"Senitent life" is to the Beyonder the same thing a videogame character is to us. So at a similar level videogames and fiction in general are also for megalomaniacs.
You can pretty much attack and destroy every piece of literature ever by extending the reasoning you're using to criticize Kris's reading of the Beyonder.
I did not mean to imply that you liked the character, or to foist a diagnosis onto you personally, and all that I wish to destroy in literature is the concept of automatically excusing any level of atrocities whatsoever committed by humanised characters with enormous power, as this tends to encourage and validate a certain type of horrible mindset in humanity.
If they are played as completely alien and doing damage by accident, that is an entirely different matter. But first interacting with and learning about people and then being casually willing to commit multiversal genocide simply because others don't wish to play a game according to somebody's will, reads as absolutely heinous to me.
And a fictional character has no sentience. It is just scribbles on a paper.
Again, we can agree to disagree, but I know from experience that this discussion will probably not go anywhere.
Originally posted by krisblaze
I don't let Claremont decide my opinion on the beyonder, when he's not the one who created him.He was certainly child-like, but there's nothing "psychopathic" about him.
It'd be pointless to try and attribute these things to the beyonder, when he was so literally beyond everyone.
I mean, do you know what megalomania is? How would that apply to him? He could recreate the universe a thousand times over.
Originally posted by krisblaze
God-complex?He was god in his surroundings.
To him there's no clear cut boundary between life or death.
There's nothing he can do that he can't undo (though I suppose that wasn't entirely true).
Beyonder was aware of his status as a creature with no equal. There's nothing wrong with that. Do you feel about the water particles when you're having a bath? Or the microorganism that live in the dirt you tread on? Try to be sensible with the scale here. There's no human being that comes even remotely close to him, so it's pointless to try and force human definitions on him.
How did he qualify for megalomania? There were no fantasies involved in this. Everything he wanted was entirely within his capabilities.
The Seed seems the most reasonable.
Outside that, I have Beyonder because queer and he's the most reasonable if the whole heat death of a universe thing didn't happen at the birth, and Elder Valeria because of the things Young Val echoed, and how she has control of the Council.
Though Allah Ackbar might be using the Council to traverse, and that might be what the library is... meh.
Originally posted by BeyonderGodI'm about done with your trolling. If you can't be somewhat civil then it's time you find another forum to post. You've been in the reports, and complaints directly to me, since you joined KMC. Next time it will be a 2nd temp ban.
Isnt trolling but if you actually search what it means maybe you could actually comprehend the definition.You know a tip from someone with a intelligence.