User blog:FateAlbane/Sightseeing (the) Psions - Lithia Pacifica 3

About
This blog post can also be known as "Please stop giving me work, Lithia."

Anyways, this will cover Lithia's role in the many different verses and oneshots I write about, so I don't end up filling her profile with too much information, but don't leave her like a total blank slate either. This ocurred to me in light of the recent high tier talks, since I kind of had been meaning to update her stuff properly in a long while (which I didn't have the opportunity to do before due to lacking time).

Without further ado... Summaries ahhoy!

Summary (Sightseeing Psions)
A character made by FateAlbane. She's the Villain's wife and that makes her THE BOSS of THE BOSS of the Evil Committee in the "Sightseeing Psions" verse. She's a Neutral Character in the verse... The Chosen One. The inexplicable Psion who can see "Fiction".

She's one of the two God Tiers in the verse that occasionaly duke it out, almost screwing all of existence as we know it in the process. The other one being Mnemosyne, the Ultimate Psion who kinda sorta wants to steal her husband.

But there's definitely more to her than it meets the eye...

True Nature
ONE MAJOR SPOILER FOR ALL OF MY VERSES AHEAD:

The truth of the matter is that Lithia is not simply a Psion and does not belong entirely to the Sightseeing Psions verse. While she exists as a person only on this verse, she is also the existence chosen by the Alkahest for the purpose of being "The Narrator" on all others. One who oversees all with Absolute Authority like that of an author over fiction. See here for further and more detailed explanation regarding the kind of being that Lithia actually is.

For a long time it was not revealed in any of my works (that has been changing with time), but no matter the series, Lithia is always the "character" behind the narration of my verses. Hence the reason why she has an existential condition of being High 1-A and extremely above any other of my characters, sitting almost at the top in the hierarchy of the world, limited only by the Alkahest.

In Sightseeing Psions, she may abuse her power if she loses her cool, however... And more often than not, the consequences come close to being catastrophic - to say the least. She's usually able to make things right again just as easily as she turns the world into a mess, though.

Originally, I kinda didn't want to reveal this but I felt like it wouldn't be really that right to have her here and justified to be Tier 1 without the truth behind her nature. Peace.

Summary (Mirage Saga)
While she doesn't appear as Lithia outside of a few cameos,she still appears as the OR on a few major occasions, outside of being the unseen "omniscient narrator" of the verse.

Lithia Cameos:

 * In the Nil counseling arc, Galathea accidentally bumps on her. Considering she was a stronger Abysstract, she wonders why that person didn't seem to be affected in the slightest by any form of mental or spiritual erasure. Sensing something is amiss but assuming that to have something do to with the Mirage World, she simply apologizes and soon ignores the event.
 * In the Academy arc, she is occasionally referred as "a somewhat familiar teacher", who seems to be more worried about keeping her own classes and assignments in order than the problems of the world at large. Her name is never mentioned, however - there's some kind of "catch" within the plot where, whenever someone would name her, something happens.

As the OR/Idea:
Her role as the OR is a more significant one.

After making his resolution, Weiss (now merged with the Drive) notices by chance that there is absolutely no record of that Particular teacher in anything pertaining to the world and he soon finds out that even trying to obtain answers about her being through supernatural means fails.

Soon realizing that this should be absolutely impossible for any nameless teacher, he goes on to search Lithia, hoping to directly confront her... Only to realize the very world was breaking down into literal undulations around him, as if the fabric of existence was "Resonating with something".

Weiss suddenly felt "as if he was living within a mere fold of a ripple disturbed by the particle of a raindrop amidst a fierce, yet gentle storm".

...That one fold of a single ripple was already far more than he, even at the height of his current power, could ever hope to comprehend in that world of Undulation and Reflections.

Dwelling within that plane without truly distinguishing Reality from the Unreal, he eventually met with a lower manifestation of the OR, who summoned his comrades there all the same.

After a prolonged talk, where it questioned them how "right" or "wrong" Erika was in her ideals, it finally revealed the origin of MMM:

It was a power hailing from the Final Plane of Alkahest, superior even to Visions. The Idea stated that in any situation, asking for it to remove the power was pointless, leaving the ultimate nature of the power open for interpretation, out of two reasonable possibilities: ...Precisely because of that, the Idea was actually amused watching Weiss's comrades trying to figure out the answer. It was a self-evident truth that for better or worse, that difference wasn't even substantial from where they stood, even if it was a clear one.
 * 1) Much like the IIL that the two of them possessed, the Idea made the power. Not in the sense of "giving it to a lower being", but in a way that the power works as a literal extension of the OR - i. e.: trying to prevent it would be akin to interfering with or attempting to resist the Idea itself, in its full capacity. Or...
 * 2) ...Mirror Mirrors Me is a Resonance straight from the Alkahest, residing on the very plane where the Idea originally resonated from. The one thing the Idea lacks enough significance to compare. In either case, it would be in a state of Perpetual Resonance like nothing else could possibly be - meaning a comparable power to the source would be necessary to try and prevent it from working.
 * 3) ...Which needless to say, is a fool's errand for anyone in the continuity.

That's also the reason why the Idea does not favor speaking, favoring the act of influencing the Flows of Creation behind the scenes - whenever it talks to others, they soon misinterpret its intentions, further losing sight of truths that should be clear for anyone to see... Thus, its desire of providing Guidance produces better results for all if it works through its own means and ways.

With one exception, rather than being enlightned by meeting it, others never seem to gain anything from the experience - they end up becoming even more ignorant. So the Idea set up a course for any and all Worlds, with a desired outcome in mind. However, much like an author may decide to alter an event before the story proper finishes (or how they may decide to change it after its finished, but before it's revealed to others in favor of some twist), it too has considered allowing for different outcomes to be achieved.

Thus, it decided to let others "spin the Wheels of Fate in a different direction", by granting them powers that could, perhaps, change the course of many worlds. The power to Resonate under the right conditions and at particular events called "Providence" (an example of that, would be much like when Gale and some of his friends managed to enter an Overdrive State to fight back against Prime Unis, even if he had to pay the consequences later).

Based on that belief, the OR didn't try to hide from anyone that it favored Erika's victory over theirs, as there seems to be a particular thing in regards to her being that piques her interest. What that could possibly be, it's an "Incognita" - a truth that may not be revealed within the boundaries of a single "Chronicle".

Despite all that, Weiss claimed he would fight to the end, overthrowing the conclusion the OR itself favored if need be. Despite his clear "challenge", the Idea simply chuckled, reminding him that even that very attitude of his was something that *It* stablished before he could fathom his own existence, much less this meeting.

Finally, the OR assured him that the end he achieves will certainly be a corresponding one to how far he's willing to go on "the effort of validating his defiance of Fate" before leaving with her puzzling words - her basis and foundation, of the Codex of the World:

"The price of yourself is power. The price of power is yourself. Fate is unchanging, but that does not mean life is to be lived without Hope... Now. I stay by your side and against you, yet I take my leave. Even those consigned to execution, are allowed time to make peace with themselves... Or despair, with a lost purpose."

Lithia herself disappeared from the history and the Idea wasn't seen ever since then.

It was revealed however, that Erika frequently met it in the Lucid Dreams she had at certain times of the story.

Others

 * In the short histories focusing on Evergreen, she makes a few cameos as Lithia. The titular character Evergreen actually prays to her once thinking she's a goddess, when she was really just helping out the shrine maiden. Lithia herself becomes a confidant to Evergreen's worries about her future and relations to a few other minor gods, though the subject of her identity is never touched in this story.
 * The OR makes an appearance/cameo at the very end of Hazardystopia, in a vision N. A. O. M. I. has, though nothing about it is recognized.
 * Never really mentioned or identified in other oneshots. It only appears through the "lens" of the narration.