Topic - Relationships of ability manifestation, ability's awakening period, users' awareness, & power level of ability?

[LilTV1155]

This is something noticed in anime, manga, webtoons, and stories where the peers' reaction to the protagonist's ability in terms of uniqueness and power, adventures, and fight scenes are shown from a protagonist's perspective. (MC = Main Character)

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Scenario 1. MC-A is weak and powerless because he did not awaken his ability unlike his peer before or after puberty at the age of 14. Until this MC-A get thrown into a life-threatening situation where MC-A must face off against armies of monsters and brute force villains.

He ends up awakening his special ability/abilities from himself and manifest them directly, at the age of 29. Then he easily defeats or drives away his enemies during a curb-stomp battle scene.

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Question 1.
Are the awakened powers of the late-bloomers like MC-A always too powerful and volatile, or suddenly explosive in force and speed when the ability manifest itself?

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Scenario 2. MC-B is engaged to an Ex, who had a decent or higher class background, for two reasons - politics and the marriage arrangers' desire for more power, money, and elevating their status. MC-B got her engagement broken off, socially ruined, publicly humiliated, deprived of her assets, and ousted from her homeland into foreign lands by the Ex, his accomplice gang, and his affair partner on the ground of being cursed without a divine blessing.

It is revealed in the foreign lands, that MC-B's divine blessing was saintly superior but has indirect manifest with weak visible effects. MC-B is able to purify the cursed lands and toxins in one go.

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Question 2.
If there are already awakened abilities that doesn't manifest well or have any impressive visual effects like MC-B's saint ability, then what is the power level of these indirect manifest abilities?

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Scenario 3. MC-C is an adventurer, who is an overlooked member in the Hero's party and used to be exploited for a large variety of tasks that the party members would not do. He is ousted from the party by a majority vote for being the weakest link and a burden of shame incapable of supporting the party in combat with his ability. Thus MC-C lost his reputation as an adventurer and went solo for a while and met a new party.

MC-C is recognized as the strongest and practical member by his new party since he was forced to conceal his ability due to its association with Darkness element and its destructive potentials in mental and physical fields where he could leave a villa-sized crater and kill targets in horror-gruesome manners just from having his shadow consume or damage the target's shadow. But MC-C is still weak to other element like Light that can counter his ability's element.

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Question 3.
Are direct manifestation abilities that have been willingly concealed by their users, considered to be the strongest or just weak compared to other abilities like MC-A and MC-B?

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Question 4.
What are your opinions on the relationships between the manifestation of ability, awareness of ability's user, the power level of ability, and the awakening period of ability?

 

[TsumiHokiro]

This is something noticed in anime, manga, webtoons, and stories where the peers' reaction to the protagonist's ability in terms of uniqueness and power, adventures, and fight scenes are shown from a protagonist's perspective. (MC = Main Character)

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What you ask for is a much of not if: Authors wants their MCs to have cool skills because for the heck of it. There is no other reason than if not that. Let us begin?

Question 1.
Are the awakened powers of the late-bloomers like MC-A always too powerful and volatile, or suddenly explosive in force and speed when the ability manifest itself?

There is no correlation here. An MC gets as much power as they need for the situation the author wants to arise in the situation. If the author wants to make the situation be one where the MC has lost control of it and makes it a journey of growth, it will make the MC explode their power, losing control out of it, and later the MC will have to learn how to control it. If the author wants to make it something that the MC quickly knows how to use, they will simply make it as if it was as if they had always known how to use it. It all depends on the scenario the author had when they wrote the scene.

Question 2.
If there are already awakened abilities that doesn't manifest well or have any impressive visual effects like MC-B's saint ability, then what is the power level of these indirect manifest abilities?

You are comparing an MC's ability with another. The kind of scenario you have just explained dictates that the abilities are required to be at least of the same level, or the MC's be superior. You will rarely find novels where an MC, in this case, is presented with an ability that is below superior. Even your own words have already dictated it to be such.

Question 3.
Are direct manifestation abilities that have been willingly concealed by their users, considered to be the strongest or just weak compared to other abilities like MC-A and MC-B?

Why should they be weak, or even should they be strong? They are all situational, as you have just described yourself. Unless you have described an ability that is unfocused and has no restrictions, it will always be limited in application. And I mean the kind of thing that only Gods are supposed to have. In this case, it will all depend on how well people are applying their powers. Does concealing their abilities actually makes them stronger in this? That should be the relevant question. Most of the time, hidden skills are stronger because you have the surprise element by your side, not because they are actually any stronger. Its proper name is called Initiative in tactics, and people should know how to differentiate it from what is a strong ability and a weak ability.

Question 4.
What are your opinions on the relationships between the manifestation of ability, awareness of ability's user, the power level of ability, and the awakening period of ability?

Finally, the real question I had been itching to answer. Screw any logical thinking. If you were to make real logical thinking here, you would see that in no way in hell would our MCs have reason to have such cool powers.

Your scenario describes the typical failure of a human being who has for some reason suddenly found themselves with enough power to overthrow the universe when they had to deal with more trouble than usual for some reason. This is a power fantasy. People who usually do not feel they have enough in life are looking for a place to dump their worries, and they need a wish fulfilment novel to supply their needs. So here comes our usual MC who has otherwise failed in life and suddenly discovers they have more than enough power to actually make a difference in their life from now on. Forget their pesky boss, they will now find great SPOUSES.

Do you really think there is to be any SOUND relation between ability awakening period, the way of its manifestation, whether people are aware of it and its power level? In any world where things were to follow any sound logic, our MC would be the most predictable of people, and would be someone that you would be unable to project your power fantasies into. They would be a failure of a web novel MC. In fact, even in any sort of Comics, this kind of MC is a failure! People do not want to consume this kind of MC. They want people who are actually everything that does not follow SOUND logic.

Therefore, you can be sure that the more bizarre our MC's ability is, the more likely you are to found it to be the MC of a story. Unless you are reading a very, VERY niche story. One that is probably not going to appeal to many.

Also, this should not have been posted in Artist if you wanted for answers. I'm not sure many Artists are likely to answer questions better suited to Writers or to General public.

 

[LilTV1155]

@TsumiHokiro , T:T__T:T I apologize. I just realized that my thread was posted at Artist General instead of Author General section and I have no idea on how to change it. I might have to ask @Tony for helps.

@Tony , I mis-posted my thread in the wrong section of the forum. Can you move it to Author General instead of Artist General please?

 

[greyblob]

good to see you back