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To add to this: I should note that the whole "Being able to do more things = Stronger" logic, even if correct (Which it isn't), is still pretty naive thinking when applied to this case, I'd say. At the end of the day, it just falls into the trap of seeing a Tier 0's power as being ultimately reducible to the effects that it is capable of actualizing, which isn't really the case, since it isn't quantitative in any way whatsoever, and so it's not really exhausted by taking the collection of all possible states it can actualize and seeing "how many" are there. At that point you're just thinking of the Monad as being basically a sum of things.I don't think that is what we would say, no. To take 2-A as an example: If Character A can create infinitely-many possible universes, and Character B can create infinitely-many possible universes, too, except they can't create universes where people like yellow shirts, the two characters would be exactly as powerful as each other, since the "volume" of universes that they can create is the same. The former wouldn't actually be broader than the latter in any way that matters.
Same here. Except it's made notably worse by the fact that both sorts of Monad would transcend the exact same things, as said. Ontop of the other things I've pointed out (The fact that "impossible worlds" in contradiction-free cosmologies can't exist not out of a deficiency of any sort, but due to the fact they fail to meet the basic conditions for existence in the first place, which the Monad is)
The power of a Tier 0, properly speaking, is found in the nature of its existence, and nowhere else. That's very unlike all the other tiers, which are all indeed reducible to the effects which they can bring about, to one degree or another. (Obviously, 2-As will be fully reducible to that. 1-A is the tier where you can argue a degree of the above irreducibility starts to take effect, but the power of a 1-A character is still expressible through their capability to actualize effects, to a degree. For instance, effects on their own layer of reality)
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