Plotbunny for Free to Good Home

[extrapenguin]

There is a theory that our universe is only a simulation. There's some probability stuff (one universe with sentients can technically create an infinite amount of computer simulation universes) and some other stuff (the fact that the outcomes of some quantum mechanics things depend on whether the thing is observed) that gets trotted out as evidence pro, but as the truth of this hypothesis doesn't affect my life in the slightest, I don't really give a fuck.

Except, of course, in the realm of plotbunnies.

Zhao Yunlan at one point outright asks Shen Wei whether they're just characters in a book; why not have the Guardian-verse be a computer simulation of planetary ecological development under various conditions, where they got funding by making "reality TV" out of these simulated worlds' events? Then the creations would rage against the capricious gods and want compensation for their part in the circus performance of the bread and circuses. Epistemology, breaking the fourth wall, and thoughts on the rights of non-flesh-and-blood sentients! What's not to like? Please take this plotbunny off my hands so I can with clear conscience concentrate on my 520 assignment and Ye Zun plotbunnies.

Comments

[floating_hell]

I really love the idea of fictional characters realizing they're fictional and deciding to rebel against their 'gods'. I think this would be super cool! I would love for someone to write what would happen if the characters met the actors who played them and had a 'YOU think you're me? Really???' moment.

[extrapenguin]

It would be super cool, yes – but I don't think I have the writing chops or presence of mind/time to write this currently, alas. As I wrote, plotbunny free for good home. :P