History PlayingWith / ImmuneToFate

* '''Parodied''': This is is explicitly a perk of becoming a main character, and [[MediumAwareness everyone in that verse is aware of it]] and actively angling for the lead roles.

** Alice's ability to defy fate attracts the attention of ''everyone'' wants to exploit her fate-less nature for their own agenda. By being immune to fate, she thus becomes ensnared by more mundane attempts to control her.

** The Loom is destroyed by Alice's presence and all mortals are freed from their fates. The Almaiden is now unable to see the future of any being, which is the disaster she predicted. Indeed the end of the world ''as we know it''.

* '''Downplayed''': The seer in Alice's village tells each member what they are fated to pursue as a career. Alice, lacking a fate, defies this tradition but the seer can still give a vague picture or broader advice than normal

** Precognition abilities based upon reading fate wouldn't work on human played characters. So all PCs were declared immune to fate.

* '''Inverted''': ALice is [[YouCantFightFate completely and utterly bound to her fate]].

* '''Downplayed''': The seer in Alice's village tells each member what they are fated to pursue as a career. Alice, lacking a fate, defies this tradition... so she chooses to become a baker, since she likes baking.

** Alice is a RidiculouslyHumanRobot who has no actual soul and therefore is not able to be tied to the [[CosmicKeystone Loom of Fate.]]
* '''Inverted''': Bob is [[YouCantFightFate completely and utterly bound to his fate]].

* '''Enforced''': A story about someone [[YouCantFightFate resigned to fate]] would create ValuesDissonance to a modern audience, so they're adjusted to do the opposite.

* '''Exploited''': Lord Evulz has a seer make up prophecies about his defeat so that they won't come true

** Alice's ability to defy fate attracts the attention of [[MultiversalConqueror various]] [[EvilOverlord unpleasant]] [[EldritchAbomination entities]] interested in using her as part of their EvilPlan to ScrewDestiny by [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]]. They're not the only ones; ''everyone'' wants to exploit her fate-less nature for their own agenda.
** Alice's presence causes lasting damage to the Loom of Fate and will eventually destroy it. The Almaiden tries to kill Alice, claiming the Loom's destruction will be the greatest disaster the world has ever known.

** The Loom is destroyed by Alice's presence and all mortals are freed from their fates. The Almaiden is now unable to see the future of any being, which is the disaster she predicted.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice [[GenreSavvy is aware of her ability]], and shamelessly flaunts it to get out of frivolous concerns -- like skipping school to hit the mall because she's "avoiding that ''boring'' fate of being stuck in class all day!"

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Alice thinks she is immune to fate, but she's actually just following an older, unknown prophecy...

* '''Justified''': Alice's birth was the result of minor damage to the [[CosmicKeystone Loom of Fate]]. While it's still functioning properly, it literally doesn't know she exists and can't counterbalance her actions until after the fact.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's ability to defy fate attracts the attention of [[MultiversalConqueror various]] [[EvilOverlord unpleasant]] [[EldritchAbomination entities]] interested in using her as part of their EvilPlan to ScrewDestiny by [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]]. They're not the only ones; ''everyone'' wants to exploit her fate-less nature for their own agenda.
** Alice's presence causes lasting damage to the Loom of Fate and will eventually destroy it. The Almaiden tries to kill Alice, claiming the Loom's destruction will be the greatest disaster the world has ever known.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice becomes a SpannerInTheWorks for hire; if she doesn't like the job she'll simply charge a fee she knows they can't pay.
** The Loom is destroyed by Alice's presence and all mortals are freed from their fates. The Almaiden is now unable to see the future of any being, which is the disaster she predicted.

* '''Averted''': There is no such thing as predetermination or no such thing as being immune to it if it exists.

Back to ImmuneToFate.

** Alice's presence causes lasting damage to the Loom of Fate which only gets worse over time. The gods try to kill Alice, claiming if she survives it will lead to disaster they cannot prevent.

** The Loom is destroyed by Alice's presence and all mortals are freed from their fates. This was the disaster the gods wished to avert, as they now find themselves just as limited as humans in predicting the future.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's ability to defy fate attracts the attention of [[MultiversalConqueror various]] [[EvilOverlord unpleasant]] [[EldritchAbomination entities]] interested in using her as part of their EvilPlan to ScrewDestiny by [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]]. They're not the only ones; ''everyone'' wants to exploit her fate-less nature for their own agenda.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Hang on, my scrying abilities seem to get a bit fuzzy when Alice is involved...."

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's ability to defy fate attracts the attention of [[MultiversalConqueror various]] [[EvilOverlord unpleasant]] [[EldritchAbomination entities]] interested in using her as part of their plots to ScrewDestiny by [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice only gets the ability to defy fate because it has been corrupted by evil, and her destroying the old order is needed for good to triumph.

* '''Averted''': There is no such thing as predetermination.
* '''Enforced''': A story about someone [[YouCantFightFate resigned to fate]] would create ValuesDissonance to a modern audience, so they're adjusted to do just the opposite.

* '''Invoked''': By working through [[ProphecyTwist prophetic]] [[NoManOfWomanBorn loopholes]] until she finally succeeds, Alice actually manages to make herself ImmuneToFate.

* '''Played For Drama''': The Almaiden decides that any anomalies like Alice must be eliminated in order for fate to run its course smoothly. While she can't see or manipulate Alice's fate directly, she ''can'' view and manipulate the fates of all '[[{{Muggles}} normal people]]' she contacts, spawning a long and deliberate WitchHunt...

* '''Parodied''': This is is explicitly a perk of becoming a main character, and [[NoFourthWall everyone in that verse is aware of it]] and actively angling for the lead roles.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...so when she finds this out, she breaks ''that'' one as well.

* '''Averted''': CantFightFate

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Invoked''': By working through [[ProphechyTwist prophetic]] [[NoManOfWomanBorn loopholes]] until she finally succeeds, Alice actually manages to make herself ImmuneToFate.

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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