire Force)
• Gutter Space (Marvel Comics)
• House of Ideas (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

Sam Howell/SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me (SCP Foundation) superseded his own author Ben and is now able to manipulate the plot thanks to existing on infinite higher narratives.

SCP-3999 - I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me (SCP Foundation) has tremendous plot manipulation abilities, as it is a Swann entity.

The Author (Once Upon a Time), with his magic pen, can manipulate the story of anybody to suit his desires.

Alba (Senyu) once tried to alter the plot in order to get out of jail, but his attempt didn't last very long.

After Creasion (Senyu) changed the characters, the plot, and the narrator at the same time, events became totally different, as the new art style showcases.

The Plot Device (Sheep in the Big City) is a machine that sets up and controls the plot of the series.

Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni) is a Plot Controller.

Akira Toriyama (Dr. Slump) changes Arale's speech bubble.

Caliborn/Lord English (Homestuck) unlocked the narrative and assumed control of it, creating "Homosuck." Later, as Lord English, he was destroying the structure of the story and dialogue boxes with his stardust glitches, poisoning people with Canonical Dissolution, and killing his own author, threatening to destroy all of canon and paradox space.

Altair (Re:Creators) is capable of breaking free of a plot, revising aspects of a plot, or even erasing a plot element outright.

Animdude (FNaF World) is "The Storyteller" of the game, being able to halt the main party's progress by making it "The End" of the story.

After fusing with Caliborn's treasure, John Egbert (Homestuck) gained the retcon powers, allowing him to change the narrative of Homestuck, blow away glitches on the fabric of the story and the website, freely move through Canonspace, teleport planets into between the comic panels, and transcend the confines of canon itself.

Alongside Slender Man, HABIT (EverymanHYBRID) directly controls and orchestrates the lives of the EverymanHYBRID crew across "multiple iterations" like a form of fiction and reloads them at his own discretion. According to him, life is a lie that grows on its own.

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) Is aware of the fictionality of her universe and can manipulate the script to decide on the events that happen in the game.

Ultimate Dirk Strider (Homestuck) assumed control over the narration of Homestuck, changing the thoughts of characters, influencing events, talking to the readers, and even connecting with the real world's internet.

Alternate Calliope (Homestuck) absorbed the green sun, the "largest source of raw narrative mass in the multiverse" and could hijack control over the narration and even overpower other narrators like Ultimate Dirk Strider.

The MSPA Reader (Homestuck) touched The Treasure, granting the retcon powers, allowing him to travel anywhere in the narrative and change fundamental events and creating a "narrative paradox" such as impeding Sburb from ever starting...

...later absorbing the green sun, being both bigger and inside his story, becoming it's the first guardian and turning it into a "Locked Timeline".

Arthur Boyle (Fire Force) is said to be able to change the narrative.

Continuity Gem (Marvel Comics)

Miyuki Sone (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi) is capable of rewriting the script of her game via the power of God and the usage of her smartphone.

Similarly, Aoi Mukou (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi) is capable of achieving such feats via calling "God."

Humgrump (The Plucky) altered the plot of the storybook he comes from and renamed it after himself.

Self-Reference ENGINE (Self-Reference ENGINE) is a nonexistent machine that acts as a record and storyteller of all possible events and narratives, as well as their prime mover, whose continuous operation brings all things (including itself, as its name suggests) into form.

Frieda (Happily N’Ever After) took control of the fairy tales and gave them all unhappy endings.

After becoming "The Deepest Dream" Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader Perspective) became the most powerful being in the multiverse, capable of manipulating it like an author to the plot of a story.

Videos

Rodimus Prime vs Galvatron (Stan Bush - Touch) - The Transformers- The Movie (1986)-2

Happily N'Ever After (5-10) Movie CLIP - At Last a Damsel in Distress! (2006) HD-2

Happily N'Ever After (9-10) Movie CLIP - Annoying Little Optimist (2006) HD-2

Superhero Showdowns - Rick and Morty - adult swim-2

The Plucky Squire - Humgrump Battle-2

It Really Is Due for Another Season - Supernatural

Are You There, Chuck? It’s Us, the Winchesters - Supernatural-2

SCP-423 - Self-Inserting Character-2

Exploring the SCP Foundation- SCP-3043 - Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER!-2

SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me (SCP Animation)-2

Exploring the SCP Foundation- SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me-2

SCP-3930 - The Pattern Screamer