Mavors v Atkins and Other Official Fanboy Questions

An unwary reader writes in and asks:

Here’s a couple of John C. Wright Official Fanboy Questions that I’ve been wondering about, and since this is a post regarding your actual work (as opposed to other topics, like eschatology, morality or Catwoman), I felt here might be an apt place to ask them, should you feel like answering:

1) Who would win in a fight: Lord Mavors (assuming he didn’t automatically decree the outcome of the battle to be in his favor) or Marshall Atkins (assuming he restricted his number of lives to 1)?

ANSWER:

There is little surprise if the question were answered WITHOUT the restrictions specified, because the answer would be too obvious: Mavors would win the fight because he would decree the outcome.

Atkins has as many powers as a Telchine, but he is a natural creature bound by the laws of nature, whereas Mavors is a supernatural creature who gets to write or tweaks the laws of nature: Which, for him, are more like suggestions or guidelines, really.

Generally speaking, fantasy characters usually have the advantage over science fiction characters, because fantasy characters occupy worlds which are basically alive, that is, the rules of fantasy worlds usually have a fate, or a spirit, or a pantheon which determine the outcome based on some idea (right or wrong) of proper conduct, merit or justice.

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