Chapter 2
by 
paulthemazing
Which Power First?
The App
The App is a modern, digital manifestation of My Law — a seemingly ordinary application that appears on your phone or device, yet holds the ability to reshape lives like a game of god-mode customization. Once opened, the App allows you to create detailed character profiles of real people. Within each profile, you can edit personality traits, stats like intelligence or strength, emotional tendencies, memories, ambitions, and even relationships. To the outside world, these changes feel natural, as if the person had always been that way.
Using the App is intuitive, like a role-playing game character sheet — sliders, dropdown menus, and toggles. You can increase someone’s charisma, remove their trauma, give them confidence, or even make them obsessed with you. You could elevate an average person to genius-level intellect or reduce a dangerous enemy into a harmless fool. The App works instantly once you finalize the edit, and the person adapts to their new “settings” without question or memory of who they used to be. It’s terrifyingly seamless.
But the App has its limits and dangers. First, you can only edit people you know — those within your personal orbit. Second, the App draws power from your device — battery, storage, and signal strength can affect its functionality. If the phone dies mid-edit or the app crashes during an upload, the results may be corrupted or incomplete, leading to twisted versions of your intended changes. Furthermore, frequent use begins to generate digital noise — subtle glitches in the world, like overlapping personalities or paradoxical behavior, as reality strains to keep up.
Another chilling flaw is dependency. The more you use the App, the more tempting it becomes to “fix” everything through edits instead of real interaction. Relationships become artificial. Growth becomes unnecessary. You stop viewing people as individuals and start seeing them as characters to modify. This can isolate you from reality, blurring the line between genuine affection and programmed loyalty. If others ever gain access to the App, your entire identity — and your world — could be rewritten without your consent.
Ultimately, the App is the power of control in its most seductive, user-friendly form. It turns life into a customizable simulation, where you are the admin of reality. But as with any app, the true question isn’t what it can do — it’s what happens when it falls into the wrong hands, glitches beyond repair, or convinces you that life should be perfect… even if it’s no longer real.
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