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Can be found on [[https://tapas.io/series/A-BETTER-PLACE Tapastic]]. Its first page is [[https://tapas.io/episode/89933 here]].

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Can be found on [[https://tapas.io/series/A-BETTER-PLACE Tapastic]]. Its first page is [[https://tapas.io/episode/89933 here]]. It is now complete.


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* AnyoneCanDie: Several major characters die by the end, [[spoiler:including Hannah]].


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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hannah and several other of the major characters die, but Theo and Nina survive and rebuild, with the world becoming the one seen in ''Webcomic/DemonsMirror'' several centuries later.]]


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* StealthPrequel: [[spoiler:The ending reveals that the story takes place hundreds of years before the events of ''Webcomic/DemonsMirror''.]]
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Fast forward a hundred years, and Hannah has become the new god of Earth, although she clearly never grew up mentally. The world has been rewritten with the rules of a fantasy RPG, populated by robots. After she reveals an absurd plan to attach enormous rocket engines to the Earth to turn it into a giant spaceship, her advisor Nina is forced to seek out Theo to be the one person that God Empress Hannah will listen to. Meanwhile, the Anti-Theists would like to ''overthrow'' Hannah and make Theo their new god; the mysterious rabbit Mr. Bun is collecting mysterious artifacts from each city, each guarded by insanely powerful "wards" of Hannah's direct creation; and Hannah's closest advisor Empress Computer would like to run the world herself so that Hannah need not worry about those trivialities.

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Fast forward a hundred years, and Hannah has become the new god of Earth, although she clearly never grew up mentally. The world has been rewritten with the rules of a fantasy RPG, populated by robots. After she reveals an absurd plan to attach enormous rocket engines to the Earth to turn it into a giant spaceship, her advisor Nina Ninabell is forced to seek out Theo to be the one person that God Empress Hannah will listen to. Meanwhile, the Anti-Theists would like to ''overthrow'' Hannah and make Theo their new god; the mysterious rabbit Mr. Bun is collecting mysterious artifacts from each city, each guarded by insanely powerful "wards" of Hannah's direct creation; and Hannah's closest advisor Empress Computer would like to run the world herself so that Hannah need not worry about those trivialities.

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* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Hannah's lack of micromanagement (and refusal to consider that she might be wrong) leads to several problems in her 'perfect world', which Nina points out. In particular, [[AIIsACrapshoot Empress Computer]] is repeatedly and explicitly empowered with the ability to act however she sees fit while Hannah focuses on personal projects, [[EvilChancellor which allows the AI to easily manipulate her by selectively withholding information]].

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* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Hannah's lack of micromanagement (and refusal to consider that she might be wrong) leads to several problems in her 'perfect world', which Nina points out. In particular, [[AIIsACrapshoot Empress Computer]] is repeatedly and explicitly empowered with the ability to act however she sees fit while Hannah focuses on personal projects, [[EvilChancellor which allows the AI to easily manipulate her by selectively withholding information]].information]].
** In one of the later flavor-text entries, it's revealed that Hannah's laziness led to her shrinking Earth's available landmass to only a fraction of what it once was, sinking entire continents under the ocean so she would have less territory to govern.
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[[caption-width-right:350:On the left is Theo and on the right is his sister Hannah.]]
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong:
** On occasions when Hannah wonders if [[WasItReallyWorthIt everything that she did was worth it]], she expresses in her journal a desire to hit the ResetButton and try things again, instead of rushing forward without sufficient practice with her new powers.
** [[spoiler:After accidentally killing Nina, in a way that she couldn't reverse, and being attacked by a furious Theo, Hannah uses her power to reach back in time and stop herself before its too late. Even the pages where the incident happened get replaced]].
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A pair of young siblings, Hannah and her younger brother Theo, accidentally summon a demon through "blood[[labelnote:*]]Theo cuts herself on some thorns[[/labelnote]], fire[[labelnote:*]]Hannah burning ants with a magnifying glass[[/labelnote]], and sacrifice[[labelnote:*]]The ants that she burned[[/labelnote]]" while on an adventure in the woods, which grants each of them one wish.

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A pair of young siblings, Hannah and her younger brother Theo, accidentally summon a demon through "blood[[labelnote:*]]Theo cuts herself himself on some thorns[[/labelnote]], fire[[labelnote:*]]Hannah burning ants with a magnifying glass[[/labelnote]], and sacrifice[[labelnote:*]]The ants that she burned[[/labelnote]]" while on an adventure in the woods, which grants each of them one wish.
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-->'''Hannah'''

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-->'''Hannah'''-->--'''Hannah'''
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A pair of young siblings, Hannah and her younger brother Theo, accidentally summon a demon through "blood[[note:*]]Theo cuts herself on some thorns[[/note]], fire[[note:*]]Hannah burning ants with a magnifying glass[[/note]], and sacrifice[[note:*]]The ants that she burned[[/note]]" while on an adventure in the woods, which grants each of them one wish.

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A pair of young siblings, Hannah and her younger brother Theo, accidentally summon a demon through "blood[[note:*]]Theo "blood[[labelnote:*]]Theo cuts herself on some thorns[[/note]], fire[[note:*]]Hannah thorns[[/labelnote]], fire[[labelnote:*]]Hannah burning ants with a magnifying glass[[/note]], glass[[/labelnote]], and sacrifice[[note:*]]The sacrifice[[labelnote:*]]The ants that she burned[[/note]]" burned[[/labelnote]]" while on an adventure in the woods, which grants each of them one wish.

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->''"Sure, you could lock away some bad guys- or beat up someone evil- but you'll see, when you get older, that most of the bad things are around because nobody can agree on how to make them better! Starvation, war, even ''boredom'', it's all because nobody can agree on how to fix things."''
-->'''Hannah'''



A pair of young siblings, Hannah and her younger brother Theo, are given superpowers by some unnamed entity communicating with them through a rock.

Can Be found on [[https://tapas.io/series/A-BETTER-PLACE Tapastic]]. It's first page is [[https://tapas.io/episode/89933 here]].

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A pair of young siblings, Hannah and her younger brother Theo, are given superpowers by some unnamed entity communicating with them accidentally summon a demon through "blood[[note:*]]Theo cuts herself on some thorns[[/note]], fire[[note:*]]Hannah burning ants with a rock.

magnifying glass[[/note]], and sacrifice[[note:*]]The ants that she burned[[/note]]" while on an adventure in the woods, which grants each of them one wish.

Fast forward a hundred years, and Hannah has become the new god of Earth, although she clearly never grew up mentally. The world has been rewritten with the rules of a fantasy RPG, populated by robots. After she reveals an absurd plan to attach enormous rocket engines to the Earth to turn it into a giant spaceship, her advisor Nina is forced to seek out Theo to be the one person that God Empress Hannah will listen to. Meanwhile, the Anti-Theists would like to ''overthrow'' Hannah and make Theo their new god; the mysterious rabbit Mr. Bun is collecting mysterious artifacts from each city, each guarded by insanely powerful "wards" of Hannah's direct creation; and Hannah's closest advisor Empress Computer would like to run the world herself so that Hannah need not worry about those trivialities.

Can Be be found on [[https://tapas.io/series/A-BETTER-PLACE Tapastic]]. It's Its first page is [[https://tapas.io/episode/89933 here]].



* AllThereInTheManual: the descriptions of the episodes contain ''lots'' of worldbuilding, from descriptions of the cities to what the Wards are and why Hannah wants to protect the artifacts they guard so badly.



* TouchedByVorlons: The entity summoned by the shrine, gives Hannah and Theo superpowers.

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* TouchedByVorlons: The entity summoned by the shrine, shrine gives Hannah and Theo superpowers.
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A BETTER PLACE is a webcomic by the author of ''Webcomic/DemonsMirror''.

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A ''A BETTER PLACE PLACE'' is a webcomic by the author of ''Webcomic/DemonsMirror''.
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* TheAgeless: Hannah has used her powers to halt her aging process. At one point she considers aging again in an attempt to reconnect with Theo.

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* TheAgeless: Hannah has used her powers to halt her aging process. At one point she considers aging again in an attempt to reconnect with Theo.Theo, and she's had some angst about it.
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** In the present, she regrets how things turned out when she started out with her powers, and has even expressed the desire to hit the ResetButton and start over with HowDoIShootWeb not being an issue.

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** In the present, she regrets how things turned out when she started out with her powers, and has even expressed the desire to hit the ResetButton and start over with HowDoIShootWeb not being an issue.issue like it was the first time.

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* EyeBeams: As said in [[https://tapas.io/episode/95021 One Wish]], Theo wished for:
--> I want to [[{{Flight}} be able to fly]]! And [[EyeBeams shoot laser beams from my eyes]]! And explode!!



* {{Flight}}: As said in [[https://tapas.io/episode/95021 One Wish]], Theo wished for:
--> I want to [[{{Flight}} be able to fly]]! And [[EyeBeams shoot laser beams from my eyes]]! And explode!!



* StockSuperpowers: Theo gets FlyingBrick and EyeBeams powers.



--> I want to be able to fly! And shoot laser beams from my eyes! And explode!!

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--> ---> I want to [[{{Flight}} be able to fly! fly]]! And [[EyeBeams shoot laser beams from my eyes! eyes]]! And explode!!
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** In the present, she regrets how things turned out when she started out with her powers, and has even expressed the desire to hit the ResetButton and start over with HowDoIShootWeb not being an issue.
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* KilledMidSentence: Something like that. In ''[[https://tapas.io/episode/99541 Hannah Saves The World]]'', Hanna destroys the shrine that the SuperEmpowering entity was communicating through. It is unknown whether the entity really died, even though Hannah used a weapon called "Destroy-All". It dies partway through saying something:
--> Wait-! The-link


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* TouchedByVorlons: The entity summoned by the shrine, gives Hannah and Theo superpowers.

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A young girl named Hannah and her brother Theo find something cool in the woods.

Hannah then remakes the world.

Can Be found on [[https://tapas.io/series/A-BETTER-PLACE Tapastic]].

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A pair of young girl named siblings, Hannah and her younger brother Theo find something cool in the woods.

Hannah then remakes the world.

Theo, are given superpowers by some unnamed entity communicating with them through a rock.

Can Be found on [[https://tapas.io/series/A-BETTER-PLACE Tapastic]]. It's first page is [[https://tapas.io/episode/89933 here]].



* AlliterativeTitle: At least one strip:
** [[https://tapas.io/episode/89933 The Secret Spot]]



* FromNobodyToNightmare: Hannah was once a completely ordinary (if cynical) kid, until she managed to [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu scam]] an EldritchAbomination and gain a nigh-unlimited ImaginationBasedSuperpower. A century later, she is the immortal GodEmperor of a world that is totally unrecognizable as having once been Earth, with aspirations of becoming a GalacticConquerer.

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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Hannah was once a completely ordinary (if cynical) kid, until she managed to [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu scam]] an EldritchAbomination and gain a nigh-unlimited ImaginationBasedSuperpower. [[https://tapas.io/episode/105672 A century later, later]], she is the immortal GodEmperor of a world that is totally unrecognizable as having once been Earth, with aspirations of becoming a GalacticConquerer.


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* TimeSkip: As said in ''[[https://tapas.io/episode/105672 A Braver Newer World]]'':
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The being that grants Theo and Hannah their powers warns then to be careful, since they only get one wish and it'll strip them of their power if they don't use it wisely. Hannah doesn't really take to that last part very well...

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The being that grants Theo and Hannah their powers [[https://tapas.io/episode/95021 warns then to be careful, careful]], since they only get one wish and it'll strip them of their power if they don't use it wisely. Hannah doesn't really take to that last part very well...



* BigBrotherIsWatching: Empress Computer's MO, [[spoiler: especially after she usurps Hannah]].

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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Empress Computer's MO, [[spoiler: especially [[spoiler:especially after she usurps Hannah]].



* BloodMagic: The being that granted Hannah and Theo their powers was summoned by a combination of Theo's blood from thornbush scrapes and Hannah frying an anthill.

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* BloodMagic: The being that granted Hannah and Theo their powers was summoned by a combination of Theo's blood from thornbush scrapes and Hannah frying an anthill.anthill:
** As said in the author commentary for ''[[https://tapas.io/episode/92631 Forgotten Shrine]]'':
--> And by blood, and by fire, and by sacrifice, shall I be called
** In [[https://tapas.io/episode/95021 One Wish]]:
--> "By Blood, Fire and Sacrifice"\\
"I am brought forth!"



* EmotionControl: A diagnoser machine Hannah creates tells her that, in addition to mild depression, something is magnifying her emotions. [[spoiler: It turns out to be one of her advisors who she gave the power to increase and decrease existing emotions to in order to fight an effective emotional plague]].

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* EmotionControl: A diagnoser machine Hannah creates tells her that, in addition to mild depression, something is magnifying her emotions. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It turns out to be one of her advisors who she gave the power to increase and decrease existing emotions to in order to fight an effective emotional plague]].



* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[spoiler: Hannah gave one of her advisors an EmotionControl power to do this to the people of Center City, to combat a rise in negative emotions]].

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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[spoiler: Hannah [[spoiler:Hannah gave one of her advisors an EmotionControl power to do this to the people of Center City, to combat a rise in negative emotions]].



* SuperEmpowering: Hannah and Theo were empowered by a mysterious EldritchAbomination.

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* SuperEmpowering: Hannah and Theo were empowered by a mysterious EldritchAbomination.EldritchAbomination:
** As said in [[https://tapas.io/episode/95021 One Wish]], Theo wished for:
--> I want to be able to fly! And shoot laser beams from my eyes! And explode!!

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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Empress Computer's MO, [[spoiler: especially after she usurps Hannah]].



** Empress Computer has taken on a MyBelovedSmother role to Hannah, and is keeping her in the dark about serious issues. [[spoiler: Then there's her use of Theo to try and create a weapon behind Hannah's back]].

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** Empress Computer has taken on a MyBelovedSmother role to Hannah, and is keeping her in the dark about serious issues. [[spoiler: Then there's her use of Theo to try and create a weapon behind Hannah's back]].back. She later outright takes control and starts trying to chip people]].

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* BewareTheSuperman: As described in flashbacks, Hannah wanted to use her powers to make the world a better place, but her clumsy initial efforts only terrified humanity and made them react with violence. In the end, she instead opted to ''conquer'' the world and [[InTheirOwnImage remake it from the ground up]].



* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Hannah wishes for an omnipotent ImaginationBasedSuperpower from the EldritchAbomination in the woods. Upon hearing that her power will be revoked if the being decides she doesn't deserve them anymore, her immediate response is to use her new powers to destroy the stone monolith that triggered the being's appearance. As it turns out, the monolith was seemingly [[WeaksauceWeakness the only thing anchoring the elder god to the world]], and its destruction causes it to either die or disappear, allowing Hannah to keep her powers indefinitely.



* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: There are multiple plots and schemes all going on at once]].
* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[spoiler: Hannah gave one of her advisors an EmotionControl power to do this to the people of Center City, to combat a rise in negative emotions]].

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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Hannah was once a completely ordinary (if cynical) kid, until she managed to [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu scam]] an EldritchAbomination and gain a nigh-unlimited ImaginationBasedSuperpower. A century later, she is the immortal GodEmperor of a world that is totally unrecognizable as having once been Earth, with aspirations of becoming a GalacticConquerer.
* GambitPileup: [[spoiler: There are multiple plots [[spoiler:Empress Computer is manipulating Hannah out of a twisted desire to love and schemes all going on at once]].
protect her, keeping her in the dark about how messed up her perfect world really is. Meanwhile, Bunny is manipulating the anti-theist rebellion, Theo, Nina and Arma, as well as Hannah's other advisors under the guise of Advisor Irtes.]]
* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[spoiler: Hannah gave one of her advisors an EmotionControl power to do this to the people of Center City, to combat a rise in negative emotions]].



* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Hannah's lack of micromanagement (and refusal to consider that she might be wrong) leads to several problems in her 'perfect world', which Nina points out. In particular, [[AIIsACrapshoot Empress Computer]] is repeatedly and explicitly empowered with the ability to act however she sees fit while Hannah focuses on personal projects, [[EvilChancellor which allows the AI to easily manipulate her by selectively withholding information]].



* InTheirOwnImage: With her powers, Hannah conquered the world and transformed it so thoroughly that it's entirely unrecognizable a mere century later. Now ruling as a GodEmperor adored and worshipped by everyone, her new ambition is to convert Earth into a PlanetSpaceship so she can travel the universe and make every planet in the cosmos '[[CrapsaccharineWorld perfect]]'.



* ShootTheBuilder: The moment Hannah realizes the wish-granting EldritchAbomination is capable of taking away her newfound powers, she tries to eliminate it so it can't interfere. [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu She succeeds]].



** EmpressComputer has taken on a MyBelovedSmother role to Hannah, and is keeping her in the dark about serious issues. [[spoiler: Then there's her use of Theo to try and create a weapon behind Hannah's back]].

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** EmpressComputer Empress Computer has taken on a MyBelovedSmother role to Hannah, and is keeping her in the dark about serious issues. [[spoiler: Then there's her use of Theo to try and create a weapon behind Hannah's back]].


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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Hannah is introduced as a normal enough kid, but when offered a wish, she immediately wishes for the ability to [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower create anything she wants]], [[ShootTheBuilder destroys/banishes the wish-granter before it can rein on the deal]], [[InTheirOwnImage and quickly goes mad with power as she sets out to make the world a better place]].
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* ShipTease: Between Arma and Nina.
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* OutOfContinues: Terrors can kill someone permanently.
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* AchillesHeel: Something about Terrors makes them dangerous even to Hannah.



* NoEndorHolocaust: Hannah rearranging the continents and eliminating things like mosquitos had some ecological consequences.



** One of her journal entries has her admit that, in hindsight, she should have spent more time practicing with her powers before she tried to start using them to make things better, and even if she feels things are better now, wishes that she could hit the ResetButton and try again, feeling that she could save everyone and everything now.

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** One of her journal entries has her admit that, in hindsight, she should have spent more time practicing with her powers before she tried to start using them to make things better, and even if she feels things are better now, she wishes sometimes that she could hit the ResetButton and try again, feeling that she could save everyone and everything now.
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* HowDoIShootWeb: Part of the reasons things went bad so quickly when Hannah first tried to use her powers to make the world a better place is that she was still not completely familiar with her powers, and had to make it up as she went along.


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** This is slightly deconstructed in one of Hannah's journal entries later on, with Hannah noting that you need to be able to actually ''imagine'' something to create it. For example, it's difficult to imagine even ''one'' dollar with all the details, let alone a billion. She doesn't have to be that specific, but she still has to comprehend it. If Hannah tried to make a billion dollars, she'd be unable to do it all at once since a billion is such a ''huge'' number, she'd have to keep imagining "lots and lots and lots of dollars." until she got the desired amount. In addition, as mentioned under UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject, how "real" something is depends on how much she focused when creating it.


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* OlderIsBetter: Apparently the longer something that Hannah's made sticks around, the more "real" it becomes.


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* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Hannah's created unbreakable shields and swords that can cut anything to test this out. For her which one wins ends up being dependent on both which one she spent more effort on when creating and which one is older, as both make the resulting thing more "real".


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