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Trope Concept Analysis: Media Migration

  • jeracaruna
  • Nov 9
  • 3 min read

Abbreviated description from TV Tropes: Transmigration is the movement of a soul into another body after death. It's not limited to simply life or death.

The protagonist is a person who is reading, watching, or playing a novel, television show or game. They love or hate the characters and have an understanding of the story whether they finished or not. Then they die, fall asleep, travel dimensions, sucked into a portal or pulled into a TV, whatever to end up waking up as a character in that series.

The protagonist could end up in various positions, such being in the body of the story's hero, the story's villain or a minor background character. As the protagonist is forced into the body of a pre-existing character in a previously fictional-to-them narrative, the character is frequently forced to deal with the original's problems and narrative baggage.


This is a deep one to start this series with, but I used the random trope button on the site and this is the first one I got so... We have to begin at the very highest level of abstraction here. Specifically of Potentiality (Primeval Ne). This goes way beyond multiverse theory and has more in line with the ideas of Neville Goddard, who believed that imagination is literally Source/God, very similar to what I consider the only logical conclusion: that no Thing can precede the concept of Creation. Whether or not you believe as he did that we can literally create our own reality to some extent by embodying this principle as much as possible, the idea is a sound hypothetical: every potentiality lies dormant in a state of pre-existence until conscious awareness narrows (Ni) it down into a single outcome.


Now, even if you think this is ridiculous, the very fact you exist is proof enough that there is already a process wherein conscious awareness (you being alive) narrows reality down into one outcome. If you didn't exist as an avenue of consciousness expressing itself, our whole story would be - to varying degrees, especially depending on who you are and in how much detail (Si) you look at it - quite different.


But suspend your disbelief just long enough to humour me here, and let's say that it's true that everything is simultaneously happening and not happening all at once (always remember the golden principle of Ambiguity). What would the concept of death become, in such an eventuality?


This trope describes one possibility, where you migrate into the body of another being, and it being specific to migrating into a fictional reality is a pefect metaphor for the concept of realities being pre-existing. That is, the possibilities exist solely in conceptual form until the right conditions are met, rather than all playing out at the same time. [For clarification, by 'conceptual form' I mean if there is any logical way for it to exist - even if it is beyond our known logical variables - it already exists (Primeval Ti)]. From the perception of the protagonist who has migrated, their old reality has been paused (or ended I guess, depending on how it happens) meanwhile a new one has been activated.


Given we have no idea how crazy things really get after we die, there's no sense placing limits on the possibilities of that eventuality. Things that are impossible here due to the Parameters (Primeval Te) of our specific reality, like summoning fireballs and riding Dragons, may be commonplace after death, who knows?


Forget about shrodinger's cat, what about schrodinger's everything?

 
 
 

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