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icewindandboringhorror · 21 days ago

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Help complete the poem:

"I bear a heavy somethingnothing others seem to lack, they drift and frolic freely, no weight dragging at their backs. I keep with me my somethingnothing, nurturing the rot, as somethingnothing is my bones, it cannot be forgot. I long, I yearn, I try to swim, alas I never float, for there it is, the somethingnothing, tugging at my throat. Somedays I fear my somethingnothing is the whole of me, (now you pick the final line from choices below)

(context: In the game I'm making one of the characters you can talk to is some moody nervous exiled prince and in one quest you can help him with his writer's block on some of his poetry. This is one of the 'poems' (+ menu choice prompts) that I decided not to use in the game, but I thought it was kind of amusing on it's own and might would be fun to see the votes on)

#tumblr polls #polls #Being 'cruel' and choosing 'mean' options in games is a more popular discussion topic but I find cruelty kind of boring. what I actually #enjoy having are SILLY options. to slightly bother a character in a non serious way. Helping him with his poetry and he's like #''huh... what rhymes with 'creep'..?'' and you enthusiastically announce ''PLEEP!!'' and he goes ''-_-..............no...........''#Especially the characters like him who take themselves very very seriously.#Which is interesting since in real life I think I generally seem quite Serious - but I guess moreso in a practical sense. Like I'm a very #goal oriented efficiency focused analytical and meticulous person HOWEVER I also don't have a huge ego so I don't take MYSELF as #a concept very seriously - if that makes sense. I take life and my actions within life seriously. But I'm not like.. one of those people wh #lashes out over any percieved slight or will go into a full emotional drama spiral over someone looking at them weird. I guess that's what #I mean by 'take themselves seriously'. Characters that are like 'I WILL BE THE BEST MOST successful coolest person in all the land #and therefore will explode instantly if embarassed even a small amount because I cannot be seen looking UNCOOL as it goes against #my DEALTHY SERIOUS MISSION to be respected and seen as AWESOME by EVERYONE ALIVE!!' etc. lmao #Which the prince is not like that. But he is that way in kind of an artsy sense. Taking poetic expression VERY seriously. The type to #like sign up for a writing class and then at the very first even slightest tiniest critique the instructor gives him is like... running out #of the class tearfully.. 'YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND MY suffering my PAIN my DEEP PROSE how DARE you correct #my SPELLING ERRRROR!!!' (< said with a rrrroled r in some fancy exaggerated cartoon royal sounding accent)#So I think also with that context. Suggesting the poem (that he undoubetdly sees as the coolest most awesome deepest well written #thing on the planet) should end with a line like 'hee hee give me beans im hungry' is like... dealing an immense blow of psychic damage #Not that he hasn't genuinely suffered in his life still. I don't mean in an 'LOL sincereity is soo lame make fun of anyone who's emotional'#type of way. But more in a ... ''you up until a year ago were an extravagantly rich prince living a life of absolute luxury yet #continuously bemoan how horrible and miserable your life is in every way thus maybe occasionally knocking you down a peg by #annoying you slightly is necessary for your personal growth and ego development'' way lol

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