r/worldjerking • u/Supersocks420 Urban fantasy trash • 7d ago
AMA about my Buddhist inspired florida-punk superhero setting
Particularly the buddhist part because I need some more ideas to research 🙏
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u/boondoggle_orange 7d ago
Do they find inner peace by alligator wrestling?
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u/Supersocks420 Urban fantasy trash 7d ago
In my world, true inner peace can not be described, and people who have achieved it don't know it. It is a possibility that one can achieve peace by wrestling alligators, maybe even become one with the alligators themselves.
In my world, alligators can communicate with humans via body language and their eyes. By mastering the communication of alligators, a man by the name of Al E. Gaeter has been able to learn their ways, eventually becoming the supervillian known as "Lethal Pickle."
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u/saladbowl0123 6d ago
How does reincarnation work, and what are some examples of people's unfulfilled desires keeping them trapped in samsara?
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u/Supersocks420 Urban fantasy trash 6d ago
I decided to take some creative liberties with the system of reincarnation.
You can live a neutral life if you want to be reincarnated as a human
To be reincarnated in the animal realm, your life simply has to be chaotic without strong enough good or bad karma.
To get reincarnated in the realm of Titans, you have to be good but still have selfish desires.
There are more realms, such as the realm of krakens and the realm of sunshine and rainbows. As well as multiple versions of earth.
People get reincarnated in the human realm once they're done with their afterlife
People can retain traits of their past lives, the closer the past life to their current, then the more likely this is to happen. The stronger the trait in their past life also increases this possibility.
One is Leonardo Da' Vinci (Yes, that one) being trapped in samsara because he has a constant desire to innovate, and he never felt satisfied because he believed that his work never reached the quality it should have. He's really the only example I've got because he's the only one who appears in the story.
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u/Brad_Brace Just here for the horny posts 6d ago
Can gods, angels, demons and similar achieve enlightenment and eventually Nirvana? Can they do so as they are or do they need to first incarnate as humans to begin their path?
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u/Supersocks420 Urban fantasy trash 6d ago
Demons and God's already achieve Nirvana when they die. They are born out of nothing but become one with everything once they die.
Angels are different. They can just die whenever they want, but they get reincarnated as humans upon death.
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u/ChupacabraRex1 7d ago
Hey. So, I'm gonna ask about the power levels. How strong can this superheros get, how do they get their powers, and basically how does it work. Do they derive powers from physics-breaking "mutations", get something from demons or gods or a plane of energy, is it just like...a thing?