My case against The Crimson King

No frills, no intro, no witty word play. Nothing. Going in dry.

==The Crimson King's "Avatar" and His Current Ratings==
I'll be blunt, the current rating for Los' is wrong, and based on info that is also wrong.

'''Capable of rearranging the debris and chaos from the Dark Tower's destruction to return it to null and void, were it able to be destroyed by the Breakers.'''

This was never stated, and wasn't even what he was trying to do in his plan. His goal was to collapse the Tower, which in and of itself would have returned the multiverse to null and void. There is no evidence suggesting that this was what he was capable of.

'''Presumably also powered by the King's infinite-dimensional reactor'''

Presumably...why? Aside from the brief mention of it being the King's, it's never once suggested that the reactor was empowering Los' in any respect. Actually, it's never even stated what the power plant ''does'', only that it affects the entire multiverse once it's destroyed by Tyler Marshall.

'''and still managed to have some influence over the world even when reduced to almost nothing by Patrick Danville, empowered by Bessa.'''

He most certainly did not. The final confrontation at the end of DT7 makes a point to hammer home the fact that he has absolutely no power left, and Patrick's High 1-B erasure of his body (sans his eyes) took away his last means of interacting with the world in any meaningful way. As Roland ascends the Tower, all Los' can do is speak to him telepathically. Hell, the book even states that the entire reason Roland can't gain access to the Tower is because the balcony Los' is trapped on gives him command over whether or not the entrance opens. He loses that control the moment his body is erased.

He sure as hell isn't Immeasurable speed, either. He's an explicitly 3-D being who needed a horse and a portable storm in order to travel to the Tower.

Now for the real kicker; Not only is the Crimson King incapable of anything mentioned above, but he's also incapable of defeating the Beam Guardians on his own.

So yeah. Not High 1-B at all.

==Erasure Resistance and "Bessa's" High 1-B Empowerment==
This is based on bullshit, and if I'd had a good enough memory of DT7 when I saw it added, I would have contested it immediately.

For starters, Patrick's failure to erase the King had nothing to do with him being resistant to erasure. It was because Patrick hadn't gotten the eyes all the way finished:

{{Quote|It’s his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form. They were dreadfully good, but they weren’t right. Roland felt a kind of desperate, miserable certainty and shuddered from head to toe, hard enough to make his teeth chatter. They’re not quite r—
''Patrick took hold of Roland’s elbow. The gunslinger had been concentrating so fiercely on the drawing that he nearly screamed. He looked up. Patrick nodded at him, then touched his fingers to the corners of his own eyes.''
''Yes. His eyes. I know that! But what’s wrong with them?''|DT7: The Dark Tower}}
What did he need in order to finish them?

{{Quote|Patrick interrupted his thoughts, once more pointing at the road. Pointing back the way they had come.
''Roland shook his head wearily. “Even if I could fight the pull of the thing—and I couldn’t, it’s all I can do to bide here—retreat would do us no good. Once we’re no longer in cover, he’ll use whatever else he has. He has something, I’m sure of it. And whatever it is, the bullets of my revolver aren’t likely to stop it.”''
''Patrick shook his head hard enough to make his long hair fly from side to side. The grip on Roland’s arm tightened until the boy’s fingernails bit into the gunslinger’s flesh even through three layers of hide clothing. His eyes, always gentle and usually puzzled, now peered at Roland with a look close to fury. He pointed again with his free hand, three quick jabbing gestures with the grimy forefinger. Not at the road, however.''
''Patrick was pointing at the roses.''
''“What about them?” Roland asked. “Patrick, what about them?”''
''This time Patrick pointed first to the roses, then to the eyes in his picture.''
''And this time Roland understood.''|DT7: The Dark Tower}}
Color.

He needed to color them, and the Roses of the field and Roland's blood from cutting himself on one of their thorns were the only things he could use.
{{Quote|Patrick cupped a hand beneath his mouth and spat out a red paste the color of fresh blood. The color of the Crimson King’s robe. And the exact color of his lunatic’s eyes.
''Patrick, on the verge of using color for the first time in his life as an artist, made to dip the tip of his right forefinger into this paste, and then hesitated. An odd certainty came to Roland then: the thorns of these roses only pricked when their roots still tied the plant to Mim, or Mother Earth. Had he gotten his way with Patrick, Mim would have cut those talented hands to ribbons and rendered them useless.''
''It’s still ka, the gunslinger thought. Even out here in End-W—Before he could finish the thought, Patrick took the gunslinger’s right hand and peered into it with the intensity of a fortune-teller. He scooped up some of the blood that flowed there and mixed it with his rose-paste. Then, carefully, he took a tiny bit of this mixture upon the second finger of his right hand. He lowered it to his painting . . . hesitated . . . looked at Roland. Roland nodded to him and Patrick nodded in return, as gravely as a surgeon about to make the first cut in a dangerous operation, then applied his finger to the paper. The tip touched down as delicately as the beak of a hummingbird dipping into a flower. It colored the Crimson King’s left eye and then lifted away. Patrick cocked his head, looking at what he had done with a fascination Roland had never seen on a human face in all his long and wandering time. It was as if the boy were some Manni prophet, finally granted a glimpse of Gan’s face after twenty years of waiting in the desert.''
''Then he broke into an enormous, sunny grin.''|DT7: The Dark Tower}}
And as far as the King's eyes being left over?

{{Quote|In the end Patrick erased everything but the eyes, and these the remaining bit of rubber would not even blur. They remained '''until the piece of pink gum (originally part of a Pencil-Pak bought in a Norwich, Connecticut, Woolworth’s during a back-to-school sale in August of 1958) had been reduced to a shred the boy could not even hold between his long, dirty nails.''' And so he cast it away and showed the gunslinger what remained: two malevolent blood-red orbs floating three-quarters of the way up the page.
''All the rest of him was gone.''|DT7: The Dark Tower}}
Patrick literally ran out of eraser before he could get to them.

==Plot Shields, Fate Manipulation and Sheer Power==
This one's gonna be the longest part.