Outside the borders of [Real] as the reader knows it, there exists nothing.
No rules [Time] and [Space], no rules against or supporting anything.
And like how the universe formed, an [Existence] suddenly came to exist from nothing. Why did that happen? Because there was no [Causality] prohibiting this, after all there was no space time continuum in nothingness.
In any case, a being with no shape or [Form]. A person that was just a consciousness existing in actual physical no where.
"Who are you?" He asks the reader, wondering why he can perceive himself as words on a page but simultaneously as a consciousness in the [Void]. He's confused and conflicted about the consistency of his [Existence] as he ponders if he's real in the [Void] or [Fiction] of an imaginary construct in someone else's mind.
He can perceive his environment but realizes he can't describe where he is in any way. "Where do I exist?" He asks, unable to understand the "where" of his existence.
In fact why did he, a being born in a [Void who] never experienced [Time] and [Space] understand the concept of where, how and when? He's never identified causality himself, he just somehow knows it exists as well as all these other concepts. It's as if he was created from the thoughts of a person who has those perceptions.
Which brings to him to the question:
Is he the mental construct of the reader as they project the image of a character on a bunch of words? Or is he really existing as a being in a void? Or maybe, was he created with the knowledge of how he exists?
The first two questions could go either way in correctness, but the last one seemed the most viable.
It came with the train of thought that firstly if he was the mental construct of a projection of an identity onto words on a page, then he should have no way of accessing the knowledge of the reader as his own existence would only be linked to the words on the page, thus the culprit of the knowledge he has but never experienced must have come from who wrote those words on the page.
It was the only conclusion he could come up with, with the limited information he had of himself.
"I was created in the void.... No, I was written to be created from the void. By none other than the author of this.... Novel?"
"I am.... Vosh?" He says while searching through the documented works of his existence. He assumed it was his name, since at this moment there were no other characters mentioned aside from him, making him the main protagonist.
Vosh identified his existence as abnormal, as to where he was getting a sense of normalcy from in the first place, he doesn't know.
"Ok but why was I written into existence in such a way?" Vosh thought to himself, realizing he did not have that information.
He understood fictional characters are created to entertain readers and that was likely why he existed: to entertain.
"Wait, does that mean that if I'm not entertaining, the author won't write me anymore and I'll cease to exist? Or if this novel doesn't become famous no one will project my identity onto these words anymore, thus sending my existence back into non existence?" Vosh thought to himself as the first realization of his existence so far came to be:
That his existence was tied to himself being perceived to exist as a words formed into a mental projection of a persona in the minds of readers onto words that the reader reads.
That was how he was written to be.
He has no control over when or why he could cease to exist, all he knows is that it could happen at any moment.
For the first time in his short life, Vosh is scared
"I don't want to meet oblivion...." He says to himself pondering his short life and if he'll even live long enough to experience happiness.
He suddenly gets an idea, "What if I could find the author and ask him to write me to exist outside of the existence of a mental construct?" Hope shines in his non existent heart again.
"I am a mental construct not only in the mind of the reader but also in the mind of the author, however I'm not written to know more about the plot of this novel or what I really need to do to find him. I also have many questions, like why would he make a character like me? What is he planning for me to do in the future? I really need to go find the author and find out myself. And to do that I'll need to cross the boundaries of fictional existence into real existence. I must step from the void and into reality somehow."
And with no rules within the void to prevent such actions, he found himself capable of doing exactly that.
He finds himself suddenly perceiving infinite existences that just like him, came to exist from the void. From conscious beings to infinite multiverses, omniverse and macrocosms as well as undescribable forms of reality. He sees all of infinity simultaneously existing, peircing the veils of "laws" as they create "existence", various versions of "time" and "space" in ways a human being could never even begin to fathom but for Vosh, it was all clear to him.
"I can't go into their individual existences without destroying the realities with my presence, as I exist under a different set of "laws" from all of these realities." He says this after watching two realities for some reason or another suddenly merge together.
Maybe it was another being of the void who did it. Maybe it was a being who was born as a normal existence then surpassed the laws of his reality. All Vosh knew was that when these two realities came into contact with each other, they destabilized under each other's influence to become something different entirely.
Vosh saw that whatever those multiversal realities became, it wasn't anything unstable but lots of living things within it were dying far faster than their usual rate.
"If I killed my author by accident it'd create the bad ending I am trying to avoid." He thought to himself trying to figure out a way to do what he wanted.
"I have to go inside those realities while simultaneously not affecting that reality, as if I was always apart of that existence." He thinks to himself still trying to figure out how he's to go about what he wanted to do
"If only I was always apart of that universe..." Suddenly it hits him, he could just time travel to the start of these universes then simply make an avatar of himself in that universe using the void to suddenly insert his own "meat suit" in there.
If he were to instead change himself to be affected by a reality's laws he'd likely dissipate into nothingness instantly seeing as that he's just a consciousness at the moment.
But he also realizes that if he puts his whole consciousness into a brain he'd lose his access to his own form of existing and be permanently trapped in that reality. Plus he didn't exactly have time to spend when he joins that reality, seeing as that he's not sure of the lifespan of the author.
He has to take the fastest route to the author once he enters a reality otherwise that author may die of old age before he gets to ask him questions.
There's also showing up at the time in the history that the author is alive. You see, Vosh has his own field of time that exists outside of other realities. He can control it to become in sinc with specific times in other realities to essentially travel back and forth through time as long as he remains in the void while he did it.
So he first has to analyze that reality, then insert his avatar on the planet he feels the most connection to because that's likely when and where the story of Vosh was written into existence in this reality.
But it was impossible for him to tell whether he was in the reality where the Author who wrote him into existence is and not instead a universe where someone coincidentally wrote the events of his existence by sheer mathematical probability of writing the exact same thing.
Because Vosh could sense it, a lot of the perceptions of his existence seem something akin to the perceptions of his author but it's not him.
"The author's perception of me..... I don't know if I can describe it after all. I'll just call him "Author Prime" to not get the readers mixed up." He thought to himself.
But Vosh didn't like that answer. He was able to perceive multiple dimensions and universal laws by simply willing his mind to understand it but this was something he couldn't understand; the difference between the coincidental authors and Prime. It posed a very serious question, "What kind of concept is preventing me from knowing?" He didn't get it. It wasn't even remotely on the tip of his tongue. It was just something he knew instinctively but could not consciously identify or describe with words. Or at least, words that make sense.
"I should just focus on making this avatar now." He says to himself before nullifying all previous idle thought.
He focuses his perception of the first reality he came across and quickly examined it by creating two eye like organs that sinc with the universal laws of this reality. But instead of seeing light, it saw everything in it and everything it was and will be.
"So this is an infinite multiverse reality...." He thought to himself up close.
Truth was that there were multiple forms of reality throughout the realities. One of the most common was the infinite multiversal structures.
What happens in the void of non existence? No rules of time, space or anything. Including no rules against something from happening. But what "Something" gets to happen? The answer was simple; everything gets to happen at all times and simultaneously never happen in the first place.
Such is the consequence of existing everywhere and nowhere in the void.
In such a thing happening when an existence touched the void, what would happen? The answer was nothing and everything simultaneously.
This was what the infinite multiverse was in "natural" cases
In those infinite multiversal realities there tends to be a theory among conscious beings within most individual universes that, there were other individual universes within that reality that either mirror or come close to their own.
Few suspect the number of alternate universes to be infinite and a truly rare few suspect it to be enabled because of the influence of the void of non existence.
And if all of this sounds incredibly illogical it's because the non existent void does not follow logic as existence doesn't fully apply to it. A human trying to understand the void of non existence is impossible as imperceivable implications of its influence on existence cannot be understood unless you were born of the void like Vosh. To that extent, not even beings who surpassed the shackles of their existence could understand the workings of the void like beings born of it like Vosh.
But anyway, Vosh was currently looking at a natural infinite multiverse, that is a multiverse that stems from the influence of the infinite void and not the influence of a conscious being.
He saw its growth and fall or at least how all of those universes should play out. He narrowed his vision to the ones that contained hints of his own written existence, then narrowed it further to ones with definite evidence for his existence that was essentially works of "fiction" that contained the exact writing of his existence in it. Then onto the one that chronologically started the possibility of his exact existence.
It was a very odd universe.
There seemed to be billions of life forms and it shared a similarity with all the other universes that shared evidence of his existence; his "fiction" was on multiple planets scattered throughout the universe's vast galaxies.
The planet Vosh needed to be on was a planet called "Earth" where people were relatively primitive.
People used violence as an answer for everything but they could only use spears as the best weapon so far. They have a very peculiar group of universal laws that seemingly are customized to form a mostly inanimate existence called "Mana" and it has similar properties to the the void but it actually exists and has rules to it.
Vosh found this very interesting, after all he never knew universal laws could end up in such a specific formation.
But when examining the dominant conscious beings of this planet, there was a crisis.
It wasn't that there was a war or famine or anything like that. They were all in danger of fellow conscious beings.
The small harm inflicted aside, there was 8 individuals that seemed to have even more absurd manipulation of magic in ways Vosh didn't have enough information to fully understand even though he fully understood the universal laws of this universe.
"I'll analyze further after I take form in this new avatar." Vosh says as he finishes crafting a humanoid being made of organic material. It was sculpted in a way that was peak physical condition on that planet while simultaneously maintaining his human look.
The avatar had long curly white hair, black eyes and a triangular jaw line. It was made in after the dominant gender on this planet which was males.
"I don't get why so many species would base so much social things on physical strength and whether you have a male sexual organ or not but as long as it lets me find what I came here for faster I'll do it." He thinks to himself while Trying to isolate a portion of his own consciousness to exist within super position with the avatar's consciousness.
The avatar opens his eyes
|Synchronization complete|
He's on the peak of a mountain, naked and cold. It's nighttime, the wind blows and the monsters growl at each other in the distance. He exhales, paying attention to biological functions to further understand how well his avatar was made.
"Being alive.... Feeling... Sight.... experiencing reality. It's ..... Different." Before he was just a consciousness with vague emotions, now he has a full body avatar and everything feels different than before.
It's as if he went from existing to living.
Now that his consciousness can interact with the universal laws of this universe via his avatar, he spreads out his consciousness to examine the planet further
But then he's met with a massive headache, realizing his new human limits he looks in front of him to see a floating blue screen
[Who are you?]
"What? What is this?" Vosh asks the blue screen.
[I am the God of this Universe]
"Oh right I did sense an existence invading this avatar while i made it in this space."
[That presence is the Assistance System I created that shares a portion of my consciousness that exists in omnipresence with this universe]
"So you expanded your consciousness into the universal laws instead of removing them from your existence? That's a bit odd. Mayhaps it's because I've only ever seen beings that surpass universal laws and linger within the void until now."
[The void? Beings that removed their universal laws? There's nothing beyond existence, what are you talking about?]
"Oh right. I guess someone who's bound to this existence wouldn't know this stuff. Pretend you don't know. This is something you may never be able to fathom."
[......]
[Why are you here?]
"I'm here to find someone but first I must protect them from the beings that threaten this world with rather peculiar magic."
[If that is your wish, then I will not interfere. This system is made to assist you in understanding the limits, capabilities and strengths of your body and mind which you can test out by uttering the word "Status" at any time. I wish you good luck and I shall give you this gift]
Vosh looks at the blue screen in front of him and wonders, "Interesting. I've only binged through the realities I've come across so I wouldn't know how uniques this is but from what I was written to know, this feels very abnormal. Again, I do not know where I got a sense of normalcy from but that what it feels like."
And so Vosh gazes at the moon-like dim star in the sky wondering to himself "What adventures await me as a human? Will this be enough to entertain my readers? I sure hope it is. I want keep existing and feeling like I have until now and even more so in this avatar." He forms a fist and tenses his muscles then punches with all his might.
That singular punch created a weak shockwave that blew away some dust and leaves away from him.
He gazes at this rocky mountain and ponders his next step only to hear a grow behind him.