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"Nothing Like the Sun" is a short story by delta7447 and yearends of Website/DeviantArt, which has two sequels, "More Lovely and More Temperate" and "Sweet Beauty Hath No Name". They can be read [[https://www.deviantart.com/delta7447/art/Nothing-Like-the-Sun-April-Fool-s-2021-874972829 here]]. ([[https://www.deviantart.com/delta7447/art/More-Lovely-and-More-Temperate-875259885 Part 2]]) ([[https://www.deviantart.com/delta7447/art/Sweet-Beauty-Hath-No-Name-875446289 Part 3]]).
The main character life seems perfect: she is an all-powerful goddess who can do whatever she wants... except turn off the light that shines from her eyes like the Sun, causing people everywhere to ask that she solve their problems for them. She just wants to be left alone! Is that so bad?
'''NOTE: Due to the nature of this story, it is strongly recommended that you read it and its sequels in their entirety before scrolling down and reading any further on this page. ALL SPOILERS WILL BE UNMARKED. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
!!Provides examples of the following:
* AnthropicPrinciple: The main character finds out that the only reason she didn't know she could just will her eyes to stop glowing is because the whole story is based around this, so if she knew she could do that, there would be no story, even though this doesn't make logical sense.
* AuthorPowers: The authors of the story only have these when outside the story. When they are brought into the characters' world, they can't alter it in any way.
* DeconstructedTrope: Makes fun of TheOmnipotent trope by pointing out that despite their power, these characters are nothing. Their whole lives are dictated by what their authors do and they can do nothing else. [[YouCantFightFate Even the main character bringing her authors to their universe and punishing them was the authors' intention all along.]]
* EurekaMoment: After [[RecursiveReality reading the authors' other stories]], the main character suddenly realizes that she could turn off her GlowingEyes just by willing it, and that she only didn't do so before because her authors were preventing her from ever thinking of it. This makes her hate them even more.
* FirstWorldProblems: {{Exaggerated}}; the main character understands that she shouldn't be complaining about ''anything'' since she is omnipotent, but does so anyway.
* FlashFiction: Each part is only one page long, making three pages altogether.
* FlippingTheBird: The main character does this to the authors and the readers in the illustration for "Sweet Beauty Hath No Name".
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Think the authors are safe from their character's [[RageAgainstTheAuthor rage against them]] because they are real and she is fictional? Think again. She is able to bring them to her world.
* FreakOut: The main character doesn't take it well when she discovers not only that she is fictional, but the reasons why her authors made her in the first place. As revenge for learning that she was created just as a joke and because her authors are turned on by omnipotent characters, she [[TrappedInTVLand brings them to her world]] and demands that they fix everything. However, they can't do so outside of the real world.
* GlowingEyes: The main character has these, and can't stand that they make her attempts to live a normal life impossible.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The authors thought they would get away with ruining the main character's life, because they are real and she is fictional, only for their creation to turn the tables on them precisely because they made her all-powerful. Fortunately for them, she realizes punishing them is pointless and sends them back unscathed.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: {{Downplayed}}; the main character loves being omnipotent and would never give up her powers, but ''she can't get her eyes to stop glowing''. [[StopWorshippingMe This causes people to worship her even though she wants none of it.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The chapter titles are from Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Sonnet 18, and Sonnet 127, respectively.
* LittleMissAlmighty: The main character is omnipotent.
* MinimalistCast: Only the main character and her friend appear in the story. The two authors would add the number of characters to four, but [[TheGhost they are only spoken of and not directly seen]].
* NamelessNarrative: None of the characters ever get a name.
* NoticingTheFourthWall: The characters discover in "More Lovely and More Temperate" that they are just fictional characters, created as a joke because the authors are into that sort of thing. [[RageAgainstTheAuthor They do not take this well.]]
* TheOmnipotent: There is nothing the main character cannot do, except get rid of her GlowingEyes. She even brings her own authors into her story to demand that they get rid of the eyes, and only after that does she realize that, since she is omnipotent, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot she could have done it herself]].
* PalsWithJesus: The main character used to be a normal human, and kept in touch with all her friends after becoming omnipotent. In the end, she makes them all omnipotent like her.
* PerverseSexualLust: The main character speculates that her authors might feel this way about her, which understandably creeps her out. Her other hypothesis is that they are {{Godhood Seeker}}s.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor:
->The bane of my existence, the reason I can’t have the normal life I so desperately desire--and she can’t, either, now--I have because someone wanted to make a fucking ''joke''.
->But this pair of chucklefucks forgot one thing: they made us omnipotent. All-freaking-powerful. And they were so incredibly arrogant that they thought that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou it would be enough protection from our wrath to be "real" while we were "fictional"]].
->Well, they know differently now.
* SelfParody: The whole trilogy is to make fun of the authors' fondness for [[LittleMissAlmighty goddesses]] and GlowingEyes.
* ShaggyDogStory: The main character just wants her eyes to stop glowing, and at the end, she just wills this to happen. This was inevitable and PlayedForLaughs, since every character involved is omnipotent.
* ShoutOut: All the chapter titles are lines from Shakespeare's sonnets.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't make overpowered characters, because they might find out they are fictional and resent you, and drag you into their world to take revenge.
* StopWorshippingMe: The main character is very annoyed by people asking for favors and blessings and treating her differently from everyone else, which is why she wants her eyes to stop glowing so that no one knows she is omnipotent.
* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: The inability of the main character to turn off her GlowingEyes turns out to be just for narrative convenience, and nothing actually prevents her from doing so.
* TortureIsIneffective: The main character stops torturing her authors because they are unable to change her world while they are in it, so torturing them into getting rid of her glowing eyes is pointless.
* TouchedByVorlons: The main character makes her best friend omnipotent, and finds out that she herself got her powers [[NoticingTheFourthWall because two writers in another universe thought it would be funny]].
* TrappedInTVLand: The main characters bring the authors into their universe, but have to put them back because the AuthorPowers only work in the real world.
* WhamLine: The second chapter gives us this doozy, in what up to then is pure comedy:
->[[NoticingTheFourthWall "We weren't real at all."]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: The main character wants to enjoy being omnipotent, but she can't do that as long as her eyes glow and attract would-be worshippers to her. She finally gets rid of them at the end of the story, [[EarnYourHappyEnding so that she and her friends can live their lives in peace]].
* WritersSuck: The writers are characterized as pathetic creeps who get their just deserts at the hand of their own creation.
* YouWereTryingTooHard: In "Nothing Like the Sun", the main character tries everything she can think of to make her eyes stop glowing, but none of them work. "Sweet Beauty Hath No Name" reveals that this is because she never considered just willing them to stop glowing, because her authors wouldn't allow it. Instead, she [[ComplexityAddiction would close her eyes, wear sunglasses, or remove her eyes altogether]].
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The main character life seems perfect: she is an all-powerful goddess who can do whatever she wants... except turn off the light that shines from her eyes like the Sun, causing people everywhere to ask that she solve their problems for them. She just wants to be left alone! Is that so bad?
'''NOTE: Due to the nature of this story, it is strongly recommended that you read it and its sequels in their entirety before scrolling down and reading any further on this page. ALL SPOILERS WILL BE UNMARKED. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
!!Provides examples of the following:
* AnthropicPrinciple: The main character finds out that the only reason she didn't know she could just will her eyes to stop glowing is because the whole story is based around this, so if she knew she could do that, there would be no story, even though this doesn't make logical sense.
* AuthorPowers: The authors of the story only have these when outside the story. When they are brought into the characters' world, they can't alter it in any way.
* DeconstructedTrope: Makes fun of TheOmnipotent trope by pointing out that despite their power, these characters are nothing. Their whole lives are dictated by what their authors do and they can do nothing else. [[YouCantFightFate Even the main character bringing her authors to their universe and punishing them was the authors' intention all along.]]
* EurekaMoment: After [[RecursiveReality reading the authors' other stories]], the main character suddenly realizes that she could turn off her GlowingEyes just by willing it, and that she only didn't do so before because her authors were preventing her from ever thinking of it. This makes her hate them even more.
* FirstWorldProblems: {{Exaggerated}}; the main character understands that she shouldn't be complaining about ''anything'' since she is omnipotent, but does so anyway.
* FlashFiction: Each part is only one page long, making three pages altogether.
* FlippingTheBird: The main character does this to the authors and the readers in the illustration for "Sweet Beauty Hath No Name".
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Think the authors are safe from their character's [[RageAgainstTheAuthor rage against them]] because they are real and she is fictional? Think again. She is able to bring them to her world.
* FreakOut: The main character doesn't take it well when she discovers not only that she is fictional, but the reasons why her authors made her in the first place. As revenge for learning that she was created just as a joke and because her authors are turned on by omnipotent characters, she [[TrappedInTVLand brings them to her world]] and demands that they fix everything. However, they can't do so outside of the real world.
* GlowingEyes: The main character has these, and can't stand that they make her attempts to live a normal life impossible.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The authors thought they would get away with ruining the main character's life, because they are real and she is fictional, only for their creation to turn the tables on them precisely because they made her all-powerful. Fortunately for them, she realizes punishing them is pointless and sends them back unscathed.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: {{Downplayed}}; the main character loves being omnipotent and would never give up her powers, but ''she can't get her eyes to stop glowing''. [[StopWorshippingMe This causes people to worship her even though she wants none of it.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The chapter titles are from Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Sonnet 18, and Sonnet 127, respectively.
* LittleMissAlmighty: The main character is omnipotent.
* MinimalistCast: Only the main character and her friend appear in the story. The two authors would add the number of characters to four, but [[TheGhost they are only spoken of and not directly seen]].
* NamelessNarrative: None of the characters ever get a name.
* NoticingTheFourthWall: The characters discover in "More Lovely and More Temperate" that they are just fictional characters, created as a joke because the authors are into that sort of thing. [[RageAgainstTheAuthor They do not take this well.]]
* TheOmnipotent: There is nothing the main character cannot do, except get rid of her GlowingEyes. She even brings her own authors into her story to demand that they get rid of the eyes, and only after that does she realize that, since she is omnipotent, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot she could have done it herself]].
* PalsWithJesus: The main character used to be a normal human, and kept in touch with all her friends after becoming omnipotent. In the end, she makes them all omnipotent like her.
* PerverseSexualLust: The main character speculates that her authors might feel this way about her, which understandably creeps her out. Her other hypothesis is that they are {{Godhood Seeker}}s.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor:
->The bane of my existence, the reason I can’t have the normal life I so desperately desire--and she can’t, either, now--I have because someone wanted to make a fucking ''joke''.
->But this pair of chucklefucks forgot one thing: they made us omnipotent. All-freaking-powerful. And they were so incredibly arrogant that they thought that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou it would be enough protection from our wrath to be "real" while we were "fictional"]].
->Well, they know differently now.
* SelfParody: The whole trilogy is to make fun of the authors' fondness for [[LittleMissAlmighty goddesses]] and GlowingEyes.
* ShaggyDogStory: The main character just wants her eyes to stop glowing, and at the end, she just wills this to happen. This was inevitable and PlayedForLaughs, since every character involved is omnipotent.
* ShoutOut: All the chapter titles are lines from Shakespeare's sonnets.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't make overpowered characters, because they might find out they are fictional and resent you, and drag you into their world to take revenge.
* StopWorshippingMe: The main character is very annoyed by people asking for favors and blessings and treating her differently from everyone else, which is why she wants her eyes to stop glowing so that no one knows she is omnipotent.
* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: The inability of the main character to turn off her GlowingEyes turns out to be just for narrative convenience, and nothing actually prevents her from doing so.
* TortureIsIneffective: The main character stops torturing her authors because they are unable to change her world while they are in it, so torturing them into getting rid of her glowing eyes is pointless.
* TouchedByVorlons: The main character makes her best friend omnipotent, and finds out that she herself got her powers [[NoticingTheFourthWall because two writers in another universe thought it would be funny]].
* TrappedInTVLand: The main characters bring the authors into their universe, but have to put them back because the AuthorPowers only work in the real world.
* WhamLine: The second chapter gives us this doozy, in what up to then is pure comedy:
->[[NoticingTheFourthWall "We weren't real at all."]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: The main character wants to enjoy being omnipotent, but she can't do that as long as her eyes glow and attract would-be worshippers to her. She finally gets rid of them at the end of the story, [[EarnYourHappyEnding so that she and her friends can live their lives in peace]].
* WritersSuck: The writers are characterized as pathetic creeps who get their just deserts at the hand of their own creation.
* YouWereTryingTooHard: In "Nothing Like the Sun", the main character tries everything she can think of to make her eyes stop glowing, but none of them work. "Sweet Beauty Hath No Name" reveals that this is because she never considered just willing them to stop glowing, because her authors wouldn't allow it. Instead, she [[ComplexityAddiction would close her eyes, wear sunglasses, or remove her eyes altogether]].
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