The universe is fictional. What do you do?

And what if it turns out to be yourself in a Fate Worse than Death?

This is not a response to the above, here's what I would do:

• Pull a Face–Heel Turn, just to get a bigger role in the story, up to hijacking the Big Bad.
• Reveal we're just in a story, and that it's pointless because the story will end.
• Ultimately be hijacked by my subordinate.
• Team up with the main character and die.

If I'm in a story, I'd try and go out with a bang.

And before people claim I'm a Villain Sue, I die, basically having the main character move on from me, rather then dwell on me.

edited 19th Nov '09 7:29:53 PM by Etheru

It's not really in my control, is it? Author controls the plot, so I really only have free will when I'm off-camera.

I would demand more money

GO ON STRIKE

Oh yeah, that's a good one: OK, then I would go on strike...for more money

edited 19th Nov '09 9:16:22 PM by Anthony_H

I create a cult bent on mass murder to bring about the apocalypse and a possible glimpse of an Elder God.

I'd break the fourth wall and persuade the authors to give me a Fourth-Wall Mail Slot so I can talk to my fans!

(this thread is too cool to let it stay slumbering under the burden of aeons.)

(Year-plus necro? That's a 50-DKP MINUS!)

I would try more and more insane things in order to get my Day in the Limelight.

Make friends with the faux versions of myself and my friends I created.

Exploit fictional physics for all they're worth because I can.

edited 21st Nov '10 9:47:08 AM by MsieurLapin

Hmm... Evidently I shall have to usurp the creator of this universe and have it play by my rules. Either that or go about my life with a little more snarkiness about the colour green.

If the writer's anything like me, I stand a pretty good chance of getting dragged into one of my own stories and enjoying it immensely. I shall endeavor to write more.

I'd get so angry I'd smash the Fourth Wall.
And then..... selfcest?

I'd take on an observatory role, being the snark of the series.

edited 21st Nov '10 2:58:59 PM by Pentigan

just have fun or at least bring some funny

Become a Breakout Character. Because living in a fictional word is quite often only fun if you are the main character.

I think it would be fun to explore the cracks, or the edges of the world. Maybe I could influence the writer or even affect the story in ways the writer doesn't understand.

Of course the ultimate goal would have to be to escape (It worked well in Sophies World, and that was for main characters). I wouldn't want to be trapped between two covers for eternity. That sounds worse than a groundhog day loop.

What ever the writer wants.

I would rejoice and Accept The Call

become the woobie