Random TLOS Thoughts

The Portal Potion

Okay the Portal Potion is really cool and all that, but don't you think it's a little too perfect?

Imagine if it got out into the open world. People would take their favourite characters out and date them and there would be a thousand of those characters. People could write about endless piles of money and take them out. Same with absolutely anything. You could create your own significant other from scratch and make them automatically like you! You can take your OCs out and talk with them!

There won't be any needs for movie adaptations from books. After all, you can just whip up an invisibility cloak in another story and enter the one you want to visit. You'll have a perfect cast and every quote will be the exact same one from the book!

People could go into books and live their life there. People could create their own perfect world with no problems and live there (given they write about a world that will never end)! The problems and possibilities are endless.

The world would be corrupted with greed. Nothing would work anymore. It's like hacking a game and giving you infinite materials. Heck, you could even write about a potion for immortality and drink it and live forever!

You won't know what's the truth anymore. You can write about a clone of somebody and take them out to replace the real person! You can create a machine to alter everyone's memories and actually do it! You can write about food and take them all out to solve food shortage!

Taking those problems aside, let's deal with the technicalities.

Firstly, how does time work? If your story starts at midnight and it's morning, is the time inside the story morning (before the story happens) or midnight? And also, if a timeskip takes place, do you magically find yourself transported to the future? And if a flashback happens, do you see the flashback or you just see the character having a flashback? And how about prologues that take place in the future? Take TLOS 6 for example. At first, you're attending an eighty-year-old Conner's birthday party, and then, you suddenly skip to the main events of TLOS 6?

And, how about fanfiction? I mean, you can print it out and use the potion. But, how about fanfictions of comics and cartoons and anime? Using a fanfiction of a comic series as an example, if you jump into that fanfiction, will the characters look like real people or comic people? And will they treat you weirdly because you don't look like someone from a comic book?

How about very specific details? Like, you write about a crowd passing by, but you never really described the crowd, did you? So what language would they speak? What clothes will they wear? What colour will their skin be? By extension, if you write about a character but didn't specify their skin colour, what colour would they have? As the author imagined? Or by random?

And will the quality of the worlds inside the books vary depending on the quality of writing? For example, will a book with very poor world building have visible gaps in their world, kinda like if you walked into a computer glitch? And if you give really vague descriptions of things, will they look really simple, or as the author had imagined?

We know that spelling mistakes affect the elements in the story (as seen in TLOS 5), but how about spelling mistakes that form words that don't exist? What happens then?

And also, as mentioned in my lesser known crackfic "How TLOS 6 Should Go", Conner could just write about an all-powerful magic wand that could reverse any curse, and use the Portal Potion on it. He could take the wand out to return Alex to normal, instead of doing a ton of other stuff. I mean, the book would be more interesting and definitely longer, but that's quite a loophole there.