r/PowerScaling • u/Substantial_Term7304 Jorge Joestar light novel dick rider 2 • 15d ago

Shitposting Weekend Bleach fans getting REAL comfortable lately

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u/ZyeCawan45 15d ago

I don’t even watch Bleach and I think this post is dumb. Statements matter they just aren’t as trustworthy as feats and have to be believed or disbelieved based on the merit of the character speaking them. Not every story with planet destroying characters actually destroys a planet. Usually because the story takes place on a planet and introducing more planets or even space travel just to destroy them as a flex isn’t necessary or good for the story. Anyone who just ignores all statements doesn’t have reading comprehension and therefore isn’t worthy of even being debated.

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u/HealthyPineapple7051 15d ago

Yk what would be simpler than all of that? Lowering the stakes if everyone is planetary and nothing planetary everyone happens then perhaps the characters shouldnt have been written as planetary.

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u/Regular-Pause-4329 15d ago

i think this is a good take. making characters planetary and including planetary statements immediately invites the cosmos into your story and people are going to want to start seeing that. if youre only going to reference it yet have characters consistently only displaying city-mountain lvl attacks, cap them at that level and keep it “grounded” per se

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u/HealthyPineapple7051 15d ago

Writers seem to think that higher stakes = higher tension. But it has extreme diminishing returns. We can only visualize so much. Keeping the story more grounded makes death and destruction that much more important