Alright, try to follow me since this is so freaking meta
The Overmonitor is a being of immense imagination and intelligence. He came about the Bleed and the multiverse and wanted to know what the hell it was. So he sent a probe to investigate, The probe sent out info to the overmonitor and the overmonitor was overwhelmed by the "stories" from each universe in the bleed since it had never experience stories and couldnt understand them, Thats the comic thing.
Grant Morrison explained it like this in terms of what he's supposed to be. Imagine the Overmonitor is a huge, blank piece of paper. There's nothing on him. Nothing. It's clean, white and pure. Until one day it discovers this crazy little drawing at about the 3/4 mark down, a little bit to the left. The little mark turns out to be the DC universe. So he investigates whats being drawn here and then totally freaks out, since he's never seen anything being written or drawn and he doesnt want it on him. The paper is like, i dont want this on my magnificent white paper. So he retreats and deals with it by making this universe "a story" and decides to create a group of beings that can serve the function of watching this "story" and then relaying the information back to him so he learn what in the world is going on. The beings are the monitors
Basically, the Overmonitor serves as both a fictional and real character. Of course, i could be wrong, considering that this was created by Grant Morrison, and who knows what he's on to write his stories
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