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[WP] Everyone pictures the evil empire as a bleak dystopia. You, however, live in the evil suburbs and aside from... a few things... life is pretty normal.
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[WP] You're a golden retriever who thinks he successfully fooled a pack of wolves into thinking that he's also a wolf. The wolves know. They're just being inclusive so they took him in.
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[WP] The headline flashes across the screen: "Scientists to release cure to death in a month! The beginning of a new age!" You turn off the TV and smile bitterly. Your prognosis wasn't good. The doctors said you had two weeks left at most.
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[WP] A rare condition makes your eyesight even sharper as you age. 15yrs ago you could spot a dime 50 ft away. 5yrs ago you could read the year on the dime from 50 ft. Now you’re starting to see people and objects from a long distance slowly vanish as you move closer, until they are no longer there.
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[WP] A girl on the bus has been staring at you for the last 5 stops. Finally she speaks, "I see you're one, too. You're the first one I've met who wasn't trying to kill me."
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[WP] You are a truly pathetic villain. Ordinary police regularly overpowers you and heroes do not even bother fighting you. Yet the villains still allow you to remain among their ranks, because you are just so goddamn likeable.
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[WP] You are the immortal ruler of a kingdom. Since the people didn't much care for an "immortal hell spawn" for a king, you play as the court jester. The king is merely your puppet. It was fine until a historian noticed how consistent the various kings laws have been over the last few centuries
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[WP] The story of an unsolved murder is brought up in an /r/AskReddit thread with several incorrect details. The murderer shows up to set the record straight.
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[WP] Just as the almighty villain is about to strike down the destined hero, they notice that said hero is only 15 years old. Disgusted, they demand to know who would force such a massive responsibility onto a child, and take it upon themselves to raise this kid as he should have been raised.
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[WP] when you die, your final moments are spent in a lucid dream state where seconds stretch into centuries. You're aware that you're dying but have complete control over the the universe created in your dream. Judgement comes not after earthly death, but after you've spent millennia as a god.
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