What is plausibility in Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint? Explained in Detail

Summary

• Plausibility is how likely a reader would believe in a scenario based on how probable it seems.

• A “Probability/Plausibility Request” is filed to the Administration Bureau if a character or incarnation uses their power to create extremely unnatural scenarios.

• The penalty for doing so is the “Probability Storm”. It can be evaded by either training one’s power and raising their status or by sharing the penalty with constellations.

• Plausibility affects the incarnations and allows them to become nearly invincible, however, it comes with a hefty price, and that is the plausibility storm.

• It affects the constellations indirectly; they can choose to share the penalty of the plausibility storm to help their incarnations.

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint has got to make it into your TBR list of Webtoons if you are a bookworm, as it makes your dream of plunging into the world of your books come true.

It’s quite a mind-bender and has various topics that mess with your head, like the concept of “Plausibility”.

Well in this article we dig deep into it to help you understand the concept of Plausibility clearly.

Plausibility aka “Constraints of Probability” is basically how likely a reader would believe in a scenario, or in simple words, it refers to how plausible a scenario would seem.

Plausibility can also be understood as the rule that keeps things fair in a scenario. If an incarnation takes things too far and breaks this rule, they are faced with a penalty.

To expound on this concept, consider a scenario where a group of people are trapped in a dungeon, facing the likelihood of death.

What are the “odds” that someone mighty will come and save them?

This “odd” can be made true if an incarnation has enough power or probability to use to create this impossible scenario.

If an incarnation uses an immense amount of power or probability that goes beyond the odds or the normal, the Dokkaebi or constellation can file a “Probability/Plausibility Request” to the Administration Bureau to review it.

This can be seen in a scenario in Chapter 55, where the Dokkaebi and Constellations suspect Yoo Joonghyuk’s powers and talents.

They sent a “Probability/Plausibility Request” to the Administration Bureau to review it and learned that his sponsor must have been extremely powerful in pulling off such regressions and transmissions.

Also, note that Plausibility is the same thing as Probability or Possibility in the novel.

1. What is a Probability Storm?

A Probability Storm or “Storm of Aftermath” is a type of penalty an incarnation gets for using their power or probability to bend reality in such a manner that seems unnatural.

The Star Team recognizes that there’s something unnatural or artificial in the scenario and launches a probability storm.

To prevent this Storm of Aftermath, the person will have to sacrifice something of equal relevance or value, like the Law of Alchemy.

One can evade this storm by training one’s power so that even the “odds” appear as realistic scenarios.

Another way to evade it is by sharing this penalty with others for example, when Dokja broke the throne, a plausibility storm was launched at him as he could pull off such things and knew much more than the other incarnations did.

So several constellations shared this burden, if they hadn’t, then Dojka would have been destroyed by the storm.

2. How Does Plausibility Affect the Incarnations?

Plausibility allows the incarnations in scenarios to break the laws of the world, it lets them become nearly invincible.

The stronger their Sponsors are, the more powerful they become.

However, they have a price to pay for breaking this rule of plausibility, and that is the plausibility storm.

3. How Does Plausibility Affect the Constellations?

Plausibility doesn’t directly affect the Constellations or sponsors; it directly affects the incarnations that break the rule of plausibility.

However, Constellations are affected if they choose to share the burden of the plausibility storm.

This makes them want to limit their power output later on as they don’t want to face and bear the plausibility storm.

4. About Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint is a Korean metafictional apocalyptic fantasy webnovel penned by the author-duo Sing Shong. It was adapted into a webtoon by the same name in February 2020, one day after the end of the webnovel.

It follows the story of Kim Dokja, an ordinary salaried contractor, who one day, finds himself stuck in the world of his favorite fantasy novel. The webnovel is called Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World, written by an anonymous author who goes by the name of tls123. Dokja was the sole reader who finished this novel to the end.

When the novel suddenly becomes reality, Dokja is the only person who has unique knowledge of this apocalyptic new world. He knows how the plot of the story ends and therefore has the best chance of survival. 

But will he actually survive? Not without changing the course of the story as well as the world as he knows it.