Reminds me of a post I read on reddit years ago
Alcoholic here. Wake up 4am. Can’t get back to sleep. Take 6-10 advil to stop the pain. Take 2mg of klonopin to stop from shaking. Eat half a roll of tums to stop the burning. Lay awake awake, tossing till the son comes up. Tell yourself, “Today is the day I’m not going to drink.” Have coffee, skip breakfast. 12 noon, hands start to shake. “Fuck, I need a drink.” Just one drink to calm you down, I’ll stop after that. 3pm and I’m trashed on a couch watching netflix, smoking cigarettes, ignoring texts. 6pm and your bombed, rambling incoherently to anyone who will listen. 8pm passed out in a state of near death on a couch. 4am wake up. “Today is the day I’m not going to drink.”
Big bad conveniently disregards the MC long enough for them to grow into a threat to them.
Time control and mind control.
These powers need to be described in incredible detail or you just have the reader wondering why whoever has those powers didn’t do some obvious solution.