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- Dec 14, 2022
You saying this does give me a bit of a fun idea. Someone gets a slip, there's two (or more) people with that name, but everyone only has one soulmate. The person with the slip has to decide which of the two is their soulmate, loser gets sacrificed to a demon and goes to literally hell (or just an organ harvesting operation or whatever if you want to keep it realistic-ish), Turns out the council is demons and they've set up a system to ensure a steady stream of breeding stock for human sacrificeWhat I thought the plot would be based on the title however, was about a person who ended up getting a name that somehow landed them in a polyamorous relationship. Maybe the other person got two names and the protagonist just has to deal with that fact, or maybe the protagonist and the third wheel have the same name, I don’t know. The protagonist is obviously uncomfortable but it’s okay, the council is never wrong, they just have to learn to like it. Cue increasingly horrific events that go more and more off the rails as the protagonist’s life spirals. It can be purely psychological, it can be physical too, the potential is there.
Normally it's fun to try and fix the terrible stories but this one had so little to work with we're basically just trying to completely rewrite it from its overarching premise based on an inaccurate, throwaway joke that got ran into the ground because there was absolutely nothing else to work with in the story itself, this really was the worst thing they've ever read
Also, just as an aside, I've been venturing out into the desolate wasteland that is 'creepypasta narration' youtube and the rules thing just never works. They're always arbitrary and basically force you into a very simple pattern of "get rules->discover note from/ghost of someone that broke the rules->forced to break one rule rendering the rest of the rules moot->escape and go back to normal life." The Sugarbaby story they read is probably the best 'rules' story I've come across because it goes through the story without immediate consequences and then you get that 'o fuk' ending but it still has that arbitrary set of rules and no (satisfying) explanation for why they exist
