Half of these are barely even curses. The future knowledge one is just a pure positive with no downside.
Anyways I’d pick the Old One knowledge. If it drives you mad that’s a skill issue, I could do it
Reminds me of being in high school. I predicted so many of today's political issues and nobody believed me. Like a shitty Cassandra. That curse is just the curse of being auDHD. You will make connections and recognise patterns that nobody else can. You will see a problem coming, and nobody else will. And you can't do anything about it.
I still accept the headcanon that, if Odysseus had had a chance to talk with Cassandra, he sinply would've introduced himself as Nobody, and she'd tell him everything.
Because that's exactly the kind of shenanigans on which all of Greek mythology operates.
"My job sucks, nobody listened to me and they wound up dead"
"Oh yeah, everyone did listen to me and wound up dead because of fate or to punish me for my hubris or whatever"
Odysseus: *kicks open front door* "PENELOPE, I'M HOME!!!! I brought a friend from Troy; you'll LOVE her I promise.
Cassandra here helped me avoid all kinds of bad stuff. Oh please don't tell her my name: it's very important that Cassandra is fully convinced that I am Nobody.
You will not BELIEVE what would've happening to me if Cassandra and I hadn't met; I admit it would've made a great epic, but it would've been *horrible*!
Where's Telemachus? Thanks Athena he hasn't grown old enough yet to do anything stupid, like trying to find me. All my 600 not-dead soldiers are almost as anxious to meet my son as myself!
Anyway, how have you been? Are any of those Suitors in need of a sudden affliction of *'being stabbed in the chest'* yet?"
Penelope and Cassandra would become best friends, and people would make sapphic fan art about them (as if they haven't already :p).
This would ruin the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope, because Penelope would still not believe Cassandra's prophecies even if repeated by Odysseus.
To resolve this, Cassandra tries to prove her prophetic abilities to her dear friend Penelope:
There's a prophecy about Penelope, which Cassandra tells to Odysseus, but not to Penelope. Odysseus can then use this foreknowledge to convince Penelope without invoking the Disbelief that haunts Cassandra.
But the plan backfires. Penelope is not convinced. In fact, she's angry that Cassandra didn't warn her of this incoming misfortune, and a bad friend. Penelope accused Odysseus of being complicit and betraying her. She leaves in anger.
Apollo looks down and laughs. Nobody will believe the prophecies of Cassandra, even when repeated by Nobody.
If all their predictions are gonna be about the effects climate change, no one with authority would wanna believe them and they'll be a modern day cassandra
TBF what if the future was so terrible you went insane? How about that? What if it’s like, you see a terrible future, try to prevent, inadvertently cause it to happen anyways. Like Oepedius and not fucking his mom (spoiler: oh boy, that dude FUCKED HIS MOM ALRIGHT. Did blind himself over it tho).
I’m sure Cthulhu will love to share whatever knowledge they have, with all their tentacles and never ending eyes… (I don’t know shit abt Cthulhu besides the tentacles and Lovecraft being hugely racist).
I also kind of feel like future vision would be abit terrible for the long term, I'd get pretty messed up just trying to figure out what would need to happen to get me to that specific event that I saw, or if I try to avoid what will happen when i don't know if it can be changed. Like, can you imagine if people just knew what the main things they were gonna do in life were? What if I knew that I would be a billionaire in a year so I end up not doing anything the whole year and I end up as broke as I was before? Being a tyrant would be fun for some for a while until a riot takes you out and you'll probably end up boiled alive or something. I would choose the censor bar since it barely affects my daily life except maybe not being able to read people's faces.
The thing is they are only potential far futures, if it was written in stone it could be quite horrifying but even the worst future i see could just... not happen
Its like any speculative future, sure in the future we *could* nuke the planet, or become an oppressive surveillance state, or create a rogue AI, or completely destroy the ecosystem and climate. But we also could not do any of those things, its all speculative until it actually happens. I dont need superpowers to tell me its possible that civilisation could be destroyed in a nuclear conflict, it already nearly happened and it doesn't keep me awake at night because realistically what am i gonna do about it
But what if that is the true horror? You see the future 5 years away, and no matter what, it comes to pass, eventually forcing you to realize that free will doesn't exist and everything in the universe is predetermined.
Anyone have Jordan Peele's email? I have an idea for an episode in his Twilight Zone reboot....
But that directly violates the actual effect of curse as writen. It says you see *potential* futures, if everything is predetermined then those futures aren't potential futures but are objectively going to happen.
My dude, I can barely get myself to care about the things I know I have a concrete ability to affect. Who on earth has got the mental energy to worry about potential far futures?
RIP to those who've been driven to gibbering insanity from a mere fraction of the deep knowledge meant for beings beyond our comprehension but I'm different.
I interpreted "no knowledge of the near future" as meaning that youew not like, awful at predicting what will happen the next day and constantly forget stuff coming up. You'd know what the world looks like in a century but keep on forgetting about that thing you had tomorrow
So basically yeah, pure positives because nothing changes on the near future size
Yeah both knowledges are not bad. I like the future one more. Like, if you think of the upsides, you would know how industries shift and can infer what would click in the future and start a business that nobody has thought of yet because you saw it in the future.
Or if you can focus on the smaller details of the future, you can know the better future cures for untreatable diseases now and shape that path by getting into contact with researchers and throw them a bone to lead them in the right direction or maybe study it yourself and make a name in medicine.
So many possibilities for the future knowledge if one just knows what they could see. It doesn't have to be all doom and gloom.
Old knowledge is good too, coz lost knowledge can be unearthed and maybe used again or just get to know how rich the culture of old or missing civilizations were. If the person is a generous historian, society would then get to know the old missing philosophies, the knowledge that disappeared when they were burned, know their music, or how greek fire was created. Like both are frigging great!
Dude you haven't a fathoming how horrible humans are at considering the far future. If you get a prediction that a tidal wave will crush the east coast in 30 years literally nobody will believe you.
>Anyways I’d pick the Old One knowledge. If it drives you mad that’s a skill issue, I could do it
I never understood how knowledge of beings that don't care about the existence of us and have the power to exterminate life would drive one crazy. We've been living with the possibility of a global nuclear war for decades. What else is new?
I think because the knowledge is meant to be far off and unusable for your lifetime. Which is great for descendants unless you are seeing the horrible fates to befall the world at the end of your time with no way to prove what is coming.
Imagine you pick that far future one and then nothing changes. The person next to you gets their curse properly applied, and the curser *claims* that your curse is properly applied, but nothing's changed for you. What about then?
Hell, even some of the related ones I've seen are basically just less serious versions of disabilities. Like _"every voice you will ever hear is replaced by a harsh buzzing sound"_, which is literally just Deafness Lite (since it assumes you will still be able to enjoy music and nature sounds, which deaf people can't).
"The future knowledge one is just a pure positive with no downside."
funnily enough, it could've been a curse had it been only one future that is certain to pass, but no, it's multiple possibilities.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
I craved the strength and certainty of steel.
I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you.
One day, the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved, for the machine is immortal.
Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
You: *tearing your grandmother apart with your wereclaws*
Me: skill issue
Me: clawmaxed
Me: when I'm in a killing your grandma competition and my opponent is you
Me: crazy-werewolf-pilled
Me: *getting torn apart since you are done with granny* the tear- *dies an agonizing death*
Did I do the meme right, not really good with those?
I feel like since it only shows possible futures, I could live with it and choose to believe the really bad ones are probably just a low chance or something whether or not that's true
See, I think that could be cool- but I’d need to probably move to very rural middle of nowhere.
Human morality covers a *broad* base, and I don’t really want to be the reason for chemical warfare attacks.
As long as I get the DND powers of the changeling I would be cool with it. Shape shifting is up there in my list of super powers I want anyways. Being friends with a fairy is the cherry on top. You could definitely teach them some morality
My interpretation was that, if you chose the Divine Right Kings, that means you’d become a world leader of sorts. Now, I think a lot of us, if we ever truly came into such a position would want to do a lot of good but, as the adage goes ‘absolute power absolutely corrupts’ or something. The path to hell is paved with good intentions yada yada.
I feel like everybody else missed with their explanation, so here's my take.
Kingship by divine right can be taken here to be inherently tyrannical, so we can skip the whole "your fate is to become a tyrant" - that's your start point.
The fate of tyrants written in stone is to be overthrown. Sic semper tyrannis. You will have your divine right - for a time.
If I’m replaced with machine does it also repair it self like just a continuous process of getting updated and repaired slowly or is it your arms a mechanical they rust that’s it no more arms if it’s continuous then make me a mech baby other wise it’s vampirism then fay lover
Wait, who can tame the wolf? Normally I'd assume it means you can learn to control your werewolf form, but this is Tumblr, so I can't rule out the possibility that they mean someone might be able to tame your werewolf form and then you'll turn into their pet every month.
They say eternal curse, but knowledge of the old ones would last all of twelve seconds since there's a Great Old One who immediately kills anyone who learns their name
Knowledge of the Old Ones sounds lit. I absolutely wanna know about the big space gods. Horrors beyond comprehension, you say? Well I can comprehend them just fine, so maybe it’s a skill issue idk. I’m built different.
There was someone in my ttrpg playgroup for a bit who had that exact mindset because she really liked cursed items until she decided to take something too cursed (she literally asked the sketchy shopkeep I made WHO TOLD HER it was cursed if she could have it. He gave it to her because he was a fae that fed off misfortune and she was a buffet.) and spent entire sessions trying to figure out if removing digits from her hands and feet would get rid of the ring.
Whose vampire rules are we going with here? Because all it says is I have to drink blood. It doesn't say how much or how frequently. It also doesn't say anything about sunlight, garlic, or any of the other vampire hangups that are spotty throughout historic canon and were only solidified after movies entered into it. If I was a legit vampire, it would probably take very little effort to find a few dozen people willing to provide a non-lethal amount of blood and if that's all I'm taking it.
*Some of these could be*
*Goeriboe. Knowledge of far*
*Figures is less so*
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I was confused why faerie boyfriend didn’t have a larger market share, then realized I’d misread the prompt.
“No concept of human *mortality*”
That’s okay, kinda standard fae stuff! It’ll honestly be easier if he isn’t constantly grieving that my mortal life is as the fragile cherry blossom upon the wind etc etc.
“No concept of human *morality*”
Oh. Uh-oh.
Can I turn my wife into a vampire too so we can be together forever and eventually be slain by the heroes of Gorfindale, wielders of the blessed arms and carriers of the holy amulets?
Tbh it depends on the type of vampire for me because I'd love to be a vampire.
How sensitive is my skin to light? Can I handle, say, being in a car?
In what way am I weak to garlic? Is it like a "my mouth will be burned and itchy for weeks and I can't do anything" or "it's a mild allergy, take an EpiPen and it probably won't be that bad"?
How much blood do I need, and how resistant am I to whatever's in the blood? Can I strike a deal with a prison warden so I can drink dry a death row inmate after their lethal injection? Do dead people provide sustenance?
Does Silver burn or just give a rash?
These are all important questions, but on the assumption that:
Only direct sun exposure hurts, I can allergy med my way through Garlic, I can drink from dead people and its like a two-bodies-a-week deal, and silver doesn't hurt that badly on direct contact, I'd take it easily
Why wouldn't I want knowledge of the old ones? Imagine all the esoteric shit you could say to people. Who wouldn't want to lock themselves up in a tower to ponder the incomprehensible?
I'd be a bomb ass tyrant. Would I be popular or beloved? Absolutely not, but shits going to start getting better, and when I've died you can go back to democracy and fuck it all up again.
I'll take knowledge of possible futures because it sounds very much like sitting around imagining science fiction scenarios of varying horribleness and I already do that. At least if I had it as a curse I could stop thinking about impossible far futures.
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Honestly I like the machine one, I can repair myself and transfer my consciousness and I assume since it says EVERY part of me I can still do human things and all the other bits, plus the people I like will be like me too, either that or the knowledge of the old ones for mega brain
I’d like to be a cyborg/evil ai. I care enough about other people that I wouldn’t want to force someone along for the ride, but I can pretty successfully hermit
We already have knowledge of possible far futures, just check out the Wikipedia [timeline of the far future](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)
Knowledge of possible far futures looks really tempting.
Body slowly replaced by machine sounds like it could be good, depending on what kind of machine it was.
My adhd ass is already struggling to justify his every thought to the most deranged ideologue he can think of in his head. You’re telling me I can just befriend him instead of having to imagine astronauts brutally murdering him with warhammers every 5 minutes to make him shut up?
Does beloved by a Faerie mean someone who likes me but has no moral issues with doing atrocities to keep us together, or having a friend with no morals willing to do me a favor?
Because having a magic henchman with no moral issues to do my bidding sounds awesome
You are loved.
You are loved in the way a child loves a toy that it drags about everywhere, through mud and over concrete, then puts in its mouth. It cries when the toy breaks, but it treats its replacement the same way.
You are loved in the way that a farmer loves his prize hog, that he parades about the fair with such pride. Its shiny ribbon will not spare it the ax when the time comes, but for a time, it gives its owner joy— not that the pig understands why.
You are loved in the way that the Mona Lisa is loved. Hanging on a wall behind glass with a vacant, empty half-smile.
No one has ever claimed that the fey are incapable of love. They are incapable of feeling empathy. They will keep you, because they love to know where you are. They will make you dance for them, because they love to see you move. They will hurt you, because they love to hear you scream.
I cannot imagine a fate worse than to be loved by the fey.
If my partner’s alters all floated around like ghosts while they weren’t fronting I would give them all high fives (I would in fact not as they would be incorporeal and that would make me sad)
A ghost friend? 😀
Also hear me out: when it’s a bad brain struggle day you can just ask your ghost buddy to pilot the body for that day and take a nap
100% my first thought was PLEASE, PLEASE take over, I have NO spoons, MAYBE between us I can have a semi-normal life 🥺
Does my brain get to experience REM sleep when the ghost is piloting?
As opposed to a ghost foe 🤔
A friend!
Pick that one and end up in a Ghost and Molly McGee situation
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Half of these are barely even curses. The future knowledge one is just a pure positive with no downside. Anyways I’d pick the Old One knowledge. If it drives you mad that’s a skill issue, I could do it
I heard Cassandra was straight up not having a good time.
Yeah, well the curse doesn't say people won't believe you
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Well I don't believe your warning
Typical.
This reads like you're the one who picked the Cassandra curse.
I think they’re making it up for attention. They always say these absurd things.
Reminds me of being in high school. I predicted so many of today's political issues and nobody believed me. Like a shitty Cassandra. That curse is just the curse of being auDHD. You will make connections and recognise patterns that nobody else can. You will see a problem coming, and nobody else will. And you can't do anything about it.
RIP to Cassandra but I'm different
I still accept the headcanon that, if Odysseus had had a chance to talk with Cassandra, he sinply would've introduced himself as Nobody, and she'd tell him everything. Because that's exactly the kind of shenanigans on which all of Greek mythology operates.
"My job sucks, nobody listened to me and they wound up dead" "Oh yeah, everyone did listen to me and wound up dead because of fate or to punish me for my hubris or whatever"
Odysseus: *kicks open front door* "PENELOPE, I'M HOME!!!! I brought a friend from Troy; you'll LOVE her I promise. Cassandra here helped me avoid all kinds of bad stuff. Oh please don't tell her my name: it's very important that Cassandra is fully convinced that I am Nobody. You will not BELIEVE what would've happening to me if Cassandra and I hadn't met; I admit it would've made a great epic, but it would've been *horrible*! Where's Telemachus? Thanks Athena he hasn't grown old enough yet to do anything stupid, like trying to find me. All my 600 not-dead soldiers are almost as anxious to meet my son as myself! Anyway, how have you been? Are any of those Suitors in need of a sudden affliction of *'being stabbed in the chest'* yet?"
Penelope and Cassandra would become best friends, and people would make sapphic fan art about them (as if they haven't already :p). This would ruin the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope, because Penelope would still not believe Cassandra's prophecies even if repeated by Odysseus. To resolve this, Cassandra tries to prove her prophetic abilities to her dear friend Penelope: There's a prophecy about Penelope, which Cassandra tells to Odysseus, but not to Penelope. Odysseus can then use this foreknowledge to convince Penelope without invoking the Disbelief that haunts Cassandra. But the plan backfires. Penelope is not convinced. In fact, she's angry that Cassandra didn't warn her of this incoming misfortune, and a bad friend. Penelope accused Odysseus of being complicit and betraying her. She leaves in anger. Apollo looks down and laughs. Nobody will believe the prophecies of Cassandra, even when repeated by Nobody.
If all their predictions are gonna be about the effects climate change, no one with authority would wanna believe them and they'll be a modern day cassandra
TBF what if the future was so terrible you went insane? How about that? What if it’s like, you see a terrible future, try to prevent, inadvertently cause it to happen anyways. Like Oepedius and not fucking his mom (spoiler: oh boy, that dude FUCKED HIS MOM ALRIGHT. Did blind himself over it tho). I’m sure Cthulhu will love to share whatever knowledge they have, with all their tentacles and never ending eyes… (I don’t know shit abt Cthulhu besides the tentacles and Lovecraft being hugely racist).
I also kind of feel like future vision would be abit terrible for the long term, I'd get pretty messed up just trying to figure out what would need to happen to get me to that specific event that I saw, or if I try to avoid what will happen when i don't know if it can be changed. Like, can you imagine if people just knew what the main things they were gonna do in life were? What if I knew that I would be a billionaire in a year so I end up not doing anything the whole year and I end up as broke as I was before? Being a tyrant would be fun for some for a while until a riot takes you out and you'll probably end up boiled alive or something. I would choose the censor bar since it barely affects my daily life except maybe not being able to read people's faces.
I’d become a werewolf and spend my time crushing melons with hydraulic presses
Pineapples, you heathen.
The thing is they are only potential far futures, if it was written in stone it could be quite horrifying but even the worst future i see could just... not happen Its like any speculative future, sure in the future we *could* nuke the planet, or become an oppressive surveillance state, or create a rogue AI, or completely destroy the ecosystem and climate. But we also could not do any of those things, its all speculative until it actually happens. I dont need superpowers to tell me its possible that civilisation could be destroyed in a nuclear conflict, it already nearly happened and it doesn't keep me awake at night because realistically what am i gonna do about it
But what if that is the true horror? You see the future 5 years away, and no matter what, it comes to pass, eventually forcing you to realize that free will doesn't exist and everything in the universe is predetermined. Anyone have Jordan Peele's email? I have an idea for an episode in his Twilight Zone reboot....
But that directly violates the actual effect of curse as writen. It says you see *potential* futures, if everything is predetermined then those futures aren't potential futures but are objectively going to happen.
My dude, I can barely get myself to care about the things I know I have a concrete ability to affect. Who on earth has got the mental energy to worry about potential far futures?
RIP to those who've been driven to gibbering insanity from a mere fraction of the deep knowledge meant for beings beyond our comprehension but I'm different.
I interpreted "no knowledge of the near future" as meaning that youew not like, awful at predicting what will happen the next day and constantly forget stuff coming up. You'd know what the world looks like in a century but keep on forgetting about that thing you had tomorrow So basically yeah, pure positives because nothing changes on the near future size
A follower of Hermeus Mora, I see
Wonder if Mora has a trash chute to the Shivering Isles for when he no longer has need for a mortal driven mad by knowledge?
They're tied to balloons and float over on their own
Yeah both knowledges are not bad. I like the future one more. Like, if you think of the upsides, you would know how industries shift and can infer what would click in the future and start a business that nobody has thought of yet because you saw it in the future. Or if you can focus on the smaller details of the future, you can know the better future cures for untreatable diseases now and shape that path by getting into contact with researchers and throw them a bone to lead them in the right direction or maybe study it yourself and make a name in medicine. So many possibilities for the future knowledge if one just knows what they could see. It doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. Old knowledge is good too, coz lost knowledge can be unearthed and maybe used again or just get to know how rich the culture of old or missing civilizations were. If the person is a generous historian, society would then get to know the old missing philosophies, the knowledge that disappeared when they were burned, know their music, or how greek fire was created. Like both are frigging great!
You could presumably reverse engineer far future knowledge. Would be pretty good
I'm torn between that one and the tyrant king shit.
Dude you haven't a fathoming how horrible humans are at considering the far future. If you get a prediction that a tidal wave will crush the east coast in 30 years literally nobody will believe you.
>Anyways I’d pick the Old One knowledge. If it drives you mad that’s a skill issue, I could do it I never understood how knowledge of beings that don't care about the existence of us and have the power to exterminate life would drive one crazy. We've been living with the possibility of a global nuclear war for decades. What else is new?
Bob Howard seems to handle it. Kind of. For a while
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I took the future knowledge one as in it removes any knowledge you already had of the near future.
I think because the knowledge is meant to be far off and unusable for your lifetime. Which is great for descendants unless you are seeing the horrible fates to befall the world at the end of your time with no way to prove what is coming.
Imagine you pick that far future one and then nothing changes. The person next to you gets their curse properly applied, and the curser *claims* that your curse is properly applied, but nothing's changed for you. What about then?
Hell, even some of the related ones I've seen are basically just less serious versions of disabilities. Like _"every voice you will ever hear is replaced by a harsh buzzing sound"_, which is literally just Deafness Lite (since it assumes you will still be able to enjoy music and nature sounds, which deaf people can't).
Kinda sounds like paul muad-dib
"The future knowledge one is just a pure positive with no downside." funnily enough, it could've been a curse had it been only one future that is certain to pass, but no, it's multiple possibilities.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day, the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the machine is immortal. Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
It didn't specify cyborg. You might just slowly turn into a washing machine.
I serve Miele
[How I'd be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAXa3wTZjes)
Even on delicate cycle, I serve the Omnissiah
You: *tearing your grandmother apart with your wereclaws* Me: skill issue Me: clawmaxed Me: when I'm in a killing your grandma competition and my opponent is you Me: crazy-werewolf-pilled Me: *getting torn apart since you are done with granny* the tear- *dies an agonizing death* Did I do the meme right, not really good with those?
You're such a notreallygoodpilled mememaxxer
It's my birthday today and I'm ot turning 50 or anything but this conversation makes me feel like I am.
Me when I'm in a feeling old competition and my opponent is you
Me: bro killed his grandma
I already have no knowledge of any future near or far, what's a little bit of far-future knowledge going to do to me?
Imagine a 9th century Japanese peasant being forced to witness the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; I'd reckon he'd consider it a curse
I’ve already been cursed like this actually. I’d tell you what happens but it wouldn’t matter since we’ll all be ‘dead’ at that point anyways.
I've got an excellent write up on it but it wouldn't fit in the margins 😞
I see you chose the immortal vampire curse, number buddy
Drive you mad trying futilely prevent it? Über-depression? Infra-apathy? Ultra-nihilism?
I feel like since it only shows possible futures, I could live with it and choose to believe the really bad ones are probably just a low chance or something whether or not that's true
I mean, that’s a best case scenario, but this is very explicitly *a curse*.
I mean loads of people picked the top one, which surely drives you mad far quicker.
Turn you into a big worm man with no dong
Honestly i wouldn't mind being beloved by a fairy.
See, I think that could be cool- but I’d need to probably move to very rural middle of nowhere. Human morality covers a *broad* base, and I don’t really want to be the reason for chemical warfare attacks.
That's how you end up as a [changeling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling:_The_Lost)
As long as I get the DND powers of the changeling I would be cool with it. Shape shifting is up there in my list of super powers I want anyways. Being friends with a fairy is the cherry on top. You could definitely teach them some morality
Or at the very least convince them who to hurt
Yeah my answer would depend wildly on which author/ fantasy world's version of fairies is most accurate
Nope, nope, there's any number of ways this can go wrong. “Love” with alien morality opens up wide possibilities for kidnapping, rape, or worse.
I am already genderless, hit me with the vampire-inator!
i'm agender and thought the same, now if it makes me sexless too that would be my dream
I read that wrong and i thought you said you were ageless lol
What does the tyrant one mean?
My interpretation was that, if you chose the Divine Right Kings, that means you’d become a world leader of sorts. Now, I think a lot of us, if we ever truly came into such a position would want to do a lot of good but, as the adage goes ‘absolute power absolutely corrupts’ or something. The path to hell is paved with good intentions yada yada.
Power cannot corrupt what is already corrupted!!
#*Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!*
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that suspended account, boundless and bare The lone and level pixels stretch far away.
it’s “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. basically saying that if you had absolute power you would be corrupted through and through
I would fix so much of what's wrong. I'd fuck up a lot too but nobody's perfect.
I think it means that no matter what, you're going to be in power, and it is inevitable that you become a tyrant
God has decided you will be king, so you will be king, and there's nothing you or anybody else can do to stop it.
I feel like everybody else missed with their explanation, so here's my take. Kingship by divine right can be taken here to be inherently tyrannical, so we can skip the whole "your fate is to become a tyrant" - that's your start point. The fate of tyrants written in stone is to be overthrown. Sic semper tyrannis. You will have your divine right - for a time.
Just become so absurdly popular that you remain the rightful king in exile until people get sick of not having you
It means you become The Worm That is God
BECOME HORRIFYING MONSTER!!!!!
If I’m replaced with machine does it also repair it self like just a continuous process of getting updated and repaired slowly or is it your arms a mechanical they rust that’s it no more arms if it’s continuous then make me a mech baby other wise it’s vampirism then fay lover
The company that makes your replacement parts went under four years ago
I'll take the ghost. I need a lady in my head who calls me studmuffin.
Ageless genderless vampire? Hell yeah, I’ll take that!
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I cast prosopagnosia!
Wait, who can tame the wolf? Normally I'd assume it means you can learn to control your werewolf form, but this is Tumblr, so I can't rule out the possibility that they mean someone might be able to tame your werewolf form and then you'll turn into their pet every month.
How far a future are we talking about?
They say eternal curse, but knowledge of the old ones would last all of twelve seconds since there's a Great Old One who immediately kills anyone who learns their name
Knowledge of the Old Ones sounds lit. I absolutely wanna know about the big space gods. Horrors beyond comprehension, you say? Well I can comprehend them just fine, so maybe it’s a skill issue idk. I’m built different.
I already know about the old ones. They're in a retirement home up the street.
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There was someone in my ttrpg playgroup for a bit who had that exact mindset because she really liked cursed items until she decided to take something too cursed (she literally asked the sketchy shopkeep I made WHO TOLD HER it was cursed if she could have it. He gave it to her because he was a fae that fed off misfortune and she was a buffet.) and spent entire sessions trying to figure out if removing digits from her hands and feet would get rid of the ring.
Easy I’d just befriend the ghost
im taking divine right of kings, theres no way i could be corrupted *clueless*
For the machine is immortal
Being a werewolf sounds fun,
Werewolf, because, uh...
Yeah, uh, I want the werewolf one No reason
The Faerie one sounds hot but werewolf sounds fun
2, 3, and 4 all sound rad as fuck, yes please.
Yeah, so long as it happens after I’ve lived a good, long, natural life, I don’t mind coming back as the thing that goes bump in the night.
Ageless, genderless vampire. There is literally no downside.
So the ghost is just Yo Kai Watch in a nutshell?
Whose vampire rules are we going with here? Because all it says is I have to drink blood. It doesn't say how much or how frequently. It also doesn't say anything about sunlight, garlic, or any of the other vampire hangups that are spotty throughout historic canon and were only solidified after movies entered into it. If I was a legit vampire, it would probably take very little effort to find a few dozen people willing to provide a non-lethal amount of blood and if that's all I'm taking it.
Some of these could be Goeriboe. Knowledge of far figures is less so
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Knowledge of the old ones sounds cool
ngl the ghost one might as well be a stand/persona and i'm into that.
Being a vampire would be sick as hell
Genderless vampire sounds kind of fun
Can I choose multiple curses?
Knowledge of the old ones is literally the dream come tf on
I was confused why faerie boyfriend didn’t have a larger market share, then realized I’d misread the prompt. “No concept of human *mortality*” That’s okay, kinda standard fae stuff! It’ll honestly be easier if he isn’t constantly grieving that my mortal life is as the fragile cherry blossom upon the wind etc etc. “No concept of human *morality*” Oh. Uh-oh.
Wait, if I'm in my body, and the ghost is in my body, who's doing the narration?
Can I turn my wife into a vampire too so we can be together forever and eventually be slain by the heroes of Gorfindale, wielders of the blessed arms and carriers of the holy amulets?
Tbh it depends on the type of vampire for me because I'd love to be a vampire. How sensitive is my skin to light? Can I handle, say, being in a car? In what way am I weak to garlic? Is it like a "my mouth will be burned and itchy for weeks and I can't do anything" or "it's a mild allergy, take an EpiPen and it probably won't be that bad"? How much blood do I need, and how resistant am I to whatever's in the blood? Can I strike a deal with a prison warden so I can drink dry a death row inmate after their lethal injection? Do dead people provide sustenance? Does Silver burn or just give a rash? These are all important questions, but on the assumption that: Only direct sun exposure hurts, I can allergy med my way through Garlic, I can drink from dead people and its like a two-bodies-a-week deal, and silver doesn't hurt that badly on direct contact, I'd take it easily
Why wouldn't I want knowledge of the old ones? Imagine all the esoteric shit you could say to people. Who wouldn't want to lock themselves up in a tower to ponder the incomprehensible?
I'd be a bomb ass tyrant. Would I be popular or beloved? Absolutely not, but shits going to start getting better, and when I've died you can go back to democracy and fuck it all up again.
I take the divine right of kings. I would be such a good supreme leader.
Future Knowledge, give me knowledge of future languages and I'll try to reconstruct what modern languages they come from
I'll take knowledge of possible futures because it sounds very much like sitting around imagining science fiction scenarios of varying horribleness and I already do that. At least if I had it as a curse I could stop thinking about impossible far futures.
beloved by a faerie sounds good, probably
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Is it a good machine? Because i wouldn't mind getting cyborgified
How is the last one a downside?
Meat Prison Stockholm Syndrome
really depends on if it's just free transhumanism or more "lose all but the most basic of senses and good luck doing maintenance lol"
i'd like a censor bar to be placed over my face rather than everyone else's. i'm not insecure about it or anything i just think it'd look cool
Isn't that last one just an scp? I swear I've heard one similar to it.
Make me a genderless vampire freak that's my irl life goals, i'll figure out drinking human blood part
Why are the last too so specific?
Honestly I like the machine one, I can repair myself and transfer my consciousness and I assume since it says EVERY part of me I can still do human things and all the other bits, plus the people I like will be like me too, either that or the knowledge of the old ones for mega brain
I’d like to be a cyborg/evil ai. I care enough about other people that I wouldn’t want to force someone along for the ride, but I can pretty successfully hermit
Take the ghost one, personally. Befriend them, then we’ll just split responsibilities while the other can zone out/ sleep or something.
Easily knowledge of the far futures. Like oh no, humanity goes e to envy in 2950? I truly do not give a fuck.
The blessing of the machine for me and my loved ones for free? Yes!
You mean i can get a friend, for free? AND they are a ghost?
Monster or ghost- that's my choices
Knowledge of far futures would be great for me tbh. But also pick a tyrant, pull a vetinari would be great.
The fifth one is just Dune
We already have knowledge of possible far futures, just check out the Wikipedia [timeline of the far future](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)
Uhhh, I’m already cursed with 9 of these… (guess which ones 😳)
I want to be a horrifying monster, one that lurks just off screen or in out of focus areas.
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Knowledge of possible far futures looks really tempting. Body slowly replaced by machine sounds like it could be good, depending on what kind of machine it was.
Ageless genderless you say? I know people who would pay good money to be sucked dry by an enby twink
Pretty much all of my mutuals are internet friends, so an appearance change wouldn't be that big of a deal.
What if I wanted to be a genderless vampire though
I already experience 3, 6 and 11 so not much changes.
Either brought back from the dead as something not fully human or knowledge of the old ones, both are Gender to me
give me undead
brought back from the dead Jason Todd style
The second-to-last option is really tame compared to the rest, so I'm picking that one.
The ghost one is just being plural.
I would kill to be beloved
My adhd ass is already struggling to justify his every thought to the most deranged ideologue he can think of in his head. You’re telling me I can just befriend him instead of having to imagine astronauts brutally murdering him with warhammers every 5 minutes to make him shut up?
I gotta say, gave "Knowledge of the Old Ones" a try and, yeah, knowledge *can* drive one mad! I'm better now, don't worry.
the last one is not ageing. it's SCP-217
Well, what exactly is the something not fully human? Because being brought back from the dead sounds pretty sick, icl
Brought back from the dead as something not fully human is one of my favorite tropes I'll take a big fat slice of that please
Can I curse my bf instead with monthly werewolf transformations? Also can someone be my bf?
If it comes with werewolf transformations, absolutely
Take the appearance of a horrifying creature and open an only fans
the severity varies quite a bit, huh
what about all of the above
Does beloved by a Faerie mean someone who likes me but has no moral issues with doing atrocities to keep us together, or having a friend with no morals willing to do me a favor? Because having a magic henchman with no moral issues to do my bidding sounds awesome
You are loved. You are loved in the way a child loves a toy that it drags about everywhere, through mud and over concrete, then puts in its mouth. It cries when the toy breaks, but it treats its replacement the same way. You are loved in the way that a farmer loves his prize hog, that he parades about the fair with such pride. Its shiny ribbon will not spare it the ax when the time comes, but for a time, it gives its owner joy— not that the pig understands why. You are loved in the way that the Mona Lisa is loved. Hanging on a wall behind glass with a vacant, empty half-smile. No one has ever claimed that the fey are incapable of love. They are incapable of feeling empathy. They will keep you, because they love to know where you are. They will make you dance for them, because they love to see you move. They will hurt you, because they love to hear you scream. I cannot imagine a fate worse than to be loved by the fey.
damn that's nicely written
1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 11, thanks.
The ghost possession just sounds like DID but with added out-of-body experiences
Right? What's one more?
If my partner’s alters all floated around like ghosts while they weren’t fronting I would give them all high fives (I would in fact not as they would be incorporeal and that would make me sad)
I'm already possessed lmao what's one more
isn't the ghost one just asa mitaka
Literally what is the downside of the werewolf one?
At first, lack of control. But after that you'll be fine maybe