analysis for prince of time?
I tried something new with the introduction–you’ll have to let me know if you like it.
A prince of time is one who actively destroys or destroys using the constant and unchanging, the flow of time, or detachment from reality. Personality-wise, they hate their aspect and view it as exclusively or at least primarily negative, and push it away as a result. Despite trying to imitate their opposite aspect, they can never truly succeed, and they need to learn to accept that their aspect has positive parts.
A Prince of Time is… SO COOL. They’re DOWN FOR ANYTHING, it doesn’t even matter what. They always want to KEEP MOVING FORWARDS, just to make sure they don’t STAGNATE. They’ve probably moved to a new house MORE THAN A FEW TIMES, and they MAKE LOTS OF ART in a wide variety of genres and mediums. They’re REALLY NOT THAT GOOD AT IT, but at least it’s ORIGINAL, which is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. Unfortunately they spend so much time working on their art that they forget to eat sometimes, and their sleep schedule is SHOT TO HELL AND BACK. That is of course assuming a schedule at all; they do things WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE IT like a spoiled prince, because they aren’t going to be bound by TIME SHEETS, or by REGULAR SHEETS EITHER.
In short, a Prince of Time hates the constant and unchanging and tries to destroy it. This is not healthy or emotionally mature; expect to see more than a little “Rebel without a cause” popping up, because they don’t really care what it is they’re destroying. Unfortunately this is going to cause serious negative repercussions; their guardian probably hates them, they can’t collaborate well with their session-mates because they aren’t online or available to a reliable schedule, and they’ve passed out in the middle of things more than once due to sleep deprivation. Once they enter the session, they’re also likely to make a disproportionate number of dead selves, due to not wanting to or just not bothering to close time loops. Additionally, their host player probably hates them, because architecture falls pretty solidly under the umbrella of “things that should really just be done simply and methodically” but that won’t stop the Prince of Time from getting “artistic” with it.
In order to mature, a Prince of Time needs to accept that Time is sometimes a good thing. This means realizing that sometimes they can’t or shouldn’t create new things, and that it’s better to just keep doing the same things as before. This will grate on their instincts, as they’re constantly driven to be innovative, but unfortunately in the real world sometimes the best solution is already found and it’s better to just stick with it. Once they learn to accept this, they’ll be able to temper their ability to break people out of patterns with the ability to recognize which patterns need breaking, and they can be a powerful force for change.
In terms of powers… for those of you who have read Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, suffice it to say “King Crimson” and be done. For the majority of those that haven’t, I have now made the mistake of having to explain King Crimson, so buckle up. In short, King Crimson allows its user to “destroy” a span of time, hence why I felt it fit the Prince of Time. In the “destroyed” time, objects continue along their path–for instance, bullets keep traveling and people keep walking–but they are unaware that time passed, instead perceiving time as having “skipped forward” by a small amount–or alternatively, like dissociation except that the universe Actually Does That. Additionally, while objects keep traveling, they won’t interact with each other, instead passing through each other. The user of King Crimson is unaffected and can move freely during this time, causing the impression of teleportation or instantaneous movement. The powers of the Prince of Time would be similar, although likely requiring conscious attention in order to erase a period of time rather than being immediate, and probably having a cooldown (King Crimson is absolutely broken, FYI). Interestingly, this counts as “destroying time” for obvious reasons, but it also counts as “destroying using time”–if we parse Time as “constant or repeated action”, that’s exactly happens within this ability’s area of effect.
Ironically, the user of King Crimson doesn’t really fit the personality for a Prince of Time very well, although it can be stretched to fit somewhat. I actually can’t think of many good examples of a Prince of Time off the top of my head, only a few approximations. The Doctor has shown shades of this across multiple incarnations but most notably the 11th, but never as a primarily defining personality trait. One could argue that Bart and/or Lisa Simpson show some shades of this, but again it’s blurry, and spread out between the two of them. If any of you know of any good examples of characters like this, please let me know.
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