God Plays Dice / Billy Kaplan (wiccan) / By Aud Koch

god plays dice / billy kaplan (wiccan) / by aud koch

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I really really like Billy Kaplan, but it’s more that i like what Marvel could be doing with his character than what they’re actually doing.  — because it feels like Marvel doesn’t have a damn clue what to do with him, most especially when it comes to his powers (but also when it comes to his family situation).  Is he this powerful being capable of warping the fabric of reality or is he this dumb kid who can’t get away from a gun to the head and can’t use his powers if he can’t hear his own voice?  (Like, seriously, WTF?)  It’s like no one knows for sure what he can or can’t do, and so the different writers create different arbitrary limits for his powers that don’t make any sense and aren’t compatible.

It’s really. frustrating. to me, because i think there’s an incredibly cool and incredibly easy explanation of his powers that they could go with:  all that Billy does is manipulate the rules of probability in (Quantum) Physics.

Right?  Okay, because what Quantum Physics tells us is that pretty much anything is possible — it’s just not terribly probable.  It’s entirely possible that every single atom on Earth will spontaneously disappear and reappear somewhere else in the universe, and it is possible to travel at superluminal speeds, and it’s possible that the entire universe will suddenly collapse into a massive black hole.  Possible, not probable. 

But if Billy had the power to see & tweak these probabilities — the ability to manipulate the essence of matter —, he could cause all sorts of weird-ass stuff to happen, and you can bet that there would be an insane learning curve for that sort of thing.  (Plus, it would explain the electricity thing because i bet manipulating electromagnetism — which is pretty much just the movement of electrons — would be a lot easier than manipulating other aspects of physics that deal with protons and neutrons and muons etc. etc.)

Anyway, that’s my idea for Billy’s powers, and i’m sticking with it.