BigGlitch

"As Emperor, I command both the will of my people and the will of the very universe! And yet you foolishly still dare to fight against me!"

Biographical Information

Age: 28 (2035), 29 (2036)

Sexuality and Gender: Cishetallo Male (he/him)

Personality: BigGlitch's character is one of exceptional ambition, with nearly limitless power to match it. He will do whatever it takes to achieve what he believes is the best outcome for the Glitch people, but not necessarily out of any compassion or nationalism. His Glitch Power also drives his mental state to be a slurry of mental health issues. It also allows a truer personality to shine through, one that is desperately lonely and even more desperate for attention from those from the layer of reality above him.

In The Story

Origins: BigGlitch began in calamity, forced to metamorphosize himself into something new based on his ability to write fiction like we do. More than anything else, though, he was lonely, and desired the attention of those like him. So he created a world, a people, and a position for himself to play the villain. From there, he fell from the heavens unto Ghafalghjar, where he created his Empire.

Prior Tales: After this, he spent most of this time planning to conquer Earth for the Glitch. These plans might have ended up succeeding if it were not for the heroes of Biggy, Midnight, Shadow, and Micah, who opposed him three times, eventually prevailing and destabilizing his Empire. He spent much of the next decade modernizing and reforming his Empire to a more modern, but not yet contemporary, state. The only conflict during this time was the Glitch-Dark War, a colonial war which ended in a pyrric victory for the Glitch, and set BigGlitch down a path to causing a civil war which erupted nearly a decade later. This Civil War was engineered by BigGlitch to allow new talent to be made, and to reset the stagnation. At the time, he was ready to receive the four heroes once more, but he instead received four other ones who eventually defeated him in combat for Ghafalghar's Instrument of Power.

Current Situation: The Civil War has not yet finished, although it has entered a new phase. Remnants of the prior Empire, which BigGlitch seemingly destroyed, have returned from a nearly thirty year expidition to the North, and are proving a much more difficult force to defeat than the ragtag groups of the Civil War. With it, a cold winter has set over Ghaflaghjar and BigGlitch has dug in for a new story, a story where he is not the villain, but instead the protagonist...

Abilities

Glitch Power: Glitch Power is a unique concentration of WILLPOWER only available to Glitch or Glitched characters. As a physical reflection of a being's will through the Structure Dipole, it can be used to bend the rules of reality to one's whim. Caution, though, because at higher levels, it almost seems to exert that warping onto its user. BigGlitch has more Glitch Power than any other character, and this level of Glitch is partially what allows him to interact with the Narrative in the way we do.

• Bend Reality: Glitch Power can be used to bend reality. Generally, this refers to the laws of physics, but is most often used to apply extra force to an action.
• Transfer: Glitch Power can be transferred between entities by applying force. Going over a certain threshold is known as Overglitching, which has adverse effects on the mind and body.
• Instability: Due to its high concentration, Glitch Power is known to induce mental and physical health issues, especially in those who have extremely high concentrations of it.
• Death Defiance: The body will use Glitch Power to bring itself back from the brink of death and regenerate major injuries, which leaves scarring in the form of the missing texture effect.

High WILLPOWER: WILLPOWER is best described as one's will to stay alive and push further. More of it gives a character tougher to kill and gives access to more Dipoles, which measure their physical, mental, and magical abilities.

• Endurance: WILLPOWER can be used to resist forces that would normally lead to one's death.
• Strength: WILLPOWER can be used to exert force that would normally be impossible.
• Extra Dipoles: Having higher WILLPOWER increases one's capacity to learn more Dipoles. In BigGlitch's case, he has access to the Thermal, Being, Structure, Spacetime, Two-Halves, and Determination Dipoles.

Leadership: Being a good leader means being good at influencing people, making plans, and improvising when those plans go wrong.

• Morale Boosting: A strong leader has influence over the cohort which they are a part of. This includes an uncanny ability to procure morale out of nothing but words.
• Planning: A strong leader can scheme well and relay that scheme to others.
• Improvisation: No leader can be prepared for every outcome, so they must be able to improvise well.

Primordia-Touched: True power comes from being able to control reality and modify the Narrative. It's something more than just Glitch Power or WILLPOWER, and takes a fundamental understanding of fictional reality itself.

• Read: Can access the Narrative, and read what has happened and what is slated to occur.
• Write: Can add new material to the Narrative.
• Edit: Can modify material present in the Narrative, to a similar or equivalent state.

Miscellaneous Notes

Fun Facts:

• BigGlitch is aware of the fact that his reality is fiction. He is aware of our reality, though he can only interact with it through points of the narrative or by taking control of diegetic devices, e.g., social media.
• On top of this, he is the only character (currently) who is able to alter fictional reality in the same way we do.
• This, alongside his extremely high WILLPOWER, makes him the most powerful character in canon by a long shot.
• BigGlitch experiences all non-canon events with him in it as sort of "sleep paralysis dreams."

Associated Song: Everybody Wants to Rule the World -- Tears for Fears

Writer's Writ: BigGlitch is a character that has defined a lot of my wider writing. He was originally conceived somewhat out of satire, to poke fun at insanely powerful OCs by raising the bar as far as it could go, and then the heroes would prevail anyway. Since then, he has taken on new form after new form, eventually coming to reflect the writer in me by being a character who can write just as I can. The sense of his metafiction requires people from our reality to interact with him, which makes him more well-suited for being acted out as a character, rather than simply being written as one...though that hasn't stopped me from trying.