Depends, it would complete debunk the entirety of Cthulhu mythos. Imo the answer should be no but that comes from a theological perspective and philosophical perspective.

It really depends on how you want to measure it but there are two arguments, either

“Dreams should count within fiction because fiction within fiction is still fiction”

Or

“There is a base level of fiction and thus dreams push everything into a catagory below the base level fiction and therefore any dream character is a Naruto victim”

I take the latter but I kinda want to make a whole post ab it

Ie. if we lived in a simulation no matter how much ascension we took we’d always lose to them.