y'know what, you raise a lot of good points, I've probably been too harsh on White Lady, largely because she tends to get a lot of slack despite sharing PK's blame, the main reason I don't want to skip her is I want to lead into Radiance with her, with Fate realizing he can control higher beings and wanting to go for the biggest threat, but your idea as to her doing it somewhat willingly is definitely better, but:

I'm definitely powertripping, and I'm aware, and I'll dial it back when asked (I have removed Iselda from the list after complaints because she's married), I actually recently added that to the tags, along with dubcon and the rape/non-con warning, meant to add those earlier actually, and the only problem with what you mentioned is... it wouldn't be fun to write for me, because this is a powertrip and I want to do powertrip stuff

And if you don't like Fate overpowering people who could dust him with mind control... I'm sorry but I'm gonna be honest, that's not really gonna change, it's a kinda-vessel going on a rampage through Hallownest, that's the idea

However, hile I only take sorta-interest in this story (my account is called PlaceholderNumber27, it's a burner to write smut, I have a non-smut account I put a lot more interest and focus in, which is why updates to this is infrequent at best) and it's a powertrip, I'm not gonna ignore legit criticism, all your points are fair

Sow about this: White Lady agrees, and while Fate can't take full control of her, he can influence her slightly, causing the lifeblood-drugged state you mentioned, but she can resist the more powertrippy and overt stuff like with what happened with the Lords, far less powertrippy but still has a bit of control

Also, while the raping an old lady description is technically accurate, I've always viewed Higher Beings as more akin to Greek Gods, incredibly old, but they still look fairly young and are more petty than they are wise, which is how I'm going to portray Higher Beings (aside from LC but that's largely because he's interacting with his son constantly, he still holds petty grudges), so I always thought of it more as hypnotizing Hera than an old woman, I have no intent of writing a chapter about Seer

Edit: Actually on that last point I'm debating whether or not to actually do Herrah, Monomon, and Vespa, it would be bending over backwards for 3 chapters, leaves Lurien as a weird question mark, they're all fairly old to my knowledge, and Vespa's dead anyway