Defining the "Web of Destiny"

The "Web of Destiny," or "Web of Fate" is a metaphysical concept of great importance to characters in the Dozerfleet Megaverse. It is said to be the field at which the Volition Dilemma Paradox (the necessity of temporal allowance of freedom to choose or reject God, in a state of flux,) and Vocational Destiny (your specific intended purpose for existing since before you were born) are reconciled.

The Volition Dilemma Paradox is central to the concept of free will, defining what it is, what it isn't, what it's limits are, and why it must be in the first place. Jewish texts expand on it into the concept of "Tzimtzum," the "contraction of God," to allow for others to have their own agenda. Yet, there is still Volition Dilemma, which relates to the Hebrew concept of "Yiuudh" (יִעוּד).

As such, "fate" is merely the causal relation of differing wills intersecting. To suggest to someone that something is "fate," therefore, is to assert that there is another will working against their own that will always be stronger. There will still be a collision point, but the point of negotiation will result in that stronger will clearly being the overwhelmingly primary beneficiary of the outcome. From there, the proclamation is prone to trial, to determine how much truth there is to its assertion. To be valid for debate, likewise, the assertion must be falsifiable, so that its validation has actual merit.

The general premise of how it works is this:

1. God has sovereign will. (The Rod of Destiny, ultimate Path of History.)
2. Volition Dilemma requires lesser beings to have free will, to love and accept or hate and reject, for a time.
3. Lesser beings asserting this will interact with one another, whether consciously or unconsciously, altering the subdetails of fate around the Rod, yet unable to change the Rod's ultimate destiny for human history.
4. "Fate" is what happens when wills intersect. Higher fates are defined by superior wills vs. inferior ones.
5. The intricate interaction of wills intersecting forms a web-like structure of connected intersections.

Hence, fate is a web of free wills, all either attempting to complement one another, or cancel each other out. Yet, Higher History cannot be ruined or destroyed. Only little details of destiny can be changed. The Rod determines the extent to which any of these small changes matter.

The geometry of this relation is often likened to a series of roads that intersect, and to showing cars that crash at intersections versus cars that avoid collision - and the myriad ways they manage to avoid collision. The greater framework of this simulation can thus be compared in structure to a web, hence "Web" of Destiny. This isn't the only causal theory on this concept to exist. Boethius made a similar postulation once, with his "Wheel of Fortune" concept.

Examples

• In Cherinob, still-living humanity is still in the state of flux on will, yet a clear path of history demonstrates itself, regardless the choices that the majority of individuals make in how they conduct their everyday lives. Apthalans and Biroots, however, cannot have an agenda contrary to their alignment. Cherinob cannot act toward humans with anything malicious, unless ordained by God. Hence why she would rather throw herself into the sun than blow up Bucharest when supercharged. Kritchobol, likewise, can only pretend to be nice to further an evil agenda. He cannot lead anyone to God, unless peppered with mischaracterization of God somehow. He cannot tell any truth, unless he wishes to imply a greater lie through twisting of the truth. This is because both Cherinob and Kritchobol are mode-locked.
• Xylien Society in Stationery Voyagers had a flag which featured a depiction of the Web of Destiny.
• The Divergency creates divergent timelines to reconcile significant tampering with history by those who exploit the Percolation Wave with dubious intent. Doing so almost always has seriously adverse consequences for the tampering individual. This is similar to the Butterly Effect.
• The above is demonstrated in one fanfic, where Feathertop invades the world of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst to get Kruger to join the Triumvirate. As a token of goodwill, Feathertop kills Faith Connors. Then, Tabitha Pang reverts to an earlier point in time, and prevents Faith's assassination. As the Divergency seeks to reconcile this, it leads to the droid and camera setup responsible for killing Faith last time suddenly having an exact replica of itself, causing signal interference as central command tries to reconcile how two of the same robot now exist in its framework. This results in Kruger betraying Feathertop, stealing his powers, and killing him, thus becoming the new Feathertop, and going completely insane. The new Kruger-Feathertop hybrid then confronts the Twirlflame Trio, and calls Tabitha Pang out for the dangerous slippery slope of using time travel to perform resurrections. It is considered a great moral evil, even by the Icy Finger's low standards for morality. Tabitha is even accused of being worse than her mother Hea, whose greatest crime against space-time was using time travel to exploit Schrodinger's Cat to deprive King Morzhuk of increasing his power via the Grand Ultimates' Ruby.
• In Stationery Voyagers, the driver that hit Arnold Rubblindo made choices. Arnold himself made choices to go to town at that exact moment, and that lead to the Xyliens turning him into Pextel. However, God was also involved, ensuring that the influences affecting all the other parties would result in them making the choices they were going to make within the timeframe most needed for God to make Pextel happen when Pextel needed to happen.
• Even some episode titles in Stationery Voyagers reflect this. "What Must Happen" shows the necessity of Rhodney Antilles joining the Voyager program, even though he was intent on making a similar choice regardless. Meanwhile, "Choice After All" shows that Oceanoe chooses to reject the influence of the reverse-Eros gas that gives him an OCD episode under its toxicity, and he doesn't turn gay. Meanwhile, his abductors made a choice to kidnap him to spread their perversion, and are confronted violently for it, after trying to gaslight the public into believing they "had no choice."