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• Beginnings by ray__nbow

  Fandoms: Original Work  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  31 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • No Romantic Relationship(s)
  • Original Non-Human Character(s)
  • Original Characters
  • Original Non-Binary Character
  • Digital Art
  • Art
  • Overpowered Main Characters
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Original Universe
  • Slow Build
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • Magic
  • Magic-Users
  • Parallel Universes
  • Metafiction
  • Cross-Posted on Tumblr
  • Multimedia
  • Not Beta Read

  Summary

  "—Theatre of the Mind, in which we follow a character who was given more reality-bending power than was recommended sensible to do. With this ability he does not destroy the world or seek to rule it, nor use his full potential to improve it, or save it from an inevitable calamity. Instead, he..."

  "Well?"

  "...I haven't got that far yet."

  "[########], you built an entire world, designed a full set of characters, and still have no story?"

  "W-well I— there have been some... hindrances—"

  "But [########], we do have a story though—this one guy has these superpowers but everyone around him hates the supernatural so its a case of 'will he, won't he use them', so—"

  [Content omitted for containing spoilers]

  "—in a world built for him, detail for detail, yet so completely against him, as he learns... magic can't fix everything."

  * * *

  How much unlimited power can you give to a character before the story gets boring? How much can one bear? How long until it breaks?

  Series

  • Part 1 of Theatre of the Mind

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,370

  Chapters:

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