I was recently wondering how some fantasy characters would react to their own fans, and often it would be with confusion. A strange instance would be with the Plainswalkers of Magic the Gathering. Plainswalkers are people born with a Plainswalker spark, this spark would ignite under intense threat to the owner or cataclysmic emotional turmoil, upon igniting it would grant the owner near limitless magical power and an almost immortal life as well as the ability to plainswalk across dimensions, to travel, at will, between parallel worlds.
As part of Magic the Gathering the player is also a Plainswalker, calling upon their memories of past experiences and turning them into spells to compete with other players in a battle of supremicy. Which is all fine and good. There is an ongoing story with the game, as five core Plainswalkers have many misadventures and the players continue their eternal battles where ever these core Plainswalkers happen to be, the current story is set in an ancient Greek themed plain, the previous story was set in a constantly feuding city world. Both of these stories have companion book series expositing in more detail the story. But there's no mention of the insanely compeditive plainswalkers we players represent, cause from what some of the spells are called it would be hard to miss us in many instances.
So my question again is: How would the core five plainswalkers react to any of the plainswalkers of the player base. Cause despite their near limitless power and immortality they are still human, and often have serious mental or emotional scarring from the events that triggered their spark to ignite and the trials they've suffered since. And the sometimes near suicidal combat actions of the players would probably be very upsetting.
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